Lin Yi, the intertwining blue-gold light and shadows, and the entire valley all seemed to freeze in place at that moment.
Countless people watching the Heavenly Screen widened their eyes.
Their thoughts still lingered on the moment before, and they wished they could run for their lives in Lin Yi's place.
This Sea God had no scruples whatsoever.
Yet several seconds passed without any change in the scene, and people began to realize that something was wrong.
"Time stopped?"
Bibi Dong was filled with doubt and astonishment.
She looked at Yue Guan and Gui Mei.
Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo held a special status in Spirit Hall. Not only were they both Titled Douluo, but they also possessed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill-the only recorded case on the continent of two Titled Douluo sharing one.
Their Martial Soul Fusion Skill was called the Two Extremes Stillness Domain. It could freeze the space within an area, or rather, stop time!
However, this form of stopped time could be disrupted by a powerful force from within, causing it to shatter in certain areas.
Of course, the cultivation required to shatter their Martial Soul Fusion Skill was anything but ordinary.
Could Lin Yi be using a similar method on the Heavenly Screen?
Yue Guan and Gui Mei had to use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to achieve this effect, yet Lin Yi had managed it all by himself!
Yes, Lin Yi's cultivation reached the heavens; he possessed peerless cultivation.
But his target was the Sea God!
Even if it was not the Sea God's true body, it was still the Sea God's power.
How terrifying was the power of a god? Bibi Dong knew very well.
Even divine power that had merely descended from above was beyond anything Soul Power could match.
How had Lin Yi done it?
Just as everyone was reeling in shock, the scene on the Heavenly Screen changed again.
The time that had been frozen seemed to be rewinding.
The intertwining blue-gold light and shadows gradually receded. The blue-gold divine power dispersed, then gathered back into a single point, as though sealed away.
Everything was flowing backward.
No, it was actually wrong to say that time was flowing backward.
A careful observer would notice that Lin Yi had not changed.
He remained in his original state, unaffected by the reversal of time.
When everything had rewound to the point before the seal on Tang San's divine sense clone had been broken, Lin Yi moved.
As though taking a leisurely stroll, he began gathering the natural treasures here.
With a wave of his hand, vast swathes of ten-thousand-year-old spirit herbs went into his possession.
With every step he took, he gathered the surrounding spirit herbs into a separate space.
At last, he reached the very heart of the valley, where two springs, one red and one white, intertwined.
"Last time I came, I was still too humane. I left so many Immortal Herbs behind."
A self-mocking look appeared on Lin Yi's face.
He was laughing at how naive he had been back then.
He had actually hoped that if he refrained from taking all the Immortal Herbs, especially the few Tang San needed, Tang San would not mind.
How childish and laughable!
Fortunately, he had come to make up for it all this time.
He moved all the Immortal Herbs left around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well into his own space.
Only one Immortal Herb remained outside.
It was the Lovesick Heartbreak Red.
Lin Yi now stood before the Lovesick Heartbreak Red.
He bent down and picked up the Black Absolute Stone upon which the Lovesick Heartbreak Red rested.
Holding up the Black Absolute Stone, Lin Yi carefully examined the Lovesick Heartbreak Red.
"As expected of the king of Immortal Herbs."
Without hesitation, Lin Yi chose not to leave the Lovesick Heartbreak Red for Tang San.
After putting it away, he looked toward a corner.
There lay a Black Absolute Stone.
Within the Black Absolute Stone, a faint spark of life was beginning to stir.
It was a Lovesick Heartbreak Red that had yet to take form.
"Although it hasn't taken form, the power inside this Lovesick Heartbreak Red has already fully accumulated. I'm afraid it would grow to maturity in the blink of an eye if just a little of the seal were undone."
Lin Yi chuckled and did not spare this second Lovesick Heartbreak Red.
Soon, the valley that had once been covered in natural treasures was left completely bare.
Having done all this, Lin Yi turned to look at the spot where the blue-gold divine power had just been sealed.
"It's about time."
Feeling the pressure transmitted through his spiritual power, Lin Yi returned to his original position.
Then the scenery around him began to change.
Time seemed to be flowing backward.
No, to be precise, it was flowing forward!
Because just now, Lin Yi had turned back time.
Now, the time he had turned back was being set right.
It was as though Lin Yi had traveled into the past, gathered all the natural treasures, and then returned to the present!
Such an inconceivable sight unfolded before everyone's eyes, leaving their minds reeling.
However, with countless people watching, there were bound to be some who could discern its meaning and understand the method Lin Yi had just used.
Yet precisely because they understood what Lin Yi had done, they were even more horrified.
Traveling into the past?
That was even more terrifying than reversing time.
For as time was set right, everything that had flowed backward returned to normal along its original course, yet the valley remained completely bare!
The Spiritual Domain had covered only the valley where the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well lay.
And Lin Yi had thrown those natural treasures into another space.
Thus, the natural treasures Lin Yi had stolen from the past were no longer affected when time was set right.
Once everything returned to its proper point in time,
Tang San's voice echoed out again.
The spectators, who had been worried sick for Lin Yi and wished they could run for their lives in his place, inexplicably felt much more at ease.
He still had to face Tang San, but at this moment, the spectators had far greater confidence in Lin Yi!
That was right. Tang San had hunted him down, and he had twice fallen victim to Tang San's murderous schemes. How could Lin Yi not have guarded against him?
This peerless prodigy, this monstrous genius who had become a Peerless Douluo at thirty, must already have been confident of dealing with Tang San.
Time returned fully to normal. Faced with Tang San's divine sense clone, Lin Yi did not confront him head-on.
Ring after ring of Soul Rings appeared around his body.
As the Seventh Soul Ring shone with a blood-red light, Lin Yi's entire body shattered like a dream or a bubble, transforming into Black and White Energies that merged into heaven and earth.
He vanished.
Only Tang San's divine sense clone remained, having appeared beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after the seal was undone.
Tang San stared at the bare valley, and it took him quite a while to recover his senses.
What a familiar sight.
When had this happened before?
Oh, right. Last time, he had harvested every natural treasure in the valley, leaving it bare like this.
The scene shown on the Heavenly Screen continued at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
After his initial bewilderment, Tang San flew into a rage.
However, no matter how he searched, he could find no trace of Lin Yi.
Meanwhile, the scene shifted.
On the vast Far North Ice Plains, the Black and White Energies appeared and gathered into a blurry figure.
The figure seemed not to exist in the present, but in a certain moment in the past.
When the figure sharpened from a blur and revealed Lin Yi's face, he seemed to turn from illusion to reality, stepping out of the past.
Time had returned to normal, and Lin Yi's shattering had been completed an instant before it fully returned to normal.
Now, that missing instant had been fully made up.
He had returned to the present from the past once more!