Chapter 566: Internal Demon (1/2)

Lu Yun felt a giant foot stomping heavily on him.

“Am I going to die again?” A wry smile tugged at his lips. Xing Chen had ascended to immortality, and Lu Yun himself had reached peak void realm. Dusk Province was on the rise; he was on his way to greatness.

But here he was, on the brink of death.

There was no way for him to resist as the owner of the foot was too powerful. Their difference in power was as great as the distance between heaven and earth.

Bam!

Lu Yun’s body was almost crushed into paste, and his consciousness and thoughts slowly blurred.

……

“No!!” screamed Jing Huaci.

Hum.

The silver radiance of the Timelight Tower shot forth at the giant leg bone like an enormous mirror. Astoundingly, the foot that was about to complete its crushing of Lu Yun lifted up and reversed along its original trajectory.

Lu Yun’s crushed body, broken bones and tendons, collapsed consciousness, and nearly disintegrated soul swiftly knit back together as well, as if someone had hit the rewind button for him.

The damage had been reversed; time had flowed backward!

Jing Huaci, who’d just refined the Timelight Tower, had reversed time with a powerful combat art!

The great tower slowly shrank and embedded itself into Jing Huaci’s forehead with a streak of silver, while she collapsed to the ground, boneless and immobile.

Midair, the giant skeletal foot was still restrained by the silver light, its strength diminishing each second it was trapped.

“What in the blazes is this?!” Terrified screams rang from above the foot.

Bam!

The foot ultimately disintegrated into ashes and scattered in the air.

“That’s… the foot of the Venerated Sacrosanct Demon Sovereign! It’s the strength of his true form!”

Lu Yun slumped on the ground, dumbfounded at the sight of the disintegrating foot and not knowing what to say. He’d truly experienced death in that moment, and felt its shadow fall over him. He’d even heard the keening of the Tome of Life and Death and felt the netherworld tremble.

But suddenly, here he was, still alive.

“It really is a time treasure… It reversed time!” Lu Yun shuddered, then skipped over to look over Jing Huaci. She’d lost consciousness, but he could sense the changes in her.

Silver sparkles circled around her—not the color of stars, but time. Jing Huaci seemed to be spent. Her nascent spirit was weak, and the ripples of her soul shifted very weakly.

However, the Timelight Tower had protected her soul and injected it with its own power, replenishing her nascent spirit.

“The tower chose Jing Huaci beforehand!” Realization dawned on Lu Yun.

She was its preordained new owner, which was why she’d been able to move around the celestial master tomb freely as a nascent spirit cultivator and arrive here safely. Although the yin spirits and undead couldn’t see her, there were far more dangers in the tomb that could’ve claimed her.

More importantly, Jing Huaci had managed to reverse time not long after refining the tower! What had happened had been reversed into something that’d never taken place! What an intimidating combat art this was!

Lu Yun had been incredibly close to death, but Jing Huaci had forcefully yanked him back from the cliff of oblivion! In doing so, she’d done something that not even the Tome of Life and Death could do!

“There must be a spirit in the Timelight Tower. It’s impossible for her to do something like this on her own, given her cultivation.” Lu Yun inhaled deeply. It was fortunate that he hadn’t refined the tower himself, or he would’ve fallen under its control.

“But there’s a powerful specter in the treasure, who is probably why the treasure chose Jing Huaci.” He reached out to help her up, but a faintly protesting hum sounded from her body and a thick layer of silver radiance emerged to cocoon her body.

Lu Yun could draw infinitely close to her, but he wasn’t able to touch her.

“Time?” he said with a start.

“Time,” murmured a gentle voice. A woman with flowing silver locks clad in a silver silk dress emerged from Jing Huaci. She was stunning both in appearance and figure, much more so than any woman Lu Yun had ever encountered.