In the Chaos Sea, several streaks of light chased each other at high speed.

At the forefront, within a gray radiance, was a small bell, fleeing desperately without any spirit controlling it.

Through the light, one could faintly see intricate patterns carved on all four sides of the bell. These patterns contained certain supreme principles of Heaven and Earth, giving layers of insight to anyone who glimpsed them.

Looking at the two streams of light behind it – one was a golden peng bird soaring with spread wings, the other a young Daoist flying through the void with a sword.

At this moment, the Golden Peng’s extreme speed held no advantage – both the small bell and the young Daoist’s flying speed surpassed the Golden Peng!

On Golden Peng’s back stood Zhao Gongming and Golden Spirit Holy Mother side by side.

The former activated the Ocean Stabilizing Zhenzhu, striving to smooth out the turbulence and obstacles of the chaos energy for Golden Peng, making its flight silky smooth;

The latter was fully powering the complete set of ‘harness equipment’ on Golden Peng, maintaining the supply of magical power.

Even so, Golden Peng, who had just attempted a lateral sliding tackle for a side intercept, was gradually falling behind the young Daoist and small bell…

Sages stood at the pinnacle of all beings, without any weaknesses.

Of course, there were still differences in strength.

Zhao Gongming glared at the Chaos Bell casually traversing the chaos, nearly spitting out several crude Severing Sect expressions.

This thing – was there no being controlling it from inside?

Were Primordial Treasures really this powerful?!

Zhao Gongming believed that his timing and angle of attack had been precisely calculated, and his coordination with his master had been seamless;

Yet in that flash of lightning, the Chaos Bell had suddenly made an extremely quick turn just before Golden Peng would have crashed into it, shifting horizontally out of the way of Golden Peng’s beak at a speed incomprehensible to Zhao Gongming and Golden Spirit Holy Mother!

The entire horizontal dodge was naturally fluid, without the slightest sense of inconsistency!

This left Zhao Gongming and Golden Spirit Holy Mother both feeling as if they had miscalculated earlier.

Fortunately…

The current situation hadn’t exceeded the scope of Li Changshou’s planned strategy.

Zhao Gongming, remembering Li Changshou’s instructions, exerted all his effort to ‘resonate’ his Great Dao outward, penetrating through the chaos energy’s obstruction to bring the rapidly fleeing Chaos Bell into his Great Dao’s radiation circle.

Then, Zhao Gongming pretended to gnash his teeth in frustration and cursed:

“We were so close just now!”

Beside him, Golden Spirit Holy Mother also gave a heavy snort, extending a protective barrier of immortal power around Zhao Gongming as she said:

“What use are we as disciples if we can’t help Master!”

“Has this Chaos Bell gained sentience?”

Just as Zhao Gongming finished speaking, they saw…

The swiftly flying Chaos Bell up ahead gently swaying, the scene resembling a child in a battle skirt forcefully wiggling its bottom.

Zhao Gongming’s eyes bulged: “It’s insulting me!”

Golden Spirit Holy Mother asked puzzled: “How is that an insult?”

“It’s telling this poor Daoist to bring it on! And saying we should all come at it together with Master!”

“We can’t catch up… alas!”

This was the first step of the bell-catching plan after the failed interception—

[Indirectly Praise the Bell, Make it Lower its Guard.]

Getting a response from the Chaos Bell meant this step had taken effect.

But what Zhao Gongming and Golden Spirit Holy Mother hadn’t anticipated was that this move had quite a broad area of effect.

Sovereign Tongian, who was slightly closer to the Chaos Bell, had a cross-shaped vein popping up on his forehead. The Sage’s Dao rhythm flowed around him as he suddenly increased his speed again, his form closing in on the Chaos Bell!

The Chaos Bell ‘shuddered’ up and down, its speed explosively increasing!

In almost just two breaths, Golden Peng was left far behind.

“Ah, this…”

Zhao Gongming and Golden Spirit Holy Mother exchanged glances, both somewhat confused.

How should they implement the rest of Changgeng’s plan?

Just then, a trace of Dao rhythm appeared in both their spirit platforms – it was Sovereign Tongian drawing out a path for them.

