Chapter 178: Crossing the River of Time, Surpassing the Ancients

Chapter 178: Crossing the River of Time, Surpassing the Ancients

"Die!"

The Dark Immortal King shouted, the black armor covering his body clanging as he moved.

He unleashed his full power, and behind him, three thousand crimson tentacles suddenly unfurled, like three thousand divine chains spanning the Boundary Sea, emitting blinding bloodlight. A hellish projection appeared, terrifying in the extreme.

Shaohua, however, was not afraid. She had longed for this battle, even allowing herself to transform, all for the sake of a free and unrestrained fight.

"I have a billion swords, I hope you can appreciate them."

She smiled, her face bright and radiant. Thirteen colors of sword light burst forth from her body, forming a sword wheel that enveloped her like a brilliant halo.

Like the sun casting its rays, countless sword beams erupted, sweeping across the vast worlds, their light illuminating everything.

The hellish scenes, the divine chains, and the crimson tentacles were all shredded to pieces by the sword wheel.

This move was not only an ultimate refinement of her past techniques but also contained the true essence of Feather Ascension.

A billion sword lights cascaded from her Soul Essence and flesh, capable of annihilating all enemies and sending them to Feather Ascension, while she herself remained ethereal and divine.

Moreover, she had once observed the sword left by Shi Hao on the levee, absorbing its light to refine her own supreme sword path.

The two effects combined, resulting in a technique that not only possessed shocking divine power but also merged beauty and strength, making it an awe-inspiring and formidable move.

"How can this be?!"

The Dark Immortal King was utterly shocked. He had used all his abilities, but his ultimate move was easily broken.

"Is this the extent of your skills?" Shaohua sighed lightly, a hint of disappointment in her beautiful eyes.

If this was his level, it had been a waste of her long wait.

"Hmph, boasting!" The Dark Immortal King suppressed his fear. He still had more tricks up his sleeve and did not believe he would lose.

The outcome was still uncertain!

"Kill!!"

He grabbed a withered bone spear, forged from the remains of Immortal Kings he had defeated, the spear tip adorned with several corroded Immortal King Dao Fruits. Dark, viscous substances oozed from the eye sockets of the heads.

Shaohua frowned slightly. She stood in the Mortal Realm, her body exuding a divine aura, casting light rain into the void.

Everything around her became clear and distant, the light rain purifying the space and time, as if re-creating the heavens and earth, clear and sacred.

A shocking battle erupted once more. These two were incredibly powerful, their forces at opposite extremes, causing the Boundary Sea to surge with waves, Dao runes intertwining, spanning past and present, and even the River of Time appeared.

Shaohua did not use the sword wheel again but employed other techniques.

This was her first intense battle since becoming an Immortal King, and she wanted to enjoy it to the fullest.

Her sleeves fluttered, and she appeared like a celestial maiden descending from the heavens, her hands as white as jade, shaking the withered bone spear with bare hands.

They fought for hundreds of rounds, plunging deep into the Boundary Sea, both covered in blood.

Shaohua had to admit that she had underestimated him initially.

At this level, no one was truly weak.

"Very well, you can take a beating. I acknowledge you. Take this sword!" She was almost bloodthirsty, unleashing her strongest attack once more.

The Dark Immortal King couldn't help but curse inwardly. He knew his limits.

His race was unique, and after becoming a super dark evolutionist, he possessed eight true lives.

These true lives allowed him to instantly recover to his peak state, but all of them were worn down by the mysterious female Immortal King.

Moreover, the chanting inside her body continued, and the wounds he managed to inflict on her almost instantly healed, even the scattered essence blood flowing back to her.

Indeed, the blood on both of them was entirely his.

More bizarrely, the dark substances he released could not erode the female Immortal King, her state was too transcendent.

"Clang!"

Shaohua extended her hand, and a slender sword materialized, emitting thirteen colors of brilliant sword light.

"This sword is called Divine Illumination!"

Named after the divine, it illuminated the ages!

With one thrust, nothing could withstand it. No matter how powerful the opponent, she could shatter all their techniques and powers with this single sword.

