# 885
Chapter 886: Run
The purple glow illuminated Xuanwo's face. Under the red moon, his complexion turned visibly pallid.
"Captain… looks like this time, we're really going to die here." Xuanwo forced a bitter smile. "But you're different, Captain. You're already about to cross that threshold and become a Human Apex. By then, you should be able to leave this place… Our [Mask Squad] has to leave behind at least one seedling, right?"
Wang Mian froze.
"But—"
"There's no 'but' about it." The purple energy in Xuanwo's palm grew increasingly intense. His voice grew weaker, but the smile on his face grew brighter. "Captain, you're a man who's going to become the God of Time in the future. How could you possibly die here?
Besides, don't you have the ability to traverse time? If you really escape from here, you can just travel back in time to save us in the future.
Captain, remember this—as long as you don't die, our [Mask Squad] will never perish!"
Xuanwo's spiritual power surged frantically into Wang Mian's body. His realm plummeted, falling from "Klein" back to "Boundless," then from "Boundless" down to the "Sea" realm… When the two purple vortexes fully dissipated, he had been reduced to an ordinary person with no power whatsoever.
The emptied Xuanwo's face was deathly pale, stars swimming before his eyes. His feet gave way, and he fell backward.
Wang Mian reached out and caught him, trying to gently lower him to the ground.
Having lost his spiritual realm and utterly depleted, Xuanwo's eyes rapidly染上一层红意 under the red moon's corrosion. He violently wrenched his hand free from Wang Mian's grip, and using every ounce of strength in his body, shouted at him:
"Run! Captain!! RUN!!
Keep running forward! Don't look back! As long as you can outrun the river of time, one day, all of us will return to your side!!"
Staring at the howling Xuanwo, Wang Mian stood frozen in place.
Under the red moon, the scorched village held nothing but his teammates' screams. In the distance, the silver ring carrying the laws of time was mercilessly erasing all existence, rapidly approaching this location.
Finally, as if having made a decisive judgment, he tightly clenched both fists. The intertwined silver rings reappeared in his eyes as he pushed his God's Ruins to its absolute limit!
"Wait for me… I'll definitely come back."
Wang Mian murmured to himself. He took one last look at them succumbing to the red moon, then abruptly stepped forward. His form crashed into the gaps of time and vanished as a streak of white light.
The silver ring rapidly expanded, covering the entire village. The laws of time reset everything to three days prior. Then the silver ring instantaneously contracted to the depths of the sea, transforming into a wisp of silver thread that merged into the flowing ribbon at the tail end of [Mandarin Arrow]…
At the same time, Wang Mian's figure逆流而上 at a startling speed within the temporal loop!
Behind him, the erasure force of the time laws chased after him like a raging river, the distance between them shrinking rapidly.
Wang Mian's entire spiritual power surged. While activating [Chrono Outlaw], he continuously battered against the barrier of realms within his body. After Xuanwo had poured his entire life's cultivation into him, his spiritual power had become significantly more robust!
With his successive impacts, that barrier shook violently, as if it might shatter at any moment.
At this moment, only Xuanwo's final words remained in Wang Mian's mind.
"…As long as you can outrun the river of time, one day, all of us will return to your side!!"
Fast! Fast! Fast!!
Whether for his own sake or for everyone else in the [Mask Squad], he absolutely could not die here.
He had to outrun this sealed loop, outrun all time in the world, return to the past, change history, and save Xuanwo and the others… Wasn't his [Chrono Outlaw] precisely meant for this?
Wang Mian's aura climbed at a terrifying speed. Finally, a light crisp sound rang out from within his body, like a vessel shattering, and an incomparably powerful spiritual fluctuation burst forth!
Human Apex!
After breaking through that thick barrier, Wang Mian's eyes blazed with dazzling light. His speed surged madly. The figure that had been about to be caught by the time laws could now advance at the same speed as them…
One silver-white hair after another drifted down from the top of Wang Mian's head. His features aged rapidly once more. He glanced back at the time laws tracking closely behind him and furrowed his brow deeply.
Even after breaking through to Human Apex, he still couldn't surpass the time here.
Since that was the case, he could only take a gamble!
A fierce glint flashed in Wang Mian's eyes. His figure, traveling through the seams of time, abruptly halted. He turned around and, at the fastest speed possible, charged backward toward the time laws!
Like a moth drawn to the flame, he resolutely threw himself into the vast laws of time!
The reversed time flow of the loop clashed with the forward-flowing time around Wang Mian's body. They merged, canceled each other out. Rather than being erased by the time laws, his body formed a bizarre temporal stasis zone between the two opposing forces.
His body became sealed within the frozen time, shattered through a corner of the loop, and vanished into the roaring currents…
…
The timeline refluxed into the luminous ring. Lin Qiye's consciousness returned, and he jerked backward half a step.
He stood stunned for a long while before coming back to his senses from the previous scene. Under the red moon's erosion, unprecedented fury filled his heart.
"You actually killed [Mask Squad]?!" Lin Qiye lunged forward and seized Chen Yangrong by the throat, his scarlet eyes blazing with rage. "You f***ing b****s!!"
In the distance, Jialan gaped in shock.
Seven Nights swore?
In all the time Jialan had known Lin Qiye, she had never seen him curse. This was the first time such vicious profanity had escaped his lips.
Her eyes sparkled with countless little stars.
!
Lin Qiye let out a low roar. In an instant, [White Slash] sliced across Chen Yangrong's head. Splashing blood painted the air—but the next moment, a pristine head regrew from his body.
Chen Yangrong's features contorted in agony, yet he grinned savagely: "Useless! I've merged with this place! The great Cthulhu has transformed my body. No matter what手段 you use, I cannot die!"
Chen Yangrong, fused with this corpse of the giant beast, had become a thoroughgoing monster!
Lin Qiye's eyes narrowed slightly. Deep within his pupils, a pair of golden flames ignited like a furnace. A faint golden domain spread outward from his center, instantly engulfing Chen Yangrong's body.
[Mortal Divine Realm].
At the sight of this golden domain, Chen Yangrong's pupils contracted sharply!
It was as if he had witnessed something absolutely terrifying. He stared at Lin Qiye, his voice cracking with disbelief: "[Mortal Divine Realm]? The [Mortal Divine Realm] of that gatekeeper on the Moon?! How do you have it?!"