Chapter 1210: Repayment (1/2)

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Two rays of purple light blossomed from Lu Yun’s eyes. The power of time didn’t exist in the Hongmeng, but it suddenly materialized into being with the purple radiance.

And with that, time began to operate in this part of the land.

When the demon of the immortal dao possessed Di Ling, Lu Yun used the inversion portion of the Spacetime Reincarnation combat art to separate the two. It was even more effortless for him to deploy Inversion of Spacetime in a world that lacked the delineation of time, particularly when he was stronger than before.

Thus, under the Redbud King’s shocked gaze, purple light exploded out of the Hongmeng Treasurehunter Rat and rushed into the Redbud Butterfly chrysalis. Lu Yun wasn’t just reversing time, but both space and time!

Everything within three meters was fully reversed, traveling back to where Jian Wenhe stole the chrysalis and then… time itself also hurtled backward!

Jian Wenhe’s cultivation rapidly devolved from the superior realm to the common realm, then stabilized in the initial common realm. The vitality that’d been stripped away from the chrysalis fully made it back inside.

This wasn’t just a return of what had been lost, but turning back the clock so that what had happened was undone!

“You’re an heir of the Spacetime King!” exclaimed the Redbud King.

Lu Yun wasn’t fazed by the unexpected title. Though the power of time didn’t encompass the Hongmeng and force the passage of the years in it, there were still powerhouses in the third realm that specialized in this field of study. This so-called Spacetime King was likely one of them.

However, time within the Hongmeng was different from that of the world of immortals. In the third realm, time was a tiny creek that occasionally flowed past a spot and brought the movement of intervals to it.

Meanwhile, time in the world of immortals was a fathomless sea that drowned all of the worlds. It integrated the power of time into the land and dictated that everything have a preset lifespan. Those of the fourth realm didn’t see the Hongmeng as a true realm because, at the heart of it all, time held no sway here.

It was precisely due to this lack of an ocean of time that Lu Yun could easily reverse its flow, resetting a certain part of the land back to a previous moment. The caveat was that this only applied to certain weak entities or those that’d already been subdued. If his subject violently resisted, then Lu Yun would also be subject to the backlash of space and time.

In addition, he wouldn’t be able to use Spacetime Reincarnation if a life form had truly died. That would be a blatant violation of Hongmeng laws and he’d be subject to arrest from the Enforcer Alliance.

The flip side to that was that he could employ the death arts instead, since they adhered to the rules of the Tome of Life and Death. The laws of the Hongmeng held no jurisdiction over it.

……

The Redbud Butterfly chrysalis had returned to its previous condition and a tiny life form pulsed gently inside it.

The Redbud King stretched her hand out and gently cupped it around the chrysalis. She shook uncontrollably, completely beside herself. Tenderly extending her consciousness, she closely observed the tiny chrysalis in her hand.

“It’s there, the tiny seed of a true spirit is still there. It hasn’t been damaged!” An enormous burden lifting off her shoulders, the hint of a smile finally appeared on her face.

She waved a hand and dismissed the boundless tide of beasts inside and outside of the city. The forcefield enveloping the Redbud Plains also vanished and the transportation formation was restored.

“Many thanks to this little friend for saving my race’s bloodline. Please visit me at Redbud Mountain so that I may properly thank you.” The king was stunningly beautiful once she was in a good mood. When she smiled, the entire void exulted in an inexplicable delight.

She waved her hand again before either Lu Yun or the little fox could respond, shifting the scene in front of their eyes and bringing them to an unfamiliar place. All was crystalline purple and abundant purple qi filled the air here. It wasn’t the Hongmeng qi commonly found in the realm, but a type of energy at an even higher level.