My Wife is A Sword God

Chapter 739: The Crack in Time, Past Time and Space

Chapter 739: The Crack in Time, Past Time and Space

The Heavenly Tower National Teacher provided a brief summary, and Qin Feng was able to grasp the gist of the situation.

Some unknown entity had come to the Seventh Layer of the Ninefold Prison, right under the noses of the Divine Guardian and the Heavenly Tower National Teacher, and killed all the prisoners, not even sparing their souls.

The Teacher had summoned Qin Feng here to use the Immortal Technique “Mirror Flower, Water Moon” to recreate what exactly had happened.

This was a dangerous task, Qin Feng noted. Nevertheless, he did not refuse. Instead, he activated the Primordial Immortal Qi within his body and guided it to his pupils.

As a Third Realm cultivator of the Literature Saint Dao Lineage, he could freely use an Immortal Technique without fear of heavenly retribution.

However, since he had previously chosen the “Seeing Flowers in the Mist” technique to protect the citizens of Suiyang City, he now needed to enter the Divine Might state to use “Mirror Flower, Water Moon”.

The Heavenly Tower National Teacher was aware of this, and waited patiently.

After reaching the Third Realm, Qin Feng’s connection to the Primordial Qi had deepened, making it easier for him to enter the Divine Might state.

As the Primordial Qi circulated through his body, Qin Feng opened his eyes again, and time seemed to have frozen.

He nodded slightly at the Heavenly Tower National Teacher, then waved his hand in the void, causing the space to ripple like a mirror, and the anomalies that had occurred in the Seventh Layer of the Ninefold Prison to reappear before them.

The giant eyeball, the eerie entity, the horrific massacre.

When Qin Feng and the others saw the prisoners being devoured by the blood-red tadpoles, yet unable to die, they all furrowed their brows.

What a cruel technique was this?

The Divine Guardian spoke solemnly, “It was refining the spiritual souls of the prisoners into the body of the black Buddha.”

The Heavenly Tower National Teacher also commented, “This bizarre entity seems to be absorbing the power of the prisoners’ fear.”

“Why could we not hear the voice of its conversation with the Ghost Buddha?” Bai Yan asked, puzzled.

“Perhaps it had already anticipated this and taken countermeasures,” the Heavenly Tower National Teacher replied calmly.

An entity capable of shielding itself from his Heavenly Mandate divination, how could it be ordinary?

This mysterious giant eyeball seemed to have foreknowledge of future events as well.

At that moment, the giant eyeball in the Mirror Flower, Water Moon suddenly turned towards Qin Feng.

Qin Feng felt a jolt of panic – the Mirror Flower, Water Moon was supposed to be revealing past events, not the present.

Yet, he had a strong sense that the eerie eyeball was staring directly at him!

“Not good!” the Heavenly Tower National Teacher cried out, sweeping his right hand to envelop Qin Feng in Clear Qi.

However, the eyeball’s attack was faster, as a beam of red light shot out from it, causing Qin Feng to instantly vanish from his spot!

When Mirror Flower, Water Moon lost the support of the caster, they naturally fell apart and the picture no longer existed.

Bai Yan was alarmed. “Where did that boy go?”

The Heavenly Tower National Teacher’s eyes narrowed. “He must have been dragged into the past, pulled into a rift in time and space.”

Hearing this, the Divine Guardian’s expression darkened. His beloved disciple had perished in the Zhenling Pass battle and ended up in the Netherworld Realm – he would not tolerate the disciple’s heir meeting the same fate.

As he clenched his fist, his aura surged and the entire Ninefold Prison began to tremble as he prepared to use his absolute power to rip open the fabric of time and space and retrieve Qin Feng.

However, the Heavenly Tower National Teacher’s voice stopped him. “If you do that, he may never be able to return.”

“Then what should we do?” the Divine Guardian asked.

“This was just a ploy left behind by the enemy, not their true self. The situation is not yet beyond redemption.”

“In fact, Qin Feng being pulled into a rift in the past may not be entirely bad. Perhaps he can find some overlooked clues there, helping us uncover the enemy’s identity and the existence behind the Ghost Buddha.”

The Divine Guardian’s brow furrowed. “But we have to ensure he survives!”

“Be patient. His fate transcends the Three Realms, he cannot perish here. Someone will watch over him.”

At that moment, Qin Feng felt as if he had fallen into a bottomless pit where countless scenes flashed by – everything that had ever happened in the Seventh Layer of the Ninefold Prison over the centuries.

Just as he thought he would be lost in this state forever, a giant eye came into view.

Whoosh!

The scenes retreated like flowing water, and Qin Feng found himself back on solid ground, in the familiar Seventh Layer of the Ninefold Prison. But this time, the Teacher and the others were gone, and the previously empty cells now held many heavily guarded criminals!

