"Given the current situation, rather than keep grappling in the Time River, manifesting again and again and weakening myself, I might as well strike in one burst and eradicate Min Yuan at the root! He has been on the path for far too short a time. Flowing back to his weakest period will not cost much! I must go to when his Divine Grade was at its lowest, even to before he became a god. Back then, he had few Divine Abilities, and his Divine Power was exceedingly thin. Let us see how he can oppose me then!"
As this thought fell, Black Wind Great Venerable's train of thought suddenly cleared.
With his thoughts flowing freely, countless plans surfaced in his mind. He deduced their changes, deriving several hundred different possibilities before analyzing them one by one.
This would normally have been a natural process, but Black Wind Great Venerable was currently enduring the ever-increasing pressure of the Historical River. Supporting himself alone consumed a tremendous amount of strength, while it also occupied much of his attention and focus. He no longer had the leisure to continually refine his plans.
Traveling upstream through the Historical River was far more difficult than rowing against the current. The farther back one went, the more it resembled diving ever deeper into the sea, forced to bear immense pressure. The weight of history was enough to crush the breath from one's lungs; even figures at the Heaven Lord level were no exception.
Moreover, each manifestation within a segment of the Historical River required an even more enormous expenditure of power!
"These expenditures must be worthwhile. I can no longer underestimate Min Yuan. I must treat him as a true opponent and cannot relax in the slightest, lest I capsize in a gutter. Since I