Chapter 219: Long-Range Attack

Bai Yixin used a Heartscape called Time Flow. It was the highest secret technique of the Heavenly River Sect. In Central Governance, there were only two Human Phase Masters—himself and the leader of the Heavenly River Sect. However, because of Time Flow, even with only two Human Phase Masters, they managed to hold their ground under the pressure of the Dìyù Gate and maintain the Heavenly River Sect’s authority in Central Governance.

Indeed, Time Flow was the achievement one could reach at the Human Aspect level through the Heavenly River Sect’s highest scripture, the Wheel of Years.

This Martial Art worked by distorting a person’s sense of time. It could achieve unbelievable effects such as dreaming for a thousand years, accelerating the body, slowing the body, extending lifespan, and aging the spirit.

Legend said that the creator of the Wheel of Years once caused a young man to sleep for over a thousand years in a single moment. The young man used up all his energy in his sleep and felt life had no meaning, so he took his own life after waking up.

However, this was an ancient story. Its truth could not be verified.

But Bai Yixin, after reaching the Human Aspect, truly possessed the Heartscape Time Flow. It could distort others’ sense of time, making them feel time was slowing down or speeding up. Alternating between these fast and slow illusions was how he achieved the effects in his earlier fight with Zuo Zhicheng, making Zuo Zhicheng unable to react in time and get hit multiple times.

Now, Bai Yixin’s killing intent suddenly surged. He was clearly not just using his Heartscape against Zuo Zhicheng. He raised his palms toward the sky, parallel to his waist. The circular water symbol representing his Heartscape behind him spun faster and gradually expanded.

With these changes, even the sun and moon in the sky seemed to rise and set rapidly. The light flickered between bright and dark, as if the whole world was rushing toward the future at high speed.

Zuo Zhicheng snorted coldly. He stomped his foot and unleashed a wave of cold energy. A blue ripple spread out in all directions. Bai Yixin’s face turned almost purple, and his teeth chattered uncontrollably.

“Die!” Zuo Zhicheng swung his hand through the air toward Bai Yixin. It felt as if all the cold energy in the world was gathering toward Bai Yixin. The extreme cold of the Ice Soul Cold Light Sword took effect. The blood and fluids in Bai Yixin’s body began to slow down.

Then Zuo Zhicheng pushed off hard with both feet. Snowflakes shot into the air as he quickly retreated backward like an arrow leaving a bow. Bai Yixin, hit by two waves of cold energy, was a beat slower in his movements.

Especially since Zuo Zhicheng’s series of attacks were just a cover for him to turn and run. Bai Yixin had not expected that.

“Huh?” Bai Yixin’s eyes turned cold. “Trying to escape?”

He took a step and chased after Zuo Zhicheng. Unlike Zuo Zhicheng’s mighty charge like an ancient dragon, Bai Yixin’s steps were precisely three feet and three inches each, neither more nor less. There was a sense of eternity, as if he could keep walking like this to the end of the world.

But Zuo Zhicheng was already incredibly fast. With Earth Fiend, he was even faster now. In almost two steps, he left Bai Yixin’s Heartscape range. All the time distortions vanished completely.

Bai Yixin continued to chase Zuo Zhicheng with unchanged steps, but his eyes were filled with gravity. ‘So fast!’ He even suspected that at such speed, Zuo Zhicheng might outrun a bullet from a firearm.

When a person’s speed reached this level, speed itself became the greatest threat. Moreover, Zuo Zhicheng had more than just speed.

Zuo Zhicheng took a few steps and instantly put over a hundred meters between himself and Bai Yixin, but then he stopped.

Seeing this, Bai Yixin thought, ‘Did he use some method to burst his stamina, so he had to stop after just a hundred or two hundred meters?’

But that was clearly not the case. Zuo Zhicheng reached toward the snowy ground and picked up a stone as big as a person’s head.

The stone, weighing over ten kilograms, felt as light as a balloon in his hands. Then he gave a wicked look toward Bai Yixin’s position.

