Chaos Sea.
Watery ripples surged, spatial rifts flickered one after another, and a figure appeared above the Sea of Mist.
"By my reckoning, several centuries—nearly a thousand years—have passed since I entered the Ancient Tree Realm..."
Chen Fan stood in the void, his eyes flickering. There was not the slightest expression on his face, yet his heart was filled with considerable worry and anxiety.
At this moment, he could no longer sense the whereabouts of any of his external avatars. Without thinking, he could guess that this was most likely Bai Fengyu's doing afterward.
It did not matter if all his avatars had collapsed. With his true body still here, he could refine and create them anew.
What worried him was the rest of his family and friends in the outside world.
Given Bai Fengyu and the Eclosion Sect's usual conduct, however, they would most likely not do anything to the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect or Chen Fan's loved ones.
But Bai Fengyu was far from the only enemy Chen Fan had offended...
He raised his brows slightly and shook his head, his body vanishing once more.
Central Region, Yuan Shen Province.
When he reappeared, Chen Fan was already standing above a field of ruins.
His expression was exceptionally grim as he looked down at the ruins below.
This had once been the headquarters of the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect...
Yet now, everything had become rubble.
"The Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect had Patriarch Blood Sword King and Daoist Mingxu, whom I subdued—two King-sealing experts guarding it. And yet it still ended up like this..."
Ghostly flames flickered and surged in his eyes. His divine sense spread outward, and in the next instant, his figure vanished again.
Back then, Chen Fan had activated the Star God Seal and left marks of the Imperial