No Concept of Time, Simple Spatial Overlap?

"Come out," I said softly.

Then the black shadow appeared before me.

I pointed at the eight Void-Breaking Houn clones ahead of us. "Can you deal with them?"

"Yes. I can devour them all."

"No, you can't do that. If it's gone, you won't be able to go back either." Time Houn naturally knew what Dark Matter and I were talking about, and it hurriedly jumped out to stop us.

I knew what it was worried about. It feared that if Void-Breaking Houn were devoured by Dark Matter, it would no longer be able to merge with Void-Breaking Houn and become Time-Space Houn again.

If it could not turn back into Time-Space Houn, then it would have no way of sending me back to my original world.

As for Dark Matter's method being devouring, I understood that perfectly well too.

"Other than devouring them, do you have any other way?" I asked the black shadow. It said there was no other way. Its method was the simplest and most direct.

"Then what do you think I should do? You saw it too. Even Di Ting might not be able to hold out. No matter what, I can't let anything happen to Di Ting. Otherwise, I won't be able to answer to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva."

I was not bluffing. That was exactly how I felt.

One against eight, Di Ting and the eight Void-Breaking Houn faced each other in a standoff. Neither side made the first move.

The other side probably knew that taking down Di Ting in one stroke was impossible.

Void-Breaking Houn would definitely suffer losses. If Di Ting truly fought desperately, who knew how many of those Void-Breaking Houn would be lost?

Di Ting slowly backed away, yet the eight Void-Breaking Houn did not follow. The two sides had