401: Time-delayed tombstones

Time Without Trace's silver eyes were like ice. The majestic Law of Time transformed into an invisible barrier, shielding Bai Li firmly in his arms.

With one step, he shattered the Void Realm before Yuqing Palace. The space beneath his feet rippled like docile silk, as he intended to tear open a path leading directly to the Time-Space Divine Temple.

However, the very moment his figure merged into the spatial passage!

"Creeaaak—!!!" A shriek that threatened to tear the Divine Soul apart suddenly erupted!

It felt as if the sinews and bones of the entire world were being snapped apart!

A Dark Abyss aura, viscous like ten-thousand-year-old corpse oil, bone-chillingly cold, and containing an endless will of corruption and devouring, instantly defiled the entire spatial passage like billions of greedy venomous snakes!

On the passage's originally iridescent barrier, countless twisting and wriggling shadows grew frantically, and dense clusters of scarlet pupils opened, locking onto their target with greed and malice!

"Hehehehe... Little brat of the Time-Space Divine Temple! Leave behind the 'Origin of Life' within that girl's body!!"

A hoarse, overlapping, non-human roar reverberated through the polluted space, carrying a corrosive power on the level of the Soul!

"Boom—!" Dozens of figures wreathed in viscous Dark Abyss black mist lunged out from a massive spatial rift that had been forcibly torn open and was oozing filthy pus!

Their auras were chaotic and mixed, yet every single one exuded the fierce Evil Qi of the Hunyuan Realm!

The three leading figures, whose evil fluctuations distorted the space around them, were terrifying existences at the Peak of the Hunyuan Realm!

Their flesh had undergone horrifying mutations under the erosion of the Dark Abyss's will; bone spurs pierced through their skin, their pupils burned with pure crimson madness, and they had already become the most loyal destructive minions of the Dark Abyss!

"Xuanxiao's 'Bone-Eroding Demon Sect', 'Black Evil Gate', and 'Blood Soul Cult'... a bunch of maggot scum corrupted by the Dark Abyss."

Time Without Trace's voice was icy, devoid of any temperature. His silver eyes swept past, instantly discerning everything.

Within Yuqing Palace, the infiltration of the Dark Abyss was already this deep! The news that Bai Li possessed a strange Origin of Life had leaked after all!

"Kill! Sacrifice her to the great Dark Abyss will!"

The Dark Abyss minions let out beast-like howls, fearlessly driving their Magic Treasures, which had been polluted until they resembled rotting corpses and skeletons, and unleashed evil arts that distorted reality and emitted a foul stench!

The monstrous Dark Abyss black mist was like a surging tide of death, carrying the terrifying power to corrode space and annihilate the Dao. With a violent momentum capable of drowning the galaxy, it poured frantically toward Time Without Trace—or more precisely, toward the unconscious Bai Li in his arms!

The target was aimed directly at the strange life being protected!

"Ants, courting your own destruction."

Time Without Trace shielded Bai Li with one arm, while his other hand formed a sword gesture. Silver radiance that transcended time flowed from his fingertips, and he traced a profound yet simple seal in the air, one that seemed to be engraved with the trajectory of the Universe's birth and death.

Supreme Dao Technique: Time Stasis Tombstone!

"Wum—!!!" An invisible, heavy power of time, sufficient to crush a galaxy, descended with a roar!

A massive, incomparable time tombstone, forged from solidified eons of time, materialized out of thin air, carrying the terrifying might to suppress the heavens and solidify Reincarnation, and crashed down!

Centered on Time Without Trace, the flow of time and space within a ten-thousand-foot radius suddenly dropped to a standstill, near absolute zero!

Those Dark Abyss minions who had lunged forward, along with the destructive black tide they had stirred up, were instantly sealed as if inside a piece of viscous, eternal, immortal space-time amber!

Their hideous, maniacal laughter froze on their twisted faces; the brandished demonic weapons and evil treasures remained fixed in mid-air; and the surging Dark Abyss black mist looked like frozen, filthy ice sculptures!

"Obliterate." This indifferent word was like the judgment of the Universe's end.

