Chapter 648: Great Contention Era

"Escaped!"

At the cost of abandoning their own physical bodies and all their power to flee a thousand miles away, such a decision could not be called small, but fortunately, it was all worth it; they had successfully escaped.

What they needed to do now was to find a place to hide and wait quietly; their era was coming!

Once their era arrived, they would be able to crazily devour Spirit Qi and devour these ants to quickly restore their own strength.

By then, all the humiliation would be repaid a thousandfold or ten thousandfold from Shen Yu, though whether Shen Yu would even exist by then was a question!

After all, they knew very well how much temptation someone like Shen Yu held for people like them; everyone wanted to devour him.

Perhaps when they met again, he would only be a pile of white bones. Of course, it was also possible that not even bone shards would remain.

Just as the two were fantasizing, a Sword Qi swept across the sky, directly engulfing them both.

Until the very end, the moment they realized this terrifying Sword Qi had appeared, their last remaining wisps of soul had already rapidly dissipated between heaven and earth, leaving nothing behind.

In the final glimmer of their vision, they only saw a figure appear; it was the figure of Shen Yu.

As it turned out, they had never managed to hide from him after all.

"System, check in!"

"Check-in successful, obtained Time Golden Chapter!"

"Time Golden Chapter?" Feeling the information suddenly appear in his mind, Shen Yu's previously poor mood suddenly improved greatly; it was to say that killing these old monsters was guaranteed to be highly profitable.

The Time Golden Chapter looked just like an ordinary page of golden paper, floating deep within his mind.

This tiny piece of paper could conceal his own aura and suppress his fortune with the power of time. Moreover, regarding his past and future, the inside of the Golden Chapter could be like a blank sheet of paper, waiting for him to fill it in.

However, this "filling in" did not mean he could use it to change his past or future, but rather to change the past and future of himself in the eyes of others.

There is always a type of person in the world who can see through others' disguises at a glance; any disguise has nowhere to hide in their eyes.

There is also a type of person in the world who is proficient in the art of divination, who can see through a person's past at a single glance; anyone is like naked in their eyes.

But the Golden Chapter can conceal aura and suppress fortune. When these people look at him, or even secretly divine, they only see the content he has filled into the Golden Chapter.

At the same time, the Time Golden Chapter can also peer into the past of others, recording everything that happened to them in the long river of time. With just one glance, the experiences of others will appear within the Golden Chapter.

To put it bluntly, from now on, the disguises of anyone else would likely not be able to deceive his eyes. And his own disguise could deceive anyone else.

Although the Time Golden Chapter is not an offensive treasure, its auxiliary functions are maxed out, and it definitely ranks among the top of the many rewards he has obtained from checking in.

Putting away these rewards, Shen Yu then headed straight for the distance where lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, shrouded in night; the next moment, his figure had already appeared there.

Here, the endless night obscured the sunlight, and within the night, it seemed as if a residual, surging power was still constantly churning.

In this touch of night, Shen Yu also felt a familiar power; this power seemed to be the aura of the old monster that had been lurking within the body of the Pinglou manager, Bai Song, when he was at Pinglou.

In other words, this night sky before him was actually formed by sacrificing the old monster inside Bai Song.

So, from beginning to end, he had been used by others; Pinglou had been a trap prepared from the very start.

In fact, the whole process was not hard to guess; once Shen Yu felt this familiar power in the distant sky, he had basically guessed seven or eight-tenths of it.

The appearance of Pinglou was just to fish; the fish being caught was not only Han Zhang, who could touch the Broken Sword of Mu Zishan, but also someone like him who could kill old monsters.

The reason Pinglou acted so high-profile was actually to attract attention, preferably to induce people to try every means to destroy Pinglou. What they wanted, in fact, was to borrow someone else's hand to kill the old monster inside Bai Song.

Those who could not beat the old monster inside Bai Song naturally could not destroy Pinglou. And those who could beat it would certainly think that the old monster inside Bai Song was the mastermind behind Pinglou, and would subsequently try every means to destroy it.

If nothing went wrong, this old monster must have had another part of its unconscious remnant soul or other power stripped away.

Even if the main body of this old monster was dead and completely extinguished, it did not hinder this power from continuing to exist.

These old monsters often have final ultimate techniques, the kind that cannot be used except in life-and-death situations. Or they are ultimate techniques they use when they know they are absolutely outmatched and are about to die, intending to perish together with their enemy.

And the one inside Bai Song was clearly the latter type. It should have had a terrifying ultimate technique capable of dragging someone down with it; once used, it would inevitably be earth-shattering.

What Du Xiyin and the others wanted was to trigger this old monster's final ultimate technique; if they didn't let it experience Life and Death, how could they activate this technique?

The old monster did indeed die at Shen Yu's hands, but that final power should have been stripped away by Du Xiyin and the others; once the old monster died, this power would be activated and explode.

And while Du Xiyin and the others could indeed kill the opponent, they could not do it themselves; once they acted, the old monster inside Bai Song would inevitably harbor hostility toward them.

By then, it wouldn't be someone else who got blown up. They still had to manipulate this power, so naturally, they could not be targeted by it.

Therefore, they needed an outsider, an outsider who could crush and kill this old monster. And so, Pinglou appeared.

Finally, Du Xiyin and the others sacrificed that old monster, all for this strike prepared for so long.

The loud noise Shen Yu heard earlier was the sound of this power impacting the Forbidden Land. After one strike, this power also had little left, with only a few remnants remaining in place.

After arriving here, Shen Yu split the night open with one sword, clearing away all the last remaining power, and the night surrounding the sky thus vanished.

But those gaps that had been opened could never be plugged again; a gate had been completely opened.

Just as Du Xiyin said, once that loud noise rang out, everything was too late.

That loud noise shook heaven and earth; it was both the sound of the explosion Du Xiyin and the others had painstakingly prepared for, and the sound of the Forbidden Land being breached.

If this dam had not yet been breached, the flood would only have accumulated slowly, and the impact would not have been so great.

But now the Spirit Qi was pouring down; the impact of this surging flood, accumulated for a hundred years, could not be blocked by human power.

Shen Yu could even imagine the fate of Mu Zishan in the Forbidden Land; at this moment, he did not feel any aura, and it was likely that Mu Zishan had already perished under the impact.

Seeing the Spirit Qi pouring down, Shen Yu also tried hard to plug the gap, only to find that under the surging flood, even he, as he was now, was not up to the task.

This experience card only allowed him to possess the power of the Master, but he was not the Master after all, and this power and realm were only borrowed.

Moreover, his experience card had a time limit; it wouldn't be long before, once his experience card time passed, let alone blocking the Spirit Qi leak, his small frame would likely be washed away immediately.

Furthermore, even though he was here trying every means to plug it, he still hadn't completely blocked it.

The Spirit Qi was still venting, and it even started to rain because the Spirit Qi was too dense. That was the scene of Spirit Qi condensing into liquid and falling from the sky.

After such a torrential rain, the ground did not appear very wet; the Spirit Liquid quickly evaporated back into the sky, feeding back into heaven and earth. Soon, this surging Spirit Qi would spread to the entire World.

The endless Spirit Qi nourished the earth, as if a spring breeze had arrived, and all things revived overnight.

At this moment, Shen Yu seemed to feel heaven and earth cheering, beasts roaring, and green pines and bamboo growing wildly. The Spiritual Qi Surge made heaven and earth seem to experience a rebirth.

Perhaps, the so-called Spiritual Qi Surge and Great Contention Era are a disaster for ordinary people, but for all things, it is as if a place of long drought has encountered sweet rain.