In a parallel spacetime of the Endless Battlefield, Corpse Kings stretched out endlessly on the ground.
The Corpse Kings stood silently, waiting for orders to fight.
They had been waiting here for years.
The sky suddenly darkened like a curtain, covering all the Corpse Kings.
Someone behind the Corpse Kings looked up. "You're courting death."
A surging attack shot towards the sky, trying to break through the darkness.
Above the darkness, Qing Ping looked down. "Xiang Hou?"
The one attacking was Xiang Hou, one of the Twelve Marquises of the Astral Tree Battlefield. Some of the Twelve Marquises had fled the battlefield, and Xiang Hou was one of them.
Xiang Hou had not expected to meet someone who knew him here.
"You're the Head Inquisitor?" Xiang Hou was surprised.
Qing Ping raised his hand, and the darkness pressed down. "Skyless."
Xiang Hou was afraid. Although Qing Ping was only a Half-Ancestor, the Eternals had records of his strength, especially since he was Lu Yin's senior.
By now, everyone knew about Lu Yin's senior and junior. Mu Xie was a Progenitor, and Mu Carving was a Sequence powerhouse. The rules of this sect had gradually spread. An Emissary could fight a Half-Ancestor, and a Half-Ancestor could fight a Progenitor. This was the unique characteristic of Lu Yin's senior and junior.
Although Xiang Hou did not know who their master was, Qing Ping had clearly met this requirement. Although he was a Half-Ancestor, his strength was definitely not below that of an ordinary Progenitor.
One figure after another rushed out from the middle of the Corpse King, wanting to break through Wutian.
However, Heavenless wasn't that easy to break through. The Half Ancestor level corpse kings all disappeared into the darkness.
Xiang Hou turned to leave. He did not want to fight Qing Ping. He was not confident, and even if he won, he would have to pay a heavy price.
It would be troublesome if he lured Lu Yin over again. A battle had almost brushed past this parallel spacetime. If he had not been lucky, he would have died.
Even the captain of the True God Guard had died, let alone him.
Xiang Hou wanted to escape, but Qing Ping would not allow it.
The area of Skyless continued to expand, swallowing up the endless Corpse Kings and heading towards Xiang Hou.
Xiang Hou saw this and exclaimed, "You're that darkness monster?"
A person called the darkness monster had come to the Endless Battlefield several years ago. He had been killing Corpse Kings with ruthless methods, and he should have been hunted down by the True God Guard.
Wutian's speed was even faster than Xiang Hou's, and he was about to swallow him up in the blink of an eye.
At the critical moment, Xiang Hou unleashed his inner world and used his innate talent, Human Face Reading, to forcefully unleash Wutian. However, what awaited him was a blood-red bell that made a ringing sound, causing his mind to go blank.
This was an ability similar to Humanoid Perception, but it was inexplicably more frightening than Humanoid Perception.
In the past, the 12 Marquises had terrorized the backside battlefield. They were powerful, and as long as Ancestor Realm experts didn't appear, they would be able to shake up the entire backside battlefield. But now, they were being suppressed by Qing Ping.
Not long after, Xiang Hou fell. Qing Ping looked down at him from above.
Xiang Hou was unwilling to accept this. "Just one more step, just one more step and I'll be able to reach the Progenitor Realm. I just had to be unlucky enough to meet you."
Qing Ping's eyes flashed. He pressed down with his palm and ended Xiang Hou's life.
He stood there in deep thought. Then, he sent a message to the Above Heaven Sect.
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In the Fifth Spacetime, a few leaves had fallen from Lu Yin's body, and they had already turned yellow. He had been sitting there for half a month without opening his eyes.
There must be a connection between space and time, and the only connection he could think of was space.
It was a carrier of time. Since it was a carrier, if the flow of time was accelerated, the space naturally had to be able to withstand it. Otherwise, it would collapse.
This was the only explanation he could think of.
He released his inner world and activated Flowing Light.
When Flowing Light appeared, it was clearly very slow. It was also an embodiment of space, but in this spacetime, it was as if it had fallen into a swamp. After all, it was five times tougher.
But if Flowing Light was the same as this spacetime and was five times tougher, did that mean that it could withstand five times the flow of time? Did that mean that he could reverse time for five seconds?
Lu Yin's breathing quickened, and this idea made him crazy. Reversing time for one second could change the outcome of a battle. If it was five seconds, then … He raised his hands and looked at his palm lines. This was really tempting.
He had found a parallel spacetime with a different flow of time to cultivate Flowing Light.
Someone could negate the flow of time that he had existed, which made him feel a deep sense of crisis. If that person negated his existence, then that would mean death.
Lu Yin was not used to putting his life in someone else's hands.
At that moment, the originally slow-moving Flowing Light trembled. Immediately after, the space above his head and in all directions trembled. A sense of crisis suddenly descended, coming from all directions and from this spacetime.
Lu Yin subconsciously left.
After returning to the Eternal Kingdom, Lu Yin heaved a sigh of relief when he returned to the Above Heaven. What was going on?
It was as if he had been targeted by the entire spacetime.
Lu Yin directly went to the Rotting God Spacetime of the Endless Battlefield and arrived at Yi Xing's headquarters.
Bi Teng had not expected Lu Yin to suddenly come and quickly welcomed him.
Bi Lan and Madam Nalan followed closely behind.
