A single greeting.
Qin Shujian's feelings were complicated.
He understood.
Xia Yi could sense his gaze, but could not hear what he wanted to say.
The scene changed again.
Endless blood-red Thunder Tribulation descended, threatening to swallow Xia Yi whole.
Watching Xia Yi engulfed by the blood-red Thunder Tribulation, Qin Shujian suddenly felt a powerful impulse rise within him.
Boom—
He reached out with one hand, unleashing terrifying True Essence.
The River of Time trembled. Countless droplets containing images were caught by a powerful pull, then converged madly on a single point.
Throughout the process.
Towering waves swept through the void.
What had begun as a tiny whirlpool threatened to grow ever more violent.
Faced with this change.
Qin Shujian paid it no heed.
Only the Emperor's Seal hovering above his head shed myriad rays of radiance, contending with the power of the River of Time. Meanwhile, the Godslayer Saber flew out of his Sea of Consciousness, cleaving through the wind and waves with the might of an Eight-Calamity Ancestral Weapon.
An unknown amount of time passed.
All the extracted droplets finally condensed into a single image, frozen firmly in place.
Immediately afterward.
Qin Shujian plunged his hand into the image, as though trying to pull something out.
At that moment.
The River of Time erupted in fury.
Enormous waves tens of thousands of feet high surged forth without end, extinguishing the myriad rays from the Emperor's Seal. Even the edge of an Eight-Calamity Ancestral Weapon was forcibly shattered.
"What is the Heavenly Emperor doing? Why has it caused such a change?!"
The Godslayer Saber was horrified.
His first battle after becoming an Eight-Calamity Ancestral Weapon had ended in a crushing defeat within the River of Time, dealing a severe blow to his confidence.
Originally.
The Godslayer Saber had thought