Time Stop

Let's go back an hour!

Just as countless attacks from the Soul Clan were about to land, a black cat face tattoo appeared out of thin air on Gu Xun'er's wrist.

For a fleeting moment, the entire space and time seemed to stand still.

Or, to put it another way, it accelerated Gu Xun'er's time, extending this moment Infinity.

This allowed her to leap out of time and enter another Timeline Branch in that instant.

"I, I'm..."

Gu Xun'er opened her eyes groggily, but she immediately snapped back to reality.

She remembered; she had been attacked by a man in black.

But Gu Xun'er was shocked as soon as she turned her attention to reality.

She was in a post-apocalyptic scene, surrounded by scree and volcanoes.

Even she...

"Father!"

Gu Xun'er saw her father, who looked anxious.

Gu Xun'er instinctively wanted to pounce on him.

Before she could move even a meter, she felt as if she had crashed into an Infinity wall.

No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't move forward at all.

In her desperation, she began to try other routes, but it was as if she were trapped in a sphere and had no way to escape.

Through her exploration, she also witnessed the current situation.

She and her father were surrounded by dozens of powerful individuals, and countless attacks were about to fall upon them.

Although she didn't know why time had stopped flowing outside, she couldn't leave this place even for a moment.

Looking at this apocalyptic scene, Gu Xun'er could barely make out a trace of what the Ancient Realm used to look like.

She even saw some familiar figures among the ruins.

But now they seem to be dead.

"No, impossible, how could this be?"

Gu Xun'er stared at the scene with a look of disbelief, almost frantic.

What on earth is going on?!

How did the Ancient Realm become like this?

Furthermore, why is she able to move while time is frozen?

Suddenly, she sensed something and quickly raised her wrist.

There, the Black Cat head pattern that should have been submerged under the skin seemed to be breathing, flashing and even slightly warm.

"Sister Zhuqing!"

Seeing this, Gu Xun'er seemed to understand something.

This tattoo was left by Zhu Zhuqing when she was a child. She said it could be used to summon ten Black Shadow Servant to serve her.

Over the years, she has always used it as a token of trust. Although the Black Shadow Soldier are still weak, they have always been her most trusted tools.

But unexpectedly, this mark has now become the guarantee that saved her.

Seeing that the mark was just flashing and had no other effect, Gu Xun'er quickly poured her battle qi into it.

The moment the fighting spirit was injected, Zhu Zhuqing's projection appeared in front of Gu Xun'er.

Zhu Zhuqing should have been in the Flame Realm at this time.

In fact, he is indeed in the Flame Realm right now.

While the Devouring Domain was absorbing the energy provided by the Flame Realm, it also diverted a portion of it to Xiao Yixian and Cai Lin to help them break through.

However, even though she was making a breakthrough, Zhu Zhuqing still didn't forget about the Ancient Clan.

Using the Power of Destiny to peer into everything that happened to the Ancient Clan.

Zhu Zhuqing didn't care about the tragic deaths of the Ancient Clan members, but she still chose to intervene when Gu Xun'er was about to die.

However, she did not directly intervene to save Gu Xun'er.

The reason she took action was entirely because Gu Xun'er truly regarded her as an older sister.

But that wasn't enough for her to personally intervene and save them.

Gu Yuan's choice has already sealed the fate of the Ancient Clan and his own life and death.

She just wants to give Gu Xun'er a choice.

So she used the Time Law to pull her and Gu Xun'er's time apart and created a new Timeline Branch in another place. As long as she can maintain this place, even if she stays there until she dies, when she returns to reality, only a moment will have passed.

Why contact Gu Xun'er through the Black Shadow Mark?

That's because the consumption would be too great without a medium.

As mentioned before, Zhu Zhuqing dislikes invading other people's privacy. Therefore, although the Black Shadow Mark can sense Gu Xun'er's location, Zhu Zhuqing needs Gu Xun'er's consent to project the image onto her.

The moment Gu Xun'er saw Zhu Zhuqing, her eyes reddened, and she instinctively wanted to rush towards Zhu Zhuqing.

But it's obvious how a projection could possibly be touched.

"What exactly happened to Sister Zhuqing!?"

Seeing that she hadn't managed to catch Zhu Zhuqing, Gu Xun'er burst into tears.

She looked as wronged as a 200-pound girl.

"The Hun Tiandi has led the Soul Clan to invade your Ancient Clan..."

Zhu Zhuqing gave a general account of the Hun Tiandi's invasion, but she didn't go into too much detail, otherwise it would seem as if she had known all along but hadn't taken any action.

"Now only you and your father are left in the Ancient Clan. I am still in the Flame Realm and cannot get there in a short time."

The ability to freeze time isn't as useful as you might think. You might perceive someone else as frozen in time, but the truth is that I've Infinity extended your time countless times.

You're out of touch with reality now, and so am I, which is why I can communicate with you.

But because of the time disconnect, you and I are trapped in the Time Crevice, and the real world is like an insurmountable mountain for us.

Neither you nor I can get past this.

So if I want to get to you, I have to undo the time freeze and restore the flow of time to normal, but that would cause you to die instantly, and your father would also perish in the subsequent bombardment.

All I can do now is let you live a little longer.

Zhu Zhuqing was right; crossing space when time is frozen is an extremely difficult thing.

Zhu Zhuqing is not yet capable of long-distance traversal; otherwise, the energy expenditure would be terrifying.

I reckon I won't have any fighting power left once I get to the Ancient Realm. Going there would just be suicide, so let's be more direct.

I just can't go.

"So what should we do now?"

After hearing the whole story, Gu Xun'er was overcome with sadness.

She had originally wanted to ask Zhu Zhuqing if she could come and save them, but when she heard that Zhu Zhuqing was currently in the Flame Realm and couldn't move too far due to the time freeze, she became depressed.

Are she and her father really going to die here today?

Looking at Gu Yuan, Gu Xun'er's tears fell in large drops.

She'd only been home a short while, so why were those damned Soul Clan attacking already?!

Gu Xun'er was just a young girl in her early twenties, and she had always been under Gu Yuan's protection. She was completely unaware of the dangers of the world and did not know how to deal with things when they happened.

"Now you only have two choices!"

Zhu Zhuqing looked at Gu Xun'er and said softly.