True Martial World - Chapter 1440

Chapter 1440

The owl-like shriek and gray cloak made Li Fire Divine Lord think of someone—Cyclops Heretic Lord .

The person was elusive and had a rather odd character . He seemed perverse enough to torture to death anyone who gave him even the tiniest of slight . He was rather infamous and because of this, he had offended numerous people . Yet, he was still well alive up to this day .

And Cyclops Heretic Lord's strength, which he greatly relied on, stemmed from his puppet . It came from an ancient ruin that was related to a Godly Monarch . Its entire body was made of Immutable Divine Gold, an extremely resilient material . He also wore a concealment cloak that was a treasure in and of itself . It could hide all his aura . Even mighty figures a full realm higher than him would hardly detect his presence under its effects .

And at that moment, Cyclops Heretic Lord was relying on the concealment cloak to approach the River of the Netherworld silently . With a beckon of his hand, a dark golden puppet flew out and charged right at the Netherworld tree .

Divine Gold Puppet!

Li Fire Divine Lord's heart tightened . It was impossible for a person's body to withstand the rapid passage of time from the Netherworld water but treasures were different . Many treasures sat in ancient ruins for hundreds of millions of years while retaining their mighty power . And the puppet that Cyclops Heretic Lord had released was made of Immutable Divine Gold, a material that was virtually indestructible .

Once Cyclops Heretic Lord obtained the Netherworld tree's fruit, he would definitely use his concealment cloak to escape . It would be near impossible for them to find him once that happened .

"Stop him!" Li Fire Divine Lord bellowed .

At that moment, Cyclops Heretic Lord had disappeared as though he vanished into thin air . As for the Divine Gold puppet, it had charged straight at the Netherworld tree . This was Cyclops Heretic Lord's modus operandi in combat . His opponents would be unable to hit him while they were worn down by the indestructible Divine Gold puppet .

Li Fire Divine Lord anxiously sought Cyclops Heretic Lord's location and mustered all his attention to intercept the Divine Gold puppet when it retreated .

But at that moment, he felt a chilling sensation behind him .

The instant the Divine Gold puppet made contact with the Netherworld tree, it began to crumble like an exquisite sand sculpture . Countless fine cracks appeared on its surface and spread across its entire body . The puppet was reduced to golden sand under the watchful gazes of everyone . It scattered away with a gust of wind, eventually vanishing into nothingness .

What!?

Li Fire Divine Lord felt palpitations run through him . That was Immutable Divine Gold, a material that could virtually last for eternity . Yet it could not even survive the Netherworld water and even disintegrated in such a short period of time!?

"Ah!"

At that moment, an ear-piercing voice sounded . A gray figure plummeted from the sky and crashed heavily to the ground .

The gray figure was none other than Cyclops Heretic Lord .

He struggled frantically after crashing to the ground . He was even crawling away from the Netherworld tree on all fours .

Cyclops Heretic Lord kept shouting tragically . The Immutable Divine Gold puppet was connected to his soul . The moment it was reduced to dust, his psyche suffered horrible damage, causing irreparable damage!

"How… How did this happen to you…"

For a moment, Li Fire Divine Lord saw Cyclops Heretic Lord's face under the gray cloak . Although Cyclops Heretic Lord was not young, the impression people had of him was that he must've looked like a mortal in his fifties or sixties . But at that moment, Li Fire Divine Lord saw that Cyclops Heretic Lord looked like a old man . All his wrinkles were scrunched together, his eyes turbid . His hair was falling off in clumps, revealing a wrinkled bald head filled with age spots .

Cyclops Heretic Lord struggled in pain . More than ninety percent of his vitality had been drained . He did not look like he had long to live .

Li Fire Divine Lord drew a gasp . Cyclops Heretic Lord was injured by the backlash to his soul when his puppet was destroyed . It caused him to fall to a spot relatively close to the River of the Netherworld . Almost instantly, the passage of time eroded him!

Although Cyclops Heretic Lord was a Divine Lord that had yet to fuse a Divine Lord Royal Seal, he was still a Divine Lord . Even so, he was destroyed so simply without even touching the Netherworld water .

Such a terrifying set of time laws sent chills down the backs of everyone present .

As Li Fire Divine Lord was pondering over the matter, Xing Yu Divine Lord walked towards the Netherworld tree .

His actions immediately drew the gazes of everyone present . After all, with a precedent clearly established by Cyclops Heretic Lord, his attempt was a commendable act of bravery .

Xing Yu Divine Lord wiped his interspatial ring as an ancient wooden chessboard appeared in his hand .

The moment it appeared, it flew into mid-air and spun slowly .

The squarish chessboard had a few pieces on it that held fast to the board . A world seemed to be sealed within the board .

"Constellation Revolution?" exclaimed the whisk-wielding Daoist nun .

"Master, what is that?" Bluejade asked out of curiosity .

"This chessboard is a very famous spatial artifact . Space-time is a Great Dao of Supremacy . It is indeed a smart move for Xing Yu to use space to tackle time . "

The nun's expression was heavy . She clearly believed that Xing Yu's method might work and was afraid that he would obtain the treasure .

The black and white pieces on the wooden chessboard shimmered with dazzling beams of light . An interlocking net spread out and enveloped space itself .

The surrounding scenery vanished as everyone found themselves standing on top of the massive net with a black backdrop behind them . The pieces also became extremely large .

As for the Netherworld tree, it was also transported to the chessboard's Tian Yuan location .

Constellation Revolution referred to the spatial transformations of space .

Xing Yu knew he had no way to withstand the River of the Netherworld's time laws . Instead, he hoped to use spatial dimension laws to take the tree away from the river .

If he could move the tree to a spot right in front of him, the threat posed by the River of the Netherworld would naturally become nonexistent . Not only would plucking the fruit be easy, he could even take the entire tree away without any danger .

Using space to crack time was a good way to evade the crucial problem, one might even call it extremely ingenious .

Xing Yu moved his fingers as though the world was a giant chess game, because it was . Piece after pieced moved as they landed on the eight 'stars' around the Tian Yuan .

The eight pieces trembled, surrounding the Tian Yuan completely and sealing off space .

With that, Xing Yu made a grab as the eight pieces encroached towards the Tian Yuan spot . The very spatial laws changed as Constellation Revolution acted on the world!

But at that moment, Xing Yu's expression changed . He watched helplessly as, in the chess network that filled the world, the spot in the Tian Yuan position turned as black as ink for a baffling reason . The blackness got even darker as it transformed into what seemed like a black hole that could swallow everything . It tugged at the entire worldly chessboard and, with that, the middle of the chessboard began disintegrating .

The Tian Yuan shattered as the spatial plane created by the chessboard began crumbling from the middle . Immediately following that, the net that filled the void began falling apart .

This…

Xing Yu was alarmed . The worldly chessboard was no simple man-made item, but something condensed from laws .

The chessboard he formed out of spatial dimension laws was disintegrating just like that?

It was naturally impossible to trigger Constellation Revolution the moment the laws powering it were destroyed . The worldly chessboard completely exploded as he retreated several steps back with a pale face and found his footing only with Di Rong's help .

He had suffered backlash from the destruction of the laws . Fortunately, he did not directly approach the Netherworld tree, and so kept his life .