Temple of Time and Space

"Hahaha! Old man Chaos, thank you for this great gift!" An ancient, arrogant voice came from the depths of the Demon Abyss. A gigantic hand suddenly pointed toward the Eternal Continent. "Three days from now, I will lead the great army of ten thousand demons to descend. That will be the doomsday of the Eternal God Realm!"

The moment the voice faded, the water mirror suddenly shattered, and the Law Runes of the Chaos God Temple were extinguished one after another. The Chaos Nebula outside the temple was actually stained purplish-black.

Ying suddenly laughed maniacally: "Too late! heart-eroding scale has already spread throughout the major temples of the Eternal Continent. Three days from now, all your God Kings will become the puppets of the Demon Master, and the entire Eternal God Realm will become the pasture of the Demon Abyss!"

The Chaos God King's eyes turned cold. With a light sweep of his gray longsword, Ying's head flew into the sky, and black blood splattered onto the Law Runes, emitting a sizzling, corrosive sound.

But his laughter seemed branded into the air, lingering for a long time.

White Night looked at the surging purplish-black nebula outside the temple, and a tempest raged in his heart.

He finally understood why the Chaos God King valued him so highly.

The Eternal God Realm appeared impregnable, but it had actually been thoroughly infiltrated by the Demon Abyss and was riddled with holes. He, the variable who controlled the Laws of Chaos and Thunder, might be the last hope against the Demon Abyss.

"Little fellow, are you afraid?" The Chaos God King turned around. His face was still blurry, but his tone carried a hint of warmth.

White Night shook his head, gripping the Eternal Demon Blade in his hand: "This junior is not afraid. I am just considering how we should respond three days from now."

The Chaos God King nodded approvingly: "Good! Only with this courage are you fit to be my disciple."

He raised his hand and waved, and a massive star map appeared in the center of the temple, marked with countless flashing points of light.

"These are the temples that have not yet been infected by the heart-eroding scale. I have sent messages telling them to prepare their defenses. As for you..."

His fingertip landed on a red dot on the star map: "This is the 'Time-Space God Temple,' which hides the ancient divine artifact, the 'hourglass of time.' It can briefly trace back the trajectory of the Laws."

Go and retrieve it. You might be able to find a way to neutralize the heart-eroding scale. Remember, you must return within three days. The Grand Investiture Ceremony cannot have any mishaps."

White Night looked at the red dot on the star map. It was located on the edge of the Eternal Continent, near the heart of ten thousand demons, and the level of danger was self-evident.

But he did not hesitate in the slightest, bowing respectfully: "This junior obeys!"

The Chaos God King suddenly threw him a gray token: "Holding this token allows you to mobilize the power of all temples along the way."

"In addition, these are the latter six transformations of the Nine Transformations of Chaos. They might save your life in a moment of crisis."

White Night took the token and felt a warm force of Law surge into his body. The tenth gray halo actually solidified somewhat.

He knew that the Chaos God King was helping him break through to the High-ranking True God. This kindness was as weighty as Mount Tai.

When White Night's figure disappeared at the temple entrance, the Chaos God King looked at the purplish-black nebula outside and whispered: "Old friend, your Thunder Inheritance truly did not disappoint. This time, perhaps we really can win..."

Before his words finished, the nine-colored divine light around him suddenly erupted. The entire Chaos God Temple lifted off the ground, transforming into a streak of light and rushing toward the center of the Eternal Continent.

That place was the venue for the Grand Investiture Ceremony, and also the main battlefield three days later.

At this moment, White Night was traversing the starry sky, controlling the purple-gold lightning.

Ahead of him was the Time-Space God Temple, fraught with danger!

Behind him was the precarious Eternal God Realm!

And in his heart, a fighting spirit burned more fiercely than thunder... The purple-gold lightning sliced through the marginal star domain of the Eternal Continent, and White Night's figure stopped before a mass of distorted spacetime turbulence.

The scene before him was far more perilous than recorded on the star map.

Countless fragmented stellar remnants floated in the gray-purple turbulence. Each fragment flickered at a different frequency; some were frozen in the moment of explosion, while others were collapsing in reverse, clearly demonstrating the extreme disorder of the Spacetime Law.

"Is this the outer barrier of the Time-Space God Temple?" White Night gripped the Chaos Token in his hand. The gray patterns on the token's surface suddenly lit up, emitting a soft halo.

The instant the halo touched the turbulence, the violent spacetime energy receded like a tide, revealing a passage paved with pale golden Law Runes.

"The Chaos God King's token truly works." He leaped into the passage. Just three steps in, the surrounding scenery abruptly changed.

The rune passage beneath his feet turned into scorching magma, the starry sky above became a churning black sea, and countless mournful roars came from behind him, as if ten thousand vengeful souls were pulling at his divine body.

"Spacetime Illusion?" White Night's eyes narrowed. The tenth gray halo suddenly erupted, and the Power of Chaos washed over his entire body like a tide.

The illusion disintegrated piece by piece like a shattered mirror, but a sharp pain flared up in his brow center.

In that instant, he clearly felt his Divine Soul was nearly dragged into some unknown timeline node.

"Such powerful Spacetime Law, possessing such might before even entering the temple." White Night dared not be careless. He operated the Nine Transformations of Chaos to the extreme, and a layer of flowing gray light film appeared on the surface of his divine body. Thunder Runes interwoven on the light film, forming double protection.

After penetrating a thousand miles along the rune passage, a crystal palace suspended in the center of the turbulence finally revealed its true form.

The entire palace was constructed from transparent Spacetime Crystals. Silver light patterns flowed across the walls. These patterns were not fixed; they constantly reorganized, sometimes transforming into battle images of ancient deities, and sometimes condensing into the ferocious faces of future demons.

