Cheng Xilin was enveloped by the chaotic energy, his white hair drifting leisurely. His aged face was no more, his eyes deep as an abyss, filled with a silence, a deathly stillness.
This was the power of chaos.
He had first sent out the electromagnetic force and the battle halberd banner as a backup. Freed from the Time Lord's power, his body, however, had been tempered by twenty epochs, forming new shackles.
The Time Lord then used the laws of time to turn him into an aged elder, causing his body to decay and locking his spiritual origin, trapping Cheng Xilin here forever, rendering him a cripple.
This temporal law shackle could only be undone by the Time Lord.
Clearly, He Li now possessed power equal to the Time Lord.
When he wielded the laws of time, he stole a moment of Cheng Xilin's time, sealed it within the blood saber, then used the blood saber to kill the present Cheng Xilin, and finally released the stolen moment, causing Cheng Xilin to revive in the "next moment."
This was the ability of temporal laws: steal a period of time, even a fleeting instant, and if infinitely extended, it becomes an independent and complete life.
In the blink of an eye, seas turned into mulberry fields.
This transformation of time became incredibly simple in He Li's hands.
The Time Lord's face was filled with astonishment, then he relaxed, sighing. Having mastered the laws of time for countless eons, from foreseeing Cheng Xilin, to scheming against him, then Yan Si's appearance, and now He Li, a new generation replaced the old, the tide of the era never stopping, just as the river of time would extend infinitely, never standing still.
Looking at the vigorous He Li, and then at the imposing Cheng Xilin, he smiled faintly. His calculations spanning twenty epochs, success or failure, life or death, all decided in an instant.
The destiny that defied heaven could not be stopped; he had ultimately lost.
The Time Lord, that elder, his eyes burst forth with brilliant light, and the splendor of countless temporal laws erupted from his body. At this moment, he was like a fiercely burning sun, illuminating eons, his majestic figure within that scorching heat.
He Li, closest to the Time Lord, was flung back by this power. Clutching his chest wound, he instantly healed it and looked up steadily at the Time Lord. kuAiδugg
Cheng Xilin tossed the blood saber to He Li. He Li caught it, and with a flash of light, the saber was withdrawn into his spiritual sea.
"Kill him!"
He Li's deep roar was followed by him drawing his saber and leaping towards the Time Lord, plunging directly into the fiercely burning ball of light.
Cheng Xilin also charged out. At this moment, he was like one clad in a deep purple cloak. Unlike He Li's grand momentum, he flickered, as if extinguished, silent and unseen.
The two instantly closed in on the Time Lord, one on the left, one on the right. With their overwhelming offensives, the Time Lord gradually faltered.
He Li had fully mastered the laws of time, reaching the realm of Supreme God Venerable, nearly on par with the Time Lord.
Cheng Xilin, on the other hand, had awakened his primordial chaotic power, making him a bane to temporal laws. In the midst of chaos, time held no sway.
The Time Lord unleashed his final brilliance, engaging in a peak battle with the two.
"Boom!"
The elder repelled He Li and Cheng Xilin.
In an instant, the cosmos behind him shifted, and star after star transformed, with galaxies cascading down, grand and vast.
He Li looked at the magnificent, unprecedented phenomenon before him and couldn't help but laugh. Only the Time Lord, who had controlled time for countless eons, could possess such a grand design, such power.
He Li raised his long saber, white mist swirling around its blade.
Cheng Xilin clenched his fists, his body beginning to emit a deep purple chaotic aura.
The two shot forward, not by teleporting through space, but by charging directly towards the Time Lord, towards the elder unleashing his full power.
The divine power of white, the force of temporal laws,
The deep purple chaotic energy,
Like two incompatible meteor arrows, they fearlessly charged towards their enemy.
He Li swung his saber, breaking through the spreading temporal barriers layer by layer, his momentum undiminished.
Cheng Xilin was even more direct. Vast swathes of chaotic energy ignored the temporal barriers entirely, rushing straight to the Time Lord's front, and he slammed down a punch.
Boom!!!
Galaxy after galaxy was shattered by his punch, turning into dust that scattered and drifted.
Another punch!
Bang!
This punch was steadily caught by the Time Lord. At the critical moment, Cheng Xilin's eyes flickered, and his form instantly vanished. In the next moment, He Li abruptly appeared in Cheng Xilin's original position.
That punch was replaced by a gleaming long saber.
"Ching!"
The Time Lord's arm was cleanly severed.
Following this,
He Li, wielding the saber with both hands, stood before the Time Lord and rapidly swung his blade, slashing at the Time Lord's body. Empowered by the laws of time, he unleashed thousands of strikes in an instant, shattering all the temporal nodes around the Time Lord.
He was severing the Time Lord's past, causing him to eternally and completely disappear from the river of time.
The Time Lord had no future, but he had a past and a present.
To truly kill him, one had to first slay the past Time Lord, and then the present Time Lord.
Each strike annihilated a temporal node of the Time Lord's past.
Cheng Xilin was shocked by this sight. His gaze was filled with a sky full of saber shadows, countless shadows piercing the river of time, shattering one point of light after another. The flowing river of time came to a standstill at this moment.
In the frozen space, only He Li continued to swing his saber with all his might. The elder spread his arms, as if accepting the challenge and baptism of his successor, his expression calm. The power of temporal laws emanating from his body grew weaker and weaker, all those wisps of law flowing into He Li's body.
It was like a handover ceremony between the old master and the new.
He Li, his face covered in blood, grinned ferociously and triumphantly. The long saber in his hand was about to obliterate the most powerful deity in existence. His eyes flashed with fervent light until he delivered the final blow.
"Die."
He Li slashed horizontally, across the Time Lord's neck. No blood spattered forth. He had severed the Time Lord's last "past," and this strike also annihilated the "present" Time Lord.
Cheng Xilin appeared behind the Time Lord and placed his hand on his back. The deathly still chaotic energy exploded forth, like a man-eating beast devouring the Time Lord.
The Time Lord, that aged elder, like a shriveled husk, fell from the air, transforming into a wisp of smoke and ash in the motionless space, dissipating.
He Li tilted his head slightly, absorbing all the power of the Time Lord's laws. Now, in this world, there was only one Time Lord, one God of Time, and that was him, He Li.
The battlefield was finally decided, life and death separated.
But He Li did not sheath his saber. Instead, he looked up at Cheng Xilin, enveloped in chaotic energy, his gaze unreadable.
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