The Small Shield housing the bell soul, originally suppressed by the Immortal Ancient world and rendered as silent as the Reincarnation Disk, actually began to emit a faint glow after Shi Yi took it out and placed it in his palm.
As time passed, it grew ever brighter, like a lamp slowly rising in a world of darkness.
Shi Yi felt warmth spread across his palm, while the essence within his body flowed involuntarily into the Small Shield housing the bell soul.
He did not cut off the flow of essence, letting it continue to see what the final outcome would be.
An artifact was an extension of a cultivator's Great Dao, a vessel for it. The Bell of Wuzhong was no exception, representing the supreme Great Dao cultivated by Immortal King Wuzhong-the Way of Time. It was only natural for its bell soul to respond upon appearing in the Time World. Moreover, this world was an opportunity left to later generations by a powerhouse of the Immortal Ancient Era, most likely Immortal King Wuzhong himself.
Shi Yi's gamble paid off. The Small Shield housing the bell soul erupted with blazing radiance, strand after strand, wisp after wisp. Each resembled a river of time, a vast ancient chronicle recording the rise and fall of all things across ancient epochs.
Shi Yi's double pupils shone as he gazed into those rivers. He saw many great events, saw one powerhouse after another rise to prominence and look down upon past and present...
"Dong!"
A bell tolled, filled with sorrow and helplessness, accompanied by a rain of blood. Shi Yi knew this was the tolling at the end of the Immortal Ancient Era, marking its conclusion.
Yet this was not the end. Emperor Wu Shi, coming from the future, gathered the bell soul