Chapter 858
Slaying a Time-Based Demigod
With a single step, Yang Fan's figure, like a stream of light merging into the void, pierced through the boundary barrier of the Iron Fist Civilization and stepped into the vast and boundless Black Sand Sea of Death.
If this had happened more than a decade ago...
Even someone as powerful as him could never cross the complete ring world barrier so easily.
But now everything has changed—in order to build the Ironfist Continent, which is attached to Azure, the Ironfist civilization has actively extracted a huge amount of the world's origin power to support the birth and expansion of the super-giant world island.
This action objectively and significantly weakens the solidity of the world's barriers.
This is an irreversible process, which also means that the Ironfist people have completely cut off their escape route and can only become vassals of the Azure Civilization from now on.
Yang Fan stood ten thousand meters above the Black Sand Sea, his gaze fixed on the towering black sand waves, and sighed silently.
Compared to when the Dark Tide Disaster first broke out more than a decade ago, this Sea of Death, which once nurtured countless Sand Clan creatures, has undergone earth-shattering changes.
One after another, colossal spacetime vortexes, like the menacing eyes of heaven and earth, slowly rotated within the vast sea of sand.
The smallest of these vortexes has a diameter of 1,000 kilometers, while the largest reaches a staggering tens of thousands of kilometers.
As the vortex spun, terrifying spatial gravity swept in all directions, and countless huge sand dunes that had stood for thousands of years were easily torn apart and swallowed up like fragile grains of sand, leaving not even a trace.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Dense, muffled thunder, like the roar of an ancient behemoth, continuously emanated from the depths of the vortex.
Each roar caused the land of the Black Sand Sea to tremble violently.
Strangely, each vortex was shrouded in a thick, impenetrable sandstorm, plunging the world into darkness.
However, the empty spaces between the whirlpools were exceptionally clean, with almost no sand or dust floating around.
So when viewed from above, the entire black sand sea looks like it has been dotted with huge dust clouds by a giant brush, exuding a chilling and eerie atmosphere.
Yang Fan could clearly sense that the number of lives in the desert was decreasing exponentially.
Previously, the creatures in this sea of death were almost everywhere, and their numbers were nearly endless.
The burrowing sand scorpions, the running sand lizards, the giant sand worms that devour sand and gravel, and the various strange creatures hidden beneath the sand layers constitute the stable ecosystem of the Black Sand Sea for thousands of years.
But now, every minute and every second, countless sand creatures are being mercilessly swallowed by the sand sea vortex, without even a chance to struggle.
This ecosystem, which has lasted for millions of years, is collapsing and dying at an alarming rate.
For various civilizations, such a dramatic change meant that developing the resources of the Black Sand Sea became a perilous undertaking with a slim chance of survival.
If a resource exploration team is not careful, the entire team could be wiped out.
Yang Fan's gaze pierced through the layers of black sand as he murmured, "Is this the sacrifice of the ancient gods?"
After learning the deepest secrets of the primordial world, he was 100% certain that the apocalyptic catastrophe sweeping across the world was not a natural disaster at all.
Rather, it was a super sacrifice launched by the many supreme beings of the Eternal Alliance—those trapped ancient gods—in order to fight against the "cage" that devoured everything.
The billions of living beings in the primordial world, from the weakest creatures to the highest venerable beings and demigods, were all sacrifices to the ancient gods, serving as "fuel" for their struggle against the cage.
An even more alarming suspicion began to frantically grow in Yang Fan's mind:
"The final stage of this super sacrifice is the complete collapse of the original world itself."
"Once the original world collapses, the various civilizations that depend on it will definitely not be able to escape either."
"Because the civilized world and the original world are deeply intertwined, like skin and fur depending on each other; if the skin is gone, where will the fur attach?"
"At that time, civilizations will face an apocalypse more terrifying than the Dark Rift Cataclysm or the Eternal Night, a complete annihilation in which even the souls cannot be preserved."
This conjecture is too cruel and too revolutionary.
However, when combined with the ancient god ruins he has visited and the hidden information he has obtained over the years, it makes perfect sense.
Just then.
Suddenly, Yang Fan felt a sense of unease and looked up at the sky.
Countless fragmented images flashed through his eyes in an instant, interspersed with the faint sound of illusory waves of time.
This was a spontaneous warning from the powerful laws of time he controlled, capturing a crucial piece of information from the ceaseless flow of time:
The opponent has arrived.
Just as he had predicted, the other party was a time-based demigod from the Divine Power Source Realm.
He precisely captured the enemy's undisguised, chilling killing intent, which flowed upstream along the river of time.
Yang Fan even knew the other party's name: "Sagat, I've been waiting for you for more than half a month, and you've finally arrived."
He didn't flinch at all, but stood quietly in the sky, patiently waiting for the decisive battle to begin.
He understood perfectly that as long as he won this battle and killed this demigod of the time system, the Divine Power Source Realm would have no one left to deal with him for a long time to come.
Because in the entire primordial world, those with supernatural abilities who mastered the laws of time were extremely rare, like phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.
Those who can cultivate the laws of time to their fullest potential and successfully advance to the demigod level are extremely rare.
A full minute passed.
The entire Black Sand Sea, and even the entire world of the Iron Fist civilization, suddenly fell into an extremely bizarre state of solidification.
The howling wind high in the sky stopped moving;
The giant vortex, spanning tens of thousands of kilometers, has stopped rotating;
The roaring sandstorm also hung suspended in mid-air.
Everything stood still, all was silent, and even the flow of time was completely severed.
The whole world has become a huge, lifeless three-dimensional painting.
Yang Fan naturally learned the whole story—it was because the demigod Sagat had used His primordial artifact.
