By the time he reached the spot Ji Yan had designated, the passage of "time" had reached its most extreme effect...
And Lu Dao had become a seven-year-old child.
From Lu Dao's own perspective, he had truly endured more than twenty terrifying years!
Even more terrifying was the fact that,
What looked like a distance of a dozen or so steps had, from Lu Dao's perspective, taken him more than twenty years to walk on his own two feet—a journey of over fifty thousand kilometers!
The torment of "time" and "space" was far more terrifying than simply dying...
Numb and seeking atonement, Lu Dao had held on through a terrifying strength of will far beyond that of ordinary people.
The direction Ji Yan had pointed him in had become his guiding beacon for those twenty-odd years... Dragging his oversized clothes, Lu Dao finally stood at the designated spot!
Before him lay an eerie head—
The head was badly rotten, its mouth and cheeks split open, yet it continued frantically releasing the privileges of "time" and "space," spreading their reach...
"Do you see it?" Ji Yan called to Lu Dao, who was only a dozen or so steps away.
Yet those words seemed to come from more than a hundred thousand meters away, then pass through the flow of time. Lu Dao could not hear them at all...
Lu Dao turned to stare at Ji Yan's location and activated the [Golden Ox Totem] without the slightest hesitation.
His hand, covered in "absolute collapse," touched the "eerie head."
The head showed no signs of cracking. Only a faint spitting sound came from its mouth...
The backlash from the [Golden Ox Totem], however, struck Lu Dao's eight-year-old body with tremendous force.
The tender flesh of his arm burst apart like jelly, instantly becoming