When the void collapsed, many spatial cracks would form.

Some of them were relatively stable, or could exist for hundreds or thousands of years, but they mainly existed between different heavenly domains. These spatial rifts required a large amount of elemental energy to pour in from time to time in order to maintain relative stability.

Some spatial rifts exist for a very short period of time.

No matter what kind of spatial rift, it would be extremely risky to rashly barge into it before the situation was discovered.

Apart from the void turbulence, no one knew what the other end of the spatial rift was.

Even if the other side was a heavenly paradise within the jurisdiction of a sect, the other side would set up heavy formations to prevent other demons or powerful enemies from intruding through it.

Anyone who rashly went in would fall into the trap of his sect.

If Chen Xun and the others wanted to return to Tian Jun, the shortest path they could confirm was to pass through the spatial rift between the Star Ruins and Jade Balance Realm, return to Jade Balance Realm first, and then pass through the spatial rift between Jade Balance Realm and Thousand Devil Realm to enter Thousand Devil Realm.

After arriving in Thousand Devil Realm, even if they couldn’t find a suitable spatial rift to cross, they would only be able to return to Thousand Devil Realm after crossing the Sea Ruins Star System from Tian Jun for about ten to twenty years.

However, no one knew if the Thunder Sun Sect’s territory was under the control of Old Thief Chi Xia. If they rashly returned to the Yuheng Realm along the original path, they might fall into the trap of Old Thief Chi Xia. At that time, even Patriarch Primordial Chaos would be at his mercy.

Chen Xun, Patriarch Primordial Chaos, and Fang Xiaohan discussed it over and over again and decided to take the Nebula Boat to cross the vast starfield and arrive at the spatial rift connecting Jade Balance Realm and Thousand Devil Realm.

Although crossing the Vast Expanse Star System and arriving in Jade Balance Realm might take 60 to 70 years, regardless of whether it was Chaos Demon, Fang Xiaohan, Lei Yangzi, Bai Wuya, and Zhang Shun, refining their newly acquired Dao Weapons and Spirit Swords, or Chen Xun and Chaos Demon repairing the Lotus Mountain Grand Formation, they still needed a lot of time.

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The Primordial Black Lotus shone brightly on the summit of the Lotus Mountain. Layers of light rippled outwards, leaving behind peculiar spatial patterns in the Lotus Book Cave. It was as if the Spiritual Radiance had been frozen in the void forever.

However, Chen Xun knew that these layers of spatial patterns represented different temporal velocities.

Beneath the Primordial Black Lotus, the Lotus Mountain, which consisted of dozens of broken cliffs, had yet to be completely fused together.

Before everyone entered the Lotus Mountain to cultivate, Chen Xun had to first merge the strange peak of the dragon vein formed by Lei Yangzi’s Azure Peak Seal into the Lotus Mountain.

In order to increase Chen Xun and the others’ comprehension of the power of heaven and earth, Patriarch Primordial Chaos had only assisted them from the side in building the mountain. Otherwise, with Patriarch Primordial Chaos’ supreme magic power, it would only take three to five months for him to fuse dozens of broken cliff peaks and dragon vein peaks into one and create a completely new and majestic mountain range.

Apart from arranging for manpower to control the Nebula Boat in turn and maintain the course of the voyage outside Yuheng, everyone else stayed in the Lotus Book Cave to help Chen Xunrong refine the Lotus Mountain.

Apart from Patriarch Primordial Chaos, the one who contributed the most was naturally Fang Xiaohan, who used the Violet Phoenix Divine Sword to lead the Divine Flame to refine the broken cliff …

Twenty-seven years later, dozens of broken cliffs finally merged with the Dragon Vein Peak to form a lotus-shaped peak that was more than 10,000 feet tall and more than a thousand kilometers long. It was like a giant nine-leaf green lotus floating in the space of a cave that was glittering with spiritual light.

Chen Xun knew that Lotus Mountain had truly taken shape when he saw the faint green spiritual energy on the surface of Lotus Mountain.

Although this faint cyan spiritual energy could only produce a small amount of spiritual energy at this time, it was a sign that the Lotus Mountain Heavenly Mark was complete and formed its own world.

