Reborn as a lotus, she initially refuses to hand it over to the state.

Chu Zhou did not retract the true form of the Boundary Lotus.

Although the Fifth Hunting Court has been destroyed, the Myriad Spirits Azure Lotus Realm still shrouds the shattered altar. Ten broken lotus leaves slowly rotate, purifying the still-escaping fragments of the Golden Law.

Shen Xinglan's research projection led people into the bottom of the altar.

There was no treasure trove left by the Fifth Hunting Court there, only layers upon layers of forcibly compressed world veins. Hundreds of thousands of golden pipes plunged into it, having already drained most of its original essence.

There's more down there.

Shen Xinglan stopped at the deepest point.

In the images transmitted back by the probe, a section of ancient green root with a diameter of over a thousand miles was being fixed to the bottom of the altar by hundreds of boundary nails.

The surface of the Guggen was devoid of any life.

But when the lotus stalks approached, those patterns that had been dormant for 100,000 years lit up on their own.

Chu Zhou's main body simultaneously sensed an extremely familiar aura.

[Fluctuations of the ancestral realm's origin have been detected.]

[Target: Remains of the ancestral root of the Jianmu tree.]

[The target once belonged to the first generation of the Starry Sky Gate of the Ancestral Realm.]

The Fifth Hunting Court uses the ancestral root of the Jianmu tree to define the human world and maintains the sacrificial path of civilization.

[The wreckage contains 4.7% of the ancestral realm's essence.]

[After recovery, the restoration rate of the ancestral realm's origin can be increased to over 50%.]

Looking at the ancient, green roots beneath the altar, Qin Zhenyuan finally understood why the Fifth Hunting Court was always able to find the human cities scattered across the starry sea.

Ten thousand years ago, they took away more than just the coordinates of seven star cities.

There is also the Jianmu ancestral root, used by the first generation of guardians of the ancestral realm to guide the clansmen.

The Fifth Hunting Court changed the route left by the humans back home into a hunting route to track down the humans.

Gu Tianheng stood in front of Gu Gen, his crimson-gold armor still dripping blood.

"Not long after the First Border Guard left the Ancestral Realm, the Hunting Court accurately located us."

"So it turns out that the Golden Contract of Offering Realms didn't lock down the Ancestral Realm first."

"It was this ancestral root that exposed the bloodline coordinates of all the border guards."

He reached out, wanting to touch his ancestral roots, but ultimately stopped in mid-air.

The First Border Guard once escorted sacrificial offerings for the Fifth Hunting Court.

It is impossible to count how many human star cities and fleeing legions were found by this ancestral root.

A root from Chu Zhou pierced through the altar ruins and landed on the surface of the ancient, green root.

Qinglian Jingshi did not refine it immediately.

Instead, they examined the law imprints left by the Fifth Hunting Court along each boundary nail.

"Pull out the nail first."

"Send the ancestral roots to the All-Spirit Starport."

Little Jinbao was outside counting materials.

Upon hearing the words "remove the nails," it immediately poked its head out from behind the wrecked hull.

But when it saw the number of those boundary nails, its eyes widened rapidly.

"Should we pull them all out?"

"A total of 720."

Shen Xinglan projected the location: "They cannot be pulled out at the same time. A spatial cavity has already formed inside the ancestral root, and it must be removed layer by layer according to the order of the earth veins."

Little Jinbao flew around the ancient, green root once.

"Who gets the one that's been pulled out?"

Chu Zhou gently tapped its forehead with its roots: "Register first."

Little Jinbao clutched his forehead, unable to resist looking at the mountains of Hunter's Court ruins piled up around him.

It suddenly realized that too much war wasn't entirely a good thing.

There were so many things that it was impossible to pick them all up.

The Ninth Border Guard and engineers quickly began removing the boundary nails.

As the first golden nail was pulled out, a deep tremor emanated from within the ancient, verdant root. A fragmented star path then appeared, leading to a long-destroyed human city.

With the second gold nail pulled out, thousands more blurred coordinates were restored.

Most of them no longer showed any signs of life.

However, a few coordinates are still releasing faint fluctuations of human bloodline in the distant starry sea.

Wanling Starport immediately recorded it.

These are all fugitives whom the Fifth Hunting Court has not yet had time to capture.

Just as the 361st boundary nail was pulled out, all the core civilizations surrounding the starport suddenly trembled.

No spatial rifts appeared.

No warships approached.

But time in the entire starry sky suddenly slowed down.

A piece of warship debris, falling from the sky, hovered in mid-air.

