637: Chapter 634 The Three Saints

Time rewound once more. This time, a very, very long period passed, yet the ancient battlefield showed no change at all.

The speed of the reversal grew faster and faster, and the time Chen De and the others spent waiting grew longer as well.

It was many times longer than the interval between Xie Feng's first visit and his second.

Gradually, this battlefield began to show signs of change once again.

But the speed of the reversal was too great—more than a million years passed in an instant.

The shifting scenes before their eyes were like Chen De watching a video at hundreds of times the normal speed in his past life.

Everything changed in the blink of an eye, until the reversal finally ground to a halt at a specific moment.

Everything in their field of vision stabilized and became clear again, moving away from the dizzying and bizarre imagery.

This was still that ancient battlefield, but it was not as dilapidated and desolate as it had been when Chen De and the others arrived.

Countless figures stood beside them.

Any one of these figures possessed an aura no weaker than the sect masters of the Ten Sects of the Sacred Ring.

Among them, the number of Quasi-Saint level experts was beyond counting, and there were even several at the Peak Quasi-Saint level.

At the same time, the five of them discovered that they had also become members of these figures, all possessing the strength of a One-Corpse Quasi-Saint.

And these countless figures were collectively guarding the three people at the very front.

The aura emanating from these three people was completely different from everyone else present.

It was a kind of power that the word 'strong' alone was utterly insufficient to describe.

Perfection. From them, Chen De felt an indescribable sense of perfection.

Even before he had severed his evil corpse, he was far from being able to compare with them.

The laws of heaven and earth seemed to naturally submit before them; without even needing to deliberately release pressure, they gave off the feeling that 'I am the center of heaven and earth'.

Their figures merely standing there caused time and space to become exceptionally stable.

However, no matter how Chen De and the others looked or observed, they could not see the appearances of the three individuals.

Whenever their gaze made contact, some invisible force would push it away.

"Sacred Ring, these things are quite troublesome."

The figure on the left of the three suddenly spoke, addressing the person in the middle.

Though his features were unclear, one could feel the middle figure gazing forward with a solemn expression. "They certainly picked a good time!"

The figure on the right also spoke up at this time. "After all, the camps are different. Neither side is any good, and 'They' are even more dangerous."

The figure on the left continued, "If not for the pressure back then... but the situation has changed now."

The middle figure said, "So, the higher-ups having us stationed here is precisely to be on guard against Them."

"Heh." The figure on the right let out a cold laugh. "They want a piece of the pie too? It won't be that easy."

"Of the three parties, They are the weakest. Back then, They were the ones who actively sought us out for cooperation. They have lived under the desperate suppression of those Primordials for trillions of years, not even daring to show their heads."

"Now is not like back then." The figure on the left shook his head. "When they were first born, both we and the Primordial side could suppress Them at will.

But with the accumulation of time, They have grown stronger and stronger. Today, they are nothing like they used to be."

"The best among them are even called taboo existences."

"Indeed." The figure in the middle sighed. "If not for that great war where our Post-Heaven side was suppressed to the extreme, how could we have possibly agreed to cooperate with Them?"

"Under the threat that all Post-Heaven beings might be exterminated, there wasn't much room for choice."

The figure on the left said, "Given the situation back then, without Them, our Post-Heaven side might truly not have made it to today."

"It was indeed foreseeable that they would develop into a major threat, but when a person is dying of thirst, as long as it can quench that thirst, one must drink it even if it is poison."

"They are here," the figure on the right warned.

Suddenly, a mass of pitch-black matter appeared from the distance, its contents indistinguishable.

Everything in the path of 'Them' became chaotic and distorted.

The moment they saw that black mass, endless, maddening whispers echoed in everyone's ears.

Many thoughts that had never existed before also surfaced in their minds.

Gradually, these whispers began to sound gentle to their ears, and they even started to feel a hint of familiarity from that black mass.

It was as if it was calling to them: Come, come, my child, into my embrace... For a time, their will to resist dropped significantly.

Except for Chen De and those three figures, everyone was more or less affected.

The stronger the person, the less they were affected.

As for Chen De, he was completely unaffected because his Holy Mother essence had come into play at this moment.

As for the others, they lacked this morality.

Suddenly, a large number of black tentacles sprouted from the body of one of the many figures who was at the peak of the Immortal Law Realm.

They bored in and out of the eyes, ears, mouth, nose... every opening or lack thereof on the body, wrapping the entire person up.

The so-called immortal essence of the Immortal Law Realm appeared utterly meaningless at this moment.

To see was to be contaminated!

For those at the peak of the Immortal Law Realm, merely knowing wouldn't lead to contamination, but seeing was different.

Light was also a medium for 'Their' contamination.

Dong!

A bell chimed.

Then, in the next instant, that figure was evaporated into nothingness by some powerful force.

Everyone was also awakened by the sound of the bell.

"It's just a few contaminated low-level beings, not the main body. It shouldn't be a problem if we work together to block them."

As the middle figure spoke, he took out his spiritual treasure. It was a bell, and the chime from just now had come from his hand.

Within the Ten Sects of the Sacred Ring, that bell had a name known to all—the sacred ring bell!

The figure on the left took out a giant sword, upon which patterns of flowing star rivers appeared.

He swung the sword and said, "I'd rather have a satisfying fight with those Primordials, even if I'm beaten to death, than get tangled up with this kind of thing here."

The figure on the right wore a mysterious black robe, his eyes downcast, holding a pebble-like object in his hand.

He looked up at the man with the giant sword and said, "You'd better be careful. Don't fall for a trap because you weren't paying attention."

Among these three, the identity of the middle figure was already obvious; he was precisely the Saint for whom the Sacred Ring Domain was named.

As for the two beside him, though their identities were unknown, they were clearly also existences of the Saint Extreme Realm.

Three Saint Extreme Realm experts, leading many Quasi-Saints and Peak Immortal Law Realm experts, were preparing to face something.

The power of that mark... Was it trying to let them witness for themselves a scene that took place on this ancient battlefield during that great war of the past?

At first glance, it seemed as if they had been taken back to the past by some power.

However, Chen De could feel that this was just the mark altering their vision and perception.

In reality, they were still in the empty ancient battlefield from before.

The mark allowed them to see the scene before them, and when they touched things in the scene, it transmitted the corresponding perception to make them believe they were truly touching the object.