Chapter 820: True Name Reaction, Return to the Blue Planet (III)

Looking at the now-relieved white colossal dragon, Chen Chu smiled softly. "Your Highness, thank you for your help these past months. I’m ready to leave this place."

What? You can return already?

the Time Dragon growled with a surprised blink.

Due to differing perceptions of time, what Chen Chu had called “a short period” to break his seals had sounded to the Time Dragon like a process that should take years, perhaps over a decade. After all, it often napped for decades at a time; it hadn’t expected that the human would already be ready to leave in less than the span of a nap.

Chen Chu nodded. "Yes. The power of hell sealed in my body has already been broken. I can now use my Hell Coordinates to jump back."

Since the Time Dragon had been lurking near Deorus’ demonic region, it had surely witnessed him summon the Supreme Hell, so there was no need to hide the matter of the Hell Coordinates. In fact, it likely knew all along, hence why it had believed Chen Chu would find a way back.

Human, wait.

The Time Dragon took a deep breath, then reached out its claw and tore into the scales over its chest.

Boom!

A tremendous surge of power followed as it ripped off a rhombus-shaped scale, over seventy meters in diameter and over thirty meters thick.

The Time Dragon carefully slit open the exposed hide at its chest and let a single drop of radiant silver blood fall onto the scale.

Whoosh!

White flames blazed fiercely from its mouth, and the scale radiated dazzling light as it was engulfed, the blood infused with the Time Dragon’s soul aura slowly merging into it.

Seeing this, Chen Chu stood with his hands behind his back, calm and composed as he waited from afar. In truth, the Hell's Eye had already corroded and broken the supreme principle’s seal more than a month ago. However, he had delayed another month to fully refine his Mark of Temporal Reincarnation.

This journey into the past had been immensely fruitful. In addition to acquiring the Temporal Reincarnation divine ability, his greatest gain was collecting a vast trove of ancient arts, each of which represented a unique path. Though many were incomplete or unfit for direct cultivation, they offered valuable insights that enriched Chen Chu’s foundation.

By extracting the essence of these arts and integrating them with his supreme law, five high-level laws, three divine abilities, and six newly acquired innate traits, he planned to reconstruct his True Demon God Form. This would allow him to reforge it into his own personalized Divine Battle Scripture, tailored to help him ascend from the peak of the heavenly king level to the supreme level.

Even his foundational body enhancement art had been fully deduced to the ninth stage. The next step was to bring it back and test it through actual cultivation.

While he could potentially stay here and cultivate for a few more years or decades—perhaps even advance to the peak of the heavenly king level before returning—he couldn’t afford to delay any longer, as that would risk catastrophe.

The power of time enveloped billions of worlds and stretched endlessly through the infinite past and future, shrouded in mystery. Even a time-based entity like the Time Dragon, one step away from the ancient titan level, had only scratched the surface of temporal power, let alone mastered traversing into the future on its own. Most of the time, it drifted along the edges of fractured time, slipping through temporal rifts.

Both the Time Dragon and Chen Chu had arrived here only because the core of a titan-level time creature had exploded deep within the temporal chaos, triggering a violent disturbance.

Under normal circumstances, being swept up in a temporal storm would land one in some unknown timeline, where the time stream itself would reject them, making return impossible. That was why the Time Dragon had panicked at the time.

Chen Chu was only able to return because his other half, the Destructive Dragon Emperor, served as a temporal anchor, locking onto his original timeline. From there, he could use the Hell Coordinates to jump back. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to pinpoint the exact moment to return even with the coordinates.

If he made a mistake and jumped to a moment before he fell into the temporal storm, two versions of him would exist at once, causing a local time-space distortion. He would then be consumed by time itself, never to return.

If he jumped decades or centuries into the future, the outcome could be just as grim. By then, the human race could have already been wiped out by the Purgatory Clan, and his friends and family reduced to dust. That was a future Chen Chu absolutely could not accept.

