"Little Crane!"
Fang Chen was shocked and furious. He had never expected Little Crane, who had been asleep all this time, to erupt at such a critical moment.
But he had no time to think.
The spreading darkness was terrifyingly corrosive. The Time Bell's golden ripples began to dissolve the instant they touched it.
At this rate, the darkness would swallow them whole in three breaths at most.
"I'll have to risk it all!"
A ruthless glint flashed through Fang Chen's eyes.
He stopped trying to suppress the Nine-Colored Halo erupting from Little Crane. Instead, he poured every last drop of his Heaven and Earth Origin into the Time Bell!
Humm!!!
The Time Bell rang louder than ever before!
Every crack across its surface lit up. Vast Dao Resonance of flowing time surged out like a tangible tide, holding back the darkness for the moment.
At the same time, Fang Chen closed his left hand around the Floating Immortal Sword, and heaven-shaking Sword Intent burst forth!
"Slash!"
Fang Chen slashed at the rampaging Violet-Gold Heart!
The strike came without any earth-shaking display. Its Sword Light held a strange, translucent sheen, and wherever it passed, the flow of time fell into chaos.
The Sword Light struck the Violet-Gold Heart.
No explosion. No shockwave.
The Violet-Gold Heart's violent trembling stopped dead.
Then countless fine cracks appeared across its surface, spewing dazzling violet-gold light.
Crack, crack, crunch!
The cracking grew faster and denser.
At last, before the eyes of Fang Chen, the myna bird, and Chi You, the Violet-Gold Heart shattered completely!
But what burst forth was not destructive energy. It was two distinct clusters of light.
One was pure gold, radiating the aura of an emperor who ruled all lands. Countless mysterious runes could be glimpsed flowing within it. This was the