Chapter 1484

Above, the other strong figures turned to dust under this grasp, their corpses utterly erased!

"This is much better—saves me the trouble of hunting you down."

The shadow was in good spirits.

"Why?"

Watching countless strong figures being reaped by the shadow, the strongest one atop the great mountain spat blood and said.

He had never imagined that after enduring countless hardships, finally breaking through to an unprecedented realm and becoming the supreme ruler above all others, he had expected to dominate the world for countless years—only for this shadow to suddenly appear.

In a short time, it had reaped every strong figure gathered here, leaving him with no hope of escape!

The sudden turn of events happened too fast; the supreme ruler could not fathom where this shadow came from or why it attacked them!

"Why?"

The shadow repeated the supreme ruler's words, its voice unusually casual.

"If I told you it was because I was bored, would you believe me?"

Hearing the shadow's words, the supreme ruler atop the great mountain froze.

"Hahahaha, just kidding—your era is over."

The shadow laughed loudly and struck again with its massive hand.

The scene began to shatter.

"Who is it?"

Yet, amid the shattering scene, Lin Yan heard the shadow's fragmented voice, then the scene shattered completely.

"Detected again?"

Lin Yan murmured.

The shadow's power was immense—it might indeed have sensed something.

Lin Yan was not worried.

So far, the shadow had shown no sign of possessing time-related abilities.

Time in this world had always been untouchable—not just now, but from the very beginning.

Neither Xi Hua nor the reaped supreme ruler had shown any ability to touch time.

Nor had the shadow.

But Lin Yan's observation across the River of Ages naturally stirred awareness in beings of the highest tiers.

This time, Lin Yan had fully observed the shadow's reaping of Xi Hua's previous era.

The shadow chose its timing well: just as the era's supreme ruler began his grand celebration, with myriad gods paying homage, all the world's strong figures gathered in one place—then netted in one sweep.

Another month passed, and Lin Yan returned to the region where the great mountain once stood in the distant past, using time reversal to watch again as the shadow reaped every strong figure atop the mountain.

This time, Lin Yan specifically focused on the voice he had heard when the scene shattered last time.

The shadow had indeed sensed something.

But he wasn't certain.

After shouting "Who is it?", the shadow glanced warily around but detected no observer.

At the shadow's level, even a Law Lord who had mastered space to 100% would struggle to hide.

Let alone ordinary beings.

So after his moment of doubt, the shadow dismissed the matter and left the region.

Lin Yan spent considerable time in this region, observing the rise and history of the reaped great mountain.

The gods of this era differed significantly from the ancient gods and the gods of the present Heavenly Realm.

Their powers, though different, ultimately converged—no absolute superiority or inferiority existed.

Yet, observing this alternate power system offered Lin Yan valuable insight.

After spending decades here, Lin Yan left the region and continued searching for traces of the shadow.

His efforts were rewarded: after precisely thousands of searches, Lin Yan finally found traces of the shadow's appearance in the distant past—in a region now utterly desolate.

And the shadow had appeared here more than once.

Of course, the intervals between its appearances here were extremely long; the first two observations Lin Yan made showed a gap of over ten million years.

"Could this be the shadow's lair?"

Lin Yan murmured.

The current region was empty—nothing at all.

Though the starry sky was lit, the distance between each blazing star remained vast.

In the starry void, most of it was pure emptiness.

In the time-reversal vision, this region had also been empty in the distant past.

"Try reversing further."

Lin Yan thought.

Another month passed; Lin Yan prepared himself to reverse further back.

Now, each time reversal consumed considerable energy—due to the extreme antiquity, one reversal drained over ten drops of Primordial Divine Power!

What an astonishing cost!

Primordial Divine Power was no common commodity.

Recall: when Lin Yan first became a Primordial God, the Goddess of Life and the Goddess of the Ocean exerted tremendous effort to gather enough Primordial Divine Power for him—just to reach two hundred drops.

Now, each reversal cost ten drops—or more!

Fortunately, Lin Yan now ruled the entire Heavenly Realm and reaped abundant gains; he now gained roughly two drops of Primordial Divine Power daily, enough to sustain this expenditure.

Lin Yan reversed time further back from the first recorded appearance of the shadow in this region.

The画面 flashed rapidly; Lin Yan rewound time at great speed, each second requiring a rewind of hundreds of thousands of years.

For an ordinary person, the images would be too blurry to make out.

But Lin Yan's Divine Nature could easily capture these images.

In this continuous rewinding, Lin Yan's divine power drained far too quickly.

One drop, two drops, three drops…

Soon, Lin Yan's primary divine power had been consumed up to a full fifteen drops.

"Found you!"

But this time, Lin Yan finally located the shadow's earlier image appearing here.

Yet, this appearance of the shadow seemed merely to observe; Lin Yan gained nothing.

"Keep rewinding further."

Lin Yan had no choice but to continue rewinding further.

His primary divine power continued to drain rapidly.

From fifteen drops, it surged past thirty drops.

Such immense consumption of primary divine power allowed Lin Yan to rewind an extraordinarily distant past.

Lin Yan saw the shadow appear here once more, but still gained little.

Yet, over countless eons, this shadow had appeared in this region four times, indicating the area must possess some unique quality.

Lin Yan continued rewinding further.

Soon, Lin Yan's primary divine power consumption exceeded fifty drops.

He had spent an entire month's earnings.

Since he had already invested so much, Lin Yan decided to go all in.

After tens of thousands of years of accumulation, his total primary divine power was already immense; he didn't care about this small amount.

Lin Yan continued rewinding further.

The consumption of primary divine power kept climbing.

Soon, it rose from fifty drops to one hundred, then broke past two hundred, three hundred… until… one thousand drops!

In effect, this single time rewind consumed all the accumulated primary divine power a Law Lord had gathered over endless eons.

And in this rewinding, Lin Yan discovered the shadow had appeared here a full dozen times!

"If I keep rewinding like this, I might even witness the birth of the world?"

Lin Yan couldn't help but think.

(Note: Lin Yan's time rewind targets a region, not any specific individual.)