If Lotus Mountain were to be directly exposed to the starfield, it would be a miniature world.

Next, Chen Xun, Patriarch Primordial Chaos, and the Primordial Chaos Demon used the magic treasures and the remains of the Nebula Ship and the Nine Solar Cloak to slowly fuse into the Lotus Mountain Grand Formation. Seventeen years later, he finally restored the first Lotus Mountain Grand Formation that had a total of eight restrictions to its original state.

At this moment, the bottom of Lotus Mountain was shrouded in a dense mist that covered the sky, completely sealing off the hundreds of millions of roots that had plunged into the void’s profound wall as Chaos’s black lotus extended out from the bottom of Lotus Mountain.

At this moment, the Chaos Black Lotus at the top of the Lotus Mountain looked like an ordinary spiritual plant growing in the Lotus Mountain.

The Lotus Mountain Grand Formation formed a barrier at the top of the Lotus Mountain. It was like a azure canopy covering the entire Lotus Mountain. Chen Xun held the Lotus Book in his hand, and he could also cast an azure Lotus Book Spirit Formation. It could seal the space within a radius of 1000 feet. The Spirit Formation was so strong that it could even resist the burning of Chaos’s flames even if it wasn’t under the Veluriyam Dragon Sealing Tower.

The first Lotus Mountain Grand Formation had eight layers of restrictions, which meant that the damaged page of the Lotus Book had returned to the level of a top-grade Dao Artifact.

However, apart from defending the barrier, the Lotus Book did not possess any other divine abilities. Fortunately, the Chaos Black Lotus after absorbing the Chaos Black Flames was able to withstand three streaks of Chaos Tribulation Lightning, making up for the lack of attack power of the Lotus Book.

However, after leaving the Star Ruins, if Chaos Black Lotus wanted to absorb enough Chaos elemental energy from the void, it would take a full ten days and a half months at a time. This was also a huge shortcoming.

Of the three Bronze Dao Palaces, Fang Xiaohan only left one as a private cultivation mansion in the Bronze Lotus Pearl.

The other two Bronze Dao Palaces, one of which was located halfway up Mount Lian, served as a place for cultivators to cultivate in Lotus Book Cave Dwelling.

Apart from keeping the Lotus Mountain Grand Formation running, the spiritual energy that the Chaos Black Lotus absorbed from the void mainly gathered in this bronze Dao Palace.

Under the influence of the Chaos Black Lotus, the speed of time in this Bronze Dao Palace was three times faster than normal.

Bai Wuya, Zhang Shun, and the others needed boundless Spiritual Qi to continuously refine their Primordial Embryos and wash and temper their fleshly bodies.

Due to the limited amount of spiritual energy that Lotus Book Cave Dwelling’s Black Lotus could absorb from the void in Chaos, no matter how fast the flow of time was, it was of no particular significance to Xuan Xiu, who was below the Middle Three Realms of Nirvana.

This was especially true for the Tribulation of Wind and Fire. Without sufficient preparation, the foundation of the fleshly body and primordial embryo was not sufficiently consolidated. Even with the Crossing Calamity Pill, the success rate would not be too high.

The third Bronze Dao Palace was placed on the summit of Mount Lotus. Apart from sealing the Mount Lotus Grand Formation and the Primordial Black Lotus and adding a layer of defense, only Chen Xun, Patriarch Primordial Chaos, Fang Xiaohan, Primordial Chaos Demon, Lei Yangzi, and Jia Dai normally cultivated inside.

Under the direction of the Chaos Black Lotus, the speed of time in this bronze dao palace was eight to ten times faster than normal.

Patriarch Primordial Chaos needless to say, Chen Xun, Fang Xiaohan, and the others were also focusing on comprehending many Grand Daos in their current cultivation.

Chen Xun, Jia Dai, and Lei Yangzi would still encounter bottlenecks in comprehending the Grand Dao. Even if they stayed in the Dao Palace at the peak of the mountain to cultivate, it would be meaningless. Before Fang Xiaohan and the Chaos Demon’s reincarnations recovered to their peak cultivation levels in their previous lives, as long as they had sufficient resources, they would not encounter any bottlenecks. They cultivated in the Dao Palace at the top of the mountain, and their cultivation levels were progressing very diligently. It could really be described as divine speed.

