Boom!
The entire spacetime crevice shook violently!
In the distance, the faintly visible phantom of the River of Fate suddenly surged into towering waves!
Countless points of fateful light flickered, vanished, and re-formed within the waves. A vast, indifferent will beyond description swept across the area!
Was it a disturbance born of the River of Fate's own laws?
Or had Fang Chen and the others caused a tiny but real ripple through their actions here, especially by collecting the Fate Mist Dust?
There was no time to think. The phantom waves swept toward them with the power to scour away, correct, and erase all anomalies!
If those phantom waves struck them, they might suffer confused memories or a shift in their paths of fate. Worse, they could lose themselves in endless possibilities and become sustenance for the River of Fate!
"Not good! Is this Fate Backlash, or just a coincidence?"
The Myna bird's expression changed in horror.
Fang Chen's pupils contracted. He was at the crucial point of collecting the dust and could not stop now, or all his efforts would be wasted!
Yet ordinary defenses would be almost useless against the oncoming waves of fate!
At that hair's-breadth moment, he made an extraordinarily bold decision!
He devoted most of his focus to keeping the Jade Bottle collecting the dust. At the same time, he drove the Floating Immortal Sword into the space between himself and the oncoming phantom waves!
He did not expect the Floating Immortal Sword to devour all that immense power of fate. He hoped it would create a buffer, weakening or even deflecting the conceptual impact!
Hum!!!
As though it sensed its master's resolve and the unprecedented challenge before them, the Floating Immortal Sword burst with a light brighter than ever!
The faint traces of rust