Chapter 737: Time is Running Out

"Stop struggling, it's useless!"

Glancing indifferently at the woman still struggling in mid-air, Shen Yu increased his force once more.

Why do these people love to spout threats before they die? Besides getting another sound beating before the end, what else could they possibly achieve?

The scorching Great Sun burned everything, causing the opponent's Spiritual Sea to wither away at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Shen Yu, if I can't have a good time, then no one will. If you want me dead, then we'll go down together. After all these years, I, this lady, have never been afraid of anyone!"

Seeing that she couldn't break free, the opponent resorted to threats, her ferocious expression as if she wanted to swallow him whole.

The burning of the soul is a hundred times more painful than physical wounds; that kind of extreme agony is not something an ordinary person can comprehend.

Originally, Shen Yu would have just taken these threats as a bit of amusement; there are plenty of people who spout threats these days—if you've got the ability, come over here!

But what he didn't expect was that the opponent actually ignited her own soul; the flames burned from the inside out, clearly intending to burn up her remaining Mental Power in one go.

She must be crazy, who would set themselves on fire for fun?

Soul self-combustion grants unimaginable, terrifying power in an instant; this force directly broke through Dong Yu's restraints and surged straight toward him.

This violent Mental Power was like a heavy hammer, coming down from above, intending to strike his head with great force.

This was a desperate, final blow exchanged entirely at the cost of her own life—an old monster who didn't know how long she had lived, burning and releasing all the energy accumulated over countless years in one moment.

The terror of the energy generated in that instant could not be described in words.

At this moment, Shen Yu was truly dumbfounded; it turned out this woman really dared to do it!

So they say, never provoke a woman unless absolutely necessary.

If these old hags go crazy, in order to vent their anger, they can be ruthless enough to not even want their own lives.

This was clearly a case of her temper flaring up, thinking, "Even if I die, I won't let you have it easy."

If this blow had landed solidly, let alone the fact that his current strength was inferior to hers, even a master of the same realm would be left nearly brain-dead if not killed outright.

Even if one were lucky enough to survive, they would inevitably suffer irreparable trauma.

Appearing in the Great Contention Era with such a physical condition, facing that situation surrounded by wolves, one would be wiped out sooner or later.

No wonder this woman would clamor about not letting him survive the Great Contention Era; she was truly capable of being that ruthless.

But she miscalculated one thing, and that was that Shen Yu's defense was stronger than she imagined—strong enough to face any attack.

Not to mention that he had the Heaven and Earth Lock sealing his body, preventing any foreign energy from invading, the mere fact that his invincible defense was active already placed him in an invincible position.

No matter how much your "small universe" explodes, even if it explodes right where you stand, it could never harm him in the slightest.

If you want to fight to the death, you have to have the qualifications to do so. You can't even break his defense; what are you going to fight with? Smashing your head against it?

"Impossible, why is it like this!"

Gu Yutong, who was close to Shen Yu, seemed to have sensed this as well; this desperate blow of hers should have been something even a master of the same level could not withstand.

But why was the opponent completely unscathed? Why could the energy gained from burning herself not even break through the opponent's defense?

With her final unwillingness, everything burned away rapidly, and the remaining soul fragments were absorbed in large part by Shen Yu using the Soul Reflection Mirror in his hand.

Chaotic memories flashed through his mind one by one like a movie; these were memory fragments preserved deep within the opponent's soul.

At this moment, Shen Yu saw a pair of eyes—a pair of cold, indifferent eyes devoid of even a trace of emotion.

Beneath these eyes lay a blood-stained wasteland and countless white bones.

He saw countless people being slaughtered, and he saw those top-tier masters rushing into the sky like moths to a flame.

Over a dozen figures, powerful enough to make even the current Shen Yu tremble, rushed up resolutely, only to be tossed aside like rags.

Corpse after corpse fell from the sky; the place where those eyes resided was like an impenetrable wall that no one could break through.

Blood rain fell from the sky, as if the heavens themselves were weeping blood.

"Is this the Great Contention Era?"

Looking at the scene in the vision, a monstrous wave surged in Shen Yu's heart.

These images were not personally experienced by Gu Yutong, but were a recording left behind by some master she had accidentally seen a very, very long time ago.

According to the records in the memories, these eyes appear once every very long period, and when these eyes appear, it is the moment the true Great Contention Era arrives.

Relatively speaking, the scenes of the Spirit Qi Surge and the awakening of old monsters that happen every so often are just child's play, not even worth a glance from masters at their level.

Every time these eyes appear, it will be a great cleansing that sweeps across the world.

These eyes seem to have come specifically to cleanse these masters; as for other casualties, they are just ants that happen to be there and get wiped out along the way.

After all, if a cockroach appears in front of an anthill, isn't it normal to accidentally crush the anthill and kill the ants while swatting the cockroach?

Although not targeted at ordinary people, as long as those eyes appear in a certain place, a radius of ten thousand miles will become a forbidden zone for life.

Of course, ordinary people might survive, but those masters whose realms have reached a certain level and who can live for a very long time cannot escape.

Those who have lived for a long time, struggling to survive through era after era, those who cling to life wanting to keep living, will all perish under these eyes.

No one can hide from it; one can only bite the bullet and face it.

And as long as one can hold on, as long as one can break through the blockade of these eyes and break this limit to transcend oneself, it is rumored that one will be able to enter a new World.

There, there is no deceit, no need for fighting and snatching; everyone can live forever, and everyone can live in the way they dream of.

And the prerequisite for all of this is the need to fight for that glimmer of survival.

Since records began countless years ago, how many have truly transcended? I'm afraid you could count them on one hand.

It is no wonder that people like Dong Yu all say that in the Great Contention Era, you are fighting for your life. If you don't fight, you can only wait for death!

In order to transcend, in order to survive, and in order to see the so-called new World, they must rack their brains to come up with every method to arm themselves, doing everything possible to make themselves more powerful.

Being unscrupulous is not scary; being unable to live is what's scary.

Dong Yu is like this, and now Gu Yutong is like this too.

Looking up at the void, according to Gu Yutong's memory fragments, there is a figure there resisting these eyes; if nothing goes wrong, it should be the white-clad Mu Zishan.

When Gu Yutong's soul awakened, she noticed the figure in the void and was terrified by it.

She had not even expected that those eyes would appear, and that someone could actually stop them.

According to the memories within these fragments, logically speaking, this Spiritual Qi Surge should last much longer than in other periods, persisting for a full hundred years.

Only after a hundred years, when everyone has bathed in the surging Spirit Qi and made significant progress, will these eyes appear.

It is as if the World is resisting in silence, which is why, before these eyes appear, it must produce a golden age even more dense and longer-lasting than the Spiritual Qi Surges of the past several times.

Its purpose is to give birth to people strong enough to resist these eyes.

Yet, unexpectedly, a Mu Zishan appeared beforehand, suppressing the Forbidden Land for a full hundred years and pushing the Spiritual Qi Surge back by a century.

These eyes appeared right on schedule, but the Spiritual Qi Surge had only just begun, and those of them who were slumbering had not yet fully recovered their strength.

At a time like this, let alone fighting, they likely do not even have the qualifications to stand before them.

It is precisely because of this that they must grasp every hope even more tightly and make themselves as strong as possible.

After all, there is not much time left for them, and who knows how much longer that figure in the void can hold on.