583: Chapter 583 The Battle of Mahayana (Part 2)

The power gathered by the Law of Time manifested in the present, finished its conclusion in the past, and was currently anchoring in the future.

The three time periods were acting independently, which was chaotic, but they coincidentally completed a cycle.

Facing this slash, Nian completed its thought process very quickly.

Regarding this slash, Nian decided... well, it would just take it.

The violent Power of Law sliced through Nian's body, cutting him in half at the waist while simultaneously severing his two palms.

Feng Xu watched the severed Nian with interest; after his body was split open, it revealed its true form from within.

There was no flesh and blood inside; Nian's body was hollow.

There was nothing inside, only what appeared to be many characters inscribed within the torso, and these characters were glowing with golden light.

Nian's shattered body did not drift away; there seemed to be a mysterious attraction between the remnants, binding them firmly together.

He stretched out his arms and floated silently, his lower body and palms completely detached. With the hollow cavity of his torso fully exposed and his body parts scattered, a transcendent, indifferent divinity emanated from him.

"An interesting thought. Did you see something?"

Nian's body began to peel apart layer by layer, like a roll of bandages.

Feng Xu did not give his opponent a chance to change forms or employ other means, raising his hand to unleash two more identical slashes.

Immediately after, his left hand transformed into a sword finger pointing upward, while his right hand transformed into a sword finger pointing downward.

The two mirrors beside him moved to his head and feet, and as his hands alternated, Feng Xu's appearance became much younger.

"I will not give you a chance to catch your breath."

The younger Feng Xu stepped out quickly with his left foot, his landing heavy, and his palms quickly drew an infinity symbol in front of him. Immediately, a gust of wind and waves was born within the river of time, following those two slashes.

Immediately following this, the upper and lower mirrors came together, Feng Xu returned to his original appearance, drew his bow, and notched an arrow. A rain of arrows gathered from the power of time rushed at top speed into the wind field he had just created.

Inside the wind field, the arrows followed the path just gathered and constantly accelerated, like a fish swimming through a pipe.

The acceleration became faster and faster, gradually making the shadows of the arrows invisible, while on the other side, Nian also quickly completed his transformation.

The body that had spread out like bandages reassembled. Reappearing was a handsome scholar, holding a brush in one hand and a book in the other, with the simplified Chinese character "Person" in his left eye.

"How long has it been since I've come out to move around? Such high intensity right from the start."

Facing the locking slashes from the triple spacetime, the scholar just casually wrote a few strokes in his book, and they vanished without a trace.

Zhou Yan saw it clearly; just after the scholar, who had transformed from Nian, scribbled a few times in that book, his own health bar emptied, and the slash disappeared along with it.

The moment the slash disappeared, the opponent's health bar instantly rebounded to a state of Perfection, completing a maneuver of jumping back and forth.

But what terrified him the most was not that the opponent had suddenly died and resurrected, but that on the book the scholar held, three large Chinese characters were written.

"Book of Life and Death."

The offensive was not over yet. Although the slash had been neutralized out of thin air, that arrow was still approaching with a bizarre trajectory.

"How truly troublesome. You swapped your own life and death so you wouldn't die, thereby affecting my unavoidable, lethal attack?"

Although he said it was troublesome, there was not a trace of worry on Feng Xu's face.

Zhou Yan had originally thought the scholar would not respond to Feng Xu, just like Nian, but to his surprise, the scholar spoke.

"Fellow Daoist Feng Xu, those who have entered Reincarnation should not participate in this. Retreat quickly, do not lead yourself astray."

"I thought you couldn't speak; it seems you didn't die thoroughly enough."

Feng Xu clapped his hands together, and the arrow that had been swimming along instantly fixed its direction, shooting straight toward the scholar.

The scholar lowered his eyes, wrote a few more strokes in the Book of Life and Death, and muttered to himself.

"Futile effort, unable to bear life and death."

Feng Xu felt the life force the other party was switching, and a smile curled on his lips.

Just as the arrow was about to hit the scholar, Feng Xu made a sword finger gesture again, his appearance changed once more, the arrow that was about to pierce the scholar's body vanished, and Feng Xu himself appeared in front of the scholar.

Feng Xu's appearance restored, and he struck the scholar's chest with his palm.

"Regression!"

The scholar's originally relaxed expression instantly froze, and the movements of his hands began to reverse; he personally withdrew his concept of death.

The next moment, the positions of Feng Xu and the arrow swapped again. The arrow tip pierced into the scholar's body, and the scholar seemed to turn into a book, the pages constantly flipping.

That arrow was now like a preview button, constantly flying toward one side of the book. As it crossed, the pages flipped faster and faster.

Each page seemed to tell a story; if someone could read the whole thing, they would know this was the scholar's life.

"Whoosh!"

The arrow finally found its target and quickly escaped into one of the pages.

