Lin Yi's pupils contracted sharply as he stared at the black barrier that seemed to cleave the heavens and earth.
Su Qing's hand trembled slightly beside him, and Long Wu's fist smashed into the void, bursting into blood flowers—they were isolated inside the barrier, while their teammates outside the barrier were frantically bombarding the giant wall that devoured the light. Energy beams exploded on the surface of the barrier, creating dark blue ripples, but not even a crack was left.
"This barrier is absorbing the energy of the job changer." Chu Yao's voice suddenly rang in his mind, the synthesized electronic voice carrying a hint of urgency. "Night Owl's source power resonates with the barrier; his strength is increasing at a rate of 17% per minute. If this stalemate cannot be broken within three minutes—"
"That's enough," Lin Yi interrupted her, his Adam's apple bobbing.
He could clearly hear his own heartbeat, each beat causing a sharp pain in his chest.
The last time he used "Time Reversal", his memory was confused for three days because he couldn't control it. At this moment, the spacetime emblem on his palm was shining with a dazzling golden light, as if it would burn through his skin.
But he had no choice—the Night Owls within the barrier had begun to gather their second wave of attack, and the blue light of the flagship's main cannon was charging up with the power to shatter an entire city.
"Su Qing, use 'Thread of Fate' to lock onto the Night Owl's energy fluctuations. Long Wu, prepare to use the True Dragon Bloodline to suppress the spatial disorder." Lin Yi took a deep breath, his back soaked with cold sweat.
His fingertips pressed against his brow, and the unique spatial and temporal perception of a mythical profession spread out like a tide. The timelines that had been distorted by the barrier became clear in his eyes, like countless tangled silver threads.
"Chu Yao, synchronize my mental energy and help me stabilize the spacetime anchor point."
"Connected. Current mental energy reserve: 63%. It is recommended to reserve 20% to deal with backlash." As soon as Chu Yao's notification ended, Lin Yi's pupils suddenly turned pure silver.
He could see the flow of time—time inside the barrier was three times faster than outside, and the Night Owl's flagship main cannon's charging progress bar had already jumped to 80%.
"inverse!"
A low shout rang out like a thunderclap.
The surrounding scenery began to distort.
Long Wu's fist, which was swinging halfway through the air, suddenly retreated back to his waist. The red light that Su Qing had just condensed at her fingertips turned into stardust and flowed back into her palm. Even the sinister smile on Ye Xiao's face faded at a speed visible to the naked eye.
On the farthest alien cruiser, a missile that had just been launched flew back, trailing a plume of flame, and crashed back into the launch port with a "boom".
"It worked?" Su Qing's voice trembled.
She gazed at her restored magic power, her eyes glistening with tears—just moments before her magic power had been depleted to the point of near death, but now it was overflowing with it.
“It’s time reversal.” The dragon scale patterns on Long Wu’s skin were faintly visible beneath his skin. He stared at the wound on the back of his hand healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. “This kid… he didn’t cough up blood this time.”
That's right, there was no backlash this time.
Lin Yin could clearly feel the power of spacetime flowing within his body, like the most compliant stream.
He had spent three days and three nights in the spacetime rift, and finally figured out the true meaning of the mythical profession—time is not the enemy, but something that needs to be discussed.
At this moment, he could even "see" the wrinkles of time, those parts that the night owl had forcibly accelerated were being gently smoothed out.
The battlefield has returned to the state it was in before Night Owl launched "Shadow Realm Descent".
The array of the extradimensional vanguard fleet was not yet complete. The main gun barrels of several cruisers were still emitting lingering smoke. The soldiers' expressions changed from ferocious to confused. They clearly remembered that they had just fired a salvo. How did they suddenly return to the preparation stage?
"All units, heed my command!" Lin Yi's voice boomed through the interdimensional communicator. "First squad of the Time-Space Legion, flank and destroy the energy core! Second squad, hold back the escort fleet! All job changers, activate 'Faith Link' and channel your power into the front-line warriors!"
His response was a chorus of battle cries.
The job changers who had been separated were now rejoining the battlefield. Their weapons glowed with various colors, a sign that the "Faith Link" was in effect—a mythical buff that allowed each first-tier job changer to unleash elite-level combat power.
The Time and Space Legion's fighter jets swept across the fleet like black lightning. Long Wu transformed into a half-dragon, and his dragon claws easily tore through the cruiser's armor. Su Qing's "Thread of Destiny" precisely wrapped around the enemy ship's commander's neck, and with a gentle tug, the entire ship's control system was paralyzed.
Night Owl's face turned deathly pale instantly.
