Time Severance

"Looks like you're very confident?" The lean man in silver armor fixed his gaze on Lu Ming, then sneered. "Then I'll show you the difficulty of the fifth level!"

As soon as he finished speaking, boom!

The lean man in silver armor instantly became blurry, while his true body charged directly before Lu Ming as though teleporting. Murderous intent blazed in his eyes as he shouted, "Die!"

The blood-red spear transformed directly into a gloomy blood-colored vortex, enveloping Lu Ming as it pierced toward him!

"Chi chi~"

Wherever the blood-colored vortex passed, the surrounding space seemed to twist strangely!

In reality, this move did not affect space, but the temporal force field around it. Its name was... Time Severance!

Time Severance, like Space Severance within the Space Law, was an extremely terrifying move within the Time Law. It possessed two great advantages: its speed was swift and unpredictable, while its offensive power was overwhelming!

"Time Severance? Sorry... I know that move too!" Facing the lean man's murderous expression, Lu Ming curled his lips into a mocking smile.

"What!" Only at the instant his attack was about to pierce Lu Ming's body did the lean man notice that, at some unknown moment, Lu Ming's figure had likewise become strangely indistinct!

Without question, Lu Ming had also used Time Severance, yet he had not noticed it at all.

"Where is he?" The lean man's expression changed drastically. The blood-red spear in his hand abruptly changed direction like a train switching tracks, sweeping across the void ahead as he rapidly retreated!

As he retreated, he fully unleashed his mental power, consciousness, and senses, frantically searching for Lu Ming's true body!

There were no "phantom bodies" in the applications of the Time Law, but there was the concept of "illusory bodies." So-called illusory bodies referred to Past Bodies and Future Bodies derived from fluctuations in the Time Law.

Thus, whether it was the lean man in silver armor just now or Lu Ming, what they had left behind to confuse their opponents had merely been a Past Body. Their true bodies could seize that opportunity to move freely and launch deadly attacks!

"Chi!"

Just as the lean man in silver armor searched for Lu Ming's true body, suddenly—

A blurred figure appeared at his side almost as though teleporting. At the same time, a terrifying spear tip carrying the force of thunder abruptly entered his sight.

"Not good!" The lean man in silver armor hurriedly swung his blood-red spear to block the attack while retreating rapidly once more!

"Chi~" Yet the blurred figure struck by his blood-red spear dissipated like a bubble.

Not good, that was also an illusory body!

The lean man's mind went blank for an instant. Then he lowered his head and looked at his chest. There, a brilliant azure spear tip stained with his blood suddenly protruded from it.

"When?" The lean man's face turned pale as he spun around, finally finding his opponent's true body behind him.

However, by then, life and death had already been decided!

Boom!

A terrifying surge of silver energy erupted from the spear shaft that had pierced through the lean man's chest and back, instantly blasting his body apart!

Fifth level, cleared!

"Time Severance also has its levels..." Lu Ming smiled faintly as he looked ahead.

The tornado before him abruptly dispersed, revealing the Tongtian Bridge extending upward toward the sixth level. Lu Ming turned into a streak of light and swiftly flew along the bridge.

Tongtian Bridge Plane, central island.

After watching Lu Ming fight his opponent on the screen and easily kill him once again, the more than one hundred Immortal Gods felt almost suffocated.

"The fifth level! He really cleared it!" Twilight King's arms, which had been folded across his chest, unconsciously fell apart as he stared fixedly at the young figure on the screen.

The other Super Experts who understood what had happened were likewise overwhelmed with shock. "Not only can he leave behind a Past Body to confuse his opponent, he can even create a Future Body to interfere with the enemy... This is... this is simply unbelievable!"

Creating Past Bodies and Future Bodies were both Movement Technique applications under the Time Acceleration branch of the Time Law.

The former only required one to use Time Acceleration to leave one's original position, automatically leaving behind a Past Body. The latter, however, required one to actively invoke the Time Origin Law and shape one out of thin air, creating a Future Body that was difficult to distinguish from reality. The difference in difficulty was enormous.

