Chapter 3026: I Sever, I Sever, Sever!

"Zhi Zun, save me."

Wai Yu Tian Di howled in desperation, attempting to escape, but Ye Chen's single palm strike was overwhelmingly powerful, enveloping the heavens and earth and turning that entire space into a forbidden zone. He could not break free from the restraints.

Zhun Huang Tian Mo completely ignored the cry for help, capable of intervening but simply unwilling to act. A mere Tian Di like that — let him die.

This dismissal was a death sentence for Wai Yu Tian Di. Ye Chen's sacred body apocalypse palm had already descended.

Thud!

Wai Yu Tian Di's yuan shen was instantly obliterated into ashes, without so much as a ripple from start to finish. He quickly followed the path of the two Wai Yu great emperors, embarking on the road to Huang Quan.

In his final moments, he finally understood regret, cursing his decision to come seeking thrills and opportunities, only to lose his life instead. He hadn't even managed to throw a single attack.

Boom!

After dispatching the three minor foes, Ye Chen crossed the vast expanse in a single step, charging into the battlefield of destruction. Without a word, he channeled Yong Heng and swung his sword to strike.

"Insignificant ant, how dare you presume to rival the heavens."

Zhun Huang Tian Mo sneered coldly and struck Ye Chen with a palm, sending him flying.

That palm was extraordinarily forceful, nearly annihilating Ye Chen entirely. Only Yong Heng sustained him; otherwise, he would have been reduced to dust.

"Zhun Huang beating a Tian Di — where does that sense of superiority come from?"

Ye Chen's voice rang out resolutely. He was like an unkillable cockroach, dragging his blood-soaked sacred body as he advanced over the Yong Heng Immortal Sea. Forming a yuan shen sword with Yong Heng, he slashed across the heavens.

Unfortunately, though his yuan shen was strong, it created no ripple when it entered Zhun Huang Tian Mo's divine sea.

Clang!

The Female Emperor arrived, her sword destroying heavens and earth.

"Not bad, you've got some skill."

Zhun Huang Tian Mo chuckled darkly, manifesting demonic malice in his hand.

However, before he could strike, he felt a sealing force applied to him. It was weak enough to be negligible, but it disrupted his rhythm all the same.

The one who cast the seal was Ye Chen, fierce in battle and equally adept at supporting the Female Emperor.

Precisely because of this seal, Zhun Huang Tian Mo's attack was delayed by the slightest fraction of an instant.

And in that fraction, the Female Emperor's sword reached him, striking straight for his head.

Thud!

The blood light of Zhun Huang Tian Mo's injury flashed brightly then, a bloody hole pierced through the center of his forehead.

"Die."

Zhun Huang Tian Mo grinned ferociously, his demonic body trembling violently as a dark aura spread, knocking the Female Emperor away and shaking Ye Chen off as well.

Following that, two demonic lights pursued Ye Chen and the Female Emperor, encircled by laws.

Thud! Thud!

Bloody light erupted in the eastern and western voids alike. The Female Emperor was hit, and Ye Chen could not escape it either.

"Exterminate!"

The Female Emperor uttered a soft command, using Yong Heng to sever the demonic power that had invaded her body — it was no ordinary force.

"Exterminate!"

Ye Chen snorted coldly, attempting to eradicate the demonic power, but he failed. That power was eerily persistent, instantly etching into his imperial body like an indelible brand.

In an instant, he regressed from his youthful form to that of a boy.

In another instant, he shifted from boy to child.

"Time laws?"

All the emperors and divine generals paled, with Di Huang's gaze the deepest, recognizing the nature of the assault on Ye Chen.

It was indeed the time laws, incredibly strange and domineering, capable of dissolving a living person into the river of time. The world might remember you, but you would never have existed, erased from the very root.

"You're something else."

Ye Chen cursed inwardly. He was familiar with the laws of time, having long integrated them into Yong Heng, but not to this level.

Still, thinking he could erase him like that was wishful thinking.

He forcibly reversed it with Yong Heng, transforming back from child to boy, and from boy to youth, shattering the demonic power.

Not only did he break it, but he also gained a moment of enlightenment.

This enlightenment pertained to time and space, and ultimately to shi kong itself.

"Space is the node, time is the trace."

"Space and time form shi kong; nodes and traces create positions, manifesting as the ming ming imprint."

"I've got it."

In the outside world, only a moment passed, but Ye Chen's mind raced with countless thoughts, his eyes gaining a spark of insight as various laws took shape.

Now, looking at the Yong Heng sword in his hand, it hummed and vibrated, entwined with a hint of shi kong essence.

"Behold the sword!"

Ye Chen suddenly raised his hand, swinging the Yong Heng sword and tracing the ming ming imprint to strike.

Uh!

Zhun Huang Tian Mo, still locked in battle with the Female Emperor, let out a muffled groan as a bloody gash appeared on his chest.

"Crossing shi kong."

Zhun Huang Tian Mo narrowed his eyes slightly, realizing the type of attack he had just endured, caught completely off guard.

The one crossing shi kong to attack him was Ye Chen.

This stemmed from his recent enlightenment. Zhun Huang Tian Mo had failed to erase him from existence, instead granting him a heavenly opportunity that sparked that insight.

This opportunity was crossing shi kong.

In his previous strike, he had subtly swapped the concepts of time and shi kong, directing his sword at the void but targeting the prior instant's Tian Mo.

In essence, this crossing shi kong attack only spanned a single instant, given his current level of understanding.

To put it simply, if he fully mastered crossing shi kong, he could strike back eight hundred years.

Of course, no one would recklessly use crossing shi kong unless absolutely necessary, as it could disrupt history — the longer the span, the greater the chaos.

