The male protagonist's feelings towards the prominent sects of the Cultivation Realm plummeted to the extreme.

Initially, he thought these sects were heroes resisting the oppression of the Great Xia Zhao Clan.

Now it seems, they are just a bunch of vile, self-serving scoundrels!

"They all deserve to die!" The male protagonist's face turned ashen.

The Sage of Time thought the male protagonist was referring to the Ancient Race and nodded in agreement.

"Indeed, they deserve to die!"

"We've endured so many hardships and expended so much manpower, only to barely achieve what we have now!"

"Those despicable creatures even want to take everything away from us, and dare to compare us exalted Mages to those lowly mud legs, it's simply outrageous!"

Mud legs?

The male protagonist's fist instantly hardened!

Although he wasn't exactly a mud leg, those words sounded grating!

"What do you plan to do?" the male protagonist asked.

Sage of Time: "Although your arrival is ahead of schedule, since you're here, it means the Ancient Race has already appeared. We must stay vigilant. Once we detect any trace of the Ancient Race, we should promptly ignite the warning smoke and summon Sages from all Plane Worlds to defeat the enemy!"

The male protagonist was noncommittal and asked, "And you? What do you intend to do?"

Sage of Time: "My Divine Hall of Time can only be activated once. Once the hall is activated, this trace of my Divine Sense will dissipate."

"Dissipate?" The male protagonist raised an eyebrow, "Why not return to your world?"

Sage of Time: "I've been residing in this Divine Hall of Time for tens of thousands of years. My physical form likely ascended to the Spirit Realm long ago. Without guidance from my physical form, I can't return. Besides, even if I could return, I wouldn't plan to. Transporting across Plane Worlds consumes immense resources, and it's not worth it for a mere trace of Divine Soul."

The male protagonist nodded: "Understood!"

After speaking, he asked, "Didn't you mention preparing something for me earlier, what is it?"

As the male protagonist finished speaking, the Seven-Colored Lotus before him trembled slightly, its multicolored light gently drifting away, leaving behind a lotus entirely silver-white, shimmering with a metallic luster.

Sage of Time: "This is a small fragment of time I stole from spying on the River of Time back in the day. It's thanks to this time fragment's protection that my trace of Divine Soul persisted until your arrival! Now, this Flower of Time is yours."

The male protagonist's eyes lit up, and he reached out to pick the Flower of Time.

The Sage of Time reminded: "The River of Time flows endlessly, vast beyond measure. The Flower of Time can only protect you for ten breaths of time; afterward, you must return, or you will be swept into the River of Time, forever lost and unable to extricate yourself!"

Upon hearing this, the male protagonist hesitated momentarily, then reached out to grab the Flower of Time.

Boom!

Zhao Yi slapped away the Lizard Warrior who'd been killed countless times in front of him.

Suddenly, he felt something and jerked around to look at the palace door.

"What happened?"

Miaoyin held the Chengying Sword and vigilantly watched the distant Skeleton Warriors, puzzled.

Zhao Yi furrowed his brows, his expression serious: "Someone was secretly observing me just now!"

Miaoyin's face changed, she quickly scanned the surroundings, and after a while, asked in confusion: "It's just us here, no one else; did you sense incorrectly?"

Zhao Yi shook his head and affirmed: "No, absolutely not wrong! Someone was definitely secretly observing me just now!"

Miaoyin was about to say something when the distant Skeleton Warriors reassembled.

She said angrily, "Where on earth did these damn things come from, why are they so tenacious, isn't there anything that can restrain them?"

Restrain?

Zhao Yi calmed his agitation and turned to look at the growing number of Skeleton Warriors.

Soon, his eyes brightened: "Almost forgot! The most direct means to deal with undead is Holy Light, besides, you only need to extinguish the Soul Fire within their skulls!"

Soul Fire?

Miaoyin looked at the nearest Lizard Skeleton Warrior, reaching out to grab.

Dragon-Catching Hand!

The green Soul Fire, constantly leaping inside the Skeleton Warrior's skull, floated out.

Then captured by Miaoyin's hand.

Crack!

The once menacing Skeleton Warrior collapsed into a heap of white bones.

"It really works!" Miaoyin's eyes lit up.

She looked at the Soul Fire in her hand, frowning: "What should we do with this, destroy it directly?"

Zhao Yi glanced at the Soul Fire, hesitating somewhat.

This was the Soul Fire of an Ascension Realm Tier Eight Skeleton Warrior; when alive, the master of this skeleton was at least of Tier Nine Saint King Realm, perhaps even above Tier Nine.

Destroying it would be an incredible waste.

As Zhao Yi was thinking, suddenly he felt a tug on his pants leg.

He looked down and was stunned, clutching his pants was nothing other than a skeleton similar in size to a small cat.

The small skeleton looked very ragged, its bones shattered, and half of its four legs were broken.

What amazed Zhao Yi wasn't the small skeleton's ragged appearance, but how it reached him undetected?

Though Zhao Yi lacked cultivation, his body's instinctive reaction surpassed even a Great Cultivator at the peak of Tier Nine Saint King Realm.

This little skeleton surprisingly snuck to Zhao Yi's side without a sound, and Zhao Yi only noticed its presence when his pants leg was tugged.

Zhao Yi observed the small skeleton's head with its faintly flickering white Soul Fire, his face showing curiosity.

"Interesting!"

Zhao Yi said to Miaoyin: "Feed it that Soul Fire."

