Chapter 587: Time Lag Lever
He knew that the group of people hidden behind the countless monitors on the Moon could definitely hear what he was saying.
Martial artists of the Dharma Body realm are exceptionally sensitive to external perceptions. Li Shunsheng could easily perceive that many gazes from afar had fallen upon him.
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"Sss..." Just twenty seconds later, over ten somewhat illusory figures, via the Federation's hidden high-level teleportation network, directly arrived at the center of the vortex—New Florence City.
"What a pity," Li Shunsheng mused. He had instantly detected the Council's descending projections, but he felt a profound regret over these guys' excessive caution.
"Time Distortion, is that your ability?"
After receiving Li Shunsheng's message, they immediately used a special channel to have their projections teleported to New Florence City.
They all wanted to see how he could possibly manage to tie down an elephant with a single straw.
"If your true bodies had come, then there would be a shred of hope," Li Shunsheng said, disappointed, facing the group of power projections.
In order to protect themselves to the greatest extent, their true bodies were all located in their heavily fortified main base. Within that base, each one's combat power was 6-9 and above, practically half-step seventh-stage.
Without sufficiently substantial real benefits, it would be difficult to trick them into risking their lives.
"You speak of a 'shred of hope'? Heh heh heh."
Li Shunsheng, who had just successfully broken through right before them, in terms of mere spirit energy radiation—which broadly symbolized strength—was even inferior to the projections of some among them. Therefore, what he said truly lacked any persuasive power.
"My Time's Fool can, through a lever, imprison those far more powerful than me. The one affected by the technique won't perceive what's happening, because everything for him right now is merely the next instant."
In order to gain the trust of the descending projections, Li Shunsheng chose to reveal the truth of his ability completely, in exchange for their full cooperation.
"According to my Time Lag Lever's calculations, for every second Time's Fool imprisons him, I expend approximately one hundred and three thousand seconds of my life. Converted by the one-to-ten loss ratio of the lever, his power is roughly ten thousand times mine."
Li Shunsheng stated a shocking fact: Bai Mo's current power was ten thousand times his.
"And the sum of your descending projections' power is roughly twenty times mine. Considering the true bodies, each averaging ten times me, that would be one hundred and eighty times me." He used himself as a unit of combat power.
"If your true bodies can be deployed, coupled with the Moon God's ultimate superweapon, on the premise that he cannot actively defend himself, we should have a chance.
Any other questions, ask quickly, time is precious."
He finished relaying this information at the fastest possible speed, because time was life! Every second was more than a day!
Through his own ability, Li Shunsheng could cleverly determine the actual power of every person within his perception, simply by knowing how many seconds of his own life he would expend while stagnating the opponent for one second.
"Is it worth it?" Mind Mage Mo Li was a little puzzled.
She couldn't see how much hatred Li Shunsheng held for Bai Mo, and the past records of Li Shunsheng found in the archives also showed that he should be the kind of ascetic who rarely cared about external changes.
Whether viewed from a rational or emotional perspective, things shouldn't have developed this way.
"The struggle of the Great Dao—no cost spared, no end until death." As he uttered these words, Li Shunsheng was as solemn as if he were a different person.
Unfortunately, no one could truly understand what he meant, although his words were extremely forceful and resonant, and possessed a demonic quality that bewitched people.
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But before his words had even finished, a sudden change erupted!
The Rainbow Bridge, having lost its main consciousness's control, its surface suddenly began to bubble, one after another, and its originally sturdy bridge body also showed signs of slowly softening.
From an overall perspective, it looked like a block of chocolate slowly melting under the sun.
The solid Rainbow Bridge was gradually transforming into a liquid Rainbow River.
However, merely describing it as rainbow-colored seemed somewhat inappropriate, because the previously distinct seven colors, as the degree of dissolution deepened, gradually mixed together, transforming into a strange existence resembling pink or even flesh-tone.
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The liquid Heavenly River naturally extended in all directions through space, and the first to bear its brunt was naturally the Star Core Grinding Disc.
The uncontrollably expanding Heavenly River effortlessly burst the Star Core Grinding Disc and its surrounding spirit qi transmission array, then, like a breached flood, it surged in all directions towards New Florence City.
Instinctively, everyone present felt a primal urge: they absolutely could not be touched by the pink "river water," otherwise, their projection would certainly not be preserved!
"We cannot let it destroy New Florence City!" At this critical moment, realizing the situation was dire, the Saintess, who had rushed to the scene in her true body with her cross-shaped magic sword, shouted.
This was the main base of the Luminous Holy Church; if it were truly destroyed, then everything would be over.
She chanted the lengthy secret incantation at the fastest possible speed, not yet too skillfully mobilizing everything she had just received from Gondor.
The runes carved throughout the city lit up one after another, activating the city protection array, which temporarily blocked the Heavenly River flood's spread on the ground and in the low-altitude sky.
But the great array could only protect the ground and the low-altitude sky less than two hundred meters above the surface. The Heavenly River beyond this range continued its expanding pace.
Not only that, two types of never-before-seen monsters also surfaced on the surface of the colossal Heavenly River.
One type had slender bodies and two wings on their backs, with a pair of terrifying eyes on each side of their butterfly-like wings.
The other type wore a full-body shroud, and their hands and feet were replaced by sharp scythes.
Even stranger was that each of them had a conductor wire connecting to the depths of the Heavenly River from their backs.
Thousands of such monsters surfaced from the river, indifferently "watching" everything below.
"What kind of monster did you unleash..." Chen Bo glanced at Li Shunsheng, then quickly joined the interception team.
Compared to holding the other party accountable, the most important thing now was to first stop everything that was currently happening.
"What kind of monster did I unleash... No, what did I just do?!" Chen Bo's words seemed to awaken Li Shunsheng, making him feel as if something was amiss.
But no matter how he searched his own body, he found no traces.
And what was even more critical was that he had just, as if by some ghostly intervention, locked the time lag's duration to one day.
One day was eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds, plus a hundred thousand times the lever, that was over two hundred years!.
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