Beyond the Timescape

When he crushed the heart, it exploded in a cloud of blood. Despite Li Mengtu being in the regeneration state, the injury was intensely painful. Blood sprayed out of his mouth as well as the hole in his chest. Now he was just as drenched in blood as Xu Qing. In fact, it was so painful his body writhed awkwardly. Yet strangely... he was smiling.

The wooden statue of the old man in his hand was also smiling. Both of them were writhing in agony, and both were smiling. They looked exactly the same.

Next, to Xu Qing’s astonishment, his own chest exploded as if invisible hands had appeared and ripped it open to reveal the heart. And the heart... was grabbed by those invisible hands, which started to crush it.

Karmic magic!

The authority of erasure in Xu Qing’s eye glittered, revealing to him a host of karma threads connecting himself to the wooden statue, and connecting the statue to Li Mengtu. The statue was obviously a medium connecting Xu Qing to Li Mengtu. That connection didn’t transfer injuries, but inflicted them simultaneously! When Li Mengtu crushed his heart, Xu Qing couldn’t avoid his own heart being crushed.

Xu Qing’s expression darkened as he looked down at his crushed heart. Without any hesitation, he produced a huge pair of shears. It was not the same shears he had acquired years ago. Rather, it was a materialization of the dao lineament of erasure.

Though they weren’t as strong as the earlier shears, as Xu Qing’s cultivation base improved, they became extremely sharp. The moment they appeared, they snapped down on the karma threads connecting Xu Qing to the statue. A snap rang out as the karma threads were severed.

The dangerous situation was resolved! Xu Qing took a step forward in Li Mengtu’s direction.

However, that was when Li Mengtu again spoke in a raspy voice. “From the moment I saw you using that special authority, I guessed that you probably had the ability to sever karma. And given that, do you really think I would do something like this without a plan? Digging out the heart was just a way to check if you really had a karmic magic. That’s all.”

Li Mengtu suddenly squeezed his hand down onto the statue until the head snapped off. The statue had a mysterious origin and was very gruish. Though the karma threads had been severed by the shears, it still managed to unleash a ferocious backlash attack. The moment that happened, the karma threads that had been severed seemed to gain new life. They were like giant snakes that instantly wrapped around the shears.

By doing so, they reestablished the connection. Xu Qing’s pupils constricted.