Dao Bone Divine Ability: Universe Severing Slash!

"Qiang—!" Behind him, six illusory light wings, condensed from the pure Time-Space Dao and flowing with the sharpness to destroy all worlds, instantly spread open in fury!

At the edges of the wings, silver radiance shone brilliantly, and every wisp of light contained the destructive power to cut through dimensions and annihilate existence! The light wings merely vibrated slightly!

"Chichichichi—!!!" Billions of space-time blades, as thin as hair yet sharp enough to sever the threads of fate, erupted like a sudden rain of silver light, instantly piercing through the space-time amber solidified by the "Time Burial Tombstone"!

They swept precisely and ruthlessly past every polluted, frozen enemy!

There was no deafening explosion, only a dense, shattering sound like billions of thin blades slicing through rotten, withered leaves.

Those Dark Abyss minions swept by the space-time blades—whether they were underlings of the Myriad Dao Realm or commanders of the Hunyuan Realm—along with their proud demonic weapons, evil artifacts, filthy shields, twisted evil arts, and even the Dark Abyss black mist itself, which was claimed to be immortal, were all cut, decomposed, disintegrated, and finally completely annihilated into the most primitive, most void-like space-time particle dust within a billionth of a second!

Not even a single wail of a Soul could escape before they returned completely to eternal extinction!

One exchange! Just one exchange! Dozens of notorious Dark Abyss minions were wiped out!

The filthy spatial passage was forcibly purified and smoothed over by this pure, supreme power of time and space!

However, Time Without Trace's silver brows suddenly locked tight. A terrifying will, a hundred times deeper and ten thousand times more viscous than all the previous malice combined, seemingly originating from the abyss at the end of the Universe, clamped down like cold shackles, tightly gripping him and Bai Li!

In front of the spatial passage, a patch of Dark Abyss Origin black mist, viscous as ink and seemingly capable of devouring all light, surged out of thin air. It rapidly condensed and compressed, transforming into a terrifying giant claw that blotted out the sky, covered in scarlet demonic patterns, and oozing filthy pus!

The pressure emanating from the giant claw caused the stars to tremble and space to wail, far exceeding the Hunyuan Realm; it had reached—

"Gagagagaga... A Legacy Divine Ability of the Time-Space Divine Temple? Interesting! But this 'Origin of Life', I am determined to have it!"

A hoarse, overlapping demonic voice, which seemed to be formed by the eternal roaring of billions of resentful Souls from the very bottom of the abyss, reverberated from the core of the giant claw, striking directly at the Divine Soul!

"Boom!!!" The giant claw fiercely tore apart the spatial passage that had just calmed down, ignoring the constraints of the Universe's Laws, and forcibly descended into the cold, deathly silent Void Realm of the Star Domain!

The black mist churned and condensed violently, instantly transforming into a terrifying demonic shadow ten thousand feet tall, standing between heaven and earth!

It wore tattered armor that was broken beyond repair yet branded with ancient star runes; however, from the gaps in the armor, countless dark red, filthy flesh tentacles, like giant pythons, writhed and drilled out frantically.

Its head was actually a massive star remnant, deeply corroded by the power of the Dark Abyss, with only half a bone-white skull remaining, burning with ghostly green Soul fire!

Its aura was vast and boundless, distorting reality, and it had clearly reached—the Saint Realm!

Although its aura was slightly sluggish and stiff, it was clearly a sealed Saint from some ancient, powerful Sect of the Xuanxiao Great World, used to suppress their foundation, now forcibly awakened and completely enslaved by the will of the Dark Abyss!

It was a low-level Saint from a low-energy state initial Universe, but its combat power was at least at the Myriad Yuan Force level! Enough to easily crush a world!

"Saint Puppet..." Deep within Time Without Trace's silver eyes, an unprecedented look of gravity emerged.

With his cultivation of 2,600 Yuan Force, even with his trump card of a tenfold increase from his time Dao Technique, his maximum explosive combat power could reach 5,600 Yuan Force. Facing a true, Dark Abyss-enhanced Saint body, he was still not a match!

Moreover, he was still shielding the defenseless Bai Li in his arms!