Ye Xuan sat cross-legged in the void.
Before him floated a dazzling sphere of light.
Within that sphere seemed to lie a miniature universe, where countless stars were born and perished, and a River of Time surged onward.
This was the time Dao Fruit and origin source that the supreme Foreign Territory powerhouse, Crimson King, had condensed only after expending countless eras.
Ye Xuan's expression remained calm as his hands formed an ancient, intricate Dharma Seal before him.
With a thought, the vast, boundless Great Luo laws within him poured forth like an abyssal sea, transforming into ten thousand golden Order Divine Chains that wrapped layer upon layer around the time origin source.
The refinement had officially begun.
There was no earth-shaking roar, nor any violent leakage of power.
Ye Xuan's refinement process possessed a profound subtlety, silent as rain nourishing all things.
Crimson King's peerless time Dao Fruit was unraveled layer by layer before Ye Xuan's Great Luo laws, like silk being drawn from a cocoon.
The time laws that had originally been obscure and incomprehensible, regarded by Crimson King as a Supreme Taboo, now resembled a scroll laid completely open before Ye Xuan.
The mysteries of time no longer held any secrets in his eyes.
He saw the origin of time, the passage of the years, and the inevitable law by which all things moved from flourishing to decline within the River of Time.
Ye Xuan's breathing began to synchronize with the flow of time in this inner world. With every breath he took, the inner world underwent the vicissitudes of hundreds and thousands of years.
Yet just as Ye Xuan completely absorbed the time origin source within the inner world, a heaven-shaking phenomenon that stirred past and present erupted across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands outside.