“Izparut, to be honest... this shouldn’t be something you can touch right now, even if it’s just scrap from a failed forging attempt.”

Izparut: "A failed attempt to forge a divine artifact?"

"I've heard of some of the most wondrous artifacts in this world..."

Izparut slightly flipped his hand, and a dark black staff with a large ring and nine black stars encircling it appeared in his hand.

Neherkato: "Black Star Ring Staff".

"A divine artifact of innate nature."

There is more than one way for a divine artifact to be created.

The Primordial Artifacts are one such example; they were created at the time of the world's birth and were left behind in the world.

Izparut: "It's not fully usable yet."

"The restrictions are too great."

"Besides the restrictions on level, there are also restrictions on divine power."

"Even if I temporarily lower the equipment level requirements of magic or armor magic, I can't use it for a long time, let alone unleash its full power."

A magical artifact...

These are basically weapons that only a true god can fully utilize.

Without the strength of a true god, one can only use a small portion of its power and cannot unleash its full potential.

Nehercato: "You're displaying this to us like this, aren't you afraid we'll be tempted?"

Izparut: "I don't think I've misjudged my friends, and I don't think you'll take it away from me."

It was said in a nonchalant tone.

But it reveals multiple meanings.

It was absolutely confident in its own strength and did not believe that Lu Cang and the others could take away this divine artifact.

He also considered Lu Cang and others as friends.

This is not some magical projection device, nor is it a replica or a defective product.

It is a genuine, complete, innate divine artifact.

Izparut's strength is terrifying enough on its own, and when combined with this Black Star Ring Staff, even if it cannot unleash its full power, it is still formidable.

It is indeed completely incomprehensible.

However, as Izparut said.

Everyone merely glanced at its black star-ringed staff, without revealing any greedy intentions.

Actually... if this Black Star Ring Staff were on someone else, it would indeed surprise people and even arouse their greed.

But when applied to Izparut...

Yet it appeared so normal.

Neherkato continued, "Do you remember asking me about the River of Time and the Branching Tree yesterday?"

"Of course I remember."

"Time has infinite branches, but each person can only walk on their own river of time."

"This is the most fundamental law of time."

"Even I cannot cross the branch and reach other branch timelines."

"Godhood is the power to distort the laws of reality, but the more a law is a cornerstone of the world, the more difficult it is to distort."

"The artifact that Ehkator wanted to create was meant to distort this law, but it ultimately failed."

"The name of this artifact... is the Paradox of Divergence."

"If it takes shape, it can traverse infinite branches, reach infinite timelines, and obtain resources from infinite worlds."

"The world's resources are limited, and some opportunities may have already been taken by others."

"But if one can traverse countless branching worlds, there will always be one world where the opportunity has not yet been taken away."

"And those unique substances in the world can be obtained in more than one form."

"To truly transcend time and reach infinity."

Upon hearing Neherkato's description, Izparut also revealed a hint of surprise.

If it is indeed as Nehercato described.

The effects of this artifact are truly terrifying.

Nehercatto continued, "One can harness the power of infinitely branching timelines for one's own use."

"One can also find a world of one's dreams among the endless branches and settle down there."

"It is the most perfect time-based artifact in the true sense."

"Unfortunately, even Ehkator was unable to forge this divine artifact... He failed."

"The destruction of this divine artifact will not be without consequences."

"In fact... the world has already paid the price for this, but the world that paid the price is not our world."

"Countless branching timelines were distorted because of the artifacts created by Ehkator."

"Spacetimes that should not have been connected collided and intertwined, forming a completely distorted world, a chaotic era."

"The Gate of Chaos is the fragment left behind by the broken branching paradox."

"The place it leads to is where countless branches intertwine, forming a broken and distorted spacetime."

“Lassiere, what you just saw was not an illusion.”

"What you see is yourself, one of the other branches, who has reached the Gate of Chaos and taken a step forward."

Lacey stood up: "So, you mean you're going to...?"

"Wow, it's such an interesting place!"

Nehercato looked at him like he was an idiot: "Huh? Are you out of your mind? What's so funny about this!"

"Do you see Izparut in front of you?"

"Who knows if we'll encounter a corrupted Izparut, an undead Azure, or a descending Zhua..."

Lacey: "Really, we'll encounter something like this?"

Nehercato: "Heh, someone like Juya is unlikely to appear, but others certainly are."

The Gate of Chaos is a completely chaotic branch of time and space, which even stitches together the disasters and dangers of multiple eras.

It's not to say that every era lacked peaceful and prosperous times.

It's just that peaceful times, when disaster strikes... ultimately turn into disaster.

When disasters from multiple eras collide, how can anything beautiful possibly emerge?

Neherkato didn't know what this chaos was really like.

Only Lu Cang had ever reached the third level.

Nehercato only knew of this place, the existence of the Chaotic Passage, and its formation, but he had never been inside it himself.

Thinking of this, Neherkato also secretly glanced at Lu Cang, who was gazing at the Gate of Chaos in the sky.

I have no idea what he's thinking.

"Should this door to chaos not have been opened?"

Neherkato nodded and said, "We can go in from one side, but you absolutely cannot open the two-way passage."

"If the world over there senses it..."

"Even you can't protect it."

Izparut: "Understood."

"When do you plan to use this Gate of Chaos?"

Luo Heng replied, "Not now."

"At least wait until we're ready before making any plans to go in."

The Gate of Chaos is the third level of the Illusory Ruins.

The deeper one ventures into the illusory ruins, the more one feels trapped in the mire of time.

Lu Cang took a step forward.

Whoosh!

In an instant, like Lacey Bea, but even more exaggerated than Lacey Bea.

At a glance, the number is simply uncountable.

Different appearances and shapes of blurry phantoms appeared side by side on Lu Cang's left and right sides.

They looked to the left and right, and also to the sky, looking down at the ground beneath their feet.

Seeing Lu Cang take this step and such a terrifying change occur.

Everyone's pupils constricted involuntarily.

When Lacey took that step, only four different afterimages appeared.

But Lu Cang's strange phenomenon...

Just how many Luo Hengs have reached the Gate of Chaos?

Why does it exhibit so many unusual forms?

At the same time, Xin Jueyue's pupils contracted for a moment. Although the phantom was blurry, she seemed to see the sky!

After taking that step, Lu Cang stepped back.

It's not that there haven't been any changes; the strange phenomena in this life are even more terrifying than in the previous one.