There were lion-headed, human-bodied monsters, three-armed freaks, hideous ghosts, and the group with the masked faces – all beings who were supposed to have already perished!

Whoosh!

A scorching gust came from behind, and Qin Feng quickly turned around to see a massive three-headed, nine-tailed tiger yawning lazily, lying in one of the cells.

Qin Feng was only about ten feet away, but the creature’s six giant tiger eyes did not seem to reflect his presence at all.

None of the prisoners seemed to notice him either.

Just as Qin Feng was puzzled, his senior Xuan Yi in the Divine Sea sensed the anomaly in space-time and expanded his consciousness, exclaiming in surprise, “Someone has used a space-time technique to pull you into a rift in the past.”

Qin Feng was alarmed. “Senior, what does that mean?”

Xuan Yi explained, “This is a past time-space, where everything is already destined. Since you come from the future, you do not belong to this time-space, so no one can detect you, and you cannot change anything here.”

“This is a rift in space-time, a gap in the past, like a box that has trapped you inside.”

Hearing this, Qin Feng’s eyes widened. If that was the case, would he be imprisoned in the past forever?

“Is there no way for me to return to the present?”

“There is a way, but it is difficult,” Xuan Yi said solemnly. “During the ancient descent of the gods and demons, some gods and demons were skilled in space-time techniques and were able to cast a spell to trap humans in the rifts of time and space.”

“However, these time-space gaps are unstable, so the spell-casting gods and demons had to leave their divine essence behind to stabilize the gaps, like locking a box.”

“If you can find and break that ‘lock’, you can leave this place and return to the present.”

“The problem is that the entity capable of such a technique would be extremely powerful, and even if it is not its true self, it would not be an easy opponent for you.”

Despite this, Qin Feng felt relieved, having a way to escape was better than being trapped here forever.

“Then, Senior, how should I find this flaw?”

“If my guess is correct, it must be hidden somewhere in this time-space. As something from the past, it cannot detect my presence, but it can detect you.“

“The Gods and Demons who cast the imprisoning spell back then likely transformed their divine essence into other entities, concealing themselves.”

Qin Feng pondered this, deep in thought.

There was no doubt that the entity who had dragged him into this space was the giant eyeball, and it had likely concealed itself in a transformed state, hiding somewhere in this place.

“So what I need to do now is figure out how to flush it out!” Qin Feng thought.

He then communicated telepathically with Xuan Yi, “Since you said it can detect me, it will surely react to my every move. I’ll try to lure it into exposing its weakness, so please carefully observe the surroundings and try to locate its true form!”

“Alright, but how exactly do you plan to do that? If it imprisoned you here, it won’t easily reveal its flaws,” Xuan Yi replied.

“I’ll give it my best shot!” Qin Feng took a deep breath, his expression a bit hesitant, as if he had made a momentous decision.

Soon after, under Xuan Yi’s puzzled gaze, Qin Feng began to dance awkwardly inside the Ninefold Prison, his movements exaggerated, his feet moving wildly from one end to the other, sweat pouring down his face, but he never stopped.

About the time it takes to burn an incense stick, Qin Feng finally stopped, telepathically asking, “Senior, did you find anything?”

The response was a deathly silence.

Damn it, so it didn’t work. Could that giant eyeball also be a gourmet? Qin Feng thought frustratedly. He had hoped the eccentric dance would make the entity reveal itself.

Xuan Yi, having regained his composure, asked, “What was the purpose of this?”

“I thought the distracting movements might confuse it and make it expose a weakness. But it seems I overestimated that,” Qin Feng admitted.

“In that case, I’ll have to resort to my second plan,” he said, his expression hardening.

Qin Feng’s aura surged wildly, even his eyes turning amber.

Since luring out the flaw had failed, he would have to force the entity to show itself!

Reaching into the Divine Sea, Qin Feng summoned Chi Qi, who affectionately rubbed against his leg.

“Stop that, get to work!”

Chi Qi whined, and his body instantly grew larger, revealing his fierce look.

The Red Annihilation Lightning, like a thunder snake, wrapped around Qin Feng, and its terrifying power swept around.

Qin Feng raised his right hand, electric arcs surged and crackled.

With a swift downward motion, countless Annihilation Thunderbolts rained down, shaking the entire space!

However, this was the past, so even though the Annihilation Thunderbolts were ancient divine lightning with destructive might, they could not affect the entities of this time.

The prisoners in the cells remained unaffected, even when struck by the thunderbolts.

But Xuan Yi immediately understood Qin Feng’s intention – only entities not belonging to this past time-space would be threatened by the Annihilation Thunderbolts!

This was precisely Qin Feng’s plan – to use indiscriminate attacks to force out the avatar that the giant eyeball had left behind!

