Just as Lin Yan's thoughts churned, the Hundred Treasure Pearl in the Sea of Spirit suddenly flared with light, then quickly dimmed.
The card that had been taking shape was finally complete!
About the size of his palm, it was neither metal nor jade, and felt icy to the touch.
Both sides depicted a profound, pitch-black vortex that seemed capable of devouring all light. It revolved slowly, radiating a disquieting aura of space-time chaos.
Above the vortex on the card's front, four ancient, uncanny characters were engraved—
"Space-Time Turbulence"!
Lin Yan's thoughts stirred, and he beckoned with his mind. The Space-Time Turbulence Card lifted itself from beside the Hundred Treasure Pearl and settled into his spiritual hand.
The instant the card touched his hand, a clear stream of information passed straight from the Hundred Treasure Pearl into his consciousness:
[Space-Time Turbulence Card]: A one-use special-rule treasure.
When activated, it can trigger in advance and slightly intensify the Space-Time Turbulence that would naturally occur in about a hundred years, causing it to descend early and forcibly push the Divine Realm far away from the Douluo Plane for a duration of ten years.
"Trigger the Space-Time Turbulence early? Send the Divine Realm far away for ten years?!"
After absorbing the information, Lin Yan froze for a moment. Then elation surged through him!
"Perfect! This is... heaven-sent!" He nearly cried out in excitement.
What did this mean?
It meant that the powerful being who might threaten him, the one he suspected belonged to the Divine Realm, would have a hard time interfering directly with the lower realm for at least the next ten years—not to mention dragging him off to some Valley of Universe Inquiry to torture and kill him, as in those fragments of memory!
His safety was now far more secure!
And ten years would be more than enough time for him to grow considerably with the help of the Hundred Treasure Pearl and the fortune he had intercepted!
"No wonder the Hundred Treasure Pearl said it could keep me safe... So that's how!"
Lin Yan didn't hesitate. A look of resolve and excitement flashed in his eyes.
"Activate it! Activate the Space-Time Turbulence Card now!"
He issued the command to the Hundred Treasure Pearl in his mind.
In the Sea of Spirit, the card etched with the dark vortex suddenly burst into brilliant gray light!
The card itself dissolved into countless specks of light. A mysterious, unfathomable ripple, touching the very origins of time and space, disregarded the boundary between matter and spirit and instantly pierced through Lin Yan's body.
It pierced through Dormitory 108, passed through the barriers of the Douluo Plane, and quietly spread toward the higher dimension connected to it—the Divine Realm...
And this was precisely why the persistent feeling of being watched that Huo Yuhao had sensed for days had suddenly vanished!
Divine Realm, Sea God Hall.
The grand hall was suffused with divine light.
Tang San, dressed in the resplendent azure Sea God Divine Armor, sat upon his divine throne.
He had just withdrawn a wisp of divine sense from the lower realm. His peerlessly handsome face wore a faint smile, calm and certain that everything was under control.
"Hmm. Things went a little off course—he didn't join the Tang Sect—but the Child of Fortune still followed the guidance and entered Shrek Academy."
Tang San murmured to himself, "As long as he's at Shrek, living in the same place as Xiao Qi and spending every day with her, the threads of fate will naturally reconnect. The core of the plan is still on track."
He had great confidence in this. Ten thousand years of planning and control had long accustomed him to treating all things as pawns.
In his eyes, Huo Yuhao's little act of "rebellion" was nothing more than youthful impulsiveness. It was harmless—and might even stir Xiao Qi's curiosity and desire to win him over.
As for that Shrek Token that had "conveniently" appeared?
It was merely a casual move of his, to make sure the pawn didn't stray completely off course.
Yet at that moment, Tang San's brow furrowed almost imperceptibly.
Just as he withdrew his divine sense, he had faintly sensed that a small portion of the fortune surrounding Huo Yuhao—and the portion connected to Xiao Qi (Tang Wutong)—had subtly ebbed away.
