Encountering an Old Friend on the Road

Shi Xuan had always been cautious. Even as he hurriedly retreated, he did not relax his guard in the slightest. The Five-Colored Divine Light swept out at once, and amid flashes of dazzling radiance, brushed the Flame of Time down into itself.

But at that moment, the time vortex itself was extremely unstable. When Candle Dragon burrowed into it, it actually collapsed outright, transforming into a terrifying time tempest that swept sideways from right to left, howling as it engulfed Shi Xuan.

Faced with this unexpected calamity, Shi Xuan had no time to react after brushing down the Flame of Time. He had only just transformed the Taiji Diagram into the Other Shore Golden Bridge and had yet to wield it when the time tempest was already before him. He was about to be sucked inside, his Primordial Spirit corroded by time.

A streak of azure sword light suddenly flared, wrapping around Shi Xuan and forcibly dragging him back a foot. In that instant, the time tempest brushed past the tip of Shi Xuan's nose. Qing Suo had likewise remained vigilant, and without needing to divide her attention, reacted a moment faster than Shi Xuan.

As the time tempest grazed past him, Shi Xuan felt that in the blink of an eye, while his mind remained unchanged, his Primordial Spirit had seemingly passed through a full ten years.

If I were trapped in the heart of this time tempest and unable to escape, drifting wherever it went, my Heavenly Human Second Decay would likely descend in only a few breaths. Yet I have no Immortal Technique, aura of Creation, or anything else prepared. It would be certain death.

*Moreover, my mind would lose itself within time, becoming one of those lost souls in the Nine Nether Origin Space that could