For now, with the Dragon Emperor anchoring the timeline, Chen Chu knew only that around ten days had passed in the future. Beyond that, it was uncertain, as his current position in the time stream had grown increasingly chaotic.

At first, during brief moments in the Lost World, only a day or two would pass on the Dragon Emperor’s side. Later, however, even the briefest activity from the Dragon Emperor would cost Chen Chu several days.

The two beings had experienced many instances of mental confusion, halts in thought, and even blank staring fits—sometimes feeling like they were on the verge of madness. So, he couldn't delay any further. Any more, and who knew what unpredictable dangers could arise.

At that moment, the white flames in the Time Dragon’s mouth extinguished. A wave of unseen force lifted a silver scale, now about one meter across, and sent it drifting to Chen Chu.

The Time Dragon let out a low, solemn growl, its tone unexpectedly courteous.

Human, once you return to your timeline, just activate the power sealed within. I can use it to lock onto your position and return. I'm counting on you.

Chen Chu gave a faint smile. "Rest assured, Your Highness. Our human race has always honored its word. What I promised you, I will definitely do. Not only because you helped me twice—I would still help even just for Saixitia’s sake. After all, the Thunder Fiery Colossal Beast it contracted with is a good friend of mine."

Chen Chu’s words eased the tension in the Time Dragon’s heart. It had indeed worried that once he returned to the future, he would forget his promise, leaving it to wander the turbulent currents of time forever.

The Time Dragon revealed a ferocious but human-like grin and softly murmured,

From today onward, the human race shall be a good friend of the great Kurapavida. If you ever need help, Chen Chu, activate the power within that heart-scale. I will grant you one free favor.

"Your Highness, you’re too generous," Chen Chu replied with a smile, though he didn’t decline. This dragon was already half a step into the ancient titan level. Once it fully broke through and its principles transformed, its power would become truly terrifying, especially given its mastery over time itself.

Phew!

Chen Chu took a deep breath. Dark crimson scales surfaced one by one across his skin, and a blood-red eye slowly opened at the center of his brow. In an instant, a brutal aura of bloodlust and ferocity erupted, and endless blood-colored light flooded outward. The surrounding space-time warped violently as the phantom of a supreme world, saturated with blood-red light, emerged and engulfed him completely.

Boom!

Space-time trembled, and Chen Chu vanished in a flash, reappearing in a world where sky and earth alike glowed a deep, dark crimson. The blood-red light was so dense and saturated it resembled liquid blood veiling the eyes. Even with Chen Chu’s enhanced vision, he couldn’t see far.

He could only faintly make out a towering black silhouette as massive as a planet at the world’s edge. It stood amid endless swirling blood light, shrouded within a distorted world phantom.

The moment Chen Chu laid eyes on that towering figure, an overwhelming sense of mortal danger struck him, so intense it felt as though he would be annihilated in the very next instant.

This death premonition was the strongest Chen Chu had ever experienced since the beginning of his cultivation journey.

"Go!"

Boom!

Brilliant blood-red light burst from Chen Chu, the price he had to pay to return to the future. His vitality erupted like a supernova, unleashing a storm of energy that swept across more than a thousand kilometers.

Such dazzling brilliance instantly caught the towering figure’s attention, and with a faint sound of surprise, a terrifying gaze descended.

Boom!

The region where Chen Chu had just stood shattered. Space and time twisted and shook under the force, and the power began to trace the timeline backward, gradually revealing a phantom of Chen Chu.

Just as his projection began to materialize, something was triggered. From high above, beyond the sky, a far more immense will descended.

Bang!

The figure’s gaze instantly collapsed, and then its deep, resonant voice echoed throughout hell, shaking its depths with the might of a vast will. “To think that a lowly level 2 Hell Apostle could actually attract the gaze of the Supreme Hell’s origin will... interesting.”

As the voice rumbled through the void, the colossal figure suddenly moved. With each step, the space around it quaked and distorted. The phantom world that had surrounded it shattered with a thunderous crash, and within it, countless living beings let out cries of utter despair.

It seemed that just now, an entire world had truly been destroyed by that towering figure.