Chapter 587: 100 Universes of Time! A Great Hand from Across the Cosmos!
"Haha, otherwise, why do you think Jing Yuan would consider cultivating a successor?" Ren chuckled, but also praised her. "However, you're doing an excellent job, Fu Xuan. You're beautiful, kind-hearted, and responsible. Truly the perfect choice."
Being praised like this, even she couldn't help but blush. "Cough, I'll accept that. Did the Lord of Joy seek you for something important?"
"There are some things. I'm about to go deal with them."
"If you have time, you can come experience Luofu's New Year," she said.
"New Year?" Only then did he notice the lanterns and decorations everywhere. "Okay, I'll try my best."
A desolate star system, the place where he once fought Nanook. The shattered sea of time disrupted the entire system. But at this moment, a magnificent giant tree with silver flowing light grew out of it. The waves of time emanating from it began to affect the surrounding star systems.
Ren immediately confined all the waves within this system. This tree could be called the "Time Tree." Its roots were embedded in the Imaginary Tree, absorbing its source of time and growing rapidly.
After a while, it stopped growing. Its bare branches began to sprout silver-white leaves, then bloomed with silver flowers. The withered petals reformed into Time Power, flowing back into the Imaginary Tree. Many flowers withered, but only one budding flower radiated light, swelling as it bore fruit.
Suddenly, the Time Tree was entirely absorbed and devoured by the tiny fruit, including all the fragments of the Time Rule in the starfield. The starfield lost all time, shrouded in a motionless, desolate gray.
Quietly floating in the center was a translucent silver fruit. Ren thought it had ended, but a bizarre event unfolded. Ninety-nine silver-white wormholes appeared, and from them floated ninety-nine identical but smaller fruits. They rotated around the first.
Then, silver-white threads extended from its surface, entwining the other ninety-nine fruits and sucking them dry. The fruit swallowed them, expanding once more into a single, palm-sized, refined fruit.
Ren teleported before it and grasped it.
[Item]: Multiverse Time Fruit.
[Effect]: A fruit capable of transforming into the embryonic form of a Multiverse Time Rule.
"Multiverse?" he widened his eyes. A single seed had grown into this. "Wait… Multiverse!" He thought of the wormholes. They weren't from this universe.
Just as he was contemplating, "Crack!" The void before him suddenly shattered. His eyes narrowed, and his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception activated. A blade condensed from all his powers struck out with a universe-shaking force. He wasn't being wantonly destructive; a silver-white giant hand was reaching from the void, and he acted instinctively.
A single sword strike. The Imaginary Tree was shaking. All the Aeons opened their eyes. If he hadn't focused everything on the giant hand, the entire Imaginary Tree would have been slain. This strike, powerful enough to destroy a universe, only caused the hand to pause, a nearly invisible crack appearing in its palm, which healed in the blink of an eye.
Repelled by countless worlds, the hand slowly retreated. Ren's gaze was cold. Every second the sword remained, the Imaginary Tree trembled. The Aeons, for the first time, united their powers to stabilize the universe. Several more seconds passed. The tree and the Aeons were on the verge of collapse.
Ren finally dispersed the sword and closed his eyes. "Phew…" The imaginary tree gradually stopped shaking.
"..." If described in human terms, the Aeons were drenched in sweat.
"That was an attack from across universes… was it for… this?" He felt the hand had come for this fruit. He could only think of one person: the Time Calamity King, who sent Time-Thieves to plant Time Seeds.
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