Twist and Truth

"The inscription means... the hourglass of time is self-destructing? Time must be reversed to stop it?"

White Night's eyes narrowed, and the Thunder Law within him resonated with the runes of the Time-Space God Temple with unprecedented intensity. He suddenly understood why successive Thunder Sovereigns had such intricate connections with the Spacetime Law.

Thunder was inherently the fastest force for tearing through space-time!

"Law Mimicry: Time-Space Thunder Step!"

White Night fused the three laws and pushed them to their limit, his figure transforming into a purple-gray lightning bolt. Ignoring the obstruction of space rifts, he instantly appeared in the center of the main hall of the divine temple.

The sight here made him gasp.

The hourglass of time at the top of the hall was disintegrating at a visible speed; the silver sand grains turned into black demonic patterns upon landing. And on the pedestal beneath the hourglass, a gray longsword was actually plunged, with the mark of the Chaos God King carved on its hilt!

"It's him indeed!" White Night was furious, his Eternal Demon Blade, carrying purple-golden thunder light, slashed towards the gray longsword.

Just as the blade was about to touch the longsword, the longsword suddenly erupted with dazzling light, and a familiar voice echoed through the hall:

"Little fellow, don't be impulsive."

The figure of the Chaos God King emerged from the light. His face was still blurry, but the nine-colored divine light around him had dimmed considerably. There was a deep, bone-visible wound on his chest, from which black meridians were spreading.

"You were indeed controlled by the heart-eroding scale!" White Night roared sternly, and the Thunder Prison Domain suddenly expanded, enveloping the entire hall. "Speak! Why did you destroy the hourglass of time?!"

"Destroy? No, I am protecting it." The Chaos God King gave a bitter smile, raising his hand to signal White Night to look at the hourglass pedestal. "Look closely at the inscription beneath the pedestal."

White Night looked down and saw a line of tiny runes carved in the shadow of the pedestal. The aura of these runes was identical to that of the heart of ten thousand demons!

Even more terrifying, these runes were slowly climbing upwards along the silver sand grains of the hourglass, clearly intending to pollute the origin of the hourglass of time.

"This is... the Spacetime Imprint of the Lord of the Demon Abyss?" White Night's mind went blank.

"That's right." The Chaos God King's voice carried a hint of weariness. "When I discovered the imprint three days ago, it had already penetrated deep into the hourglass's core. If it wasn't stripped in time, three days later the Demon Lord would be able to use the hourglass to trace back all the law trajectories of the Eternal God Realm. By then, we would have no chance of winning."

He pointed to the wound on his chest: "This isn't an heart-eroding scale, but an injury sustained from the backlash of the Spacetime Law when stripping the imprint. As for that half a spacetime coordinate, I deliberately threw it to the Demon Abyss as bait. The coordinate is attached with a Chaos Tracking Rune, which allows us to know the Demon Lord's marching route in advance."

The doubts in White Night's mind gradually unraveled, but a hint of suspicion remained: "Then the images seen by the twelve Hall Masters' remnant souls..."

"Spacetime retrocognition can also be interfered with by law imprints. They saw a false image that the Demon Lord wanted them to see." The Chaos God King sighed. "If you hadn't used the Thunder Law to resonate with the hourglass, I wouldn't have been able to break through this interference."

Just then, the hourglass of time suddenly let out a crisp sound, and the crystal cover at the top completely shattered, silver sand grains pouring down like a waterfall.

The black runes on the pedestal seized the opportunity to surge, actually condensing into a winged spacetime demon beast. The demon beast's claws pointed directly at the hourglass's core!

"Now!" the Chaos God King roared, and the nine-colored divine light suddenly erupted, intertwining with White Night's purple-golden thunder light into a helical beam of light. The beam penetrated the spacetime demon beast's body, striking the hourglass core precisely.

"Roar!"

The demon beast let out a mournful shriek, its body disintegrating inch by inch in the beam of light.

But the black runes did not disappear; instead, they flowed upstream along the beam of light, spreading towards White Night and the Chaos God King!

"The law backlash is here!" The Chaos God King's expression changed drastically. He threw the gray longsword in his hand to White Night. "Hold the hilt, use your Thunder Law to purify the runes, and I will stabilize the hourglass core!"

White Night didn't hesitate. The moment he grasped the hilt, a pure surge of chaotic power poured into his body, and the tenth gray halo instantly solidified.

The bottleneck of a High-ranking True God was broken through at this very moment!

"High-ranking True God!" White Night felt the surging law power within him. A trace of nine-colored divine light appeared in the purple-golden thunder light. He pushed the Nine Transformations of Chaos to its limit, crossing the Eternal Demon Blade with the gray longsword, forming a giant law cross. The purifying power erupting from the center of the cross actually forced the black runes back three feet.

"Push harder!" The Chaos God King's figure began to become transparent, clearly unable to hold on much longer. "The Spacetime Law in the hourglass core is reorganizing. As long as the last wisp of runes is purified, we can..."

His words suddenly cut off, because the wisp of black runes that had been forced back actually transformed into a tiny thread of light and drilled into White Night's left arm!

Wherever the thread of light passed, the purple-golden thunder light instantly extinguished, and patterns identical to the heart of ten thousand demons appeared on the surface of his skin.

"This is bad!" The Chaos God King's eyes were about to split, but he was firmly locked by the law power of the hourglass core, unable to move.

