Time Rift Dragon

In the northern part of the Star Dou Great Forest, the tree canopy blocks out the sun.

A tall, slender figure was frantically fleeing through the woods.

It was a strangely shaped Soul Beast.

Its body resembles that of a dragon, but is more slender than that of an ordinary dragon. However, its appearance is more ferocious and wild than that of an ordinary dragon, and its entire body is covered with silver-gray scales.

Each scale has naturally formed hourglass-like patterns.

As it runs, the surrounding scenery will occasionally appear briefly distorted.

One moment they were tens of meters away, the next they seemed to have been wiped out of their original spot by some force and appeared out of thin air in a more distant place.

This Soul Beast is none other than the Time Rift Dragon, Soul Beast with the dual attributes of time and Destruction, which is 76,000 years old.

It has the ability to consume its own lifespan to Time Reversal for itself or its surroundings, and it can also directly delete a short period of time.

Whether fighting or fleeing, this ability is enough to make it invincible.

But at this moment, the Time Rift Dragon, which was usually difficult to catch, looked somewhat disheveled.

"Don't run!"

A furious shout came from behind.

Orange-red flames ignited beneath Bao Liang's feet, and he resembled a shooting star falling into a forest, relentlessly pursuing the Time Rift Dragon.

Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen followed closely behind.

Jing Hongchen hovered further away, responsible for keeping watch and preventing other powerful Soul Beast from interfering in the chaos.

Just moments ago, they finally located the Time Rift Dragon.

Meng Hongchen's Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad Martial Soul sealed off the space around it with ice and poison, while Xiao Hongchen's hundreds of Soul Cannon blocked several of its escape routes.

Bao Liang then unleashed a powerful punch, sending the Time Rift Dragon flying hundreds of meters through the forest.

Before the three could get close, the hourglass pattern on the Time Rift Dragon suddenly lit up.

Its broken ribs instantly healed, its shattered scales closed again, and its body returned to the position it had been in seconds earlier.

Time Reversal!

The ice wall of Meng Hongchen blocked nothing.

It also directly avoided Xiao Hongchen's soul-guided shot during a period of deleted time.

The Time Rift Dragon seized the opportunity to turn and run.

Thus, what should have been a swift and decisive Soul Hunting Operation turned into a long chase through the forest.

"This thing can run way too fast!" Meng Hongchen gritted her teeth.

While controlling the Soul Cannon to change direction, Xiao Hongchen said, "It's not that it's fast; it's that it's constantly erasing the most dangerous time during my escape."

Ordinary Soul Master simply can't catch up.

"Then beat it until it runs out of time to use its abilities!"

Bao Liang snorted coldly, and his right fist ignited with dark red flames once more.

He did not unleash excessively Destruction power, but instead compressed his strength into a single point at the tip of his fist.

The next instant, the fist ripped through the air and headed straight for the Time Rift Dragon's back.

The Time Rift Dragon sensed the danger, and the hourglass patterns on its body flashed again.

It was as if a segment of time had been sliced off by an invisible blade.

In Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen's perception, Bao Liang's fist had not yet landed, but the Time Rift Dragon had already appeared dozens of meters away.

But Bao Liang's fist still landed.

Boom!

The Time Rift Dragon was slammed into the ground once again.

The time-related patterns on its body flickered violently, seemingly unable to comprehend what was happening before its eyes.

Time Reversal works on itself, and Time Erasure also allows it to avoid most attacks.

But when these abilities fell into Bao Liang's hands, it was like hitting a completely unreasonable wall.

It cannot undo Bao Liang's state, delete the attacks Bao Liang has already completed, or remove the damage Bao Liang has already inflicted.

But every punch Bao Liang threw broke through its defenses.

The Time Rift Dragon was utterly terrified.

It stopped trying to fight back and turned to flee north.

"Don't run!"

Meng Hongchen shouted again, and ice light condensed in his palm, forming an ice wall in front of the Time Rift Dragon.

The Time Rift Dragon opened its mouth and spewed out a stream of silver-gray Destruction light, which actually corroded a large hole in the ice wall.

Xiao Hongchen's eyes narrowed, and dozens of Taihun Soul Cannon instantly sealed off the cave entrance.

The patterns on the Time Rift Dragon lit up again, attempting to repeat its old trick.

But Bao Liang had already caught up.

"Still trying to run?"

He threw a punch.

This punch had no fancy Soul Skill or complicated moves; it was simply pure, almost brute force.

The ground suddenly collapsed.

The Time Rift Dragon let out a painful roar as its body was slammed into a deep pit, its silver-gray scales shattering in large pieces.

It struggled to activate Time Reversal, Bao Liang's second punch had already arrived.

The third punch, the fourth punch!

Each punch landed precisely where it was trying to escape.

