Time seemed to flow backward as his consciousness was drawn into a magnificent, surging river.
The river water was transparent, countless scenes flowing within it.
Just like in the legends—after death, one's mind would play back a fleeting panorama of one's life like a recording device.
The feeling was too wondrous.
At that moment, Lin Heng saw many scenes, even some he had never witnessed before.
He saw himself as an infant, and he saw that azure planet.
Was that the Buried Immortal Ancient Star?
It looked even larger than he had imagined.
He also saw the scenes of himself and the Female Emperor battling wits and courage, and the game between himself and Xiao Muyu in the Netherworld.
At last, the image froze on the instant Heaven Punishment shattered his fleshly body and reduced him completely to ashes.
Stop, Lin Heng silently commanded.
But the river seemed to ignore him, continuing to surge onward.
"I said, stop."
Lin Heng's will abruptly erupted. The Human King Dao, the Heaven Punishment Dao, the Imperial Dao—all the power inscribed upon the Chaos Pearl was mobilized in that instant, transforming into invisible colossal pillars that smashed viciously into the river of time.
Rumble!
The river water suddenly stalled. Lin Heng felt as if his consciousness were about to be torn apart by the backlash. Even without a physical body, the searing agony from the depths of his soul still made him tremble.
The rejection of the laws was too terrifying. Time did not permit interference.
But if it could not be interfered with, how could he speak of mastering the laws?
It became a false proposition.
"Trying to wash me away?" Lin Heng clenched his teeth as the Chaos Pearl erupted with a blinding gray-white radiance. "I'll put down roots right here."
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