The Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord had been feeling restless lately. It wasn’t because his friend, the Timekeeper Divine Lord, had vanished without a trace, nor because the treasure map he had drawn was lost. Those were not major issues.

The greatest problem he faced at present was that he didn’t know the location of the ancient domain.

Three hundred thousand years ago, he discovered an ancient domain left behind by the Epoch Immortal. The secret domain was filled with too many restrictions, making him afraid to touch anything, but he was unwilling to give up on this fortuitous opportunity.

As he had been in slumber for too long, and combined with the influence of faith power, he might experience partial memory loss upon awakening. Therefore, he had drawn a map before entering his slumber.

To prevent the Midheaven Emperor-Lord or others from discovering it, he divided the map into three pieces. He scattered them among the common folk, ensuring that even if someone obtained one piece, they couldn’t assemble the complete map.

Naturally, he also possessed a secret method to track the map’s location.

Upon awakening, he found that he still remembered the location of the ancient secret domain, which was in the Green Lotus Mountain Range. The map was essentially no longer necessary.

“Where is the Green Lotus Mountain Range?”

After waking up, not only had two dynasties changed, but the terrain had also undergone vast transformations. Without landmarks as points of reference, remembering just the name “Green Lotus Mountain Range” was utterly useless.

“Can’t those cultivators restore the terrain after they fight?!” The Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord was furious. I didn’t restore the terrain because I was a half-immortal. But what excuse do these cultivators below the half-immortal level have?

This is a secret domain left by the Epoch Immortal. It likely contains time-related immortal artifacts. If I possess a temporal immortal artifact, which half-immortal could still be my match?

Recently, he had learned some good news that might help him locate the Green Lotus Mountain Range.

“It’s said that the Mountain-Moving Sea-Filling Sect houses maps of the Central Continent from all dynasties. They must have the location of the Green Lotus Mountain Range!”

The Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord left the immortal palace and headed straight for the Mountain-Moving Sea-Filling Sect.

“So this is the Mountain-Moving Sea-Filling Sect? They certainly know how to pick a good location.” Seeing the sect nestled among mountains and rivers in an idyllic environment, even the Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord felt like living there himself.

As a half-immortal, my whereabouts are a mystery. No one at the Mountain-Moving Sea-Filling Sect can detect my arrival.

He walked into the scripture library. Books were piled up like mountains. There was no way he could find a book about the Green Lotus Mountain Range anytime soon.

The cultivator guarding the scripture library has a bit of substance, but that is all.

“Just a Basic Transcendent Tribulation cultivator.” The Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord chuckled dismissively. He even walked right past the elderly guardian without the old man noticing him.

A Basic Transcendent Tribulation cultivator could barely qualify to be my subordinate in the Great Qian era.

Still, the old man was a Transcendent Tribulation cultivator. The Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord didn’t dare to make too much noise. Unwilling to use his spiritual consciousness to search, he had no choice but to flip through the books one by one.

When he reached the fourth floor, he noticed some commotion on the first floor.

“Sect Ancestor, do you recognize this iron lump?” Sect Leader Kong approached the elderly guardian of the scripture library with the immortal metal box. The elder was Jin Wenzhang, the Supreme Elder of the Mountain-Moving Sea-Filling Sect.

Fang Jin, Lu Yang, and Meng Jingzhou followed behind.

“What’s this thing?” The Grand Elder examined the immortal metal box, tapping and knocking on it. When he tried to channel spirit energy into it, it was repelled.

“You don’t recognize it either?” Sect Leader Kong had sought out the Grand Elder because he couldn’t identify what the immortal metal box was or how to use it. He hadn’t expected even the Grand Elder to be unable to recognize it.

”Little Jin, Junior Nephew Lu, and Junior Nephew Meng found an archaic map from the Great Qian era by chance. The map indicated that something was buried in the Green Lotus Mountain Range. It was only because Little Jin had read so many books that he knew that the Green Lotus Mountain Range of the Great Qian era is now the Heavenly River Plains. That’s how they were able to uncover this immortal metal box.”

“It seems you haven’t spent all your time in the scripture library for nothing, little fellow,” the Grand Elder commented with a smile as he stroked his beard. He had a good impression of this junior.

Green Lotus Mountain Range!

Hearing that familiar name, the Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord immediately grew agitated and inadvertently leaked his aura.

“Who’s there?!” The Grand Elder looked up and roared like an enraged old lion. To think someone has infiltrated the scripture library right under my nose!

It was the Buddhist Lion Roar!