White Night felt a sharp pain in his left arm, and an unfamiliar will tried to invade his divine soul.

It was the law imprint of the Lord of the Demon Abyss!

The information contained within the imprint struck him like a lightning bolt!

It turned out that the Lord of the Demon Abyss was not born from chaotic turbid qi, but was a God King who betrayed the God Realm during the last war between gods and demons, and this God King was none other than the Chaos God King's senior brother!

"Hahaha! Old man Chaos, you've lost after all!" The maniacal laughter of the Lord of the Demon Abyss echoed through the hall. The black patterns on White Night's left arm spread wildly, about to cover his heart. "This kid's Thunder Law is quite pure, perfect for being my vessel to return to the God Realm!"

Just at this critical moment, the last page of the eternal chaos divine codex suddenly flashed in White Night's mind.

It was a blank bamboo slip, but at this moment, a line of golden inscriptions automatically appeared: "Chaos gives birth to two poles, thunder breaks all laws. With divinity as the guide, and soul as the fire, the turbid qi of heaven and earth can be incinerated."

"With soul as the fire..." A look of determination flashed in White Night's eyes. He bit his tongue sharply, spitting a mouthful of golden divine blood onto the Eternal Demon Blade.

The blade erupted with unprecedented light. Faint golden soul fire ignited within the purple-golden thunder light. The soul fire spread along his left arm, colliding with the black patterns.

"Sizzle!"

The black patterns burned fiercely in the soul fire, and the will of the Lord of the Demon Abyss let out a painful roar.

White Night could feel his divine soul rapidly depleting, but he didn't flinch, instead injecting more soul fire into his left arm.

"Idiot! You'll perish, body and soul!" For the first time, fear appeared in the voice of the Lord of the Demon Abyss.

"It's worth it to drag a traitor like you down with me!" White Night roared, injecting all the law power of a High-ranking True God into the soul fire.

"No!"

The black patterns were completely incinerated in the soul fire, and the will of the Lord of the Demon Abyss let out a tragic shriek, dissipating entirely.

At this moment, the core of the hourglass of time re-condensed. As the silver sand grains flowed, they emitted pure Spacetime Law.

The Chaos God King's figure solidified once more. He looked at White Night's charred left arm, his eyes filled with shock and guilt: "You..."

White Night waved his hand, enduring the excruciating pain of his torn divine soul, and retrieved a walnut-sized silver crystal from the hourglass core.

Within the crystal flowed sand-like threads of light, which were precisely the origin core of the hourglass of time.

"Stop talking nonsense... the great battle in three days... is still waiting for us."

Before his words finished, the Time-Space God Temple suddenly trembled violently, and twelve anxious voices came from outside the hall: "Senior! The Demon Abyss army has arrived early! Our defenses are about to collapse!"

The Chaos God King's expression changed drastically. He looked at the silver crystal in White Night's hand: "It seems the Demon Lord knows the plan failed and has acted early."

White Night gripped the crystal, and the purple-golden thunder light rekindled. Although his divine soul was damaged, the aura of a High-ranking True God was even more overbearing than before: "Good, let's settle all scores, old and new, together."

The Chaos God King looked at the unyielding battle intent in his eyes and suddenly burst into laughter: "Good! As expected of my disciple! Follow me out and let the Demon Abyss see that the thunder of the Eternal God Realm has never been extinguished!"

The gray longsword and the Eternal Demon Blade simultaneously pointed towards the hall entrance. Two beams of light, piercing through heaven and earth, broke through the Time-Space God Temple and fiercely slashed towards the surging purple-black nebula.

The war between gods and demons, scheduled for three days later, had thus prematurely begun!

...The moment the purple-golden thunder light and nine-colored divine light tore through the spatial turbulence, White Night had already seen the scene outside the hall.

Tens of thousands of Demon Abyss soldiers covered the entire starfield like locusts. Leading them were three High-ranking Demon Gods with bone wings. Gray-black demonic flames burned on their divine bodies, and the bone blades in their hands shimmered with a ghostly light that could corrode laws.

Even more alarming, among the formations of these demon soldiers were many figures clad in the battle armor of the Eternal God Realm. Their eyes were hollow, their movements stiff, clearly True God warriors controlled by the heart-eroding scale.

"Indeed, there's an internal traitor." The Chaos God King's voice was cold as iron. He spun the gray longsword in his palm, and the nine-colored divine light transformed into a massive wall of light, blocking the charging demon soldiers outside the hall.

Every time the law runes on the surface of the light wall flashed, dozens of demon soldiers dissolved in the divine light. However, the controlled True God warriors were able to withstand the divine light, their spears continuously leaving fine cracks on the light wall.

"The divine souls of these warriors haven't completely perished!" A fierce glint flashed in White Night's eyes. The Eternal Demon Blade suddenly erupted with brilliant purple-golden thunder light, mixed with faint golden soul fire.

This was a new ability he had comprehended after fusing with the hourglass of time's core, capable of both purifying the Demon Abyss's turbid qi and awakening eroded divine souls.

"Thunder: Soul Suppression!"

Wherever the blade light swept, the controlled True God warriors suddenly froze, and a flicker of clarity appeared in their hollow eyes.

One burly man wielding a giant axe clutched his forehead, roaring in pain: "I... how did I get here?"

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