The space inside the bronze door is much larger than it appears from the outside.
The moment Lin Yi stepped in, ripples suddenly appeared on the bluestone slabs beneath his feet, as if the surface of water was lifting everyone up and making them float.
Countless star charts hung upside down from the dome above, echoing the silvery starlight on his and Xuanmingzi's fans.
The figure pierced by chains in the very center finally revealed itself to everyone—eight arms wielding weapons of different shapes, six heads corresponding to the heads of different beasts, and a human face in the very center with a snake's tongue. What flowed beneath the skin was not blood, but a liquid-like spatial turbulence.
"This is... the remains of the God of Time and Space?" Aizen's voice trembled.
He had seen similar descriptions in ancient books, about an ancient evil god who could tear apart dimensions and was sealed here by an advanced civilization because he was too powerful.
"No, it's a living organism." Chu Yao's mechanical voice suddenly rang out, her pupils transforming into a stream of data. "The runes on the chains are absorbing its power, but its life force is recovering exponentially."
Night Owl and Xuanmingzi's goal was to make these chains reverse the flow of energy—
\"boom!\"
A violent tremor came from behind the bronze door.
Night Owl was the first to crash through the door, half of his face still bleeding, and his left eye had turned into a dark vortex, clearly indicating that he had forcibly fused with extradimensional energy during the previous battle.
Behind him, Xuan Mingzi gently waved his silver-white fan, but the star map no longer resonated with Lin Yi. Instead, it began to draw upon the surrounding spacetime power.
"Lin Yi, do you think you can stop me?" Night Owl's voice was filled with countless twisted shrieks. "This 'Lord of the End' is the key I found in the ruins of another dimension!"
Once its seal is broken, I can open a thousand dimensional rifts and allow my people to raze this fragile little world to the ground!
"Your people?" Dragon Five's scales crackled, and crimson dragon flames rose around him. "Nothing but a bunch of parasites that live by devouring civilizations!" Before he finished speaking, he had already transformed into a dragon shadow and rushed forward, his dragon claws carrying a sonic boom as he aimed straight for Night Owl's throat.
The owl neither dodged nor avoided, but suddenly a black beam of light shot out from the vortex's left eye.
As soon as Long Wu's claws touched the beam of light, his scales began to melt away!
\"careful!
"This is dimensional corrosion!" Chu Yao's alarm had barely faded when Lin Yi's figure appeared in front of Long Wu.
The silver-white light blade that he conjured at his fingertips sliced through the beam of light, and the power of spacetime formed a mirror barrier around the two of them, reflecting the corrosive energy back.
Night Owl hurriedly dodged to the side, the beam of light grazing his shoulder and blasting a bottomless black hole into the wall.
"A fine technique." Xuan Mingzi suddenly chuckled, his fan unfurling, revealing the "Space-Time Folding" technique Lin Yi had previously used on the star map. "But you've forgotten, I am the rule-maker of this world."
Before the words were finished, the bluestone slabs beneath everyone's feet suddenly reversed.
Whitebeard's heavy sword clattered to the ground, and Su Qing's body drifted uncontrollably toward the dome, even causing cracks to appear in Lin Yi's spacetime barrier.
"Su Qing!" Lin Yi grabbed the girl's wrist with his other hand and used a hand seal to reverse a portion of time and space.
But at that moment, a faint blue light suddenly emanated from Su Qing's fingertips, and her blood seeped into Lin Yi's meridians through their clasped hands—she was using her life essence to help him stabilize spacetime!
"Silly girl..." Lin Yi's Adam's apple bobbed.
He could clearly feel Su Qing's life force slipping away like sand through an hourglass, yet the girl smiled at him, her lips silently conveying: "Til it down."
"Order all of them!"
Lin Yi threw his head back and roared, his body surging with silver light.
His pupils transformed into two miniature spacetime vortexes, forcibly compressing the flow of time in the entire space to one percent.
Taking advantage of the moment, Long Wu grabbed Whitebeard's heavy sword, and the dragon flames enveloped the blade as he slashed at Xuan Mingzi; Lan Ran's ghostly fire condensed into chains, wrapping around Night Owl's vortex-like left eye; Whitebeard used this moment of stillness to protect Su Qing behind him, and the shockwave from his heavy sword shattered all the inverted stone slabs.
"A key rune has been detected!" Chu Yao's voice suddenly rose. "The inscription on the sealing chains is not imprisonment, it's...it's a sacrifice array!"
Night Owl and Xuanmingzi will use the power of spacetime in this world as a sacrifice to awaken the Lord of the End!
"I see." A cold smile curled at the corner of Lin Yi's lips.
He finally understood why his origin was burning hot—this sealed being was essentially an aggregate of spacetime power, and his [Spacetime Master] profession was the "key" prepared for it by the advanced civilization.
Lin Yi!
"Look at the nodes of the chains!" Su Qing suddenly pointed to the point where the chains intersected on the chest of the Lord of the End, where there was an ancient bronze seal. "That's... a seal left by my father!"
