Chapter 1701: Time Is Approaching

Red Mist Forbidden Zone:

Heavenly Book Paragon suddenly opened his eyes and summoned his book. His main body was somewhere else, so he left this place in case Grand Dao wanted to send him more information and couldn’t find him. The last thing he wanted was for Grand Dao to start searching for his whereabouts.

Without hesitation, he flipped through the new contents while clicking his tongue in wonder. "SS-Class Primal, Saint Art, and Saint Dao Heart — such drastic improvement in such a short period. Life is really in easy mode when you have your future self paving the way for you."

Thinking about how long it took him to achieve any of these things made him slightly jealous — especially the Saint Dao Heart. One of his transcendent Paragons is the Nine Paragon Foundation, which took up a significant portion of his life, as he needed to be reincarnated and cultivate himself nine times. However, even that did as long as the Saint Dao Heart. Due to his wife, his Dao Heart had a tiny flaw, and it took him a long time to transcend the mundane and achieve Sainthood.

Heavenly Book Paragon flipped through the book and stopped at one section: ’The Infinite Divine Court acted swiftly enough.’ He had just sold the information to them, and they had already targeted Wang Wei.

’No, maybe not a target, but a deal with Grand Dao?’ To complete the Devouring Rune, he sold Wang Wei’s information, enticing the court with the idea of swallowing a Grand Dao Saint. In other words, Heavenly Book created a competitor for itself. However, he did not care because he knew the Divine Timeline had severe limitations. His scheme was open, since the court should know his intention regarding the rune. However, he expects them to see him as a greedy ant trying to swallow a dragon.

’Grand Dao received Wang Wei’s soul remnants. The Highest Sovereign successfully infiltrates one of its core powers into the Primordial Timeline – a win-win for everybody,’ Heavenly Book analyzed. ’No, maybe this is even a three-way deal. The trouble of the Fate Seed Status is now gone.’ The deal appeared as if Wang Wei was the losing side, but Heavenly Book didn’t think so.

The removal of the status allowed Wang Wei to pursue a purer, more perfect transcendent path — which is invaluable to any cultivator who truly wishes to achieve True Transcendence. Furthermore, is the loss of the soul remnant truly a loss? In this grand chessboard, it may be a significant pawn for Grand Dao, but it could also be switched to Wang Wei’s side.

’Well, none of that will matter if I can swallow him,’ Heavenly Dao thought with a red light flashing deep in his eyes. He then continued flipping through the new information.

"Our battle will happen so soon? Time is really running out." He did not care about Wang Wei. Even if the latter’s strength reached his level, the difference in information was enough to crush him, not to mention Heavenly Book had already set the stage for this battle. His concerns were about preparing to swallow Wang Wei’s future self.

’The Devouring Rune has been completed, but the Purification process has just started. Not to mention, finding a way to prevent my [Existence] from collapsing or being corrupted is still a major issue.’ These problems need to be dealt with as soon as possible. Killing Wang Wei was not an issue, but it must be done during the Time Nexus.

Based on the information available, Heavenly Paragon has already decided that there were only two Time Nexuses left in the Paragon Realm. The next one should be during this expedition, but his preparations won’t be finished by then.

’Should I blackmail the Heaven Cardinal to help?’ He knew the item he handed over was enough to label him as a traitor by Grand Dao and have him executed. However, Heavenly Book immediately squashed this idea. The backlash from doing this could result in his death. If the Heaven Cardinal decides to kill him at any cost before his death, the Heavenly Book knew the chances of surviving were abysmally low. The difference in their cultivation was too vast, and without years of planning, there is no way for him to escape such a hunt.

’I need another approach, but in the meantime, I allow more variables to pop up.’ He waved his hand to create even more clones and sent them to different parts of the Chaos Universe, trying to facilitate Wang Wei’s capture during the expedition. Although he was confident, it wouldn’t hurt to just nip the danger in the bud. Previously, he had no opportunity, since Wang Wei was cooped up in the Eternal Ascension World. But this expedition was an opportunity.

Heavenly Book exhaled deeply after setting things up. He closed his book and prepared to enter a deep state of meditation to wait for news, but before he could do that, he felt a deep pain in his soul, followed by blood trickling down his mouth. ’The clones are dead? And I can’t even retrieve their memories?’ He felt something was wrong, but did not immediately overreact.

A pill appeared in his palm, and he swallowed it. Heavenly Book Paragon did not hesitate to condense more clones. As expected, the results were the same. He frowned before sending even more, but this time, to different parts of the universe and different people. Sadly, the result was the same.

He smiled. ’Interesting. Is this a warning? You want to use me as a whetstone for your younger self? Very well. We’ll determine everything in the last Time Nexus.’

Eternal Ascension World, Great Qin Border:

The battle was intense. Yan Hai, Dugu Baitian, and Ying Zheng did a way better job at holding the commanders than the previous one, but it did not change the fact that they were still losing — and losing badly at that. Meanwhile, Qiyuan was using the knowledge fed to him by Wu Hong’s avatar to rapidly destroy the vital node of the formation to get to the Heaven Piercing Military Base.

’This woman’s Sword Dao is terrifying,’ Wan Yanmei thought. She could tell that if this battle lasted a few days, Yan Hai’s strength would catch up and surpass hers. A few days sounds like a long time, but given the vast difference in their strength, it was a scary thought that she could bridge the gap so quickly.

’Let’s eliminate her as quickly as possible.’ However, before she could explode with all her strength, she sensed something and looked at the sky. ’So, he escaped? Well, at least, they can’t blame me.’ The order to capture Wang Wei was of the highest level, and she executed everything accordingly. No one can blame her for the outcome.

’However, to ensure that no one finds fault, I need to at least execute one of the secondary objectives.’ Wan Yanmei flew towards the clouds.

"Where are you going?" Yan Hai said. Her body was in terrible shape, with blood, bones, and viscera visible to the naked eye. However, her fighting spirit was unparalleled. A tiny smile even hung on the corner of her mouth.

Wan Yanmei casually looked at her. With a thought, she resonated with Cui Yi and borrowed his Inner World. Her action reduced Cui Yi’s strength to Ying Zheng’s level while further elevating hers. Then, with a flick of the finger, Yan Hai’s body and soul were instantly annihilated, sending her to Limbo. Even Qiyuan could not react fast enough to save her.

Then, ignoring everything else, Wan Yanmei reached the highest peak of the sky and summoned the River of Fate. Qiyuan wanted to stop her, but Fan Leiwei would not let him. A dark purple light orb descended from the river to Wan Yanmei’s palm. Using her Saint Will, she molded the purple light into a sword that she gently waved to the sky.

A magnificent thread with countless threads or locks manifested between Heaven and Earth, covering every inch of the sky. The interesting part was that this lock seemed connected to every living creature in this world.

’The History Lock,’ Qiyuan said with an ugly expression. He wanted to stop it, but it was useless. Although he was close to breaking the formation, Fan Leiwei was also repairing it, meaning that if he did not focus enough, his rate of destruction would not keep pace with the rate of repair. He could not call for backup since most other Primals were occupied, and the available one would only be killed by Wan Yanmei.

Knowing this was inevitable, Qiyuan calmed down and accepted the change. Then, he secretly sent an order to Ye Guang. ’Tell Ma Luquiu that now is the best time to execute the plan.’ War was never a simple thing. Wins and losses were expected. The key to victory was winning more than losing. Qiyuan then placed all his focus on breaking and destroying this base before Wan Yanmei finishes her plan.

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