Oppressively powerful Time-Space Rule fluctuations continuously radiated from the center of the altar.
As Saine continued walking toward the altar's center, he felt ever more deeply the scouring and baptism brought by the Arcana of Time Rules.
These Time Rules foretold that Saine was about to travel to the time-space of twelve million years ago.
At the very moment those Time-Space Rule Ripples reached their most violent frequency, the Purple Colony Demon Emperor, who had been providing the Time-Space Altar's formation with her utmost support, transformed into a streak of purple gloom and flew to Saine's side.
In the end, she became a flower ring hanging from Saine's shoulder.
Though it was called a flower ring, this thing's true nature was the Civilization Supreme Treasure, the Barren Touch Root.
No one knew what the Purple Colony Demon Emperor had done with it over the years, but the Barren Touch Root, originally shaped like tree roots, had somehow been used by her until it took the form of a flower ring.
With the Purple Colony Demon Emperor's powerful support and the ceaseless golden energy flowing from the Magic Cube, Saine held his breath, focused his mind, and took another step forward.
Then, the surroundings abruptly changed.
Everything was flowing backward!
Gradually, Saine could no longer see Zi You, Lisa, Thales Cansin, and the others outside the Time-Space Altar.
Power that transcended time and space continually surged past him.
At that moment, Saine felt incomparably small.
Even though he had already reached the life level of a Level-8 Peak being and possessed such outrageous Truth Arcana as fusion with the God of Machines, when facing the endless river of time—
Saine felt that he was still only a tiny grain of sand within it.
And what Saine faced was merely the twelve