409: War of Time and Space

Xiao Zhuo's steps had not yet stopped when the silver Dharma Idol, condensed from the Origin of the Great Dao of Time and Space, suddenly launched its attack!

The Dharma Idol's eyes blazed with silver light; without any visible movement, the space around Xiao Zhuo instantly became like billions of layers of folded crystal walls, madly squeezing and cutting inward!

Each layer of crystal wall contained Space Law power enough to crush stars! This was the ultimate application of Space Law!

"Hmph!" Xiao Zhuo snorted coldly, his right hand, also flowing with silver light, pointed like a blade and gently sliced through what appeared to be empty space in front of him!

"Chh la—!"

A sharp sound like tearing silk!

Those countless layers of folded crystal walls, sturdy beyond compare, were precisely "peeled" open from the middle by that single finger, like tearing a thin piece of paper!

Space, under his fingertips, was like docile flowing water, easily "phase-stripped"!

The squeezing force instantly dissipated.

Almost at the same time he broke through the cage, Xiao Zhuo opened the five fingers of his left hand and pressed them towards the silver Dharma Idol from a distance!

The flow of time in the area where the Dharma Idol was located suddenly became eerily unpredictable!

Its movements seemed to be trapped in viscous amber, becoming extremely slow, even appearing as multiple images.

But Xiao Zhuo's own time was accelerating madly, his figure transforming into a silver streak so fast it surpassed the limits of visual capture, instantly closing in on the Dharma Idol!

"Instant Eternity · Temporal Disorder!" Accelerating himself, delaying the enemy!

A humanized look of solemnity flashed in the silver Dharma Idol's eyes.

Facing Xiao Zhuo's lightning-fast punch, it did not meet it head-on; its body dissipated on the spot like an illusory bubble.

The next moment, it re-condensed high in the sky, tens of thousands of miles away in the Zizai Realm.

At the same time, it formed hand seals, and an invisible ripple of time and space, centered on it, instantly swept across the entire Zizai Realm!

Rumble!

Inside the Zizai Realm, mountains shifted, and rivers flowed backward.

Countless beings discovered in horror that one moment they were running, and the next they were back at the starting point before they ran;

Fruits they had just picked instantly rehung on the branches!

This was "Large-Scale Temporal Reversal," forcibly pulling the time of a localized area back to a moment before!

Although the range was vast, the individual impact time was extremely short, but it was enough to interrupt any continuous attack rhythm!

Xiao Zhuo's pursuing figure was disrupted by this sudden temporal turbulence, and his offensive paused.

"The Zizai Realm is too small, I can't fully display my power! Let's change places!" Battle Intent surged in Xiao Zhuo's eyes; he sliced with both hands, and a gigantic circular spatial rift directly swallowed him and the silver Dharma Idol.

When they reappeared, they were in the boundless, dimly lit Void Realm of the Boundary Sea!

Within the Boundary Sea, there were no more restraints!

"Spatial Tear!" Xiao Zhuo sliced with his fingers, and a pitch-black spatial rift, tens of thousands of miles long, like a wound on the Universe, devoured the Dharma Idol!

Along the edges of the rift, spatial fragments rotated and cut like the sharpest blades!

The Dharma Idol cupped its hands, and a gigantic, twisting, rotating silver vortex formed in front of it!

That terrifying rift was actually forcibly twisted, swallowed, and dissolved into nothingness by this vortex!

"Time Stripping!" The Dharma Idol counterattacked; a silver-gray beam of light shot out silently, and wherever it passed, the Void Realm seemed to have the concept of time "erased"!

All things stagnated, colors faded, and even the flow of energy fell into absolute stillness!

This was the "Time-Still Death Ray" that stripped away time!

Xiao Zhuo's pupils constricted; daring not to be slow, he rapidly outlined with both hands in front of him, and a rhomboid "Temporal Barrier" flowing with countless tiny golden hourglass phantoms instantly formed!

Chh—!

The Time-Still Death Ray struck the barrier, emitting a grating, corrosive sound.

The hourglasses on the barrier spun rapidly, shattered, and then continuously regenerated, struggling to resist the power of time stripping!

