It was an indescribable existence. It did not reveal its true form, merely wielding a Blade of Destruction—neither blade nor sword—as it struck downward.
Wherever it passed, the Great Dao collapsed, spacetime ruptured, reincarnation shattered, and all things were annihilated. Everything had been reduced to ashes.
The future self fought with all his strength, yet everything about him was instantly undone by that single blow.
Chen Nianzhi saw his future self completely collapse, as though all had been severed into nothingness. Immediately afterward, the entire ancient river of spacetime was cut apart by that strike.
At the final moment, Chen Nianzhi saw the whole of spacetime beginning to crumble. In the end, only a violet seal shrouded in Primordial aura remained, wrapped in fragments of spacetime and lost within the ancient river of spacetime.
"This is..."
Only after a long while did Chen Nianzhi slowly awaken from within spacetime, discovering that he had returned to the Guixu Immortal Domain billions upon billions of years later.
He drew a deep breath, his expression somewhat puzzled. "Did my future self fall beneath that strike?"
"But my future self was clearly already so powerful. Why would he travel upstream through the river of spacetime, cross time itself, and confront an invincible taboo existence?"
Chen Nianzhi could not understand it, but in the end, he suppressed the thought.
He understood his own nature well. His future self could not possibly do something meaningless, much less seek death for no reason.
Since his future self had chosen to do this, there had to be a reason.
With that thought, Chen Nianzhi stopped dwelling on it. He hurriedly suppressed the injuries at the corner of his mouth, then slowly let out a breath.
"How did it go?"
Seeing him return wounded, Jiang Linglong could not help