Sovereign Tongian was planning a second wave of interception, forcing the Chaos Bell to abandon ‘flying in a straight line’, creating opportunities for Zhao Gongming and the others.

The Great Dao resonated, Dao rhythms flowing.

The originally chaotic Chaos Sea developed a temporary and fragile order within the range covered by the Sage’s Dao rhythm.

Zhao Gongming calculated inwardly and found that his master’s plan didn’t conflict with Changgeng’s, so he exchanged a few words with Golden Peng and began rapid transit.

Outside the scene of Sovereign Tongian chasing the Chaos Bell, a pitch-black figure was traversing the Chaos Sea, searching for an opportunity to strike – naturally, this was the Kunpeng Vessel piloted by Li Changshou.

The chase grew increasingly intense.

Golden Peng carried Zhao Gongming and Golden Spirit Holy Mother for another side intercept attempt, again with precise timing for collision, but was again easily dodged by the Chaos Bell.

The Chaos Bell’s bizarre horizontal dodge had quite the technique…

Its speed seemed neither increased nor decreased, yet it could perfectly avoid Golden Peng’s beak.

Zhao Gongming and Golden Spirit Holy Mother again gnashed their teeth, while the Chaos Bell ahead swayed leisurely once more, deliberately transmitting a bit of spiritual sense:

‘Come at me!’

“Hey! I’ll-!”

Zhao Gongming’s eyes bulged, and he almost rushed out, but fortunately, Golden Spirit Holy Mother grabbed his arm, and the two prepared to make another blocking attempt with Golden Peng.

Sovereign Tongian seemed to have been truly angered by the little bell, as the Four Demon-Slaying Swords appeared around him, emanating killing intent!

The Chaos Bell hurriedly fled with its head down, yet still couldn’t completely shake off this Heavenly Dao Sage’s pursuit…

As is commonly known, the Chaos Sea also had resistant forces.

Though the Chaos Sea had no rules, it contained ‘matter between virtual and real’, and so-called extreme speed had a critical point.

A Heavenly Dao Sage was not a Great Dao Sage, and after leaving the boundaries of the Heavenly Dao, they couldn’t break through this critical point.

A strange treasure like the Chaos Bell could approach this critical point through its mystical nature.

Golden Peng, aided by various harness equipment and the Ocean Stabilizing Zhenzhu, had slightly inferior overall top speed compared to the two, but Kunpeng at full speed…

Represented this critical point.

On Kunpeng’s back, Li Changshou sat quietly cross-legged, writing and drawing in a small notebook before him, occasionally showing a thoughtful expression.

Beside him, Turtle Spirit Holy Mother was somewhat anxious, constantly looking to the side, barely able to sense Sovereign Tongian’s traces.

Turtle Spirit Holy Mother was uneasy, asking for the sixth time:

“Junior Brother Changgeng, when do we strike?”

“No rush, Senior Uncle naturally won’t lose track of the Chaos Bell.”

Li Changshou answered without raising his head:

“A great treasure like the Chaos Bell can’t detect too far in the Chaos Sea either, otherwise it wouldn’t be so carefree right now.

But they are full of spirit, with intelligence similar to living beings, which creates weaknesses.

However, why the Chaos Bell can instantly reverse its direction remains unclear, we must observe more to formulate corresponding strategies.

We are the trump card – if even the trump card can’t succeed in capturing it, then this Chaos Bell is truly hopeless.

Therefore, we need more certainty.”

Turtle Spirit Holy Mother nodded slightly, continuing to watch the side.

Zhao Gongming and Golden Spirit Holy Mother, relying on Golden Peng’s speed, made several interception attempts and were dodged several times, frustrating Zhao Gongming to the point of jumping and cursing, delighting the Chaos Bell into swaying left and right.

This was the second step of the plan—[Show Weakness to the Bell, Make the Enemy Overconfident].

However…

Sovereign Tongian suddenly gave a cold snort, abruptly raising his hand to slash out a sword light, like a bolt of lightning that split open the Chaos Sea during the world’s creation!

The patterns on the Chaos Bell lit up brilliantly, bizarrely leaving several afterimages as it shifted horizontally an unknown distance, avoiding the sword light by a hair’s breadth.

