NOVPUBThe secret order that had merged with his flesh and blood tried to resist feebly, but as it was inherently connected to the Time Major Path, it was easily suppressed under the Rebounding Wind Returning Fire Great Divine Power.
The moment the secret order was removed from Yu Ke, the young man with white hair seemed to age by dozens of years in an instant, his once robust life force now like a candle in the wind.
"Falling Clouds Taoist!"
"How dare you!"
"Insolence!"
Angry rebukes echoed through the entire Treasure Drop Pavilion, but they did not include the Wealth True Monarch who had just made his move.
Although it was already known that the Supreme Taoist had snatched a Time Exotic Treasure from the Donghuang Divine System, Wealth True Monarch had not anticipated that the Supreme Taoist’s Time Exotic Treasure would be so powerful.
Even though his offensive power was far inferior to that of Void Refining True Monarch, the unfathomable methods displayed by Shen Yuan had instilled fear in Wealth True Monarch.
He had no personal quarrel with Shen Yuan, his attack had been merely to ingratiate himself with Ji Xuanyi.
If Shen Yuan had been easily suppressed, so be it, but the methods now displayed by Shen Yuan had reached a level that made him apprehensive, proving that Shen Yuan’s strength and potential were far beyond what he had anticipated.
To provoke such a formidable enemy simply to curry favor with Ji Xuanyi was clearly not a worthwhile deal.
Wealth True Monarch subtly stepped back, gesturing to deactivate the Treasure Drop Gold Coin Array that was in activation, allowing the various powers to glare at Shen Yuan with rage.
But Shen Yuan no longer had the leisure to pay attention to the outside world.
The instant he removed the Dragon Gate Secret Order, a flood of information raced through his mind, accelerating his thoughts by a thousand times.
Everything seemed to slow down around Shen Yuan, allowing him ample time to examine the secret order in his hand.
"Dragon Gate Secret Order?"
The river of history, temporal causality, drawing on life span, leaping through the Dragon Gate... torrents of information surged, and although most were incomplete, they still made the origins of the Dragon Gate Secret Order clear to Shen Yuan.
Everything was just as Shen Yuan had thought: Yu Ke was indeed a fish swimming in the current of time from the future, with the memory of the future.
The Dragon Gate Secret Order had brought him across thousands of years back to this era, and by drawing on life span, it could anchor his state, allowing him to achieve a different form of immortality.
As the host of the Dragon Gate Secret Order, Yu Ke only needed to change his own destiny and leap through the Dragon Gate to have a chance to transform, becoming a unique creature roaming the historical river.
This was also the true purpose of the Sky-Obscuring Giant Hand that covered the river of history.
"After leaping through the Dragon Gate, it becomes the Heaven’s Decree Secret Order?"
A thought rose in Shen Yuan’s mind.
From any perspective, the Heaven’s Decree Secret Order seemed more like an advanced version of the Dragon Gate Secret Order.
Apart from lacking the immortal feature of anchoring one’s state without drawing on life span, the true physical traversal and reverting to the future effects of the Heaven’s Decree Secret Order far surpassed the Dragon Gate Secret Order.
However, Shen Yuan did not dare to confirm the details.
As he was about to put away the Dragon Gate Secret Order, a scene from Yu Ke’s fragmented memories suddenly flashed among the vast amount of information.
It was a towering figure standing atop a boundless river of history, facing the Sky-Obscuring Giant Hand that covered both sun and sky, with the entire river of history churning under that hand.
Amidst the aftershocks of their stalemate, an inconspicuous wave crashed down, knocking a fish swimming upstream off the timeline.
From then on, Yu Ke’s memory of the future completely vanished.
Shen Yuan’s gaze sharpened, and his face revealed a somewhat strange expression.
Standing from Yu Ke’s perspective, it was hard to see clearly the figure at the peak of the historical waves, but Shen Yuan could clearly sense that the person confronting the Sky-Obscuring Giant Hand in that scene was himself.
During this journey across the timeline of ten thousand years, Shen Yuan had begun to master the Time Major Path due to his cultivation of the Rebounding Wind Returning Fire Great Divine Power, thus he had regained some ability to act in the river of history.
That scene was Shen Yuan’s insight into the essence of traversing the historical river and witnessing the Sky-Obscuring Giant Hand herding countless creatures upstream through history.
In the process, Shen Yuan disturbed the waves of the historical river, knocking some of the fish off course.
Yu Ke was one of those fish affected, which meant that the prime culprit behind Yu Ke’s temporal memory displacement was Shen Yuan himself.
The memories following his journey through the river of history had disappeared for unknown reasons, perhaps Shen Yuan had consciously shielded his memories as a form of self-protection, or it might have been the might of some supreme being.
In Shen Yuan’s memory, only the words "Floating Rise" remained.
The moment that name flashed by, a feeling of an unforeseeable crisis seemed to be descending, as if a supreme and towering existence was casting its gaze upon the Primal Chaos Realm.
Shen Yuan’s mind tensed, and he quickly suppressed the name that had crossed his mind, and the threat from the unknown seemed to silently dissipate.
"Before the heavens and the earth have reached Great Schism, some names can draw gaze even through thought.
To unravel its nature, it is better to wait until after the return to the era of Great Schism."
With that thought quietly passing by, Shen Yuan turned his attention back to Yu Ke, who now looked decades older.
During the process of crossing the timeline of ten thousand years, he had inadvertently brought Yu Ke back to this era.
Influenced by the Dragon Gate Secret Order, Yu Ke sought to end his tragic destiny and leap through the cycle of rebirth.
To Yu Ke, Shen Yuan himself was the sad fate.
