Transforming into a stunningly beautiful fox spirit, leaving a scar on the heart of a prodigy.

Li Changgeng's words, "Master, your disciple has come to pick you up," still echoed in the blood-red air of the cave.

Immediately afterwards, a teeth-grinding cracking sound exploded from the void. The spatial walls within the cavern began to shatter violently, peeling off in large chunks. The fragments did not fall to the ground but hovered in mid-air before being crushed into powder by an invisible force.

A gray-white, illusory river surged forth from the crack.

That was no ordinary water. The flow was utterly silent, exuding only a chilling stillness. The greyish-white waves rolled and surged, each drop reflecting the rise and fall of an era. Majestic phantoms crowned with imperial robes fell from the stars; ancient demons, capable of blotting out the sky, were reduced to ashes by lightning tribulations; and countless cities rose from the earth only to crumble into dust over the ages.

This is an absolute taboo that even the Great Emperor dared not easily touch: the River of Time.

Li Changgeng had already submerged half his body in the grayish-white river water. The raging power of time instantly engulfed him.

The power of time can scrape away three thousand years of skin and flesh in the blink of an eye.

His disheveled, gray hair vanished the moment it touched the river, leaving not even ashes. His already withered skin rapidly decayed and peeled away, revealing the white bones beneath. His flesh and blood couldn't withstand even a breath in the long river of time, being washed away completely.

Faced with the rapid disintegration of his physical body, Li Changgeng's face, now only half-full, showed no sign of retreat. He raised the swirling primordial purple energy high with one hand, the purple halo fiercely protecting his brow and spiritual altar, barely blocking the erosion of his soul by the laws of time.

His other hand, the hand that had completely turned into white bone, was still gripping Bai Yin's wrist tightly.

The black and red calamity energy extracted from Bai Yin's body was forcibly combined by Li Changgeng, transforming into a dark red ferry riddled with holes. He stepped on this ferry formed from the extremely evil destiny, enduring the terrifying erosion of the power of time, and struggled upstream against the current in the river of time.

A ghostly green flame flickered in his eye sockets as he stared intently at the upper reaches of the long river. There, a blurry phantom of a snowy plain stretched out, and amidst the swirling snowflakes, a figure in red stood vaguely. That was the obsession he had waited for three thousand years.

At the same time, a series of terrifying roars came from above the cave.

Above the Central Continent, the tribulation clouds of the Nine Heavens Tribulation condensed in an instant. The pitch-black thunderclouds pressed down on the entire Central Continent, making it hard to breathe. At the center of the thick clouds, world-destroying purple lightning bolts as thick as buckets churned and tore at each other.

The will of Heaven was utterly enraged. Reversing the river of time was a grave sin of altering the cause and effect of Heaven and Earth. Heaven vowed to unleash divine punishment, obliterating this anomaly who dared to manipulate the timeline along with this entire world. Under the oppressive force of the thunder, the dome of the cave cracked open with countless fissures, and massive rocks mixed with soil crashed down.

Bai Yin let out a mournful roar as his wrist was tightly gripped.

The extremely malevolent destiny within him was being relentlessly and frantically exploited by Li Changgeng, who was using it as fuel. His massive body had already been dragged to the edge of the river of time. The grayish-white power of time washed over his lower body, and his solid flesh began to rapidly turn to sand.

The flesh turned into fine sand and fell away in a rustling sound, revealing the dark golden bones beneath. The bones, too, were covered in cracks from the erosion of time. The extremely malevolent destiny was in danger of being completely exhausted. Once the destiny was drained, he would be utterly reduced to nothingness in the river of time, even the chance of reincarnation would be taken away.

"Let him go!"

Su Chang'an shouted sharply. Her white robe fluttered wildly in the raging storm of time and space, and the hem was instantly torn to shreds by the overflowing power of time.

Without any hesitation, the Taiyin Moon Amber between her brows erupted with extreme cold. Her figure transformed into a streak of eerie blue aurora that tore through the darkness, rushing directly towards the edge of the River of Time.