The Dark Immortal King's black armor shattered, his body covered in cracks and blood, his immortal body disintegrating.

"Ahhh!!"

He roared to the sky, his eyes filled with unwillingness and madness. He began to burn himself, trying to unleash all his potential to reverse the situation.

Because he felt he had just broken through to the supreme level and still had unexplored power.

If he released this power, he might change his fate and outcome!

"Boom!!"

But it was all in vain.

Shaohua, like a fleeting light in the River of Time, her figure instantly blurred, passing by with just a slight crease in her sleeve.

At this point, the outcome was decided.

The Dark Immortal King was instantly reduced to a cloud of blood mist, dying in the Boundary Sea.

In the next moment, his Soul Essence rose from the blood mist, quickly reassembling.

"I am the Immortal King, eternal and indestructible!!"

The Dark Immortal King roared, believing that although his body was destroyed, the Soul Essence of an Immortal King was eternal and almost impossible to kill.

Even if there was a gap in combat strength, the woman would find it extremely difficult to completely subdue him.

"Ah, yes, yes."

Shaohua's eyes were cold, nodding as she extended her long, white hands, pressing them together and crushing the Dark Immortal King's Soul Essence with a tearing sound.

Then, the mist of Life Soil rose, and the myriad phenomena of the mortal world flowed in her palm.

This was the supreme power derived from the ultimate refinement of the Eternal Word Art and the true essence of the Mortal Realm.

There were no gods above, but the palm of her hand held the mortal world!

Infinite light rain fell from her body, purifying and reshaping everything, the palm of her hand radiating the most brilliant light.

It was a miniature universe, flowing with the essence of the mortal world, yet incredibly sacred, as if transcending the world.

Residing in the Mortal Realm, she now revealed its true essence.

The Dark Immortal King's Soul Essence was suppressed to the extreme in her Three-Inch Mortal Realm, suffering unimaginable impact, and his immortal light was being stripped away.

"No! How can this be?!"

The Dark Immortal King was terrified, sensing the threat of destruction. His Soul Essence was weakening, and he was truly about to fall.

It was only at this moment that he truly feared.

Her techniques were too powerful, something he had never heard of, capable of erasing the immortal light of an Immortal King and purifying the dark forces.

"Indeed, it's quite difficult to kill you. You are an Immortal King of the same realm, and it will take time to wear you down." Shaohua sighed lightly.

"..."

However, the Dark Immortal King was almost driven mad. These words meant that his Soul Essence was continuously disintegrating, and he would surely dissipate within a thousand years.

A thousand years, for mortals, was the span of many generations, but for an Immortal King, it was insignificant.

A brief seclusion or a walk in the Boundary Sea could span tens of thousands of years, and a thousand years was just a moment to them.

"That's..."

At this moment, Shaohua's heart shook, her expression changing.

She saw the River of Time rushing by, the flow of time stirring up wave after wave.

"How can this be? Our battle just touched the River of Time, but it didn't really enter it. Why hasn't it calmed down, and why is it becoming even more turbulent?"

She was puzzled but not afraid, standing proudly on the River of Time, gazing at the mist-shrouded upstream.

"Ha, I've finally found you." Someone spoke from the ancient past, not yet manifesting but already affecting the River of Time with their divine presence.

These words were not directed at Shaohua, but she, being a supreme being, heard the echo of time.

A vague figure seemed to stand at the end of the universe, the void shattering, time dissipating, and a group of people's calculations being erased.

He was the Red King, whose true form was a time beast, mastering the domain of time, and he dared to interfere with the River of Time.

"I see..." Shaohua seemed to understand what was happening, her expression strange, then her eyes showed an inexplicable smile.

She never thought that her connection with that person would come so soon.

She now understood that this was the scene where the Red King, coming from ancient times, attempted to forcibly kill Shi Hao.

Originally, Heng Ren was supposed to intervene from a later time, but she had already reached the peak of Immortal King and was currently battling the Dark Immortal King, stirring the downstream of the River of Time.

The two timelines were torn apart, causing an inexplicable collision, and coincidentally piercing through a temporal boundary.

The River of Time surged, briefly connecting the past and future, and she became the one to counter the Red King's forced intervention.

