Chapter 469: 2,000 Years in an Instant

Chapter 469: 2,000 Years in an Instant

Several more years flew by in a flash.

At this moment, Han Li was making his way slowly into a hall in the underground palace while holding a dark purple incense burner in his hand.

Traces of golden light emerged on the ground in the hall, giving off a faint hint of warmth.

"Please pardon me, Senior, but I'll have to seal this Soul Nurturing Burner for your protection while I break the core," Han Li said as he drew to a halt at the center of the hall.

Perhaps the soul fragment was simply very eager to be finally getting out of this place, or perhaps it was already accustomed to the disrespect that Han Li constantly directed toward it. In any case, it didn't say anything to retaliate, merely sitting with its legs crossed in the incense burner in silence.

With a flick of his wrist, Han Li summoned a pair of golden sealing talismans before plastering them across the incense burner, completely cutting off the soul fragment's connection to the outside world.

After that, he raised his left hand and tucked the incense burner up his sleeve.

He then took a deep breath before making his way over to the stone platform at the center of the hall, where the sundial was sitting.

In contrast with the last time he was here, this time, he could clearly sense the time law powers contained within the sundial.

The sundial's time law powers remained as still as the surface of tranquil lake when undisturbed, but now that Han Li was inspecting it with his spiritual sense, it immediately began to churn like a turbulent river.

Han Li was slightly taken aback by this, and he made a hand seal, upon which his Mantra Treasured Axis appeared behind him amid a flash of golden light.

He then closed his eyes as he made a hand seal, and a beam of golden light shot out of the Eye of Truth at the center of the axis, heading straight for the Extreme Yin Sundial.

Even before the beam of golden light completely descended upon the sundial, it suddenly shuddered slightly before rising up into the air.

At the same time, the black needle at its center began to revolve rapidly while blasting forth an arc of black lightning to clash against the beam of golden lightning.

A loud crackling sound rang out as the beam of golden light was shattered into a flurry of golden powder that encompassed the entire stone platform.

A resounding boom instantly rang out in Han Li's mind, and he entered the same special state that he had been in while manifesting his past time law threads.

However, this time, instead of having his senses heightened, an illusion was displayed to him.

All of the sudden, the golden powder formed by the shattered beam of golden light swept upward like a golden river to swallow up his entire body.

He felt as if he were flying through a river of time, and there were translucent golden threads constantly passing him by. He desperately wanted to grasp onto these threads, but each time he tried, he would simply grasp onto empty air.

His agitation was growing by the second, and he unconsciously began to channel his Mantra Axis Scripture. As a result, the Mantra Treasured Axis behind him began to revolve, while all of the Time Dao Runes on its surface lit up in unison.

Before Han Li had a chance to do anything, he was also wrenched into the vortex like a tiny raft in a turbulent sea.

......

The entire world spun around him for a moment, following which he stumbled out into the open, and he quickly inspected his surroundings, upon which a stunned look appeared on his face.

He discovered that he was standing in front of a golden palace, and the gates of the palace were behind him, while none other than Lu Yuqing was standing nearby, staring at him with her mouth slightly agape in shock.

In the distance, a girl with golden hair who appeared to be around eight or nine years of age was locked in a standoff against a barefoot silver-robed woman.

Around the woman was a ring of gray light that was several hundred feet in size, while above her was a massive dragon head projection with its cavernous mouth wide open. A pillar of three-colored light was blasting out of its maw, while the girl's arms had exploded to form a pair of translucent threads that swept toward the oncoming pillar of three-colored light.

The two combatants were none other than Jin Tong and Qu Ling, and this was the exact same scene that Han Li had left behind prior to entering the golden palace over 2,000 years ago!

The only thing that was different was that the layer of golden light around the golden pattern had become a little dim and was no longer as radiant as before.

What's going on...

He had spent over 2,000 years inside that palace, yet it seemed nothing had changed in the outside world.

At this point, everyone else had also already noticed Han Li, and they were also very surprised to see him.

Lu Yuqing was just about to say something when the two translucent golden threads finally clashed against the pillar of three-colored light in the distance with an earth-shattering boom.

A burst of blinding light erupted forth as the entire sky was split in half, with one half filled with radiant three-colored light, while the other half was inundated by dazzling golden radiance.

The two halves of the sky clashed violently against one another, and the entire space rumbled violently. In particular, the space where the two intersected was warping violently, looking as if it could shatter at any moment.

Everything on the ground below instantly melted away like snow under the scorching sun under the vast expanse of light, and the ground was also rapidly melting.

An alarmed look appeared on Lu Yuqing's face upon seeing this, and she hurriedly flew to a safe distance away as a streak of azure light.

In contrast, Han Li remained still on the spot as he conjured up his True Extreme Film, and at the same time, 36 specks of bright starlight emerged over his body.

Beams of light fell upon his True Extreme Film to produce an ear-splitting grating noise, and the True Extreme Film began to tremble slightly, but it displayed no signs of breaking or being worn down.

Han Li looked up at the sky with an intense, unblinking gaze as the pillar of three-colored light became brighter and brighter, rapidly overwhelming the opposing translucent threads.

A grim look appeared on Jin Tong's face upon seeing this, and she let loose a delicate roar as a new pair of arms emerged to replace the ones that had just exploded, but these new arms were semi-transparent.

She thrust the palms of her hands through the air, and two bursts of translucent golden light shot forth before transforming into another pair of translucent golden threads.

The pair of translucent threads crossed over one another to oppose the pillar of three-colored light, but the latter was still advancing forward with unstoppable force, and the situation was quickly turning dire for Jin Tong.