Published: March 2, 2025
“Come back! Hurry back!”
Standing outside the treasure land, Bai suddenly shouted angrily, causing Wen Yu and the celestial god to turn their heads in confusion, seemingly not understanding why Bai had made such a decision.
However, among the group, Bai was still the one in charge. Regardless of the reason, both the celestial god and the earth's will (Wen Yu) had to listen when Bai spoke.
“Come back!”
The celestial god immediately connected with Aogules and the others, attempting to pull them back. He then grabbed Wen Yu and turned to leave the treasure land.
Just as the two were about to turn around, an invisible wave erupted once again!
The steps they were about to take instantly froze. In the distance, Bai seemed to hear Fran's excited voice.
“Time reversal!”
Thus, everything reverted once more. The bodies of Wen Yu and the celestial god were forcefully twisted back to their previous state, and correspondingly, the two also forgot everything that had just happened.
“Go! Kill them all!”
It was the same familiar opening line...
This time, Bai was utterly speechless.
...
When someone capable of pausing or even reversing time can act without restrictions and focus solely on defense, theoretically, there is almost nothing in this world that can breach such defense.
He can stop any attack, and even if he cannot stop it, he can rewind time countless times to before the attack was made—every attack in his eyes is an illusion, merely a remnant along some timeline.
At this point, Bai realized.
This Treasure Land No. 8564 had long been turned by Fran into a bizarre time maze—impenetrable, and even escape was impossible!
However... Bai deeply understood one thing.
That is, within the practitioner system, there is fundamentally no invincible skill tree!
Even the powerful life and death battle resolution has the cost of bearing negative effects from its strength and can be countered by most sealing skills.
Even the powerful balance system skills have long cooldown periods—any skill can be countered if the right method is found...
So, where lies Fran's weakness?
A simple thought made Bai understand.
It lies in the foundational strength!
If one were to compare practitioners to a car, their combat ability would be equivalent to the car's appearance, interior, logo, speed, acceleration, and so on, while the foundational strength (physical quality or soul strength) would be the fuel for the car!
Without fuel, no matter how luxurious the car is, it is merely a heap of scrap metal—good-looking but useless.
And Fran's foundational strength, let alone compared to Tang Haofei and Wen Yu, is far inferior even to those heaven's chosen level soul puppets.
However! Using a major skill like time reversal definitely requires consumption—be it stamina or lifespan.
And this depends on foundational strength.
In other words...
Fran's use of time reversal must have a limit on the number of times!
Indeed, regardless of what props or formations he borrowed, this limit must exist—because the means Fran is currently using ultimately still relies on Fran himself.
So, how many times is this limit...?
Bai couldn't guess...
Yet he didn't need to guess!
That’s right, as long as Wen Yu didn’t show up, no matter how strong or bizarre Fran's time-related skill system was, fundamentally, his hard strength was far too inferior to the combined strength of the celestial god, earth's will, and six heaven's chosen level soul puppets. Just as seen now, Fran could only repeatedly initiate time reversal, yet had no way to kill!
The celestial god and the others could stall, consuming very little, but Fran definitely couldn’t sustain this!
Thinking this, Bai suddenly relaxed.
He just stood there, looking through the spatial rift, watching as the celestial god and earth's will were toyed with by Fran's time maze like monkeys, yet he did nothing in response!
Until the eighteenth time time reversal was activated...
...
“Time reversal…”
The same tone, the same pitch, the same calmness.