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

Su Chang'an leaped into the forcibly torn spacetime rift.

The greyish-white river water surged back instantly, completely engulfing her.

There was not a sound of waves in the river, and the surroundings were absolutely silent.

Even a body at the peak of the Great Saint Realm is utterly powerless before this grayish-white river.

A peeling sensation that instantly turned the physical body into sand swept over it, and the skin, muscles, and even the soul cried out in despair under the scouring of this force.

Su Chang'an remained completely calm.

The amber spot between her brows suddenly lit up, its intense blue light piercing through the gray-white chaos.

At the same time, the Heavenly Fox essence within her body was forcibly activated, transforming into a rich, dark red stream of light that surged forth along her meridians.

Two completely different top-tier forces intertwined repeatedly on her body, forcibly constructing a double-layered primal shield of red and blue.

This shield washed away the sticky, cold, and all-pervasive passage of time, keeping it firmly at bay.

The greyish-white river water rubbed violently against the shield, bursting into dazzling sparks, but it could not cross the line even half a step.

She tried to speed up through this chaos, searching for Li Changgeng's whereabouts.

But in the long river of time, there is no concept of up, down, left, or right, and even front and back become blurred.

The resistance to going against the current comes not only from the physically heavy river water, but also from the terrifying weight of three thousand years of cause and effect.

The weight of three thousand years of karma pressed down on my shoulders, making it hard to move, and it carried an inescapable stench.

With each step Su Chang'an took forward, the red and blue shields covering his body would emit a cracking sound as they succumbed to the strain.

The surrounding gray river water was frantically squeezing her living space, trying to completely crush this anomaly that did not belong to the past.

The gray-white waves ahead suddenly began to churn violently.

The silhouette of a golden-armored giant, ten thousand feet tall, emerged from the river without warning.

The giant held a tattered halberd, wore blood-stained heavy armor, and his empty eyes exuded majesty.

That was the indelible afterimage left behind by a great emperor who fell tens of thousands of years ago in the long river of time.

Even though it was just a shadow that should have long since vanished, the lingering imperial aura it emitted still struck Su Chang'an's shield heavily.

The red and blue shield trembled violently, and the array patterns on its surface flickered.

Su Chang'an felt a tightness in his chest and a sweet, metallic taste rose in his throat.

The cracks on the shield spread rapidly, almost shattering on the spot.

"He's been dead for tens of thousands of years and still comes out to put on airs. Does he really think this river is his family's ancestral hall?" Su Chang'an sneered inwardly.

She frowned slightly, but quickly regained her composure.

She knew very well that these epic silhouettes were nothing more than traps laid by time.

Once the soul is attracted by its grandeur and lingers for even a moment, it will be completely lost in the past and become a wandering soul in this long river.

She forcibly composed herself, no longer looking at the golden-armored giant, and instead poured all her Yin energy into her eyes.

The deep blue pupils pierced through the layers of gray-white mist in an instant, and in the chaotic spacetime storm, accurately captured the faint dark red aura of calamity ahead.

Those were the traces left by Bai Yin's extremely inauspicious destiny, and also the coordinates of Li Changgeng's counter-current.

Following the aura of calamity, Su Chang'an suddenly accelerated.

But suddenly the river ahead began to spin wildly.

A massive vortex of time lies across her inevitable path.

The center of the vortex is unfathomably deep, where countless fragments of history are churning wildly.

She saw the towering flames of a mortal dynasty's collapse, and the ragged refugees struggling in the mud; she heard the mournful songs that echoed through the heavens and earth as gods and demons shed their blood, and saw the enormous carcasses of monsters falling from the sky.

The power of time, though it doesn't slit throats, it scrapes the bones of the living.

The vortex generated a terrifying suction force, attempting to forcibly drag her, this uninvited guest who had barged into the long river, into those unknown spatial and temporal rifts.

Su Chang'an struggled forward against the suction force, each step leaving tangible ripples in the void.

Just then, a clear image flashed across the barrier of the vortex.

