Swallowing the Stars: Speedrun with Card Draws, Dominating Destiny

Chapter 172 Resurrection and Conversation

The surging river of time was forcibly frozen in the section shrouded by the will of the Chaos City Lord! Countless scenes of birth and death unfolding instantly froze, like a cosmic painting that had been paused!

Lin Yi clearly "saw" that in that frozen section of the river, countless familiar or unfamiliar figures were forcibly "anchored":

That was the image of the Nine Swords Venerable burning his divine body and slaying the demon race overlord, frozen in an instant!

That was a magnificent moment when the Blacklight Venerable transformed himself into a shield to protect his comrades from the deadly torrent of laws!

That was the final, glorious moment when Venerable Golden Horn detonated his source and perished together with a horde of insects several times his size!

There are also Qinghuo King and Li Nan King—one after another, immortal kings who fought bloody battles on the battlefield outside the domain and ultimately perished. The last, most brilliant, or most tragic moments of their lives were forcibly stripped away and forbidden from the surging torrent of time!

"out!"

The Lord of Chaos City shouted again, and his right hand, which had been probing into the River of Time, suddenly rose upwards!

This lift was as if it weighed the entirety of billions of stars! It triggered a backlash from the very rules of the universe!

"Sizzle—!!!"

Frozen fragments of time were forcibly torn apart!

A colossal hand, formed from pure spacetime laws and boundless divine power, emerged fiercely from the river of time! Within the giant hand, it firmly grasped the soul core imprints—some of which were enveloped in the power of spacetime and appeared somewhat illusory!

The moment the giant hand broke free from the river of time, "BOOM!!!!"

An unimaginable torrent of cosmic backlash erupted!

Like countless invisible bolts of chaotic divine lightning, it struck the mighty divine body of the Chaos City Lord! His entire body covered in jet-black scales erupted with blinding light, emitting a sharp, agonizing wail as he struggled to bear the weight!

The void beneath his feet shattered inch by inch, spreading out like a spider web! His majestic body trembled violently, and a wisp of golden divine blood carrying strange spatial fluctuations uncontrollably spilled from the corner of his mouth! His aura weakened at a visible speed!

Forcibly reversing time and space to resurrect so many Venerables and Immortal Kings came at a great cost. Even for a top being like him, he suffered considerable damage!

The colossal hand that blotted out the sky slowly unfolded.

One after another, the illusory soul imprints solidified instantly!

Divine body reshaped! Laws restored! Memories regained!

Nine Swords Venerable, Black Light Venerable, Golden Horn Venerable — Qinghuo King, Li Nan King —

One by one, fallen heroes have crossed the boundaries of death, carrying the dust of time, and once again stand tall above Chaos City!

Their eyes initially held a hint of bewilderment after a temporal and spatial distortion, but when they saw the Chaos City Lord standing before them, clad in jet-black scales and with a clearly weakened aura yet still as imposing as a mountain, their gaze instantly transformed into unparalleled shock and—deep gratitude!

It was Lord Chaos City who resurrected them.

"Thank you, City Lord, for the grace of resurrection—!!!" The Nine Swords Venerable was the first to kneel on one knee in the void, his voice filled with a hint of respect and endless gratitude.

"Thank you, City Lord!!" Venerable Black Light and Venerable Golden Horn followed closely behind.

"Thank you, Lord City Lord!" King Qinghuo, King Li Nan, and the other immortal kings trembled with excitement and knelt down in unison! Their voices converged, filled with gratitude from the depths of their souls!

The Lord of Chaos City slowly withdrew his arms, the jet-black scales covering his entire body disappeared, and his slightly tired but still majestic face was revealed again.

He wiped the golden blood from the corner of his mouth, his voice carrying a comforting power that resounded throughout the heavens and earth: "No need for thanks!"

"You fought valiantly for our human race, dying from exhaustion—"

"I reverse time and bring you all back—"

"This is the duty of our people!"

His gaze swept over these reborn warriors, his deep eyes filled with both sorrow and undeniable expectation: "Go, return to the divine kingdom, and solidify your realm—"

His voice suddenly turned heavy, carrying an undeniable cruelty: "Wait until you recover—"

"That extraterrestrial battlefield—that blood-stained starry river—"

"Still—we need your swords! Your flesh and blood! Go and carve a path to survival for my human race!"

"yes-!!!"

"Fight for your people!!"

"Fight to the death! Fight to the death! Fight to the death!!!"

Without any hesitation, without any retreat! The warriors, who had just returned from the abyss of death, burned with a battle fire even more intense and pure than before their fall! Their roars converged into an indomitable torrent, shaking the chaotic air currents, as if to imprint this will to defend their race to the death into the origin of the universe!

Lin Yi watched all of this quietly.

His powerful soul perception clearly detected the undisguised weakness and the injuries at the level of laws deep within the Chaos City Lord's divine body.

Reviving more than ten Venerables and over a hundred Immortal Kings in one fell swoop—such a heaven-defying act is by no means easy, even for the Lord of Chaos City! The price paid is far more than just the apparent decline in aura.

"The situation has deteriorated to this extent?" Lin Yi's heart sank slightly.

Although he knew the battle was going badly, he only truly felt the heavy pressure of an impending storm when he witnessed the human race's pillar of strength sparing no expense and personally stepping into the fray to revive the core forces!

This is no longer a war in the conventional sense.

Instead, it's a meat grinder—

A bloody battle fought by the entire clan!

The human race, with the strength of a single race, stood against three of the most powerful races!

Every bit of strength is as precious as gold! Every sacrifice is heart-wrenching!

The Lord of Chaos City's move was both out of helplessness and a resolute decision!

The battle has become so fierce that it is necessary to squeeze the future potential represented by these venerables and immortals of the race at all costs!

Chaos Ruins.

Lin Yi returned to this space once again.

"Lin Yi—you see, if this war continues like this, humanity's situation is dire." The Chaos City Lord's majestic voice carried a hint of weariness, yet also an immense urgency. "Are you truly confident you can turn the tide of this war within the next 30 years?"

The extraterrestrial battlefield is like an insatiable cosmic millstone, frantically devouring the flesh and souls of billions of living beings. The brutality of the war is unprecedented; every day, stars collapse, and every moment, immortal laments resound.

Human decision-makers are already feeling the pinch.

If the fighting continues, the very foundation of humanity's future will suffer considerable damage.

Now, voices of surrender and the abandonment of the Star Zone are gradually emerging.

It's not that we chickened out; the losses were just too great.

Lin Yi then said that if he were given another 30 years, he was confident that he could turn the tide of the battle here, which surprised the Lord of Chaos City.

-

Given the current situation, humanity's defeat is inevitable, and even these most powerful beings rack their brains but cannot come up with any way to break the deadlock.

Lin Yi said in an extremely confident tone, "30 years is enough, and if you're lucky, 10 years will be enough!"

Lin Yi has the confidence and the ability to back it up.

This bloody feast that slaughtered countless races provided Lin Yi with a continuous stream of "strategic resources"!