Chapter 321

Su Chen returned to his cave dwelling and sat cross-legged on the meditation cushion in the quiet room.

He closed his eyes, his mind sinking into his sea of consciousness.

Deep within the sea of consciousness, the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian floated quietly, emitting an ancient and mysterious aura.

As Su Chen's intent moved, a line of text appeared on the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian.

【Current remaining Heavenly Secret Points: 1900 points】

This was the abundant family fortune he had saved up over these years.

"Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian, deduce the whereabouts of the Chaos Bell!" Su Chen issued the command.

In the sea of consciousness, the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian shook violently.

The light on the mirror's surface flickered intensely, as if performing some extremely difficult calculation.

As time passed, a line of text slowly emerged: 【The target is an Innate Supreme Treasure; the divine object conceals itself and carries its own karmic shielding, making the difficulty of deduction extremely high. It requires the consumption of 1000 Heavenly Secret Points; do you wish to continue?】

"One thousand points?" Su Chen's heart skipped a beat.

This was almost the majority of his savings, but for the Chaos Bell, it was worth it.

"Continue!"

Following Su Chen's confirmation, 1000 Heavenly Secret Points were instantly deducted.

【Deduction started, remaining Heavenly Secret Points: 900】

The Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian erupted with unprecedented, piercing light.

The next instant, an anomaly occurred.

"Boom!"

In Su Chen's sea of consciousness, it felt as if ten thousand bolts of Nine Heavens Divine Thunder exploded simultaneously.

That was the Chaos Bell's instinctive counterattack against external prying!

The status of the Chaos Bell was too high; forcibly deducing it actually caused Su Chen himself to bear a portion of the backlash power.

"Pfft!"

Su Chen's body shook violently, and a mouthful of pale golden blood sprayed out, splashing onto the stone slab in front of him.

His eyes snapped open, and two trails of blood flowed down from the corners of his eyes, crossing his cheeks and dripping onto his lapels.

His sea of consciousness seemed to have turned into a Shura field, the powerful backlash force causing him unbearable pain.

"Warning! Encountered backlash from an Innate Supreme Treasure! Deduction is about to be interrupted!" The Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian transmitted an urgent message.

"Interrupt? I spent one thousand Heavenly Secret Points, and you want me to interrupt?"

A low, beast-like growl issued from Su Chen's throat.

His hands abruptly formed seals, and his magic power at the peak of the Tai Yi Jin Xian realm erupted without reservation.

Not only that, the power of his Great Luo Golden Immortal physical body, which had been tempered through a thousand trials by the "Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Axes," also fully revived at this moment.

His spine was like a heavenly pillar, his limbs like the four poles.

The sound of his blood and Qi surging was like a great river roaring within his body.

"Hold on for me!"

Su Chen gritted his teeth, forcibly using his own magic power and physical body to hold firm against the impact of the backlash, buying time for the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian's deduction.

Two forces engaged in a tragic tug-of-war within his body and sea of consciousness.

Fine beads of blood seeped out from the surface of Su Chen's skin, and his entire person seemed to have turned into a blood man.

Time became incomparably long at this moment.

With every breath, Su Chen was enduring pain akin to being sliced by a thousand knives.

Just at the final instant when the backlash force was about to completely crush his defenses.

A line of text appeared with difficulty on the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian.

【The Bell is hidden in chaos, its traces left at the creation of the world. To seek the supreme treasure, one must go to a place that has a connection with the Great God Pangu.】

The moment the text appeared, the light of the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian dimmed, returning to silence.

The backlash force also receded like a tide.

"Hoo..."

Su Chen collapsed onto the jade meditation cushion, gasping for air in large mouthfuls.

His entire body was completely soaked in sweat and blood.

He did not immediately heal his wounds, but stared fixedly at the text that had appeared on the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian in his sea of consciousness.

"The Bell is hidden in chaos, its traces left at the creation of the world. To seek the supreme treasure, one must go to a place that has a connection with the Great God Pangu."

Su Chen muttered to himself, his brows tightly knitted together.

This clue was too vague; it was practically nonsense.

Back then, the Great God Pangu created the world, and after his death, his body transformed into all things.

His left eye became the sun, his right eye the moon, his blood transformed into rivers, and his hair transformed into stars.

Within these Three Realms, which mountain, which river, is not connected to the Great God Pangu?

If he had to search them one by one, even if he lived until the Immeasurable Tribulation, he would not finish searching.

"No." Su Chen wiped away the bloodstains from the corners of his eyes.

"Since the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian gave this hint, it absolutely cannot be referring generally to the entire Three Realms; it must be a place that is extremely special and has a direct, core connection to the Great God Pangu."

While circulating the "Hunyuan Jin Dan True Explanation" to calm the surging blood and Qi in his body, Su Chen quickly screened locations from Primordial legends in his mind.

Mount Buzhou? That was transformed from Pangu's spine, but it had long been knocked down by Gong Gong.

The Sea of Blood? That was the filthy blood transformed from Pangu's navel, the territory of Ancestor Ming He. But the Chaos Bell is supreme yang and supreme hardness; it should be impossible for it to be hidden in such a filthy place.

After thinking for a long time, Su Chen still had no clue.

There were too many Primordial secrets; he had understood some in his previous life, but he could not say he understood them completely.

"It seems I have to go ask that living dictionary."

Su Chen stood up, his magic power vibrating to steam away the bloodstains on his body, and he changed into a clean cyan long robe.

He pushed open the stone door, walked out of his cave dwelling with long strides, and arrived at Bai Ze's cave dwelling.

Inside the cave dwelling, Bai Ze was leaning on a lounge chair, closing his eyes to rest his mind.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Bai Ze did not even open his eyes and spoke lazily: "Why, didn't you go to find clues about the Chaos Bell? Did you find it so quickly?"

"Senior, I want to ask you about a place." Su Chen went straight to the point.

"Speak."

"Within the Three Realms, or rather, between this heaven and earth, where is a place that can be called 'a place that has a connection with the Great God Pangu'?"

Hearing this, Bai Ze opened his eyes, those white eyes without pupils staring straight at Su Chen.

"Why do you ask this?" Bai Ze's voice was very low.

Su Chen did not hide it and said softly: "Clues about the Chaos Bell."

"Bang!"

Hearing this, this Demon Sage, who had lived from the ancient Demon Court until now and had seen all the changes in the world, felt his white eyes shrink violently at this moment.

"You... really know the clues to the Chaos Bell?" Bai Ze's voice carried a trace of disbelief.

That was the supreme sacred object of the Demon Clan!

Su Chen nodded and repeated the sentence given by the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian.

"The Bell is hidden in chaos, its traces left at the creation of the world. To seek the supreme treasure, one must go to a place that has a connection with the Great God Pangu..."

Bai Ze muttered, repeating the sentence.

He stood up and paced back and forth in the cave.

After walking for the time it takes to burn a stick of incense, Bai Ze finally stopped his steps, supported himself on the stone table with both hands, and stared fixedly at Su Chen.

"A place with a Pangu connection..."

Bai Ze took a deep breath and said slowly.

"All things in the Three Realms are transformed from Pangu, but there is only one place that can bear the word 'connection' and can hide an Innate Supreme Treasure like the Chaos Bell."

Su Chen's spirit lifted: "Where?"