Use first and repay later: Advance the future cultivation fruits

If he wasn't confident in summoning the Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor, he wouldn't dare be so reckless.

"Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor, what bold words you have," the Space-Time Island Ancestor said coldly. "Do you still think it's your supreme era? I've long surpassed you!"

However, the Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor paid him no mind, simply glancing at the Domain Divine Artifact sealing the Mountain and Sea Realm. With a slight frown, he waved his sleeve, causing streaks of black lines cutting through time and space to appear out of nowhere, silently traversing the void, leaving behind trails of black marks wherever they passed, crisscrossing billions of miles, as if dividing heaven and earth.

The black traces quickly converged, weaving a massive net in the sky that seemed to envelop the world. With a slight motion, it shattered the domain formed by the spire-like divine artifact!

Domain Power, supposedly an omnipresent invisible existence, was shattered by the Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor's means?

The Space-Time Island Ancestor's face turned a bit unsightly, his eyes filled with disbelief.

Then, the net of countless black traces enveloped the entire Mountain and Sea Realm, completely shielding it.

"What terrifying means," Lin Qing's avatar beside him watched with eyes gleaming.

He could see that the Space-Time Island Ancestor's move was clearly shattering space-time, so even the domains permeating space-time were shattered. Such mysterious and terrible means had completely surpassed the limits of the universe.

Meanwhile, Lin Qing immediately teleported, using the Vacuum Tomb to bring back his true form and the avatar in the Mysterious Star Sea, carrying that invaluable drop of Cosmic God's Blood to the Mountain and Sea Realm.

Previously, when the Mountain and Sea Realm was completely sealed off in space-time by the Space-Time Island Ancestor, nothing but the avatar connected through consciousness could be reshaped; no other space-time means worked.

Even the Inner Void connected by the eye on his forehead was essentially just a level of void means, equivalent to a space that could be teleported at any time. But when space-time was completely sealed, it couldn't be connected in the Mountain and Sea Realm.

Now that the Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor had broken the space-time seal, he naturally sent everything needed to refine the Lifebound Artifact back immediately.

"That avatar can stay in the Mysterious Star Sea. If I really lose, it will still give me a glimmer of hope to turn the tables."

Lin Qing thought to himself, "Just in case, I'll start refining the Lifebound Artifact now..."

At this moment, his true form in the Mountain and Sea Realm had begun organizing all the materials, including that drop of Cosmic God's Blood, ready to enter the Cultivation Room in the Vacuum Tomb to refine the Lifebound Artifact at any time.

"Old fiend."

The Space-Time Island Ancestor fixed his eyes on the Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor. "You've actually learned an Origin Level Secret Technique? And trained it to this degree?"

"Before your ancestors were even born, I was already the Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor."

The Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor glanced at him coldly, "Without some means, why would I have lived so much longer than you?"

"Hmph." The Space-Time Island Ancestor snorted coldly, showing little fear.

Though he hadn't learned even one Origin Level Secret Technique, he spent dozens of epochs creating a Divine Skill containing the Space-Time Rule. Combined with his Lifebound Artifact, which was cultivated to the level of a Half-step Cosmic Treasure, he's not afraid of the opponent.

Originally, he thought he could easily defeat the opponent with the Divine Skill containing the Space-Time Rule, but he underestimated the opponent.

"Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor?"

The gold-armored youth looked at the Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor with a blank face, speaking slowly, "So, this is your choice? As a Transcender, you won't last much longer, trusting your hopes to an ant that hasn't even climbed out of the cage?"

The Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor shook his head, "I've lived long enough not to fear death. I just naturally want to live, to see higher places, but not seeing them isn't an unbearable thing. Some things are far more important than that."

He glanced sarcastically at the Space-Time Island Ancestor, "When it comes to the yearning for higher heights, I am indeed not as good as this rebellious disciple of mine."

The Space-Time Island Ancestor smirked silently.

The gold-armored youth nodded slightly, saying, "Since you've chosen, there's no other way."

