Chapter 774

As a Legendary Lord, even though his true self resided in the future, separated by hundreds of Great Destruction Cycles, the towering crimson figure could still sense that Lin Yuan’s timeline had yet to settle.

In other words, Lin Yuan wasn’t a Lord yet?

Not a Lord? Yet he had appeared in the Wanwei space-time, a place only Lords could enter?

Ordinary time beings could only enter the Wanwei space-time if brought by another Lord.

But the aura Lin Yuan radiated wasn’t much weaker than the surrounding Lords who had touched the threshold of the Legendary level.

“Not a Lord, yet possessing this kind of strength?”

The towering crimson figure had countless thoughts surge through his mind, suspecting that Lin Yuan might be a hidden contingency left behind in the past by another old being at the Legendary level.

Time Lords could alter the past, though they feared the backlash it would bring.

Legendary Lords, however, could alter the past on a much larger scale, and their ability to endure the backlash was vastly stronger.

That was precisely why the towering crimson figure dared to take action in this spacetime—unless he completely annihilated multiple Lords, the changes to the past wouldn’t be too drastic, and he could fully withstand it.

“Interesting.” The towering crimson figure stared at Lin Yuan and smiled. “Who are you?”

In the original timeline, due to this incident, the Blood Sea Lord suffered a serious injury. Even after hundreds of Great Destruction Cycles, he still ascended to the Legendary level.

Yet the impact was far from negligible.

Thus, this time, the towering crimson figure acted to alter the past and eliminate this latent threat.

What he hadn’t expected was this surprising twist.

He had discovered another Legendary Lord’s arrangement.

“Who is he?” the Blood Sea Lord was startled upon hearing this.

Even when facing the Lord Tianshi, the towering crimson figure rarely spoke—yet now he had asked this question specifically about Lin Yuan?

This attitude made the Blood Sea Lord instantly realize Lin Yuan's background was significant, likely tied to another Legendary Lord.

The other Time Lords came to the same conclusion. To draw the attention of a Legendary Lord—only another Legendary Lord could do that.

“I don’t know him,” the Blood Sea Lord quickly transmitted telepathically to the towering crimson figure.

He knew nearly all the Time Lords present, with only a few keeping their identities hidden.

Lin Yuan was one of them.

“Mm.”

The towering crimson figure didn’t say more, still focused on Lin Yuan.

He had some speculations about Lin Yuan’s identity, guessing he was likely a scheme laid down by a Legendary Lord.

Otherwise, how could a non-Lord possess power on par with those who had touched the Legendary threshold?

Lin Yuan looked at the towering crimson figure—his question had gone unanswered, and instead he was asked, “Who is he?”

“You answer me first,” Lin Yuan said.

Time beings could observe future timelines, but they were influenced by many factors—especially when it came to information involving Transcendence.

“Do you really not know whether any Lords transcend in the future?” the towering crimson figure sneered.

Revealing information about the future—especially regarding Transcendence—would have far-reaching consequences, far worse than killing a few Lords.

Naturally, the towering crimson figure wouldn’t speak of it.

And in his eyes, Lin Yuan was likely tied to a Legendary Lord; asking such questions was clearly a trap.

Anyone who had lived through that era of time knew about the period of utter despair that befell all Lords—even the Legendary Lords.

It was the greatest catastrophe in the history of the Infinite Dimensional Multiverse.

Of course, this matter involved Transcendence, and thus could not be observed through the timeline.

At the very least, none of the Lords in this current spacetime knew that they were about to face a stretch of time so dark and hopeless that even Lords were powerless.

“Enough sneaking around. Let me see which ‘old monster’ you really are.”

The towering crimson figure had no patience left. His time in this spacetime was limited—only three or four breaths remained. He had to clear the obstacles for his past self as quickly as possible.

Whoooosh—

A vast, crimson sky once again surged forth, rolling toward Lin Yuan.

To uncover Lin Yuan’s background, the simplest method was to attack him. As soon as he was pushed to the brink of life and death, whoever was backing him would surely reveal themselves.

The crimson sky permeated through layers of spacetime, cutting off all of Lin Yuan’s escape routes.

To survive beneath the crimson wave, he had to endure its force head-on.

