“Three Flowers Gathering at the Top, Five Qi Chaoyuan!”

Su Yuan’s mind moved, and he immediately activated the Mixed Element Golden Core Technique’s Three Flowers and Five Qi defensive light shield.

However, the effect was minimal. Although it could reduce the damage he suffered under the impact of the cosmic long river, it still could not help him break free from this technique.

And as Duo’s Body Burning Incense ignited, driving the wooden boat, the speed of this leaf-like wooden boat grew faster and faster, and the cosmic impact it endured became ever more violent!

“Using the Power of Faith to ferry across the boundless long river of the Great Universe from ancient to present, grinding away individual life on such a grand scale… the Sect Hierarch’s technique is truly inconceivable.”

Su Yuan took a deep breath and spoke with heartfelt emotion.

Duo’s Path of Faith was truly mysterious. Its Strength was quite similar to the Dream Path, both containing ‘faith’ and ‘imagination’, yet completely different.

This Ultimate Move, [Boat of Tribulation], let alone a Quasi-Emperor, even those legendary Emperor Level beings might not be able to withstand it.

Su Yuan had no method to break it. The only way to respond was to hold his faith firm and drag it out until Duo could no longer endure first.

After all, both of them were on the boat. However much impact Su Yuan suffered, Duo himself had to bear the same impact in order to keep driving this boat forward.

Only… Su Yuan, who had only debuted for a little over a hundred years, could he really outlast Duo, the Quasi-Emperor who had gone through Three Elements?

Duo said, “You, within a mere hundred-some years, have achieved the Star Lord realm. Your Talent is peerless, second to none. Yet the existence and traces left by these short hundred years are far too insignificant before the vast Great Universe… My sect has gone through three cosmic eras. Our own existence, though not on par with the universe, is far heavier and deeper than yours.”

This was the unsolvable aspect of this technique. Having survived three cosmic eras, the ‘weight’ of Duo’s own existence gave him a longer ‘health bar’ when facing impacts on the grand scale of the universe.

Anyone in this age, if they were to endure the impact of the cosmic long river on their own existence together with him, who could possibly outlast him?

Not to mention… someone like Su Yuan, who had only lived for just over a hundred years!

“Time Deceleration!”

Su Yuan immediately mobilized the Time Law to slow himself down, attempting to reduce the erasure by the cosmic river, but this was undoubtedly no more than a drop in the bucket.

If it were Zhou Yun, her Time Skill might still have a bit of resistance against Duo’s technique, because this technique was combined with the Time Dimension.

But Space, and indeed the vast majority of the Power of Laws, under this technique were all equal as living beings!

Duo’s eyes flickered with Buddha Flame as he said, “Amitabha Buddha, so long as Friend Su is willing to accept my sect’s conversion and take refuge in the Buddhist Sect, my sect will, in the new era, remold a flesh body for you, grant you the position of Vice Sect Hierarch, and together with my sect open up an Eternal Buddhist Country… These words of my sect, if there is the slightest falsehood, let me be smitten by heaven and earth, never to enter the Upper Realm for all eternity!”

Though it was obviously meant to shake Su Yuan’s will, Duo’s words were sincere and earnest, even using his own path as the guarantee.

For it is true benefits that most easily move people!

As long as Duo attained the Emperor Realm, with the mysterious and unfathomable Power of Faith he controlled, as long as there was a single thread of Divine Soul, it would not be difficult to let Su Yuan undergo Nirvana Rebirth.

Su Yuan’s expression was blank: “I have my own Dao. Even if I cannot become an emperor, I will not twist my own Dao.”

Duo’s face showed regret as he said, “Amitabha Buddha, regardless, my sect’s promise will always remain valid.”

Duo naturally did not expect to shake Su Yuan so easily and make him give up on the spot, but these words had already planted a seed.

When one is trapped in suffering and a desperate situation, a single path of retreat is enough to shatter their final resistance in an instant!

Su Yuan did not respond again, instead concentrating his will to resist the impact of the vast universe, while continuously pondering what way there might be to counter this technique.

The Spirit Defense of Three Flowers and Five Qi had little effect. Even if his will were erased and the Mixed Element Golden Core triggered Regeneration, it would still be of little use, because he would still be within Duo’s technique.

Su Yuan estimated that even if his will was wiped out by the boundless universe and his existence erased, the Duo who had gone through Three Elements would not lose even one-tenth of his Spirit and faith!

Even if he relied on the Mixed Element Golden Core Technique for Regeneration, it would merely allow him to barely cling to life a little longer. By the same logic, Time Reversal was the same…

Su Yuan calmly kept thinking, but still could not figure out a way to counter this technique. All his life-saving methods were sealed off by it.

