240: Time Hound

In this crystal city, frozen for ten thousand years and impeccably clean, the very presence of this layer of dust was the greatest anomaly.

"Go in!"

Su Lei didn't have time to explain. He slammed open the seemingly fragile yet incredibly sturdy frozen door with a palm and rushed in first.

Though Li Xue凝 and Oriental Shuo were full of questions, out of trust in Su Lei, they followed him in without hesitation.

The moment they entered the ice house, a completely different aura assailed them.

This small ice house seemed to have been forgotten by the entire world, abandoned by the ceaseless River of Time, left to rot here alone for billions of years.

Su Lei closed the ice door with a backhand, then used his Divine Soul power to re-cover the strange gray dust from outside onto the door, isolating all auras from within and without.

Outside, deafening footsteps and roars rolled by like thunder. The death legion, composed of tens of thousands of Puppets, truly ignored this ice house, which was so close, and charged straight into the distance.

Only when the terrifying sounds from outside completely faded did the three finally relax slightly, panting heavily.

"What is this place?"

Li Xue凝 looked around, a hint of wariness in her voice.

The interior of this ice house was much larger than it appeared from the outside, exhibiting a bizarre spatial illogicality.

Countless twisted runes were carved into the walls.

In the very center of the room, an altar made from the pale bones of some unknown giant beast was placed. Above the altar, a constantly writhing mass of gray mist floated.

The mist seemed to possess life. Upon sensing the arrival of the three, it began to surge violently, emitting greedy roars that directly affected their Souls, sending shivers down their spines.

"This thing is not a product of this epoch."

Oriental Shuo's expression was more solemn than ever. He could feel a kind of chaos and disorder from the gray mist, completely contrary to the Sword Dao Law he Cultivated.

"It is..."

Su Lei stared intently at the gray mist.

"A Time-Space Hound."

"The scavengers of the previous epoch's civilization, a type of Law monster specifically designed to hunt and devour out-of-control beings with time or space abilities.

They have no physical form and can ignore any physical or energy defenses. Their only food is time and space themselves."

Su Lei finally understood why this ice house could isolate all detection.

Because this Time-Space Hound had already eaten this small patch of space, along with the time flowing through it.

This was a remnant, gnawed away, that did not exist in normal space-time coordinates.

The moment Su Lei spoke its name, the gray mist seemed to confirm its final target.

It suddenly transformed into a gray lightning bolt, ignoring the spatial distance, and directly lunged towards Su Lei's glabella!

Its target was the core of Su Lei's Divine Soul, which had just undergone Fusion with the Sand of Time and possessed the embryonic form of the Time Law!

The monster named Time-Space Hound attacked in a way that completely transcended the physical and energy realms.

It sought to directly gnaw away and erase the space-time coordinates of the instant Su Lei was in, from the real world!

Oriental Shuo's Primordial Sword Intent and Li Xue凝's Ice Phoenix Gang Qi lost all meaning at this moment.

Their attacks simply could not reach an enemy that did not exist in the same space-time dimension.

This was a hunt on the Law level, unavoidable!

Facing this certain death situation, within Su Lei's Sea of Consciousness, the golden sand ring encircling the Soul Core star suddenly erupted with dazzling beams of light!

Su Lei allowed the gray lightning bolt to penetrate his glabella.

The expected annihilation of his Divine Soul did not occur.

The moment the Time-Space Hound rushed into Su Lei's Sea of Consciousness, the chaotic Law it represented was instantly tamed in the face of Su Lei's Time Law, which had already formed a preliminary stable order!

The originally violently surging gray mist quickly subsided in Su Lei's Sea of Consciousness, eventually transforming into an ancient gray imprint, docilely branded onto a corner of the golden sand ring.

Outside, the gray mist above the altar had disappeared.

The entire ice house, that gnawed-away space-time remnant, began to be re-assimilated and repaired by the real world at a visible speed after losing its master.

The strange runes on the walls rapidly faded, and the unsettling aura of decay also vanished into thin air.

"It..."

Li Xue凝 had just opened her mouth when Su Lei interrupted her.

"I subdued it."

Su Lei was concise.

"This ice house will be exposed very soon; we need to leave."

Oriental Shuo walked to the door and cautiously peered outside: "The Puppet army has gone far, but the source of the dark energy deep within the city is approaching our direction."

"They've also discovered the anomaly here."

Su Lei knew that for the madmen of the Forgotten Ones Sect who played with Souls and forbidden powers, the Law fluctuation at the moment the Time-Space Hound disappeared was as conspicuous as a lighthouse in the dark.

"We can't let them get close."

Su Lei immediately made a decision: "I'll go deal with them; you wait for me here."

"No, it's too dangerous."

Li Xue凝 immediately objected.

"Don't worry."

Su Lei imprinted a mental mark into her Sea of Consciousness.

"I have initially controlled the Time-Space Law here. As long as you stay in this ice house, you will be in another dimension, and no one will be able to find you.

Leave those hidden rats to me."

With that, his figure slowly faded in place until it completely vanished.

He used the residual power of the Time-Space Hound to temporarily enter the crevice between time and reality, like a true ghost, silently traversing the City of Frozen Ice.

The foul dark energy was perfectly clear in his perception, like a bonfire in the night.

Following the energy's trajectory, he bypassed several frozen streets and finally stopped before a square ravaged by battle.

At the other end of the square was a black temple, whose architectural style was completely different from all other buildings.

At the entrance of the temple, dozens of shattered ice Puppet remains were scattered, clearly having undergone a fierce battle.

The source of the dark energy was within that temple.

Su Lei's figure quietly emerged from the space-time crevice, like a wisp of smoke, and infiltrated the temple.

Inside the temple was a living altar in operation.

More than a dozen black-robed sect members were gathered around the altar, performing a ritual.

In the center of the altar, five female warriors in silver-white streamlined armor were firmly bound by black tentacles extending from the altar.

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