‘I might not understand the principle of your Heartscape or think of a way to break it yet, but as long as it’s a Heartscape, it must have a range limit.’

When Bai Yixin saw Zuo Zhicheng pick up the stone, he knew it was bad. The next moment, Zuo Zhicheng let out a roar, his muscles bulging, and threw the stone with a thunderous crash.

How strong was Zuo Zhicheng now? He could even lift and throw a fake mountain weighing four or five tons, let alone a stone of over ten kilograms.

The throw turned the stone into a meteor. The screaming sound in the air seemed to pierce eardrums. In Bai Yixin’s eyes, the stone instantly grew larger, and he even saw a spark of fire light up.

That was the high heat from air friction!

At such speed, Bai Yixin barely managed to duck. A loud boom sounded behind his head, like the blast of a cannon, followed by a crashing noise. Countless snowflakes flew up and covered his body.

His head was still ringing. His mind kept replaying the earth-shaking force of Zuo Zhicheng’s throw. Then he saw Zuo Zhicheng dig out another stone—this one even bigger, as large as a person’s chest.

Bai Yixin’s face turned pale. He turned and started to run. But the moment he moved, Zuo Zhicheng caught up with a light step. He lifted the stone and threw it again. A loud explosion sounded right in front of Bai Yixin, like a bomb going off.

If he had been a few steps faster, he would have been smashed to death.

Earlier, in close combat with Zuo Zhicheng, Bai Yixin had the absolute upper hand because of Time Flow. Zuo Zhicheng could barely react, and his speed and strength were almost useless.

That was why Bai Yixin felt confident he could kill Zuo Zhicheng.

But now, Zuo Zhicheng was like a fast-moving battleship. Seeing him display such leg power and strength so openly, Bai Yixin realized just how strong and terrifying Zuo Zhicheng’s stamina was.

In the distance, Jin Shuixian and the others felt their emotions rise and fall with the battle. When Zuo Zhicheng was at a disadvantage, they looked confident. But when Zuo Zhicheng used the Divine Light Sword to pierce Bai Yixin’s cheek, their faces turned ugly.

Then, just as Bai Yixin declared he would kill Zuo Zhicheng and they all thought Zuo Zhicheng was doomed, Zuo Zhicheng made a desperate counterattack and chased Bai Yixin, pursuing him relentlessly.

When they saw Zuo Zhicheng bombarding Bai Yixin with stones like cannons, Jin Shuixian and the others turned pale. It was beyond their imagination of human limits.

The two moved swiftly and soon left Jin Shuixian’s sight. The others looked at Jin Shuixian in confusion.

“Senior sister, what should we do?”

Jin Shuixian’s face flickered between dark and light. Finally, she said bitterly, “The master and the Heavenly Serpent King are too fast. We can’t catch up. We must return and report to the sect leader uncle immediately.”

On the other side.

“Damn it!” Bai Yixin had wanted to use his Heartscape and Martial Arts to bully the young Heavenly Serpent King and take the Magical Artifact that Ziyun possessed. But now he felt like he had kicked an iron plate.

He ran for his life across the snowy plain like a frightened rabbit. Zuo Zhicheng followed easily behind, his hands like two cannons, throwing stones of various sizes and bombarding Bai Yixin nonstop.

Bai Yixin felt extremely frustrated. If they fought up close, with Time Flow, even if Zuo Zhicheng used that Dao Art again, he would still have a chance.

But Zuo Zhicheng gave him no chance for close combat. He simply relied on being faster, stronger, and having better stamina to chase Bai Yixin down.

Bai Yixin was so panicked he did not even dare look back, afraid that if he paused for a moment, he would be hit by a stone.

Just then, another loud boom sounded in front of him. An unprecedentedly large stone landed five or six meters to his right. A cloud of snowflakes blocked his vision, and he could feel the ground shake under his feet.

A sense of danger he had never felt before wrapped around his heart.