And unconsciously, as the wooden boat continued to travel forward along the temporal long river of the grand universe, Su Yuan’s consciousness had grown increasingly blurred…

Blue Sea Realm, Great Flame Country.

Within Demon Capital Academy, He Yanan was leading a group of summer camp pre-freshmen to tour the special Hall of Fame in the Demon City Museum.

Deep within the hall where lights intersected, the painting sealed and displayed on the second-to-last stand was surprisingly a portrait of an old man with white hair and beard, his features gentle.

“This is our Demon Capital Academy’s former dean, Cai Qinglong. Dean Cai retired ten years ago, so the one currently presiding over Demon Capital Academy is the Dean Zheng Chusheng, whom you often see on television.”

He Yanan led the students to the painting on the stand, quickly giving an Introduction of Dean Cai Qinglong’s thousand years of achievements in charge of Demon Capital Academy.

Dean Cai had worked tirelessly with enormous merit. Only after quite a while did He Yanan finally finish speaking, letting out a long breath to conclude:

“Dean Cai Qinglong helmed Demon Capital Academy for just over a thousand years, during which he nurtured countless pillars of the nation. In the education sector, and across the entire Great Flame Country, he can truly be said to have made outstanding contributions. Even the Green Emperor personally praised him as ‘a Grandmaster of academia, a model for the mortal world’!”

As she spoke, He Yanan bowed toward Cai Qinglong’s portrait.

The young men and women of the summer camp, seeing this, also followed suit and bowed, their eyes filled with respect and admiration for this venerable old dean.

Then He Yanan turned around, smiling as she said, “Of course, aside from Dean Cai, our Demon Capital Academy has another, even more heavyweight alumnus! I imagine quite a few of you—or even the vast majority of you—chose our Demon Capital Academy because of him. The last figure in our Hall of Fame, Su…”

Before Teacher Xiao He could finish speaking, her expression suddenly froze. The portrait that should have been carefully sealed and displayed at this deepest spot… had suddenly disappeared??

The decisive battle between the Blue Sea Realm and the Silver Heaven Court had only been a few years ago. Su Yuan, leading experts from the Three Elements to stand against the Heavenly Court, slaying the Jade Emperor, and with his sword stabilizing Qian and Kun, was already the universally acknowledged number one expert of this age. Not just in Great Flame Country—even in the Southern Continent, and indeed across the Western Continent, countless young people revered him as a Myth-like idol.

As the Demon Capital Academy he had attended in his early years, they naturally placed him at the deepest position in the Hall of Fame.

Yet such an important portrait had actually vanished without a trace?

“What is the curator teacher doing! How could they even lose his portrait? Little Tan, go call over the curator teacher on duty this week for me!”

He Yanan frowned, immediately telling the assistant teacher beside her, Little Tan, to fetch the teacher responsible for watching over the Hall of Fame.

But Teacher Tan, looking at the suddenly angry, hot-tempered He Yanan, then at the empty stand, paused slightly and said, “Teacher He, you’ve already finished the Introduction of Dean Cai. Isn’t it over already?”

“How is it over? Isn’t there still that person? Who has the guts to move his portrait!” The more He Yanan spoke, the angrier she became.

But Teacher Tan, after a slight hesitation, still asked cautiously, “Teacher He, Teacher He… this spot has always been empty, there’s never been a portrait, has there? Who… who exactly are you talking about?”

He Yanan’s expression froze. She looked at Teacher Tan, whose face was full of doubt, then at the many students beside them whose faces were likewise full of puzzlement and confusion. Suddenly, she felt a suffocating, drowning-like pressure surge up from her chest.

In the next instant, He Yanan stepped forward and grabbed Teacher Tan’s shoulders, her expression agitated as she shouted, “Su Yuan! Wasn’t there Su Yuan’s portrait here?!”

“Teacher He, Teacher He… cough, cough…” Teacher Tan was almost unable to breathe from being grabbed, yet still said, “Who is Su Yuan?”

It wasn’t just Teacher Tan. The students of the summer camp nearby were also frightened by He Yanan, who had suddenly ‘gone mad’, and all retreated to open up distance.

But He Yanan was not mad—she just felt that suffocating and heart-palpitating feeling growing stronger and stronger, as though some important memory was about to slip out of her mind. Her eyes widened as she grew increasingly anxious, shouting:

“Who is Su Yuan? You actually ask me who Su Yuan is? Of course he’s… he’s…”

He Yanan opened her mouth, but could not speak for a long time. Her gaze suddenly trembled, her pupils quivering as she muttered in a daze, “Su Yuan… who is he?”

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