He immediately communicated to the Space-Time Island Ancestor, "Proceed, focus all your efforts on opposing the Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor. I'll use a treasure to invade the Mountain and Sea Realm and end Lin Qing."

"Alright, leave it to me, Your Highness," replied the Space-Time Island Ancestor.

The next moment——

"Boom!"

A dark golden leaf suddenly appeared in the hand of the gold-armored youth. As it shattered, a terrifying aura from the Transcender level erupted, with strange streams of light twisting time and space enveloping the gold-armored youth as he charged straight toward the Mountain and Sea Realm!

Logically, the Mountain and Sea Realm was enveloped by the net of countless space-shattering black traces, and space-time means couldn't penetrate the Mountain and Sea Realm.

Yet, the radiance embodying the gold-armored youth seemed to exist in another layer of space-time, completely ignoring the protection of the black trace net as it rushed directly into the Mountain and Sea Realm!

"Hmm?" The Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor's eyes shifted slightly.

As he was about to cast a secret technique against the gold-armored youth, a gray wooden stick appeared in the hand of the Space-Time Island Ancestor, which he then lightly smashed toward the interior of the Mountain and Sea Realm—

The Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor frowned slightly, understanding the rebellious disciple's aim. He could only manipulate the net formed by countless black traces to contract and gather, fully resisting this stick's power.

"Boom!"

Both were powers surpassing the universe's limits, bursting forth with terrifying might that tore vast black fissures across the void, stretching millions of miles.

But the Mountain and Sea Realm remained unscathed under the protection of the Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor.

"It can't even budge?" The Space-Time Island Ancestor's heart was filled with shock and disbelief, unlike his calm exterior.

With his Lifebound Artifact at the level of a Half-step Cosmic Treasure, he unleashed a Space-Time Rule Divine Skill he spent countless epochs creating, a mighty power easily breaking the universe's limits, intending to defeat his master with this ultimate move.

But astonishingly, it couldn't even budge?

This showed that the Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor's mastery of the Origin Secret Technique was deeper than he imagined.

Even the Tianyuan Constellation Ancestor felt some helplessness. He communicated to Lin Qing, "Young friend, my rebellious disciple is stronger than I thought, his power nearly matches mine. I must fully focus on him and won't have much strength left to help you. Try to find a way, otherwise, if he breaches the Mountain and Sea Realm, it will be troublesome."

"Tianyuan Constellation Senior, focus on dealing with the Space-Time Island Ancestor, don't worry," Lin Qing's calm voice transmitted back.

...

Within the Mountain and Sea Realm.

After the gold-armored youth passed through the web woven by countless black traces and into the world's membrane, he appeared directly inside the Mountain and Sea Realm.

With a cold laugh, he cast his gaze over this world of billions of kilometers in diameter. Reaching out, he declared in a chilling voice that reverberated through the world, "Lin Qing, hide all you want! I'll destroy your homeland and extinguish your civilization first!"

This moment, the gold-armored youth's voice echoed throughout the Mountain and Sea Realm, heard by all the countless living beings within!

——He was deliberately forcing Lin Qing to show himself.

For him, destroying the civilization of the Mountain and Sea Realm, wiping out this world, held no real significance. What mattered was killing Lin Qing, preventing him from undergoing more Chaos God Tests!

Thus, he deliberately made the entire populace of the Mountain and Sea Realm aware of this, forcing Lin Qing to emerge!

Under such public pressure, the pleas and reproaches of countless homebound citizens could exert imaginable psychological burdens on the Master of Civilization.

Unless one were utterly cold and heartless, they couldn't bear to watch their homeland's civilization being utterly destroyed, let alone the extermination of countless lives.

"Boom——!!!"

At this moment, all inhabitants of the Mountain and Sea Realm instinctively looked up. In the sky, an enormously vast city was slowly descending, carrying a terrifying suppressive aura. Its overwhelming presence seemed to crush the entire world to the brink of collapse, shattering countless layers of space in the process!

All of a sudden, it was as if the Mountain and Sea Realm faced its apocalypse!