Chapter 972: Breaking Free!

Everything came to a halt.

The radiance of sun, moon, and stars dimmed, and the Primordial Chaos Starry Region sank into profound darkness.

Those within the bizarre mist watched as everything fell into silence.

Slowly, high-ranking Gods like the Duke of Thunder, Bai Zi, and Xing Huan realized they could no longer move. Even their thoughts grew sluggish.

Yi Hao's terrifying divine technique, wrought through the profound truths of time and space, had even penetrated the barriers of the abysses!

The power of time and space froze the denizens below.

Even the swirling bizarre mist stilled under Yi Hao's divine technique.

God King Yi Hao's mastery over time and space had reversed his disadvantage entirely.

"I am its spokesman and its most favored follower. Naturally, its blessing to me is greater than all others." Yi Hao unhurriedly rose upward from the starry region.

Luo Hongyan's divine aura was like a frozen sea, the Dao-infused lightning within it motionless, and its surging tides of divine power still.

Yi Hao's towering body flew straight toward Pang Lin, unhindered.

He did not spare Pang Jian a glance, and even Luo Hongyan was worth only a second of attention. Most of his focus was locked on Pang Lin alone.

Pang Lin had already lost her phoenix body, and her human body had yet to step into the Exalted God Realm. Despite this, he regarded her with the greatest wariness.

"You've disrupted my plans again and again. You're the only one who has ever truly caught me off guard."

The first person he sought to kill was Pang Lin.

Pang Lin stood as tiny as a mote of dust. The massive Illusory Void Realm hovered behind her, and her hands grasped the Eye of Destruction and the Spear of Ruin. However, these three divine artifacts could do nothing in the face of Yi Hao's restriction on time and space.

Pang Lin's cold eyes were dim, a sign that even her will and thoughts were being bound. The blood in her veins congealed, and her divine power was utterly suppressed.

The three Heavenly Daos of Time, Space, and Fate made for a terrifying combination.

Her fading consciousness desperately searched for a way to unravel the temporal seal.

If only I still had my phoenix body. If only my human body were in the Exalted God Realm, if only...

If only...

Gradually, her racing mind slowed, leaving her struggling to piece her thoughts together.

Yi Hao stared down at Pang Lin from high above. His apathetic eyes were filled with the hauteur of a supreme being gazing down upon a mere believer.

"An existence as ancient and proud as you has long since lost all reverence for it. That's something it will never allow.

"The one in the bizarre mist has never won a single war between them. That was, is, and will always be its fate.

"Did you truly think you could resist it by joining hands with the one below?" Yi Hao mocked. "Did you honestly think you could stand as its equal?"

The silver eye turned upon Pang Lin. The supreme will of the starry skies sought to unravel her every thought through her reflection in the eye.

"It's useless. Neither you, Fu Ya, Tian Yu, nor even a God King like Yan Hao can break free from it. Not even I can."

Yi Hao pointed a finger at Pang Lin.

Radiance condensed into a blade at his fingertip, ready to obliterate her with no chance of rebirth.

Pang Lin's mind lay silent.

The seal of time and space meant she heard none of Yi Hao's words. There was no way for her to fight back.

"You nobly sacrificed yourself for others, but that still changed nothing.

"Luo Hongyan is unworthy to stand against me, even after fusing light and darkness as one. Her divine soul is just too weak, leaving her vulnerable to my sealing of time and space.

"This ends here."

The blade of light streaked toward Pang Lin, carrying the will to annihilate all things. Its brilliance turned silver as though woven with the supreme will of the starry skies.

In this battle above the bizarre mist, countless Gods had fallen, and two Sovereigns lay dead. Even Luo Hongyan, a God King, remained frozen in time and space.

Yi Hao was certain that no one in the starry skies and the bizarre mist was capable of unraveling his temporal seal.

The locking of time and space meant even the seeds of nirvanic rebirth within Pang Lin lay dormant. Pang Lin was as good as dead in his eyes.

Light flared across the starry region.

Yi Hao, taken aback, instinctively turned his head toward the light.

The light came from Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul, flaring from deep within his eyes, at first faint and scattered, then stoking into a rapid blaze.

Sentience flared in Pang Jian's gaze like a constellation of stars. The light in his eyes reignited the dimmed stars, two suns, and three moons in the starry region.

The temporal seal tore apart!

"Impossible!" Yi Hao yelled, heart trembling in disbelief.

The starry region stirred back to life.

A blinding radiance erupted from Luo Hongyan. A world of light and darkness unfurled before Pang Lin, intercepting the will-annihilating blade of light.

Yi Hao's silver blade pierced through that world, only for another to take its place.

Nine worlds shattered one after another. The tip of the silver blade chipped away with every successive world until it disintegrated into nothing.

Clarity had returned to Luo Hongyan's eyes.

Casting an astonished glance at Pang Jian, she murmured, "So, you broke the restriction."

She found it inconceivable.

Pang Lin, having narrowly escaped death, could not help but smile. "It seems I was right in my gamble."

No one could fathom the true meaning of her words, nor what gamble she spoke of. Nevertheless, she was still alive.

A colossal, multicolored body manifested beneath Pang Lin, its shoulder lifting to bear her small frame.

It was none other than Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul!

𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

"It can't be you!" Yi Hao cried out in shock. "You cannot possibly have the power to break free of the temporal seal!"