Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law.

"interesting."

Seeing that Chen Mo was only at the early stage of the fourth realm in both realms, yet he was able to defeat her, Murong Yuan became slightly serious and gave his evaluation of Chen Mo, then said, "Come again."

He put away the star chart, but starlight surged around him. He raised his hand and clenched his fist, and the surging starlight around him gathered on his fist. With a thought, his figure left several afterimages in the void and arrived in front of Chen Mo in the blink of an eye, throwing a punch.

Chen Mo was fearless. This person was stronger than Dugu Wu, and he also wanted to test the limits of his current strength. He threw another punch, his whole body crackling with lightning, and his Thunderstrike Armor covered his entire body.

"Oh!"

A dull, loud thud resounded. The moment their fists collided, powerful spiritual energy surged forth, causing the ground beneath them to crack open like a spiderweb and whipping up a strong gust of wind.

Murong Niu roared, and the starlight surging from his fist became even more dazzling. Chen Mo gritted his teeth, and golden flames also rose from his fist, intertwining with the lightning to form thunderfire, carrying unparalleled power.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Centered on the two, rings of spiritual energy exploded, wantonly destroying everything around them. The earth trembled. Under the impact of the powerful force, Murong Niu retreated gracefully, while Chen Mo's body shuddered and he was forced to retreat repeatedly, his face flushed, clearly due to the shock of his blood and qi.

"Not bad, not bad, no wonder you dared to come to rescue people alone." Murong Niu began to get serious, her eyes flashing strangely as she looked at Chen Mo.

Chen Mo suppressed the surge of blood and qi, and the flush on his face began to subside, followed by a solemn expression. He was truly formidable.

Xu Nianzhen was also somewhat surprised, but the worry on her face did not disappear, because the strength Chen Mo had shown was still insufficient to contend with Murong Yao.

“You are now qualified to be my opponent. Here’s what we’ll do: if you can withstand ten moves from me, I will let you take her away.” Murong Niu summoned the Star Chart, starlight swirling around her, her long hair flowing, her body floating about ten feet off the ground. Then she said coldly, “But if you don’t last ten moves, your fate will be death.”

"You seem quite confident in your abilities."

"boom!"

The air exploded, and the ground beneath Chen Mo's feet caved in. Chen Mo himself soared into the sky, charging towards Murong Yao, responding with his actions.

This punch was enough to pierce through someone of Fujiro's strength.

Murong Niu looked at the fierce attack that was rushing towards him, but there was no fear in his eyes. Instead, a burning passion surged out.

"boom!"

Murong Niu raised her hand and grabbed Chen Mo's fist, which was swung at her. She was enveloped in black and white light, and then she used the hand holding the star disk to strike the other party.

During this process, the star chart suddenly disintegrated, transforming into several discs that imprisoned Chen Mo's body and the surrounding void. His palm lightly landed on Chen Mo's chest, and at the moment of contact, a powerful force erupted.

"Oh!"

Chen Mo's body was sent flying backward like a bow, his chest and Thunderclap Armor were dented, and several of his ribs were broken. After landing, he rolled more than ten times before stopping.

"One move," Murong Niu's light, airy voice rang out.

"puff."

A mouthful of blood spurted from Chen Mo's throat. Clutching his chest, Chen Mo struggled to his feet, looked up at Murong Niu, and murmured, "Two-colored illusory light, is it?"

"Run! You're no match for him!" Xu Nianzhen couldn't help but shout, trying to rush over to help, but the movement aggravated her injuries, and she collapsed to the ground.

"Second move!"

Murong Niu gave a soft shout, and the disintegrated star chart instantly reassembled, hovering behind his head, radiating endless starlight. He then made a fist with his five fingers and punched Chen Mo on the ground from a distance.

"Azure Dragon Imprisoning Heaven Finger!"

Chen Mo reacted extremely quickly, pointing out with one finger, and a dragon's roar resounded.

The next second, the two attacks collided head-on in mid-air.

A deep sound echoed, and the space seemed to fall silent for a moment. Then, a violent shockwave raged out, causing the ground below to collapse inch by inch, rocks to tear apart, and large trees to shatter with a bang, turning into wood chips everywhere.

In the end, Murong Niu was the one who came out on top, shattering Chen Mo's fingerprint and smashing it onto Chen Mo.

"boom!"

The spot where Chen Mo stood was instantly transformed into a large crater, with dust and smoke billowing everywhere.

"Chen Mo."

Xu Nianzhen stared wide-eyed at the cloud of dust, her face growing even paler. Her heart was in her throat. She only breathed a sigh of relief when Chen Mo's cough came from within the dust, but she was soon stunned.

