Summoners: One Golden Term per Level

He stared fixedly at the calm figure at the edge of the Domain.

Shen Fei, along with the silver-haired girl beside him, who had just closed the Space Channel and whose aura was slightly chaotic, had eyes burning with fire that seemed about to ignite the Void.

He knew he was finished.

Not only did he fail to take revenge, but he also became the ironclad evidence for Ao Spirit to strike against him and seize power within the Dragon Race. Initially, Shen Fei already had a complex and unclear relationship with Ao Spirit.

And now.

He had also become one of those hunting Shen Fei.

A massive sense of humiliation and the anger of being completely calculated engulfed his reason in an instant.

Ao Lie’s roar, filled with humiliation and fury, still echoed on the chaotic battlefield’s edge. His massive Dragon Body trembled slightly due to extreme anger, with dark golden vertical pupils locked tightly on Shen Fei.

The tip of the [Sea-Sundering Dragon Spike] gleamed with a destructive chill, as if ready to charge forward at any moment.

”Elder Ao Lie!” A steady yet undeniably penetrating voice, like cold stone, instantly overrode Ao Lie’s roar and penetrated his chaotic conscious sea.

It was the Jade Master!

This veteran Profound Immortal of the Yuqing Dao Lineage, despite being on the edge of the [Annihilation Monarchy: Courtyard of the End], enduring the Eternal Night Erosion and phantom harassment, had eyes that reflected everything with cold insight.

He didn’t know the specific reason Ao Lie intruded, nor did he have time to scrutinize the plans of the Dragon Maiden and Shen Fei.

But he instantly grasped the key point.

At this moment, Ao Lie, like them, had become mortal enemies of Shen Fei and his Companion Spirit, with no way back!

”No matter the reason you’re here, there’s no turning back now!”

The Jade Master’s divine thought pierced like icy steel pins into Ao Lie’s enraged Divine Soul, ”In Shen Fei’s eyes, you, Ao Lie, are the rebel dragon colluding with the Abyss and us of Yuqing to hunt important figures of the Human Emperor Palace!”

Ao Lie’s massive Dragon Body suddenly stiffened, and the fury in his vertical pupils was replaced by a sudden cold fear.

The Jade Master’s words, like the sharpest Ice Cone, shattered the reason veiled by hatred and humiliation.

Indeed, regardless of his intentions, he did tear apart the Space-Time Anchor Array, and the Dragon’s Might he unleashed after entering impacted Shen Fei’s defensive circle—these facts were undeniable.

Once Shen Fei returned alive.

He could firmly establish Ao Lie as an ”accomplice.”

The East Sea Dragon Race... the Dragon King... He dared not imagine the consequences of this news returning to the Dragon Palace!

”If Shen Fei leaves alive, he will make this all public.”

The Jade Master’s voice, like the Nine Nether Cold Wind, carried a naked threat and temptation.

”You will be the traitor condemned by the entire Dao Realm! The East Sea Dragon Race will be shamed because of you and might even face annihilating disaster!

The only way is to keep him here permanently, obliterating both form and spirit!

Let all evidence be annihilated with the collapse of this battlefield! Only then will you have a slim chance of survival! Only then can your Dragon Race clear itself from involvement! It’s your only choice!”

A desperate struggle!

The Jade Master had precisely grasped Ao Lie’s greatest fear.

Being nailed to the pillar of shame as a realm traitor, implicating the Dragon Race.

He was forcing Ao Lie to completely tie himself to the war chariots of Yuqing and the Abyss, to make a final desperate fight!

Ao Lie’s massive dragon claws gripped the [Sea-Sundering Dragon Spike] tightly, knuckles turning white from the excessive force, muscles beneath the Dragon Scales bulging prominently.

Humiliation, anger, fear, and that ”way out” depicted by the Jade Master.

Ravaged his heart wildly. His vertically flaming eyeballs focused on Shen Fei, calm at the center of the Domain, ultimately turning into sheer madness and violence.

”Roar——!!!”

A dragon roar filled with endless suffocation and destructive will exploded! Ao Lie no longer hesitated, his massive Dragon Body, cloaked with the world-breaking power of the Ancestral Dragon Spike.

Actually charged proactively toward a relatively weak area at the edge of the [Courtyard of the End], targeting Shen Fei directly! ”Shen Fei! Prepare to meet your doom!”

Just as Ao Lie, seduced by the Jade Master’s words, fell into a frenzy of counterattack.

At the battle’s core, Shennong didn’t pause for even a moment. In one hand, he tightly held the ”Ring of Time,” streaming with bands of time light, and in the other, he supported the ”Agricultural Time Fragment” wrapped in verdant Divine Light, his figure like lightning, retreating to the side of the Jasper Pool in an instant.

The Ring of Time appeared in the hands of the Jasper Pool, while Shennong himself was merging the ’Agricultural Time’ Fragment.

The next moment.

A hint of gravity appeared on the breathtakingly beautiful face of the Jasper Pool, where the mysterious vertical line containing the Path of Time between her brows sparkled brightly like a star.

She raised her delicate hand, invoking the phantom of her own [River of Time], transforming it into a gentle stream of time that lightly wrapped around the ”Ring of Time,” initiating the fusion of her own ’Celestial Music Grotto Heaven’ with the ’Ring of Time.’

The passage of time, in itself, was the world’s melody, with all things sinking into its rise and fall.

Buzz——!

An unprecedented gentle radiance burst forth from around the Jasper Pool, turning into countless fine bands of time light like living entities, winding proactively around her arm, integrating into her body.

Within her body, it was as if a sluice to the source of the River of Time was opened, an incredibly pure flow of time Origin power rushing in.

The vertical line on her forehead flickered intensely and deformed, eventually transforming into a miniature mark of an ”Hourglass of Time” with grains of Time’s Sand flowing within!

Her aura escalated continuously, as her understanding of the Time Law was like receiving divine enlightenment, instantly reaching a whole new height.

In her cold eyes, the time veins reflected were clearer and more subtle than ever.

The chaotic Time Abyss Poisonous Sand Fog, in her eyes, was no longer an unordered torrent, but strands that could be combed, guided, and even controlled.

”Control time with time.”

The Jasper Pool’s lips parted slightly, her voice seemingly carrying the echo of time.

With her fingers styled like a sword, she pointed distantly at the core of the tumultuous, raging dark purple Time Abyss Poisonous Sand Fog!

What flowed from her fingertips was no longer an aggressive Time Law, but a higher level, a time rhythm with the essence of ”combing” and ”smoothing.”

This rhythm, like an invisible comb, gently yet firmly penetrated the furious chaotic flow of the Time Abyss Sand.

The Time Abyss Sand Mist, which originally twisted time like boiling poisonous liquid to create chaos, when touching the time rhythm released by the Jasper Pool, acted like a ferocious beast injected with a tranquilizer.

Some regions of chaotic time flow were forcibly straightened and slowed down; some regions with time discord were forcibly corrected and healed;

More so, some regions’ poisonous fog was faintly guided by the Jasper Pool’s will, countering the control of Lord of Decay Agemon and Chaotic Shadow Sargeras over it!

The power of the Time Abyss Sand was greatly weakened and disrupted.

Its interference with the [Annihilation Monarchy: Courtyard of the End], and the overall distortion of the battlefield’s time flow, instantly dropped a level.

With this deterioration here and improvement there, the pressure on the Stabbing Immortal to maintain the Domain suddenly eased, with the Dark Barrier seemingly solidified a bit more.