What is Yan Li?
He Li looked up at the sky. In the dim yellow void, a human face appeared, with cosmic dust like patches of clouds, gathering to form the contours of the face.
Suddenly,
He Li felt a stir in his heart. His figure shot up abruptly, like a sharp sword, piercing straight into the sky.
The next moment.
A dark golden war halberd shot from the endless void, unstoppable. The celestial bodies blocking its path exploded one after another. In an instant, it pierced through the position where He Li had just been and shot directly towards the woman.
"Hmph..."
The woman let out a disdainful cold laugh, conjured a golden talisman, and in the blink of an eye, the dark golden war halberd collided with the golden talisman.
Hum!!!
The golden talisman was like an indestructible shield. No matter how the war halberd erupted, it could not advance an inch further.
This scene not only shocked He Li but also greatly astonished the Lord of Xicheng. He knew very well that if the target of the war halberd had been himself, he would have long since been reduced to dust and his spirit annihilated.
"Let that old time thief come out and die!" Cheng Xilin's voice seemed to pierce through the universe, reverberating on the battlefield.
"How dare you defile Master's name?"
The woman was furious. She extended her palm, her back facing the dark golden war halberd, her fingers crossed. One finger gently tapped the tip of the war halberd.
Ding!
The dark golden war halberd trembled slightly, then disintegrated into countless fragments.
But those fragments did not disappear. Instead, they rose automatically, spinning in the void above the woman. Immediately, each fragment transformed into a dark golden long sword, forming a giant lotus sword formation in the sky.
"Great Lotus Sword Formation!" Cheng Xilin's low roar echoed through the void.
The Great Lotus Sword Formation surrounded the woman. Ten thousand swords scattered, like a river of stars.
The woman held the golden talisman like a small boat in a surging tide, drifting with the waves, yet incredibly resilient.
"Time-Space Barrier."
The woman uttered a soft sound. Instantly, ripples and infinite halos emanated from around her, destabilizing the attacking sword formation. Many long swords trembled.
"An independent small world combining time and space!" He Li was shocked by the membrane rippling around the woman's body. He wondered if time and space were not independent laws, but laws that interacted and attracted each other?
He Li was confused. He had not fully grasped the law of time. If Xi Ling's mastery of the law of time was only one or two tenths, then he might have five or six tenths, not more, perhaps less.
Upon truly touching the law of time, he discovered that time was not as ethereal as he had imagined.
Time was an illusory law that both existed and did not exist.
The true meaning of laws could not be lightly touched; one had to deeply understand its meaning and grasp its profound mystery.
In the bamboo pavilion on the island of the two domains, Cheng Xilin held a wooden box filled with white chess pieces in one hand and a white chess piece in the other. He stared blankly at the chessboard and murmured, "Although He Li has some insights, they are not deep enough. The Time Envoy's rank is still too low."
Cheng Xilin threw the chess piece back into the box, turned to look at the sea surface of the Du Shen Spring, and shouted towards Yan Li, who was cross-legged with his halberd, "Your brother is in danger, aren't you going to save him?"
Yan Li opened his eyes. A bright smile appeared on his stern face, but it was tinged with a bloody ferocity.
Cheng Xilin nodded to Tata, picked up a black piece from the chessboard, stood up, and threw it into the sky. The sky immediately tore open a spatial rift.
Yan Li had already hoisted his blood-colored war halberd. Without even looking at Cheng Xilin, blood-colored armor appeared on his body. He moved like a thunderbolt, roaring for a thousand miles, and plunged into the spatial rift.
Cheng Xilin narrowed his eyes, gazing at the gradually healing spatial rift. "Lord of Time, I have found you. There is no second lord in this world, only one king under heaven. He Li has mastered the law of time, and you can finally no longer sit still?"
"Is that Lord of Time the fortune-telling old man you mentioned?" Tata asked.
Cheng Xilin hesitated for a moment, then shook his head, and then nodded with absolute certainty.
"It's him! Everything I've experienced, nineteen great cosmic annihilations, are all because of him. My son, Xiao You, was sealed in the first epoch, all because of him!"
As Cheng Xilin spoke, his face grew darker, veins bulged on his forehead, and a golden malevolence flashed in his eyes. The entire world trembled with his anger.
Tata looked at Cheng Xilin's back, her eyes deep, and sighed softly.
On the battlefield,
The Great Lotus Sword Formation vanished instantly. The human face formed by the dim yellow clouds in the sky also dissipated, replaced by a young man in blood-colored armor, holding a dark war halberd. He hovered in the void, looking down at the battlefield, not taking anyone seriously. His gaze was fixed on He Li.
He Li also looked at Yan Li. Suddenly, the blood-corroding greatsword Fuxue Senlin flew out uncontrollably, hovering in the air, the entire body of the sword trembling with excitement, emitting waves of blood-colored ripples.
Yan Li was looking at He Li, or rather... Yan Si.
Time flew, crossing two epochs, the Barbarian Ancient Epoch and the New God Epoch. The two brothers finally met. Although things had changed, Yan Li's memory was frozen at the moment before the Barbarian Ancient Epoch perished and he sank into the river of time. Even though his brother had changed his appearance,
His gaze towards his brother remained gentle and affectionate.
"Yan Li, the spirits of the Barbarian Ancient True Gods who slumbered in the river of time have all perished. You should go too." The Time Envoy looked at Yan Li, the golden talisman, the Time Edict, floating before her.
Yan Li ignored the woman. He looked at He Li, smiled slightly, and said, "We have met three times in this epoch, but this is the first time we have faced each other like this. After I deal with this annoying woman, we brothers will have a good talk."
He Li smiled back and replied, "Alright."
He Li retracted the Fuxue Senlin greatsword, turned sideways to look at the Barbarian Clan army that had retreated to a distance at some unknown time. In the depths of the universe on the other side, the three demon kings were still fighting fiercely. Hu Li Da Ming Wang appeared slightly anxious, his movements gradually becoming heavier, showing a posture of imitating Chong Ming's persuasion of Jia Zhi.
Yan Li turned to face the Time Envoy, moving his blood-colored war halberd. Lord of Time? Time Envoy? All useless trash, none of my business. Whoever wants to touch my brother will have to ask this blood halberd in my hand first.
Yan Li smiled. Times had changed. Former enemies had become God Kings who governed the epochs. The Barbarian Ancient True Gods who had fought together in the Barbarian Ancient Epoch had all been slaughtered.
Time moves forward. The past, the former, is always in the past tense. If it does not belong to this era, it cannot be defined as existing.
He did not hate Xia Kuduo, nor did he hate Cheng Xilin.
If one traced back to the source, it was also his fault for not being able to protect the Barbarian Ancient Epoch at that time.
Yan Li moved, swinging his blood-colored war halberd, and let out a low cry.
Thousands of blood shadows appeared around Yan Li, releasing astonishing blood energy and killing intent. Each blood shadow was like a demon from hell. It was hard to imagine that a Barbarian Ancient True God, an Yan Clan True God, could be like a vengeful spirit.
The blood shadows filling the sky continuously charged towards the Time Envoy.
Yan Li's eyes were bright and spirited, and he whispered, "Fuxue Senlin, Blood Shadow Calamity Kill."
The entire sky was covered by blood shadows, and the space between heaven and earth was filled with palpable blood-killing energy.
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