As the dust settled, Chen Mo, bathed in nine-colored illusory light, appeared before her.

"Nine-colored illusory light?" Murong Niu's shocked voice rang out, his eyes staring incredulously at the nine-colored light membrane on Chen Mo's body. At this moment, he even thought he was seeing things. How could someone have nine-colored illusory light? It wasn't until he looked at it carefully several times that he realized he wasn't mistaken. It really was nine-colored illusory light.

"Come on, let's continue." Chen Mo beckoned to Murong Niu with his finger.

Murong Yuan was not angered by Chen Mo's provocation. Instead, he laughed loudly, clearly increasingly satisfied with Chen Mo as his opponent.

"The third move, Falling Star!"

Murong Niu shouted, and the star disk floating behind his head suddenly grew a thousand times larger, like a small meteor. A powerful force was released from it, and with a light flick of his finger, it smashed down hard on Chen Mo's head.

Chen Mo didn't dare to be negligent either. He quickly condensed the Azure Dragon and Phoenix seals and then merged them to block Murong Yuan's move.

After that, Chen Mo blocked the fourth, fifth, and eighth moves.

At this moment, Chen Mo not only used the power of the three symbols fused by the three seals and the Divine Burning Technique, but also put on his armor-piercing armor, showing that he was revealing his trump cards one after another.

Xu Nianzhen's cherry-like mouth was wide open and hadn't closed yet; she was too strong.

Chen Mo's current demonstrated strength has already surpassed hers.

“I take back what I said before. You do have the ability to save a beauty, but I will not hold back in the next two moves.” Murong Yuan did not allow himself to fail to defeat even a cultivator at the early stage of the fourth realm. He then said, “Next, I will show you the ultimate technique of my Tianji Pavilion.”

"Backtrack!"

With a sharp shout, Murong Niu quickly manipulated the stellar disc that had shrunk and floated before him. In the next instant, fragments of time danced like a meteor shower, filling the void with brilliance and crystalline light.

The armor-piercing armor, lightning armor, and nine-colored illusory light on Chen Mo's body all disappeared and disappeared into Chen Mo's body.

It's not gone.

Instead, time rewinds to a point before Chen Mo used the Nine-Colored Illusionary Light, Armor-Piercing, and Thunderstrike Armor.

"The power of time?!" Chen Mo was shocked.

Meanwhile, the outside world was in an uproar.

This time, not only the lower-level cultivators, but even the seventh-level experts were deeply moved, and some even changed color.

"The power of time? How is that possible?" Ancestor Tianpeng was shocked. This was a power that even a seventh-realm expert had not mastered. It involved reincarnation. How could Murong Yuan, who was only at the fourth realm, manipulate time? "This...this..." Shui Linglong was also shocked, unable to utter a complete sentence, her heart filled with turmoil.

"This seems to be only a partial time reversal, without affecting the progress of time. It only affects aspects such as supernatural powers, rather than forcibly reversing it using magical artifacts." Jiang Heng understood it more clearly.

For example, Murong Niu's manipulation of time can only make people retract their supernatural powers or prevent them from using magical treasures, but it cannot make people return to their youth. It is a partial change, and only a temporary one.

Even so, it's still terrifying.

Time involves concepts like reincarnation and laws, which even experts at the seventh realm cannot fathom.

"So this is the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion? It's truly terrifying. No wonder it's rejected by the Heavenly Dao." Dongfang Hao murmured, a glint of greed flashing in his eyes. If he could also control it, wouldn't that be...
There are quite a few people who share the same idea as Dongfang Hao.

"No wonder every generation of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion has been invincible in their time. Who can fight against time?" someone exclaimed.

Inside the Starry Sky World.

"What terrifying methods." Chen Mo discovered that his Void Light, Armor Piercing, and Thunder Strike Armor were unusable, as if controlled by a mysterious force, disconnected from him, and he couldn't even move.

At this moment, he had no defenses left and became a lamb with thick skin and flesh.

"The tenth move."

Murong Yuan knew that the time for rewinding was short, so he quickly began to prepare his tenth move.

He mobilized his spiritual power, condensing it into a giant fist formed from starlight, and smashed it towards Chen Mo.

Without the protection of the nine-colored illusory light, Chen Mo, even with his powerful physical body, would be shattered by such a terrifying attack.

"Chen Mo, get out of the way!" Xu Nianzhen shouted, but she couldn't help at the moment. She could only watch helplessly as a fist a thousand times larger than Chen Mo's body enveloped him. Then she closed her eyes in despair, not wanting to see Chen Mo's body reduced to ashes.

At that moment, the space seemed to fall silent for a brief instant.

got windy.

