Chapter 2264: Beneath Time, There Is No Space
Without turning back, Xu Huo also felt the approach of the Time Power. It was indeed very close to what that person had described. This Water Cube had rolled over from above the room, like a die that had fallen to the ground, moving rapidly along the uneven space, even accelerating when it collided with a Space Entity. After rolling along an irregular path for a while, it suddenly leaped up upon encountering a room that had risen abruptly, then crashed directly into the giant cube!
Other players couldn't see the cube, but they could see the Water Cube. After it collided with the cube, it began to bounce back and forth within a certain position, causing even the surrounding Space Power to fluctuate violently.
"Run! Run!" Some players who hadn't undergone Secondary Evolution and had simply come to try their luck felt the chaos in the surrounding power and hurriedly retreated. The Super Evolvers were calmer, but they also distanced themselves from the giant cube.
But at that moment, the Water Cube inside the giant cube suddenly disintegrated, beginning to spray outward. Because of the collapsing Space Entity, these flowing Time Powers were instantly split into hundreds or thousands, surging outward from the cube without any pattern!
"Flee!" The Super Evolvers were terrified. The Time Power inside had taken on a physical form; touching it meant certain death. Moreover, they wouldn't disappear upon contact with Space Power but would instead become even more scattered!
Xu Huo also ran. He had a Spiritual Realm, which made moving somewhat easier, but it was limited to the corridors. He couldn't pass through areas where space was blocked.
Meanwhile, the time streams dispersed from the Water Cube in the air grew more numerous. Because of the rooms, they repeatedly ricocheted within the corridors, just like the bouncing Water Cube before!
"Why has the Time Power become like this?" a player shouted while fleeing. "Shouldn't it be fixed? Why doesn't it disappear after colliding?"
Who could know? Fortunately, these streams were visible; otherwise, they would have died countless times by now!
"Head for the prison exit!" someone reminded their companion who had split off. "That's far from the space core, so it should be safest!"
Safe?
There was no safe place in this space prison now. It wasn't that those Time Powers hadn't disappeared, but that they had quickly turned back after passing through the Space Entities!
Earlier, Xu Huo had sensed that the Time Power of the Water Cube was actually coming out through the central core. For Time Power to penetrate from another space, a channel would inevitably be created. However, for players, the amount of Time Power they could draw was negligible, making it impossible to capture the moment Time Power passed through space. It could also be said that the minuscule Space Power had already permeated the space.
But here, the Time Power had inexplicably taken on a physical form. According to the concept of Time Rays, a millimeter-thin stream contained countless Time Rays within it. Thus, being struck by such power made escape nearly impossible. Of course, there might be some slower-flowing Time Powers, like Time Freeze, but what kind of place was this? Space was chaotic, so time was naturally chaotic too. However, the Time Power was confined together in the form of a Water Cube, and the mixed flow rates within it were unpredictable. And it hadn't disappeared; it continued to exist after passing through space, indicating that the entire space prison had become a channel for Time Power to pass through!
As Xu Huo fled, he observed the form of Time Power as it passed through space. With his enhanced control over Space Power, he could faintly sense a subtle fluctuation, like a flying insect landing on the water's surface, creating ripples so small they were negligible.
But unexpectedly, some players still had their eyes on him. As he turned a corner, a burly player was shoved over by another player, colliding with him head-on, inevitably affecting his trajectory.
At this moment, the corridors were filled with time streams as thin as millimeters. They weren't necessarily long; they might have been cut by space into finger-length segments, making them extremely easy to overlook. So when Xu Huo's position shifted, such a time stream suddenly appeared right in front of him!
The chaotic space and time had affected his judgment. Xu Huo quickly surveyed his surroundings. Even if he wanted to leave through the Spiritual Gate, he would have to pass through the area covered by the time stream. And in this area, there were no tracks for him to traverse!
Seeing that the Time Power was about to collide with him, he rapidly pulled the Space Rays, constructing several Space Barriers in front of him—these barriers were more than ten times stronger than his original ones, but they posed no obstacle to the Time Power. The thin stream easily penetrated them!
Up close, the seemingly fragile stream seemed to contain a vast torrent. Before even touching it, it felt overwhelming, causing the soul to tremble!
At this moment, the Time Power presented in Xu Huo's perception was no longer undulating rays but twisted streams, each stream representing a different Time Power!
At the critical moment, within a tiny distance, he exerted all his strength to nudge one of the streams!
The time stream actually deviated!
With this slight dodge, Xu Huo suddenly realized that even though the dispersed Time Powers still came from multiple spaces, controlling them wasn't that difficult!
And when he looked around again, all the time streams seemed to have become concrete. Even from a great distance, he could feel the multiple powers with different flow rates within them. At this moment, an epiphany struck him—for time, space and distance were unimportant.
The time streams traveled through different spaces, brazenly combining and separating. For time, whether at the space core or at the entrance of the space prison, it was all the same. When it passed through space, space was as good as nonexistent!
At this moment, the same was true for Xu Huo. Whether it was right in front of him or far away at the prison entrance, the Time Power was clearly visible, even within reach!
He stirred the time within this space. The collision and connection of Time Powers affected the flowing time streams. With a slight change in the direction of control, the time stream that had just flown away shot straight toward the player who had already fled to another corridor!
The player who had collided with Xu Huo was already killed by the Time Power. The instigator, after making his move, immediately fled, already putting distance between them.
But in this space, traces of Time Power remained on people. The high degree of unity with the space's original time was usually hard to detect. However, the frequent fluctuations caused by the Water Cube had destabilized the originally stable time. Without causing the space's original Time Power to collapse, people inside were far too stable.
Xu Huo easily caught up with the person. (End of this chapter)