Miaoyin, though puzzled by Zhao Yi's words, didn't think much of it.

She held that mass of soul fire and directly stuffed it into the little skeleton's head.

Plop!

The seemingly weightless soul fire was actually a burden too heavy for the little skeleton to bear.

After Miaoyin stuffed the soul fire in, the little skeleton immediately collapsed with a clatter.

"Huh?"

Miaoyin made a soft exclamation, looking at the little skeleton with bright eyes, surprised.

"For humans, this soul fire is weightless, but for these skeletons, it's so heavy?"

"It seems I was wrong before; this mass of soul fire isn't just the consciousness of the skeleton. There is something unknown inside that forms the source of the skeleton warrior's soul and power!"

"I wonder what kind of existence created such an unimaginable creature, truly amazing!"

Zhao Yi watched Miaoyin real person staring at the little skeleton like a mad scientist, seemingly wanting to open its head and study it, and pulled her aside.

Undead Mages are twisted perverts.

Besides researching undead creatures, those lunatics are also adept at various viruses and curses.

If Miaoyin fell victim accidentally, Zhao Yi wasn't sure if the Detoxification Pill from the Cultivation World could break the curses of the Magic World.

Burp...

As Zhao Yi was thinking, he suddenly heard a burping sound.

He turned his head to look at Miaoyin.

Miaoyin shook her head hurriedly: "Not me, I didn't eat anything!"

Zhao Yi was initially stunned, suddenly thought of something, and quickly looked down at the little skeleton under his feet.

At some point, the little skeleton had stood up again.

Zhao Yi looked at the little skeleton's head; the soul fire of the lizard skeleton warrior was gone, and the little skeleton's dim white soul fire was still bleak.

But he didn't know if it was an illusion, Zhao Yi felt that the little skeleton's dirty bones seemed to be a bit cleaner, and the cracks on the bones had also slightly repaired.

Miaoyin also noticed the anomaly.

She looked at the little skeleton with brighter eyes: "Skeleton warriors can actually repair their injuries by devouring soul fire?"

After speaking, she frowned: "The weak get eaten; this is the ultimate rule of the world! That lizard skeleton warrior was level eight of the Ascension Realm, and its soul fire was at least that level. This little skeleton looks so weak, the two soul fires should logically merge with the skeleton warrior's soul fire absorbing it, why was it absorbed instead?"

Zhao Yi looked at the little skeleton and smiled slightly: "What if this little skeleton's life level is far above that of the lizardman?"

Miaoyin nodded: "If that's the case, then it makes sense!"

After speaking, she looked at the little skeleton, a hint of killing intent flashing in her eyes: "Should we eliminate it? This little thing seems to have a significant origin, if it grows, it might become our great threat in the future!"

Zhao Yi didn't answer but looked at the little skeleton: "You grabbed my pant leg for help just now, which means you have wisdom, at least you can understand me."

Zhao Yi said sternly: "Do you want to recognize me as your master?"

Miaoyin on the side stared in amazement.

She had just verified that those skeleton warriors have consciousness, but consciousness doesn't equate to wisdom since puppets' reflex actions are also a form of self-awareness.

Zhao Yi's words to the little skeleton just tested whether they have wisdom.

The little skeleton heard Zhao Yi's words, struggled to lift its head, and then stopped moving.

Just as Miaoyin was about to be disappointed, a silver-white soul fire, a hundred times more refined than the soul fire in the little skeleton's head, slowly floated toward Zhao Yi's forehead.

"Careful!" Miaoyin prepared to step forward to stop it.

Zhao Yi raised his hand to stop her: "No problem! This is its essential soul fire; offering it to me is a sign of recognizing a master! Its divine soul won't harm me; instead, it can strengthen my divine sense and soul!"

Recognize a master?

Miaoyin was momentarily stunned, then her eyes lit up brightly.

She exclaimed in shock: "These skeletons actually have wisdom!"

Zhao Yi ignored her.

After the silver-white soul fire entered his forehead, Zhao Yi only felt his divine soul explode like a balloon, bursting with a bang!

In the next second, Zhao Yi felt his divine sense expand infinitely, with a delusion that he had the entire world under his control!

"This little thing's divine soul is so powerful!"

When his divine sense returned, Zhao Yi widened his eyes, looking at the inconspicuous little thing at his feet, filled with shock and astonishment.

Zhao Yi's body and divine sense had been tempered countless times, reaching the peak of Tier Nine Saint King Realm, and this little thing's barely surviving strand of essential divine soul increased his soul power by at least a hundredfold.

How strong was it at its peak when it was alive?

What on earth is it?

Bang!

"What is that thing?"

The protagonist's hand withdrew from the colorless, faded lotus, face pale, staggering back a dozen steps before stopping.

"What happened?"

A seven-colored light group floated to the protagonist, asking with concern: "What did you see in the river of time?"

The protagonist's face was full of horror, taking a deep breath, shaking his head: "I don't know, I saw someone in the river of time, just about to probe his secrets, when a giant claw like it could reach the sky struck down at me. If not for that time fragment bringing me out, I would have been crushed by it!"

"That's impossible!"

The Sage of Time said decisively: "You must have seen it wrong! No one can cause trouble in the river of time, not even the Ancient Race!"

The protagonist, still in shock, almost scared to death by the terrifying thing just now.

Hearing the Sage of Time doubt him, he replied with an angry curse.

"I don't care if you believe me or not!"

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