Inside the hall...
Lu Zheng saw both of them looking at him and knew that if he didn't show them something substantial, he might not make it out of this room today.
He took a deep breath.
“Try using the laws of time a few more times, and you'll see.”
He looked at Fang Xuan.
“The initial backlash will begin, and your body will be reversed by the laws of time.”
Fang Xuan pondered this for a moment.
Reversing time?
He suddenly remembered the time Senior Sister had turned small in the time world, specifically that time she got stuck and couldn't get out...
Ahem...
Back then, Senior Sister had regressed from twenty-five to nineteen, then seventeen, then fifteen...
In the end, she only reached his waist.
She was soft and silly, crying and calling for her 'Junior Brother' every day, pestering him for the laws of lust and weeping if he didn't give in.
Senior Sister really never gets tired of this...
...For some reason, that thought suddenly popped into his head.
Yeah... it must be the system influencing him...
Lu Zheng continued.
“Brother Fang, how much of the laws of time have you comprehended now?”
“About twenty percent,” Fang Xuan answered.
Lu Zheng narrowed his eyes slightly.
Twenty percent...? It had taken him hundreds of years to reach that stage back then.
Suppressing the surge of emotion in his heart, he said, “At twenty percent, the effects of the backlash should already be quite apparent.”
Fang Xuan glanced at Ning Xian.
Ning Xian pursed her lips and remained silent.
Fang Xuan knew she was worried, so he gently squeezed her hand to reassure her.
He activated the laws of time, and everything around them instantly slowed down.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
He didn't feel anything.
Again.
Another three seconds.
Still nothing.
The third time, after three seconds...
This time, he suddenly felt a slight abnormality in his body, something very subtle.
He looked down at his hands.
They were indeed a tiny bit smaller. It wasn't obvious, but he could feel it.
Ning Xian saw it too, of course, and she pulled him to a stop.
“...Stop trying. Come back with me.”
Lu Zheng spoke up again. “If something happens later, I won't be responsible.”
Ning Xian said coldly, “Then what do you suggest we do?”
Lu Zheng was silent for a moment.
Then he raised his hand.
A ball of golden light condensed at his fingertips—pure origin time laws.
His face turned pale at a visible rate.
His aura began to plummet: Taiyi Level 5, Taiyi Level 2...
It didn't stabilize until it dropped all the way to Golden Immortal Level 7.
He looked at Fang Xuan.
“This is half of the laws of time I've condensed. Once you absorb it, you should reach a high enough level of comprehension to trigger the backlash.”
In any case, he couldn't use them with his current broken body.
Fang Xuan frowned.
“Then how do I come back?”
Lu Zheng looked at him and continued, “The method to return is quite simple...”
“Remember who you are, and then use the laws of time to flow back.”
Fang Xuan fell silent.
Lu Zheng turned to Ning Xian. “As for you, I can send you over as well, but I won't be responsible for whether you can find your way back...”
Ning Xian pondered for a moment.
At this point, there was no other way.
Regardless of anything else, this half of the laws of time... was at least real...
If her junior brother absorbed them normally, there wouldn't be any negative side effects...
Fang Xuan looked at the mass of the laws of time.
Even if things didn't go as Lu Zheng described, absorbing the laws of time wouldn't have any negative consequences.
So, he reached out and took it directly. The golden light instantly surged into his body.
Inside his dantian, the time-based dao weapon trembled violently.
The power of those laws poured in frantically, being absorbed and merged.
His comprehension level began to climb rapidly.
Twenty-five percent... thirty percent...
All the way to thirty-five percent.
Fang Xuan closed his eyes, experiencing that mysterious and profound sensation.
The feeling of 'watching a movie' in his mind grew stronger and stronger.
Scene after scene flashed by.
Fast ones, slow ones.
The past, the future.
And then...
His tongue lolled out, and he fainted...
“Junior Brother...”
Ning Xian hurried over and gathered him into her arms.
Then she used her spiritual energy to check his dantian... He had only fainted.
She breathed a sigh of relief.
But her eyes were already red.
She looked up at Lu Zheng.
Her gaze was cold enough to kill.
Lu Zheng quickly waved his hands.
“It's a normal phenomenon, perfectly normal!”
He explained.
Ning Xian bit her lower lip and said nothing.
She just held Fang Xuan, motionless.
Then, Lu Zheng grit his teeth.
He raised his hand and condensed another ball of light.
This time, it was the remaining half of his laws of time.
His aura plummeted once more, this time only stabilizing when it reached Golden Immortal Level 1.
He didn't feel any heartache; after all, keeping the remaining half was useless to him.
Without relying on Fang Xuan, in his current state, he would never be able to return to the Dao Ancestor realm.
Besides, he was willing to take the gamble.
Ning Xian remained silent.
But she still reached out and took it...
It wasn't that she trusted him, but her junior brother had to be okay. It didn't matter to her whether she lived or died.
The golden light surged in, and her aura began to climb rapidly.
Golden Immortal Level 1... Golden Immortal Level 2.
All the way to Golden Immortal Level 5.
Then her eyes closed, and she also fainted.
She collapsed on top of Fang Xuan.
Lu Zheng laughed helplessly. “They really are a handful...”
He stood up and walked over to them.
The tiny bit of the laws of time he had left slowly flowed out.
He first connected their anchor points.
Golden light circulated between them, forming a closed loop.
Watching this, he let out a soft sigh.
“This way... they shouldn't get lost.”
He raised his hand and set up several more layers of restriction barriers to hide them.
Then he walked to the hall entrance and looked out into the void.
To think a thousand-year-old man like him has to act as their guard...
He shook his head.
Fang Xuan, oh Fang Xuan, you'd better come back quickly.
Otherwise, with my current Golden Immortal strength, I won't be able to protect the two of them if anything happens...
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