Several days later.
At Springwater Peak, in the Universe Sect.
Fang Qing held a Time-Shedding Clan crystal core, larger than the one he had obtained before, and pondered in silence.
With so many subordinates at his disposal, and with the Time-Shed Ancestor having pledged himself to an Immortal Lord and nearly wiped out every Mahayana cultivator on the Mountain-Sea Continent—offending almost every great race there in the process—the Time-Shed Clan's destruction had been inevitable.
"But they'd made so few preparations... Could my As If in the Calculation have played a part?"
He recalled what had happened. He had merely gone to collect the spoils.
The Devil Race and the other great races had come prepared, while the Time-Shedding Clan had been slaughtered outright. Before they could even prepare the ritual to summon their ancestor, they had been caught in one net.
And the chief medium for summoning the Time-Shed Ancestor was the True Immortal-level crystal core in Fang Qing's hand.
"I can feel it. This thing is practically an immortal artifact of the Dao of Temporal Light. A little refinement, and it would be a supreme treasure for an immortal residence..."
He could not help sighing. "Using it to cultivate the Dao of Temporal Light would let me advance a thousand miles in a day..."
Countless natural patterns of Temporal Light covered the crystal core, making it immensely useful for comprehending that Dao.
Fang Qing had now advanced to Mahayana through the Ninefold Firmament Scripture, and his comprehension of the Dao of the Great Void had likewise reached profound depths.
"Perhaps it won't take many years to comprehend both the Great Void and Temporal Light... If I can carry these two Daos over to the Breath-Nourishing Dao, who knows what that will look like?"
"Of course, only because I wield