Tighten!
As the chains shuddered, the bright yellow links tightened around Chen Cuo, biting into his flesh. Yet they did not tear his body apart. Instead, as though formless and insubstantial, they sank straight through it!
At the same time, the chains rapidly spread outward. Their ends plunged into the void and entered the River of Time, connecting to moments from Chen Cuo's past. Each of those experiences gave off a bright yellow aura.
But with a sigh, the clusters of bright yellow mist suddenly turned black as ink. The golden chains connected to them went pitch-black as well!
Bzzz!
A hum rang out. The Heavenly Dao Power that had been on the verge of gathering around Chen Cuo abruptly slowed the instant the Black Chains bound him!
Boundless pressure converged from past, present, and future. In an instant, it felt as though countless worlds had been piled onto Chen Cuo. He grunted, and every acupoint in his body was sealed!
Meanwhile, a wisp of purplish-black mist like a nebula swirled within him, faintly resonating with the laws of the Rise and Fall Heavenly Dao outside. Yet the Black Chains shackled it between the two, preventing them from coming together!
The change did not surprise him. He turned his gaze toward the void!
"So it was you who struck at every critical moment. You hid yourself well!"
Anger burned in his eyes, but not because the chains had bound him. He had just swept his Divine Sense across his surroundings, and found not a trace of life anywhere it reached! He could not even make contact with the Great Hua Secret Realm, which should have been connected to Great Hua Mountain's Spirit Vein!
A dreadful sense that something was terribly wrong rose in his heart.
"What happened to the Mortal