Yi Xing and a group of people came to greet him.
Lu Yin did not stand on ceremony, "It's as if I've been targeted by that spacetime, and I'm in great danger. What's going on?"
Bi Teng was confused, "Targeted by what?"
Lu Yin looked at him, "It's as if the entire spacetime wants to eat me."
Bi Teng looked at Bi Lan, who was also confused, "Master Lu, we don't understand."
Lu Yin turned and left. They did not seem to be faking it, and he had not been ambushed either. Otherwise, he would not have been able to leave so easily. It should be a problem with that spacetime.
Lu Yin found Big Sis and explained the problem to her.
Big Sis was also confused, "I've entered a parallel spacetime with a different flow of time to cultivate. In that era, this kind of spacetime was a hard currency that was equivalent to a Progenitor's currency. Let alone five times, there were even fifty times, or even five hundred times. I've never encountered a situation like yours."
She looked at Lu Yin with a strange gaze; why was everything this brat did different from others?
"You must have used Flowing Light's inner world, right? This kind of situation involves space and time, so it's best to ask a Progenitor who understands that kind of situation."
Lu Yin thought about it and felt that she was right, so he went straight to Xia Shenji. Although this was only a clone, he had fused with the main body, so he had both his cultivation and memories.
Xia Shenji listened to Lu Yin's question with a solemn expression, "You can't try to enter a parallel spacetime with a different flow of time. Otherwise, you will suffer a spacetime calamity."
Lu Yin raised his brows, "You know?"
Xia Shenji respectfully replied, "The main body has encountered such a situation before. In the main body's memories, both the Lu family and the Four Way Libra once had parallel spacetimes with different flow of time. However, as they were overused, they were slowly destroyed."
"These parallel spacetimes are unstable and can be easily destroyed, especially when they touch upon the taboo of space and time."
"Speak clearly," Lu Yin said seriously.
Xia Shenji organized his thoughts and told Lu Yin everything he knew.
According to Xia Shenji's words and his understanding of time, these parallel spacetimes with different flow of time were like tributaries to the River of Time.
The River of Time's flow of time was constant, but the tributaries were different. They could be fast or slow, and Lu Yin did not know the exact reason. He only knew that once one entered a parallel spacetime and came into contact with the power of time, a terrifying danger would descend. In the most serious case, the entire spacetime would be destroyed.
"The River of Time is a mighty force that formed the universe. The flow of time in the tributaries will change according to the flow of time. I don't know the principle behind this, but once you come into contact with time, it will bring disaster," Xia Shenji explained.
Lu Yin asked, "Then what do you mean by overuse?"
Xia Shenji replied, "Back when the Fifth Mainland was still a single entity and had yet to split into the Starry Sky of Trees, it was considered the Fifth Mainland's golden age. Shenwu Plane knew of at least ten parallel spacetimes with different flow of time, and the organizations that controlled these spacetimes constantly sent people into them to cultivate. In the end, these spacetimes were destroyed one by one.
"Now, we all know that even if there are such spacetimes, we shouldn't enter them easily. We should only enter and use them when we need them."
Lu Yin understood. It was no wonder that Transdimensional had only allowed Zi Jing and the others to enter when they had made some progress in their research of Sequence Particles. Before that, they had not entered.
He had also almost never heard anything about the parallel spacetimes with different flow of time.
Xia Shenji did not understand the principle behind the formation of tributaries to the River of Time, but Lu Yin might have guessed a little. It was exactly what he had thought about in the Fifth Spacetime, which was related to space.
Only space could contain time. The stronger the space, the faster the flow of time that flowed into the space. It was like a container that cut off the River of Time.
Lu Yin did not know if his guess was correct, but he could only understand it this way.
That was all that Xia Shenji knew, so Lu Yin asked Lu Tianyi about it.
Lu Tianyi actually knew about the same as Xia Shenji, but he said that there were no less than twenty parallel spacetimes with different flow of time in the Fifth Mainland.
"There are quite a few such spacetimes, but it's very dangerous for someone to specifically search for them. However, once they are found, they are also very valuable."
"Of course, there are taboos when using them. An ordinary person's normal lifespan is a hundred years. If they go to a parallel spacetime where time flows a hundred times faster than normal, they'll be old by the time they return."
"The amount of time a human body can endure has nothing to do with spacetime, but rather with the individual. That's why these spacetimes are not as useful as one might imagine. Progenitors mostly use them to train their juniors for a period of time and to increase their advantage. They cannot use them forever. Just as Xia Shenji said, overuse can cause the spacetime to be destroyed."
"In these parallel spacetimes, any laws are unstable, especially time and space. Once they come into contact with each other, the consequences will be unimaginable …"
Lu Yin's head hurt. He wanted to cultivate the power of time and space, but once he tried, he would be rejected. How was he supposed to play around?
Lu Tianyi had taught Lu Yin a method, which was to be recognized by spacetime.
Lu Yin had become the Fifth Mainland's Daolord and possessed the Wordless Heavenly Book, which allowed him to write about those who had been expelled.
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Lu Yin had typed the wrong word in his speech this morning. He had wanted to say that he would have to work overtime at night, but he had written an extra chapter!
Since he had made a mistake, he had to admit that he had written an extra chapter. Thank you for your support!
I'll have to stay up late to write again … Tiring …