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Xue Tianhan felt a vast, icy current flood his consciousness, and the legacy of the Frost Soul Immortal King was fully activated. The seed of his inner world spun wildly, and began to merge with the chaotic space!

Outside, the attacks of the Twelve Celestial Kings suddenly ceased. This was because the entire Northern Sea... was pouring into the Xuanbing Cave!

"Oh no! He's about to create a new world!" The Grand Elder of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion's expression changed drastically. "Stop him immediately—"

Before the words were finished, a pillar of chaotic light shot into the sky. Within the pillar, Xue Tianhan's figure slowly rose, a miniature universe appearing behind him, within which the sun, moon, and stars slowly rotated...

Above the Northern Sea, the moment the pillar of chaotic light pierced through heaven and earth, the "Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Array" formed by the twelve Immortal Kings suddenly collapsed on its own.

The dazzling starlight did not dissipate; instead, it transformed into chains of light, all kneeling in a certain direction.

"Welcome, Your Majesty!" The Grand Elder of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion was the first to react and knelt in that direction to welcome you.

However, his shouts were abruptly cut short as a jade-like hand emerged from his back, its palm clutching his still-beating heart. With a gentle clench, the mighty mid-stage Immortal King crumbled like sand.

"Yuan Tiandao's dog, does it even deserve to use the word 'Emperor'?" Ice Soul Immortal Venerable said disdainfully, while coldly sweeping his gaze over the crowd, then staring intently in that direction.

The remaining eleven Celestial Kings were horrified, never expecting that the Ice Soul Celestial Venerable's strength had actually reached the peak of the Celestial King realm. However, they quickly calmed down, because they saw clearly who the newcomer was—a man wearing a Morning Star robe, with a bronze Dao pattern imprinted between his brows. He exuded no aura of power, yet he caused the entire Northern Sea to stop flowing.

Ice Soul Immortal Venerable suddenly sneered. His blue robe ripped apart, revealing his crystal-clear ice form, and the bronze chain at his heart was humming and vibrating.

"Heavenly Emperor, you've finally decided to climb out of the Nine Heavens?"

Xue Tianhan's blood seemed to freeze. Was this the Heavenly Emperor who had sided with Yuan Tiandao and even sent people to kill him?

"Han Sui, it's been 30,000 years, and you're still as clueless as ever." The Heavenly Emperor sighed softly, but his voice caused a thousand miles of glaciers to shatter simultaneously. "Hand over the Chaos Body and the Origin Fragment, and I will grant you permission to return to the Celestial Court."

The Ice Soul Immortal Venerable—no, he should be called the Frost Marrow Immortal Venerable—suddenly burst into maniacal laughter. With each laugh, the bronze chain around his heart shattered, and with each break, an iceberg in the Northern Underworld collapsed.

"Back then, my junior sister Hanpo was deceived by your hypocritical face!" The icy body of the Cold Marrow Immortal Venerable began to melt, revealing its deep blue core. "Today, even if it costs me my life, I will tear off a layer of your skin!"

Xue Tianhan suddenly found himself unable to move. It wasn't that he was imprisoned by oppressive force, but that time had stopped flowing! The Heavenly Emperor had merely cast a glance, causing space and time within a radius of tens of thousands of miles to freeze.

Only the body of the Cold Marrow Immortal Venerable, now melted, continued to move slowly, like an insect trapped in amber.

"The laws of time? No..." Xue Tianhan's eyes stung and bled as he finally saw the truth—it wasn't a simple stop in time, but rather that the Heavenly Emperor was surrounded by dense bronze runes, each one devouring the surrounding flow of time!

"Surprised?" The Heavenly Emperor was already standing in front of him, lightly touching his brow with his finger. "This is the Epochal Mark bestowed by the Primordial Heavenly Dao. When the Epoch ends, I will be responsible for purging those who defied the Heavenly Dao and resisted."

His finger suddenly pierced Xue Tianhan's sea of ​​consciousness, "and you, this variable."

In excruciating pain, Xue Tianhan witnessed a horrifying scene: in the center of the image sat a dark figure identical to the Heavenly Emperor, chewing up fragments of shattered worlds as he stuffed them into his mouth...

"Do you see clearly?" The Heavenly Emperor's voice was filled with pity. "Your so-called resistance is nothing but a trick in the eyes of Heaven, destined to fail."

At the critical moment, the seed within Xue Tianhan's body suddenly emitted a tremendous roar, like the primordial chaos at its beginning.

The seed split open, but instead of roots, it stretched out a pale hand entwined with chaotic energy!

"What? This is the aura of the Primordial Chaos!" The Heavenly Emperor's expression changed for the first time, and he retreated rapidly.

The pale hand that emerged from the world seed swatted away the Celestial Kings, then gently clenched its fist.

“Crack—”

Cracks appeared in the bronze Dao pattern between the Heavenly Emperor's brows! The frozen time around him began to resume.

"Impossible! How could the Primordial Chaos Spirit reappear!" The Heavenly Emperor lost his composure for the first time, retreating a thousand miles in a flash, his Morning Star Robe shattering into pieces. He stared intently at the hand wreathed in chaotic energy, a flicker of fear in his eyes: "The power given to me by the Primordial Heavenly Dao is actually suppressed by the Primordial Chaos Spirit? Could the rumors be true?"

Xue Tianhan's body was in turmoil. The World Seed had completely split open, revealing not the budding state he had imagined, but a miniature universe taking shape! The phantoms of the sun, moon, and stars flowed within it, each star exuding an ancient and desolate aura.

The hand slowly retracted, drawing a mysterious trajectory in the chaotic space.

Wherever the trajectory passed, the originally chaotic energy automatically rearranged and combined, evolving into the prototype of a star field.

