Deep within the river of time.
Two figures tumbled out of a certain timeline, looking rather worse for wear.
"Cough..."
Shi Yin let out a muffled groan.
He had forcibly interfered with the future, even stripping the laws from that world's favored child. The backlash brought on by such a heaven-defying act was more than even he could comfortably bear.
"Old Shi!"
Seeing this, Yu Jiutian hurried to support him. "Are you all right? Just now, I..."
He knew that if he had not softened at the last moment and delayed them by swearing that blood oath on his Dao heart, Shi Yin could have withdrawn sooner with his abilities, instead of having to weather that final backlash of space and time.
"It's nothing."
Shi Yin waved a hand.
There was not a trace of blame on his face. "Just a little backlash. It can't damage my foundations."
In truth, Shi Yin did not look well either-not because he was injured, but because of what they had just done with their own hands.
He looked at Yu Jiutian and said softly, "You don't like doing this sort of thing. Do you think I do?"
How could Yu Jiutian not know? They were lofty demon sovereigns, but they had their own pride and lines they would not cross.
Stripping something from a little girl who was not even a true immortal felt worse than being killed themselves.
In the end, he merely lowered his head bitterly and said nothing.
After a brief rest, Shi Yin's disordered law of time gradually settled.
Yu Jiutian carefully sealed the purple law of fate within his palm.
"We've got what we came for. What now?"
"Go back and tell Zhu Yao, Ying Cang, and the others everything?"
"This reincarnation method is simply too inconceivable.