# 978
Chapter 979: Breach in the Moon
"From now on, there will be no more Takamagahara in this world."
Taiyi Zhenren stood at the edge of Heavenly Court, gazing down at the remnants of Takamagahara falling into the sea, and couldn't help but sigh.
"That divine kingdom has been corrupted and decayed for too long. Cutting it down to the mortal realm didn't require much of Heavenly Court's origin power." Guangchengzi said slowly.
"Heavenly Court has just emerged into the world, and already cut down a divine kingdom. This show of force should be enough to intimidate those gods beyond the mist, right?"
"Definitely enough." Yuding Zhenren spoke with certainty.
"In this world, apart from the monsters on the moon, the only ones truly capable of threatening Great Xia are the four major divine pantheons: Egypt, Greece, Norse, and India.
The Egyptian gods' invasion of Great Xia failed; instead, they had their fate severed and Sun City was severely weakened. The Greek Olympians, due to the return of the goddess of night Nyx, have been thrown into chaos, with two factions fighting each other in endless war.
Today we cut down Takamagahara, which serves as a massive deterrent to the remaining two divine pantheons. They believe that Great Xia now has Heavenly Court gods stationed here, making it impregnable. They will inevitably hesitate and spend more time and energy preparing, uniting to strike our Great Xia with a fatal blow...
Unfortunately, by the time they come to their senses, our Great Xia's sneak attack will already be over."
"By the way, do we really need to leave those monsters on the moon unchecked?" Taiyi Zhenren asked, concern creeping into his voice.
"The Celestial Lord said there's no need to worry about them for now," Yuding Zhenren replied. "Someone will handle those creatures trying to break free from their cage..."
...
The Moon.
Beneath the漆黑 void of deep space, the gray-white land stretched endlessly before him, shattered meteor craters scattered across its surface, countless stars twinkled overhead, and in this dead silent cosmos, a figure flew at incredible speed from the blue planet below.
At the center of a massive meteor crater, a figure stood like a sculpture, six enormous white wings extending from its back, golden light radiating from its entire being, sacred beyond compare!
Suddenly, this figure that had stood unmoving for who knew how long, trembled slightly.
Those tightly closed eyes slowly opened, revealing furnace-like irises that blazed in the air, almost eclipsing the sunlight behind them. Endless divine might radiated from around the figure, descending upon the earth.
It turned its head, looking toward the other end of the horizon.
Beneath the star-filled void, an old man in black robes walked slowly forward.
The moment he appeared, the dust dancing above the shattered earth froze instantly in mid-air, light and shadow crystallized behind him, as if time itself had been paused.
Seeing that person, the furnace blazing in Michael's eyes gradually dimmed. After a moment of silence, a genderless voice resounded in the old man's mind.
"You arrived a year late."
"I needed some time to find that thing." Chronos's voice also echoed in Michael's thoughts.
The old man in black stretched out his hand, and a broken shard of a magatama lay quietly in his palm.
Divine artifact, Yata no Kagura.
He closed his fist, his eyes flickering with illusory images of the river of time. Time around him rapidly rewound, and after a few seconds, when he opened his palm again, the magatama had been restored to perfection.
"I am different from you. I have the blessing of miracles protecting me from contamination by those things. But I can only rely on external objects to ward off their whispers."...
As the old man spoke, he hung the magatama around his neck and walked to the center of the crater, then slowly came to a halt.
Michael's gaze shifted away from the magatama, and spoke indifferently:
"Since the Moon's seal came into existence, I have been guarding this place. If the seal hadn't been broken at one corner more than fifty years ago, I would never have sought your help... If you had arrived three years later, even I would have been influenced by them. By then, they truly would have broken free."
"That's why I'm here, aren't I?"
The old man stood before Michael's towering form and said calmly, "Show me the breach in the seal."
Michael's hands gripping the holy sword tightened slightly. The massive and holy blade slowly rose from the crater. A flash of golden light, and the 【Mortal Divine Realm】 covering the Moon's surface receded like a tide.
The gray-white earth vanished like a phantom shadow, as if it had never existed. Vast expanses of scorched, broken soil were exposed to Chronos's view, covered with intertwined red lines forming some mysterious seal, pinning the writhing scorched earth beneath it.
Countless诡异 eyes opened across the earth, their pale pupils all turning in unison to stare at Chronos standing on the scorched earth, filled with malice and cruelty.
This was the true appearance of the Moon, hidden beneath the 【Mortal Divine Realm】.
"Truly disgusting." Chronos averted his gaze from those eyes and landed on a shattered abyss not far away.
"Is that the breach in the seal?"
"Yes." Michael said slowly, "This breach in the seal appeared suddenly more than fifty years ago, and it was triggered by an external force���and that force came from Earth."
"You mean someone on Earth is trying to break the Moon's seal and release these monsters?" Chronos's brow furrowed tightly, "But among all the divine pantheons, only a few Supreme Gods should know the truth about the Moon..."
As Chronos spoke, he walked to the edge of the abyss and looked down. Endless corruption mixed with strange whispers surged forth from the abyss, rushing straight toward his face.
At that moment, the Yata no Kagura pendant on Chronos's chest blazed with blinding light, helping him ward off the corrosion of the corruption.
But simultaneously, fine cracks also rapidly spread across the surface of the Yata no Kagura.
Yet whenever these cracks threatened to spread across the entire magatama, Chronos would rewind time, returning it to its intact state, allowing it to continue resisting the corrosion.
"Only you in this world can repair this breach." Michael's voice echoed in Chronos's mind.
"...I know."
Chronos sighed and positioned himself beside the abyss. An unprecedented solemnity appeared on the old man's weathered face.
He stretched out his hand and, facing the shattered abyss before him, pressed down on empty air.
In Chronos's eyes, the slowly flowing river of time suddenly reversed direction. The reversed river of time flowed out from within him, circling around his form.
Terrifying laws of time erupted from within him.
Time Reversal.
As the river of time around Chronos flowed faster and faster in reverse, the abyss rewound at a visible rate. Even with the endless corruption and whispers obstructing time's reversal, his overwhelming divine power forced it to be reversed nonetheless.
As time flowed backward, the breach in the Moon's seal was being gradually repaired.