Soul Town: Claiming the throne? You've asked my Tian Ce Army, haven't you?

Shi Yan remained standing in the same spot, simply holding his pocket watch in front of him, and a pale silver barrier of time unfolded out of thin air.

All the sword rain that fell on the barrier froze instantly, then slowly dissipated.

"Kid, don't waste your energy..."

Li Shimin's voice suddenly rang in Li Moxuan's mind, "This guy is hiding his strength. He's not at the fifth level of Immortal Realm at all, but at the ninth level of Immortal Realm..."

Chapter 411: You win this round.

what?

Li Moxuan was completely stunned. The Ninth Realm of Immortality? Where did Karen find this monster?

Seeing him stop, Shi Yan also stopped, snapped his fingers, and time around them instantly froze, everyone except Li Moxuan standing still...

"Don't worry, I mean no harm. I just don't want anyone else to interrupt our conversation..."

Shi Yan walked up to Li Moxuan and extended his hand, "Hello, my name is Shi Yan!"

Seeing that he seemed to have no hostility towards him, Li Moxuan sheathed his sword and grasped his hand, "Lingyan..."

"This shouldn't be your real name, right?" Shi Yan smiled faintly and released his hand. "But it's alright, it's normal to be on guard, I understand..."

What do you want to do?

Li Moxuan looked Shi Yan up and down, somewhat confused about the man's purpose in doing this.

"I want to make a deal with you!"

"What deal?"

Shi Yan had a faint smile on his face. "Although I can see the past, present, and future, I cannot change the course of history. I can only be an observer."

"Even if you knew about some of the future disasters, you could only watch them happen. But now it's different. I've found a breakthrough!"

Li Moxuan asked with a surprised expression, "The breakthrough point you're talking about, it can't be me, can it?"

"That's right!"

Shi Yan nodded. "Originally, the future I saw was predetermined, but you are different. You are like someone who appeared out of thin air!"

"This means your future is uncertain, and you can change it, so I need your help to avert a future catastrophe..."

"What calamity?"

"Twenty-four years later, the Yellow Emperor's guardian spirit and Chi You's guardian spirit will descend to the Great Thousand God Realm at the same time, and these two will trigger a war in the future!"

"Isn't war a normal thing?"

Li Moxuan stared at Shi Yan. Could this guy be a peacemaker, preventing a war from breaking out? What about his future plans then?

"Wars are indeed quite normal in the Great Thousand God Realm, and can even be quite interesting, but the war started by these two has spread to the God Realm..."

Shi Yan sighed, "I can't go into details, but a series of chain reactions led to the largest divine war in history breaking out between the major divine domains of the God Realm!"

"This war of the gods broke the barrier between the divine realm and the Great Thousand Divine Realm, allowing countless evil gods and demons imprisoned in the Great Thousand Divine Realm to enter!"

"The divine realm was too preoccupied to attend to this matter, resulting in widespread suffering and even affecting the entire human realm..."

Shi Yan shrugged. "Although I find the Great Thousand God Realm quite boring, this is still my hometown, and I don't want to see it in that godforsaken state..."

Hearing him speak so seriously, Li Moxuan secretly asked Li Shimin, "Emperor Taizong, is what he said true or false?"

"I can't see the future, how would I know?" Li Shimin wasn't sure either. If it were true, he might really need this kid to be the one to break the deadlock...

The voice of Emperor Gouchen suddenly rang in Li Moxuan's mind, "Child, ask him how the Heavenly Court is doing in the war of the gods?"

Li Moxuan agreed and asked, "How is the Heavenly Court doing in the War of the Gods?"

"I don't know the specifics, but according to Cronus, it seems that they destroyed Takamagahara and severely damaged Olympus and Asgard!"

"But many of the gods in Heaven have also perished, even the Ziwei Emperor, one of the Four Emperors..."

ha?

Li Moxuan was stunned. Even the Ziwei Emperor was gone? How fierce must the divine war have been?

In contrast, Li Shimin appeared very calm, seemingly unconcerned about these matters, while Emperor Gouchen was lost in thought, unable to quite understand.

Ziwei is a civil official in the Heavenly Court, while I am a military officer who went to the battlefield. I am fine, so how could he have perished? There must be something fishy about this!

"How can we stop this disaster? Kill those two guys?"

Li Moxuan knew both of the people Shi Yan mentioned: one was Jiang Mingxuan, and the other was Ji Haoxuan, Su Xuanwei's older brother. If possible, he still didn't want to use assassins...

Shi Yan patted Li Moxuan on the shoulder, "I'm just an observer. It's up to you to decide what to do!"

"As consideration for the deal, you win this match. Also, come find me after this match, and I can help you with something within my power..."

"But if I just admit defeat like this, that girl's position as pope will probably be unstable. I'll stay at the fifth level of immortality. Let's put on an act!"

After speaking, Shi Yan snapped his fingers, and time began to flow again. Everyone stared at the two on the battlefield in a daze. When did they switch positions?

