eurekapd Chapter 595: Time and Space... Is Freezing?
Chapter 595: Time and Space... Is Freezing?
Emperor Chiyan's voice was low, as if he was asking himself, or questioning some established fact.
He squatted down and stretched out his hand covered with red scales. Instead of touching the jade pendant directly, he hovered an inch above it. Then he closed his eyes and sensed it carefully.
An extremely faint, almost imperceptible spatial ripple was spreading outward very slowly from the jade pendant. If he were not a top emperor who controlled the power of fire and space, he would not be able to sense it at all.
"No, Qi Mo..." The Red Flame Emperor slowly shook his head, the muscles on his face tensing up instantly. "The 'anchor point' may have been ignited, but it hasn't disappeared. It simply... shifted form, or... a deeper 'fuse' was activated."
As a crazy thought flashed through his mind, he suddenly looked up, his gaze piercing the empty space, "Shao Ze, that brat, used the last of his soul and the remains of the Xuanyuan Sword, not to block the crack, but... to detonate that 'trigger'!"
"He is forcibly pushing the 'existence' that he has nailed to the node of time and space!" When Emperor Chi Yan came to this conclusion, he felt his scalp tingling!
Qi Mo's heart suddenly tightened: "Push? Push where?"
"I don't know!" The Red Flame Emperor suddenly stood up, his voice carrying an unprecedented heaviness and a hint of...anxiety. "This is the most fatal thing!"
"He foresaw this moment, set up this scheme spanning ten thousand years, and even used his own sacrifice as the final push! But what was the end point he foresaw? A spark of hope? Or a catastrophe that would consume everything? Even he himself probably couldn't be completely certain! He was simply gambling! Gambling with everything!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the space-time void that had been hissing suddenly shook violently without any warning, as if... it was responding to his horrifying guess!
"Om-!"
A far duller and more oppressive vibration than before emanated from the depths of the hollow, instantly sweeping across the entire Guanghan Palace! The remaining pillars of the hall groaned under the weight, and the ice crystals on the dome suddenly shattered and fell straight down.
The next second, an indescribable aura emanated from the void. It wasn't the pollution and decay from before, nor was it pure nothingness.
It was a kind of... cold, dead silence with a certain heavy sense of "order"? It was like... billions of years of ice had frozen time itself!
Even more terrifying was the faint flicker of light from the dried, solidified blood on the half-piece of jade pendant with the Chinese character "Yuan" on the ground. A cold, silver-gray light, thinner than a hair, flashed across the solidified dark crimson, so quickly it felt like an illusion.
"Look!" Qi Mo's pupils suddenly shrank and he pointed to the ground at the edge of the hole.
Around the charred marks at the edge of the hole, the ground, which was condensed by moonlight and harder than pure gold, was silently covered with a thin layer of grayish-white... frost?
The frost, with a cold, metallic sheen, spread outwards at a speed visible to the naked eye, extremely slowly yet relentlessly. Wherever it passed, even the turbulent currents of space seemed to be frozen and stagnated.
"Zizi..." An extremely subtle sound, different from the previous pollution and erosion, like the condensation of ice crystals, rang out in the silent hall, making people's bones chill.
Emperor Chi Yan stared at the spreading gray-white frost, then glanced at the jade pendant on the ground that was flashing with a strange light, and his expression became extremely ugly.
He suddenly raised his head and looked at the fake starry sky outside the dome of Guanghan Palace, which was maintained by divine power. He squeezed out a voice that seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth: "Time and space... are frozen?"
"No! It's some kind of 'rule' that's covering it! The fire that Shaoze lit... didn't bring about fire, but... the end of winter that freezes everything?!" Qi Mo spoke, interrupting him.
He suddenly lowered his head and looked at his clenched fists. On the red scales, a few tiny gray-white ice crystals with a metallic luster condensed!
Qi Mo only felt a chill, a hundred times stronger than before, rushing from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.
He subconsciously looked towards the bottomless void, as if he could see behind the cold and dead silence that froze everything, a pair of eyes belonging to a higher "order" that looked down indifferently on all living beings.
The storm... This bitingly cold storm, which froze time and space, had already stirred up the first deadly snowflakes. And they didn't even know who the enemy was or where they were.
The Red Flame Emperor took a deep breath, which condensed into a white mist in the cold air. The molten flame in his eyes rose again, but this time, it was no longer burning with anger, but with a determination to fight to the death.
He ripped open the tattered collar of his shirt, revealing an ancient and complex divine flame mark branded in the center of his chest.
"Qi Mo!" The voice of the Red Flame Emperor was like the beating of a war drum, dispelling the chill in the surroundings. "No time to mourn! Pick up that damned half of the jade pendant! Go to Xuanji Terrace! Find Su Mohui! Find out where the hell Shaoze has finally pushed the 'anchor point' to! I'll stay here and see just how tough this 'eternal ice' thing is!"
Before he finished speaking, flames erupted from his body, transforming into a violent fire tornado that roared towards the spreading gray-white frost!
The crimson flames collided violently with the cold gray, making a harsh "hissing" sound and the explosion of energy annihilation. Ice chips and sparks flew everywhere, temporarily curbing the expansion of the frost.
But the frost will come again.
........
At the same time, at the bottom of the gray world.
Ever since Xiaoguang broke through to the divine level in the destined place last time, he had gained an opportunity, and his divine power naturally gave rise to the puppet Lihuo.
This cyan-gold flame can not only burn the gray fog, but also control the purified energy and transform it for its own use.
At this moment, Ji Lingguang was using the puppet Lihuo to force the last group of gray fog that was still resisting into a dead end, and was about to clear it out completely.
On the side, Taotie had already turned into its original form as big as a hill, lying lazily on the side licking its paws.
"belch--!"
Suddenly, the beast let out a deafening burp, and a stream of air spurted out from the corner of its mouth, carrying the smell of burnt food. Even more speechless, the air stream was wrapped with half a blackened pizza, which fell to the ground with a "plop".
"It's already this late, and you're stealing mortals' tributes again?" Xiao Guang's voice was filled with helplessness. He had just stepped out of the Abyss of No Return when the Puppet Blade in his hand flashed with a cold light, almost slicing directly onto the tip of Taotie's huge nose. "Xu Yuan's tentacles are almost poking at the entrance of the Gray Realm!"
"I'm innocent!" Taotie swung his tail and hastily explained. His movements were so excessive that half a piece of undigested, greasy wrapper flew out of his mouth. "It was a fragrance wafting from a place called 'Yonyu', and I couldn't resist... so I took a small sip..."