Nothing under heaven was more merciless than water and fire.
The power of the Great Daos of water and fire could give life to all beings—or destroy heaven and earth.
As Divine Lords Zhurong and Gonggong joined forces to drive the power of water and fire against the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor, he made time his blade. With a single sweeping slash, the vast torrent of water and fire went from being to nothing as time flowed onward, vanishing like smoke.
"Nothing under heaven is more merciless than water and fire. Yet heaven and earth are merciless too, and time is the cruelest of all."
"Have you forgotten how you were defeated ten thousand years ago?"
As the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor spoke, the blade of time in his hand swept toward them again.
"Heaven Blade: Reversing Time."
The blade of time slashed across the heavens and earth of Buzhou. In an instant, the River of Time manifested within the Buzhou World. Its rushing echoed through heaven and earth as years flowed backward. All across the vast world, time reversed—the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor had turned back time for an entire world.
Zhurong, Gonggong, Qiangliang, and Tian Wu felt time's might once more. In the blink of an eye, as heaven and earth changed color and time flowed backward, the four Divine Lords were torn from the bodies of Zhang, Third Crown Prince, and the others. They returned straight to the state of Remnant Souls.
The four Divine Lords' expressions changed sharply!
They had been no more than wisps of Remnant Souls to begin with. Only by borrowing the bodies of Zhang, Third Crown Prince, and the others had they barely attained their present cultivation. Though even a Mahayana cultivator would struggle to escape the four of them together, they