Chapter 501: Chapter 330: The Temporal Killing Trap!

Above the Golden Province, within the Purple Bamboo Forest.

Zhang Fusheng tucked his hands into the narrow sleeves of his coarse linen robe, his gaze sweeping over the two groups in the bamboo forest, raising his eyebrows slightly.

The Cui Family, whatever.

This black-robed man... Who is he?

Why does Old Su look so grim?

He was observing everyone, while everyone was also sizing up the two uninvited guests they’ve never seen.

Su Qiansuan’s heart remained heavy, instinctively rubbing the old scar on his left hand, his gaze roaming over the newcomers,

These two... When did they appear?? 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

He was alarmed, now in control of the Golden Province, the Golden Realm, bolstered by the power of the Great Realm, comparable to a formidable Great Power,

Yet he hadn’t detected when the two had appeared!

And then there’s that black-robed man...

Su Qiansuan’s brows twitched wildly.

"Who are you?"

The black-robed man tilted his head slightly, despite his aura only being at the level of a Grandmaster, extremely feeble,

Yet carrying a sense of arrogance, asking from a condescending position.

Zhang Fusheng, appearing to be a rustic farmer in his coarse linen clothes, frowned and sized up the black-robed man,

His eyes flashing with countless star lines, discerning the cause and background of the other—utterly ordinary.

Zhang Fusheng saw his past, just an ordinary Grandmaster,

Born in Golden City, raised in Golden City, with nothing unusual or amiss.

Until three days ago.

Three days ago, the cause of the black-robed man abruptly ended, his soul scattered—like his body was taken over by some existence.

And when Zhang Fusheng tried to peer into the origins of the soul occupying this body, what he saw, where the cause pointed to, was...

A void.

No, more accurately, the cause pointed to... Heaven and Earth??

Something stirred in Zhang Fusheng’s heart, he quietly utilized the Fire Eyes Golden Gaze, this time seeing more clearly.

Not Heaven and Earth.

It was... a painting?

An endlessly unfolding scroll, encompassing the entire world, with the true essence of the black-robed man standing outside the scroll!

Map of Mountains and Rivers.

In an instant, Zhang Fusheng thought of this Supreme Treasure.

He squinted, unsurprisingly, the Map of Mountains and Rivers was no longer in the hands of ’Li Xiuyuan’, taken by someone else,

Now, the one who retrieved the treasure was using the Map of Mountains and Rivers to manipulate reality, directly occupying the body of this unfortunate fellow!

In other words.

The true form of the black-robed man’s spiritual will was outside the Map of Mountains and Rivers, quietly observing the reality within the scroll, watching everything within the Purple Bamboo Forest in the scroll.

Interesting.

As his thoughts raced, Zhang Fusheng calmly spoke:

"I’m merely a passerby, today I’ve come originally for the Qinghe Cui Family, needing some help from the Cui Family, but..."

He looked at the black-robed man:

"You, on the contrary, pique my curiosity further."

The black-robed man raised his eyebrows, did not reply, but looked at Su Qiansuan:

"What has Senior Su considered? Are you willing to relinquish control of the Golden Province?"

Su Qiansuan was silent, his brows furrowed.

The black-robed man chuckled playfully, hands folded behind his back, calmly said:

"It seems Senior Su is still unwilling... Look at this."

He calmly reached out, pointing at a certain Celestial Human among the Cui Family.

Su Qiansuan, Zhang Fusheng, and Ruan Yutu all looked at the Celestial Human,

Only to see that suddenly, a limb was missing!

The scar at the amputated area clearly has been there for many years.

In the next second, the Celestial Human’s other hand and both legs disappeared as well, and another second later, the head vanished into thin air, collapsing lifelessly on the ground!

Zhang Fusheng was astonished, when did this happen?

What kind of technique was this??

The faces of the Cui Family members changed dramatically, Su Qiansuan leapt to his feet, his expression utterly grim:

"Who exactly stands behind you??"

The black-robed man said proudly:

"I told you, my master possesses the Supreme Treasure, mastering the time and past within ten thousand years."

He paused slightly, then spoke indifferently:

"Thus, the life and death of beings within ten thousand years are under our control."

The light and airy voice echoed in the Purple Bamboo Forest, a deathly silence ensued.

Suddenly, a voice rang out.

"Time?"

Everyone looked, it was the young man who suddenly visited, clad in coarse linen.

The young man’s face was expressionless, calmly narrating:

"Changing time would lead to a chain of subsequent events being altered as well, when you changed the past, causing the Cui Family’s Celestial Human to lose a hand."

"Logically speaking, he should no longer be in the Purple Bamboo Forest."

He paused slightly,

Zhang Fusheng lifted his eyelids, his eyes sparkling with spirit:

"So, you must have altered a segment of virtual history and made it directly real."

"Thus, bypassing the chain of changes that should have occurred?"

A trace of astonishment flashed across the face of the black-robed man, observing the young man up and down, but soon regained his calm.

He still maintained a condescending posture, casually asked:

"Who are you?"

Zhang Fusheng did not answer, merely rubbed his chin, his thoughts whirling, it seemed he guessed right.

Map of Mountains and Rivers, it must be because of the Map of Mountains and Rivers.

The Map of Mountains and Rivers is clearly a Supreme Treasure situated within reality, yet standing outside the scroll, it can gaze upon and even interfere with reality,

Moreover...

It can even interfere with the history of reality outside the scroll.

But the Map of Mountains and Rivers seems not to directly intervene or alter in the river of time,

What it changes is the history of the reality in the painting, and thus directly reflects the altered history’s outcome as real!

"I understand now."

Zhang Fusheng suddenly realized, the reality within the Map of Mountains and Rivers was not true reality, more akin to an illusion, a virtual construct,

But the alterations imposed upon it can manifest directly into reality!

Such a terrifying Supreme Treasure!