I alone am the Honoured One!

Huh?

Zhao Tian hurriedly got off his bed before rushing to the front deck.

'This tremendous spatial energy...'

At this time, Yan Zijin also rushed out of her room and dashed to the front deck.

"Tian..."

They reached the front observation deck, a wide room with an enormous reinforced glass window that offered a clear view into the void of space

Through the window, Zhao Tian saw the fractures in the space right in front of him.

In the dim black space, a large cleave can be seen where the space is distorting and shattering like glass as dust particles are swirling around the edges.

His gaze narrowed 'This time, the rupture has appeared close to me than the last time and these currents seem a lot stronger.'

Seeing the distortion, Yan Zijin's gaze condensed as she immediately recognised it '...Rupture?'

Zhao Tian quickly grabbed Yan Zijin's hand and tried to enter the artifact.

But just like last time, the chaotic space energies are again interfering with his own space energy, making it impossible to enter the artifact now.

His gaze narrowed 'Shit. Even my understanding of space energy is not enough to get out of this?'

"Let's leave..."

He tightly grabbed her hand and rushed out of there 'Even my short-distance teleportation is also not working... Damn this rupture.'

However, at this time, a sudden thought appeared in his mind...

If he entered this rupture, he might find a way to save Yao Jing.

The piece he has been searching for might be in this rupture.

But feeling Yan Zijin's wrist in his palm, he pushed back that idea 'She is with me, I can't push her in danger for my selfishness.'

*thoom* Kicking the door open, Zhao Tian and Yan Zijin dashed out into the open space so they could escape from there.

*swoosh* In the next instant, they shot through the space almost as if getting out of the Rupture's range.

KRRRRAAKKK—

However, the spatial energy around them intensified.

A low hum reverberated through the space, and the tear of Rupture began to expand even more, increasing the chaotic space energy around it.

Yan Zijin's eyes trembled in shock as she turned her head and saw the rupture crack in the space getting bigger by each passing second.

It quickly swallowed the ark they just came by.

Zhao Tian gritted his teeth and tried to fly against the pull, blasting a counter-current of space energy behind them to resist the suction.

But—

WHUUUUM—

The gravity shifted violently.

His entire body jerked back mid-flight as if caught by a chain.

The cleave in space behind them had now widened into a jagged, seething scar.

Dust and debris, some from the ark were caught in its gravitational pull, spiraling toward its center in erratic orbits before vanishing with a strange, hollow pop.

Yan Zijin's eyes strained, her long hair whipping violently around her face as she struggled against the pull

His grip tightened around her wrist, veins bulging along his arm as he tried to channel his energy again.

'I am trying to use my own spatial energy to get away from here.. but all I can do is struggle against it.'

Now they are like in a tug-of-war.

He again tried a short-range teleportation, a basic spatial step that had saved him hundreds of times before.

But this time, the moment his consciousness tried to lock onto a point beyond the rupture's influence, the entire attempt collapsed like a broken mirror in his mind.

The space was jammed

Yan Zijin was doing her best to shield her body, forming layer after layer of condensed energy around her, but even that shimmered unstable against the erratic force of the rupture

FYOOM-

A low pulse began reverberating from the rupture.

The pulses shook Zhao Tian's bones, and each one made the surrounding space buckle, twisting light into impossible spirals.

Yan Zijin suddenly flinched, and a thin stream of blood trickled from her nose.

Zhao Tian's gaze narrowed 'I am somewhat keeping up under pressure because of my own spatial energy... but her.'

Looking at her, he sighed in his heart 'She won't survive at this rate.'

He closed his eyes for a moment and quickly hugged her.

He spread out his spatial energy around her, minimizing the chaotic force.

Feeling the pressure reduce a bit, Yan Zijin's gaze quivered in relief.

But still they are not away from the rupture.

'It is slowly getting bigger.'

Looking at the rupture, Zhao Tian took a quick desicion 'Got no other choice...'

In the next instant, he dashed toward the rupture holding Yan Zijin closely in his arms.

Yan Zijin's eyes widened in shock to see him flying through the debris and looked at him in bewilderment 'IS HE INSANE?'

But he just hugged her closer, burying her face on his chest.

*SWOOSH* They pierced the outer edge of the rupture.

Instantly, the world shattered.

Time dilated. Space twisted and the color vanished.

The stars disappeared... there was no sky, no gravity, no horizon. Only raw entropy.

KRRRRRAAASSSSHHHH!!

The spatial field Zhao Tian had extended groaned under pressure.

'This is really stronger than the Rupture I encountered in the past... If I encountered this Rupture then, I would have died.'

The faces of his wives flashed in his mind, and he gritted his teeth, pushing more of the spatial energy around him to opress the chaotic spatial fissures.

'I need to stay alive...'

Suddenly his right arm went numb.

Then—

SPLCH!

His arm detached from the elbow down.

Torn away by the vacuum pressure.

He didn't scream or flinch as his entire focus remained locked on shielding Yan Zijin.

But blood sprayed violently into the swirling space currents behind him as the remnants of his forearm vanished into the void like ash.

His robe was beginning to shred, gouged open by the chaotic space currents.

The skin across his shoulders peeled like paper as blood rushed out of his body spraying around in the space.

His muscles began to tear, and he squinted his gaze to look down at Yan Zijin, whose dress is also beginning to rip apart.

Yan Zijin whimpered softly, clutching his chest.

She didn't understand what was happening, but she know that she and Zhao Tian are walking to hell together.

She also realized that Zhao Tian has a technique that minimizes the space around them, and that's why he is hugging her tightly.

Her legs felt like lead, and her internal organs began to churn inside her.

But despite the pain, she held onto him as she felt her muscles twisted away slowly.

And then—

CRACK!

Something snapped below her waist.

A searing pain raced through her body as her right leg, from the thigh downward, was twisted violently by a spiraling current of broken space.

She shrieked as her leg was ripped off, vanishing behind them like a scrap of cloth.

She can already feel the skin on her back begin to peel as blood spiraled out from her body... vanishing like mist.

But she didn't mind the pain and pushed through it, feeling her muscles getting ripped apart slowly.

The core of the rupture was now just ahead.

If they could just get through it, if they could just reach the center...

Zhao Tian's vision began to blur now.

Blood ran from his eyes now, mixing with sweat and dirt.

He pushed his remaining energy outward and used the energy to cut through a part.

Spatial energy exploded from his body, forming a tunnel through the madness.

It collapsed behind them, inch by inch, but he forced it forward.

His right side was limp, and his ribs were broken.

His skin was burning from the inside out.

Then... Stillness.

Silence.

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