Chapter 535 - 533: Bizarre Time Freeze

Chapter 535: Chapter 533: Bizarre Time Freeze

And that wasn’t all.

The sword was even imbued with a strange power.

A power he couldn’t dispel.

He’d had to sacrifice an even larger portion of his arm, severing it completely to regrow a new one.

Without his threads of destiny, Instant Fate had absolutely no desire to fight Su Qing.

He bolted instantly.

Since negotiations had failed, his only option was to flee.

"Thinking of leaving? Did I say you could go?"

With an expressionless face, Su Qing locked down the surrounding Space.

Even Instant Fate was trapped.

"I’ll give you a swift end."

Su Qing raised his Profound Immortal Sword.

Great Dao Swordsmanship.

The light from his blade split into ten thousand rays.

With a single downward slash...

In an instant, Instant Fate felt his entire body being riddled with wounds.

However...

’I should be able to escape,’ he thought. ’The losses will just be a little steep.’

"We both wield the Power of Destiny. Do you really think I’d let you go?" Su Qing’s voice, like a demon’s, whispered in his ear.

Instant Fate’s eyes shot wide open.

’I have to escape. If I can’t escape, I have to hide.’

"Causal Touch!"

Su Qing immediately used Causal Touch on Instant Fate.

His perspective shifted to the scales of causality, where two tendrils rested.

Su Qing placed his Profound Immortal Sword on his side of the scales.

The weight of his causality instantly crushed that of Instant Fate.

The Causal Touch activated.

Su Qing retrieved his Profound Immortal Sword, and his vision returned to the Star Sea.

Instant Fate gave Su Qing a final, incredulous look. All of his life-preserving measures...

...had turned to ash and smoke.

Everything he was, all he had, simply dissipated.

He could feel his influence, his very trajectory within the Star Sea, vanishing without a trace.

There was absolutely no possibility of revival.

Su Qing’s eyes were cold as ice.

He was gradually realizing that having taken his revenge didn’t bring him the joy he’d expected.

There was only a sense of melancholy. It was as if he no longer had any motivation to grow stronger.

He sighed.

"The past is like smoke. It scatters and diffuses, yet gathers to form a shadow."

"In the end, it all became a piece of history that would never be remembered."

After taking his revenge,

Su Qing simply stood there in the Cosmos, silently gazing at the nearby trunk of the Star Sea Tree. It was so immense that he couldn’t even begin to fathom its true size.

Instant Fate had originally been in the Forbidden Land.

And the Forbidden Land was located right next to the Star Sea Tree.

So now, he had arrived at the Star Sea Tree.

Nearby, another being was secretly spying on him.

But Su Qing couldn’t be bothered to pay any mind to such a creature.

With his Causal Touch, anyone who didn’t possess a Standardized item was completely incapable of harming him.

’So, this Time Pause... how do I break it?’

Su Qing gazed at the colossal tree.

The Profound Immortal Sword in his hand seemed to stir with anticipation.

However,

dense spatial fluctuations and a crushing Spatial Power erupted around Su Qing.

Su Qing’s Star Fire flared to life, stabilizing the Space around him.

"The Power of the Stars actually suppressed my Spatial Power."

The Thirteenth Realm being attacking Su Qing cried out in alarm.

Su Qing was finally able to sense his opponent.

She had the appearance of an exquisitely beautiful woman, but to Su Qing, that was utterly meaningless.

They were both at the Thirteenth Realm.

But their true combat strength was worlds apart.

"Quick, attack! This guy is no ordinary cultivator."

"He must have broken through to the Thirteenth Realm on his own."

But the woman suddenly unleashed her attack.

"Blood Spirit Capture."

"Grand Star Burst."

In the next instant,

Su Qing felt two terrifying powers erupt upon his body.

Su Qing had been caught off guard.

His body was torn open.

His Immortal Domain Body had been breached.

A bizarre, blood-red energy and the explosive power of a Star swirled around the wound on his chest.

But Su Qing purged them in an instant.

His body healed completely.

"Star Prison!"

Before Su Qing could retaliate, another killing blow descended. This one, however, was not meant to inflict harm.

It was meant only to trap him.

As the Star Prison closed around him,

Su Qing felt the Dao Path Power within him being fiercely suppressed.

"The Star Prison was originally developed as a way to deal with the Star Sea."

"I never thought I’d be using it on you." A giant beast materialized before Su Qing. It had only a single eye, its pupil a massive silver ring, and its body was wreathed in starlight.

