A Man Who Did Not Belong to This Era

The three realized how grave the situation was, but they had already ventured deep into the Desolate Forbidden Zone. It was too late to retreat.

Just then, the Taihua Emperor Scripture above their heads began to awaken on its own, with no one controlling it!

A towering figure was taking shape. An existence none could look upon directly was approaching from the Primordial Era. This was the true phantom of a Great Emperor-the Taihua Emperor Scripture was manifesting the Great Emperor Taihua of old!

"Great Emperor!"

"It's the Great Emperor of our Tianxuan Holy Land!"

"Great Emperor, is that you?"

Countless elders and disciples cried out, their faces alight with excitement.

Yet the three who controlled the Emperor Scripture felt no excitement at all. An Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon awakening without warning or anyone controlling it was not necessarily a good thing!

Another Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon here might well have stirred the deity within the Taihua Emperor Scripture, forcing it to awaken.

But the three were more inclined toward another possibility: Huang, the master of the Desolate Forbidden Zone, had awakened!

How could an invasion by an entire sect, on such a grand scale, fail to disturb the master of a Life Forbidden Zone?

It was as though you owned a house called the Life Forbidden Zone, and a few curious little animals occasionally ran into your backyard on adventures. So long as they did not go too far, you generally would not bother with them, leaving them free to explore.

Yet these little animals were not content. Instead, they summoned more animals to trample your backyard, even if that backyard was boundless and those animals were no more than ants.

No matter how magnanimous you were, you would still be unable to keep from growing angry.

Everyone's heart trembled, for a boundless aura was rising from beneath the abyss. The Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon had awakened to its utmost, as though an Ancient Great Emperor had reappeared in the world.

This was a confrontation between two imperial Daos, an unparalleled collision. Only Great Saints could glimpse even a fraction of it.

Then an utterly terrifying presence enveloped everyone from the Tianxuan Holy Land.

"Huang... has made a move!"

That was the only thought in everyone's mind!

An immense palm shrouded in divine mist descended from the sky and struck the Taihua Emperor Scripture.

Crack-

Boom!

The Taihua Emperor Scripture fell from the sky, shattering into fragments and losing its divine radiance.

An Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon had been destroyed, just like that!?

The identity of that palm's owner needed no explanation. The answer was on the verge of bursting forth.

An Ancient Great Emperor!

An Emperor Weapon could not be destroyed! Only a Great Emperor could destroy one!

The master of the Desolate Forbidden Zone was a living Great Emperor!

At that moment, everyone fell speechless. The cultivators from the other holy lands immediately tried to send this news out, but they soon discovered, to their horror, that this entire realm had been sealed!

Every method they had ceased to work here.

Everyone was terrified.

Just then, a resonant voice suddenly rang out through this sealed space.

"The endless flow of years!"

Immediately afterward, a dazzling light shone into the forbidden zone from outside. Everyone jolted in shock. Just now, a stretch of time had vanished from them, as though someone had cut it away.

The three Great Saints startled and said in unison, "It's him!"

Then, understanding dawning, they said, "So that's how it is!"

This was the first time he had unleashed his power, and everyone saw through his true strength: a Quasi-Emperor with little lifespan remaining! The mysterious guest staying at the Tianxuan Holy Land.

Besides the three Great Saints, Wei Yi and Little Madman also guessed who had come. Brother Luo Yan, who had always been so kind and approachable, was actually a peerless powerhouse.

A voice came from beneath the abyss, as though descending from the nine heavens.

"You are not a man of this era. Return to your own time."

"What!" Now, no one could remain calm.

Especially the powerhouses of the Tianxuan Holy Land. No wonder things had turned out this way. The dust of history had long since settled.

It was not that he had been unwilling to stop them. He had already been desperately trying to do so, but they had stubbornly followed their own course and missed their final chance.

A man who did not belong to this era had drawn Huang, the master of the Life Forbidden Zone beneath the abyss, to inspect him personally.

That was Huang-a true Ancient Great Emperor.

"Thank you for showing mercy, Empress," the voice outside the forbidden zone replied. Yet everyone could hear that he seemed to be in terrible condition, as though that last strike had nearly driven him into a dead end.

"Ah..." The voice was filled with sorrow that touched everyone, as though mourning someone.

The voice beneath the abyss fell silent. The Desolate Slaves charged at the crowd. Without the protection of their Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, the elders and disciples of the Tianxuan Holy Land were no match for them.

It's over! Everyone had only that one thought.

They had known they would fail, but never imagined their defeat would be so complete.

Even their Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon had been destroyed here. This went far beyond anything they had anticipated.

"Everyone, this realm has been sealed! We have no way to retreat! Our only option now is to fight our way deeper into the Desolate Forbidden Zone, to the Road to Immortality, and gamble on a chance to become Immortals!

"Either we die here, or we step onto the Road to Immortality and transcend mortality to become Immortals!"

A Saint shouted, broke free of the Desolate Slaves, and charged toward the abyss.

Soon, several ancestors with little lifespan remaining made the same decision and charged toward the abyss of the Desolate Forbidden Zone.

An unrivaled Desolate Slave swept across their path and attacked without mercy. A single punch shattered an ancestor's head. An ancestor comparable to a Half-Saint perished just like that!

"The Road to Immortality! It's the Road to Immortality! I see it, right beneath the abyss!" an ancestor shouted excitedly before leaping into the abyss.

"What!"

The others also fought desperately to break free of the Desolate Slaves, charging beneath the abyss regardless of the cost.

Countless disciples and elders were slain, yet not one was afraid. They charged toward the abyss at all costs, their eyes filled only with a final frenzy.

Outside the Desolate Forbidden Zone.

Two figures were concealed within this space.

One was the old man at the Saint realm from the Scripture Pavilion. The other, naturally, was Luo Yan.

"You come from the future, fellow Daoist?" The old man from the Scripture Pavilion looked incredulous.

"Is this why you stopped me, fellow Daoist?" he asked again, pointing at the mountains of corpses and seas of blood inside the Desolate Forbidden Zone.

Luo Yan took a stone out of the Time Mirror. The stone was transparent, and a thumb-sized drop of divine water flowed within it. Various faces were reflected in the drop, including disciples and elders of the holy land.

"I imprinted every disciple and elder of the Tianxuan Holy Land within it, preserving a strand of their time in a drop of water taken from the River of Time. If the Holy Maiden reaches an ineffable realm in the future, perhaps she can rescue these people from this drop of water.

"Those above the Saint realm are already entangled with too many things. I cannot imprint them." Luo Yan handed the transparent stone containing the divine water to the old man.

"The Tianxuan Holy Land needs a Saint to handle what comes next. Let go of what must be let go. Even the concealment of the small world is not absolute. Perhaps one day, someone will breach it from outside. The final legacy of the Tianxuan Holy Land's lineage is now in your hands!"

"What about you?"

"I must return to my own era."

"Your era is..."

Rumble-

Lightning flashed and thunder roared. An unimaginably majestic river came surging from upstream in history, its enormous waves sweeping through this space and time. That figure stood upon the river, holding a shattered divine mirror. Facing the boundless time law, he resisted its force and walked downstream.

Not long after that figure vanished, a heaven-shaking bolt of divine lightning descended, scorching the land to charcoal. And that was not all. Somewhere beyond perception, a supreme existence seemed to be searching for traces of the person who had been here.

Clutching the stone containing the divine water, the old man suddenly jolted. "He... who was he? I seem to have... forgotten someone!"

He was horrified. The laws of heaven and earth were erasing every trace of someone's existence...

History was being corrected!