Self-Sacrifice for Attainment
He Ping had been waiting for this opportunity all along.
He knew perfectly well that relying on his own strength to contend against the Nine Heavenly Kings and the Lord of the Divine Court was nothing but wishful thinking.
Besides, plans could never keep up with change. No one could guarantee that, upon entering the depths of the Temple of Myriad Laws, no other strange twists would arise.
"The worst-case scenario is that the Lord of the Divine Court's contingency measures are enough to trap all of us. But as long as there is the slightest chance to severely damage the Temple of Myriad Laws, it will be enough for us to find an opportunity to escape alive."
Once the Temple of Myriad Laws was damaged, this era would no longer remain sealed off, and a crack would appear in the great dam protecting the river of time.
As long as that crack was opened, He Ping and Ji Changli could force their way back to the medieval era from any point—to their original point in time.
After all, with the two of them joining forces, the power of the Second Heavenly Dao combined with Three Times Coexistence made reaching the past or future a trivial matter.
In that instant, countless motes of light flickered through the void. The Realm of Nothingness had originally been a chaos filled only with primal chaos qi from the dawn of heaven and earth, but at this moment, a vast starry sky appeared above everyone's heads.
In truth, it was not a starry sky at all, but the thoughts of countless powerful immortal and divine experts, crossing time and space to descend upon this era.
It was a hundred times more spectacular than when He Ping had used the Outer-Realm Demon