# 2006
Chapter 2006: Time Reversing
In that lightning-flash moment, the pitch-black hellish sword had already cleaved down!
The blade edge tore through the [Key to the Gate]'s body, leaving a gash that nearly cut completely through, scarlet blood spraying forth like arrows, staining the nearby gray mist with a touch of red...
Shen Qingzhu himself hadn't expected this strike to fully wound the [Key to the Gate]. His wrist instantly flicked, stabbing another sword blow toward Its neck!
In that instant, the diffused eye pupil reconcentrated into a needle point, and an enormous Gate of Truth descended abruptly within the gray mist!
DONG—!!
The gray-white stone door happened to block between Shen Qingzhu and the [Key to the Gate]. The hellish sword struck the portal's surface, leaving not even a scratch, the recoil force transmitting through the blade into Shen Qingzhu's arm, causing him to stumble back several steps!
Shen Qingzhu didn't know what had happened to the [Key to the Gate], but this was undoubtedly his best chance to turn the tables. Just as he tried to bypass this gate and continue his pursuit, that massive closed door slowly opened...
"You actually think a single human soul can suppress me??"
On the other side of the Gate of Truth, the [Key to the Gate]'s blood-red figure barely steadied itself on the gray mist, shouting into the void!
As the Gate of Truth opened, a sky-obscuring pallid giant hand extended from behind the door, like an amalgamation of countless stars, radiating a suffocating pressure as it bore down horizontally on the insignificant Shen Qingzhu before the gate!
The [Key to the Gate]'s this attack was undoubtedly driven by murderous intent. At this level of power, once Shen Qingzhu was struck, there would be absolutely no chance of survival!
And the moment the portal opened and the giant hand emerged, time around Shen Qingzhu seemed to freeze as he stood僵硬ly beneath that massive hand.
He gripped the hellish sword, and behind him countless hellish phantoms surged toward that giant hand under his will, only to be ground into nothingness, unable to obstruct it in the slightest!
Shen Qingzhu stared fixedly at that descending giant hand. Just as he was about to be crushed, that sky-obscuring giant hand, along with the Gate of Truth, simultaneously shuddered—then all transformed into misty gray fog, scattering in all directions...
Immediately after, a voice emerged from behind the mist!
"What are you waiting for?! Ring the bell quickly!!"
This voice was very familiar to Shen Qingzhu—it was the [Key to the Gate]'s voice from just now... and also the voice of another "former" person.
At the sound of this voice, the spatial distortion surrounding the Eastern Sovereign Bell instantly dissipated. Wu Quan, trapped within it, returned to normal space, his eyes filling with bewilderment...
Hearing this voice, he didn't hesitate in the slightest. One palm slapped toward the Eastern Sovereign Bell right before him!
But the instant his palm touched the Eastern Sovereign Bell, his form once again sank into the quagmire of space...
The Eastern Sovereign Bell still did not ring.
"Are you messing with me?!" Wu Quan cursed inwardly, desperately trying to thrust his hand through that layer of spatial distortion!
His body began to emanate a crimson glow, his aura climbing at an astonishing rate, momentarily breaking through that barrier and attaining Chief God-level battle power!
[Dixia Blood]!
During the Han Dynasty, Huo Qubing had passed this supreme secret technique of [Dominating the Emperor] to Wu Quan. Back then, Huo Qubing had relied on the power of [Dixia Blood], with just his Human Apex body, to nearly single-handedly kill a Cthulhu Faction deity!
At the same time, on the gray mist above, that black-robed figure clutched its head tightly, struggling on the spot like a madman!
"You really think you can compete with me?! If not for the fact that a thread of my consciousness hasn't yet fully descended, I would have utterly annihilated you!!" The [Key to the Gate]'s pupils gradually contracted as it gritted its teeth and spoke, "Without me, you are nothing!"
PFFT—!!
A pitch-black long sword instantly pierced through Its chest!
Cold, desolate hellish power疯狂钻入along the blade into Its body. The [Key to the Gate] sprayed several mouthfuls of blood. Shen Qingzhu had somehow arrived before It, both eyes brimming with killing intent!
"Hey, [Key to the Gate]..." Shen Qingzhu gripped the sword hilt, speaking word by word, "Give our vice-captain... back to me!!"
RIP!
The long sword, starting from the chest, directly sliced open the body beneath that black robe, connecting with the previous sword wound, tearing it completely apart!
But upon seeing the condition of that body, Shen Qingzhu's pupils drastically contracted!
There were no internal organs in this body!
Every internal organ a human possessed was absent from this body. It was like an empty shell constructed from bones and flesh, walking among the mortal world. But this also meant the person before him had no so-called vital point.
The [Key to the Gate] raised its head. Within those needle-puncture-like eyes, a fury rapidly spread!
"Very well... then you shall all die together!!"
The moment these words fell, time within a hundred-meter radius was rewritten. Time began flowing at an astonishing rate!
But the direction of this time flow was "the past."
Shen Qingzhu gripped the hellish sword. That exploded arm instantly returned. Before he could do anything, his divine power began declining. In merely two seconds, he had actually fallen to the Human Apex realm!
The hellish origin was extruded from his body, laws returned to heaven and earth, the divine格仿佛从未存在过一般... even that face with its remaining stubble visibly became younger, reverting toward youth!
Shen Qingzhu's heart plunged into an ice cavern!
Time reversal?!
In just two seconds, Shen Qingzhu had been reversed by four or five years of time. At this rate, within ten seconds he would revert to an embryo, then return to nothingness... At that point, it would be as if he had never been born, disappearing from this world entirely.
With Shen Qingzhu's lifespan, accelerating aging to death would take dozens of seconds... but reversing him out of existence required only a few seconds.
This was the advantage of youth—and also its disadvantage.
Human Apex, "Klein," "Measureless," "Sea," "River"... Shen Qingzhu's realm fell at an astonishing rate. That hellish sword had long since vanished. He was like a youth stripped of power, possessing nothing but empty hands, absolutely no other means of attack.
Two more seconds later, Shen Qingzhu had already transformed into a sixteen or seventeen-year-old youth.
He stared fixedly at the [Key to the Gate], throwing punch after punch at Its body. Even though his appearance and form were extremely youthful, the ferocity and resolve in his eyes had not dimmed in the slightest... however, his fists could no longer harm the [Key to the Gate] at all.
"Return to nothingness..." The [Key to the Gate] coldly smiled, scarlet blood once again spraying forth, its form extremely weak.
Just as Shen Qingzhu continued transforming toward infancy, a blue giant shadow descended from the heavens!
DONG—!!
A massive, grand bronze ancient bell completely enveloped Shen Qingzhu within it. Wu Quan,浑身冒着红光standing atop the Eastern Sovereign Bell, his eyes filled with bloodshot lines!
"Don't be afraid, Brother Qingzhu... As long as I'm still alive, It can't kill you!!"