"This is... creation?" Xue Tianhan's heart and mind were shaken. Although the chaotic space had long been a small world, it was just a continent, without a sun, without a moon, and even less stars and universes.

"Kid, don't stand there, run!" The Cold Marrow Immortal's voice boomed like thunder, "I'll hold him off!"

The immortal's entire body surged with blue light, and a hexagonal ice crystal flew out from his chest. The moment the ice crystal appeared, the entire Northern Sea froze instantly, even the falling snowflakes were frozen in mid-air.

"The Era of Eternal Freeze!" roared the Frost Marrow Immortal Venerable.

That natal ice crystal transformed into a stream of light, piercing straight through thousands of miles of space and time, and fiercely nailing itself into the crack between the Heavenly Emperor's eyebrows!

"Ah—!" The Heavenly Emperor let out a scream that was not human, and the bronze runes around his body flickered wildly. His skin began to freeze, spreading from the wound between his eyebrows to his entire body, and in the blink of an eye, he turned into an ice sculpture.

The icy body of the Cold Marrow Immortal Venerable began to crumble. “Remember…” He turned to Xue Tianhan, his voice suddenly becoming gentle, “The Dao Seed of Cold Soul contains the ‘Ice Soul Era Technique,’ which she created after comprehending for 30,000 years, specifically designed to counter Yuan Tiandao, that lackey of the Heavenly Emperor.”

Before he could finish speaking, he vanished into icy blue light.

The points of light did not disappear; instead, they surged into Xue Tianhan's body like a reversed galaxy.

Xue Tianhan felt an extremely cold torrent rush into his meridians, but he felt no discomfort at all. Instead, he perfectly merged with the chaotic space.

The blue Dao Seed of the Frost Soul Immortal King floated in the center of the miniature universe, continuously releasing pure, extremely cold power to balance the violent chaotic energy.

"Senior!" Xue Tianhan reached out to grab the points of light, but missed. All that remained on the ground was a blue robe and half a broken bronze chain.

“Boom—”

The Heavenly Emperor, who was frozen in the distance, suddenly trembled, and fine cracks appeared on the ice layer on his body.

Xue Tianhan gasped – even the "Eternal Freeze Era" could only seal him for a moment? Just how powerful was that Heavenly Emperor? He wondered if his senior sister could defeat him.

However, now was not the time to think about that, so Xue Tianhan immediately activated the laws of space and time to escape from there.

A moment later, the Heavenly Emperor shattered the ice crystals around him and broke free. Sensing the surroundings, he found no trace of Xue Tianhan. "Damn it, if it weren't for the Chaos Primordial Spirit, I could have destroyed that brat. But the Chaos Primordial Spirit probably hasn't fully awakened yet, otherwise it wouldn't have retreated after just one attack. It seems I need to resolve this variable as soon as possible, or it will be troublesome."

The Heavenly Emperor's eyes flashed with cold light. Although the Chaos Primordial Spirit destroyed his Epoch Imprint and the Eternal Frozen Epoch caused him some damage, how could a supreme being of the Immortal Realm allow an ant to escape from his grasp?

He snorted coldly, and a bronze mirror flew out from his sleeve. The mirror was engraved with the stars of the heavens; it was the "Zhou Tian Xing Gui Mirror," a supreme treasure of the celestial realm—capable of tracing any trace of time and space within the last three days.

"Let me see where you can run to!"

The starlight in the mirror intensified, and the scene above the Northern Sea began to reverse. The images flashed back rapidly, quickly locking onto the last moment before Xue Tianhan disappeared. However, just as they were about to see where she had gone, the mirror suddenly trembled violently, and the displayed image shattered like broken glass!

"This is... the Law of Time?" The Heavenly Emperor's pupils constricted slightly, quite surprised, after all, even he had not comprehended the Law of Time, yet Xue Tianhan had mastered it.

At this moment, a trickle of blood escaped from the corner of Xue Tianhan's mouth as he hid in the sand. His hands formed a hand seal, and his body was surrounded by intricate time-related runes—the "Time Maze" he had laid out before disappearing. Any trace spells that attempted to trace back to the past would only reveal a time mirror image fragmented into millions of pieces.

The Heavenly Emperor laughed in fury: "What a fine law of time! But do you think you can fool me like this?"

Although the Epoch Imprint was gone, how could the Heavenly Emperor not have other means after all these years? He suddenly bit his fingertip, and a drop of blood fell onto the mirror.

In an instant, the starlight in the mirror surged, forcefully piercing through the mists of time.

Finally, a blurry figure appeared in the mirror—Xue Tianhan was speeding south!

"Got you!"

Just as the Heavenly Emperor was about to tear through space to give chase, he suddenly sensed something amiss. The figure of "Xue Tianhan" in the mirror was erratic, its movements completely contrary to common sense!

"Time reversal? No... this is..."

He suddenly realized—Xue Tianhan had manipulated the timeline using the laws of space, making it appear as if everything was happening in reverse! The real him had never actually left the same spot!

"How dare you!" The Heavenly Emperor roared, and the Celestial Mirror shattered in response. A surge of violent immortal power swept across all directions, whipping the entire Northern Sea high into the sky!

Meanwhile, on a seemingly ordinary grain of sand by the shore, Xue Tianhan was holding his breath in concentration. His spatial laws transformed the interior of the sand into an independent world, while his temporal laws perfectly concealed this process. From the outside, this grain of sand appeared no different from the millions of grains around it.

A day later, once it was confirmed that the Heavenly Emperor had departed, the sand grains quietly cracked open. Xue Tianhan appeared, staggering, his face as pale as paper—continuously casting the laws of space and time had almost exhausted all his strength.

"Finally... we managed to hide it..."