Xiao Zhuo could feel his own power of time and space being madly consumed!

In the stalemate, Xiao Zhuo and the Dharma Idol's gazes collided again!

Boom!

Two streams of consciousness, each containing their ultimate understanding of the Great Dao of Time and Space, clashed with a roar!

This collision was no longer a simple Divine Ability, but the resonance of Xiao Zhuo's will with the Great Dao of Time and Space, reaching an unprecedented critical point!

Om—!

The entire Boundary Sea seemed to tremble!

At the core of their clashing consciousness, a phantom, vast, and flowing river of time, filled with endless stardust and fragments of fate, was actually forcefully pierced through and drawn out!

An ancient, vicissitudes, and all-encompassing aura of past and future permeated the air!

The river of time! It would have been impossible for Xiao Zhuo to pierce through it alone, but now it appeared under their superimposed resonance!

"Haha! I've always wanted to see what the river of time looks like inside!" Xiao Zhuo let out a long cry, transforming into a silver light without hesitation, and actively rushed into the phantom river!

The silver Dharma Idol followed closely, submerging into it!

In an instant, the battlefield shifted to the dimension of time!

They sometimes appeared on the battlefields of primeval wilderness, brushing past roaring phantoms of cosmic behemoths, the aftershocks of their Divine Abilities shattering several desolate stellar embryos.

At other times, they appeared on the ruins of a strange future civilization where technology and immortal Dao intertwined; the clash of Domains accelerating and decelerating time caused the decay and reconstruction of the ruins to alternate in an instant, forming a bizarre and kaleidoscopic scene.

Here, the battle became even more perilous and unpredictable!

"Shadows of the Past, Appear!" The Dharma Idol roared; within the long river, several blurry phantoms belonging to Xiao Zhuo's youth and young adulthood were forcibly condensed, carrying a portion of Xiao Zhuo's power and will from that period, fearlessly pouncing on the current Xiao Zhuo!

Xiao Zhuo swung his blade, shattering the projections, but his mind was inevitably affected by a ripple from the "past."

He pointed with his backhand, and a more powerful phantom, containing the possibilities of the "future," condensed behind the Dharma Idol, striking back with fierce killing intent!

The two figures fought fiercely in the river of time, each collision splashing monstrous temporal waves, each evasion spanning different time nodes.

Space was folded, jumped, and cut in their hands.

Time was accelerated, decelerated, and even locally reversed, forming short-lived and dangerous temporal paradox traps!

The two fought in the river of time, and countless imprints in the river dissipated, affected by their battle.

Suddenly, a terrifying will assailed him, and Xiao Zhuo felt his vision go black.

In a daze, he had already appeared in the Boundary Sea.

Not far away, the silver Dharma Idol was also thrown out.

"What was that just now?" A hint of horror flashed in Xiao Zhuo's eyes.

Fortunately, that unknown existence merely blasted them out of the river of time and did not annihilate him.

Otherwise, he would have died without a sound.

Such an existence was truly too terrifying, and he wondered if it was the will inherent in the river of time itself.

Suppressing the ripples in his heart, Xiao Zhuo looked at the silver Dharma Idol, which was also looking back at him from not far away, a look of solemnity in his eyes.

"Indeed, relying solely on the Dao of Time and Space is not enough to suppress this Great Dao Dharma Idol!" He had realized that although his current application of the power of time and space had reached the same level as the Dharma Idol formed by the Great Dao of Time and Space, he could never defeat the Great Dao of Time and Space with it and transform it into his own Dao Fruit.

He must utilize the Dao Principle of Freedom to control wan fa (myriad laws) to find a chance to break the deadlock.

"If that's the case! Then let's end it here!" Xiao Zhuo clenched his fists, and boundless blood flames ignited around him; a ferocious armor covered his entire body, adorned with countless profound runes.

A Domain of myriad laws indestructible armor immediately appeared around him.

Each rune on the armor originated from countless different Great Daos.

Countless Great Dao runes intertwined to form this terrifying Divine Ability armor.

"myriad laws indestructible armor!" This was a Divine Ability Xiao Zhuo had deduced during his seclusion specifically for this battle.