Chapter 392: Ten Billion Years Later, the Three Spacetime Rules

In the blink of an eye, two hundred fifty thousand years passed.

On this day, Lin Qing slowly stepped out of the Flowing Years Hall, gazing at the bright sunlight beyond the hall’s gate, a faint smile crossing his face.

Looking back on his entire life, this was the first time he had secluded himself for so long—twenty-five thousand years had passed in the outside world, but nearly a billion years had flowed within the Flowing Years Hall.

“Has little brother emerged from seclusion?”

Elder Brother Eight, Zui Jun, leaned against a nearby pillar, sipping wine, lazily glancing at him and saying, “You look different. Any progress?”

“Still a bit short,” Lin Qing smiled. “But close. I just remembered today is the day the Instant Void Spirit Flower is born—I thought I’d step out for a walk, stretch my legs, maybe break through.”

“True,” Zui Jun chuckled. “The Flowing Years Hall saves time, but it’s just a dull, closed-off pocket of spacetime. Secluding yourself won’t get you far.”

“You’re right, Elder Brother.”

Lin Qing nodded. “I’ll step out for a while—my avatar can keep meditating.”

Zui Jun sipped his wine with a smile.

Lin Qing said nothing more, stepped forward at once, and vanished into the void.

…

Inside the Heavenlight Palace, the Light King slowly opened his eyes, his gaze piercing through spacetime to see Lin Qing departing the Heavenlight Divine Realm through the River of Time.

“Oh? Emerged from seclusion?”

Across infinite spacetime, the Light King regarded his young disciple with interest. “This child secluded himself for nearly a billion years—far longer than any previous cultivation. Any progress?”

Lin Qing’s surrounding spacetime accelerated violently as he raced through the River of Time.

“Time acceleration perfected?” The Light King nodded slightly. “Good.”

With his eyes, he could tell this time acceleration was Lin Qing’s own doing—not his avatar’s—clearly, he had fully mastered the art of time acceleration.

Though time acceleration was the simplest of the present rules, Lin Qing had not chosen reincarnation. Despite interference from future rules, he still achieved perfection in time acceleration—remarkable indeed.

“But this child’s talent is bizarre. Perhaps he hasn’t just perfected one present rule?” the Light King mused.

He continued watching.

Lin Qing exited the River of Time and appeared in Huai Gu Province of the Cangyuan Empire within the Wanhai Domain.

“It’s wartime now. He’s reached the Eternal level—entering the Wanhai Domain may draw enemies…” The Light King didn’t care.

Originally, when he set this trial, he assumed his disciple was merely a High Chaos Lifeform. Such power wouldn’t attract attention even if he entered hostile territory.

But now Lin Qing was an Eternal powerhouse—his life aura blazed like a torch in darkness within enemy lands, making him dangerously conspicuous.

Still, he could see Lin Qing had masked his aura and carried a feather of a Present Realm God.

Even he could not see Lin Qing’s future thread.

Most crucially…

As one of the Nine Princes of the Heavenlight Divine Realm, as long as the divine realm’s war had not erupted, Lin Qing could directly teleport back using Heavenlight’s power—no ultimate existence could stop him.

Of course, if the war erupted and the three divine realms collided, that escape route would be blocked.

“The Instant Void Spirit Flower is about to be born,” the Light King observed silently.

Outside Huai Gu Sacred Star, Lin Qing stood in the starry void, waiting quietly for the flower’s birth.

Lin Qing had clearly timed his arrival perfectly—just seconds later, the entire Lie Wang Realm Universe underwent subtle, strange changes, and a peculiar force permeating the entire realm suddenly converged into a single point—

“Boom!”

A breathtakingly exquisite crystalline flower appeared deep within spacetime, blooming fully in an instant, its aura surging to an astonishing level.

The Instant Void Spirit Flower, a rare world treasure born once every hundred million years in the Lie Wang Realm, bloomed only for a single instant at birth, then vanished without a trace.

Only by descending into the future could one locate its existence.

But this time, the Light King had concealed the future of its birth—no one could determine when it would appear.

In that instant, spacetime froze. The fully bloomed Instant Void Spirit Flower was locked in that single moment.

Then, Lin Qing collected the rare bloom.

“Oh?” The Light King was surprised. “Time stasis perfected too?”

Time stasis was among the more difficult present rules—its comprehension was no small feat.

At the same time, the Marquis of Huai Gu emerged from the Sacred Star, traversing spacetime, frowning slightly: “From the Heavenlight Domain?”

Lin Qing turned his head slightly, said nothing, and immediately began traversing spacetime to leave.

“Leave the Instant Void Spirit Flower!”

The Marquis of Huai Gu coldly shouted and moved to strike.

Though he sensed the opponent was also an Eternal existence, he couldn’t determine his exact level—only that he used present rules.

Yet an invisible force twisted spacetime—the Marquis suddenly felt time slow by hundreds of times, helplessly watching the other vanish into the River of Time.

“Much stronger than me?” The Marquis paled and dared not pursue, immediately sending a message to report.

Even if he couldn’t stop him, the Huai Gu Empire had other powerful beings who could intercept him before he reached a spacetime node and escaped the empire.

A little delay would bring a Duke-level presence from the Wanhai Divine Realm.

“This child isn’t returning directly through Heavenlight?” The Light King watched with interest. “Does he have confidence in escaping the Wanhai Domain on his own?”

He could see the Cangyuan Empire had begun sealing spacetime nodes.

Within the Cangyuan Empire’s tributaries of the River of Time, checkpoints had appeared like barriers, blocking every exit route, while Eternal Peak experts rushed toward them.

Yet Lin Qing acted as if he saw nothing, choosing the nearest spacetime node and stepping through directly.

Only moments later, Cangyuan’s Eternal Peak experts arrived at that node, deploying layers of seals with treasures—anyone attempting to force through would need time, even dozens of Eternal Peak experts working together.

“Does this child think he can break through?” The Light King was surprised.

The next instant, he saw the answer.

After Lin Qing arrived at the spacetime node, he made no move—yet the surrounding spacetime began retreating at an astonishing speed. The warriors charging toward him were pushed backward; the perfect seals formed by countless treasures unraveled like a reversed film, returning to their pre-formation state.

Time reversal!

Normally, under such layered seals, spacetime was utterly stable—Eternal experts’ mental-formed spacetime domains could not possibly have any effect.

But exceptions existed—

“Even his spacetime domain is this terrifying?”

“He’s a Duke-level expert!”

“Flee!!”