As the saying goes, pulling one hair moves the whole body; altering history would affect the future, for better or worse, beyond anyone's control.

"Crossing shi kong — works like a charm."

Ye Chen glanced at Zhun Huang Tian Mo, his eyes lighting up with delight. Even with just a superficial grasp, he had landed a strike on Zhun Huang Tian Mo.

"Truly astonishing and heaven-defying."

The Female Emperor murmured softly. She was familiar with crossing shi kong attacks — more precisely, the true Female Emperor knew them — but due to certain restrictions, she could not employ such divine abilities herself.

If it were the true Female Emperor, she could unleash it with a casual wave.

"I chop, I chop chop chop."

Ye Chen bellowed wildly, gripping his Yong Heng sword and slashing chaotically in another stretch of void sky. That void seemed empty except for him.

The scene looked like he was just swinging at air.

The divine generals watched in astonishment, and the emperors in shock.

Why ignore Zhun Huang Tian Mo and hack at thin air? Was he blind, or just putting on a show?

But they had no idea that Ye Chen was not striking air — he was targeting the previous instant's Zhun Huang Tian Mo.

Time never stopped flowing; the prior instant, though past, existed in time and shi kong.

Existence meant reality.

And Ye Chen was striking that prior instant. Whether Zhun Huang Tian Mo was present now didn't matter; even if he were eight million li away, the strike would still land.

That was the terror of crossing shi kong.

Having endured three such attacks, Zhun Huang Tian Mo felt it deeply and now realized just how effective it was.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

In the other void, Zhun Huang Tian Mo was far from at peace. Every crossing shi kong strike from Ye Chen added another bloody gash to his demonic body. In just three to five instants, his form was covered in sword marks.

The worst part was that this attack was impossible to guard against completely — one could block the current second but not the previous one.

"Who dares attack me?"

Zhun Huang Tian Mo's expression grew more ferocious. As a Zhun Huang emperor, he was clueless about crossing shi kong, not being on the level of a generational sacred demon, making it hard to defend.

"I chop, I chop chop chop."

Amid his rage, he heard the shouting. Glancing sideways at the other void, he saw the small sacred body wildly wielding the Yong Heng sword, its power domineering and its cries loud. Each swing added another sword mark to his demonic body.

"It's him."

Zhun Huang Tian Mo gritted his teeth and charged straight toward that direction. He had gravely underestimated Ye Chen — it was more than underestimation. After withstanding his time demonic light without being erased, Ye Chen had even mastered crossing shi kong, even if only for an instant. It was enough to torment him.

Someone like that had to be killed this second, not left for the next. With him causing chaos, there was no peace to be had.

"Where do you think you're going?"

The Female Emperor stepped across the heavens, blocking Zhun Huang Tian Mo's path. With Ye Chen's divine support, their chances had improved greatly. Perhaps they could truly slay the Zhun Huang emperor.

"Get out of my way."

Zhun Huang Tian Mo roared, thrusting a palm forward.

But before his palm could unleash its full might, another sword mark appeared on his chest — it was Ye Chen's crossing shi kong strike. Perhaps due to its force, it made him stagger back half a step.

Because of that, the power in his palm waned, allowing the Female Emperor to dodge easily. Her sword from above nearly severed one of his arms.

"Very, very good."

Zhun Huang Tian Mo laughed in fury, enduring Ye Chen's crossing shi kong attacks as he stepped beyond the heavens and pointed a demonic beam remotely at Ye Chen, ignoring his imperial body and targeting his yuan shen directly.

The Female Emperor manifested instantly, positioning herself in front of Ye Chen. Her crystalline jade hand swept across the sky, each of her five slender fingers wrapped in law forces — and not just one kind.

The Tian Mo's finger strike was obliterated by her palm.

"I chop, I chop chop chop."

Ye Chen's shouts continued to echo powerfully.

Though Zhun Huang Tian Mo was ten thousand li away, it made no difference to Ye Chen, as he could locate the previous instant's ming ming imprint of Zhun Huang Tian Mo in shi kong.

Thus, Zhun Huang Tian Mo was like a living target; his location didn't matter. Ye Chen struck him sword after sword, relentlessly and without defense.

Regrettably, crossing shi kong had its drawbacks.

The drawback was the reduction in power. Since it was a crossing shi kong attack, the force came from the past in shi kong, where much of it was dissipated by shi kong itself — the longer the span, the more power lost. If not for that dissipation, he would have been killed on the first crossing shi kong strike.

It was also because his comprehension of crossing shi kong was incomplete that even this instant-spanning attack lost very little power, though it still couldn't truly gravely injure Zhun Huang Tian Mo — it was merely aiding and disrupting.

He couldn't imagine how incredible those who crossed centuries or even millennia must be. Aside from power loss, navigating such vast shi kong could cause the ming ming trajectory to deviate, making it hard to hit the mark.

Though he thought this, his hands never stopped. Sword followed sword, each more domineering than the last. Whether it was a Tian Di or Zhun Huang, he chopped as if his life depended on it.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

More sword marks appeared on Zhun Huang Tian Mo's body. His indestructible imperial form had powerful regeneration, but it couldn't keep up with Ye Chen's barrage — one gash hadn't healed before another formed.

Because of this, the Female Emperor seized every opportunity for thunderous attacks. Only Zhun Huang Tian Mo knew the agony.

"Break for me!"

Zhun Huang Tian Mo bellowed.

As a Zhun Huang emperor, his reputation was well-earned.

He channeled time laws within his body, directly severing the previous instant. Even if the prior second's self was heavily wounded, it wouldn't affect him now.