But to endure it... the Lord Tianshi had already shown what that would mean. As powerful as he was—at the second-tier limit—even he lasted only a few breaths under the crimson tide.

And that had been the result of the towering crimson figure deliberately trying to capture him alive. Had he meant to kill, it wouldn’t have taken even one breath.

Capturing alive and killing were entirely different matters.

Even with overwhelming power, capturing someone alive required time.

Buzzzzz—Lin Yuan’s domain, formed by the cosmos around his body, trembled and cracked, clearly far from withstanding the crimson force.

In the blink of an eye, more than half of Lin Yuan’s body was submerged beneath the crimson tide, his figure on the verge of collapse.

“Still not going to self-destruct your combat body?” The surrounding Time Lords were stunned.

Having witnessed what happened to the Lord Tianshi, they knew that trying to endure it could lead to immediate capture and suppression.

That cost was far greater than simply self-destructing the physical body.

“Let me see who’s standing behind you... or rather, who

you

are in the future.”

The towering crimson figure stared at Lin Yuan. Only two breaths remained of his time in this spacetime.

“I’m indeed no match for a Legendary Lord.”

As the crimson force eroded his body, Lin Yuan sighed inwardly.

But he wasn’t worried—his Tai Chi Primordial Spirit was fundamentally different from the main combat bodies of other Lords.

The Tai Chi Primordial Spirit wasn’t truly flesh; it was a Primordial Spirit body. Though it had taken on physical form, it remained essentially an illusion formed of spiritual energy.

And Primordial Spirit energy—so long as Lin Yuan’s consciousness and will faded—would naturally dissipate, leaving no possibility of being captured alive.

Lin Yuan didn’t even need to deliberately destroy his Tai Chi Primordial Spirit; simply dispersing his consciousness would make it collapse irreversibly.

“But I’ve already gained enough from this.”

Lin Yuan looked up at the towering crimson figure overlooking him. “Before I disperse my consciousness, I may as well try summoning my future self.”

By studying the scene where the Blood Sea Lord summoned his future self, Lin Yuan, though not a true Time Lord, could still attempt to summon his own future self.

However, limited by his strength and realm, he definitely couldn’t reach hundreds of Great Destruction Cycles into the future like the Blood Sea Lord had.

At most, just a few million years.

A few million years into the future... the timelines Lin Yuan observed that far ahead were extremely vague. He had no idea what his future self was doing.

He had studied the future timelines of other time beings too. Some periods were vague, but not

that

vague.

Yet from several million years onward, all information related to him vanished from the Infinite Dimensional Multiverse—so much so that even the Chaos Void disappeared, as if it had never existed.

It was precisely because of this...

That Lin Yuan asked the towering crimson figure whether there were any Lords who transcended in that spacetime, or whether anything related to Transcendence had occurred.

After all, the figure came from the true future.

“Begin.”

Lin Yuan’s mind stretched along the timeline toward the future. Gradually, with him at the center, the surrounding timelines began to grow chaotic.

“Hm?”

“He’s summoning his future self too?”

The Time Lords present immediately understood Lin Yuan’s intent.

Like the Blood Sea Lord, he was summoning his future self.

“Judging by the attitude of the Blood Sea Lord’s future self, this one’s future is probably also a Legendary Lord. Two Legendary Lords clashing in the present?”

The Time Lords were stunned, eyes full of anticipation.

A single Legendary Lord appearing was already incredibly rare. Two battling in the present? Two future Legendary Lords fighting in current spacetime?

Something like this might not happen even once in dozens or hundreds of Great Destruction Cycles.

“He’s summoning the future too?”

The Blood Sea Lord’s expression changed. He glanced at the towering crimson figure behind him. Seeing no reaction, he relaxed.

With a future self who had already stepped into the Legendary realm, even if Lin Yuan’s future self was a Legendary Lord, it wouldn’t matter.

Whooo—

The timeline twisted and blurred.

Behind Lin Yuan, faint, illusory images began to emerge.

“Which old monster is it?”

The towering crimson figure watched closely. His earlier attack had been to force out whoever was behind Lin Yuan.

He wanted to see which Legendary Lord had laid this scheme.

But in the next moment—

The towering crimson figure saw a scene etched deep into his soul.

Amid the flickering illusions, a series of white jade steps began to appear behind Lin Yuan.