Li Moxuan took a deep breath, and the void behind him shattered, revealing the majestic Emperor of Fengdu. He held a jet-black imperial sword, its blade engraved with the patterns of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

"The Emperor of Fengdu? Then why don't you show yourself, Cronus!"

A pale silver light appeared, and Kronos slowly emerged from behind him, extending a hand to grasp a gleaming Time Scythe.

"Come on, let's settle this in one move!" Shi Yan's tone remained relaxed; he didn't want to act too much, lest he give himself away.

The Emperor of Fengdu behind Li Moxuan raised his Imperial Sword high. Countless golden runes surged from the sword, condensing into a gigantic sword shadow in the air.

"Emperor Sword Shatters Spirit!"

The Emperor's sword, wielding a devastating force, slashed fiercely at Cronus.

Kronos gently swung the Scythe of Time, unleashing a pale silver scythe beam that clashed fiercely with the Emperor's Sword.

"boom--"

The aftershocks of energy swept across the entire battlefield, dust was blown everywhere, the phantom of the Emperor's Sword vanished instantly, and the phantom of Kronos also swayed slightly.

Li Moxuan's eyes narrowed, and he concentrated all his divine power into the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword. The sword transformed into a pitch-black vortex, and the phantom of the Six Paths of Reincarnation could be vaguely seen.

"Six Paths of Reincarnation Slash!"

Shi Yan was stunned for a moment when he saw the slash. Was this kid serious? This stance... he wondered if he, at the fifth level of the Immortal Realm, could withstand it...

He held the bronze pocket watch tightly in his hand, and all the flowing lines of time converged at his fingertips, forming a silver blade as thin as a hair.

"Time Slash in an Instant!"

The silver light blade may seem ordinary, but it contains the power of time to sever everything.

"boom--"

The two forces collided violently. The silver light blade cleaved through most of the Reincarnation Slash, but was shattered by the remaining force.

The dark aftershocks of the cycle rushed straight towards Shi Yan's heart. He hurriedly dodged to the side, but was still hit on the left shoulder by the aftershocks.

A trickle of blood escaped from the corner of Shi Yan's mouth, his silver-gray trench coat was ripped open, and Kronos vanished along with it.

He staggered back two steps, clutching his left shoulder with his left hand. His bronze pocket watch fell to the ground, the hands of which briefly reversed direction before quickly returning to normal.

Shi Yan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, stood up, and said with a hint of resentment in his eyes, "You won this round..."

Chapter 412: Quite Interesting

"What?!!"

Karen couldn't hold back any longer. It was one thing for a fifth-level Immortal Realm cultivator to lose a direct clash with a third-level Immortal, but what did it mean to just admit defeat? Were these two just putting on an act?

"No, this round doesn't count!"

He stepped forward, pointing at Shi Yan and objecting, "He was clearly bribed and deliberately lost to that guy!"

"That's right!"

Even the gods who supported Karen stood up to object, saying, "This is unfair! How could a god of immortality at the fifth level lose to a god of immortality at the third level?"

"I also think there's something fishy going on..."

"Bullshit! I think you just bet on the wrong person and don't want to pay!"

"..."

The scene immediately descended into chaos. Upon seeing this, Rock smiled faintly, but as the host, he did not step in to stop it; instead, he chose to observe the situation quietly.

"See! I told you I'm not good at acting..."

Shi Yan sighed, snapped his fingers again, and time and space around him stopped once more. To Li Moxuan's astonishment, he began the massacre.

Shi Yan conjured a short blade in his hand and walked step by step toward the audience. With each slash, he cut a large gash on the neck of the Su Shen Ren who had just led the opposition.

However, due to the time freeze, they only had cuts on their necks, and no blood flowed out...

"Haha, this guy is interesting!"

Emperor Gouchen's tone was full of keen interest, "I'm a little curious about what he'll be like in the future!"

"This is outrageous!"

Even Sylvia, who is the host of Gabriel, was immobilized and unable to move. It's one thing to be at the ninth level of immortality, but to play with time is just too unfair!

"Don't be too surprised. This guy was able to kill those people because they were going to die soon anyway; he just accelerated that process..."

Li Shimin remained remarkably calm, saying, "Someone like you who can live for a very long time is someone he can't do anything about!"

"And after killing those people, he still had to personally carry out what they had done before they died, making the whole thing a closed loop, which was very troublesome!"

"But if he doesn't do that, he will no longer be able to see the past and the future, and the gods will discover that he has disrupted the timeline and punish him!"

Is it that complicated?

But thinking about it, it makes sense. If such abilities had no limitations, wouldn't we all become homeless?

Shi Yan finished quickly, and casually chopped off Karen's left arm. He then snapped his fingers calmly, resuming the flow of time.

Instantly, the people in the audience who had just been opposing the gods had large amounts of blood gushing from their necks, and they clutched their necks and convulsed uncontrollably.

"What, what's going on?"

"Ken, it must be God's punishment; their actions have angered God!"