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"Enough talk, let's fight already," Austin Griffin urged impatiently. "I can't wait to smash that little girl to pieces."
After the Haotian Hammer was released, the Eternal Lord smiled slightly and said, "It's been a long time, my other half... Although, I'm not the original one, and neither are you. It seems our relationship is just as the legends say—we're like twins."
Crack!
The symbols on the hammerhead of the Haotian Hammer lit up, and the phantom of the Nine Heavens enveloped it. It sneered coldly, "Eternal Lord, today will be your death anniversary next year!"
"Seeing you again, I do feel a strange sense of nostalgia..." the Eternal Lord murmured.
"I'll kick your ass today!" Austin Griffin growled fiercely.
"You look just as adorable as before!"
"Just wait, I'll smash you to pieces!"
"..."
Tang San, caught in the middle, listened as the two exchanged completely different sentiments. One wanted to kill the other, while the other seemed lost in memories. He couldn't quite figure out how they were even having a conversation.
"Enough!" Austin Griffin interrupted sharply. "You can reminisce all you want, but it's like carving a mark in the river of time—pointless and futile."
"Ah, you've learned some new sayings, I see," the Eternal Lord still smiled. "I, too, picked up some expressions from Xu Huang. Let me ask you this: You say I'm dwelling on the past, but as you oppose me, does that mean you're looking toward the future?"
"You, who represent destruction, looking to the future... how ironic. Speaking of the future, is it just an unattainable dream, like quenching thirst with an illusion?"
Their exchange quickly shifted from insults and memories to philosophical musings on the nature of the past and future.
As expected from the twin forces of creation and destruction.
Hum...
Suddenly, the horizontal wheel representing space in the Eternal Lord's Time Wheel expanded instantly, enveloping the entire platform.
Within the space suffused with energy, it was as if grains of sand filled the air, making it extremely difficult for Tang San to move, as though he had been immobilized.
Tang San quickly thought of two ways to break free from this immobilization.
First, to possess the strength to shift the entire space.
Second, to have greater control over the power of space than the Eternal Lord.
"Hey, attacking suddenly isn't very honorable, is it? As the great Eternal Lord and Creator God, even if you're only a fragment of your divine soul, shouldn't you be more magnanimous?" Tang San controlled the vibrations of the cells in his body, creating invisible ripples that continuously influenced the surrounding spatial forces, allowing him to move freely.
Using this vibration technique, Tang San treated the sand-filled space as if it were water. By imitating the flow of soul power used by the Iron Tooth Fish to swim through the sand sea, and covering his body with a layer of spatial power, he transformed into a fish able to navigate this space at will.
Although he lacked the strength to shift space or surpass the Eternal Lord in control over spatial forces, who said those were the only solutions?
Just like the Iron Tooth Fish, which didn't have the power to control the entire desert or the ability to master the sand sea, yet it could swim freely through the sand.
Tang San was merely mimicking the simplest of methods.
"The final test had already begun the moment you stepped in here," the Eternal Lord explained, watching Tang San move through the confined space like a fish in water. Her star-bright eyes gleamed even more brilliantly. "But you're truly impressive. You've managed to move within my space confinement and even 'fly.' You should know that my space confinement doesn't just immobilize your body—it locks down the entire space, essentially burying you alive."
"But you remain unaffected... using vibrations and a bit of spatial power, you've turned this into your swimming pool?"
"Such a fascinating idea."
As a fragment of a Creator God's divine soul, the Eternal Lord had vast knowledge. However, the technique Tang San was using wasn't some unfathomable ability—it was simply the most basic skill:
Swimming.
The only difference was that while regular fish swim in water, Tang San was swimming through space.
It sounded easy, but to pull it off required an incredibly precise mastery of the physical body, energy, and spirit—something most people couldn't manage as effortlessly as Tang San.
"Observe the natural world, and you'll find that it is not you who creates everything, but rather, everything that has created you," Tang San said, casually kicking his legs as he swam through the space with ease. It was as though he wasn't taking the trial seriously at all, instead relishing the sensation of moving freely in space.
"To speak those words shows that your understanding is already on par with mine," the Eternal Lord nodded slightly, forming a lotus gesture with her delicate fingers. The vertical wheel of space began to spin, causing ripples throughout the entire space. It churned like water, forming a vortex.
The moment the vortex appeared, Tang San noticed a "vacuum zone" at its edge—an area where the spatial power had been drawn into the whirlpool.
Seizing the opportunity, Tang San leaped out from the space's turbulent waves, summoning his Blue Silver Emperor to construct a curved surfboard. He coated its underside with a layer of spatial power and extended two Blue Silver Emperor leaves, latching them onto the outer rim of the horizontal wheel of space.
With a strong pull, the leaves contracted, and Tang San, standing atop his Blue Silver surfboard, surged away from the vortex. He steadily approached the spatial wheel.
Normally, within the spatial domain of the horizontal wheel, the space was both infinitely large and infinitely small, layered and overlapping in a way that made reaching the edge nearly impossible.
But thanks to the vortex creating a vacuum zone, Tang San had found his chance. He grasped it and escaped in one bold move.
Gliding smoothly on his Blue Silver surfboard through the vortex, Tang San finally leaped and landed firmly atop the spatial wheel. Smiling at the Eternal Lord, he said, "It seems that even the Eternal Lord can't fully control space."
"There's no helping it," the Eternal Lord replied calmly. "Mastering a law doesn't mean you can control everything. If the entire universe could be controlled just by mastering its laws, my original self wouldn't have collapsed from the strain of creation."
The Eternal Lord wasn't angry at Tang San's teasing—after all, it was the truth.
In fact, she could have stopped him earlier, but she was curious to see how he would find his way out. She couldn't help but be impressed by his ingenuity.
Tang San's creative approach intrigued her deeply.
(End of Chapter)