"Your true body sits cross-legged in the ancient past, and before manifesting in this age, you sent down your divine awareness to possess a stone statue?" Realization dawned on the woman as she voiced this terrifying truth.
A monarch-like man had struck across the spacetime of countless ages, seeking to erase a young prodigy of the future before his time. How terrifying was that?
The stone statue did not answer. He stood high above all, looking down upon past, present, and future. In his eyes, Shi Yi was already dead.
He had already erased several seedlings of the Nine Heavens like Shi Yi.
But compared with a "big fish" like Shi Yi, the others could only be considered small fry.
"Is this really necessary? Across the spacetime of countless ages, you would endure immense power of karma and risk your own demise just to erase an insignificant junior?" the woman said with a sigh.
She was merely a lingering imprint, with little strength remaining. Even if she wished to protect Shi Yi, she was powerless.
"To ants like you, time is like a surging river, flowing away without return. You cannot reverse it, and you fear becoming entangled in karma. But to me, it is merely a ring. Though I must pay a certain price, it is not beyond reversal." The stone statue spoke without anger, utterly composed, carrying an indescribable majesty that shook past, present, and future.
"Are you afraid? To resort to such utter extermination... it seems you are not as powerful as we imagined."
"It is not fear. I am merely following the current. Since I sensed something in the ancient past, why not erase it with a casual stroke?" the stone statue replied calmly.
Shi Yi did not believe him. The Red King was clearly taking