The terrifying life-extinguishing thunderbolt roared for about ten breaths before Xuan Yi sensed the movement and suddenly shouted from within the Divine Sea: “Over there!”

A white beam of light burst from Qin Feng’s body, shooting fiercely toward a corner of the prison.

Qin Feng stopped the thunder and followed the white light with his eyes. He saw a fat man wearing a black and red robe with a ghostly mask on his head, casually smashing the white light into pieces.

“This is one of the members of the Heaven Burial Organization. If I’m not mistaken, its name is Jinyun E. It possesses an uncanny space-shifting technique.”

During the previous battle at Zhenling Pass, after the Heavenly Burial Team was trapped and killed by the Candle Dragon, Qin Feng had learned about their situation.

“No, that’s not right. It’s not Jinyun E – it’s an avatar of the giant eyeball!”

Qin Feng realized, and indeed that was the case!

After twisting its body, the appearance of “Jinyun E” began to change.

Within the Mirror Flower, Water Moon realm appeared that bizarre, horrifying giant eyeball.

Qin Feng’s expression grew grave as he asked within the Divine Sea: “Senior, do you recognize this thing?”

“This being is extremely strange. I can sense its power is great, yet I cannot detect any aura from it at all.”

In the Immortal Realm, gods and demons rely on Primordial Immortal Qi and Ancient Divine Breath. The ghosts and monsters of the Netherworld rely on Netherworld Qi.

Although human cultivation has diverse lineages, they all ultimately rely on enhancing themselves with Yin Qi, Vigor Qi and Literature Qi.

In short, no matter what beings are from the Three Realms, their path to power can be traced back to their roots.

Yet this monster before them defied all such common logic!

“Although this monster’s form differs from the one that appeared in Shuiyang City, the feeling it gives me is extremely similar, which makes people very uncomfortable. Its power may not have reached the transcendence realm yet, but it’s not far off.” Qin Feng’s expression was grave, unsure if he could defeat the opponent.

At this moment, the giant eyeball spoke.

No, it was more accurate to say that the voice was directly transmitted into Qin Feng’s mind.

“It seems there is another strange aura inside your body, but when I tried to perceive you, I could not foresee it. “

“Like you who possesses Primordial Qi, it is also an existence that transcends the Three Realms. When you were able to unleash astonishing power before and kill the Candle Dragon, could the source of that power have come from it?”

This thing discovered Senior Xuan Yi within my Divine Sea? Wait, it has been probing me all along? Is it because of the Primordial Qi in my pupils?

Could it be that the hidden hand who lured me step-by-step to Shuiyang City was also this bizarre being?

Qin Feng’s heart was tumultuous, but his outward expression remained calm.

The cold voice rang out again: “Originally I planned to disintegrate your physical body and spirit into dust within the endless space-time rift, and then take the Primordial Qi from your body. But now it seems I’ll need to use some other means.”

As the words fell, a crimson glow emanated from the giant eyeball.

The red tadpole-like beings that had devoured countless experts appeared again, surging towards Qin Feng.

Qin Feng naturally didn’t dare neglect it. His Primordial Immortal Qi surged as the Heavenly Mirror barrier instantly materialized in front of him.

However, facing those bizarre red tadpoles, the Heavenly Mirror crumbled to pieces upon first contact!

Seeing this, Qin Feng’s eyes widened as he pushed off the ground, his body retreating rapidly.

Yet those red tadpoles clung to him like an incurable affliction, following closely.

“Useless. In this space-time rift, you have nowhere to escape.”

“Can’t escape? Then I won’t try to escape!” Qin Feng gritted his teeth.

To evade the lethal attack, he seemed to move randomly but was actually intentionally heading towards the center of the seventh level prison.

As the red tadpoles closed in, Qin Feng shouted: “Chi Qi!”

Woo!

Far thicker than before, the life-extinguishing thunderbolt exploded violently right in front of Qin Feng in an instant.

The crimson lightning arcs spread like raging flames, enveloping this entire space in peculiar patterns within moments.

No sooner said than done.

With a “crack” sound, the entire seventh level prison turned into an ocean of Annihilation Lightning.

Those bizarre red tadpoles vanished without a trace in less than a thousandth of a

instant!

A hint of surprise flashed across the giant eyeball’s…well, eye.

Xuan Yi seemed to notice something and exclaimed in astonishment: “Could it be a formation? When did you…”

He trailed off abruptly.

Xuan Yi realized that Qin Feng’s initial awkward movements were actually a cover for setting up the formation!

Qin Feng looked towards the giant eyeball, a slight smirk on his lips: “You fool, did you really think I was just dancing randomly at first?”

Hearing this, Xuan Yi turned to look at Qin Feng.

The latter hastily explained: “Ah, Senior, I wasn’t referring to you.”