The barking surged like a tide, shrill enough to deafen.
The corner of Chu Mo's eye twitched. Then he dispersed the black-and-white Qi in his hand. After two exchanges, he had realized that these Time Hounds possessed no life in the conventional sense.
They were more like constructs of temporal power. Ordinary Daos alone could not kill them. Apart from Time Dao methods, nothing else could do anything to them.
"Time Dao methods, huh."
With a thought from Chu Mo, a beam of silver light abruptly shone from his hand.
Its radiance blazed, dazzling and brilliant.
It was precisely the Divine Ability he had obtained from Yuan Chen and Qing Chen: [Light-Congealing Form Fixation].
Illuminated by the light, the hounds abruptly froze in the midst of their frenzied lunges, suspended in midair with their savage postures intact. No matter how they struggled, they could not move an inch.
Chu Mo looked at the now-docile hounds, clicking his tongue in wonder.
I've figured it out, he murmured inwardly.
These fellows seem to appear only when I intend to change the past. Could they be some kind of guardians, tasked with watching over the River of Time to prevent anyone from altering the past?
Although the Time Hounds were weak when they first appeared, their immortality, ability to produce Avatars, and continual breakthroughs made Chu Mo suspect that, if he kept killing them, they might become a pack of Seventh Realm beings. The Time Hounds aren't like normal creatures. Did the River of Time form them spontaneously, or were they created by that Time Dao Heavenly Venerable?
Of the two possibilities, Chu Mo leaned toward the latter. The Sun-Moon Twin Venerables could seize the Authority over the sun and moon of every world for themselves. As a Time Dao Heavenly Venerable, controlling