"You come from the past, trying to erase him. If someone from the future comes, wouldn't they also be drawn into this? Are you not afraid?"

"There is indeed that possibility. But those connected to him, could they be so powerful? If they are, I will eliminate them too." The Red King sneered.

"Really? You want to kill me??" A clear voice echoed from the downstream of the River of Time.

Light rain fell, and endless chaos erupted. A figure appeared at the end of the mortal world, reversing the flow of time, pushing through the stars, and stepping through the River of Time, moving from the distant future to the ancient past.

"What, really?!"

Though he said it, when he saw someone truly coming from the future, the Red King was also surprised.

Shi Hao couldn't help but look, the events unfolding far beyond his ability to handle, leaving him to rely on fate.

It was a woman, tall and slender, her green robe fluttering, not belonging to the present, past, or future, coming from the future, and completely unknown to him.

Shaohua was also stepping into the River of Time for the first time, never expecting to directly travel upstream and even cross time and space to intervene.

Thinking of this, she felt... excited.

Because Shaohua could sense that the River of Time's influence on her was not as strong as she had imagined.

It was only at this moment that she realized something.

"Right, I don't belong to this ancient history; how can the local River of Time affect a time traveler like myself?"

She was not a supreme being, so she couldn't act freely in the River of Time or modify its course at will.

In this new ancient history, her presence had already been established, but the River of Time's influence on her was less than on others.

Moreover, this characteristic only manifested after reaching the Immortal King Stage.

Before that, its only effect was to make her more attuned to the mysteries of time.

The few figures upstream of the River of Time tried to see Shaohua's face but could not.

Mysterious mist enveloped her, and thirteen colors of light flowed around her, showing only a green robe fluttering as she stepped through the chaos vortex.

Shaohua fully manifested her techniques, combining the ultimate truths of the Mortal Realm, Unbound Soaring, Vital Nourishment, Feather Ascension, and Skyveil Realm, standing in an extremely unique state, with mysterious mist rising from her body.

Mist enveloped the Life Soil, and she was also shrouded in mist, minimizing the River of Time's influence on her.

"How many eons, how many epochs, have passed for a woman like you to appear?" The Red King still raged, laughing loudly. "You are a fine woman. I hope one day you will stay by my side."

"Clang!!"

Before he could finish, in a distant future, a faint bell sound seemed to echo.

The bell sound was terrifying, almost breaking free from the River of Time.

Though the bell waves did not harm anyone, they seemed meaningless, yet the Red King felt suffocated, almost dying.

Shaohua's phoenix eyes narrowed, her eyes flashing with killing intent, and she attacked directly.

Without any special movements or seals, she waved her hand, and an invisible ripple swept through, the void and the Dao disappearing.

Through the mourning cry of the Dao, Shi Hao perceived a single word: "Past!"

The Red King's face changed drastically, instantly unleashing countless great techniques, all of which withered and disappeared in an instant.

All techniques faded, unable to resist.

The Red King was forced to expend great power to resist this fading force, but was then held in place by an unknown power.

Thirteen colors of sword light illuminated the ages, stunning the River of Time, casting a brilliant glow that dimmed all the stars in the historical trajectory.

The Red King let out a long howl, his body trembling violently, as if burning, transforming into his true form, his tail like a spear, trying to resist the sword light.

"Clang!"

The sword light formed a tangible immortal sword, wielded by Shaohua, cutting through everything, slicing through chaos and the Dao, almost stopping the flow of the River of Time.

The Red King's immortal golden armor shattered, his body covered in blood, his tail severed, and he was severely wounded by a single sword.

"The more blood I lose, the more miserable my enemies become." The Red King said coldly. "I am indestructible, and so is my blood. I will bind and imprison you for life!"

The blood flowed down the River of Time, gathering around Shaohua, forming intricate patterns and a terrifying killing array.

Hearing this, Shaohua laughed and said, "A guy just said the same thing to you. I think you two would get along."

At this moment, Shi Hao noticed something, seeing that the mysterious green-robed woman still had traces of blood on her.

"She was just in a battle, injured(End of Chapter)

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