Proficiency Maxed Out, Grinding into a Sword Immortal Among Mortals

The Chaos Origin Crystal still hovered there, its light flickering as if the thrilling battle to the death moments ago had nothing to do with it.

Yun Shu didn't hesitate for a moment. Though he was in pain, he forced himself forward and appeared above the altar in an instant. He extended his uninjured right hand, fingers spread, and let his vital energy flow from his palm, forming a gentle yet steady field of force that carefully enveloped the mass of chaotic light.

It felt warm and smooth to the touch, yet heavy as a mountain.

The Chaos Origin Crystal seemed almost alive, pulsing faintly as it released a vast, pure aura of origin.

Up close, the energy and Dao resonance it contained were even more astonishing.

Without the slightest resistance, the Chaos Origin Crystal was safely secured!

Yun Shu swiftly placed it inside a Jade Box he had prepared in advance, one forged from a special kind of Void Stone. He layered seals of Prohibitions over it, then stowed it in the deepest part of his storage Magic Treasure.

The treasure was his!

Even so, Yun Shu didn't let his guard down.

The energy fluctuations and faint roars coming from the direction where the Barbarian God had fled, along with the Chaos tides stirred up by the aftermath of the top-tier battle farther away, all warned him that this was no place to linger.

Chaos surged, and space-time turned upside down.

Yun Shu hovered cross-legged at the center of the altar, enveloped in a gray-white halo of Chaos Power. It mingled with the chaotic currents around him, making him seem as though he had become one of the fundamental forces of this shattered world.

The Chaos Origin Crystal he had placed in the Jade Box now floated quietly before