As everyone decided to retreat, Yu Tiancheng stepped forward.
"I want it." His voice was unusually calm, yet filled with unwavering resolve. "This will be my third Spirit Ring."
"Are you insane?" Dugu Bo growled. "This Daynight Qilin has at least twenty-five thousand years of cultivation! Its space-time abilities are unpredictable. Even I can't guarantee I'd get out unscathed!"
Liu Erlong said anxiously, "Tiancheng, we can find another Spirit Beast. There's no need to—"
"Aunt, Senior." Yu Tiancheng cut her off as silver-white Soul Power began to rise around him. "My Time Dragon Emperor Martial Soul shares the same source attribute as its power. If I don't even dare fight it, how can I reach the peak someday?"
"And besides... it wants me, too."
Sure enough, the Daynight Qilin's gaze was fixed entirely on Yu Tiancheng.
An almost "greedy" emotion showed in its strange eyes. It could sense the pure space-time origin within Yu Tiancheng—a perfect source of nourishment for its evolution.
"Roar—!"
The low growl sounded nothing like a beast's cry. It was more like the hum of space-time being shaken.
The scene in the clearing began to change wildly.
On the left, plants grew at a frantic pace, then withered as the cycle accelerated. On the right, all things stood frozen; even the air had stopped moving.
The Daynight Qilin took a step forward. A blazing white beam shot from its left eye, instantly aging and rotting every tree in its path. Its right eye fired a pitch-black beam, and the rocks it touched began to "grow backward," their weathered surfaces turning smooth again.
"Time Acceleration and Time Stasis!"
Dugu Bo was aghast. "It can actually control two opposing forces of time at once!"
Rather than retreat, Yu Tiancheng advanced. His First Soul Ring lit up—his Ten Thousand