The girl's words were like a thunderclap.
Only then did everyone notice that the patterns on the ancient seal were exactly the same as the jade pendant that Su Qing always wore around her neck.
"Old Su's stuff?" The white-bearded man's eyes lit up. "Old brother, you said you owed me a drink back then, now it's time to pay up!" He gripped his heavy sword tightly, his aura surging, and he actually forcibly burned three-thirds of his lifespan, the sword energy he swung directly shattering three chains.
"You're asking for it!" Night Owl went completely berserk.
His body began to disintegrate, turning into countless black tentacles that entangled the crowd.
Long Wu's dragon flames scorched his tentacles, but the more they burned, the more they multiplied; just as Ai Ran's ghostly flames were extinguished in one patch, another emerged from the cracks in the ground.
"Chu Yao, locate the core of the sacrifice array!" Lin Yi's voice was as steady as a bell.
"Locked on! Between the brows of the Lord of the End!"
"Space-Time Rift—Open!"
Lin Yi formed a hand seal, and a semi-transparent crack opened in his palm.
The turbulent flow of time and space surging from the rift precisely wrapped around the chain between the brows of the Lord of the End, severing the last three seals like scissors.
"No—!" The owl's scream came to an abrupt halt.
But at the very moment the chains broke, the six heads of the Lord of the End opened their eyes simultaneously.
The snake head at the very center let out a deafening roar, and its eight arms swung their weapons in unison, shattering the entire space into pieces!
"Run!" The white-bearded man shoved Su Qing toward Lin Yi, but was himself thrown against the wall by the blast wave.
Almost all of Long Wu's dragon scales shattered, barely managing to protect Aizen as they rolled to a corner.
Despite the cracks appearing on Chu Yao's body, she persisted in analyzing: "It's about to condense a dimensional channel!"
Energy fluctuations exceeding a critical value —
"That's enough."
A clear, cold voice suddenly rang out.
Everyone looked up and saw a figure clad in dark gold armor floating in mid-air.
His face was covered by a helmet, yet one could feel an even greater pressure than that of the Lord of the End.
"I am an enforcer of a higher civilization, codenamed 'Shadow'." His voice was like the scraping of metal. "This evil god of time and space should have been purified 100,000 years ago."
Your intervention disrupted the process, but now... it's time to end it.
The owl's mangled body suddenly trembled: "You...you can't! It's mine—"
"Shut up." The dark figure raised his hand and waved it lightly.
The owl's mangled body instantly turned to dust, leaving not even its soul behind.
Xuan Mingzi's fan shattered with a "crack." He looked at the dark figure in shock, only to have a blade of light pressed against his throat.
"As for you..." The shadowy figure turned to Lin Yi and the others, "Hand over this evil god, and I'll take it back to the advanced civilization to deal with it."
"Otherwise..." His gaze swept over the heavily wounded white-bearded man, the weakened Su Qing, and the battered Chu Yao, "Your civilization will pay the price for its awakening."
Lin Yi gripped Su Qing's hand tightly.
The girl's body temperature began to drop again, the white-bearded man's cough was laced with blood, and Long Wu's dragon scales were slowly regenerating, but it was far from enough to heal his injuries.
Meanwhile, the eight arms of the Lord of the End have begun to materialize dimensional rifts.
"Give me three days," Lin Yi suddenly said.
The shadowy figure's helmet twitched slightly: "Reason?"
"It resonates with my very essence." Lin Yi pointed to his heart. "Within three days, I can completely erase its connection to this world." He paused. "Or, you can take it now, but Su Qing... won't survive today."
The shadowy figure remained silent for a moment, then raised its hand and pointed at the Lord of the End: "Its seal can only last for a maximum of twelve hours."
I'll be back in twelve hours.
Before he finished speaking, he had already disappeared.
The roar of the Lord of the End rang out again, but it was enveloped by a silver cocoon of light that suddenly appeared—the last line of defense that Lin Yi had set up with all his spacetime power.
"Chu Yao, analyze Su Qing's jade pendant." Lin Yi turned around, his gaze sweeping over everyone. "Whitebeard, suppress your injuries."
Dragon Five, restores the dragon scales.
"Aizen, prepare the Ghostfire Seal." His voice held no hesitation. "Twelve hours...that's enough time for us to overturn this coffin."
The star map on the dome suddenly trembled violently, and a silver star fell into Lin Yi's palm.
That was the remaining starlight from Xuanmingzi's shattered fan, now resonating anew with his origin.
In a corner unseen by the crowd, a semi-transparent figure emerged from the shadows.
That was the remnant soul of Xuan Mingzi. He looked at the star in Lin Yi's hand, a faint smile appearing on his lips.
"Looks like... I made the right bet."
The chains of the Lord of the End gave their final, sharp crack.
Twelve hours later, the re-arrival of the highly civilized law enforcement will reveal the final answer to this game of time and space.
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