Chapter 586: Fool of Time
The birth of the Sacred Body was merely a minor interlude; the true highlight remained with the Luminous Holy Covenant.
According to their design, for those who violated the covenant, the inner demons serving as punishment would simultaneously erupt during the Heavenly Tribulation, compounding and becoming a part of the tribulation itself, greatly increasing the likelihood of failing to overcome it.
"From a mechanical standpoint, it's quite reasonable, but dragging us into it is truly galling."
"And he even said that if someday someone could achieve one-tenth of his power, they could manually remove everyone's Heavenly Tribulation..."
The words relayed from Gondor's phantom nearly made the assembled council members explode with rage.
Bai Mo had made a promise to all of them: as long as someone could reach one-tenth of his power, they would be qualified to lead humanity away from the rules he had set.
"One-tenth... he vastly underestimates the heroes of the world. Does he truly believe he can suppress all the geniuses born over thousands of years?"
"He isn't the arrogant type; he doesn't speak or act without purpose or do meaningless things. There must be a deeper meaning behind such a setting."
"Then is there any way to quantitatively measure how many times more powerful that person is compared to us?"
"Perhaps, the recently awakened SP-003 can give us an answer," Mind Mage Mo Li said cryptically.
Proficient in various mystical arts, she often displayed unexpected capabilities.
"Him? Isn't his ability time perception distortion? What connection does that have with measuring that person's strength?"
"There will be a way."
"He seems to be moving towards the Rainbow Bridge."
"What is he trying to do?"
From the surveillance cameras spread across the Moon, they saw that Li Shunsheng was rapidly advancing towards the point where the Rainbow Bridge connected with the Moon, completely ignoring everything else.
The very center of the vortex, which others would shun, at this moment seemed to possess a special kind of magic, deeply drawing him in.
"Logically, the two of them should have no intersection..."
"A time of many troubles."
Having endured countless trials and tribulations, most of the council members now only wanted to quickly leave the Earth-Moon system, escape the demon's sphere of control, and start their new lives anew.
But Li Shunsheng's appearance undoubtedly added another variable to their predictions.
A Sixth-tier martial artist advancing at full speed, whose physical speed was enough to break the sound barrier, Li Shunsheng arrived before the Star Core Grinding Disc in just half an hour.
By then, the special spirit qi gushing from the Star Core Grinding Disc had already drifted across the entire Moon, carried by countless artificial air currents, and more and more people felt the strangeness in their bodies and grew excited.
"Emergency broadcast: Due to the Moon God's acceleration during its orbital escape, the immense mass acceleration caused an undeveloped, hidden cave-heaven rich in spirit qi within it to rupture, resulting in a large-scale spirit qi overflow event. Please do not worry about safety.
..."
Such a reassuring news broadcast was being released across the Federation. To smooth things over, it could be said that everyone from top to bottom had painstakingly put in effort.
Members of the Federation's Online Propaganda Department, still at their posts, mobilized every available resource to maintain public opinion and the stability of the entire lunar society during the orbital departure.
"Who are you?" Even before Li Shunsheng's arrival, Bai Mo had already condensed an avatar and asked him.
After all, a Sixth-tier martial artist charging wildly towards oneself appeared in Spirit Energy vision like a massive fireball hurtling closer.
"The one who will kill you."
"?" Bai Mo sensed something unusual.
"FOOL—OF—TIME—!!!" Without responding further to Bai Mo, Li Shunsheng directly used his most proficient martial ability, Fool of Time.
As a heaven-defying auxiliary ability that could affect an opponent's perception of time, anyone struck by the Fool of Time would temporarily be unable to perceive the passage of external time.
Even if five minutes had passed outside, to the affected person, it would feel like merely the next instant. Thus, to those on the outside, the person who was hit would appear as if anesthetized, allowing themselves to be manipulated.
"How is this possible? He actually attacked without even thinking?!!!"
There were still numerous surveillance cameras remaining at the scene, and before witnessing it with their own eyes, not a single person had imagined that Li Shunsheng had rushed to Bai Mo's location specifically to kill him.
At this moment, Li Shunsheng gave them the feeling of Don Quixote, charging directly at a giant windmill with a broken spear and a skinny horse.
Perhaps even Don Quixote and the windmill weren't enough to describe the disparity between the two. It was a mantis actively rushing towards a chariot wheel!
"Mo Li, you foresaw all of this?" Someone quickly remembered Mind Mage Mo Li's earlier words.
"I cannot clearly foresee the future; it's merely a superimposition of countless possible phantom images."
"Why would he do this?"
"I don't know."
Martial cultivation indeed has a tradition of challenging stronger individuals, but that doesn't mean they'd send themselves to be crushed. Usually, the challenged opponents are slightly stronger than themselves, or masters who have been consulted beforehand.
Dying like this was not within their considerations.
"He probably picked the wrong whetstone."
"Secluded in cultivation for too long, his brain has rusted, and he challenges anyone stronger than himself?"
"Hopefully, he'll let this fellow off the hook. After all, he's an important combat asset for humanity."
They had absolutely no thought of antagonizing Bai Mo, because in Spirit Energy vision, that Rainbow Bridge spanning the sky itself was like the summer sun, stinging their skin fiercely, warning everyone to cherish life and stay away from the sun.
"Hm? No, wait, why isn't he retaliating?!"
Just as everyone thought the battle would be a one-sided massacre, events developed in a direction that defied all expectations.
Bai Mo seemed genuinely time-lagged. He neither dodged nor flinched when faced with Li Shunsheng's fists.
Fists like a torrential storm instantly rained down upon the Rainbow Bridge. Each punch created bowl-sized indentations. And occasionally, when a punch missed and struck a nearby building, the entire room would be blown away by the force of the punch.
Because the speed of his punching was simply too fast, the original indentations hadn't even had time to recover before a new punch arrived immediately.
Dense, numerous fist imprints appeared on the Rainbow Bridge. In a sense, it was a bit like a certain landmark called the Walk of Fame from decades ago.
Unfortunately, compared to the super-bridge spanning Earth and Moon, such minor damage could be said to be negligible, and didn't even match the Rainbow Bridge's own recovery rate.
"I know you're all watching! This is the last chance to completely eliminate this demon! He has already been struck by my Fool of Time, and has become a living target. You just need to exert your utmost power and unleash it upon the target!" Li Shunsheng shouted towards the sky.
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