With that thought, he turned to Conrad and said,

"You all stay here and stabilize the situation. I need to go somewhere."

By now, Conrad’s awe toward Faustus had sunk deep into his bones.

In his eyes, Faustus was a Divine-grade powerhouse. No—he was even more terrifying than a Divine-grade powerhouse.

"As you command, my lord."

Conrad answered honestly and respectfully.

Daniel nodded, then shot into the air and rushed toward the coordinates.

Taking over a world was not that simple. The cities, the resources, the population, and all those various special buildings had to be seized and brought under control one by one!

Once his class change quest was complete, he would open the portal interface and move a batch of NPCs over from Aetheria to slowly clean up the situation.

...

Mount Lamu.

Daniel landed at the coordinate point.

Without wasting words, he raised his right foot and stomped heavily on the ground.

Boom—!

The earth split open in an instant. Cracks spread in every direction like a spiderweb, revealing a tomb buried deep underground for who knew how many years.

"Rise."

Daniel raised a hand, and the wind elements surged out as if they had come alive.

The entire tomb was uprooted from the ground. The outer concealment shattered and scattered everywhere, exposing the coffin within.

The coffin opened.

Inside, there was only a corpse and a sword.

The corpse had not decayed. It looked as though it had only been buried yesterday, and an astonishing aura still faintly lingered around it.

The sword’s blade was bright and polished, lying there alone beside the corpse.

"So this is the sword?"

Daniel reached out and beckoned from afar.

The sword flew out of the coffin and landed steadily in his palm.

However—!

A terrifyingly powerful wave of mind power crashed into his head like a tsunami.

The impact was so overwhelming that it felt as if ten thousand steel needles had pierced through his skull at the same time. The pain nearly made him lose his footing.

Clang—!

His hand loosened, and the sword fell to the ground, letting out a crisp ring.

That deadly mind power vanished in an instant.

Daniel took a breath, and his mind finally cleared.

He lowered his head and stared at the sword, stunned for quite a while.

What a domineering sword.

What a domineering spiritual impact!

He was not even afraid of Divine-grade powerhouses, yet this sword had actually caught him off guard.

But he soon figured it out.

This sword was not simple.

What made it unusual was that the Strength of a certain powerhouse was sealed inside it.

The form of that Strength was very similar to a sage rank.

What he was facing was not a sword, but a sage rank.

It was just that this sage rank was incomplete, full of holes everywhere. It did not look like something opened up by a Divine-grade powerhouse. Instead, it was more like the work of someone stuck at the peak of demi-sage rank, someone who could not cross that final threshold no matter what, and had forcefully stuffed their own sage rank into the sword!

This was an unorthodox path.

And the price was that breaking through to Divine-grade would become extremely difficult!

"Why?"

Daniel shook his head.

A powerhouse who dared to do something like this was basically walking down a path no one else had ever taken.

It was like standing in a vast desert and refusing to follow the tracks left behind by predecessors, insisting instead on charging toward a place no one had ever gone.

There might be a road there.

Or there might be nothing at all.

"If I can’t subdue this sword, the quest can’t be completed."

Daniel frowned.

If he could not control this sword, then he could not control the fate of this world.

After pondering for a while, he understood.

This powerhouse must have feared that after his death, the sword would fall into someone else’s hands.

So he had simply bound himself and the sword together.

Without Divine-grade strength, there was no chance of subduing this sword.

But a Divine-grade powerhouse could not descend into this small world.

In other words, this powerhouse had been determined to lock this sword away completely.

No one was allowed to touch it.

Daniel felt a little headache coming on.

Wait—!

A flash of light suddenly streaked through the pitch-black void of his mind.

An idea struck Daniel.

Since only the Swordlord himself could undo the restriction on this sword, then he could just let the man do it himself!

His gaze fell on the corpse inside the coffin.

Buried together with the sword—who else could it be but the Swordlord?

He took an item out of his backpack.

It was not impossible to meet the Swordlord himself.

