Chapter 343: The Method of Future Locking

The ten ancient sages' expressions changed abruptly.

"This person has the ability to strike across eras!?"

They were astonished in their hearts; this was simply inconceivable.

Li Heng narrowed his eyes slightly and spoke indifferently.

"That is not necessarily the case."

Being able to project a voice across eras does not mean one can strike across eras, and even if one can strike across eras, it does not necessarily prove that the person themselves possesses such strength.

If the person who spoke truly possessed this strength.

Then that Immortal God figure would have already jumped out.

The summoning array organized by the noble families began to bloom with light, and a terrifying black radiance erupted, spreading for ten thousand miles around, as if the Weird had descended. At this moment, ten Heavenly Human powerhouses of the noble families even offered their bodies as a Blood Sacrifice, merging into this summoning array, and a terrifying aura rose instantly.

This summoning array seemed to be an anchor point, a coordinate. After such a display of power, a terrifying figure faintly emerged from the blackness at the end of the River of Time.

Following the traction of the summoning array.

This figure actually crossed the distance of the River of Time, slowly manifesting in the Present World, manifesting in this current era!

Li Heng smiled lightly; this aura was quite interesting.

It seemed to be above the Void Dao Realm, but its strength was limited.

This terrifying figure finally manifested successfully, truly descending into this era. The figure swept its gaze across, seemingly piercing through everything in Heaven and Earth, and quickly locked onto Li Heng.

"You are that variable, the erroneous existence?"

"Then die!"

The terrifying figure spoke indifferently, and a palm as vast as the heavens pressed down toward Li Heng; within the palm, a mysterious Heaven and Earth faintly evolved, filled with wriggling, distortion, and the Ominous.

All the powerhouses in the Present World were shocked.

One wave had not yet subsided, and another rose.

Now, such a terrifying existence had actually descended!

Could it be that today is the day the Present World perishes!

At this moment, they did not feel that Li Heng and the ten ancient sages could resist such a terrifying existence; this was beyond question. Because upon seeing this existence, they knew it was invincible.

At this time.

Xiao Hao, who was dead drunk in a certain tavern, also sobered up at this moment, looking at everything happening in the Present World in shock, his expression somewhat lost and in Chaos.

What is going on?

This figure, this existence.

Wasn't it supposed to appear only in the future?

It should still be in the process of being born right now.

It's over, it's all over!

He muttered in a panic, pacing around the wine table, even accidentally knocking over a wine jar; the jar shattered on the ground, and he did not care that the wine soaked half his clothes.

Because he knew that the Present World was about to face a world-ending catastrophe. At this point in time, there simply did not exist a powerhouse capable of dealing with this terrifying existence!

This terrifying existence is not on the side of the human race!

Facing this palm, Li Heng had a premonition.

He would die.

This premonition did not arise because of some immense power that could not be resisted, but because of a sense of destiny that his death in the future was already ordained.

No matter what choice he made.

He would perish under this palm.

Thus, Li Heng did not resist and let this palm press down; in the eyes of others, this was suicide, seeking death, or giving up, but he had his own considerations.

Back then, he had used the Mysterious Jade Slip to comprehend a Supernatural Ability that could manifest a phantom of the River of Time, but he still had not found the method to utilize it.

He now felt a vague intuition that he could use the danger of being locked by the future to gain a deep-level realization, thereby obtaining the method of application.

In any case, even if he encountered unexpected danger, ten million Source Power would be enough to keep him safe and sound; this destined dead end instead became his great opportunity.

The speed and power of this palm exceeded the imagination of all powerhouses between Heaven and Earth; before all the powerhouses watching the battle could react, Li Heng had already been struck by the palm.

And at this moment.

Li Heng sensed that he had fallen into a wondrous state; his own perspective began to rise, slowly exceeding Heaven and Earth, until he saw a river and stopped.

And this river was the River of Time.

However, this did not seem to be the true River of Time, but the phantom of the River of Time he had comprehended using the Salvation Jade Slip.

Moreover, the river he could see did not have parts of the past and present, only the ethereal river segments of the future with many branches.

And when he looked closely, he discovered that this future was not the future of Heaven and Earth, but his own future.

It was just that.

His futures were all perishing, rotting...

For example, in one future.

He unleashed a Great Divine Ability, exhausting all his strength to fight against that terrifying figure, and fought the terrifying figure to a draw, but the next moment, a whispering sound came, and he instantly turned into a monster.

In another future.

He used the Dharma Law of Reincarnation, and even the power of the Reincarnation Core, the Reincarnation Disk, to suppress this terrifying figure in reverse, but the next moment, that touch of blackness at the end of the River of Time attacked him, and he exploded directly.

Or even worse.

He entangled with that terrifying figure for too long, causing severe damage to the Heaven and Earth of the Present World, and that Immortal God figure located above the Great Sun descended helplessly, seemingly wanting to end this war.

But the next moment.

Within that blackness at the end of the River of Time, a wriggling, rotting, and madness-filled form emerged, seeing the present at a glance across the River of Time; the entire Heaven and Earth of the Present World directly fell into distortion, he also instantly turned into a monster, and the Immortal God figure perished along with it.

Among all these various futures he saw for himself, there was not a single good ending; death or turning into a monster was ordained. And he had a premonition that once all futures were destroyed and corrupted, the true him would really have to die.

However, what is interesting is this.

In all the futures he saw, there was not a single one where he utilized Source Power, as if Source Power did not exist; does this signify something?

Li Heng roughly understood what kind of method this was.

By hooking into Mysterious Power and utilizing this Mysterious Calamity to destroy all his futures through the form of future-locking, it achieves the fact that his death is destined.

The Terror figure was not using its own power either.

However, this method is indeed profound.

Then, it shall belong to him.

Li Heng smiled slightly, his thoughts stirred, as if he had realized something.

His own perspective would rise, as if transcending time, seeing his various futures destroyed and corrupted; this was precisely because of this Supernatural Ability, this phantom of the River of Time.

After all, with his current realm, he is still a hundred and eight thousand miles away from Transcendence over time; the fact that he can see this situation now is purely because it was reflected out by the phantom of the River of Time.

This phantom of the River of Time reflected the crisis he encountered, and at the same time, it reflected the mechanism of this future-locking method, so he had already grasped seven or eight tenths of it.

At most, he just cannot hook into Mysterious Power to destroy the future.

But that is not important.

Within this method, Mysterious Power is merely a tool to destroy the futures of others; if he were to perform this method to destroy someone else's future, he would certainly have to change to a different tool or power.

Having finished comprehending these things, Li Heng did not intend to waste time. He had better resolve this Terror figure as soon as possible, lest it cause some trouble later.

But at this very moment.

He heard a sigh echoing above the River of Time.

"Can even Fellow Daoist Li not handle this method?"

"Sigh, this old bone of mine still has to risk its life."

This seemed to be the voice of Xuantianji, that old man from the Tianming Organization? Li Heng was slightly surprised, and immediately a sense of unease arose in his heart; what does this old man want to do, and who said he could not handle it?

Do not look at how his futures are being destroyed one after another.

That is only because the future is Illusion, ethereal, and fragile, having no resistance against that Mysterious Power and Mysterious Calamity, but if it were the True Reality of the present, that might not be the case.

For example, that Immortal God figure.

He certainly does not believe that this Immortal God figure is so weak in the True Reality of the present that it would explode just from being looked at by a future monster.

Li Heng hurriedly broke away from his current state.

This old man had better not interfere with his business.