At the summit of the river of time and space, the weighty chaos qi surged and churned.
On the Origin Continent beneath the two figures, endless flames of war raged everywhere. Heaven and earth crumbled.
"You and I must fight one day."
The figure of Origin Heaven remained indistinct, shrouded in the radiance of time and space, its form impossible to make out. "I will hold nothing back in this battle. If you die because of it, the future as it was meant to be will change."
"The path I take is for me alone to decide. It has nothing to do with fate. The paths all other living beings take should likewise be theirs to choose."
Shi Lan shook her head slightly, her back straight, endless immortal radiance behind her. "The outcome of this battle is already certain. Past and future alike are in my grasp."
Her arrival here was a foregone conclusion. She was to bear the past and support the future in her palm.
The river of time and space surged with terrifying waves. Origin Heaven said no more. Boundless divine light burst from its body; the entire Origin Era seethed as immeasurable, mighty source power flowed back from the ages of antiquity and gathered at the origin.
In an instant, Origin Heaven struck decisively. It severed the river of time and space, drawing a boundary around them and isolating a chaos battlefield. Blazing divine runes formed shackles that crashed down on Shi Lan. The shackles contained the foundation of the entire era, their might enough to suppress the heavens of antiquity—a sight that shook the world.
The many Sovereigns within the river of time and space never sensed the battlefield, separated from them by endless stretches of time and space. They continued slaughtering their way through