Chapter 1554

"Hah! Are you mad, wasting your power like this? Come on, this is even better—I'll finish you both off at once, then harvest this era and shatter this world completely, tearing out that eye!"

The shadow laughed loudly.

Xi Hua said nothing; her power surged continuously, and on her hand, a long sword was taking shape.

"Heh heh, Dark Sword—do you intend to plunge forever into the dark universe?"

The shadow sensed the extraordinary nature of that long sword and said…

"Once you plunge forever into the dark universe, you can never turn back—you'll be trapped forever on the world's dark side. This place has already been nearly destroyed by this spear; its origin is shattered and will collapse soon, and you'll perish along with it, hahahaha! Besides, even if you forge the Dark Sword, you won't be able to harm me at all—you'll only accelerate your own destruction. Is it worth it—for him?"

The shadow burst into laughter again.

Xi Hua still said nothing; one hand attacked the shadow, while the other rapidly condensed a black long sword. To forge this black sword, the dark aura around her grew denser and denser, until she seemed to become the very embodiment of darkness—as if she would never again escape this darkness!

Dark power is still power.

To combat the shadow, Xi Hua actively altered the nature of her power and analyzed darkness.

But if she ultimately killed the shadow, she could still return to her former state.

Yet now, by forging this long sword, Xi Hua had bound her essence forever to this decaying dark universe—she would never again return to the light.

Never returning to the light wasn't necessarily a great matter, but the problem was, this dark universe was already decaying, its origin wounded by the spear in the shadow's hand, and on the verge of collapse. Once the dark universe perished, Xi Hua wouldn't die outright, but her power would continuously decline, and she would never advance further.

To the shadow, that scenario was nearly equivalent to suicide.

Hearing the shadow's words, Xi Hua remained unmoved; her long sword finally took form, and then she gripped it and slashed down violently.

Instantly, the entire dark universe felt as if split in two; the shadow laughed loudly and punched forward.

The next instant, Xi Hua's sword light cut through it, and a ring of sword marks appeared instantly on its outer shell.

But…

That was all.

"I told you—you can't save him."

The shadow laughed.

Yet, just as its laughter began, it suddenly felt watched; the creature that had been laughing moments before shuddered.

"Again, again—come on, come! I'm not afraid of you, I'm not afraid of you, aaaaaah!"

The shadow screamed wildly, yanking its black spear violently from the flames and howling at the sky, as if insane.

"Do you see? Do you sense it? This is the ultimate terror of this world! Had I not grown used to being alone, I might have spared your life—we could have fought it together, hahahaha! But I can't even find where it is! I'll kill you, I'll destroy this world, and see where you are!"

The shadow's words had lost all logic—sometimes it seemed to be speaking to Lin Yan, sometimes to the watching eyes.

The next instant, Lin Yan's voice echoed in its ear: "The eyes you mentioned—are they like this?"

The shadow shuddered again; with its intelligence, it instantly understood Lin Yan's meaning.

Previously, it simply hadn't thought of that possibility.

But now, combining Lin Yan's time power, his words just now, and that sensation, the shadow suddenly realized something.

"It's you!"

"Correct!"

Lin Yan's flames surged violently; the shadow healed too quickly—in the brief time since, within Lin Yan's perception, the pierced wound had already healed rapidly.

That meant, there was no time to wait another day.

Even if another day passed, even if Lin Yan activated his time power again and reclaimed the black spear, he could only repeat what had happened before.

He had time to pierce the shadow, but not time to let his flames burn through.

So Lin Yan had just fully contained his flames, allowed the shadow to attack, and then… activated time reversal.

But Lin Yan reversed time by only one second!

The effect was indeed excellent—the shadow was nearly collapsing.

"How could it be you? It can't be you! It absolutely can't be you! Aaaaaah!"

"Boom!"

The opportunity had arrived.

Lin Yan wasted no words—his flames surged forward!

This war was time to end!