Checking in for 100,000 Years

Chapter 758: Chapter 758: The True Form of Time Elder

One can only imagine. A hundred-feet-tall silver sphere of light erupted with innumerable silver filaments, which burrowed into the River of Time, madly surging upstream. What a magnificent sight it was!

Sensing the commotion behind him, the Time Elder glanced over his shoulder and couldn’t help but gasp in shock. ”Such a terrifying Divine Skill!”

The Time Elder’s face filled with terror. He swiftly turned, formed a mystic hand seal, and unleashed a Divine Skill in resistance. ”Time Rampage!”

With his fierce roar, the originally surging River of Time immediately grew turbulent. Innumerable streams of its water morphed into countless Ferocious Beasts, roaring as they charged toward the silver filaments.

After casting this Divine Skill, the Time Elder didn’t pause for breath, immediately turning to flee.

Ye Yun advanced, treading the waves.

SIZZLE! SIZZLE!

The silver filaments from the Thousand Threads Divine Skill instantly dismembered all the Ferocious Beasts formed by the River of Time, reducing them back to water that flowed into the River of Time once more.

At this moment, Ye Yun truly revealed his invincible presence. He was peerless in all the world. Even in this bizarre River of Time, no power could hinder him.

In the River of Time, the Time Elder moved as if a fish in water. His speed was astonishing, almost unbelievably fast. Ye Yun pursued him relentlessly. The distance between them shrank rapidly, and the innumerable silver filaments were now only about a thousand feet from the Time Elder.

An invisible pressure filled the Time Elder with terror and unease. He had never imagined that a Divine Earth Cultivator could be this powerful. His Divine Sovereign Realm cultivation base offered no advantage against this God King Level Cultivator; instead, he was hounded into a state of utter panic and disarray.

Frustrated and aggrieved, the Time Elder couldn’t help but roar at the sky. He gazed into the distance, beyond the surging river water, and seemed to glimpse a vast, indistinct black hole. The River of Time flowed out from this very black hole.

SIZZLE...

The innumerable silver filaments arrived as expected. The first one wrapped around the Time Elder’s waist, swiftly followed by countless more, coiling around every part of his body. In an instant, the Time Elder was thoroughly bound.

”It’s over... I’ve lost...” the Time Elder said, his face dejected. He looked at the distant black hole and sighed with a sense of utter hopelessness, as if life itself had lost all meaning.

He had a premonition: if he could enter that giant black hole, he might be safe. However, luck was not on his side. The Time Elder was now completely bound by that eerie Thousand Threads Divine Skill.

Ye Yun approached.

”If you have the guts, kill me!” the Time Elder roared, struggling fiercely.

”Killing you would be as easy as crushing an ant,” Ye Yun replied with a calm smile.

The Time Elder was still shrouded in many mysteries, so Ye Yun naturally couldn’t kill him yet. Besides, from the very beginning, Ye Yun had never truly intended to kill the Time Elder. The future Palace Master of Changhe Immortal Palace could only be Lu Linlang. The Time Elder could settle for second place.

Seeing Ye Yun make no move, the Time Elder furrowed his brow. Is this fellow’s true target the Changhe Immortal Palace?

”This Changhe Immortal Palace... I can gift it to you. How about you spare my life?” the Time Elder offered. Although he had blustered fiercely, the Time Elder did not actually want to die now.

Ye Yun ignored him and said slowly, ”You—you’ve lived since the last epoch?”

”A God King Level Cultivator from the Divine Land like you... how would you know about the last epoch?” Panic flickered in the Time Elder’s eyes.

”The Ruyi Jade Spider is my Divine Pet. Of course, I know...” Ye Yun replied with a faint smile.

”Sir, you are definitely not from the Divine Land!” the Time Elder stated with conviction, his gaze intense. ”Those people in the Divine Land... they don’t remember anything from an epoch ago...”

”Not necessarily.” Ye Yun chuckled. Then, looking at the blurry black hole in the distance, he grinned and asked, ”You’ve been trying to escape into that black hole. What exactly is inside it?”

”I don’t know either.” The Time Elder suddenly lowered his head, his voice growing heavy.

”You don’t know either? It seems that place is indeed rather peculiar...” Ye Yun’s eyes narrowed slightly as he looked toward the black hole. That black hole was exceedingly mysterious; any Divine Sense that ventured into it would be devoured.

”Young man, the black hole is the origin of the River of Time...” The Time Elder raised his head. His gaze suddenly transformed, becoming sinister and terrifying as he stared fixedly at Ye Yun and said hoarsely, ”It is also the slumbering place of my true self!”

”Your true self?” Ye Yun’s gaze flickered, like two bolts of lightning, as he looked at the Time Elder.

The Time Elder at this moment seemed to have awakened, his expression and bearing completely different from before. The previous Time Elder still seemed human. But now, he was like an Unparallelled Fierce Beast that had just awakened from its slumber.

WHOOSH...

It was as if a cool breeze had swept by. At that instant, the Time Elder’s body suddenly dissolved into particles of time, silently vanishing from within the cocoon of silver filaments.

”Gone?” Surprise flickered across Ye Yun’s face.

The Time Elder’s sudden disappearance likely meant he had returned to his true self. But what is this ’true self’?

BUZZ! BUZZ!

The void around the River of Time suddenly began to tremble inexplicably, as if an Unparallelled Fierce Beast was about to emerge into the world.

Ye Yun narrowed his eyes slightly, gazing at the massive black hole in the distance. It seemed the Time Elder’s true self was finally about to emerge. Treading the waters of the River of Time, Ye Yun advanced a little further in the direction of the black hole.

As he watched, a colossal, curved, black mountain peak slowly emerged from the black hole’s opening.

”Heh, heh... A Divine Earth Cultivator dares to disturb this seat’s slumber? You have some nerve!” A hoarse, cold laugh echoed from within the black hole.

”Come out! Let me see what you truly are!” Ye Yun laughed with great interest.

”Hmph! Ignorant Divine Earth Cultivator,” the hoarse voice retorted. ”Even if this seat’s true form were to descend before you, your insignificant self wouldn’t be able to recognize it!”

As this mysterious voice resonated, the curved mountain peak rose even higher. Ye Yun’s pupils constricted. The black mountain peak now stood tens of thousands of feet tall. It emanated an astonishing temporal power, immeasurably vast and surpassing even the River of Time.

Around this black mountain peak, the ancient River of Time itself seemed to grow turbulent.

”If you don’t reveal your true form, how am I to know your origins?” Ye Yun remained unfazed, replying with a calm smile.

”Very well. This seat shall make an exception and reveal its true form this once. Then, I’ll devour you and return to my slumber...” the hoarse voice chuckled.

At that instant, the black opening suddenly swelled. An unimaginably colossal black behemoth abruptly forced its way out of the black hole.

It was a horned rhinoceros with an extremely ferocious appearance, green eyes, black hide, a white-tipped tail, and four faintly golden hooves. Its black horn, tens of thousands of feet long, radiated a berserk temporal power.

This black rhinoceros was a million feet long, its four legs planted firmly in the roiling River of Time. It resembled a Sea Suppressor Beast, its ferocity laid bare, exuding an indescribable, shocking aura.

”What kind of demon beast is this?” Ye Yun blinked. At this moment, he racked his memory but couldn’t identify this demon beast by name.