162: Chapter 162 Familiar Spacetime Rift

At this moment, on a towering ancient tree a hundred meters away from the battlefield.

Shen Ye and Xia Qing were hiding among the dense branches and leaves, taking in the tragic battle unfolding below.

Watching Su Xiaoxiao being besieged below, Xia Qing was scratching his head in anxiety, his glasses nearly sliding off:

"...Brother Ye, what on earth is going on here? Why are Professionals coming out from behind the space-time rift? The clothes those people are wearing don't look like they belong to any legitimate faction; could they be some kind of cult?"

Shen Ye did not answer.

At this moment, his brows were tightly locked, and his single eye flickered with a light of uncertainty and shock.

From the moment that purple rift opened.

An extremely strange, and one might even say hair-raising, sensation had enveloped his entire body.

"Familiar..."

Shen Ye muttered to himself, watching the space-time rift twisting in the canyon, his heart beating violently.

Since he used that Forbidden Curse in the school dungeon and lost an eye, his perception of space and time had become exceptionally sharp.

And this time, it was the second time he had witnessed such a space-time rift from such a close distance.

Unlike the pain of the backlash from the last time.

This time, he was surprised to discover that the fluctuations radiating from the rift actually gave him a sense of intimacy, as if they were connected by blood.

It was as if... that thing belonged to him in the first place.

Shen Ye subconsciously raised his right hand and made a phantom grab toward the distant rift.

"Hum..."

A miraculous thing happened.

Following the movement of his palm, the purple rift, which had been stably open, actually trembled ever so slightly, as if it were responding to his call.

"I... can control it?"

Shen Ye looked at his palm, a terrifying conjecture surging in his heart.

And within his field of vision, every one of the Men in Black who walked out of the rift seemed to be wrapped in an invisible line connecting them to the depths of the rift.

"Brother Ye! What are you spacing out for!"

Xia Qing's anxious voice interrupted Shen Ye's deep thought. He pointed to the perilous battlefield below:

"What do we do? Should we go down and save them? If we don't save her now, I feel like Xiao Xiao is really going to be done for! Those people are truly going for the kill!"

For Xia Qing, Su Xiaoxiao was not only a former teammate but also existed like a little sister to him.

Watching her being besieged, he had long been unable to hold back.

"..."

Shen Ye came back to his senses, his gaze instantly becoming sharp.

Although he was still thinking about his relationship with the rift, he would never allow anyone to hurt his friends in front of him.

"Boom!"

Just then, a loud explosion came from below the battlefield.

A Men in Black mage seized the moment of stiffness after Su Xiaoxiao landed from her teleportation, and a huge explosive fireball slammed fiercely into her right shoulder.

"Pfft!"

Su Xiaoxiao spat out a mouthful of blood, her body falling to the ground like a kite with cut strings, her magic staff flying out of her hand.

On the other side, Li Murou was also hit by a thick lightning chain, screaming as she fell to the ground, twitching all over, having lost her ability to fight.

"Damn it!!"

Xia Qing's eyes were bloodshot, and he could no longer hold back. He stood up, ready to jump down and fight to the death:

"I'll fight you all to the death!"

"Don't be hasty!"

A powerful hand grabbed Xia Qing by the back of his collar, forcefully pulling him back.

"Brother Ye?!"

Xia Qing looked at Shen Ye in disbelief, "You're still stopping me at a time like this?!"

Shen Ye shook his head, a cold, sharp glint flashing in his single eye, his tone steady and domineering:

"Don't be hasty! I have a better way!"

"Since this thing listens to me... then let's make it roll back!"

After saying this, Shen Ye did not jump down. Instead, he took a deep breath and focused all his mental energy onto his right hand.

He stared fixedly at the purple rift suspended in mid-air, flicked his wrist sharply as if to grab an invisible rope, and then pulled hard!

...

In the canyon, the outcome had been decided.

"It's over."

The leading burly Men in Black looked at the fallen Su Xiaoxiao and Li Murou, his eyes devoid of any pity.

He raised his hand, signaling his subordinates to deliver the final blow:

"Do it! Send them on their way!"

Two Men in Black assassins grinned, holding daggers as they walked toward the two women who had no strength to resist, the sharp blades reflecting a deadly cold light in the sunlight.

Chen Xi was pinned firmly to the ground by two people. Watching this scene, his eyes were bloodshot, and a beast-like low roar emanated from his throat:

"Stop!! How dare you!!!"

However, his roar could not stop the arrival of death.

Just at the moment the daggers were about to strike.

"Hum hum hum——!!!"

An extremely terrifying, violent vibration, as if the entire space were about to collapse, erupted without warning from the purple rift in mid-air.

The originally stable oval rift now looked like a malfunctioning TV screen, flickering and twisting crazily!

"What's going on?!"

The Men in Black who were about to attack were startled by this sudden change and had to stop their actions, looking behind them in panic.

"Zzzzt!"

The rift vibrated more and more violently, as if it would explode or disappear completely at any moment.

The leading burly Men in Black's face changed abruptly, his voice instantly turning panicked:

"No! Energy disturbance!"

"The time machine is unstable! The passage is about to collapse!"

"Damn it! Why is it malfunctioning at a time like this?!"

He couldn't care about killing anymore.

If the passage collapsed, these people would be trapped in this time point forever.

"Retreat!! Retreat quickly!!"

The burly Men in Black looked at Chen Xi and the fallen Su Xiaoxiao with extreme unwillingness, but ultimately chose to save his own life.

"All members retreat!"

"Swish swish swish!"

Upon hearing the words "time machine is unstable," that group of Men in Black was even more terrified than if they had seen a ghost.

They instantly abandoned all targets and, like stray dogs, scrambled to rush toward the collapsing rift.

In just a few seconds.

Over a dozen Men in Black all dived into the rift and disappeared.

"Pop!"

As the last person entered, the purple rift, as if its power had been unplugged, instantly shrank into a small black dot and then completely annihilated into the air.

The canyon returned to calm.

Only the wreckage on the ground and the four survivors of the Nirvana Battle Team remained.

"Hoo... hoo..."

Chen Xi struggled to crawl up from the ground, ignoring his own injuries, and rushed to Su Xiaoxiao and Li Murou's side immediately.

"Ye Fei! Quick! Revival Blessing!"

"Co... coming!"