Chapter 857: Candle of Time! This Item Was Destined to Cross My Path

Chapter 857: Chapter 481: Candle of Time! This Item Was Destined to Cross My Path

Crack!

In the void, there came the earth-shattering sound of bones shattering; that colossal hand which had stretched out merely drew its arm back, and the sealed space was like a guillotine of light, completely collapsing.

The compressive force generated by the space-jump channel was incomparably sharp, directly severing the giant hand.

Half the sky poured down light-rain, splashing through the space like blood; faintly, from within the collapsing Space-Jump Light Gate, there came a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar of agony and fury.

A complete, heaven-covering, sun-blotting giant hand then fell down, floating alone in this stretch of space.

Standing atop the Creation Divine Ship, Taiyue Divine Venerable gazed at the remnant giant hand lingering above the Cosmos; even his usually indifferent eyes now showed a faint trace of change.

It was hard to imagine what kind of inconceivably terrifying existence the master who had arranged that Reincarnation Forbidden Land truly was.

With merely a sliver of remnant soul laid down countless ages ago, it could still possess such dreadful might; if that eerie, fleshy gigantic hand had been intact, the power contained within it would have been terrifying beyond compare.

Even a Divine Artifact such as the Creation Divine Ship would not have been able to endure being pinched by it.

If its True Body were to appear, what kind of horror would that be?!

Of course, perhaps only such an existence could take an entire Star System as a cultivation crucible for a Reincarnation Immortal Embryo, ceaselessly harvesting the Power of Reincarnation Life and Death of all things and all Spirits, ultimately forging a Creation Embryo with the potential for Immortal Ascension.

The previously furious roar, mingled with miserable screams, was ultimately wiped out completely as the space-jump channel collapsed.

Only the lone, heaven-covering, sun-blotting giant hand floating above this stretch of Cosmos still “spoke” of its original master’s unwillingness and wrath.

Unfortunately, everything could no longer be changed.

“This object is fated with this Poor Daoist. Drag it back!”

After pondering for a moment, Taiyue Divine Venerable directly gave the order. The chains formed by the Four Immortal Slaying Swords trembled, the four gigantic Sword Gates quivering as they radiated surging Power of Incense, tugging at the fingers of that half-severed hand at the wrist, pulling the entire giant hand toward the vicinity of the Creation Divine Ship.

Originally, the Creation Divine Ship, which bore an entire Nine Provinces Divine Kingdom, was a powerful Divine Artifact capable of gestating a world of its own; yet in terms of outward size, when compared with this heaven-covering, sun-blotting giant hand, it was still smaller by several great orders of magnitude.

It was no exaggeration to say that, from the perspective of surface area, this heaven-covering giant hand could directly envelop the Creation Divine Ship, fully enclosing it within its palm.

If, at that time, this giant hand had truly caught up, with a palm that self-contained a realm of Heaven and Earth, it would have been enough to grasp the Creation Divine Ship in its hand, followed by a terrifying crushing force that would have completely destroyed the Divine Ship.

At that point, the entire Nine Provinces Divine Kingdom would have tilted and collapsed, bringing about an unimaginable apocalypse.

It had to be said, to be able to evade the pursuit of that reviving Great Power’s will was essentially due to Taiyue Divine Venerable’s timely escape; that he could, in the end, even “leave behind” this giant hand was simply luck overflowing to the heavens.

This was also because he remained unflustered in the face of danger and acted with resolute decisiveness.

Although the entire process had been fraught with peril, it also brought Taiyue Divine Venerable benefits beyond imagination.

“At the very least, it’s an existence above the Void Realm!”

After repeatedly examining this heaven-covering, sun-blotting giant hand, Taiyue Divine Venerable finally confirmed that there was no residual will left upon it; that Master of Great Power seemed to have encountered a major problem, which had granted him this chance to fish in troubled waters.

However, the strength of the true master of this palm was far beyond anything he could imagine.

One must know that above the Divinity Transformation Realm was what was called the “Void Realm.”

Within, the Void Realm was further divided into three tiers: “Refining Void,” “Void Realm,” and “Void.”

Now, after undergoing Nirvana, Zheng Yi, by relying on the infant body of that Reincarnation Immortal Embryo and fusing all the resources he had obtained thus far—especially the Chaos Rune within the blood-colored eyeball—if he succeeded in the end, he could ascend in a single bound, stepping directly into cultivation at least of the Void Realm.

As for Taiyue Divine Venerable, because he possessed a vast number of believers and the foundation of the Nine Provinces Incense Fire Divine Kingdom, his strength had risen a level above his previous True Body, roughly at the peak tier of the “Void Realm.”

And above the Void Realm was the Realm of the Combined Dao Cave Heaven.

This was information Zheng Yi had previously obtained from the residual memories after he devoured the White Bone Bodhisattva in the Cosmic Sea!

In other words, the realm possessed by the master of this heaven-covering giant hand utterly crushed these two, belonging to an existence at a far more terrifying level.

It might even be far above that.

After all, the gap between the two sides’ levels was too great; Zheng Yi simply could not estimate the other party’s strength.

But one thing could be confirmed: this Great Power’s situation was anything but optimistic. The reason he established the Reincarnation Forbidden Land was very likely to leave himself a path of retreat.

Moreover, his own state must have suffered a catastrophic problem, to the extent that he could not pursue Zheng Yi himself.

Fortunately, Zheng Yi had already anticipated this and tampered with the Starry Altar, calculating the exact time of its collapse, thus escaping from the tiger’s jaws and preserving the Creation Divine Ship.

Otherwise, had they escaped even a little slower, there would only have been one outcome—to be pinched by that terrifying giant hand, perhaps even falling dead on the spot.

…

In the void above, the Creation Divine Ship did not rush to move and still remained within the region where the great battle had just taken place.

From the Divine Ship, a gigantic Devouring Mother Tree directly grew forth; strange waves of devouring aura unfurled rapidly through the space.

Then, under the gaze of Venerable Taixu, branch after branch swiftly sprouted, extending to cover the heaven-covering, sun-blotting giant hand outside the Divine Ship. Those branches, growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, gradually penetrated into the flesh and blood, continuously spreading inward.