Chapter 308: Rushing Into the Shanhai Realm

"Such a secret art? Causality Killing?"

Seeing this, the Ancestral One of the Heavenly Yuan Seat immediately understood the terror of the Ancestral One of the Pantheon's move, and his expression changed slightly.

A powerful expert skilled in this aspect, if dealing with a weaker opponent, could annihilate the target itself across vast time and space through a single strand of hair, a drop of blood, or even just a name, by means of a causal connection!

The Ancestral One of the Pantheon suddenly attacked, clearly intending to annihilate Lin Qing's true body directly through his avatar!

However—

"Hmm?"

After the strike, the Ancestral One of the Pantheon raised an eyebrow slightly, seeming somewhat surprised: "Such strong isolation... Could it be the legendary Great Void Tomb?"

She could sense that after her causal secret art transmitted through the invisible connection, it was blocked halfway before it could even explode.

This meant that either a powerful expert skilled in causality was protecting him, or it was an independent space-time so strong it could even isolate causality itself.

Judging by the situation in the Shanhai Realm, it was clearly the latter.

At the same time, the Ancestral One of the Heavenly Yuan Seat instantly received the telepathic message from Lin Qing's clone, confirming that Lin Qing was unharmed, and only then did he relax.

"Failed. I was hoping to resolve this simply."

The Ancestral One of the Pantheon smiled helplessly, then looked at the Ancestral One of the Heavenly Yuan Seat and said with a smile: "Old man Heavenly Yuan, you cannot defend the Shanhai Realm. Step aside."

"A mere girl born less than ten eras ago, yet she dares to speak so boldly?" The Ancestral One of the Heavenly Yuan Seat shook his head slightly.

"Attack together!"

The Ancestral One of the Time-Space Island's eyes were cold; he immediately waved the short staff in his hand again, pointing directly at the Ancestral One of the Heavenly Yuan Seat from a distance.

Boom!

Invisible power exploded on the surface of the Ancestral One of the Heavenly Yuan Seat's body, causing time and space to warp drastically, yet a layer of hazy Jin Guang appeared on his body, and he withstood it as if nothing had happened.

"Break."

The Ancestral One of the Pantheon tapped with her fingertip; accompanied by a surge in the flow of time, an invisible, untouchable yet exceptionally terrifying force instantly blasted into the black net protecting the Shanhai Realm, causing the net formed by countless black traces to shudder violently, with a large portion of the black traces shrinking significantly, seemingly on the verge of vanishing.

And the Ancestral One of the Pantheon, herself existing within a time flow hundreds of times faster, smiled slightly at the corner of her mouth, then in that same instant, tapped the Shanhai Realm over a hundred times in succession with her fingertip.

"Boom boom boom boom——!!!"

Terrifying invisible power exploded violently on the surface of the Shanhai Realm, over a hundred times in succession!

However, after the invisible power dissipated, the black net covering the surface of the Shanhai Realm did not collapse or vanish, remaining stable and intact.

"It didn't break?" The Ancestral One of the Pantheon was somewhat surprised.

She acted instantly, striking just as the Ancestral One of the Time-Space Island attacked the opponent's true body, allowing this strike to achieve maximum effect.

Even if one strike couldn't break through, with the time flow surging, over a hundred consecutive attacks concentrated together should have easily broken through, theoretically.

But who would have thought the Ancestral One of the Heavenly Yuan Seat could completely block it?

The Ancestral One of the Time-Space Island was also somewhat stunned.

In the future he observed, the Shanhai Realm should have already been broken, but now it was completely contrary to the future he observed; clearly, there were factors interfering that were difficult for him to observe or understand!

"It doesn't matter."

Meanwhile, the Jin Jia youth transmitted his voice coldly: "This Ancestral One of the Heavenly Yuan Seat cultivates the 'Rule of the Past'! In that instant, he continuously shifted time points from over a hundred past moments to restore his secret art, which is how he blocked you."

He knew that although these two were Transcendents, they both lived in the Void Sea and certainly hadn't come into contact with many other Transcendents, so they probably didn't understand the characteristics of the Time Rule very well.

The Rule of the Future specializes in prediction, deduction, and simulation; although it also possesses combat and survival methods, it is extremely rare.

The Rule of the Past mainly specializes in survival, investigation, and so on; methods in other aspects are equally rare.