The mere ability to create a Future Body already meant that his comprehension of the Time Origin Law had entered a new stage.

"Amazing! He has practically mastered Time Severance perfectly. Whether in Movement Technique or spear attacks, he completely toyed with the fifth-level guardian!"

"He has absolutely comprehended the first diagram of the Cosmic Extreme Chaos Tablet to its ultimate perfection. He has likely attained profound comprehension of the second diagram as well. Otherwise, there is no way he could have cleared the fifth level so easily!"

"Three years!"

"Only three years! He wasn't even in the Initial Universe. How could he have improved so much?"

"It's truly unbelievable!"

After analyzing the extent of Lu Ming's improvement, the Immortal Gods present simply could not believe it.

Ordinary geniuses improved more slowly the further they progressed. Yet Lu Ming's rate of improvement had only become more terrifying!

A woman beside Twilight King with crimson feathers spoke seriously. "He did not seem to struggle much when clearing the fifth level. The sixth-level guardian might not be able to stop him either!"

"In the past ten million years, not a single genius has cleared the sixth level during their time in Chaos City." Queen Butterfly, clad in pink battle armor with three pairs of transparent wings, had shock filling her beautiful eyes as well. "And... he still hasn't revealed his trump card!"

Every Immortal powerhouse who had watched the Genius Battle knew that Lu Ming's greatest strength was not merely his comprehension of the Time Origin Law, but the fusion laws he had touched after mastering the Huo Suo Codex!

Three years ago, he had already grasped a trace of the Thunder-Time fusion law.

After three years, would there be further progress?

Although comprehending fusion laws was thousands or even hundreds of thousands of times more difficult than comprehending a single Time Origin Law, when the target was Lu Ming, no one dared guarantee that he would not create another miracle!

Hearing Queen Butterfly's sigh, the other Immortal Gods fell silent. They had nearly forgotten that what this little monster was most famous for was the fusion laws that even they feared.

At the end of the sixth level of the Tongtian Bridge.

The endlessly rotating tornado spoke. "Choose your opponent: warrior, controller, or illusionist. Choose one. Defeat them, and you may enter the seventh level."

"Warrior!"

Holding the Quenching Star Spear, Lu Ming looked coldly at the burly man before him, who wore silver armor and a silver mask.

The man in silver armor held a silver spear and sneered. "A young man at the first rank of the Universe level has come to challenge the sixth level. You're quite confident."

"Use all your strength. Otherwise, once I attack, you won't even have the ability to resist."

Lu Ming laughed coldly. "I'll return those words to you!"

"I hope your strength matches your bravado."

The man in silver armor stared coldly at Lu Ming.

Whoosh!

At some unknown moment, the man in silver armor had already moved. He was as fast as lightning, and the silver spear in his hand resembled a meteor from beyond the heavens, instantly tearing through the sky.

Yet where he had originally stood, a "man in silver armor" was still sneering as he spoke.

If his opponent had foolishly remained there listening to his taunts, his true body would likely have already killed them by now.

The sixth-level opponent's main attack method was still Time Severance. However, this guardian's mastery of the move had clearly reached an extremely profound level.

In terms of Movement Technique, he could even control an illusory body to make sounds and confuse his opponent.

The reason was that this guardian's depth of law comprehension far surpassed that of the fifth level.

The second diagram of the Cosmic Extreme Chaos Tablet was far more profound and powerful than the first!

The sixth level of the Cosmic Extreme Tongtian Bridge represented the strength one should possess after attaining a basically qualified comprehension of the second diagram.

"Chi~"

Within Lu Ming's senses, he "saw" the man in silver armor rush toward him with a blurred silver afterimage, moving at extreme speed as he launched a killing attack. The silver spear tip contained a palpitating aura of the Universe Origin Law.

In an instant.

Space twisted, forming blurry spear shadows. The flow of time descended into chaos, making those spear shadows incomparably ethereal and impossible to trace!

Clang!

A crisp collision of weapons echoed through the void.

At the critical instant, an incomparably dazzling streak of silver spear light abruptly lit up. It seemed slow, yet it instantly blocked the incoming silver spear tip.