The instant Yongye fell into the River of Time, he was profoundly grateful he had mastered the Basic Time Law. Otherwise, this would have been the end of him.
It was like having taken antivenom beforehand. The venom still took effect, but it could no longer kill him instantly.
He tumbled through churning light and fragments, feeling an irresistible force drag his body along in a predetermined direction.
The torrent was woven from countless timelines and fragments of cause and effect. Every drop of water was a fixed moment of the past; every ripple, a future yet to take shape.
Cold crept into his fingertips.
Some powerful essence was being drawn out of him. It was as though an invisible hand were peeling the rewards he had received from the system, one by one, from his body, his Mindscape, and his soul.
[Physique Doubled] vanished from his body. He felt his muscles lose density as his multiplied strength drained away like an ebbing tide.
[Total Chakra Doubled] dissipated. His meridians contracted, and the Chakra stored in his cells rapidly dried up, as though an invisible pump were sucking it away.
[Lightning Release Chakra Mode] receded from his meridians like a coating being stripped off.
[Five Release Great Combo Technique]—the knowledge of those Ninjutsu was torn page by page from his Mindscape.
[Eight Gates Release]—for an instant, he could no longer sense where the gates were, as though someone had erased an entire building from its blueprints.
[Indestructible Golden Body]—the dark-gold sheen on his skin rapidly faded under the river's current, like plating worn away by relentless polishing.
Then came his [Mangekyō Sharingan]. He felt the heat deep in his eyes fade. The Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan patterns in his pupils blurred, turned blank, and finally vanished along with even the Three-Tomoe.