And the Rule of the Present involves changes to the current time; time acceleration, deceleration, stagnation, and even reversal are all methods of the Rule of the Present.

It is truly peculiar.

Cultivators of the Rule of the Present are the most common, cultivators of the Rule of the Past are fewer, and cultivators of the Rule of the Future are one in ten thousand, yet the three Transcendents of this Void Sea happen to follow these three paths.

However, although the Jin Jia youth's understanding of the Time Rule was not yet deep, he could see that the Ancestral One of the Time-Space Island's Rule of the Future had just barely crossed the threshold; clearly, his cultivation was very forced, and in terms of the Time Rule, he fell far, far short of the other two.

"The Rule of the Past is this powerful?" The Ancestral One of the Time-Space Island was also slightly stunned.

He couldn't help but feel somewhat helpless; the opportunity he gained in that Level Three Civilization ruin gave him a better chance to comprehend time, and he discovered that the future of the Rule of the Future was the broadest, which is why he specifically chose the Rule of the Future.

Alas, the Rule of the Future was far, far more difficult than he had imagined.

Even though his talent in time and space was extremely high, he had only barely crossed the threshold of the Rule of the Future; for over ten eras, he had made almost no progress, and sometimes he nearly got lost within the illusory future.

Moreover, besides observing the future, he hadn't discovered any other methods, which made him begin to doubt: Is the Rule of the Future really that powerful?

If he had known this earlier, he would have preferred to cultivate the Rule of the Present or the Rule of the Past.

But...

Once the Time-Space Divine Body takes shape and the soul is imprinted with the future, there is no turning back.

The Ancestral One of the Time-Space Island could only suppress his emotions and patiently asked via telepathy: "Your Highness, I wonder how one should deal with the Rule of the Past?"

"Only by slowly exhausting him."

The Jin Jia youth said coldly: "Each time, he can only shift a time point from the past to the present from the smallest time unit he can perceive; therefore, to deal with a cultivator of the Rule of the Past, one must force him to shift past time points repeatedly. As the time points he shifts become further and further from him, it will become increasingly difficult for him to shift the past, until he can no longer shift the past at all!"

He glanced at the Ancestral One of the Pantheon and transmitted his voice: "Whether we succeed depends on you; a cultivator of the Rule of the Present who specializes in time acceleration is generally very effective against him."

The Ancestral One of the Pantheon smiled slightly and transmitted her voice: "It doesn't matter; it's just a matter of a little earlier or a little later. With only this little time, it just means Lin Qing will die a little later. Your Highness, just don't forget the promise you made to me."

Having said that, she immediately resumed her relentless joint assault with the Ancestral One of the Time-Space Island.

Although the Jin Jia youth's expression was not very pleasant, the heavy stone in his heart finally settled.

Even if the cost this time was too great, at least they could eliminate this terrible threat, Lin Qing, and no longer live in fear.

Once the Ancestral One of the Pantheon attacked, it was inevitable that the Ancestral One of the Heavenly Yuan Seat could not protect the Shanhai Realm; by then, when the Ancestral One of the Pantheon rushed into the Shanhai Realm, even if Lin Qing possessed the Great Extinction of the Illusory World, he would surely die!

Even if Lin Qing had the support of the Shanhai Realm's origin, his strength was still some distance from the universe's upper limit; at the very least, he needed to forge a life-bound Divine Artifact, yet he still could not break the universe's limit!

And the power unleashed by the Ancestral One of the Pantheon exceeded the universe's limit, so she could easily kill Lin Qing.

"A few minutes..."

The Ancestral One of the Heavenly Yuan Seat defended with all his might, expressionless, yet in his heart he was somewhat confused: "Lin Qing said I only need to hold out for a few minutes?"

……

Inside the Vacuum Great Tomb, within a cultivation chamber where the flow of time is accelerated by 3.8 million times.

Lin Qing is exerting all his strength to drive the chaotic-colored divine fire brought by the Chaotic Divine Seat, slowly melting portions of the supreme life-class rare materials in the universe, refining the purest life-class primordial essence from them.

The refining speed of such materials is very slow; it appears to require at least several decades, or even longer.

This first step of forging a divine artifact is inherently the most time-consuming.

As for the second step, the condensation of the vessel embryo, for his pre-advanced perfect peak-level artifact-forging skills, it is actually the simplest.

