Chapter 1696

"Testing my strength?"

Royce blinked, then his crimson eyes filled with mockery:

"Su Chen, I admit you have some strength, but are you taking yourself too seriously?"

Royce stood up, his towering frame radiating terrifying pressure:

"You want to train with me? Are you worthy?"

"Worthy or not, we'll find out by fighting."

Xu Jingming's expression didn't change; he spoke calmly.

"Boom—!!!"

Royce's body suddenly erupted with terrifying divine power!

Dark red flames surged upward like a volcanic eruption.

The green mountains and clear waters of the entire valley withered and melted instantly under the terrifying heat.

He stared fixedly at Xu Jingming, his face dark as if dripping with water:

"Are you looking for death?"

He, Royce, was one of the favored offspring of the Flame Sky Sovereign.

Possessing a peak-level relic, his strength reached the Invincible Immortal tier!

He was always the one who acted arrogantly—who dared treat him as a whetstone?

"Lord Royce, let me handle this."

At that moment, Colter beside him stepped forward proactively:

"Someone of this caliber doesn't require your personal intervention."

"Oh?"

Royce glanced at Colter, thought for a moment, then nodded: "Very well."

He sat back down on the beast hide, adopting the posture of a spectator.

"Colter, don't disappoint me."

"Rest assured."

Colter smiled faintly.

He took one step forward, and his figure vanished instantly.

When he reappeared, he was hovering one hundred meters opposite Xu Jingming.

Simultaneously, he clenched his right hand in the air.

A silver-white battle blade, entwined with swirling emerald light, materialized out of nowhere!

"Colter, direct disciple of the Time Sovereign.

Specializes in the Time Primordial and Wind Primordial, his strength should be at the Limit Immortal tier."

Xu Jingming silently recalled Colter's dossier in his mind.

Despite his current arrogance,

he had not underestimated either Royce or Colter.

"Use your full strength right away."

Boom—!!

Xu Jingming immediately entered his Purple Nightmare Demon Form!

Purple demonic energy surged wildly, his height surging to over four meters.

His once ordinary features twisted into a grotesque and sinister visage.

Behind him, the exquisite patterns unique to the Void Demon realm glowed faintly, emitting an unusual aura of mystery.

"Hmm, perfect timing! Glad I didn't miss it!"

On a distant black mountain peak, a slender silver-haired figure with a curvaceous form appeared silently.

Xuantong Shen gazed at the battlefield, her starry eyes shimmering with light:

"So they've come."

"Testing your strength against Royce? Bold. But first, let's see if you can get past Colter."

She smiled slightly, her interest piqued:

"Still, this demonic bloodline's aura is rather unusual—I wonder just how strong he truly is."

"He has demonic bloodline?"

Colter in the center of the battlefield also narrowed his eyes.

If not for the stark differences between this Su Chen's demon form and the lightning traits of Xu Jingming,

he nearly suspected they were the same person.

"I must be delusional.

Xu Jingming only recently broke through to the Immortal tier—how could he leap straight to the Immortal peak?"

Colter shook his head.

He attributed it to the trauma from his son Koslin's death.

"Yet, resembling him too closely is your greatest sin!"

Colter's gaze turned icy.

Divine power surged around him; the battle blade trembled slightly, emitting a crisp hum:

"Su Chen, you will pay for your arrogance!"

No sooner had the words left his lips than his figure vanished again!

In the next instant, he appeared to Xu Jingming's left, his battle blade descending with a strange ripple!

This slash wove together speed and slowness.

The blade itself moved like lightning, yet time itself slowed along its path!

Xu Jingming had been preparing to sidestep.

But he felt the surrounding space grow viscous, his movements half a beat slower!

"Is this the Time Law?"

A flicker of surprise passed through Xu Jingming's eyes.

The Time Law is one of the universe's supreme laws.

Yet due to its extreme difficulty, few cultivators practice it.

He had rarely encountered it.

"Sssshhh!"

The blade scraped against Lei Yuan Armor, sparking a trail of embers!

Though it failed to pierce the defense, that strange temporal ripple

caused Xu Jingming's divine power to stall for an instant.

"Interesting."

Xu Jingming's lips curled upward—he advanced, not retreated.

In his hand, the Ninefold Thunder Prison Spear shot forth like a venomous dragon emerging from its cave, piercing straight for Colter's throat!

Colter swung his blade back, its surface glowing with a faint silver light.

"Time Slow!"

Xu Jingming felt the spear's momentum sink, as if stabbing into mud, its speed plummeting!

And Colter's second slash, taking advantage of the delay, sliced toward his neck!

"No wonder you're a disciple of the Lord of Time—you wield the Time Law well."

Xu Jingming praised, and golden-green Lei Guang erupted violently around him!

"But... not enough!"

Boom—!!!

The Radiant Divine Thunder exploded violently.

The ferocious thunderous force forcibly shattered the constraints of the Time Law!

The spear's speed returned, overtaking from behind—the tip struck the side of the blade!

"Dong—!!!"

The deafening clash of metal rang across heaven and earth!

Colter felt a terrifying force surge through his blade.

His entire body was blasted backward!

"What?!"

His pupils shrank, his face filled with disbelief.

His Time Law had been forcibly shattered by the opponent's lightning?

Yet he was a Limitless Immortal-Class cultivator!

"Again!"

Xu Jingming let out a long roar and surged forward like lightning.

The spear transformed into a thousand thunder shadows, engulfing Colter entirely!

Colter gritted his teeth, swinging his blade in defense, pushing both the Time Law and Wind Law to their limits.

The blade's light flickered—sometimes swift as a gale, sometimes sluggish as congealed fluid—trying to disrupt Xu Jingming's rhythm.

Yet Xu Jingming's adaptability was astonishingly fast!

At first, his movements were clumsy, but after ten strikes, he had fully grasped the Time Law's patterns.

"Time Law.

It can accelerate or slow time in a localized area.

It seems an incredibly overpowered ability, yet in practice, it's quite useless.

Compared to Destruction or Space Laws, it falls far short."

In less than a minute of combat, Xu Jingming had fully uncovered the Time Law's flaws.

Without entering the Lord Class, the Time Law's primordial power cannot manifest its true might.

"Then it's my turn now! Annihilation Lianhuan Lei Qiang!"

"Annihilation Lianhuan Lei Qiang!"

Boom—!!!

The golden-green thunder spear tore through the sky, stabbing straight for Colter's chest with a terrifying, annihilating might!

This spear thrust reached absolute speed!

The tip's faint glow was as deep as a black hole.

Along its path, even time itself seemed to tear apart!

"Is this... a T1 combat technique refined to perfection?"

On a distant Shanfeng, Xuantong Shen grew even more curious.

To refine a T1 combat technique to perfection

would take at least tens of thousands of years.

But before this, she had never even heard the name Su Chen.

This is interesting.

Xuantong Shen was curious, but Cole, the target of the Shattered Lightning Spear, turned pale.

He felt the time domain he had imposed around him being forcibly torn open by this spear!

"Impossible!"

He roared and swung his battle blade horizontally to block.

Time ripples surged wildly along the blade's surface, trying to slow the spear's speed.

Yet—

Puch!

The Lightning Spear still pierced through the time barrier and slammed into the blade's surface!

Cheng—!!!

Amid the deafening explosion,

"Pu—!"

Cole felt an indescribable force strike him.

He spat out a mouthful of divine blood and was blasted backward thousands of meters!

Just this single strike had destroyed 10% of his divine body!