Then, the Chaos Bell rang twice, and though no spiritual sense was transmitted, living beings could understand its meaning.

Roughly:

[Do you still want this Bell Sister or not? Already with the domestic violence before getting your hands on me? What would happen if you caught me?]

Sovereign Tongian’s mouth corner twitched frantically as he continued charging forward.

The Chaos Bell rang ding-dong as it turned to flee urgently.

On Kunpeng’s back, Li Changshou stood up, a trace of Dao rhythm flowing, intertwining with a strand of Sage’s Dao rhythm circling him.

‘Senior Uncle, force it to this position.’

‘Good.’

The Kunpeng Vessel, which had been maintaining parallel flight at a distance, suddenly turned. Sovereign Tongian’s Four Demon-Slaying Swords blazed with sword radiance, continuously blocking the Chaos Bell’s escape routes.

With Golden Peng, Zhao Gongming, and Golden Spirit Holy Mother constantly blocking from the side, the little bell kept issuing warning chimes.

Those sounds…

‘Is this how you treat a treasure you’re trying to acquire?’

‘Just like this, you still want to drag Sister me to suppress your sect’s fortune, pah!

Can the Severing Sect’s fortune even be suppressed? Don’t you know your limits about how many disciples you can accept, yet you turn around wanting us treasures to suffer!’

‘Don’t come any closer!’

‘We’ve been through things together! I was also part of the Primordial Axe, and you’re also part of Lord Pangu’s divine soul, why must you fixate on me? We have no destiny! Nothing good will come from this entanglement!’

‘Aiya, Tongian, that’s enough! Want to bet I’ll go be Heaven’s lapdog and badmouth your Severing Sect!’

Sovereign Tongian’s face darkened as the Four Demon-Slaying Swords struck with increasing accuracy, while the Chaos Bell cried out in distress.

In previous chases, Sovereign Tongian had also drawn his sword to strike, but each time it was just one or two strikes to vent anger, with no intention of really harming it.

But this time…

It seemed it had truly angered Tongian, as every sword strike aimed at its precious body!

Could the Primordial Realm get any worse?

The Chaos Sea was filled with oppression against Primordial Treasures!

The little bell also grew fierce, making a series of dong-dong chaotic rings, clearly transmitting its spiritual sense:

‘Even if you catch Sister me if Sister me doesn’t want to submit to you, you can’t force it…

Hm? What’s this?’

The latter half of the spiritual sense showed confusion, as the Chaos Bell suddenly discovered that in the ‘void direction’ ‘up’ and ‘down’, there seemed to be a realm about to close!

Black and domineering, filled with boundless pressure…

A void rift appeared right ahead, emanating extremely strong suction force!

Almost instantly, the Chaos Bell realized its predicament. Its form made a bizarre turn, maintaining its speed without the slightest decrease, continuously flashing to the side, leaving a string of afterimages!

Sovereign Tongian immediately moved forward to block, while Golden Peng appeared in another position.

The Chaos Bell turned back again, as nine circular rings appeared on its body, gray light blazing, almost continuously flashing.

The Dao of Time!

More precisely, the limited Dao of Time.

The Chaos Bell was accelerating its time flow – outside passed an instant, and it flew for two instants.

In the Chaos Sea, without complete Dao laws to suppress it, it could recklessly alter its time flow, then merge this temporal difference into the surrounding chaos energy, thereby reaching extreme speed within the Chaos Sea, and at the speed’s critical point, performing short-distance ‘flashes’.

This was the key to how the Chaos Bell had been able to continuously evade Sovereign Tongian’s ‘hunting’.

And this divine ability could only be used in the Chaos Sea;

In the Primordial Realm where complete Time Dao suppression existed, the Chaos Bell couldn’t arbitrarily control its time flow.

At this moment, the Chaos Bell truly panicked, completely disregarding its spirit power consumption, but under the encirclement of Sovereign Tongian and Golden Peng Bird, could only fly rapidly to one side.

At this point, a graceful figure in a light green short dress appeared on Golden Peng Bird’s back – it was Turtle Spirit Holy Mother.

A huge turtle shell appeared behind her, adorned with twenty-four Ocean Stabilizing Zhenzhus, completely blocking off a large area of space-time.