Because Chen Xun had split up the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi, he had lost quite a bit of his cultivation. After arriving at the Starfield beyond Yuheng, after a period of bitter cultivation, he was able to make up for it and cultivate to the perfection of the sixth stage of Nirvana.

It was estimated that Chen Xun might have lost seventy to eighty years of cultivation by splitting the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi, but it had taken him a full 160 years to recover in the Dao Palace at the peak of the mountain.

The price of dividing the Grand Dao imprint was astonishing.

During this period of time, Fang Xiaohan had already overcome five tribulations and cultivated to the sixth stage of Nirvana, the Undying Realm of the Body. The Chaos Devils were even higher than Fang Xiaohan.

At this time, Patriarch Primordial Chaos and Fang Xiaohan finally realized that the Primordial Chaos Demons were extraordinary. In terms of cultivation speed alone, the cultivation level of the Primordial Chaos Demon in his previous life was much higher than that of Fang Xiaohan, who could be called the number one immortal in the Seven Regions.

With the help of Patriarch Primordial Chaos, Lei Yangzi and Jia Dai did not consume the Crossing Calamity Pill. They also successfully advanced to the seventh stage of Nirvana, becoming heaven-defying experts and eternal devil-level existences in the true sense.

The Crossing Calamity Pill was still too rare. If Lei Yangzi and Jia Dai wanted to cross the calamity, they might have to consume all of the Crossing Calamity Pills in Chen Xun’s hands.

Even if Patriarch Primordial Chaos consumed precious Immortal Spirit True Essence to help Thunder Sun and Jia Dai overcome the tribulation, his cultivation would drop, but after weighing it, this method was still the most appropriate.

Otherwise, if Chen Xun were to split up the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi, it would seriously affect his cultivation progress, and the price would be even higher than sixty to seventy Crossing Calamity Pills.

And if Patriarch Primordial Chaos wanted to recover his peak cultivation, it wouldn’t be much easier than Fang Xiaohan. At this time, he wasn’t afraid of losing a hundred years of hard work. To him, a hundred years of hard work was really a matter of a flick of his finger.

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There didn’t seem to be anything unusual around the spatial rift that was connected to the Thousand Devil Realm outside Yuheng, but how could that extremely weak elemental energy fluctuation possibly conceal it from Patriarch Chaos’s divine sense?

“Primordial Chaos Spirit Net!”

Whether it was Bai Wuya or Zhang Shun, they were too familiar with the Primordial Chaos Spirit Net refined by Imperial Light Sect.

“Old Thief Chi Xia probably realized that Sect Master and Fang shi would return to Tian Jun and pass through this place before setting a trap here, waiting for you to enter!”

Patriarch Primordial Chaos laid down a barrier outside the Nebula Ship. He wasn’t worried that anyone would discover their existence. Lei Yangzi, Bai Wuya, Zhang Shun, and the others all followed Fang Xiaohan’s example. They wore black robes, covering their heads and faces. Only their eyes were exposed.

The Primordial Chaos Spirit Net would have been invisible and merged with the heavens and earth. If not for the presence of Patriarch Primordial Chaos, perhaps they would not have noticed the abnormality until they had completely sunk into it.

The Primordial Chaos Spirit Net that was spread out in the depths of the Star Ruins was a hundred thousand kilometers deep. It was clearly one or two levels higher than the Primordial Chaos Spirit Nets of the East Dawn Sect. It had already reached the level of a precious Dao Artifact. Even if a Heaven-defying expert of the Upper Three Realms of Nirvana were to fall into it, there was no chance of escaping.

“Old thief Chi Xia really thinks highly of us!” Chen Xun laughed out loud and said to Fang Xiaohan and the others, “It’s a pity that even though Old Thief Chi Xia counted as Senior Brother returning to this place, he still couldn’t figure out what happened in the Immortal Trapping Formation …”