Seeing Donghuang Taiyi and that fragment of the Chaos Bell in the image, Yu Yuan immediately realized something.

Perhaps it wasn't Chang Xi Fairy who left behind the Jade Pestle, or maybe the Jade Pestle she left was switched. In any case, the Jade Pestle is actually the handiwork of Donghuang Taiyi!

It is a tool he used to transmit a message!

Chang Xi Fairy might have discovered the trickery within, so she left a message inside, "Do not come to rescue me," as a reminder to Yu Yuan.

It can be said that all of this was orchestrated by Donghuang Taiyi from the shadows.

His goal is simple: to use Chang Xi Fairy to lure Yu Yuan into attempting a rescue.

After all, in their understanding, Yu Yuan is the only person who can disturb the stability of time and space and still remain unscathed under the Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunders.

With Yu Yuan's help, they could return directly to the normal timeline from the ancient past.

Of course, Yu Yuan wouldn't easily offer his assistance.

Therefore, just in case, Donghuang Taiyi deliberately kept one of the Chaos Bell Fragments after exploding the bell, to use it as a bargaining chip to attract Yu Yuan.

Now the Chaos Bell is only missing the last fragment to be fully restored and regain the supreme power of an Innate Treasure.

In such a situation, it's feared that no one could resist the temptation of that fragment.

However, Yu Yuan also understood that if he really went to that point in time, he would inevitably be met with trap after trap.

Yu Yuan was not in a hurry to make a decision.

He noticed that the scene in the image had changed again.

The image now showed Donghuang Taiyi gone, replaced by a graceful immortal delicately painting at a desk.

She was dressed in a pure white Immortal Dress, and her towering chest was engraved with a blooming osmanthus flower, as if proudly standing on the summit of a sacred mountain, lifelike in every detail.

Her head was lowered, her true face not revealed, but she seemed to exude an invisible aura of nobility mixed with a demonly charm.

Chang Xi Fairy!

Yu Yuan's heart stirred slightly as he recognized her identity.

His gaze then fell on her drawing.

On the canvas, she had painted was a tall and heroic man, almost fully detailed, only missing some nuances in hair strands and the folds of clothing.

The man in the picture had thick eyebrows and large eyes, with a face as clearly defined as a sculpture, angular and chiseled, exuding valiance.

He was wearing a pale blue cloud-patterned Daoist robe, neither wearing a crown nor tying his hair, letting his curly and dense hair hang freely, yet it didn't appear messy but rather conveyed an unbridled and elegant demeanor.

The person in the painting looked so similar to Yu Yuan; they were practically identical.

Yu Yuan's expression was somewhat odd.

Did Chang Xi Fairy become infatuated with him after just one meeting, to the extent of painting him to alleviate her longing?

Wasn't that too far-fetched??

When did he become so charming?

But soon he sensed something was off; he saw the Chang Xi Fairy in the image, after painting his likeness, nodded in satisfaction and murmured to herself: "Tomorrow, I will petition His Majesty to order all the Demon Gods within the Three Realms to search for you by this image. I refuse to believe we can't find you!"

From her smug little eyes, Yu Yuan could tell.

The reason she was painting his portrait wasn't because she was attracted to his charm; she was simply treating him as a fugitive and wanted to mobilize the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to capture him.

The image projected from the Jade Pestle abruptly ended there.

Yu Yuan let out a light sigh.

At this moment, he had a rough guess.

Perhaps it was this painting that brought trouble to Chang Xi Fairy, making the Demon Emperor and Donghuang Taiyi suspect she had some connection with Yu Yuan, and thus she too was trapped in the Ancient Era, used as one of the baits to lure Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan thought carefully and found himself in a dilemma.

To go would possibly mean falling into a carefully prepared trap by the Demon Emperor and Donghuang Taiyi; but not to go would mean missing the Chaos Bell Fragments, missing the sole opportunity to reassemble the Chaos Bell.

That was unacceptable to him.

Had there been no clues, it would have been different, but now that he had received definite information that the last Chaos Bell Fragment was hidden in the Ancient Era, he naturally had to go and retrieve it.

Yu Yuan weighed the pros and cons carefully and eventually decided to go to the Ancient Era.

The reason was simple: that so-called Chaos Bell Fragment was far too important.

After all, the Chaos Bell was an Innate Treasure and also one of the top defensive treasures.

It also possessed various unbelievable Divine Skills, capable of ignoring any disturbances to the stability of time and space, traversing between the past, present, and future.

More importantly, he had already gathered the other fragments of the Chaos Bell; he only needed the last one to fully restore it!

In other words, once he got that last fragment, the Chaos Bell could be restored to its original form, unleashing its full potential.

Now that he had the news of this last fragment, he just needed to go to the Ancient Era to acquire it and then repair the Chaos Bell.

Otherwise, if he didn't go, he would truly miss out!

As for the Demon Emperor and Donghuang Taiyi, it would be a step by step approach.

Although the journey would inevitably be fraught with danger, he couldn't wait until he achieved Sainthood, or after the Sealing God Tribulation, to consider going to the Ancient Era to vie for the Chaos Bell Fragments, right?

He strived to become stronger in order to change the outcome of the Divine Enthronement.