Chaos Dao Sheng Jue

Chapter 1532 Taking Chestnuts from the Battlefield

Three dark shadows surrounded Nezha. These shadows constantly changed shape, sometimes resembling humans, sometimes beasts, and their attacks were cunning and vicious, targeting Nezha's injured parts.

Even more terrifying is that Nezha seems to be restricted in some way, unable to leave this battlefield area. Every time he tries to break through, he is blocked by an invisible spacetime barrier.

“Nezha has been caught in a vortex of time laws that recreate history,” Lu Chen said after understanding the situation. “The time battlefield he has entered is a sealed battle in which an ancient god or demon was besieged and killed by shadows. Now Nezha has taken the place of that god or demon and must fight this battle according to the ‘script’—either die like the original owner of the body, or… reverse history.”

But how easy is it to reverse history?

That's something even the ancient gods and demons couldn't do.

"What do we do? How can we save him?" Fang Xinyi asked anxiously. "Should we just rush in?"

“No way.” Lu Chen decisively rejected the idea. “If we rush in rashly, we will also be drawn into the battlefield and become part of it. At that time, let alone saving people, we may even get trapped ourselves.”

Lu Chen's brain was working at lightning speed, and the time map unfolded in his palm as he observed the time structure of this battlefield.

He quickly discovered the key: the timeline of this battlefield was "closed-loop".

The battle begins, proceeds, ends, then resets, and begins again, in a never-ending cycle. Nezha is trapped in this cycle for who knows how many times.

To break this closed loop, an "external force" is needed to intervene at a specific point in time.

“I need your help.” Lu Chen looked at Fang Xinyi. “Your Green Wood Longevity Technique and its life-giving power can assist me. I will try to open a rift at the 'reset point' of the battlefield's time loop later.”

"At that time, you will envelop Nezha in your life force and pull him out. Remember, you only have less than a tenth of a breath's time; if you miss it, you'll have to wait for the next cycle."

"What? Less than a tenth of a breath..." Fang Xinyi gritted her teeth, "Then I'll do my best!"

Lu Chen said no more, but sat down cross-legged and began to fully circulate the Chaos Dao Life Technique.

This time, he wasn't just observing time, but... interfering with it.

As the cultivation technique circulated, surging divine energy coursed through his body. Combining this with his insights from the Time Rift, Lu Chen began to attempt to establish a connection with the time flow of the battlefield.

His consciousness seemed to transform into countless fine threads, seeping into that closed-loop time structure, searching for that most vulnerable "reset point".

This process is extremely dangerous. If he is not careful, his consciousness could be caught in a time loop and trapped there forever.

The time it takes for an incense stick to burn has passed.

Lu Chen's face grew paler and paler, his body trembling slightly. Fang Xinyi stood anxiously by his side, the silvery light spot ready at any moment.

Suddenly, Lu Chen opened his eyes, his pupils gleaming with a brilliant silver light!

"Now, quick!"

He ripped it forward with both hands!

There was no sound, but Fang Xinyi felt as if a tiny crack had been torn open in the space-time ahead.

Through the crack, one can see the battlefield scene flowing backwards—back to the moment when Nezha was just surrounded by shadows and about to begin a new round of battle.

"Pull!" Lu Chen shouted.

Fang Xinyi unleashed the full power of the Green Wood Longevity Technique, which she had prepared beforehand. The silvery-white life force transformed into a giant hand, passing through the space-time rift and precisely grabbing Nezha's waist!

Nezha's body, which was flowing backward, suddenly stopped.

The three shadows seemed to sense the anomaly, and simultaneously let out shrieks as they lunged at the giant, life-giving hand.

"Break!" Lu Chen clasped his hands together, and the crack suddenly closed!

The giant hand of life force pulled Nezha out of the time loop!

The instant the crack disappeared, Fang Xinyi saw that the three shadows missed their target, collided together, and roared angrily.

Then, the entire battlefield scene began to blur and dissipate—the time loop was broken by an external force, and this time battlefield was collapsing.

thump.

Nezha fell to the ground, covered in blood, but his eyes were still open. He saw Lu Chen and Fang Xinyi, and grinned weakly.

"You... finally arrived... damn it... almost... really became history..."

Lu Chen and Fang Xinyi both breathed a sigh of relief and went forward to check on his injuries.

Unbeknownst to them, a silver-gray phantom quietly emerged amidst the smoke and dust of the complete collapse of the Time Battlefield.

Ah Yue's lingering resentment quietly watched the three of them, her eyes revealing a complex expression.

Immediately afterwards, she raised her hand, and a point of silver light flew out from her fingertip, entering Nezha's body. That was the purest essence of time, which could accelerate his recovery from his injuries.

Having done all this, the phantom turned to look into the depths of the Path of Life and Death, and murmured to itself:

"One more... Hurry up... Time... is running out..."

Nezha's injuries were more serious than they appeared.

Besides the external injuries that tore his skin apart, the laws of time within his body were also in chaos—a backlash from being forcibly pulled out of the closed loop of time.

Some cells are aging rapidly, while others are growing in reverse, making the whole person feel like they are being torn between two different time dimensions.

"Don't move." Fang Xinyi squatted down next to Nezha, placing her hands on his chest. The silvery-white Azure Wood Longevity Technique was activated at full power, and the life force flowed into Nezha's body like a trickle, trying to straighten out the chaotic flow of time.

But this only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. The damage caused by the laws of time requires the laws of time to heal.

Lu Chen frowned and pondered for a moment, then extended his right hand, placing his palm on Nezha's forehead. The power of the Time Law surged forth instantly, but this time it was not healing, but "encompassing".

He temporarily "wrapped" the chaotic flow of time within Nezha's body, using the common properties of the laws of time to forcibly suppress and neutralize it, forming a relatively stable buffer layer. This couldn't cure the injury, but it could at least prevent it from worsening.

"Cough cough..." Nezha coughed up a few mouthfuls of golden blood, his eyes opening a crack. "Thanks... I thought I was really going to die this time..."

"Stop talking nonsense," Lu Chen said in a deep voice. "Your body is like a leaky bucket right now. Every extra word you say could worsen the backlash from the power of the Time Law."

Nezha forced a smile and stopped speaking, but his eyes were full of stubborn defiance.

Lu Chen withdrew his hand and looked at Fang Xinyi: "How long can you hold out?"

“At most three hours.” Fang Xinyi’s forehead was covered in sweat. “My life force can only maintain his basic vital signs, and I can’t handle the backlash from the power of the time law. If we still can’t find a solution after three hours, the buffer layer inside his body will collapse, and then…”

The rest was left unsaid, but the meaning was clear.

“Three hours…” Lu Chen stood up and looked ahead.

By this time, they had left the area where the Time Battlefield had collapsed and embarked once again on the Rune Path. And this path had come to an end.

A hundred feet ahead, a massive stone gate appeared, standing tall in the void…