That was the far northern abyss three thousand years ago.

Amidst the heavy snowfall, Gu Tianhu's heart was pierced by 372 chains engraved with runes.

Blood dripped down the chains, staining the ice of the abyss red.

On that face, which was exactly the same as Su Chang'an's, there was no fear, only the deathly stillness and resolute determination after life force had been exhausted.

The despair and tearing pain of that moment, resonating through the shared bloodline of the Heavenly Fox, struck Su Chang'an's mind without warning.

Su Chang'an's movements involuntarily faltered for a moment.

It was this fatal pause that allowed the grayish-white waters of time to instantly breach the gap in her defenses and splatter fiercely onto her left arm.

The red and blue aura of the shield was instantly stripped away.

Large patches of grayish-brown, sandy discoloration immediately appeared on the surface of the fair skin.

The flesh and skin lost all moisture and vitality, turning into fine sand grains that rustled and dissolved into the river water.

The pain was more intense than being slowly sliced ​​to death, as if memories and the soul were being ripped away bit by bit.

The excruciating pain instantly brought Su Chang'an back to his senses.

The ruthlessness in her eyes finally erupted.

In that critical moment, she didn't hesitate to bite her tongue to pieces.

A mouthful of scalding hot Heavenly Fox essence blood gushed out and directly entered the Taiyin Moon Amber between his eyebrows.

The deep-seated restrictions were forcibly activated by this essence blood, and the Taiyin Moon Amber emitted an unprecedentedly piercing buzzing sound.

Instead of releasing this power outward to fight the vortex, Su Chang'an applied the absolute zero cold law in reverse to his physical body and soul.

Under the extreme cold, the red and blue shield instantly solidified into a set of solid law-based crystal armor, which adhered tightly to her body.

Blood stopped flowing, the heart stopped beating, and even breathing and the flow of spiritual energy were completely frozen.

She actually managed to completely freeze her own life force, turning herself into a lifeless object devoid of any life fluctuations, thus forcibly immunizing herself against the terrifying suction force of the vortex of time that targeted living beings.

Protected by the Law Crystal Armor, she ignored the spatial strangulation around her that was powerful enough to tear apart a Great Sage, and relied on pure inertia and physical strength to forcefully break through that massive vortex of time.

With a muffled roar, the vortex of time collapsed behind her, turning into a chaotic torrent of spacetime.

The gray-white fog in front of us finally dissipated.

Su Chang'an got a clear look at Li Changgeng's back.

The skeletal remains, now reduced to white bones, were struggling to cross the greyish-white river on a blood-red ferry formed from the primordial energy of Bai Yin.

Less than a hundred feet in front of him, there was a mirage of heavy snow falling.

A blurry figure in red stands in the phantom; it is the snowfield of three thousand years ago, the end of Li Changgeng's obsession that he has been searching for for three thousand years.

Su Chang'an managed to stand firm amidst the turbulent river of time.

The crystal armor of laws covering the body surface emitted a faint cracking sound, and the frozen vitality began to slowly revive.

She slowly raised her right arm, the Taiyin Magic Sword in her hand pointing straight forward.

The azure sword blade sliced ​​through the viscous, grayish-white river water, stirring up tangible ripples in spacetime.

Li Changgeng, who was in front, seemed to have noticed the unusual movement behind him.

The skeleton standing on the blood-red ferry struggled to turn its head. In its empty eye sockets, the flickering eerie green soul fire flashed violently, revealing an undisguised astonishment and shock.

"You actually dared to chase me all the way here?" Li Changgeng's hoarse voice echoed in the long river, carrying the grating sound of the laws rubbing together.

Su Chang'an's eyes were icy cold.

She did not answer, but simply pressed the blade down slightly.

She has completely locked onto Li Changgeng's causal coordinates.

This distance of three thousand years has finally been reduced to a range within the reach of a sword in this forbidden water that has buried countless gods and demons.

The two men, separated by a hundred feet of greyish-white river, officially began their final standoff.