"This is the Time-Space God Temple?" White Night landed on the white jade plaza in front of the palace. A massive hourglass totem was carved into the plaza floor. The inscriptions along the edge of the totem pulsed with an ancient rhythm, creating a strange resonance with the Thunder Law within him.

Just then, the twelve crystal pillars surrounding the plaza suddenly lit up. Twelve silver light screens projected from the tops of the pillars, and twelve robed phantoms appeared within the screens.

Their faces and clothing were all different, but they all exuded the aura of a High-ranking True God, clearly being the remnant souls of the successive Temple Masters guarding the Time-Space God Temple.

"Who goes there? Those who trespass on the Time-Space God Temple shall die!" The leading phantom held a silver long staff. The Spacetime Crystal embedded in the staff's tip burst forth with dazzling light. The flow of time across the entire plaza suddenly became extremely slow, instantly delaying White Night's movements threefold.

"This junior, White Night, has come to request the hourglass of time on the order of the Chaos God King." White Night activated the Power of Chaos to break free from the temporal constraint, raising the token high. "This is the God King's token of trust. I ask the seniors to grant passage."

The gazes of the twelve phantoms fell upon the token. After a moment of silence, the leading phantom suddenly sneered: "Old Man Chaos's token? Three days ago, his clone just stole half a Spacetime Coordinate here. Now he sends you to take the hourglass of time? Does he think our Time-Space God Temple is a vegetable garden for anyone to take from?"

White Night's heart trembled: "Three days ago? The Chaos God King's clone came here?"

"Hmph. If the backlash from the Spacetime Law hadn't severely injured him and forced him to flee, he probably would have torn up the temple's foundation!" Another phantom, holding a compass, roared angrily. The hourglass totem on the plaza suddenly spun, and the ground beneath White Night's feet began to flow backward, as if trying to drag him into a past timeline.

"Wait!" White Night hurriedly stabilized himself. The Eternal Demon Blade plunged into the ground, and purple-gold lightning exploded ten thousand feet high, forcefully halting the backward-flowing timeline. "This junior is unaware of the full story, but the Demon Abyss will launch a massive invasion in three days. The hourglass of time is the key to neutralizing the heart-eroding scale. I implore the seniors to prioritize the greater good!"

"Demon Abyss invasion?" The twelve phantoms were stunned simultaneously. The leading phantom pondered, "No wonder there has been so much Demon Abyss foul energy in the spacetime turbulence recently... But the hourglass of time is the cornerstone of the temple. How can it be easily loaned out?"

Just as the two sides were deadlocked, the hourglass totem in the center of the plaza suddenly trembled violently. The silver light patterns flashed wildly, projecting a blurry image.

In the picture, the Chaos God King's clone was covered in blood, tightly clutching half of a shattered bronze coordinate. Behind him followed three demonic creatures exuding the aura of a God King, fleeing the Time-Space God Temple in panic.

"This is... a Spacetime Tracing Image from three days ago?" White Night's pupils constricted. At the wound of the Chaos God King's clone in the image, black sinews identical to the heart-eroding scale were wrapped around it!

"Did you see?" The phantom holding the compass sneered, "Old Man Chaos has long been corrupted by the Demon Abyss. He sent you to retrieve the hourglass of time, likely intending to help the Demon Master completely control the Spacetime Law!"

A buzzing sound went off in White Night's mind, and countless clues instantly connected.

The Chaos God King's knowledge of the Demon Abyss was too detailed. The Nine Transformations of Chaos he bestowed contained several marks similar to the runes of the heart of ten thousand demons, along with that token capable of mobilizing the power of the temples... If all this was a conspiracy, then he had fallen into a trap from the very beginning!

"Impossible!" White Night shook his head violently. The kindness shown by the Chaos God King in guiding him to break through to the High-ranking True God could not be false. "Seniors, could you be mistaken? Perhaps those black sinews are..."

Before he could finish speaking, the hourglass totem image suddenly switched. This time, it clearly showed the Chaos God King's clone throwing half of the Spacetime Coordinate towards the Demon Abyss Rift. A gigantic hand covered in black scales stretched out from the rift to catch the coordinate. Engraved on the wrist bone of the gigantic hand were the ancient seal characters for "Chaos"!

"This..." White Night felt as if he had been struck by lightning. The Power of Chaos within his body surged uncontrollably, and the tenth gray halo flickered erratically.

"Hahaha! Do you believe it now?" The leading phantom raised his silver long staff high. The Spacetime Law on the plaza suddenly turned violent, and the space around White Night began to shatter layer by layer. "Die, running dog of the Demon Abyss!"

In the nick of time, the records of the latter six transformations of the Nine Transformations of Chaos suddenly flashed through White Night's mind. The seventh transformation, "Spacetime Tracing," happened to be able to analyze the Spacetime Law before him.

He hesitated no longer. He crossed the Eternal Demon Blade with the Chaos Token. The purple-gold lightning and the gray Power of Chaos interwoven into a spiral beam of light, which shot directly toward the hourglass totem!

"How dare you profane the temple's cornerstone?!" The twelve phantoms roared simultaneously. Twelve streaks of silver light merged into the totem, colliding with the light beam.

"Boom!"

The moment the two forces exploded, the entire Time-Space God Temple shook violently, and the crystal walls cracked everywhere.

White Night used the rebound force to rush out of the spatial rift, only to see a line of golden inscription suddenly appear on the hourglass totem in the plaza: "Chaos is polluted, Thunder must cleanse. The hourglass is falling; only reversal remains."

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