"Space-Time Chaos!"
Even the Destruction Sovereign Utred, for all his composure, blanched at the sight. "How could he know this move? Auf swore an oath in the name of a Supreme God. It's impossible for him to have broken it."
"Utred! What's going on?" A crisp voice echoed in his mind — the voice of the Death Sovereign. As time passed, and with the speed at which Gods could exchange messages, more and more of them had gathered in the spatial turbulence. By now, over forty Gods were watching the battle.
"I don't know either." Utred was too shaken to think clearly for the moment.
"You said Auf could never have taught this to a second person. What about you — have you ever taught it to anyone else?" the Death Sovereign pressed.
"Why on earth would I have taught it to anyone else?" Utred transmitted urgently.
"Then there are only two possibilities. Either Augusta figured it out on his own," the Death Sovereign said.
"Impossible! How long has he had the blood essence of the Four Divine Beasts? Besides, when I comprehended this, it was because I had already achieved Great Perfection in the Laws of Destruction and had thoroughly researched the soul — and even then it was partly due to luck. Augusta hasn't even reached Great Perfection. You could give him a trillion years and he wouldn't scratch the surface!" Utred was absolutely certain.
"Then it's the second possibility — though even I find it hard to believe." The Death Sovereign's voice carried a note of alarm and anger.
Utred's expression shifted. "You're saying, Augusta is—"
"We'll know soon enough. But right now, Lin Lei is in danger," the Death Sovereign transmitted with concern.
"There's nothing we can do — we couldn't reach him in time even if we tried." Utred frowned. "The move Augusta is using, perhaps because he has so little blood essence, isn't as powerful as when I施展 it. Still… it's not something Lin Lei can withstand. After all, Lin Lei doesn't possess a Supreme God Artifact for soul defense."
Lin Lei was indeed in a crisis.
Over forty Gods spread throughout the spatial turbulence observed through divine sense, and each of them couldn't help but wonder…
Lin Lei, this supreme powerhouse who had risen in merely ten thousand years to surpass a Law Sovereign — was he about to become a shooting star, blazing brilliantly for a moment before falling here for good?
…
Once the four divine beast phantoms appeared, a peculiar, invisible energy spread across a region of millions of miles. In an instant, the millions of miles of spatial turbulence fell still. The space rifts that had been constantly tearing open and closing were frozen in place. And over ninety percent of that invisible energy bore down directly on Lin Lei.
"Spatial binding, spatial distortion! Time flow alteration!"
Facing this move, Lin Lei felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
"This…"
Lin Lei's gaze burned as he stared at the four divine beast phantoms revolving around Augusta's body. Each phantom generated a unique energy. Combined, they formed this technique — these four strange energies that could stir heaven and earth, that could affect space and time.
"This — this is exactly—" Lin Lei's eyes went wide as saucers.
In that instant, time seemed to freeze!
Even the transparent stream of light that Augusta had shot from his mouth appeared to be moving impossibly slowly.
"Yes! That's it!"
For years, Lin Lei had pursued the fusion of four different elemental Laws into one. Yet no matter how far he advanced, no matter how close he got to the bottleneck, he had never been able to take that final step — to perfectly meld four profoundly different profound insights into a seamless whole. He could never cross that threshold. But now, sensing how four distinct energies combined in perfect harmony to influence the world…
It was like a sculptor who had spent a lifetime honing his craft, suddenly beholding the work of a sculpting grandmaster — and achieving instant enlightenment.
That was exactly what Lin Lei experienced.
…
The Azure Dragon — Water attribute. Water is gentle, all-encompassing.
The Black Tortoise — Earth attribute. Earth is heavy and steadfast.
The White Tiger — Wind attribute. Wind is formless, shapeless, gathering and scattering at will.
The Vermillion Bird — Fire attribute. Fire is fierce, wild, and ever-changing in its wrath.
This "Space-Time Chaos" was, in truth, the fusion of Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind.
…
A bottleneck could persist for billions of years without breaking — or it could shatter in a matter of days. What was needed was the right opportunity, a sudden flash of insight. The last time Lin Lei had witnessed this move, he was merely watching from the side and hadn't felt it deeply. Moreover, back then his own fusion of four Laws hadn't yet reached its final stage, so naturally he hadn't gained much from it.
But now, facing "Space-Time Chaos" head-on, with his own progress already at the very edge of the bottleneck — Lin Lei was like kindling finally touched by a spark.
Everything had been prepared. All he needed was that one moment of opportunity. And now, Lin Lei understood.
Everything clicked!
In a flash, the path became clear.
It sounds slow when described, but this flash of insight, this sudden epiphany, happened in but a heartbeat.
"Hmph. Die." Augusta watched coldly as the transparent stream of light reached Lin Lei.
"Rumble~~"
Heaven and earth convulsed. The Laws of the world descended!
Lin Lei gazed at the approaching stream of light with a gentle smile and lightly blew a breath. A transparent sword shadow shot from his mouth, striking the transparent stream of light head-on. In an instant of collision, the stream of light was shattered and scattered. The sword shadow, now diminished and thin, flew a short distance before dissolving into the air.
Augusta's eyes were full of disbelief. "No — impossible!"
"Whoosh."
Two transparent sword shadows shot from Lin Lei's eyes, traveling at soul-attack speed — far too fast for Augusta to dodge. The two sword shadows pierced into his body.
Yet Augusta was unscathed.
"His soul defense is this strong?" Lin Lei couldn't help but marvel. At the same time, he glanced around — four types of elemental energy swirling around him as the Laws of the world continued their descent, reshaping his soul. "If I hadn't experienced 'Space-Time Chaos' firsthand, I honestly don't know how many more years or months it would have taken me to break through."
This breakthrough was even more difficult than achieving Great Perfection.