Chapter 559 I will fight to the death against anyone who is my enemy!

"The river of time is not as simple as we think."

Huo Qinghuang continued, "It not only flows between the past, present and future, but also connects the heavens and myriad worlds, even including countless parallel worlds."

"If the Time Thieves control the river of time, then the entire universe will fall into their control, all destinies will be written, and all freedom will disappear."

Her voice gradually became low, carrying an indescribable heaviness.

"No one can escape, and no one can resist."

The air seemed to freeze for a moment.

Even the usually naive Shi Ling was speechless at this moment.

"So, I have to stop them."

Huo Qinghuang stood up slowly, his clothes fluttering and his eyes sharp.

"I'm not here to save the world, nor am I here to be a so-called messenger of justice."

Her tone was calm and firm. "I just won't allow anyone to stand in my way. Anyone who is my enemy will be killed!"

"What's more, these people dare to covet the laws of time and try to control fate. They are extremely arrogant."

She looked up into the distance, as if she could see the enemy hiding in the dark through layers of void.

"They have already set their sights on Blue Star, which means there is something they need hidden here."

She analyzed in a low voice, "Maybe it's a fragment of Zhu Jiuyin, or maybe it's a critical time node."

"Whatever it is, I won't let them succeed."

She clenched her fists lightly, and the Phoenix Fire in her body rose quietly, illuminating the entire ruins.

"I will find them, and then erase them from the river of time with my own hands."

Zhu Yan looked at Huo Qinghuang's profile, and for the first time, he felt a complex emotion in his heart.

Following such a strong person doesn't seem to be a disadvantage.

After all, they are all demons. Maybe they can get guidance from each other and have the opportunity to achieve enlightenment in the future?

After some self-consolation, Zhu Yan managed to convince himself.

Just as it was about to show its loyalty, it suddenly froze in front of it and pointed ahead, "Look, what's that?"

As it said this, it jumped off Huo Qinghuang's shoulder and returned to its original three-meter-tall form, blocking the front.

Huo Qinghuang looked down and saw a bottomless hole where the bronze tree had been, with faint sight of stairs winding downwards.

The sound of flowing water came from deeper inside, but the sound was sometimes rapid like a waterfall, sometimes slow like an old ox pulling a cart, and occasionally even flowed back, as if the time of the entire space was in chaos.

"It's actually time turbulence?"

Huo Qinghuang frowned slightly, "It looks like there's something inside."

She took a step forward slowly, her clothes moving without wind, and the Phoenix Fire circulated around her body, forming a golden barrier to resist possible invading space-time fluctuations.

Zhu Yan stood in front of her, his red hair standing on end, staring vigilantly at the black hole-like entrance.

"Something doesn't feel right down here."

It whispered, "I smell death and decay, but mixed with something that doesn't belong to this age."

"The breath of a time thief."

Huo Qinghuang said calmly, "They may have been here before, but were blocked by Zhu Jiuyin's power."

She looked down at Shi Ling and Shan Gao and said, "You two, stay in the cave and don't come out."

"ah?"

Shi Ling was stunned, "Why? I want to go down and take a look too!"

"You are too weak."

Huo Qinghuang's tone left no room for doubt, "This level of space-time turbulence is not something you can withstand."

"snort!"

Shi Ling reluctantly shrank back into his sleeves, "Okay, okay, then you better be careful."

Shan Gao had no objection and muttered in a low voice: "I don't want to go out and die either."

Huo Qinghuang jumped into the cave entrance, and Zhu Yan followed behind. The man and the demon slowly went deeper along the winding stairs.

The further down you go, the thinner the air around you becomes, and the temperature becomes hot and cold, as if the entire space is constantly switching between different time nodes.

Mottled murals appeared on the walls, depicting sacrificial scenes from ancient times.

And a giant snake-like creature that hovers over the heavens and the earth.

This is Zhu Jiuyin’s true appearance.

“These murals…”

Zhu Yan whispered, "They are moving."

That's true.

As they approached, the patterns on the murals slowly changed, as if they had life, re-enacting those forgotten fragments of history.

“This is not an illusion.”

Huo Qinghuang said softly, "This is a part of the afterimage of the long river of time, a mark left by the past."

She reached out and touched one of the murals, and as soon as her fingertips touched, a strong suction force pulled her in.

In an instant, the scene before my eyes changed drastically.

When Huo Qinghuang opened his eyes again, he found himself on a vast battlefield.

Thunderclouds rolled above the sky, the earth cracked like a spider web, countless cultivators and demons fought together, magic weapons and supernatural powers intertwined, illuminating the entire world.

In the center of the battlefield, a huge figure with green scales all over its body, a human face and a snake body was hovering in the air, its eyes were like stars, and its dominance was overwhelming.

It is the Ancestral Witch Zhu Jiuyin!

Opposite it was a group of figures in black robes, holding strange magical weapons in their hands, exuding a power that did not belong to this era.

"You will eventually die, and time will be mine!"

One of them raised his hands and chanted an obscure spell.

The next moment, the time of the entire battlefield began to distort, and some monks aged and died instantly.

The other part simply disappears, as if it had never existed.

"How dare you steal the laws of time!"

Zhu Jiuyin roared, opened his mouth and spit out a torrent of time, trying to swallow the other party.

However, the group of black-robed men had already dispersed, each offering up a fragment that was flashing with a strange light.

"Time fragments!"

Huo Qinghuang's pupils suddenly shrank.

She finally understood that these people were the legendary time thieves!

They used the power of time fragments to create local time loops and reverse cause and effect, trying to prevent Zhu Jiuyin from locking onto their true location.

However, Zhu Jiuyin is the ancestor of time witch, born with the power of time. How could he be easily resisted by these bandits who want to steal time?

Of course, since these people have taken action, it shows that they have some skills and are not so easy to deal with.

Finally, after a brutal battle, although Zhu Jiuyin severely damaged the enemy, he was also seriously injured by a sneak attack. He had to split his consciousness into twelve pieces and hide them in different world nodes, waiting to be awakened by the right person.

The scene ends here.

Huo Qinghuang suddenly woke up and found herself still standing on the stairs with her hand still on the surface of the mural.

Zhu Yan was standing beside her, looking at her nervously.

"What’s wrong with you?"

It asked, "Just now you suddenly stopped moving, as if you were in some kind of illusion."

“It’s not an illusion.”

Huo Qinghuang slowly withdrew his hand, a thoughtful look flashed in his eyes, "That is the residual image of a real memory that happened."

She looked up and around, and found that the passage ahead became deeper and deeper, and the air was filled with a strong ancient smell.