Chapter 1675: Rewinding the Past
Xu Huo could now see images from the past. One reason was that this chaotic space was inherently filled with Time Power, and recorded time fragments would occasionally surface on their own. By using "Angel's Eyes," he had amplified the Time Power within this special location, allowing him to further perceive Time Rays and, to a certain extent, manipulate them to rewind the past—much like how, during his initial Mental Evolution, he had used the space of the Seventeenth Hospital to achieve external release of his Mental Power.
From this perspective, in theory, he could rewind the past of any location in the entire city, as long as it had once been recorded.
After a moment of hesitation, Xu Huo returned to the "Nine Divine Paths" and found a porch carved with eye patterns to begin his time rewind.
The city's time was not fully recorded, so the scenes he could see were fragmentary. However, he couldn't yet estimate the relationship between time rewind and the manipulation of Time Rays, so he simply searched randomly. If one place yielded nothing, he moved to the next. Finally, along the edge of the "Nine Divine Paths," he found an eye that could be traced back to.
At this moment, the temple and porch had just been completed, and the carved patterns on the architecture were not yet fully formed.
"Why is this spot left empty?" a believer asked, pointing at the location of the eye.
"You're new, so you wouldn't know. Any temple with eye carvings is dedicated to the Divine Eye. A Divine Envoy will personally come to imprint the eye pattern representing the Divine Eye," explained another believer who was still repairing the carvings.
The new believer's eyes lit up. "Will the Divine Envoy bring the Divine Eye? Then we'll get to see what the Divine Eye looks like, won't we?"
The carving believer laughed heartily. "The Divine Envoy is a missionary personally chosen by the God. The Divine Eye is a sacred object. One is not a mortal, the other is not a mundane thing. How could they be casually shown to you?"
"Then when will the Divine Envoy come to carve the eye? Can't I sneak a peek?"
"Even if you keep watch, it won't work. That's a miracle. It might form in the blink of an eye."
"No matter how powerful the Divine Envoy is, he's not a real god..." the new believer muttered softly.
The carving believer panicked for a moment. After confirming no one nearby was paying attention to them, he lowered his voice and said, "Now that you've joined the faith, don't speak carelessly, or the God will punish you!"
The new believer quickly repented, and then heard the carving believer say, "Do you think no one before you has waited at the door like this? But no one has ever seen the Divine Envoy or the Divine Eye. The eye carvings seem to grow out of nowhere, which is why they're called miracles."
And just as they were speaking, lines suddenly appeared in the blank space on the porch, as if an invisible person had drawn a few strokes with a pen, instantly adding an eye!
Ignoring the astonishment and worship of the nearby believers after the two speakers exclaimed loudly, the moment the eye took shape, Xu Huo felt a sharp mental pressure, as if that eye had crossed two hundred years of time to lock gazes with him, a stranger passing by.
He reflexively waved his hand, and the scene before him vanished. But the eye on the porch was real. At that moment, Xu Huo's perception range inexplicably expanded. Besides the one in front of him, two other carved eyes seemed to "look" over!
This was a suppression of Mental Power.
Xu Huo knew that Mental Power could not exist independently of a person for long. But judging from the current situation, those so-called "Divine Eyes" were likely rare items or other naturally occurring wonders that were hard to come by. Otherwise, they couldn't still be influencing this space after two hundred years. Perhaps the "Divine Eyes" remained in this now-deserted space.
This possibility might be a rare opportunity. However, he was currently under attack by Mental Power. His instinct was to open his Spiritual Realm to resist this invasion, but that could backfire. So, the priority was to find a place to take cover.
But just as he turned, the space beneath his feet suddenly trembled. Before he could react, a faint, intangible Spatial Power brushed over his body, and in the next instant, he vanished from his spot!
The moment he was seized by Spatial Power, Xu Huo knew trouble was coming. Although he hadn't encountered it before, this chaotic space definitely contained spatial gaps or spatial passages. Hitting one could cause him to disappear mysteriously, just like those members of "Unpredictable" who had entered!
However, this spatial shift didn't last long. In less than the blink of an eye, he was ejected. The scene before him was still a similar street. Before he could determine his exact location, a sharp, piercing pain shot through his brow. His body's defensive mechanism forced him to instantly expand his Spiritual Realm!
The Spiritual Realm acted like a defensive barrier, pushing away the surrounding interfering forces. The pain receded immediately, replaced by a standoff between Mental Powers. His Spiritual Realm's range only expanded about two hundred meters before getting stuck. Worse, the two powers began to interpenetrate. The earlier feeling of being watched became real. In an instant, countless "eyes" invaded his Spiritual Realm and began to multiply rapidly.
These eyes retained the state of carved stone eyes, completely different from the vertical pupils born within his Spiritual Realm. Individually, their power wasn't strong, but the problem was they could split infinitely and seemed to be searching for the core of his Spiritual Realm!
Expelling these eyes immediately was no longer possible. Xu Huo could only control his Mental Power to continuously open doors to send the eyes far away and condense Materialized Objects to shatter them.
But these tumor-like things were like madmen—one split into two, two into four... each one could split endlessly!
Xu Huo gradually couldn't hold out. Anger surged from his heart. He leaped onto the nearest Space Entity, and using his Black Blade, he forcibly pushed it into the temple gate!
With a thunderous "BOOM," the temple gate, along with the porch, was crushed. But this was a dense area of Space Entities. Moving one caused the surrounding Space Entities to shift as well. The butterfly's wings flapped rapidly.
With one less eye suppressing him, Xu Huo's burden lightened considerably. But his Spiritual Realm could no longer be closed. He controlled its range to about three hundred meters and began fleeing at top speed.
His current situation was probably similar to Nie Xuan and the others earlier. In desperation, he had chosen this dangerous method to destroy the eyes on the porch.
Xu Huo estimated he was closer to the city center, but with no time to judge the direction, he could only pick a path and move forward. At the same time, he used the "Cube Space." Even if he couldn't destroy the Space Entities, with the instrument's help, it was easier to manipulate the Space Rays outside the Space Entities.
He fled like this for over ten minutes, but the spreading shockwave still caught up. He narrowly brushed past a Space Entity so massive it was far beyond his perception range. Sensing that this area was particularly dense with Space Entities, he was about to change direction when a human figure suddenly appeared on the street ahead.