399: Supreme Daoist Technique: Grasp of Time

The Palace Mistress of Yuqing Palace let out a muffled groan and retreated seven steps! With every step she took, she left deep footprints on the indestructible altar! The heavenly sound zither in her hands let out an overwhelmed wail, its strings vibrating violently, nearly snapping!

She looked at the silver-robed figure in the center of the field with absolute terror, like a Mortal looking up at the firmament. "Myriad Dao Realm?! No... that's not right! This pressure... far exceeds Hunyuan! You... just who are you?!" Her voice trembled as never before.

“Ah!” Elder Xuanyin, who bore the brunt of the force, let out a shrill scream! That terrifying pressure was like billions of spacetime divine mountains pressing directly down upon her dao foundation and Divine Soul!

With a 'pfft,' she spat out a large mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. Her Aura instantly withered into chaos, and her Hunyuan Realm cultivation became like a candle in the wind, teetering on the edge of collapse!

She looked at Time Without Trace as if seeing her destined end, her face twisted in fear. "You... you dare?! This is my Yuqing Palace Holy Land! The Palace Mistress is here! Many representatives of Holy Lands are here! You..."

“Ants are noisy; they should be silent.” Time Without Trace didn't even look at her directly. He simply faced her direction and made a casual, gentle grasping motion, as if brushing away a speck of dust.

Supreme Dao Method: Grasp of Time! With a basic Dao Fruit of 300 Yuan force dealing five times damage, triggered by the Son of the Primordial's fivefold bonus and stacked with his own 2600 Yuan combat power, the Dao Method's power instantly exploded to 5600 Yuan force!

The Time Law surrounding Elder Xuanyin was completely rewritten by a supreme will!

Time acceleration—ten thousand times! One hundred thousand times! One million times!

“No—!!!” Elder Xuanyin only had time to let out a desperate wail that was both extremely brief and infinitely elongated. Under the terrified gazes of countless people, she discovered to her horror that her proud Hunyuan Realm Physical Body was rapidly shriveling and decaying like weathered rock!

Her plump skin was instantly covered with deep, canyon-like wrinkles, becoming gray and loose; her jet-black long hair turned white and fell out in the blink of an eye; her powerful blood energy and vitality drained away like a flood through an open gate; her sturdy dao foundation cracked inch by inch; even her Divine Soul rapidly dimmed, aged, and moved toward extinction under the scouring of a million-fold flow of time!

In just a single breath!

The Hunyuan Realm powerhouse who had been aggressive and sinister just moments ago was transformed, under the gaze of the top powers of the entire Xuanxiao Great World, from a living expert into a skin-and-bones mummy with sunken eye sockets and completely severed vitality!

A light breeze blew past, and the mummy, which still held an expression of terror, turned silently into a cloud of ash like wood that had been rotten for billions of years, completely dissipating between heaven and earth! Not even a shred of her Divine Soul remained!

Body and Soul annihilated! Time returned to dust!

Silence! A deathly silence!

Everyone was completely deterred by this method of erasure that transcended cognition and resembled divine punishment; their Souls were trembling!

At the same time, the four Soul-Locking Chains that were about to pierce Bai Li snapped and vanished silently inch by inch just a hair's breadth from their target, as if cut by an invisible blade of time and space!

The emerald-green stream of light that had been forcibly extracted and contained Bai Li's life Origin seemed to receive a supreme summons. It let out a joyful, clear cry, easily broke free from the restraints of the Soul-Locking Chains, and turned into a streak of light full of vitality, flying back into the palm of Time Without Trace with utmost docility.

Time dao patterns circulated in the palm of Time Without Trace like the most precise furnace, instantly purifying any trace of external force or filth from the light stream and restoring it to its purest state of life Origin.

He leaned down and lightly tapped the crack on Bai Li's forehead with his fingertip. That pure emerald-green stream of light was like a young swallow returning to its nest, carrying vibrant vitality as it merged back into her body with incredible gentleness.

Visibly, Bai Li's face, which had been as pale as golden paper, regained a hint of color. The hideous crack on her forehead began to close slowly, and a weak but stable breath of life began to circulate within her again. Time Without Trace used the Time Law to set up an invisible protective barrier around her, isolating her from all external disturbances.

“Vile creature! How dare you!!” The Palace Mistress of Yuqing Palace's eyes were nearly splitting! Although Xuanyin was detestable, she was after all the Head of Law Enforcement in the palace. To be so easily erased in front of so many Holy Land representatives meant the Yuqing Palace's reputation was completely dragged through the mud!

What made her even more furious was that the opponent had so overbearingly reclaimed the Holy Seed. A sky-toppling rage, mixed with the power of the heavenly sound zither, erupted violently!

“Nine Tribulations of Heavenly Sound: Soul Suppression and Dao Extinction!” She held nothing back, her hands frantically plucking the strings of the heavenly sound zither!

Buzz— Clang— Qiang—!

The zither's sound was no longer pleasant; it transformed into billions of tangible and intangible blades of the Great Dao! Each one contained terrifying power capable of tearing the Divine Soul and shattering the dao foundation! Wherever the sound waves passed, space shattered inch by inch like fragile glass!

Nine hideous demonic shadows, condensed from the pure Dao of Destructive Melody, manifested within the zither's sound and roared as they pounced toward Time Without Trace! This was a full-force strike from the Palace Mistress of Yuqing Palace, enough to heavily injure or even kill an ordinary Hunyuan Realm Peak!

Faced with this world-destroying attack that was enough to annihilate the Souls of the kneeling crowd below, Time Without Trace's eyes didn't flicker in the slightest. He didn't even use any Dao Method; only the Eternal Eternal Bone of Aeon Tribulation on his back lit up slightly.

Buzz!

An invisible barrier, seemingly composed of absolutely solidified time, appeared silently before him. Mysterious and unfathomable time dao patterns flowed upon the barrier, like a history book recording the rise and fall of the Universe.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The billions of Dao sound blades and the nine destructive demonic shadows slammed hard against that time barrier!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no impact of rampaging energy. The attacks, which were enough to shatter stars, hit the barrier like mud entering the sea or snowflakes falling into a furnace. Without even stirring a single ripple, they silently and completely vanished, as if they had never existed!

“The heavenly sound zither?” Time Without Trace finally spoke, his voice flat and calm, yet carrying a cold indifference that made the Myriad Daos submit. “It possesses only the form but cannot bear the weight of the Great Dao. What use is there in keeping it?”

As his voice fell, he flicked his finger once more toward the vibrating, light-flowing semi-Sacred Artifact, the heavenly sound zither.

An extremely fine, almost imperceptible silver glow shot out. Within that silver glow was contained the ultimate true meaning of time's extinction—all things have an end, and all laws eventually return to silence!

Crack! Crack! Crack—!

The crisp, heart-wrenching sound of shattering rang out across the deathly silent square like a death knell!

Under the Palace Mistress of Yuqing Palace's gaze of ultimate despair and the terrified eyes of countless people, that sect-protecting semi-Sacred Artifact, the 'heavenly sound zither'—which had been passed down for untold tens of thousands of years and symbolized the supreme glory and power of Yuqing Palace—was instantly covered in dense, spiderweb-like cracks!

The seven Great Dao zither strings snapped inch by inch! The ancient dao charm flowing on the zither's body quickly extinguished and dissipated like a candle in the wind! All spiritual light was lost, and all precious Aura vanished! From a semi-Sacred Artifact that even those in the ordinary Saint Realm would covet, it was completely reduced to a pile of mundane iron fragments emitting a faint chill!