[Chrono Reversal Circle（Divine-grade）]

Category: One-use spacetime Holy Relic

Grade: Divine-grade

Effect: Upon activation, it can reverse the flow of time within a selected area, causing shattered time to piece itself back together and allowing fragments of the past to reappear.

Consumption: The farther the reversal and the longer it is maintained, the more Immortal Singularity must be sacrificed. The greater the sacrifice, the deeper the reversal and the longer time can be suspended in reverse.

Inscription: Only a high Oracle-grade existence who has glimpsed the past and future and grasped authority over the laws of spacetime has the ability to forge such a forbidden vessel that overturns fate.

...

Immortal Singularity?

The corner of Daniel’s mouth lifted.

He had the Replica Crystal, which could endlessly replicate Immortal Singularity fragments.

Immortal Singularity was something he did not lack at all!

He selected the area around Mount Lamu and activated the Chrono Reversal Circle.

[Prompt: This action will consume a massive amount of Immortal Singularity. Confirm?]

"Confirm."

[Ding! Item activated!]

In a single instant, hundreds of thousands of Immortal Singularity vanished into thin air!

The Chrono Reversal Circle began to move.

The space before him rippled like the surface of a lake wrinkled by the wind. The once-dead air began to stir in circles, spreading out layer by layer.

Spacetime began to flow backward.

Daniel stood outside the circle and watched everything before him reverse with his own eyes!

The ground that he had shattered with one stomp began to close and restore itself at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if someone were picking up the pieces of a broken plate and putting them back together one by one.

The sword also followed the reversal of time and flew back into the coffin on its own.

The scattered stones around the coffin returned to their original positions, reassembling into the tomb chamber. Then the chamber sank back underground, becoming once again that unknown grave no one had ever discovered.

The spacetime around him kept changing, and soon, everything returned to the way it had looked when Daniel first arrived.

Watching time reverse was like watching a play being performed backward.

[Prompt: You have consumed 1,000,000 Immortal Singularity.]

Daniel listened to the prompts ringing repeatedly beside his ear, but he was not panicked at all.

Before coming to Divine Wind Realm, he had already replicated a vast amount of Immortal Singularity. He was not afraid of running out.

What he cared about more right now was the scene in front of him.

Not because the scene itself was so shocking, but because this item was simply too heaven-defying.

Something casually made by an Oracle-grade existence already contained such profound spacetime laws.

If he were to face an existence of that level in person, just how terrifying would that be?

With a wave of their hand, they could turn him into a swaddled infant, or directly reduce him to a pile of withered bones.

Who could withstand that?

And there was more.

Back when he had forcibly initiated the World War, he had encountered a supreme powerhouse capable of roaming through the Time River.

That human ancestor could freely move between the past and the future, and could even attack enemies across all timelines at once!

Against someone like that, even Immortal Revival would be useless.

They could uproot his existence from any point in time and any point in space.

By then, even if he could regenerate infinitely, he would only fall into an endless cycle of "revival—death—revival—death."

How would that be any different from true death?

Thinking of this, Daniel’s obsession with unlocking the Chronoverse Prologue Codex deepened even further.

"As long as I unlock the Chronoverse Prologue Codex, I’ll be able to touch the threshold of the laws of spacetime."

"With a method like this time reversal, I won’t need to rely on any item. I’ll be able to use it myself. Whether it’s for killing, saving my life, or anything else, it’ll be a heaven-defying skill."

He took a deep breath.

He was only short three elemental cores.

A small problem!

At that moment, as time continued reversing, increasingly obvious changes began to appear within the spacetime inside the great circle.

Daniel stared fixedly ahead.

Within his field of vision, scene after scene began to emerge.

Countless fleeing beings crowded onto this mountain, crying to the heavens and wailing toward Mount Lamu.

"Progenitor Camille, we should never have refused to listen to you back then!"

"Progenitor Camille! Progenitor Camille! The Luminari are finished! We are about to be destroyed by our own hands!"

"Progenitor Camille, please come back and save us!"

"We were wrong! We were wrong! The Luminari... are doomed!"

"Our civilization is going to perish... We were wrong!"

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