He watched as his fleet disintegrated like a monstrous beast being torn apart, a wild, savage roar escaping his throat: "Impossible! My Shadow Erosion Plan was clearly already—"
"Night Owl! This is not the time to be surprised!"
A chilling voice seeped from the shadows at the edge of the battlefield.
Everyone paused for a moment.
Xuanmingzi appeared on the roof of a collapsed building at some unknown time. His Taoist robe fluttered without wind, and his fingertips were wrapped with a dark blue energy band.
Beneath his feet, three members of the time-space team who were about to flank the enemy ship suddenly froze. Their time-space backpacks cracked open with a "crack," and the interdimensional supplies inside fell like a torrential rain—that was the effect of the space blockade.
"You!" Flames gathered at Su Qing's fingertips, but Lin Yi raised his hand to stop her.
Lin Yi's pupils contracted again.
He could sense that the spacetime power of the three team members was being suppressed by some kind of rule—not a simple interference, but a direct severing of their connection with the spacetime rift.
What chilled him to the bone was that, in the ranks of the job changers charging not far away, seven or eight elementalists suddenly went astray with their spells. Fireballs exploded on the shields of their own shieldbearers, and ice spikes pierced their comrades' thighs.
"Xuanmingzi, what exactly are you doing?" Lin Yi's voice was as cold as an ice pick. "The previous interference field, the current spatial blockade... are you helping Night Owl?"
Xuanmingzi laughed, a laugh like a blade slicing through glass: "Help? Young friend, do you think this battlefield is child's play?" He flicked his hand, and two more time-space warriors' teleportation arrays suddenly shifted, appearing directly in front of the enemy ship's main gun muzzle.
"Some causes and effects cannot be severed by reversing time."
"Damn it!" Long Wu's dragon tail swept across, but was bounced off by an invisible barrier three feet away from Xuan Mingzi.
He stared at the burn marks on his scales, his pupils shrinking to slits. "This is... the power of the game's mastermind's rules?"
"The Long family brat does have some knowledge." Xuan Mingzi pointed his finger towards the sky, and the previously suppressed interdimensional fleet suddenly rallied, with several heavily damaged cruisers even beginning to repair themselves. "Night Owl's 'Shadow Erosion Project' was originally part of a trial for advanced civilizations. Do you think reversing time can change the outcome?"
"Bullshit!" Lin Yi's spacetime emblem erupted completely, and silver light formed a vortex around him.
He could feel the timeline becoming disordered again. For a fleeting moment, he even saw himself being blasted to pieces by Night Owl's main cannon three seconds later—but this time, he wouldn't let that future happen.
"No matter what the trial is, anyone who harms my teammates must die!"
"Lin boy! Look behind you!" Su Qing suddenly screamed.
Lin Yi turned around abruptly.
At the top of the Night Owl's flagship, the main cannon, which had been extinguished, lit up with a dazzling blue light again, but this time the energy fluctuation was more than three times stronger than before.
Even more terrifying, countless dark cracks appeared in the void behind the flagship, from which giant tentacles covered in scales emerged. Each tentacle was entangled with struggling extradimensional soldiers—their flesh and blood were being absorbed by the tentacles and transformed into purer dark energy.
"This is... the origin of the Shadow Realm." Su Qing's voice trembled. "Night Owl has invoked the power of the origin from another dimension; he intends to perish together with others!"
The owl's body is breaking down.
His skin cracked open with countless fissures, oozing a black, tar-like liquid. His once handsome face twisted into a monstrous form: "Lin Yi! Even if I die, I'll drag you all down with me! Shadow Realm Devouring—"
"Everyone retreat!" Lin Yi's voice was almost a shout.
He grabbed Su Qing's wrist, and a spacetime rift opened beneath his feet, but stopped just before it was about to activate—Xuan Mingzi had somehow appeared at the entrance of the rift, and with a light press of his fingertips, the life-saving spacetime passage instantly collapsed.
"What exactly do you want?!" Lin Yi's silver eyes turned bloodshot. He could feel that Night Owl's attack had locked onto everyone, and the shadow of death was like a tide washing over him.
Xuanmingzi gazed at the impending beam of death, a rare flicker of emotion crossing his eyes: "Waiting for someone."
As soon as he finished speaking, the shadows at the edge of the battlefield suddenly surged violently.
A shadow, even more so than the darkness of the Night Owl, emerged from the darkness. Its outline was indistinct, yet it sent shivers down the spines of everyone present—an aura more terrifying than that of a mythical being.
"They've arrived," Xuanmingzi said softly.
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