However, the wind was incredibly hot, and Xu Nianzhen felt the last trace of spiritual energy in his dantian suddenly "evaporate".

"Wow—"

The sudden, clear cry made Xu Nianzhen open her eyes, and then she saw an extremely terrifying scene.

A scorching gale whipped up towering flames, and ancient totems floated in the viscous, lava-like air. The totem was a three-legged firebird curled up; the instant its wings were unfurled, a golden-red light that scorched the heavens and raged the seas evaporated the clouds for miles around into a crimson vortex. The massive fist, too, was vaporized.
Then, the ancient totem transformed into a stream of light and entered Chen Mo's body. In an instant, a three-legged firebird burst out from Chen Mo's body.

Its third golden claw gripped the void, and each feather transformed into a dancing solar prominence, leaving a winding crack in the sky.

Nine heavenly flames erupted from its throat, transforming into nine dazzling crimson suns hanging in the sky. The sea of ​​clouds boiled like molten glass, and golden-red magma surged from the cracks in the earth, revealing the fiery core of the earth being scorched.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Just then, the Hetu Luoshu descended with waves of suppression, and the nine dazzling crimson suns dissipated one after another until they all disappeared.

The three-legged firebird struggled, but ultimately could not prevail, and even the flames on its body dimmed slightly.

Even so, that powerful aura still made it hard for Murong Niu and Xu Nianzhen to breathe.

"The Golden Crow Dharma Form?!"

As a successor of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, Murong Yuan immediately recognized the three-legged firebird as the three-legged golden crow, a demon emperor who had long been extinct.

Although it was not a real golden crow, but merely a dharma form, it still astonished people immensely.

Chen Mo is a human, so where did he get his Dharma form? It's the Golden Crow Dharma form, no less.

The outside world was in an uproar once again.

It was even more explosive than Murong Niu's manipulation of time, and the crowd erupted in excitement.

"The three-legged golden crow is the Demon Emperor Golden Crow!" someone exclaimed in surprise.

The Golden Crow was the emperor of the demon race during the period of demon beast rule. It was later slaughtered by the spirit race and became extinct even earlier than the dragon and phoenix races under its rule. It was precisely because the Golden Crow died too early that the demon race was leaderless and was replaced by the spirit race.

How could a ferocious beast that has long been extinct reappear in this world?

All the demonic beasts present, including Ancestor Tianpeng, felt a sense of fear and suppression deep within their bloodlines.

"This is not the Golden Crow, but merely a Dharma form." A powerful figure discerned the true nature of this Golden Crow.

“Dharma Form? Isn’t this a method used by the Spirit Clan?” someone said.

It should be noted that when the Spirit Race slaughtered the divine beasts, they stripped away the beast spirits of these divine beasts, refined and cultivated them into their own Dharma forms, and used this to establish the Spirit Race's unique Heavenly Court cultivation system.

"This is the Dharma form of the Spirit Race. How could Chen Mo, a mere human, possibly do this?"

The words of a powerful figure were still on the tip of his tongue when he suddenly remembered something and exclaimed in surprise, "A remnant of the spirit-summoning sect!"

By the way, the Spirit Race has been overthrown and exterminated. The only survivors are the remnants of the Spirit Clan. It's not surprising that the remnants of the Spirit Clan have Spirit Race blood and can use the Golden Crow Dharma Form.

"Chen Mo, he really is a remnant of the psychic sect."

These words immediately caused a huge uproar.

This golden crow dharma form undoubtedly confirms the fact that Chen Mo is a remnant of the spirit communication sect.

For a moment, almost all eyes were on the Owl Clan and Emperor Xuan, who were considered accomplices of the remnants of the Spirit Communication Cult.

The happiest of all were undoubtedly the White Jade Tiger Clan.

"If Heaven wants to destroy someone, it must first drive them mad. Haha, let's see if this kid is still alive now." The powerful member of the White Jade Tiger Clan laughed loudly. The remnants of the spirit-communicating race are the common enemy of both the human and demon races, and they should join forces to eliminate them.

Now, let's see who dares to help Chen Mo.

"Golden Crow?!"

Xu Nianzhen stared wide-eyed at the scene, incredulous. She even wondered if her master had seen through this. If he had, why did he still let her befriend Chen Mo?

If you don't realize it, you might be in big trouble.

"but."

Xu Nianzhen's expression suddenly became complicated. She knew that Chen Mo had exposed the Golden Crow Dharma Form within his body for her sake.

"You're impressive." Murong Niu looked at Chen Mo and said admiringly, then added, "You won this battle, but you're likely to face considerable trouble afterward."

Having said that, he took out a small teleportation talisman, crushed it, and left. (End of Chapter)