The most uncertain part is the third step: communicating with the universe.

The difficulty of a Chaotic Divine Artifact communicating with the universe is very high; even though his luck is extremely good now and the universe favors him greatly, whether he can succeed remains uncertain.

Once it fails, he will have to gather materials again.

He might even have to find another seven-colored divine artifact set as the base vessel embryo.

"Seven years here equals one minute outside," Lin Qing secretly anticipates, "The Ancestral One of the Yuan Seat specializes in the Past Rule; logically, he should be able to hold out for a few more minutes..."

For mortals, a few minutes are very short.

But for Lin Qing's level, perhaps a world-shattering great battle, with millions of exchanges, would not take even one ten-thousandth of a second.

The Immortal Realm Chaotic Child and his battle in the Shanhai Realm only took a few seconds; moreover, the vast majority of the time was spent on the initial provocation to draw him out, and the actual combat time was so brief it could be ignored.

Holding out for a few minutes?

For this level, it is indeed too long.

In a single second, one can think countless times; even if a single telepathic message contains hundreds of millions of characters, it can be completed in an instant.

Like when Lin Qing struck down Tore and obtained the Chaotic-colored Divine Seat, in merely a fleeting moment, the Ancestral One of the Time-Space Island and the Immortal Realm Chaotic Child had already arrived at the Shanhai Realm and begun fighting.

Moreover, the Shanhai Realm was sealed at that time; with such a brief period, he had no time to return to the Shanhai Realm to forge the Chaotic Divine Artifact.

Mainly because that Immortal Realm Chaotic Child was far too wary of him; every time he acted without hesitation to deliver a killing blow. The moment he moved against Tore, the opponent directly attacked the Shanhai Realm.

There was no other choice. To become a Chaotic God and delay the arrival of the Great Nirvana, he had no alternative; otherwise, ignoring the Great Nirvana, simply letting the Yuan Emperor smoothly become the Vice Lord of the Star Abyss would have solved that Immortal Realm Chaotic Child.

"Just a few minutes..."

"If it really doesn't work, I can only ask Lord Mirror to help guard the Shanhai Realm. Although the price of a Main God intervening is somewhat too high, but..."

Lin Qing took a deep breath, had no choice but to gather his thoughts, and continued to focus on forging his innate divine artifact.

Meanwhile, his projection in the Shanhai Realm was constantly observing the battle outside through the Shanhai Realm. Although the three Transcendent experts were fighting with such intensity that heaven and earth collapsed and time-space trembled, the Shanhai Realm, under the protection of the Ancestral One of the Yuan Seat, remained completely unharmed.

He was also constantly prepared; once the Ancestral One of the Yuan Seat could no longer hold out, he would spare no cost to ask Lord Mirror to intervene and help.

As long as the Shanhai Realm is saved, even if he must bear the karma of a Main God in the future, he is willing.

In the blink of an eye, thirty years passed.

"Finally..."

After thirty years of divine fire refining, this incredibly precious life-class supreme material has been completely melted by Lin Qing, leaving only a wisp of colorful essence like light smoke, slowly drifting in the void, emitting an incredibly dense life aura.

Lin Qing sighed slightly in relief, withdrew the divine fire, and immediately began to drive the Divine Seat. Through the complete Void Rules he mastered, he started to merge endless spatial power into these essences, permeating and integrating them into the seven-colored divine artifact set 'Nine Origins World Lord'. Following the forging techniques of Chaotic Divine Artifact sets, he attempted to condense the forms of individual divine artifacts.

Thousands of years ago, when he swept through the pirates of the Void Sea, he had already found one of the successors confirmed in the simulated future within a Level 2.2 civilization. Since he already knew that the secret technique inheritance of that Jin Xiao City Lord did not suit him, he simply switched to the forging method for Chaotic Divine Artifact sets.

A divine artifact set is an extremely mysterious and peculiar existence; due to the special nature of it must containing the primordial essence of the universe, the lowest tier is a seven-colored divine artifact.

It seems like merely combining a few divine artifacts, but this combination is the most important, allowing the divine artifact set to unleash power dozens of times greater.

In just a few months, the vessel embryo of this Chaotic Divine Artifact set had already taken shape.

"The final step: communicating with the universe."

Looking at this Chaotic Divine Artifact vessel embryo that was only one crucial step away from completion, Lin Qing's mood became somewhat uneasy.