"A debt from three thousand years ago, you're using his life to pay for it, without even asking me!"

Su Chang'an's eyes were as cold as ice. The Taiyin Sword, imbued with the law of freezing time and space, drew a dazzling blue trajectory in the void, slashing fiercely at the skeletal arm that Li Changgeng was tightly gripping Bai Yin with.

This sword strike was devoid of any frills, containing only pure, extreme killing intent and protectiveness. The icy power of Taiyin clashed violently with the gray-white laws of time in mid-air, creating vast ripples in spacetime.

With a clang.

A crisp snapping sound rang out clearly amidst the roaring temporal storm. The Taiyin Sword, without the slightest hesitation, forcefully severed Li Changgeng's left arm.

The bones snapped, and the terrifying pulling force that had been binding Bai Yin vanished instantly.

Su Chang'an suddenly reached out with his left hand and grabbed Bai Yin by the back of his collar. The power of Taiyin erupted in his palm, violently throwing him backward from the edge of the River of Time.

"Come on!" Su Chang'an shouted coldly without turning his head.

Gu Xiang immediately stepped forward and caught Bai Yin, who was thrown into the air. Bai Yin crashed heavily onto the obsidian ground, creating a deep crater. The dark red Asura Dharma image behind him completely disintegrated the moment it left the river, turning into wisps of black smoke and dissipating into the air.

Bai Yin lay on the ground, vomiting mouthfuls of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. Most of the flesh on his lower body had turned to sand, revealing incomplete white bones, a truly gruesome sight. Although he was severely injured and on the verge of death, the madness in his eyes, blinded by the aura of calamity, was abruptly awakened by Su Chang'an's resolute sword strike.

He gasped for breath, his eyes fixed on the white-robed figure blocking the river of time. In his dark golden vertical pupils, the killing intent faded, leaving only a complex and stubborn feeling of surviving a catastrophe.

Having lost an arm, Li Changgeng stumbled violently in the gray-white waters of the river of time.

But he didn't even glance down at his severed arm. Instead, he used the force of Su Chang'an's sword severing the connection to completely detonate the primordial purple energy protecting his spiritual platform.

A burst of purple light exploded into a blinding halo in the gray-white river of time, forcefully creating a vacuum zone devoid of the power of time. Using the force of the explosion, Li Changgeng's remaining skeletal body shot forward a hundred feet, completely disappearing into the chaotic mist deep within the river of time.

"No one can stop me...nobody can stop me!"

A maniacal laugh echoed from the depths of the long river. The laugh carried a kind of obsessive satisfaction, before being completely swallowed up by the rolling river of time, never to be heard again.

As Li Changgeng ventured deeper, the spacetime within the cave descended into a terrifying chaos.

Time becomes erratic and chaotic here.

The once stable laws of heaven and earth were shattered. Obsidian fragments on the ground turned into dust one moment and then reformed into stones the next. Several ancient spiritual herbs that had long since disappeared from the outside world even sprouted there, before quickly withering into ash.

Gu Xiang gritted his teeth and quickly formed hand seals. He pushed the righteous energy within him to its limit, and a golden light shield opened, tightly protecting the heavily injured Chen Xuan and Bai Yin, who had just been thrown back, behind him.

However, under the indiscriminate erosion of the overflowing power of time, the once indestructible golden aura of righteousness was dimming at a visible speed. Ripples spread across the surface of the golden light shield, threatening to shatter at any moment.

Protected behind him, Chen Xuan's hair, which had turned pale from exhaustion, was now flashing wildly between pure black and snow white. It was the law of time forcibly pulling at his lifeline, causing his body to constantly oscillate between youth and old age.

Meanwhile, Gu Xiang, who was struggling to maintain the shield, was undergoing an extremely strange change in his appearance.

On the back of his hand, which held the sage's giant brush, the skin would sometimes become smooth and delicate, and at other times it would quickly dry up, growing dense age spots, and even his fingernails would become gray and brittle. The entire space of the cave was violently distorted under this chaotic law of time, folding out countless bizarre and surreal afterimages.