Even if the Chaos Bell could control time flow, it couldn’t directly pass through walls…

That wasn’t within its business scope.

‘Heaven’ and ‘Earth’ rapidly converged, the pressure growing increasingly intense.

This!

Where was this any kind of heaven and earth?

It was an enormous mouth, rapidly closing!

The mouth had opened so wide it had safely deceived the Chaos Bell, letting it enter Kunpeng’s mouth; but because of this, it also gave the Chaos Bell a chance to escape…

Wait, this familiar Dao rhythm!

The Taiji Diagram!

The Chaos Bell’s forward-rushing ‘bell shadow’ flashed again, suddenly changing direction, brushing past that appearing Taiji Diagram hundreds of li in diameter!

Dong-dong-dong!

The Chaos Bell rang chaotically, its spiritual sense transforming into a mournful cry:

‘Diagram! We’re sisters! Uh, no.

Brothers! No, that’s not right either…

Pah! Even you turn against me!’

The Taiji Diagram slowly rotated, revealing spiritual sense – but only gave a cold snort.

A strand of Yin-Yang energy wrapped around the Chaos Bell as the two treasures brushed past each other!

In secret, Li Changshou’s right hand’s sword finger rapidly slid.

Heaven-Earth Yin-Yang, Suppress!

That strand of Yin-Yang energy transformed into mist, the complete Heaven-Earth Dao spreading out. Though the Chaos Bell’s forward speed wasn’t affected, its movement trajectory was now crystal clear.

Kunpeng’s great mouth was about to close, and the edge of the mouth wasn’t far away!

The Chaos Bell blazed with light all over, sensing the crisis of imminent capture, displaying all the power coefficients it could mobilize!

Escape with its life – the Chaos Bell was still a masterless Primordial Treasure!

“Balance exists between all things.”

A voice carrying a light laugh came from the side, as the Heaven-Earth Dao and Yin-Yang energy around the Chaos Bell greatly slowed its escape speed!

Primordial Treasures couldn’t be balanced;

But the Yin-Yang energy binding the Primordial Treasure became the ‘handle’ of balance!

While the Chaos Bell had the power to influence the Dao of Time, it was helpless against the characters ‘Heaven-Earth’.

If the Chaos Bell had eyes, it would surely see now a young Daoist in cyan robes, surrounded by water-blue light, chasing from the side and rear.

Naturally, it was Li Changshou.

Li Changshou deployed the ‘Void Traversing Method’, using the Dao of Balance as a guide to match his speed with the Chaos Bell’s, then opened the [Pocket Harness Equipment – Golden Peng Edition] tight against his back, taking advantage of the Chaos Bell’s momentary carelessness to streak past it, rushing out of Kunpeng’s mouth edge one step ahead.

Kunpeng’s great mouth was about to close, and the Chaos Bell was about to fly out!

Li Changshou leisurely turned around, facing the Chaos Bell with a faint smile, his right hand open as if to give the Chaos Bell a push.

Seeing this, the Chaos Bell grew greatly alarmed, its bell sound transforming into urgent tinkling, waves of spiritual sense surging toward Li Changshou like tides.

The spiritual sense only conveyed its meaning – the words Li Changshou heard were voices ‘translated’ by his subconsciousness:

‘Holy crap what are you doing get out of the way aren’t we all brothers who the hell are you alright I’ll shatter you…’

Li Changshou’s forehead was covered in black lines as he calculated the Chaos Bell’s forward speed, violently swinging his extended hand, spinning in place, his Daoist robe instantly malfunctioning!

Just as the Chaos Bell was about to fly past Kunpeng’s mouth boundary, Li Changshou threw out a beautiful whip kick!

The Heaven-Earth Ruler sealed space-time, and the Chaos Bell entangled by Yin-Yang energy flashed again, but only within the range of the mist!

Dong—

At this instant, Li Changshou wasn’t kicking the Chaos Bell, but the space-time wrapped around it.

Ripples like water appeared on the Chaos Bell’s surface, like a ball being directly kicked back hundreds of zhang!

Boom!

The great mouth closed, and chaos energy surged like a tsunami, keeping the Chaos Bell, Sovereign Tongian, Golden Peng, and the three Severing Sect Sage disciples within.

