402: Origin of the Light of Life

"Time Barrier: Eternal Fortification!" Time Without Trace held nothing back. Within his body, the Time-Space Aeon Tribulation Indestructible Dao Bone erupted with brilliant silver radiance, instantly constructing layer upon layer of absolute barriers compressed from billions of layers of frozen time before him!

Upon the barrier, time runes flowed, making it indestructible! Simultaneously, his form transformed into a streak of silver lightning that tore through the Void Realm. Holding Bai Li, he retreated violently, attempting to widen the lethal distance!

"Futile struggle!" The Dark Abyss Saint let out a savage laugh that shattered stars. That terrifying giant claw ignored the concept of spatial distance, carrying a monstrous demonic might that could destroy stars, erode the Universe's Origin, and make the myriad Daos wail, as it slammed fiercely against the Time Barrier!

"Crack! Crack! Crack—Boom!!!!!!"

The Time Barrier, which was strong enough to withstand the full-force strike of a Peak Primordial Chaos expert, shattered and exploded layer by layer like fragile glass before this giant claw imbued with Saintly power and Dark Abyss erosion!

The destructive shockwave penetrated the gaps in the defense, plunging into Time Without Trace's body like billions of poison-tipped needles!

"Pfft—!"

Time Without Trace felt as if he had been hit head-on by an immemorial divine mountain. His body shook violently, and he sprayed out a mouthful of silver Dao blood rich with the aura of the Great Dao of Time!

The time barrier protecting Bai Li vibrated violently, letting out an overwhelmed groan!

He was sent flying backwards like a kite with a broken string, smashing through several floating, frozen meteorites along the way, turning them into dust!

Bai Li, cradled in his arms, suffered a severe shock and let out a muffled groan. The emerald crack on her brow fluctuated violently once more, as if something was about to break out of its cocoon!

"Hand her over!!" The Dark Abyss Saint's giant claw descended again, its demonic might even more potent! It seemed to transform into a net of death that covered the entire world, sealing off all time and space in the four directions, the past, and the future!

There was no escape! The cold shadow of death felt tangible as it completely enveloped Time Without Trace and Bai Li. Desperation had arrived!

In that hair-breadth moment of imminent destruction!

Perhaps it was the extreme crisis of impending death that stimulated the deepest instincts of life;

Perhaps it was the aura of the silver Dao blood sprayed by Time Without Trace, containing his will to protect, that touched her sleeping memories;

Or perhaps it was that blood-stained back in silver robes standing before her, which overlapped in that life-or-death moment with the figure that had protected her on the ancient Extreme Realm Battlefield deep within her Soul!

"Lin... Yuan..." A murmur, weak as a candle in the wind yet containing a piercing of time and space, endless longing, and heart-wrenching worry, escaped from Bai Li's pale lips. In her blurred vision, only that blood-stained, resolute back remained.

Deep within her Divine Soul, a majestic will originating from the oldest Origin of life, completely ignited by the desire to protect, erupted like a volcano dormant for billions of years!

"Buzz—!!!!!!!"

The emerald crack on Bai Li's brow suddenly erupted with an unprecedented, pure divine light that cleansed the cosmos and contained endless creative power!

This light was by no means the 'Eternal Green Wood Source Seed' spoken of by that old thief Xuan Yin; it was a more ancient, more sacred ultimate power that seemed to represent the beginning and end of all life—

The Origin Light of Life! Its essence was the absolute natural enemy of the Dark Abyss's destructive, decaying, and polluting power! The nemesis of nemeses!

The emerald divine light, like the first ray of creation's dawn piercing the eternal Chaos at the beginning of the world, soared into the sky! It instantly illuminated the frozen Star Domain for a million miles around!

The thick, viscous Dark Abyss black mist, which seemed capable of devouring everything, was illuminated by this divine light. Like boiling oil poured on snow, it let out terrifying sounds of sizzling and annihilation, vanishing without a trace in an instant!

The Dark Abyss Saint's giant claw, which was striking toward Time Without Trace with world-ending power, was illuminated head-on by the emerald divine light. The dark red, filthy tentacles coiled around it instantly charred, withered, and turned to ash!

The Dark Abyss power, capable of corroding the Universe's Origin, was rapidly purified, dismantled, and completely annihilated like frost meeting a scorching sun!

"Ah—!!! Wha... What power is this?! No!!! Impossible!!!!" The Dark Abyss Saint let out a shrill, terrified scream from the depths of its Soul Origin!

Within that corroded star-head, the ghostly green Soul fire flickered wildly like a candle in the wind, unstable as if it had met its predestined nemesis! The Saint-level pressure instantly collapsed into Chaos!

"Now is the time!" Although Time Without Trace was extremely shocked by this startling change, his terrifying instincts honed through ten thousand battles allowed him to instantly seize this sole opportunity to turn the tides and survive the desperate situation!

Without hesitation, he forcibly channeled and fused all the remaining Qi in his body with the sacred Origin Light of Life that purified everything, which had erupted from Bai Li!

Supreme Dao Method: Grasp of Time! Layered with the Universal Purification of the Origin Light of Life!

"Rumble—!!!"

A terrifying giant hand, woven from the purest torrent of the Great Dao of Time and the brilliant emerald divine light of life purification, suddenly condensed in the void, covering the entire galaxy!

Upon the giant hand, the power of decay brought by accelerating time by billions, the confinement brought by slowing time to a standstill, and the power of termination brought by time returning to the ruins were perfectly fused with the sacred light that purified all filth and ignited the fire of life!

As if representing the ultimate judgment of the Universe's order, it grasped fiercely toward the wounded and terrified Dark Abyss Saint Puppet whose power was being countered!

"No—!!! Time-Space Divine Temple! Life Essence! Don't... even think about it!!!" The Dark Abyss Saint let out a desperate and unwilling roar. The remaining Dark Abyss power around it burned and erupted frantically, forming a filthy nebula of destruction in an attempt to resist!

However, under the washing of the great power of time and the purification of the Origin Light of Life, its resistance was like snow encountering an eternal sun!

The massive Saintly body was held firmly by the giant hand, and time upon it was accelerated by millions and tens of millions of times!

The star armor rapidly rusted and weathered, and the squirming fleshly tentacles instantly shriveled and rotted! Meanwhile, the emerald light of life transformed into the hottest, purest flame of purification, frantically surging into its body, burning and annihilating the filthy core pulsing at its center that represented Dark Abyss enslavement!

"Be annihilated." Killing intent flared in Time Without Trace's silver eyes. Like a Time-Space Dominator in control of life and death, his five fingers suddenly snapped shut!

"Boom—!!!!!!!!!!!"

A terrifying roar, like the Big Bang of the Universe, resounded through the cosmos!

The Saint Puppet, which had been forcibly awakened and controlled by the Dark Abyss, collapsed and disintegrated under the ruthless washing of the time torrent and the ultimate purification of the Origin Light of Life. Its ten-thousand-zhang-tall terrifying demonic body was like a sandcastle weathered by billions of years!

The dark red flesh turned into cosmic dust, and the massive star-bone skull exploded like fireworks. That spark of ghostly green Soul fire let out a shrill scream filled with endless resentment and unwillingness before completely returning to eternal silence!

The Saintly aura that was enough to make all living beings in the Xuanxiao Great World tremble dissipated rapidly like a receding tide, leaving behind only a void that had been completely purified, emitting faint time-space ripples and the lingering resonance of life.