Chapter 5674
“Ugh!”
Kai coughed up blood, his ribs shattered in countless places. His body flew backward like a tattered sack, carving a deep furrow in the ground before finally crashing into the wall at the far end of the hall.
His aura instantly weakened to an extreme degree, and the Dragon-Slaying Sword fell from his hand, emitting a mournful hum.
“It’s over…”
Yan Nantian’s heart sank, his face filled with despair.
Even Kai had been defeated, defeated so thoroughly. Who could stop the Soul Devourer?
Was the Yama Heavenly Sect truly doomed today?
The disciples of the Yama Heavenly Sect were even more pale, many already slumped to the ground, trembling.
The Soul Devourer nodded in satisfaction and ordered the burly man, “Alright, I’ve had my fill. Give him a quick death.”
The burly man accepted the order and strode heavily toward the fallen Kai.
He raised his foot, his foot brimming with terrifying power and strange temporal fluctuations, preparing to crush Kai’s head with a single blow.
The shadow of death loomed over them.
Kai lay amidst the cold ruins, his consciousness hazy, excruciating pain coursing through his body. Yet, deep within his mind, every detail of the previous clashes replayed frantically, especially the fleeting moment of time reversal!
“Reversal… not acceleration, not deceleration… it’s going back… it’s reversal…”
“My time slowing was about influencing, altering the flow… while his was direct interference, overwriting, resetting…”
“What is the essence of time…? Is it a flowing river? A string that can be plucked? Or… a membrane that can be folded, spliced, covered?”
All his past insights into the origin of time, and the impact of this higher law of time he was experiencing firsthand… everything collided, intertwined, and merged wildly in his near-desperate consciousness!
He seemed to see the surging river of time, the countless branches and convergences of timelines, the subtle yet inseparable connection between past, present, and future.
“Slowing… only slows down a section of the river… while reversal… forcibly makes a small section of the river flow upstream…”
“To achieve this, the required power and understanding of the origin far surpasses mine… But… all laws share the same origin… their essence is the same…”
“He overwrote my laws, reset a local point in time… So… if I could see through that ‘point’ he reset, and intervene before it’s reset, or… make my laws unassailable…”
The burly man’s foot, powerful enough to shatter mountains, carrying the aura of death, was already raised, about to fall!
Yan Nantian closed his eyes, unable to bear watching any longer.
Liu Xue struggled to get up, but collapsed helplessly, her beautiful eyes filled with despair and tears.
At this critical moment!
Kai’s previously somewhat unfocused eyes suddenly burst forth with a light as brilliant as stars!
It was a light that had seen through some truth, seen through illusion!
He saw it!
At the moment when power gathered on the burly man’s foot, the laws of time began to fluctuate, preparing to unleash that local time reversal again, he clearly “saw” the “time node” about to be reset!
“So that’s how it is!”
A sudden realization dawned on Kai, a profound and mysterious understanding welling up within him.
His understanding of the origin of time broke through its bottleneck at this moment, reaching a completely new level!
At the same time, within the primordial space within Kai’s body, a star burst forth with dazzling light.
Kai no longer tried to “slow down” or “resist” the opponent’s time reversal, but instead… merged, synchronized!
Just as the burly man’s foot was about to strike, just a split second before the time reversal law was activated!
Kai mobilized all the remaining spiritual power within his body, as well as the transformed power of the origin of time, not releasing it outwards, but contracting it inwards, tightly enveloping himself, especially the small space where his head was located.