As Lu Li silently reflected, changes quietly began to occur.
With the challenged target having vanished, and no victory or defeat available to be determined, the barrier generated by the Challenger Card was immediately affected as well.
As a strange prompt—[Challenged Target Time Node Error]—popped up on the Data Panel, the Challenger Barrier surrounding Lu Li swiftly dissolved into nothingness.
Lu Li fell into brief thought.
It seemed that what Black Star had used was not a method similar to the Rule Changer.
His ability to evade the Yin-Yang Life-Extinction Slash should have something to do with time.
Within the Challenger Barrier, all Talent Abilities, equipment, and items were rendered equally ineffective.
Even the mythic-quality pseudo-unique Golden-Ring Broadsword lost all its traits, becoming nothing more than a weapon made from fairly decent materials.
Only martial techniques, titles, and the power of Authorities could still function.
A martial technique capable of altering the flow of time?
Lu Li had never heard of one, so he set that possibility aside for now.
An Authority capable of altering the flow of time?
That was quite possible.
However, aside from special cases like Eternal Night, whether before his rebirth or after cramming knowledge in this area following it, Lu Li had never heard of any existence below the rank of a God Chosen being able to directly wield the power of Authorities.
Could Black Star's situation be similar to his own? Could he also be hiding some wretched god like Eternal Night?
It was possible, but not very likely.
If that were truly the case, the divine projection within his body would have sensed it, just as Eternal Night had sensed the God of Slaughter's projection within Lu Hemu back then.
Even if Eternal Night was currently asleep and unable to properly perceive the