The change was so slight it was almost negligible, but Tang San placed great importance on fortune and faith. To him, the anomaly stood out like a speck of ink on white paper.
"Strange... Is some unknown variable in the lower realm siphoning away fortune? Or is it just a fluctuation?"
A trace of doubt crossed Tang San's mind, but he didn't feel too concerned.
The flow of fortune was complicated, and minor fluctuations were normal. He had more faith in his plans and control.
But before he could investigate the anomaly further—
"Buzzz—!!!"
A low hum, powerful enough to shake the very foundations of the Divine Realm, rang out without warning from the depths of the void beyond its borders!
It wasn't a sound, but a tremor in the laws themselves, acting directly upon the souls of every god!
Tang San's expression changed drastically! He sprang from his throne almost instantly. The light of his azure Sea God Divine Armor flowed over him, and in a flash it transformed into the blood-red Asura Divine Armor—lethal, razor-sharp, and brimming with boundless killing intent!
His divine position shifted at the same moment, from Sea God to Asura God, whose powers were better suited to battle and destruction!
"Something's happened!" Alarm bells blared in Tang San's heart. It was the supreme instinct for danger possessed by a God King.
He shot upward, transforming into a blood-red streak of light that pierced through the barrier above the Divine Realm!
Almost simultaneously, the other four members of the God Realm Committee—God of Destruction, Goddess of Life, God of Evil, and God of Goodness—sensed the terrifying tremor in the laws. They flew from their respective temples, following Tang San in four streaks of differently colored light!
The five God Kings, the highest powers and authorities of the Divine Realm, gathered in the void beyond its barrier.
When they saw what lay ahead, even these God Kings, who had weathered countless storms, couldn't hide their shock and grave expressions.
Far off in the depths of the void, a gray "singularity," twisting and collapsing in on itself as if it could devour space and time, hurtled toward the Divine Realm at a speed beyond anything they had known or anticipated!
Where it passed, the structure of space twisted and shattered like crumpled paper, while the flow of time fell into uncanny disarray!
"Space-Time Turbulence!" Tang San's pupils contracted. He cried out in alarm, "But... why is it coming so soon?!"
Based on his observations and calculations, the next major Space-Time Turbulence wasn't supposed to form and draw near for another hundred years.
The one before them had clearly arrived early, and its speed and strength were both abnormal!
God of Destruction and Goddess of Life exchanged a glance. Each saw resolve in the other's eyes.
As ancient God Kings, they knew all too well how terrifying Space-Time Turbulence could be.
"Sea God (Tang San), Xiao Lu and I will go hold it back for a moment and buy you some time!"
God of Destruction's voice was low and urgent. Without waiting for Tang San to respond, he took Goddess of Life's hand. Their powerful Destruction Divine Power and Life Divine Power intertwined, forming a vast barrier of divine power as they rushed to meet the gray singularity hurtling toward them!
They sought to slow it, if only slightly, with the combined primordial divine power of two God Kings.
Tang San knew there was no time to hesitate. He immediately turned to God of Evil and God of Goodness beside him.
The three God Kings exchanged glances and reached an understanding in an instant.
The supreme divine powers of evil, goodness, and Asura—black, white, and red—surged from their bodies, rapidly gathering and coalescing in the void!
Light intertwined, and the laws roared!
A colossal three-colored sword, seemingly capable of passing judgment on heaven and earth and severing the threads of fate, appeared in the air!
The sword shimmered with the auras of destruction and order, exuding a pressure that made even gods tremble!
This was the ultimate combined divine skill left to their successors by the previous God Kings of Evil and Goodness before they left the Divine Realm—the Sword of Three Realms Judgment!
It had been prepared as a killing move in case the Golden Dragon King broke free. Its power was enough to severely wound—or even slay—half of the supreme Dragon God's incarnation.
Now, facing the sudden and abnormally powerful Space-Time Turbulence, they had no choice but to risk using this trump card!
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