In the deep mountains, where clouds and mist drifted, a scholar on his way to the capital for the imperial examinations was suddenly attacked by bandits. The caravan accompanying him was dead or wounded, but because he had discovered them in advance, he had escaped into the deep mountains and survived.

It was also here that he accidentally fell into an Immortal Cave, where a withered skeleton was sitting cross-legged.

Before the scholar could get close, a golden feathered arrow from nowhere curved and shot straight toward the scholar's heart.

With the sound of breaking glass, several chains were generated out of thin air, reaching out from nowhere to quickly entangle the arrow. As the chains pulled, the arrow instantly snapped, turning into countless light particles.

In the river of time, the scholar had disappeared, replaced by an old woman, and in the old woman's left eye was the simplified Chinese character "Earth".

The old woman held a booklet, her expression serious.

"Defying Reincarnation, Heaven-Defying and disrupting the order, never to be reincarnated for ten thousand kalpas, Bind."

Feng Xu's figure paused; a force was breeding within him. If his prediction was correct, it was precisely the chains that had snapped his feathered arrow earlier.

"Interesting. I want to see how you are going to deal with me."

The Law of Time surged, and the chains that were about to breed were firmly locked into the future. One of the mirrors beside Feng Xu also disappeared.

"Cough, cough. You transferred the Karma to the future to make the binding ineffective? Since that is the case, my role has been fulfilled, cough, cough."

The old woman coughed a few times, and her figure began to spread out again, reassembling.

Feng Xu took a step, leaping through time. Before the opponent's figure could reassemble, he had already appeared in front of Nian, his fist arrived.

Nian's body had just expanded and had not yet solidified.

This fist, wrapped in the Law of Time, landed on Nian's body, which was spreading out like "bandages."

Those "bandages" suddenly flared brightly, and the Karma of Feng Xu's punch was forcibly interfered with.

The fist was entangled and locked by the bandages, which transformed into a hand that tightly gripped Feng Xu's fist and pulled him along.

Nian's body closed up in an instant.

A disheveled, burly man condensed, used the pulling force to get close, and headbutted Feng Xu in the face.

The other hand hooked onto Feng Xu's shoulder, fingers digging in, and tore violently.

Feng Xu's entire arm was detached, and a large amount of Origin flowed out, flying into the burly man's body.

The burly man, having absorbed this Origin, spun in place while clutching the severed arm, swinging his arm like a club, and sent Feng Xu flying away with a vicious strike.

Feng Xu landed, pressing his hand against the wound, and a new arm grew in an instant, while the severed arm the burly man was holding dissipated into thin air.

"Kill!"

The burly man roared, and the character "Cultivate" in his left eye seemed to ignite with flames, dancing on his ferocious face.

Feng Xu's expression did not change; he met the attack head-on.

The power of time disrupted the past and present.

The power of Reincarnation twisted Karma.

The two fists collided, and with every strike, the river of time below trembled violently.

The situation had reversed. The damage Feng Xu's attacks caused to Nian was almost negligible, while every attack Nian landed on Feng Xu could strip away some of his Origin to restore Nian's body.

Although neither of them was really hurt, if this continued for long, Feng Xu would eventually be the one to suffer.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Nian continued to roar madly. As the battle went on, he became more and more proficient in the fight against Feng Xu, rapidly adapting to Feng Xu's fighting style.

"Abandoning all reason to exchange for a Karma bonus in combat?"

Feng Xu quickly figured out the situation.

Clearly, he had the initiative just now, but he was captured and injured. Coupled with the subsequent battle, every time he attacked, he ended up getting injured himself, whereas responding to the opponent's attacks resulted in very little loss.

So Feng Xu quickly saw that the opponent had a bonus similar to a guaranteed initiative, and at the same time, every time Nian was injured, it could be exchanged for an increase in his strength and adaptation to his opponent.

This allowed him, even while having lost his reason, to quickly learn and defeat his opponent.

Feng Xu grinned.

"Since that's the case, I'll help you out!"

After knowing Nian's current ability, Feng Xu still chose to attack.

The Law of Time was used entirely to speed up, and Feng Xu's fists gradually turned into ordinary fists, containing only a trace of the power of time.

If a previous punch could deal 100,000 damage, then every subsequent punch could only deal one point of damage, but the price exchanged for this was that the frequency of Feng Xu's attacks became extreme.

Feng Xu's attacks covered almost every frame of time, and he was constantly dividing each frame; time began to expand.

Even though Nian had no reason now, he realized something was wrong.

At first, perhaps because the rhythm of the attacks became faster, his adaptation and strength were also increasing, but soon Nian's body began to turn red, as if magma was flowing inside his body.

Until a trace of the power of Reincarnation squeezed out from the corner of Nian's eyebrow, oozing out a wisp.