The white jade steps, both real and illusory, came from a future scene—but at the moment of their appearance, they began to influence the present spacetime. Everything nearby, including the crimson sky, began to dissolve into nothingness.

The white jade steps extended infinitely upward, without beginning or end, as if leading to the highest point of the Infinite Dimensional Multiverse.

“Hm?”

Even the Blood Sea Lord and the others were baffled. As Lords, they had roamed the entire Multiverse—what hadn’t they seen? But this staircase, leading to who-knew-where—not only had they never seen it, they’d never even heard of it.

“This is the Fourth…”

Compared to the others’ confusion, the towering crimson figure’s eyes went wide, filled with disbelief and shock.

“There’s no need for you to continue the summoning.”

The towering crimson figure spoke at once, terror creeping into his face. “You’re revealing a critical future scene in the present spacetime—this... this will bring an unstoppable backlash. It’s unnecessary, completely unnecessary.”

“What do you mean?”

Lin Yuan stared at the endless stairs behind him. For some reason, they felt strangely familiar.

Meanwhile—

The timeline continued to distort. The jade steps stretched upward—until, finally, at some great height, a different scene appeared.

Within that scene, not just the staircase—but a single figure appeared.

The figure had his back turned to all the Time Lords and was slowly ascending the steps.

Endless white jade steps, beginningless and endless—an overwhelming sense of solitude surrounded the figure, as if he alone existed in all of creation.

“It’s... him?”

The towering crimson figure’s mind went blank—far more so than when he’d first seen the steps.

The timeline rippled chaotically, and the figure climbing the steps seemed to sense something.

His right foot, just about to step onto the next stair, paused briefly.

Then, with a wave of his sleeve—

The chaotic timeline instantly collapsed, rushing into the present.

The crimson sky summoned by the towering crimson figure dissolved without resistance. An invisible aura surged forth, and the towering crimson figure vanished without a trace.

The surrounding Time Lords stood frozen in shock.

A Legendary Lord—one from the future no less—just

erased

?

Who was that figure climbing the stairs? What realm was he in? What connection did he have to Lin Yuan? Or was he Lin Yuan’s future self?

To so easily erase a Legendary Lord—even one at the third stage of the “Endless Tribulations”—was inconceivably powerful. Perhaps even beyond a Lord of Wanwei.

The invisible aura continued to spread.

“No—no...” The Blood Sea Lord’s face was twisted in horror and despair.

Without the towering crimson figure’s protection, the aura was now headed straight for him.

Whoooosh—

The Blood Sea Lord’s consciousness was snuffed out in an instant.

So too were the Void Spirit Lord and the Armor Lord. Their mental will was erased in a flash.

Their physical bodies were untouched—but their minds had been forcibly wiped out.

“What is this?”

The other Time Lords watching were terrified, scalps tingling as they stared at the scene.

Too shocking.

Even a Legendary Lord shouldn’t be able to so easily erase the consciousness of a second-tier limit Lord.

Let alone the fact that the Blood Sea Lord’s future self had already entered the Legendary realm?

Hundreds of Great Destruction Cycles later—

The Blood Sea Lord’s true body snapped open his eyes. His past incarnation had been forcibly erased, and he immediately knew it.

“I didn’t expect it to be

that

existence...

that

existence…”

His spirit trembled. “I’ve never heard of him going to the Wanwei space-time… Never heard a word of it…”

But in his heart, he already had the answer.

That existence

had

gone there—but the event had never been made public.

"Why? Why? WHY?! Why were you there?! MILKY WAY!"

In the original timeline, under normal development, that existence would never have summoned his future self.

But because of

his

interference, that existence’s past self summoned the future one—creating even greater changes.

“My luck…”

Despair flooded the Blood Sea Lord’s face. A formless aura from the past spacetime had already crossed hundreds of Great Destruction Cycles, arriving in this time, sweeping toward him.

"Oh shit.."

The next instant—

The Blood Sea Lord’s true self was erased.

At the same time—

The invisible aura continued spreading along countless timelines.

The past Blood Sea Lord, the present Blood Sea Lord, the future Blood Sea Lord, the weak ones, the strong ones—every version across every moment—all were wiped out at the same time.

Upon the endless white jade stairs, the lone figure shook his sleeve, glanced downward, then continued ascending.

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