Present, past, and future: battling Huang and the return of the Transmuting Self Freedom Technique

Rumble!

Yiyuan genesis unfolded, and an incomparably vast firmament spread open. Strand after strand of primordial purple qi spontaneously evolved into all things, with a thousand streams of auspicious vapor and ten thousand rays of rosy light. Thick Chaos Waterfalls draped in mother qi of all things flowed out of the Heavenly Dao Embryo, interweaving a thousand traces of the Great Dao, crystalline and translucent.

The karmic mist rose again. This time, he was prepared and would naturally not be fooled so easily.

"Let me see just what kind of trick this is!" The Thunder Mark on Ji Hao's brow faded, replaced by an eruption of supremely sacred divine light. Immortal King-level mind power blossomed, and the Cause of All Fruits became a tangible Green Lotus, releasing radiance in black and white.

He saw himself swept up in the karmic torrent, carried downstream through the years. The Cause of All Fruits activated, and black-and-white Mystic Light pierced the ages, past and present.

"Ah!"

As he gazed into the past, his divine eyes were instantly injured by the radiance, his eyeballs evaporating in its light. In truth, the radiance itself had no destructive power, but Ji Hao's eyes "felt" that they "should" be burned, and so his divine eyes were ruined outright.

"How terrifying!" Ji Hao marveled in an admiring tone.

He saw an "emperor," his entire body surrounded by the radiance of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor. He saw that supreme emperor casually open up this world, then walk step by step toward the Sea of Boundaries, leaving behind a shallow footprint.

Only one thought remained in Ji Hao's mind: The Footprint Emperor!

He looked farther ahead. At a glance, he froze, his entire body turning to stone, and did not move for a long time.

What met his eyes was simply