409: Chapter 409 The Talent of the Candle Dragon

["Senior."]

["Although you have achieved Body Integration now, your strength isn't even a tenth of your Peak."]

["As for revenge... it won't be too late even if we wait a hundred years."]

[You pause, your gaze sweeping over those Loose Cultivators who are desperately running outward, trying to escape, and then continue:]

["It would be better to find a safe place first to recover your strength."]

["Wait until... I also Breakthrough to Void Refining, then I will accompany you to slaughter your way back."]

[The Torch Dragon's two giant eyes turn toward you together.]

[A gaze mixed with gloom and crimson lingers on you for a long time.]

[You face it calmly, your expression unchanged.]

[Of course, you have your own plans—breaking through to Void Refining.]

[If you don't leave now, once the Liu Clan Chief, Liu Qingtian, and the Mahayana Cultivators from the Nine Heavens Heavenly Palace arrive... it will be difficult to leave.]

[Besides, the Liu Clan Territory is ultimately within the sphere of influence of the Nine Heavens Heavenly Palace.]

[Although the Teleportation Array is destroyed, for a Mahayana Cultivator, crossing a Star Domain is only a matter of the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.]

[The Torch Dragon remains silent for a long while before finally speaking, its voice muffled:]

["You... are right."]

["Right now, I indeed cannot defeat Liu Tianxing."]

[As soon as it finishes speaking.]

[You feel yourself enveloped by an irresistible Void Power.]

[No tearing, no cutting, not even any spatial fluctuations—]

[You naturally merge into the void along with that ten-thousand-zhang Torch Dragon.]

[The next instant—]

[The world before your eyes completely changes.]

[The surroundings aren't black, nor are they messy like the chaotic currents of the void.]

[It is light.]

[Countless streaks of light of countless colors and from countless directions whistle past you.]

[Some are so fast you can't see them at all, some are so slow they seem to have stopped, and some—]

[Seem to make eye contact with you for a brief moment.]

[Was that a fragment of history currently happening, or a future yet to come?]

[You know—]

[This isn't a simple spatial shift, not tearing open the void and jumping through, but a deeper kind of travel involving the Time Law.]

[The Torch Dragon's Law Power has already touched the deeper parts of this world's rules.]

[You feel as if you've become ethereal, and yet also as if you've merged into all things.]

[Everything around you is flowing.]

[Before your eyes, it slowly unfolds like an endless painting being rolled out.]

[Then,]

[The painting is retracted.]

[The flowing light vanishes.]

[You are already under another starry sky.]

[You are sitting atop its head; it is like a swimming dragon, rapidly shuttling through the void.]

[The surrounding Star Continents are like points of light, converging into a river, flashing by in an instant.]

[In just this short while, you seem to have understood something—]

[When speed reaches the extreme, distance is no longer about 'how long', but 'how deep'.]

[It is a folding of time and a traversing of space.]

[This is the Torch Dragon's talent.]

[This is also the fundamental reason why it was suppressed.]

[Its left eye—Time.]

[With one look, it can see the past and future; with one thought, it can stop time.]

[Its right eye—Space.]

[Wherever its gaze reaches, the void obeys; wherever its feet wish to go, no matter how far, it takes only one step.]

[Its four limbs—Destruction.]

[Where its claws sweep, Laws crumble, and all things return to nothingness.]

[Its torso—Strength.]

[The ten-thousand-zhang dragon body is the hardest shield in this world, and also the heaviest spear.]

[Its head—Life.]

[Immortal for ten thousand years; severed parts can be reattached, and it can still live even if its head is cut off.]

[Now, the five parts are united.]

[It is no longer the tianshu giant eye, no longer a Torch Dragon fragment.]

[But—the Ancient Torch Dragon.]

[This makes you think of—]

[Qin Han!]

[Unfortunately, you still haven't fully figured out exactly which talent Divine Abilities Qin Han possesses.]

[However, for now, escaping for your life is more important.]

[Unknowingly, you have been fleeing for three days and three nights.]

[The Torch Dragon suddenly stops.]

["Senior, what's wrong?"]

["There is danger ahead." Its voice is a bit tense.]

["Not good!"]

[The next second,]

[The two great Divine Abilities within its body activate simultaneously; the Time Law and the Space Law circulate together.]

[Immediately following that, you leave the void and land on an unknown Star Continent.]

["What happened?"]

["I just felt many auras of Void Refining and Body Integration in the void, as if they were searching everywhere for something. If not for my talent Divine Ability, we might have been discovered by them."]

["Then what should we do?"]

["It seems the Nine Heavens Heavenly Palace has taken action."]

[Hearing this, your heart tightens.]

[If the Nine Heavens Heavenly Palace has acted, then things will be troublesome.]

[You didn't expect them to react so quickly.]

["Senior, how about we find a place to enter secluded cultivation and hide for a while?" you suggest.]

[The Torch Dragon nods; it indeed needs time to restore its strength.]

[Before long, you find a deserted mountain range, open two Immortal Caves, and conceal them with an illusion array.]

[The Torch Dragon also begins to guide you on how to Breakthrough to Void Refining.]

[You immediately begin to try.]

[But the result is the same as before—you still fail.]

[Fortunately, with the Torch Dragon there this time, it rescues you from the life-or-death void vortex.]

[It watches your failure process and seems to understand something.]

["Your Spiritual Root is not innate. Although this method is not recognized by the Heavenly Dao, it is not completely impossible to Breakthrough."]

[You are overjoyed and quickly ask: "Senior, please advise!"]

["You need to comprehend more Laws to Perfection. When your strength is greater, you will be able to charge through that final hurdle."]

[You suddenly understand—]

[Right!]

[You only have one Law at Perfection.]

[What if you had two? Three, four, five, or even more?]

[Then the hurdle blocking you might be broken through!]

[You quickly bow in thanks: "Thank you for your guidance, Senior."]

[The Torch Dragon nods: "I will return to my own Immortal Cave first. When your second Law reaches Perfection, call me to act as your Protector."]

[You gratefully cup your hands in thanks.]

[In the fifty-seventh year,]

[Relying on the hundredfold acceleration of the xuantian treasure mirror, plus the Ice Fire Fiend Poison Body, your second Law—]

[The Law of Poison, finally reaches Perfection!]

[You immediately contact the Torch Dragon and ask it to act as your Protector.]

[The Torch Dragon sizes you up curiously: "In only a year's time, you've cultivated a second Law to Perfection?"]

["Senior, you flatter me. It might be related to my Physique," you say with a smile.]

[You do not mention that you have actually been in secluded cultivation for a hundred years.]

[The Torch Dragon nods, not too surprised—]

[It was born with five Laws at Perfection and five Divine Abilities; it has long since seen such things as ordinary.]

[However, it has always felt that the Human Race's Aptitude is not that great, except for a few Prodigies.]

[It doesn't bother to ponder over these things; in its eyes, you are still very weak.]