"Lin Feng." Su Liqian shook her pink lips, helplessly pushed by Lin Feng’s force to Tian Xun’s side. Tian Xun skillfully supported her with his movement technique.

At this moment, the black-clad man, having just confronted Lin Feng with a palm strike, had already loaded energy into the Fire Stone with his other hand. He was ready to unleash it.

The previous night, Lin Feng had tampered with the Fire Stone, triggering the "Power of the River of Time" from the East Emperor Bell fragment within under his Seal Technique, locking the surrounding space and leaving no chance for anyone to escape. Lin Feng locked himself within as well, showing an all-or-nothing determination.

The black-clad man, seeing the formation that had emerged, immediately tried to break through. But unexpectedly, when he fully unleashed his power on the Barrier, it seemed as if space itself twisted, nullifying his attack.

Lin Feng’s lips curled into a pleased smile, which shocked the black-clad man as he watched.

Since the black-clad man had already discovered Lin Feng’s identity, he removed his mask. He didn’t want his opponent to die without understanding. He wanted his opponent to die knowing who he was for the sake of a righteous fight.

The black-clad man, composed yet astonished, said, "Power of the River of Time. Who exactly are you?"

The attack that should have blasted, sweeping through the Giant Wood Forest to destroy the Giant Wood Clan’s defensive stance and secure victory for the poised Desolate Realm’s hundred-thousand-strong army, exploded inside the war chariot instead.

The Chariot Level Divine Artifact, usually possessing strong defenses and rarely destroyed, yet the power of the "Natural Heaven Stone Fire" was too immense. Although only half-completed by the Tang brothers, with Lin Feng completing the rest, the Fire Stone had been infused with Array energy by the Black-clothed Venerable, along with intense fire oil. This immense energy, supplemented by the "Impact Power" breaking through time and space from the East Emperor Bell fragment, was enough to explode outward from within the Divine Artifact, shattering the chariot into fragments.

The wreckage of the Divine Artifact, carrying immense power, and the momentum of tearing through space, directly slaughtered the ten black-clad men of the war chariot group, and the Black-clothed Venerable vanished in an instant. Since he was closest to the chariot, logically, Lin Feng should have met his end as well.

But the space-time power of the East Emperor Bell fragment at the moment the "Natural Heaven Stone Fire" exploded in the cannon provided a path for Lin Feng to escape. This pathway lasted for only a ten-thousandth of a second, just enough for Lin Feng to employ "Extreme Void Technique," paired with the East Emperor Bell fragment’s "Power of the River of Time," which slowed Lin Feng’s own time flow by a factor of ten thousand. Therefore, Lin Feng effectively took a second to escape outside the Barrier. Once Lin Feng left, the Barrier had already sealed shut.

The massive explosion’s shockwave hit a space-time barrier, where the twisted space absorbed and settled until returning to calm. Even the external anticipated minor impact force was nonexistent; all the explosive power centered on an area slightly larger than the prior war chariot circle.

Su Liqian, Luo Tuo, Tian Xun, and others watched the explosion before them wide-eyed, while the Tang brothers, unaware of Lin Feng’s tampering with the Divine Artifact Fragment, sighed softly.

In the midst of everyone relaxing in victory, Su Liqian had already burst into tears. Her peach-blossom eyes brimmed with tears, trailing down her delicate face as she cried out "Lin Feng" desperately, covering her face and crying her heart out.

Su Liqian, feeling weary from crying, suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder. Choking back sobs, Su Liqian said:

"Don’t bother me."

Her tone was very dispirited, but the person behind her said, "He’s not dead yet; you’re already mourning?" The speaker was Luo Tuo, and Su Liqian immediately looked up, saying:

"I wasn’t crying for you..." But she couldn’t finish her sentence upon seeing Lin Feng standing there in perfect condition. Su Liqian, caught off guard, thought she was seeing things, but Lin Feng smiled slightly at her, confirming he was unharmed...

Without caring how Lin Feng achieved it, Su Liqian rushed to Lin Feng, wrapping her slender arms around him, her hands resting on his shoulders—a face of joyous embarrassment, feeling too ashamed to raise her face from his chest.

Lin Feng, taken by surprise by the embrace, didn’t move, allowing her to hold him tightly. In that moment, Lin Feng felt like an ordinary person, feeling the deep emotions from the other.

Once everything returned to calm, Lin Feng went to the center of the formation, crouched down, and picked up the quietly lying "East Emperor Bell Fragment" from the ground.

At that moment, thirty miles away, the Desolate Realm army, having scouts reporting truthfully to the Great General, soon realized the plan’s failure and began withdrawing towards the Desolate Realm.