The name of this artifact is simple, yet it exudes extreme dominance—Frozen.
Its power is enough to freeze everything in the world, whether it is tangible matter or intangible time, space and laws, it can forcibly freeze them, forming an absolutely closed time prison.
The enemy knew very well that he controlled the powerful laws of time, and that ordinary methods were simply not enough to kill him.
Only by using the primordial artifact to completely seal off time can one trap oneself in a cage.
Yang Fan showed no fear, but simply nodded to the empty, frozen space and said, "Your Majesty Sagat, it is a great honor to meet you." His words had barely faded when...
The entire frozen world suddenly shook, and ripples spread across the spatial barriers.
A voice, filled with supreme majesty and icy indifference, as if descending from the heavens, echoed in every corner of the prison of time:
"Godslayer, this will be your burial place; your fate is destined to end here."
This was clearly Sagat deliberately putting psychological pressure on Yang Fan, trying to shake his will to resist and make him give up in despair.
Yang Fan suddenly laughed, his tone more relaxed than anyone could have imagined: "Your Majesty, I have no intention of fighting you."
He immediately sensed that the aura emanating from the demigod Sagat had paused almost imperceptibly.
Clearly, this completely unexpected statement left the high and mighty demigod of the time system utterly dumbfounded.
He used the primordial artifact to seal time in order to fight Yang Fan to the death, but the other party said he didn't intend to fight?
This is simply unbelievable.
Yang Fan's smile deepened: "Your opponent has never been me, but rather—"
He paused deliberately, then leisurely uttered two words:
"cage!"
Almost at the same time those two words were uttered.
The space, which had been absolutely solidified, suddenly underwent an extremely terrifying distortion.
The laws of time were completely disrupted, and the frozen world surged wildly in two completely opposite directions:
In some areas, giant vortices began to shrink and dissipate rapidly, and the sand layers rose up again, turning into endless ancient sand dunes.
Everything is returning to how it was before the Dark Rift Catastrophe—this is time reversal, a return to the past.
In other areas, the giant vortexes spun wildly at an even faster speed before finally collapsing downwards.
The speed of spatial collapse increased a hundredfold, presenting the ultimate scene after the continuous evolution of the disaster—this is time fast-forwarding, heading towards the future.
In the same dimension, in the same space, time flows in completely opposite directions, and the past and the future collide wildly.
This will only lead to one extremely terrible result—a time storm.
Targets struck by the storm of time, from the physical body to the spirit and even the very essence of the soul, will be completely torn apart and crushed, leaving not even a trace of their soul behind, and will be completely erased from the river of time.
no doubt.
The demigod Sagat realized something was wrong. He could no longer hold back and planned to preemptively detonate the time storm to forcibly kill Yang Fan.
Unfortunately, it was all too late.
"Click! Click! Click!"
Countless sounds of space cracking, like the crisp sound of glass shattering, suddenly resounded throughout the entire frozen space.
The sky shattered, turning into countless glittering fragments;
The earth was shattered; black sand and rocks crumbled.
Even the frozen wind and suspended sand were completely shattered.
at the same time.
An aura of infinite antiquity and age, yet also containing infinite terror and despair, descended madly from countless spatial rifts, like a colossal beast awakening after billions of years of slumber.
This aura far surpassed that of a demigod, even exceeding that of a high-ranking demigod, reaching the level of an ancient god. It made Yang Fan's heart pound wildly and the hairs on his body stand on end.
Every fragment formed from the shattered world, imbued with this aura, miraculously transformed into a smooth, mirror-like surface, refracting a cold light.
And each mirror reflected the exact same chilling scene:
A blurry, tall figure, its outline resembling a ferocious demon, struggled and twisted wildly in the boundless darkness like a drowning person, as if enduring the most miserable and cruel torture in the world.
"what--!"
"what--!"
A series of desperate screams emanated from the mirror, piercing through space and striking straight to the soul.
Yang Fan was shocked.
He knew, of course, that the figure struggling frantically in the mirror was the demigod Sagat.
The thin, thread-like bands of light that surged wildly from Sagat's body were the power of the time law that he had cultivated throughout his life.
This is not a temporary extraction, but a permanent separation; it is a forced stripping from the very source of the soul.
With each thread of the law of time that is pulled away, the power of this demigod of time will permanently decrease by one point.
And the being capable of doing this, forcibly sacrificing a demigod of the time system, is naturally:
Ancient god remains!!
To be precise, it is the remains of an ancient god who perished over countless years, yet still wields the powerful laws of time.
Although He had long since perished and His will had fallen into slumber, He still could not escape the shackles of the "cage".
In order to gain greater power, the demigod Sagat forged the primordial artifact "Frozen," and his soul has established a firm link with the "cage."
In other words, He actually became the "backup fuel" for the ancient gods to fight against the cage.
Yang Fan, before the final battle even began, had temporarily awakened the remaining ancient god's will within the divine remains through some special means.
In order to fight against the ever-encroaching "cage", the awakened will of the ancient god instinctively chose to sacrifice his "fellow prisoner" Sagat.
As for Yang Fan, he never established a soul connection with the cage, which is why he was able to remain detached and quietly be an observer.
In short, this battle seemed incredibly bizarre, but to put it bluntly, the reason was simple—Yang Fan merely used the "cage" and the ancient god's hand to kill this arrogant time-based demigod.
At this moment.
Yang Fan stared silently at Sagat's miserable state reflected in the mirror, a deep chill creeping into his heart.
A terrifying thought suddenly occurred to him: the power system of the primordial world, the ranks above the Venerable level, is a complete trap.
This seemingly inescapable staircase of power, leading to the highest realm and invincibility, actually leads not to strength and freedom, but to—eternal death and endless imprisonment. (End of Chapter)