Chapter 557 Zhu Jiuyin
"Time stagnation field..."
A golden light flashed in Huo Qinghuang's eyes, and the magic power in his body circulated on its own, forming a layer of light golden halo on his body surface.
Zhu Yan also roared, and a burst of fierce power burst out, instantly melting the ice crystals around his body.
Shan Gao in his sleeve suddenly screamed: "Look at the ground!"
Huo Qinghuang lowered her head, her pupils shrinking slightly.
A rusty pocket watch was half buried in the mud under his feet, and the pointer on the dial was rotating in the opposite direction at a speed visible to the naked eye.
What’s even more creepy is that there are seven or eight backpacks from different eras scattered around, and the latest one is even this year’s popular mountaineering bag.
"1963, 1990, 2025, 2028..."
She checked the documents in her backpack and found that the time of all the missing persons was frozen on the day they entered Heizhu Valley.
The oldest backpack also contained a yellowed diary, on the last page of which was written: "Time is devouring us. Professor Wang has turned into bones, but I was only separated from him for ten minutes..."
Huo Qinghuang suddenly looked up and heard the sound of branches breaking in the distance.
In a realm where time has stood still, any movement means something is abnormal.
She formed a seal with one hand, and a red light sank silently into the ground.
Thirty feet away in the bushes, a young man wearing work clothes from the 1960s was retreating in fear.
His movements were three times slower than a normal person's, like the slow motion in an old-fashioned movie.
What's even more bizarre is that the left half of his body has turned to bones, but the right half of his face still looks young, like in his early twenties.
“Save me, save me…”
The moment the young man saw Huo Qinghuang, hope burst out in his desperate and numb eyes.
He raised his left hand, which was only bone-filled, and the hands of the watch on his wrist were spinning wildly.
Huo Qinghuang didn't come closer.
She put her fingers together like a knife, drawing a burning golden symbol in the air.
The golden talisman flew over the young man's head and suddenly exploded into countless points of light.
The pattern formed by the light spots was the ancient witch language - "Time!"
"It is indeed the fragment of Zhu Jiuyin's law."
She squinted her eyes and noticed a faint blue light coming from the young man's chest.
With a grab in the air, a piece of bronze fragment flew out from the opponent's collar.
The moment the fragments broke away, the young man's body collapsed like sand, and eventually turned into a pile of dust that was no different from the surrounding soil.
The bronze fragments hovered above Huo Qinghuang's palm, vibrating with a buzzing sound.
The dense lines on it formed a pattern of a human face and a snake body, which was the true appearance of Zhu Jiuyin, the ancestor of time.
Zhu Yan and Shan Gao cried out in pain at the same time. Their souls were actually aroused by the fragments, and they felt as if they were being pulled out of their bodies.
However, Shi Ling was as steady as a rock and was not affected at all.
Huo Qinghuang glanced at it with strange eyes, pointed a finger at the fragment, and the Phoenix Divine Fire suddenly appeared and wrapped around the fragment.
The other hand held down the restless Zhu Yan: "This is the mark of the ancestor witch, it has a suppressive effect on all demon races."
She suddenly jumped up, and the ground where she was standing silently collapsed into a black hole.
A bronze tree-like structure rose from the cave, with dozens of cocoon-like objects hanging from its branches.
Through the translucent cocoon wall, one can see humans wrapped in costumes from different eras. Their expressions are frozen in a moment of fear, like images with the pause button pressed.
"Space-time cocoon."
Huo Qinghuang's face darkened slightly. "These people should be the missing persons recorded in recent years."
At the top of the bronze tree, a dark golden cocoon that is ten times larger than the other cocoons is pulsating slowly.
As it contracts and relaxes, the speed of time around it speeds up and slows down.
The jade bracelet on Huo Qinghuang's wrist made a cracking sound under the weight, and the twelve lines on it had all turned into a dangerous dark purple.
"Power of time! Watch out!"
Zhu Yan suddenly shouted.
A crack appeared on the surface of the dark gold cocoon, revealing a black-robed figure sitting cross-legged with eyes closed inside.
The man had a snake-shaped totem on his forehead that was the same as the fragment, flickering with his breathing.
Huo Qinghuang did not retreat but advanced. A demonic cloud appeared under his feet, and he walked towards the bronze tree with his green clothes fluttering.
She held the fragment she had just obtained in her left hand, and a scarlet long sword appeared in her right hand.
Wherever the sword passed, the stagnant turbulence of time was forcibly split, forming a short safe passage.
"Zhu Jiuyin has been dead for ten thousand years. How dare such a mere obsession cause trouble?"
The cold voice was unusually clear in the turbulence of time.
The moment the long sword pierced into the dark gold cocoon, the ground of the entire Heizhu Valley shook violently, and the branches and leaves of all the ancient trees made a crisp sound like metal collision at the same time.
The black-robed man in the cocoon suddenly opened his eyes.
In an instant, the sky seemed to brighten for a moment.
His lips did not move, but hoarse voices came from all directions: "The three tribes have long been in decline, and the remnants of the Phoenix tribe are worthy of getting involved in the authority of time?"
Huo Qinghuang sneered, and the sword tip suddenly burst out with a dazzling golden light.
The Phoenix Divine Fire flowed along the sword into the cocoon, burning the black-robed man's face so much that it distorted.
She took the opportunity to press the bronze fragment on the other person's forehead and said, "You are just a remnant of thought attached to a magical instrument. Do you think you have the authority over time?"
The moment the fragments touched the totem, a blinding white light burst out.
Huo Qinghuang felt dizzy and when she opened her eyes again she was already in the vast starry sky.
Countless stars are born, expand, and collapse at a speed visible to the naked eye, and time here takes the form of a materialized river.
"Is this the memory fragment of Zhu Jiuyin?"
She looked around with surprise and found that her body was sometimes solid and sometimes transparent. It was obvious that her consciousness was pulled into some kind of space-time projection.
A long sigh came from the depths of the starry sky, and the shadow of a giant snake with no end in sight swam towards them.
Each scale on the snake's body is engraved with a different calendar symbol, and its eyes are like moving nebulae.
"It's actually a little fellow from the Phoenix clan."
The giant snake spoke, and its voice caused ripples in time and space, "You have a familiar aura."
Huo Qinghuang clenched the sword in his hand: "Ancestor witch Zhu Jiuyin? Haven't you already..."
As for the familiar breath coming from the other person's mouth, it was probably no one else except the ancestor.
"Fallen?"
The giant snake's laughter caused several stars to deviate from their orbits. "How can the master of the law of time really die? Regardless of the past, present, or future, as long as the long river of time and space does not perish, I will live forever!"
Twelve pictures suddenly appeared in the void, showing time anomalies in different locations.
The bronze tree in Heizhu Valley is just one of them. In other pictures, the desert is solidified into crystal, and some lakes reflect the sky in different seasons.
“Someone is collecting my pieces.”
The giant snake's shadow began to fade. "Be careful of those thieves who manipulate time. They want more than just my power."
"What do you mean?"
Huo Qinghuang frowned and asked.
However, as soon as she finished speaking, the scene suddenly broke and she was pulled back to reality.
The dark gold cocoon has exploded and the bronze tree is rapidly rusting and collapsing.
Those space-time cocoons fell one after another and turned into ashes the moment they touched the ground.
Only the snake-shaped totem on the black-robed man's forehead floated in the air, and suddenly it split into two, one half sank into Huo Qinghuang's forehead, and the other half disappeared into the void.
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