The next instant.
The world in Chen Yan's eyes abruptly lost all color, freezing into a lifeless black and white.
Everything—
the drifting dust, the shattered rocks, the surging aftershocks of energy, even the astonished expressions of the people behind him—
was instantly sealed inside an endless amber of space and time, frozen in the positions they had held a moment before.
He had grown more and more adept at using Time Stroll.
At that moment, even Martial Arts Grandmasters were utterly unable to move within this absolutely frozen temporal domain.
They couldn't even sense that anything was wrong with space and time. Their awareness remained fixed on the instant Chen Yan appeared and the giant serpent stirred.
Across from him, the terrifying giant serpent was gathering a pitch-black breath in its mouth, powerful enough to annihilate matter.
From Chen Yan's perspective, it was now advancing at an extremely slow pace, as if trapped in a swamp with a thousandfold delay.
It was almost comical.
Within this near-absolute "first move in time," every action Chen Yan took would determine life and death, an inevitable cause and effect.
Without the slightest hesitation, he sank into a horse stance, completely uniting his mind and fist intent.
[Five Aggregates Fist]!
Heart Fire, spleen earth, lung metal, kidney water, liver wood.
Five entirely different streams of True Essence circulated and intertwined with unprecedented coordination and speed!
Five-colored radiance burst from his pores, brightening and dimming with each long, powerful breath, growing ever more dazzling.
At last, all the radiance collapsed inward and gathered on his right fist,
transforming into an Origin-Returning Fist Intent, undifferentiated as primordial chaos yet seemingly containing all things, that shot up into the sky!
It was completely different from his performance in the East Continent Game.
This was due not