The Time Rift Dragon finally collapsed completely. Ignoring the depletion of its lifespan, it activated its abilities repeatedly and dragged its battered body out of the forest.

Bao Liang and his two companions gave chase.

No one noticed that the direction the Time Rift Dragon fled in coincided exactly with the route Huo Yuhao chose after entering the Star Dou Great Forest.

Fate, like an invisible hand, subtly altered the course of the two teenagers' lives.

Bao Liang became increasingly brutal.

As Bao Liang's power continued to grow, the long-suppressed Destruction desire within him became increasingly difficult to control.

To prevent him from blowing up the laboratory and the Worship Hall again, Jing Hongchen and the others tried every possible method.

They searched for various scrap metal recycling stations that required large, heavy machinery to process the waste, allowing Bao Liang to vent his frustrations.

The problem is that Bao Liang's output speed is simply too fast.

No matter how fast the recycling station cleans up, it can't keep up with how fast he dismantles things.

In the end, he cleaned up almost all the scrap metal recycling stations in the entire Sun Moon Empire.

Income simply cannot keep up with output.

Sending Bao Liang into the Soul Beast Forest is also unrealistic.

That's no different from throwing Xiao Hongchen into a rare metals vault.

Left with no other choice, Jing Hongchen could only try to get him into the military camp and have him train with the Soul Master army.

As a result, Bao Liang had a great time in the military camp, and the soldiers learned a lot of practical combat experience from him.

It's tough on the medics and logistics staff.

Dozens of stretchers need to be prepared in advance after each training session.

Xu Tianran was speechless at Jing Hongchen's actions, and even couldn't help but roll his eyes.

But when Xu Tianran witnessed Bao Liang's destructive power and heard Jing Hongchen say "we can't afford to raise him anymore," he still chose to believe him.

After all, facts speak louder than words.

Bao Liang is really good at dismantling things.

Because the pressure and desires were fully released, Bao Liang's strength and power improved rapidly.

After several tests and confirmations by his Soul Tool, Bao Liang is now capable of instantly killing Soul Master below level 70 and defeating Soul Master below level 79 in a head-on fight.

If he were to encounter a powerful opponent around level 85, he would be able to hold his own against them.

Even when facing a level 93 Titled Douluo, he could withstand several blows Immortality.

Such a monster is naturally not something the Time Rift Dragon can afford to mess with.

The reason it fled north was not because the north was safe, but because it had been terrified of Bao Liang.

It was willing to pay any price to shake off this monster that was completely unaffected by time.

Unfortunately, it lacks the ability to predict the future.

Otherwise, it would have realized that this time it would not only be unable to escape, but would also run into a storm that could change the fate of the entire continent.

Just as Bao Liang was about to make another move, a sudden change occurred.

An indescribable spiritual force swept through the entire Star Dou Great Forest without warning.

There was no sound.

There was no warning.

There wasn't even a fluctuation of Soul Power.

But the moment it appeared, the entire forest seemed to be frozen in time.

The leaves stopped swaying, and the wind stopped in mid-air.

All the Soul Beast lowered their heads at the same time, instinctively lying on the ground, not daring to make a sound.

That spiritual power was too vast, so vast that it was not a power that Soul Master could possess.

It swept across every inch of the forest, and also swept over Bao Liang, Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and the Time Rift Dragon that was fleeing.

Before the Time Rift Dragon could even activate its time-manipulation abilities, its massive body stiffened abruptly before crashing heavily to the ground.

Meng Hongchen closed his eyes and lost consciousness on the spot.

Xiao Hongchen gritted his teeth, trying to use his Soul Power to protect his Sea of Consciousness.

But he only lasted a few seconds before his gaze quickly became unfocused, and his body collapsed.

Bao Liang felt a sharp pain in his mind, as if a needle had pierced the depths of his soul.

He groaned and staggered.

Fortunately, Bao Liang had the Dragon Fang. As blue flames suddenly ignited in his right eye, a powerful force protected his Sea of Consciousness.

Bao Liang stubbornly held on.

On the other side, Jing Hongchen's expression changed drastically.

He no longer concealed his strength, instantly standing in front of the children, his powerful Soul Power erupting like a volcano, ready to unleash his Martial Soul Avatar and fight to the death.

But that spiritual force did not attack them.

It merely brushed past them and continued deeper into the forest.

Bao Liang covered his forehead and slowly raised his head.

He could sense the source of that spiritual power.

That's no ordinary Soul Beast.

It is definitely not a power that a thousand-year-old or Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast could possess.

That was the aura of Million-Year Soul Beast —Million-Year Soul Beast the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Bao Liang's heart skipped a beat.

The Sacrifice in the original novel that was enough to change Huo Yuhao's fate has finally begun.