Time seemed to freeze beneath Weird Shadow's terrifying body, hundreds of meters tall.
The abyssal pressure of the Shadow Rule made the air thick and heavy, every breath carrying a chill that stabbed deep into the lungs.
That aura, no different from his peak on the Yi City Battlefield, and even more savage in his fury, clearly announced a cruel fact: something had gone wrong with the hunting plan!
"I... I think... I messed up..."
Qipao Weird looked up at the shadow giant that blotted out the sky. For the first time, her cool face showed obvious uncertainty and a trace of panic.
She had intended to interfere with him and weaken him through Time Reversal, never expecting Weird Shadow to be so cunning as to guide the effect and "roll back" his condition to his strongest moment.
Overwhelming regret and guilt welled up within her, and she immediately tried to stop channeling her ability.
"Don't stop! Keep going!"
Luo Fan's sharp shout pierced the suffocating pressure, carrying an unquestionable urgency. "Go back even further! Revert him to a weaker state!"
Qipao Weird jolted, instantly understanding Luo Fan's intent. If Weird Shadow could use the reversal to return to his prime, she could keep reversing time and push him back to a past before he had grown strong!
That was how she had always used her rule ability!
Gritting her teeth, she cast aside all distractions and drove her Time Rule with everything she had. The temporal ripples in her eyes surged with unprecedented intensity, and invisible waves of time washed over Weird Shadow even more fiercely.
"Hmph. Wishful thinking!"
Weird Shadow gave a cold snort that rumbled like thunder.
His enormous body trembled slightly, the thick shadows coiling around him churning violently as though boiling. An equally powerful Rule