If it fails, he will have to pay a huge price to ask Lord Mirror for help, then slowly gather merit in the Universe Battlefield to collect the refining materials again.

Lin Qing took a deep breath and immediately began to drive the Divine Seat to communicate this vessel embryo with the universe.

If successful, he can merge that drop of incredibly precious Divine Blood of the Universe God into it!

……

……

Outside the Shanhai Realm.

The Ancestral One of the Pantheon and the Ancestral One of the Time-Space Island were still attacking wildly; one entangled the Ancestral One of the Yuan Seat, while the other continuously attacked the Shanhai Realm amidst the astonishing flow of time.

The Jin Jia youth was waiting on the side; although his time-space traversing treasure was exhausted, he still had some other treasures ready to use when the opportunity arose.

The Ancestral One of the Yuan Seat silently acted, blocking the attacks of these two time and time again.

"My understanding of the Past Rule is not deep enough. Although I have currently reached the limit of this branch of the Past Rule cultivation, allowing me to shift time points within the past three hundred and eighty seconds, it is ultimately just a branch, and the time units I divide are still not fine enough..."

The Ancestral One of the Yuan Seat couldn't help but sigh secretly.

He could at most shift time points from before approximately one seven-hundred-and-eighty-millionth of a second; breaking down three hundred and eighty seconds finely allows him to restore his past peak state tens of trillions of times.

Moreover, as time gradually moves forward, his past will also gradually recover.

As long as the speed at which enemies destroy him cannot catch up with the speed of time's flow, his 'past' can recover endlessly, and he can continue to hold out.

For cultivators of the Past Rule, time is life.

However, with the terrifying speed of Transcendents at this level, their attacks are already unimaginably fast; more importantly—

The Ancestral One of the Pantheon, who cultivates the Present Rule, can even maintain a time flow rate of hundreds of times!

"Fortunately, although that little girl from the Pantheon is strong, she only slightly exceeds the limit I can endure, and she is not skilled in time deceleration; otherwise, I wouldn't be able to hold out for long..."

The Ancestral One of the Yuan Seat thought secretly, "If there are no other means, I should be able to hold out for at least seven or eight more minutes..."

To protect the Shanhai Realm well, one must maintain the secret technique in a complete state, so one can only rely on the Past Rule to constantly restore the secret technique to its peak state.

Suddenly, a telepathic message arrived quietly; the Ancestral One of the Yuan Seat couldn't help but pause slightly in surprise.

Meanwhile, the Ancestral One of the Time-Space Island and the Ancestral One of the Pantheon continued their frantic assault.

Not long after—

"Boom!"

The black-traced great net that had been shrouding the Mountain and Sea Realm suddenly contracted and shattered, revealing a massive breach, and the Mountain and Sea Realm, its world-power sealed away, was thus exposed completely undefended.

"It really broke through!"

The Spacetime Isle Ancestor's heart leapt with joy; the situation he had anticipated in advance, he charged straight toward that breach.

And the Myriad Divine Hall Ancestor, within an extremely high time-flow rate, at astonishing speed, instantly swept up the Jin Jia youth beside him, then transformed into a hazy stream of light and flew toward the Mountain and Sea Realm.

A world unable to resist — its world barrier was far too fragile for these two.

In but an instant, the two of them flew into the Mountain and Sea Realm, one after the other.

"Hahaha…"

The Spacetime Isle Ancestor laughed, "In the end, we still got in!"

And the Jin Jia youth transmitted his voice: "Kill Lin Qing immediately, destroy the Mountain and Sea Realm!"

The Myriad Divine Hall Ancestor gave a slight nod, said nothing more, and at once flipped her hand; invisible power began to surge and gather, and with her strength, a single strike would suffice to destroy the world origin of the Mountain and Sea Realm!

And the Spacetime Isle Ancestor also gripped that short-staff-like half-step cosmic supreme treasure, preparing a single strike to suppress and slay Lin Qing.

Just at this moment, a ripple of spacetime suddenly appeared—

"Boom!!"

In an instant, a terrifyingly immense might suddenly erupted from deep within the void, easily shattering all space, even tearing a breach through the cosmic barrier, transforming into a sky-obscuring giant palm that slammed thunderously toward that Jin Jia youth!

(End of this chapter)