In the blink of an eye, a hundred years had passed since the Blackstone Master returned to the mountain.
Over those hundred years, the entire Blackstone Mountain Range had been gripped by panic.
Of the original three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three immortal mountains, more than half had collapsed, leaving only a little over one thousand.
The immortal domain had also shrunk by more than half. The stowaways on the outskirts, along with their descendants, had no choice but to migrate toward the heart of the immortal domain.
In order to survive, these people began stealing and stirring up trouble.
This only further intensified the chaos throughout the Blackstone Mountain Range.
Though the core disciples stepped forward to suppress it, there were simply too few of them to attend to everything.
Amid the chaos, Jiang Feng began actively searching for Chu's whereabouts.
Yet after a hundred years of searching, he had found nothing.
Jiang Feng had begun to doubt whether Chu was even in the Blackstone Mountain Range.
What worried him most was the possibility that Chu had long since fallen.
That day, Jiang Feng was sparring with Xia Youming. In pursuit of a complete understanding of fifth-order laws, Jiang Feng had Xia Youming repeatedly demonstrate them before him.
However, fifth-order laws were nothing like fourth-order laws in their simplicity.
Back then, he had merely watched Wu Yue use a fourth-order law once and comprehended it completely.
Now, he had watched Xia Youming wield fifth-order laws countless times, yet he always felt that something was still missing.
Jiang Feng now truly understood just how difficult it was to comprehend higher-order laws.
"Again. One more time!" After digesting the essence of Xia Youming's last move, Jiang Feng signaled for her to attack again.
Xia Youming nodded. With a thought, she empowered