“This should be mine!” The Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord was equally furious. I’ve searched for years without finding the location, only for a junior to end up discovering it and taking the Epoch Immortal’s artifact that should have belonged to me!

Unforgivable!

The Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord’s large hand transformed into golden lightning bolts as he reached for the immortal metal box.

But how could the Grand Elder allow that?

“Heavenly Pillar!”

The Grand Elder bellowed. A dragon with a metallic luster burst from the ground. Raising its head, it slammed the Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord out of the scripture library.

If they fought inside the scripture library, regardless of who won, the scripture library would be destroyed.

“Everyone retreat!” Sect Leader Kong knew that a Transcendent Tribulation-level battle was beyond his ability to handle. All he could do now was have the disciples leave the sect quickly to avoid being caught in the crossfire.

The Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord completely disregarded the Grand Elder.

“Might of Thunderstrike!”

Lightning flashed, and thunder boomed. In an instant, the entire Mountain-Moving Sea-Filling Sect was engulfed in thunderstrikes. Lightning bolts as thick as water vats wreaked havoc upon the sect, leaving large craters wherever they struck. The ground cracked, and the flickering lightning illuminated the Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord’s face, making it especially terrifying.

I possess a Tribulation Mandate Incipient Dao Fruit. With the Heaven Mandate Immortal absent, I’m the embodiment of lightning and thunder—the bane of all cultivators! 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

“A half-immortal?!” The Grand Elder recognized at a glance that such thunderstrikes couldn’t have been unleashed by a Transcendent Tribulation cultivator. He must have relied on an Incipient Dao Fruit.

“So what if you’re a half-immortal? How dare a Great Qian half-immortal run rampant on our Great Xia territory!” Though aware of the gap between them, the Grand Elder showed no fear. In his youth, he had a hot temper and often fought with those who commissioned the missions.

As the wind surged, the Grand Elder grew, transforming into a titan that was ninety thousand zhang[1] tall, with the metallic dragon coiled around his arm. The titan planted his feet on the earth, his head brushing against the thunderstrike, and swung a massive hammer at the Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord.

“Heaven-Earth Dharma Manifestation! Heaven and Earth Overturned!”

A single blow from this could level even a hundred thousand mountains.

“Foolish junior, you are ignorant of heaven’s might!” The Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord looked coldly at the Grand Elder.

So what if you grew larger? With insufficient cultivation, no technique can make up the difference. Before the Tribulation Mandate Incipient Dao Fruit and the might of heaven, everything is useless.

“Nine Heavens Evil-Annihilating Divine Lightning.”

Nine layers of sky appeared, each higher than the last. The Nine Heavens Evil-Annihilating Divine Lightning surged forth, sweeping away all impurities and fiends in the world.

As for who was a fiend, it was entirely determined by the Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord.

“You are a fiend.”

The tone was as if he was anointing the Grand Elder’s identity. The Nine Heavens Evil-Annihilating Divine Lightning locked onto the Grand Elder, and nine types of divine lightning with different attributes descended one after another.

Lu Yang nervously recited the words of the Epoch Immortal from Immortals’ Quotes.

According to the Everlasting Immortal Fairy, as long as he recited the correct chant, he could use the immortal metal box. With its help, the Grand Elder could definitely contend with the Thunder Arbiter Divine Lord.

The penultimate divine lightning fell. Seeing that the Grand Elder was powerless to block it, Lu Yang gritted his teeth and hurled the immortal metal box directly at it, intercepting the thunderbolt.

In the ancient language, he recited the last line of the Epoch Immortal from Immortals’ Quotes.

“Among three thousand great Daos, epoch alone reigns supreme.”

In an instant, the surface of the immortal metal box lit up with various mysterious patterns, imbued with the power of epoch. It was so captivating that a single glance could trap one within.

A sturdy figure stepped out of the immortal metal box.

“Finally, I can come out.”

The final divine lightning fell, striking the sturdy figure.

“Who the hell struck me?!”

The sturdy figure was incensed. Just one shout from him was as powerful as the Grand Elder’s Buddhist Lion Roar.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou froze at the sight of the sturdy figure. They rubbed their eyes, wondering if they were hallucinating.

“Primordial Heavenly Sovereign?”

Seeing the patterns lighting up on the immortal metal box, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy finally remembered the box’s function.

“This is a box the Epoch Immortal created while studying the Epoch Dao Fruit. The flow of time inside the box is different from the outside world. While you cultivate inside for one day, a year passes outside.”

Lu Yang was about to nod and praise how powerful the box was when he suddenly realized something was off. What use is this damn box?!

1. This is approximately 300,000 meters. ☜