Pursued by the Top Grade Saintess after Engagement Annulled-Chapter 452 - 448: Space-Time Stasis, Troubles Abound
Now Xia Feng finally relied on his own efforts to pull out the temporal river, so now he could attempt everything he had wanted to do.
However, just having seen the temporal river, his mind was somewhat excessively excited, causing the whole temporal river to waver, seemingly on the verge of dissolving away.
Xia Feng hurriedly steadied his thoughts and then embedded his divine sense into the temporal river, trying to grasp the current period he was in.
The time within the temporal river appeared like a small stream slowly flowing, with some places even tranquil as if not passing at all.
Yet the moment Xia Feng’s divine sense entered, he discovered the subtle differences inside.
In a matter of moments, his solid divine sense was directly swallowed by about one third.
Furthermore, the swallowing was accelerating.
Xia Feng grew anxious in his heart, quickly searching for the period he desired.
However, the temporal river was indeed too vast, and even having exhausted his divine sense, he hadn’t found the period he wanted.
Seeing his divine sense rapidly shrinking, if he didn’t retract it quickly, there was a possibility this fragment of divine sense would be buried in the temporal river.
Xia Feng, somewhat unwillingly, prepared to retract his divine sense, continuously thinking in his heart: "Damn it, if only time could freeze."
It was unclear whether his thought was discovered by the temporal river or if he genuinely touched upon the desired time.
When Xia Feng retracted that tiny remnant of divine sense, he wavered slightly, then saw that everything around him had come to a standstill.
It wasn’t a standstill caused by spatial suppression, but rather the time and space within a kilometer were completely frozen here, with no feeling of time passing.
All the surrounding void vortices were entirely still, even Xia Tianming and Li Qingxue were immobilized.
Xia Feng was momentarily stunned and then contemplated how to handle the situation with the two of them.
He was somewhat curious about the state of time and space beyond a kilometer, but more important than that was how to allow Xia Tianming and Li Qingxue to move freely like he did without affecting other places.
As Xia Feng was pondering, his actions didn’t cease; instead, he drew out the Heaven-Burying Sword and began attacking these sword beasts, which had no ability to resist.
He was not only dealing with the sword beasts but also the frozen void vortices, continuously approaching the frenzy stone on the central stone pillar.
As long as he could dig out the frenzy stone at this moment, resolving these things should be relatively simple.
This was Xia Feng’s plan, and he also executed it.
The time and space around him had already been halted; he swiftly reached the central stone pillar and directly dug out the frenzy stone.
Almost as soon as the frenzy stone was in his hand, the surrounding space suddenly shook violently.
The space-time he had stopped instantly shattered like a mirror, and the ensuing small-scale explosion flung Xia Feng over.
He had barely reached the central spot, only to now be flung to the outermost area, even farther than Xia Tianming and Li Qingxue.
The surrounding space continued to fracture, and the momentarily frozen Li Qingxue and Xia Tianming also regained their senses and observed everything around them.
"What’s going on?"
Xia Tianming appeared somewhat tense, continuously smashing the Void Cauldron against nearby void vortices, even refining some fragments of shattered time-space.
He glanced around, noticing that the blood-red stone on the central stone pillar had been removed, first breathing a sigh of relief before questioning Xia Feng with some confusion.
"What happened just now?"
Xia Feng was equally curious about their feelings moments ago.
"I just wanted to pull out the temporal river, but it consumed an excessive amount of divine sense. Struggling to get out from inside, I inadvertently mastered this move."
"I call it Space-Time Stasis, which can completely freeze the time and space within a kilometer, allowing only me to move."
"However, it consumes too much divine power and spiritual power."
"Without ten Divine Fire Platforms for internal support, I fear I wouldn’t last two breaths using this move."
There are still some flaws in the Space-Time Stasis move; the first is the excessive consumption Xia Feng mentioned.
Another is that there cannot be an existence stronger than Xia Feng inside.
If a being stronger than Xia Feng existed, it could easily struggle out, and then encountering backlash wouldn’t just be a simple matter of exhaustion.
Xia Feng, with curiosity, asked: "Grandfather, how did you feel just now inside?"
Xia Tianming hesitated slightly: "I didn’t feel much, it seemed like that period of time was stolen?"
"I almost didn’t realize I was time-frozen."
"It was only after regaining my senses, seeing the surrounding space shattered, and with the blood-red stone in the center gone did I realize something must have happened."
Xia Feng pondered slightly, and more Celestial Tier Fourth Layer Martial God Level sword beasts emerged from the void vortices around them that hadn’t been cleared.
Li Qingxue fought fiercely on one side, and Xia Tianming, snapping back to reality, quickly spoke: "Let’s deal with these things first before thinking of others."
Xia Feng nodded solemnly, drawing out the Heaven-Burying Sword to begin clearing the surrounding sword beasts.
Fortunately, the frenzy stone, which continuously produced sword beasts, had been removed, even though...
Before Xia Feng could finish his thoughts, the sword beasts charging around seemed to summon even more sword beasts.
Initially, there were sword beasts in just one direction, but now, there was spatial disturbance indicating sword beasts charging from all directions.
These sword beasts were unlike the void vortices in front of Xia Feng, as they appeared at random different levels instead of gradually increasing by level.
He had just been surrounded by four First Grade Celestial God Level sword beasts, having had a hard time breaking free from their entanglement.
If it were just himself, it would be fine, but the issue was that Li Qingxue and Xia Tianming could still struggle against a single First Grade Celestial God Level sword beast, but if surrounded by several...
Xia Feng didn’t dare imagine that scene, only thankful that he had sent the other Ninth Daughters back to their respective Divine Domains in advance.
He continuously scanned his surroundings, seemingly trying to find the source of these sword beasts.
The ones from the Sword God Hall were due to the frenzy stone, but it seemed these coming from outside had little to do with the frenzy stone, so where exactly were they coming from?
As Xia Feng fought, he started consciously moving towards the surroundings, exploring the secret of these sword beasts.
