Tang Dynasty Demon Suppression Division

"Its power is enough to overturn the laws of spacetime in this area."

Li Yuan took a deep breath and nodded: "Understood."

The next moment, Yan Ji's figure reappeared from the blade. The crimson phantom looked at Li Yuan with a carefree smile: "Kid, remember this, you owe me one."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Ji's figure transformed into a crimson stream of light and disappeared into Li Yuan's brow.

"boom--!"

Li Yuan felt an immense and unparalleled power surge into his limbs and bones, like a flood bursting its banks.

His meridians ached from the strain of this force, his dantian spun wildly, and his aura surged dramatically in an instant.

Peak of the Core Formation Realm...

Early stage of the Qi Condensation Realm...

Mid-stage of the Qi Condensation Realm...

Late stage of the Qi Condensation Realm!

In just a few breaths, his cultivation level was forcibly raised to the late stage of the Condensation Realm.

Li Yuan clenched his fists, feeling the surging power within his body that was almost overflowing.

He had never felt such power before, as if he could move mountains and fill seas, and tear the sky apart with the slightest gesture.

He did not revel in the pleasure brought by this power; he knew it was only temporary.

He must accomplish the most important task before his strength dissipates.

Li Yuan calmly closed his eyes, immersing his mind in the depths of his consciousness to communicate with the long-silent bronze palace.

"The Palace of Myriad Realms..."

"Li, lend me a hand!"

As if sensing his call, the bronze palace's serpentine mark on its gate suddenly lit up, emitting a dazzling seven-colored light.

A vast, ancient power surged from the depths of the palace, merging with the power infused by Yan Ji, and flowing into Li Yuan's limbs and bones.

Li Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.

In his pupils, it seemed as if the sun, moon, and stars were shifting, and the world was changing.

He reached out and made a light swipe across the chaotic space in front of him.

"The power of time".

"Tracing the source!"

With his low shout, an invisible ripple spread outwards from him in all directions.

Where the ripples passed, the distortion of space began to subside, and the flow of time became clearly visible.

An illusory long river slowly appeared before Li Yuan.

It was a river composed of countless fragments of time and space, with countless lights and shadows flowing in its waters.

There were scenes of miners sweating profusely in the mines, scenes of cultivators setting up formations to forge bronze doors, and scenes of the sect leader and Zhong Yuanzi holding a blood sacrifice ceremony in the desolate valley.

There were also images of golden-veined earth beasts struggling painfully within the formation... Countless fragments of time, like grains of sand in a river, flowed past Li Yuan's eyes.

Li Yuan's gaze travels upstream along the river of time, searching for his own temporal and spatial coordinates.

Just then, a loud shout rang out behind him.

"Kid! Leave the knife behind!"

Ignoring his severe injuries, the sect leader suddenly burned his cultivation power, and golden cracks appeared on the surface of his body, emanating dazzling golden light. A violent aura spread from his body.

He was even willing to burn his own cultivation foundation in order to seize the Nameless Blade.

"Give it to me!"

With a greedy look in his eyes, his body transformed into a golden meteor, rushing towards Li Yuan.

"Don't even think about it!"

Leng Ning Shuang shouted sharply, forming a hand seal. A huge ice wall rose up in front of her, blocking the sect leader's path.

"Get out of here!"

The sect leader struck out with his palm, shattering the ice wall with a deafening roar. Leng Ning Shuang let out a muffled groan and flew backward, crashing heavily into the rock wall, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

"Senior Sister Leng!"

Ji Fanghua's expression changed drastically. She brandished her sword and stepped in to stand between Li Yuan and the sect leader.

"You little brat, you're asking for it!"

The sect leader formed his five fingers into claws, and with a shrill whistling sound that tore through the air, he grabbed at Ji Fanghua's head.

Ji Fanghua did not dodge.

She knew she was no match for the sect leader, but she had to buy time for Li Yuan.

Ji Fanghua resolutely held the short sword horizontally in front of her, pouring all the spiritual power in her body into the sword, preparing to take the sect leader's claw head-on.

Just as the sect leader's claws were about to grab Ji Fanghua's head...

"Found it!"

Li Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.

In the long river of time, he finally found his own coordinates in space and time.

At this moment, Ji Fanghua's mind became completely clear as she faced the sect leader's claw that could tear through the air.

At the critical moment of life and death, her dormant spatial talent was fully activated under the threat of death.

In an instant, she felt everything around her slow down. The sect leader's claws left twisted trails in the air, the spiritual energy fluctuations in the air became clearly discernible, and even the texture of space itself appeared in her perception.

She stretched out her hands and gently clasped them together in front of her.

"Space Cage".

"seal up!"

With a clear shout, the space in front of her suddenly began to twist and fold, like a crumpled piece of paper.

The sect leader's determined claw, though less than a finger's width from Ji Fanghua's face, seemed to be blocked by an invisible barrier, unable to strike.

The sect leader's expression changed: "Spatial magic!"

"You actually comprehended spatial magic at a time like this?"

He desperately channeled his spiritual power, and golden light shone brightly on his claws as he tried to forcibly tear apart the invisible spatial barrier.

Although Ji Fanghua's understanding of the spatial cage was still immature, it had already touched upon the essence of the spatial laws, preventing him from breaking through in a short period of time.

However, such an excessive amount of supernatural power caused Ji Fanghua's face to turn pale rapidly.

After all, with her current cultivation level, forcibly using the spatial cage would consume a great deal of her energy, and the spiritual power in her body would be rapidly depleted like a flood.

Her body began to tremble slightly, blood trickled from the corner of her mouth, and she looked like she was about to collapse.

Just then, a hand pressed against her back.

A stream of pure spiritual energy flowed into her body, replenishing her nearly depleted dantian.

Ji Fanghua turned around and saw that Leng Ningshuang had struggled to stand up at some point, her face as pale as paper, but her eyes were unusually firm.

Don't get distracted.

Leng Ningshuang's voice was somewhat weak, yet it carried a reassuring power: "Focus on maintaining your spatial cage. Leave the rest to Li Yuan."

Ji Fanghua gritted her teeth, nodded, and refocused her attention, doing her best to maintain the spatial cage.

Time seemed to stretch out at that moment.

Every breath felt incredibly long.

Ji Fanghua felt her consciousness begin to blur, her vision blurred, and the spiritual energy being supplied by Leng Ningshuang behind her was becoming weaker and weaker. Clearly, she had reached her limit.

Just when the two were about to give up.

"Time Reversal!"

Li Yuan firmly locked onto that spatial coordinate, which was a beam of light that flickered with a familiar aura amidst countless chaotic fragments of spacetime.

He stretched out his right hand, faced the light, and clenched it tightly.

"open!"

A vast power erupted from him.

That power, like an invisible wave, swept in all directions. Wherever it passed, the distortion of space began to subside, the disorder of time began to return to its proper place, and those wandering fragments of spacetime, as if being pulled by an invisible hand, returned to their original positions.