Before everyone had fully recovered from the battle with the Elemental Chaos Mo, an even more astonishing phenomenon occurred—the time of the Immortal and Mortal Realms actually began to flow backward!
After the Elemental Chaos Mo had been defeated, all things that had gradually begun to regain vitality now fell back into decay. The leaves on the trees rapidly yellowed and fell, flowers and grass withered, rivers dried up, and the earth cracked apart. Worse still, everyone's power continued to drain away in this backward flow of time, as though their lives were being siphoned away bit by bit.
Faced with this sudden change, everyone was utterly stunned. They remembered the ancient book from before, yet it now lay like a dead object, utterly unresponsive. Still, they all knew that the Time Reversal Demon had to be behind this.
The Time Reversal Demon was an existence hidden within the river of time. Formless and intangible, it could control the direction in which time flowed. Like a ghost, it silently changed everything.
The Divine Bell's sound waves lost their effect within the reversed time. The power that had once intimidated evil demons became soft and feeble. The divine sword's radiance also gradually dimmed beneath time's erosion, as though even it could not withstand the force of this backward current.
The inheritors and the mysterious old man were frantic. They sat together, racking their brains for a solution. Yet the reversal of time slowed their thoughts as well, making every idea take longer to consider and express.
Just as everyone was consumed by anxiety, an inheritor suddenly had a flash of insight. He thought of a crucial point: although the Time Reversal Demon could turn back time, it could not stop the will of life!
This thought was like a glimmer of