Li Changshou showed no excitement at all, instead wearing a thoughtful expression, his gaze somewhat worried.

This bell wouldn’t be easy to claim for their own.

Sure enough.

…

“Hmph, just you lot?

So what if you caught this Bell? You still can’t do anything with this Bell!

Just stare helplessly, are you happy now? Still, thinking about having me suppress your Severing Sect’s fortune? Not a chance!

Yaya ya! I’m so angry!

Who are you, kid? Where’d you come from? Kicking me like that, so heartless!”

Half an hour later, in the stone hall within Kunpeng’s body.

Li Changshou’s face was black as he looked at the zhang-tall great bell before him, now only a phantom, listening to that domineering female voice in his mind, his mouth corner twitching slightly.

Sovereign Tongian sat cross-legged on a cushion, eyes narrowed, satisfiedly examining this great bell.

A wish of many years was finally fulfilled.

Whether it could be used was another matter – just catching it was satisfying!

Zhao Gongming, Turtle Spirit, Golden Spirit, Golden Peng, and the Four Mei Generals all watched from a distance, not approaching.

Li Changshou sighed and cupped his hands to the Chaos Bell, saying: “This poor Daoist is Li Changgeng, Taiqing’s second disciple, today acting on Senior Uncle’s orders to intercept you.”

Dong-dong!

The Chaos Bell’s phantom made several rings, its spiritual sense transforming into that angry female voice in Li Changshou’s mind:

“Get Diagram out here! Is this how you treat its sister?!”

“Hm? I’m here.”

The Taiji Diagram’s phantom appeared naturally before Li Changshou, giving just a light response.

The Chaos Bell instantly went silent, complaining pitifully:

“If it weren’t for Diagram, you couldn’t have caught me.”

“Hmph.”

The Taiji Diagram transformed into black and white flowing light, drilling back into Li Changshou’s chest, staying near his divine soul along with the Primordial Yellow Tower.

Li Changshou said: “Senior Uncle, what comes next is up to you.”

Unexpectedly, Sovereign Tongian waved his hand, saying: “Didn’t I already say, after the Great Tribulation, the Chaos Bell belongs to you – you subdue it then lend it to this poor Daoist.”

Li Changshou hurriedly said: “Senior Uncle, the Chaos Bell has sealed itself now, only a Sage can break this divine ability.”

Sovereign Tongian couldn’t help but smile, saying: “About that, this poor Daoist finds it somewhat thorny too. Changgeng, you have many ideas, just find a way to muddle through.

Such Primordial Treasures must be willingly convinced before they can be used by you and me.”

Li Changshou: …

Hadn’t they just offended it completely?

At this time, the Chaos Bell was still deploying the Dao of Time, but more mysteriously, ‘backspacing’ its own time by an instant, thus ‘forever existing only in the previous moment’.

Though trapped by Heaven-Earth and unable to escape space-time, it could offset from the ‘present world’.

The Three Primordial Creation Treasures truly lived up to their name – with such divine abilities, it was no wonder it could be used as a defensive treasure.

Golden Spirit Holy Mother said: “The Primordial Axe transformed into three treasures, Pangu’s divine soul transformed into three teachers, this was naturally one-to-one corresponding.

Now with our Master here, why won’t this bell submit?”

The Chaos Bell’s spiritual sense spread everywhere as if a graceful big sister was leaning against the bell wall, arms crossed, face cold, snorting disdainfully:

“Back then we three all ran separately, the Banner and Diagram just happened to get caught.

Your Master couldn’t catch me back then, it’s that simple.

We all have spirit – creation is already over, can’t we just live well separately? Why must we gather together?”

Zhao Gongming frowned and asked: “Then why did you help that Eastern Sovereign Taiyi? The Golden Crow clan?”

The Chaos Bell answered: “When you watch cubs grow up yourself, you naturally develop some feelings.

As for you lot, don’t even think about it. You can’t even touch me, yet want me to work for you?

Just your Severing Sect’s fortune – if I try to suppress it, I’d probably disappear myself. You think Sister is like that Golden Lotus that specializes in suppressing sect fortunes and struggles even in magical battles?”

For a moment, all the immortals looked at each other, even the Sage finding it difficult.