The Heavens: A Qing, the Yue Girl at the beginning

"Another Time Zero Master? Whether Fujiwara Nobunosuke betrayed or was controlled in some way, it doesn't make any sense..."

A trace of uneasiness flashed through the heart of the attacking middle-aged man, but then he sneered after a rational analysis, and instead became more confident in his own battle strategy.

You know, when two time zero users of the same level compete, the one who takes the first move is bound to win. What's more, his time acceleration multiple far exceeds that of the opponent, more than ten times?
The activation and expansion of Time Zero were extremely fast compared to other Word Spirits, making it difficult for people to react. It seemed to have the characteristic of "instantaneous", but this was actually just an illusion of the senses of slow people, and it still took a short time.

Even the top time zero users among the hybrids, such as Angers and Chu Tianjiao whom he had met, could not cover the domain in an instant. There was a millisecond delay just in the initial activation, and the extension of the domain boundary was still limited to the speed of sound like a regular word spirit.

The compressed chanting of the dragon script was completed in an instant and was of little use. While it was still using the air as a medium to spread, the true victory or defeat had already been determined on a more microscopic scale, just like the irreversible thread of fate.

Rhine, the ultimate word spirit that is said to be able to simulate the explosion of the core of a star, can release its stored destructive energy in just 0.003 seconds after the dragon script is chanted.

In a realm where time is accelerated hundreds of times, this time will be compressed to a few microseconds - so fast that even the mind will not have time to react.

In the battle between the ultimate speedsters, a delay of one hundred thousandth of a second is enough to make the difference between life and death.

The Rhine's explosion began with silence.

When the pale body finished the last ancient syllable, the air around the entire temple seemed to be sucked dry by some invisible force. The wind stopped, the snow froze in the air, and even the drifting incense ashes were frozen into tiny black stars.

Then - the elements rioted.

Earth, water, wind, and fire, the four basic elements were completely boiling under the urging of the Word Spirit. The ground was undulating like waves, and the bluestone tiles were shattered, but they were strangely suspended in the air, as if they were torn by some force and refused to fall.

The ancient wooden pillars of the temple groaned under the heavy weight, the mortise and tenon structure collapsed at a microscopic level, and the wood fibers were plucked apart by invisible hands, turning into sawdust all over the sky. However, they were ignited by the high temperature in the next microsecond, turning into golden-red flames, and then carbonized into fine black crystals.

The forest in the distance twisted in silence, the dark green pine needles faded to pale white, the branches of the trees seemed to be twisted by a huge force, the bark burst, the sap evaporated, and vaporized before it hit the ground. Spider-web-like cracks appeared on the surface of the rock, and then shattered like fragile glass.

Before the fragments could splash, they were melted into red magma by the higher temperature, flowing into a strange river of fire in the air.

And the most terrifying thing is the core of destruction that is about to come.

The explosion of Rhine was not a traditional explosion of flames and shock waves, but a collapse of elements. At the moment when the words were completed, all the matter in the domain began to collapse inwards, as if an invisible hand had grasped the space and squeezed everything towards the center.

The temperature rose at an incredible speed. High temperatures of tens of millions of degrees raged at the microscopic level, ionizing the air, distorting light, and even the space itself began to tremble slightly.

——And this is just the prelude, the chapter of destruction has not yet reached its true climax.

The man strolled through the frozen time, appreciating everything leisurely.

His right hand was inserted into his trouser pocket like a gentleman attending a cocktail party, while his left hand held a half-empty bottle of whiskey - the amber liquid was suspended in the bottle mouth, reflecting a gradually collapsing ball of light in the distance.

This is the true battlefield art that belongs to the Dragon King.

In the electromagnetic field of view of the Vacuum Serpent, he even had enough time to observe the slightest changes in the targets - Shi Yi Guang put on a layer of metal mesh out of thin air over his clothes. The pure black fine mesh was like an exquisite birdcage, with a vortex of free magnetic field flowing on its surface.

"Faraday cage? And it uses alchemical superconducting materials?"

The man raised his lips slightly, revealing a hint of sarcasm. "Do you think I only know how to use lightning?" He sneered in his heart, "The strongest warriors know how to use all elements, but you didn't even react to switch the direction of defense, and you are still thinking according to inertia."

He admired the futile struggles of his prey like an ancient Roman aristocrat looking down at the bruised and battered gladiators in the Colosseum.

……

The pale body in the coffin began to vaporize, or in other words, both the body and the "pot" were boiled into a subatomic boiling soup that spread throughout the air.

Rhine's chant had reached its final chapter 0.00017 seconds ago, and at this moment it was just the afterglow of the symphony of destruction.

The earth element is boiling, and the rocks are turning into liquid gold; the water element is roaring, and the ice crystals are condensing into sharp swords; the fire element is dancing wildly, and the air spontaneously ignites into plasma; the wind element is screaming, and the vacuum vortex is tearing apart the basic structure of matter.

The middle-aged man let go of the bottle and watched it float beside him.

The composite domain of Glazed Brahma City and Dustless Land precisely covers the safety boundary, and the exploding elemental turbulence is gently diverted before touching the hem of his suit - this is the authority that belongs exclusively to the King of Sky and Wind, an absolute control that combines brutality and elegance.