The blue lights inside the Soul-Guiding Mothership remained swaying, no longer changing.

Many soldiers of the First Border Guard remained in their walking posture, but their consciousness was frozen in the previous moment.

Only those who have reached the level of laws can still barely turn their gaze.

All ten lotus leaves of Chuzhou rose at the same time.

The Myriad Spirits Azure Lotus Realm covers the Myriad Spirits Starport, protecting the entire core of the civilization that is still recovering inside.

[A twelfth-tier peak law has been detected.]

[The target is freezing time in the star system.]

The Myriad Spirits Azure Lotus Realm is being corrupted by the unknown laws of the hunting grounds.

In the distant darkness, a bronze clock face without markings slowly appeared.

The diameter of the clock face exceeds that of the entire Fifth Hunting Court Altar.

With each rotation, the surrounding starry sky loses a period of time. Many of the recently decommissioned Hunter's Warships miraculously return to their state before they were destroyed.

But there were no lives on those warships.

They are merely extracted projections of the past.

In the center of the bronze bell, a tall figure draped in a dark silver robe slowly emerged.

It does not have golden vertical pupils.

There is only a black bell hanging upside down on his forehead, and twelve bronze carving knives of different lengths floating behind him.

Each carving knife is engraved with numerous coordinates of a world that has already been destroyed.

[Target: Cang Mi, the First Hunting Court's Sky Patrol King.]

[Realm Level: Peak of the Twelfth Tier.]

[Identity: Seventh Patrol Officer of the First Hunting Court.]

[Master the Laws: The hunting grounds are sealed, all things cease to exist, the past returns.]

[The target has been ordered by the master of the First Hunting Court to receive the legacy of the Fifth Hunting Court.]

The target has been identified as the ancestral root of Jianmu.

Cang Mi did not look at the expeditionary force.

They also paid no attention to the completely extinguished aura of law that Misaro had left.

Its gaze swept across the 361 worlds, finally settling on the ancient, verdant roots deep within the altar.

"The Fifth Hunting Court has been destroyed."

"According to the Nine Courts Inheritance Law, the Guiting World, the Civilization Sacrifice Road, and all original heritage should be received by the First Hunting Court."

Cang Mi raised his hand.

A pre-prepared black silver decree slowly unfolded above the All Spirits Starport.

There are no names for the 361 worlds mentioned.

There was only one line of cold, hard numbers.

[Available worlds for Guiting Court: 361.]

[Available civilized population: 937.2 billion.]

[Residual World Origin: 21%]

[Recommended handling method: Freeze and seal the goods, then transfer them in batches.]

Those civilization representatives who had just left the Fifth Hunting Court felt their own laws vibrate as they saw themselves reappear on the supplies list.

Cang Mi did not wait for their response.

"The Fifth Hunting Court has no right to continue to possess you."

"From this moment forward, you belong to the First Hunting Court."

The bronze clock face turned again.

Around the 361 worlds, the recently broken chains of civilization have reappeared.

Those were not real chains.

Rather, it is a projection of laws extracted from the past.

They retained all the power they possessed when the Fifth Hunting Court controlled the Returning Court World, and once again entangled themselves around the world's ley lines.

The first lotus leaf fell from Chuzhou.

The purifying flames of the myriad realms burned along the chains, only briefly illusory them. The next moment, Cang Mi dragged out another identical chain from an even earlier point in time.

"Purification is meaningless."

Cang Mi looked at Chu Zhou's tattered World Lotus True Form: "As long as the past has indeed happened, I can make it reappear repeatedly."

"You just fought with Misaro, and your Law Domain suffered more than 40% damage."

"Hand over the ancestral roots of Jianmu and the civilized sacrificial rites."

"I will allow you to leave with the Ancestral Realm Legion."

Little Jinbao finally struggled out of the time freeze.

It embraced a newly pulled-out boundary nail and gazed at the imperial decree of inheritance hanging in the starry sky.

"Is it trying to take someone else's things again?"

Qin Zhenyuan gripped the half-broken black sword and slowly took a step forward.

"To be precise."

"It wants to treat everyone as an object."

The first bronze carving knife behind Cang Mi suddenly fell.

Three breaths of time were directly cut off around Qin Zhenyuan.

There was no attack process.

There was no collision of any laws.

Three breaths later, a through wound appeared on Qin Zhenyuan's chest, and he flew backward from the starry sky.

Gu Tianheng raised the commander's battle flag.

Before the first border guards could form a complete formation, the second bronze carving knife fell upon the crimson-gold army.