at the same time,

Thousands of miles away from the exploration ship.

Ding-ding-ding!!!

The resounding bell sound echoed between heaven and earth. The red-haired girl in a white velvet coat suddenly stopped.

Chloe turned her head to look in the direction where the bell sound came from, and a powerful wave of divine power burst out from her body. She looked down at the back of her hand, and saw a mark that was the same as the one on Lin Qiye’s chest, which was madly devouring her strength and emitting a faint glow.

"The Donghuang Bell rings, the [Holy Covenant] comes into effect, cause and effect are reversed, and life is reborn from the dead." Chloe murmured to herself.

"After two thousand one hundred and forty-one years, the first [Holy Covenant] has finally been activated..."

This violent devouring power lasted for dozens of seconds. When the last ray of light flashed by, she groaned, spat out a mouthful of blood, and her face turned extremely pale.

The beam of light that shot up into the sky in the distance finally dissipated. Chloe wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, and a smile appeared on her face:

"We have fulfilled our first covenant. Whether we can reverse this cause and effect depends on you... Lin Qiye."

…

Daxia, the island of national destiny.

Ding-ding-ding! !

The sound of a bell from afar resounded through the heavens and the earth. Figures all over the island stopped what they were doing at the same time and looked in the direction of the sound in confusion.

"Bell sound? What kind of bell sound is this?" Li Kengqiang stood on the top of the cliff, looking at the endless sea in the distance, muttering to himself in confusion.

Behind him, a woman wearing a lambskin sweatshirt walked out slowly.

"Is this... the Donghuang Bell?" Wang Qing asked uncertainly.

"Donghuang Bell? What is that?"

"It was a supreme artifact from the Heavenly Palace long ago." Tang Yusheng stepped on the waves and flew to the two of them. "But the Donghuang Bell should have been lost more than two thousand years ago... It is not in the Heavenly Palace now."

"The supreme divine weapon is not in heaven? Then who is ringing it now?" Li Kengqiang's expression became more and more confused.

"……have no idea."

As the commander-in-chief of the Night Watch, they possessed a vast amount of intelligence, but even so, they still could not guess the identity of the mysterious bell ringer... Judging from the sound of the bell, its real body must be in Da Xia, but apart from the Night Watch and the Heavenly Court, who else in Da Xia could control the Donghuang Bell without anyone noticing and ring it?

Just as the commanders were in deep thought, deep beneath the island, above the endless torrent of national destiny, a figure in tattered armor slowly raised his head.

"My Lord, the Donghuang Bell has rung." Gong Yangwan stood by the torrent of national destiny and spoke softly.

"Yeah, I heard that."

Huo Qubing, who was standing on the tide of national destiny, had a look of reminiscence in his eyes.

He looked down and his scarred palm slowly opened. A white chess piece was lying quietly in his palm.

"He rang the Donghuang Bell... That means the First [Holy Covenant] has been activated."

"Yes." Gong Yangwan gently took off her hairpin, and her black hair fell on her shoulders like a waterfall. She looked at the white jade chess piece in the center of the hairpin, and her eyes became complicated.

“An ancient oath has reappeared in the world. After thousands of years of planning, this game between man and god... It’s time to have a glimmer of hope.”

…

"The bell?"

In the fog, hundreds of miles away from the strait, An Qingyu suddenly stopped.

He turned his head and looked in the direction of Daxia, frowning slightly. "Where did the sound of the bell come from? How could it spread to every corner of the earth? Could something have happened in Daxia again?"

An Qingyu pondered for a long time without any clue. When the three bell sounds faded away, the world returned to dead silence again, as if the bell sounds just now were just an illusion.

An Qingyu shook his head and continued walking towards the strait.

At this moment, he felt an inexplicable pain in his chest and started coughing violently!

He covered his chest with one hand, feeling as if something was about to pierce through his flesh and blood, and a sharp pain filled his mind!

An Qingyu frowned as a scalpel slid into his palm. He directly cut open the flesh of his chest and inserted his palm into his body, as if looking for something.

After a moment, he slowly pulled his hand out of his chest, and the broken flesh and blood quickly repaired itself.

An Qingyu looked at the bloody palm, which he slowly spread open. When he saw the object in the palm, the doubt in his eyes became even stronger.

It was a white chess piece stained with blood.

Was this the thing Chloe had just injected into his body? Was this her so-called gift?

A gleam of light flashed in An Qingyu's gray pupils, and he began to analyze the composition of the chess piece. However, the chess piece, which was the size of a thumbnail, rapidly enlarged in his pupils, and even the texture of the surface molecules gradually became clear.

"This is..." An Qingyu's pupils shrank slightly.

Without a second thought, he crushed the chess piece into powder, which then floated into the sea.

He looked at the chess pieces that gradually disappeared into the sea, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he was wondering what he was thinking...

After a long time, he turned around silently and disappeared among the reflections of the strait.

…

Daxia, heaven.

"It's the Donghuang Bell!" Jiang Ziya heard the bell and a flash of horror flashed across his eyes, "Donghuang Bell has appeared again?"

"The source of the bell sound is within Daxia... If that's the case, why haven't we discovered it in all these years?"

"Now, who is ringing the bell?!"

Several Golden Immortals looked at each other, soared into the sky at the same time, and flew out in the direction where the bell sound came from!

Although the Donghuang Bell only rang three times, for the gods of Daxia, just one ring was enough to locate its position. Several streams of light crossed the sky one after another, approaching somewhere in Daxia from different directions.

The sound of the Donghuang Bell gradually faded away, and continuous mountain ranges appeared in the sight of the gods.

"What is this place?"

“Qilian Mountains.”

"Qilian Mountain...what's so special about this place?"

"No, we have never sensed any divine power here. Even humans rarely set foot here."

While several Golden Immortals were discussing, they had already followed the sound of the bell and found the source of the sound. It was on a peak of the Qilian Mountains. In the midst of the snow, an ancient and grand bronze bell was slowly stopping in the wind and snow.

That is the supreme artifact lost in heaven thousands of years ago, the Donghuang Bell.

"It must be it." Taiyi Zhenren said, "But the aura here is obscured by some existence. If it hadn't shown up on its own, we might not have been able to detect it even if we were so close."

The Golden Immortals flew to the front of the Donghuang Bell. At this moment, a figure slowly walked out from behind the Donghuang Bell...