"It's so beautiful."

He raised his glass to the dazzling fireworks. "Let me see..." The Dragon King loosened his tie and let this creation of mortal civilization disappear into ashes in the shockwaves. He looked indifferent: "Faced with the curse of the end that even the first generation could not withstand, how are you going to struggle in the divine punishment?"

In the next microsecond, a miracle of leap suddenly occurred in the decelerated time zero field that was originally trapped in the speed of sound barrier.

It successfully crossed the boundaries of conventional words and was cleverly modified into a new rune formula that could weave a structure at almost the speed of light. The entire area was directly expanded and a basic defense was established.

Fujiwara Nobunosuke was completely dissolved into pure gas and mist in the glazed sword light that spread throughout every millimeter of his body and integrated into his bone marrow, meridians, and blood vessels. The secret of time contained in his soul was completely refined into a part of his living spirit, taken into Zhao Qing's body, and released a power far beyond before.

At first, the flow rate was only slowed down by fifteen times. When the blood-glowing black iron filaments were transformed into alchemical matrix carriers, it suddenly turned into a legendary realm that was a hundred times faster.

Although she still couldn't compare with the King of Sky and Wind, she had already offset most of the disadvantages on her side.

According to the reliable information provided by Xia Mi, Time Zero is a rare word spirit that can only be awakened by the direct descendants of the Black King. The Wind King is only its strongest master but not its origin. Therefore, there is no need to worry about its authority being revoked during the battle. Of course, interference is inevitable.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here."

At this moment, Zhao Qing spoke lightly, and the aura and sword intent emanating from his body suddenly increased a thousand times, but it was not purely murderous and cold, but it brought with it a warmth that nourished life, blowing past quietly and wiping out the dense bubbles that appeared on the skin of everyone on the field.

Minamoto no Chitose's sword finally came out of its sheath.

Sparks from the friction between blade and scabbard hovered in front of the tip of his nose, illuminating the red gold that was throbbing in his eyes. The Word Spirit Dream Tapir, which had been accelerated 160 times, was about to complete its release to the limit, and its target was directly aimed at the invading enemy who had unveiled the invisibility curtain of the Dark Illumination.

But with the vibration of a divine thought message carrying the word "useless", Yuan Zhinu was swept up by the vast vortex of the Taiyin aura. She and the two experimental subjects who were about to wake up, as well as the fierce ghosts, Self-Defense Force prisoners and others were all stuffed into the dimly opened dark space behind Zhao Qing in the next moment.

Just disappeared.

When discussing tactics in advance, the specially hired consultant Xia Mi clearly pointed out that almost all mental abilities were completely ineffective against the first generation species with the crown rank. Forcibly activating them would only backfire, and there was even the risk of the soul being torn apart and death on the spot - like hitting a bullet polished by the philosopher's stone at full speed. Shi Yiguang still stood firmly beside Zhao Qing. As the maintainer of the space channel, she never had a way out.

Even though she could clearly feel that her vitality was rapidly dissipating as the vital energy of the surrounding heaven and earth was withdrawn, the chain flash reaction was approaching step by step, threatening to sweep away and annihilate everything.

What is truly fatal is not simply physical damage - something more essential is being stripped away by Rhine's power, just like using an eraser to erase the outline of a pencil sketch. When the Qi rules in the environment also collapse, no matter how powerful the Qi shield is, it will not be immune.

This is an insurmountable gap in realm.

Only Zhao Qing was able to fight back and pull off a brilliant counterattack.

……

When the gravitational well stimulated by the elemental flash fusion reaction breaks through the critical point, the elemental black hole begins to gradually take shape. It seems that only countless pale golden light dusts remain between heaven and earth. They rotate into spiral light bands in the vacuum vortex and continuously sink into the dark and deep central horizon.

Then, the collapsing dense core of light suddenly expanded.

It is not the spherical expansion of a traditional explosion, but a crown of thorns composed of countless space cracks.

Each crack was flowing with a dark purple glow, like a wound torn between heaven and earth by the bloody nails of a god. The matter they passed by was not shattered, but directly transformed into a quantum cloud state - the boundary between existence and nothingness became blurred here.

At the same time, at a microscopic scale that is imperceptible to mortals, a brutal battle is still going on in the two time zero domains.

"Is it really the alien version of the 'Great Trinity' Shattering the Void? It looks quite familiar. I have studied it thousands of times in the past."

Zhao Qing looked at this scene calmly, with thousands of ideas flashing through his mind. He knew that the void rift here was actually the prototype of a portal that penetrated the fictional space, which gave the possibility of the new birth of Nibelungen, but did not actually break the space-time barrier of the real world.

After all, those who release the Rhine can only use it once in their lifetime at best. When it comes to their understanding of this word spirit, how can they compare with her who is proficient in controlling the Yin and Yang?

She put her palms together and interlocked her fingers, showing a stable posture of holding a big sword. Then, the sword-shaped ice symbols that had been floating in the snow curtain earlier suddenly came to life.