"Enough nonsense." The woman’s expression grew grim.

A horrifying storm of souls erupted around them, threatening to tear Su Qing to pieces.

Now that Su Qing was imprisoned, he was a sitting duck.

"Resentful Soul Loss."

Resentful Soul Loss struck directly at the essence of the soul. It was a Thirteenth Realm technique forged from the wails of innumerable souls.

Every being in the Star Sea that died an unfortunate death filled with resentment...

...would be secretly harvested by this woman and refined into her attacks.

"Sound of Greed!"

The one who had attacked just moments before revealed himself again. A roar carrying the essence of avarice shot straight toward Su Qing.

"World-Purifying Immortal Light!"

An intense light erupted from Su Qing.

This light was not bound by Space, nor was it constrained by the Star Prison.

It shot out at incredible speed, rushing toward all his enemies.

Bathed in this light,

everyone was reduced to their purest form.

Their souls were scoured clean, baptized back to their original state.

With a single move, he had killed all four Thirteenth Realm beings.

’They were too weak.’

’When they attacked, they relied entirely on the power of the Star Sea.’

’And that beast actually thought its technique could be used against the Star Sea Tree.’

’It didn’t realize that all of its power was granted by the Star Sea Tree in the first place.’

’How utterly laughable.’

Causal Touch.

’Leave no root to regrow.’

Su Qing understood this principle well.

The moment he activated Causal Touch, the four Thirteenth Realm Cultivators were dragged into a contest of causal weight, completely unaware.

Su Qing placed his Profound Immortal Sword on the scales.

His side still outweighed all four of the Thirteenth Realm opponents combined.

The four Thirteenth Realm beings were crushed to death by the Power of Cause and Effect.

Their entire causal history was extinguished in that instant.

One against four.

It was simple. Effortless.

Because Su Qing was in a completely different Realm from them.

Su Qing’s power came from himself; theirs came from the Star Sea Tree.

Most importantly, the majority of Su Qing’s Divine Power Techniques had undergone Standardization.

His World-Purifying Immortal Technique, for example, was nearly on par with a Standardized technique.

’The Star Sea Tree...’

’Could it be that an even more powerful entity is controlling the Star Sea Tree from behind the scenes?’

Su Qing thought of his own Dao Artifact that controlled the flow of time.

Su Qing looked at the world around him, frozen by the Time Stop.

He fell silent for a moment.

He truly wanted to cut down the Star Sea Tree.

"What are you trying to do, Star Sea Tree? Who do you think you can trap with this?"

Su Qing spoke to the Star Sea Tree, his voice low.

But the Star Sea Tree showed no sign of responding to him.

Su Qing fell silent.

The Star Sea Tree’s lack of response...

...left Su Qing puzzled.

As Su Qing sank into deep thought,

he felt that something was amiss.

’What about the Seven Kings?’

’Why have the Seven Kings vanished?’

’The Star Sea Tree is right in front of me. Why isn’t it afraid of my Profound Immortal Sword?’

The Profound Immortal Sword instantly transformed into a colossal blade that stretched across the Star Sea.

’Let me see for myself...’

’...what exactly is going on here!’

"Stop!"

Black Abyss’s voice rang out as a stream of her Fire of Death shot toward Su Qing.

Su Qing’s eyes narrowed as he looked at the sudden appearance of Black Abyss.

He casually slashed his sword, deflecting her terrifying flame.

"If you have something to say, I’ll give you one chance to say it."

"But if you dare attack me again, you will die." Su Qing didn’t care about her intentions. Of all people, this bafflingly familiar woman, Black Abyss, was the one who irritated him the most.

Her acting so familiar right from the start rubbed him the wrong way.

Black Abyss’s expression soured. She hadn’t expected Su Qing’s attitude toward her to change so drastically.

"If you destroy the Star Sea Tree, we’ll all be destroyed with it."

"I can feel that something’s different here."

Taichu also appeared near Su Qing.

"That’s right. There is a great terror in this world."

"If you destroy the Star Sea Tree, Black Abyss and I can both sense the great terror that will follow."

"Hmm?"

Su Qing fell silent, looking between Taichu and Black Abyss.

He then saw many other Thirteenth Realm Cultivators arriving.

Su Qing grew pensive.

In an instant, he slipped into the Void Realm.

’This whole world feels wrong.’

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