Chapter 5676
The roar of the sound waves shook the entire dilapidated hall, causing many lower-level disciples of the Yama Heavenly Sect to bleed from their ears and noses and faint.
His tattered bronze armor creaked and groaned, and beneath his bronze skin, veins bulged like writhing dragons.
A power, even more violent and chaotic than before, imbued with the aura of time, erupted!
“Ant! I… I’ll kill you!”
he roared, his voice hoarse and stiff, as if he hadn’t spoken in a long time. But the killing intent within it was almost tangible!
He was enraged!
To be repelled by a mere Human Immortal Realm youth whom he considered an ant, someone he could crush with a flick of his wrist, was an unbearable humiliation!
“Boom!”
The burly man no longer held back, slamming his feet into the ground, creating a massive crater.
He transformed into a bronze streak of light, his speed more than twice as fast as before!
The profound laws of time rippled violently across his fist. This time, it wasn’t a simple localized time reversal; instead, it formed visible, distorted, and blurred ripples of time, coiling around his fist!
He intended to utterly obliterate Kai, along with the space around him, into the turbulent currents of time!
Facing this terrifying, furious attack, Kai’s eyes remained calmer than ever before.
In that life-or-death moment of enlightenment, he had glimpsed a sliver of the true essence of time.
Time is not a one-way flowing river, but rather more like a net that can be folded, cut, and covered… The so-called slowing, acceleration, and even reversal are merely different forms of manipulation of this “net.”
The burly man’s time reversal was essentially forcibly covering a small node of the “net” with the state of a previous moment.
Kai couldn’t resist before because his “net” was of a different nature than his opponent’s, making him unable to withstand such coverage.
But now, he understood.
Through synchronized vibration, he ensured that his “net” resonated with the frequency of his opponent’s “net” at that moment, thus avoiding being overwritten.
Furthermore, he grasped how to actively “accelerate” the flow of time within his own “net”!
“Well done!”
Kai shouted, facing a punch powerful enough to distort spacetime and destroy mountains and rivers. He neither dodged nor evaded, but instead met it head-on!
But the way he countered made everyone’s hearts skip a beat!
He didn’t unleash any powerful sword techniques, nor did he gather a vast amount of spiritual energy; he simply raised his left hand, his index and middle fingers together, forming a sword finger.
And the instant his sword finger was raised, the flow of time around him abruptly changed!
In the eyes of Yan Nantian, Liu Xue, and all the onlookers, Kai’s movements suddenly became blurry, as if they had been fast-forwarded, faster than their divine senses could perceive!
They could only see a blur!
No, it wasn’t that Kai had become faster, but rather that his own time had been accelerated!
“Time acceleration!”
Kai silently chanted.
Just a split second before the burly man’s fist, wreathed in ripples of time and seemingly capable of reversing the universe, was about to strike—in that time rift that was almost nonexistent for ordinary people—Kai’s sword finger arrived first!
Instead of directly confronting the terrifying fist force, he channeled his spiritual power, imbued with a new understanding of time, into an extremely fine and condensed “Needle of Time,” precisely targeting the
core node around the burly man’s fist—the area where the fluctuations of the laws of time were most intense, poised to unleash their “coverage” and “reversal”!
“Pfft!”
A sound so faint it was almost negligible,
like a needle puncturing a bubble.
The time ripples that had been coiled around the burly man’s fist, enough to render any attack ineffective, dissipated instantly upon contact with Kai’s “Needle of Time,” which contained the power of time acceleration! The profound
fluctuations of the laws of time instantly became chaotic and out of control!
“What?”
The burly man’s anger was instantly replaced by incredulous horror!
He felt his control over time had been forcibly interrupted by that seemingly insignificant finger strike?!
How could this be?!