They emit clear and melodious sounds in the raging elemental storms and stretch their crystal edges in the collapsing space and time, just like polar glaciers blooming in midsummer. The pure white light flowing on the surface begins to devour the surrounding red, becoming more and more delicate and translucent in the high temperature, creating an eerily quiet area.

Like hungry young silkworms gnawing on mulberry leaves, they transform the rushing torrent of particles into nutrients to nourish themselves.

The originally fragmented rune patterns were spreading and growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, splicing and interlocking along the predetermined track, and finally outlining the outline of a giant sword, which just happened to be across the Rhine's path.

The sword's blade stopped growing, not because of energy depletion, but because of some kind of "completeness" of a higher dimension.

When the last ice crystal returned to its place, the entire rune array seemed to be sublimated from pure matter into a conceptual level of existence.

Transcending the entity composed of water molecules, it is equivalent to the concretization of the verb "cut off".

……

The torrent of energy released by the collapse and annihilation of elements truly reached its peak at this moment, and matter was forged into ethereal light.

This is not any kind of light known to humans, but is closer to the embers of the primordial fire at the beginning of creation. All colors lose their meaning here, all forms return to chaos, and even time and space itself are groaning under the heavy burden.

However, the long sword constructed with ice runes still stood.

It quietly floats in the center of the destructive storm, like a lantern in the hands of a returnee on a snowy night.

In the next microsecond, Zhao Qing took a step forward and grasped the sword that was solidified in the void. She turned her wrist lightly, and the extremely thin blade drew a small circle around the outer edge of the prototype of the dark ruins, cutting off the boiling elemental sea to form a brief vacuum zone.

It was like gouging out a tiny insect, then retracting the sword half a foot and stabbing the tip of the sword into its center, piercing through it from head to tail!
"Trial?" The middle-aged man's face began to change.

It was not because the words or secret techniques used by the other party exceeded his expectations, but because he was completely unable to understand how a domain that was supposed to be inferior to Rhine in rank could break through the latter's barrier when all the elements in the environment were extracted and exhausted?
The "elemental black hole" is not a lie. Theoretically, it can absorb all external attacks and convert them all into its own energy.

If it weren't for its short duration and its tendency to self-destruct, it would be even closer to the ultimate symbol than the four monarchs' exclusive words of annihilation, and would be even more unsolvable and have a higher upper limit.

If one wants to stop the Rhine from collapsing when it has entered its final stage, and penetrate and eliminate the field whose intensity has been compressed and amplified countless times, it is just like stopping a massive star from exploding in a supernova and reversing its nuclear collapse process that has already gone completely out of control!

There was no time to think about it. The middle-aged man forced himself to suppress his inner anxiety. His eyes burst into a heat like molten gold. He immediately increased the time zero acceleration multiplier to the limit. Indigo sparks burst out at the edge of the field. Those were the ripples of space and time caused by the overload of the Word Spirit.

It was the first time he truly activated the Dragon Wings. The blue-gray membrane wings tore the back of his suit apart, and at the same time, a black sharp blade was pulled out from his waist.

This weapon does not appear to be made of metal, but rather looks like a large piece of obsidian or black crystal, with irregular edges and bright arcs of white-purple light flowing inside.

When the King of Sky and Wind showed off his carefully crafted "divine weapon", the giant ice crystal sword in Zhao Qing's hand mysteriously disappeared.

Countless runes turned into snow-white streams of light, rushing into the center of the Rhine's gravitational well, like silver needles piercing a swollen abscess, and stimulating grand jets from the two poles of the embryonic black hole.

"The collapsing supernova is not unstoppable... By simply modifying the parameters, it can be transformed from a core-collapse type to an unstable pair type, or other... The Penrose process can also be used to extract the rotational energy of such black hole embryos..."

"The viscosity term and conservation of angular momentum play an indispensable role in the accretion process of dense stars. If..." She had a lot of thoughts in her mind, and she immediately put these ideas into practice.

The transformation that was difficult to describe in words was proceeding rapidly in the dark purple electric flame cracks. In the chaotic and deep accretion disk, a second budding white singularity appeared and began to accelerate around the original dark ball, just like -

The three-dimensional Tai Chi diagram with the yin-yang fish eyes inside.

When they completed their first full rotation in the void, the violent jets suddenly stagnated into round light wheels. The destructive energies that should have torn apart time and space, now flowed into gentle rings along the edge of Tai Chi like tired birds returning to their nests.

A clear air mass was born at the junction of yin and yang, and the newly born four elements gathered at the edge of the halo. At first, it was just a faint light like mist. As Tai Chi moved, it became more and more condensed and gathered into a hazy air mass, like the fetal movement of a nebula when it was pregnant with a celestial body.

A miniature star was created with just a few gestures, constructing a stable plasma shell. Extremely fine silver threads flowed in the emitted light, and the rhythm of contraction and expansion was as natural as breathing.

"Now..." Seeing that it had indeed changed as she expected, Zhao Qing smiled with satisfaction. She waved her hand gently, and it was summoned to float over, dragging out tiny traces of light, hovering above her left shoulder: "It's my turn now."

...(End of chapter)