Chapter 891

"Stop struggling, my strength is beyond your imagination."

The black shadow let out a cold laugh.

"Is that so?"

The aura on the woman’s body suddenly changed.

Immediately after, an aura that transcended this world rose slowly!

When this aura rose, Lin Yan’s gaze immediately tightened!

This woman had actually broken through during the battle!

It looked like she had successfully stepped into the Supreme level!

Damn!

This was different from what Lin Yan had expected.

Lin Yan had thought she would fail after being intercepted by the black shadow.

Yet who knew, she had actually... succeeded?

She succeeded...

The question was, how did she fail again?

Having clearly broken through to the Supreme level, why did she end up sitting withered in the Dark Abyss?

"Go to hell!"

In the woman’s hand, the long sword emitted incomparably brilliant light.

Once this sword was released, the entire starry sky was eclipsed.

As the sword rushed out, he saw the black shadow shatter rapidly under this sword, and then, it split into countless parts.

"Is it over?"

Lin Yan felt it wasn't that simple.

"The Sect Master has broken through!"

On the periphery of this region, some strong individuals who had rushed over cheered one after another.

"Sect Master Xihua has reached that legendary realm!"

Some strong individuals who did not belong to the woman’s faction also exclaimed.

From the way these strong individuals addressed her, Lin Yan learned the woman’s name.

Xihua!

"No!"

Lin Yan’s gaze tightened again.

Immediately after, he saw that where the black shadow had shattered, endless darkness surged out again.

"Hehe, finally broke through; my painstaking efforts were not in vain. Now, it is my time to harvest."

The black shadow’s voice rang out again.

Immediately after, he saw the black shadow reappear where it had been shattered.

But at this time, the version of her that reappeared had an aura identical to that woman!

Actually...

It was also a Supreme-level strong individual!

It looked like, from the moment he appeared to the moment he struck, he hadn't used his full strength from start to finish, but was instead... helping Xihua break through!

And the purpose of letting Xihua break through was not really to help her.

Likewise, it was still for harvesting!

He had deliberately let Xihua break through!

It seemed that if he harvested after Xihua broke through, the harvest would be even greater.

The footage shattered in front of Lin Yan.

The time for the regression had ended again.

Lin Yan fell into thought.

Things from endless ages past were indeed somewhat different from Lin Yan’s guesses.

It wasn't that she didn't break through to Supreme.

It was...

Even after breaking through to Supreme, she still failed!

Harvesting...

The black shadow’s words made Lin Yan think of his own approach to the Abyss.

Letting the Abyss develop until Abyss creatures became numerous again, and then going down to harvest a wave once they got fat.

However, this black shadow’s scale was clearly much larger.

What he was harvesting was actually the Supreme-level existences of this world!

And listening to the meaning in the black shadow’s words, he probably hadn't done this for the first time!

In this way, this black shadow was likely the biggest mastermind behind the scenes in this world since endless ages past.

Lin Yan could roughly guess the subsequent development.

This black shadow had succeeded many times, but this time he suffered a huge loss with Xihua.

It looked like he was also suppressed by Xihua in the Dark Abyss for countless years.

The result of this battle was mostly mutual destruction.

Looking at it this way, the Main God of Light should have also suffered a loss from this black shadow in the endless ages past.

However, because of Xihua’s checks and balances, the Main God of Light was only heavily injured that time and did not fall.

And after sensing the threat, the Main God of Light changed his philosophy, actively suppressing the prosperity of the Heavenly Realm to avoid provoking the black shadow.

According to Lin Yan's speculation, every time this black shadow revived, it should have had some kind of mechanism, just like the Five-Star Ancient Gods; it would only recover if this mechanism was satisfied, such as an expert attempting to break through to the supreme level.

Otherwise, this black shadow would remain asleep.

And after the Main God of Light suppressed the prosperity of the Heavenly Realm, the Heavenly Realm had been at the boundary of prosperity for countless years, and for countless years, it had not touched the black shadow’s mechanism.

"However, he revived in the Dark Abyss last time."

Lin Yan thought again.

The last time this black shadow revived, it was triggered by the commotion brought about by Lin Yan linking the starry sky and the Heavenly Realm.

However, the commotion brought about by linking the starry sky and the Heavenly Realm could not reach the Supreme level.

Did this mean that the black shadow’s remaining strength had decreased significantly, leading to a change in the mechanism of the black shadow’s revival!

These thoughts flashed through Lin Yan’s mind.

A month passed very quickly, and Lin Yan continued to perform time regression to observe.

Up to now, Lin Yan had spent several thousand years tracing this battle.

Of course, he didn't only do this one thing during those several thousand years.

This matter didn't take much time, after all, it was only a few dozen minutes a month.

In this constant time regression, the Time Rule was also growing rapidly.

After Xihua broke through to the Supreme level, the battle with the black shadow became increasingly intense.

However, this battle eventually moved out of the region of Lin Yan’s time regression, and Lin Yan lost their trail as a result.

Another month later, Lin Yan did not continue to track the battle between Xihua and the black shadow.

Instead, he began to regress to even earlier times.

Up to now, Lin Yan already knew about three eras of this world.

One was the era of the Heavenly Realm; the current Heavenly Realm could also be called Lin Yan’s era.

Two was the era of the Ancient Gods; this should be the weakest era.

Three was the era of Xihua.

The era of the Heavenly Realm had already experienced time measured in hundreds of millions of years.

The era of the Ancient Gods lasted for a similarly long time.

The era of Xihua was even more ancient, likely billions of years ago.