Chapter 160: The Time dle Dragon!
Thunderous voices echoed oer ahrough Matthew's sea of sciousness.
But now, he could no longer respond or resist, only watch helplessly as everything slipped away.
Just as the terrifying will was about to pletely e Matthew and repce him entirely,
A crisp cry rang out, softly reverberating throughout the soul world.
"Yah? Time, rewind!"
The horrifying ughter abruptly stopped, and Tai Ji's spreading will and tendrils rapidly retracted, returning to their inal form.
Matthew could clearly feel the overwhelming terror weakening at an astonishing rate.
"It's Yaya!"
"Time Reversal!"
On the brink of despair, Matthew's eyes snapped open wide, a glimmer of hope rising in his heart!
The excruciating pain gradually subsided, and his thoughts began to move again:
"Oai Ji invades my sciousness, our minds and thoughts will merge into one."
"With her vast memory and strength, I won't be able to resist; she'll devour me pletely and take over."
"So, the key to breaking free is preventing her from getting close!"
Matthew carefully surveyed his surroundings, but throughout his entire sea of sciousness,
He couldn’t find anything capable of resisting the eerie blue light—the power of fate!
her thought, will, nor soul could beatthew's on or shield; the power of fate drew closer, unchecked.
Because this power of fate was emanating from Matthew's soul itself.
It now had its own will, its own sciousness, and it wao rebel.
Perhaps from the moment Matthew began using the power of Fate's Choice, this backsh was iable.
The power to alter fate had likely been quietly absorbed by Tai Ji from the start!
What now?
How could he defeat this monster lurking deep within his soul?
At that moment, Matthew suddenly felt that the reversal of willpower was beginning to slow down.
This meant Yaya’s power was nearly depleted!
But Tai Ji's twisted tendrils still had a third of the way to go before they left his sciousness!
"Time is running out!"
"Ugh... Dad... I... 't hold on!"
Matthew slowly closed his eyes. He could clearly hear Yaya's frustrated sobbing and Tai Ji’s silent mockery and glee.
"Accept your fate! Mortals ever defeat gods!"
"I am your destiny!"
Destiny?
Matthew muttered to himself. Seeing his rea, Tai Ji let out a deafening ugh.
Oime resumed its normal flow, she would make Matthew ehe same suffering she had once experienced!
Time...
Time!!
In that instant, crity struck, and Matthew's gaze fell uporibute pahat had always seemed like a trap.
"So, this is it!"
Matthew chuckled softly, finally realizing the truth—external power is only ever external; real strength es from within!
Under Yaya's bewildered gaze and Tai Ji’s smug ughter, he closed his eyes.
The brilliant blue light washed over Matthew’s soul, making it more solid, more plex.
An indescribable ess flowed through Matthew’s sciousness, erasing the lingering pain and sharpening his thoughts and memories.
"Ding, you have spent 4,000 experience points to raise your Arist level to LV5!"
The familiar, pleasant sound rang out clearly.
Tai Ji, waiting in anticipation, blinked in fusion before letting out a triumphant ugh:
"Hahaha, just a mere Arist..."
"Ding, you have spent 10,000 experience points to raise your Arist level to LV6!"
"Ding, you have reached mid-tier and activated your bloodline power!"
With his experience points nearly depleted, Tai Ji’s previously distorted and crumbling face twisted into a sneer of disdain:
"No matter how hard you struggle, it’s useless."
"A mere bloodline ’t stand against a god’s power!"
"And that pesky little lizard of yours—once I’m done here, I’ll make sure to deal with it..."
Matthew didn’t argue; he quietly felt the power of his hidden bloodline deep within.
It quickly began affeg his soul, intricate patterending like branches and vines.
The plexity and brilliance of these patterns far surpassed even his mid-tier Arist adva.
A special, indescribable pan to envelop Matthew’s sciousness.
Tai Ji, her expression still twisted with malice, suddenly felt a sense of unease as she looked at Matthew’s now calm and posed face.
She sehe st vestiges of Yaya's time-reversing power fading away and eagerly tried to exteendrils to seize trol of Matthew's sciousness once again.
As long as she aplished that, no matter what Matthew had left, he would be powerless to stop her!
After that, evehought of resistance would never cross his mind!
However, despite all of Tai Ji’s efforts, her insidious tendrils remained motionless, and instead begarag just as they had earlier.
"This is impossible!"
"What kind of power is this?"
"How it trol me?"
Matthew’s soul opes eyes, and within his pitch-bck irises, tiny points of light flickered.
He raised his hand and ched it toward Tai Ji’s fractured phantom from a distance.
The tendrils of her sciousness, now retreating on their own, released the power of fate they had absorbed as it slowly dissipated.
Tai Ji's eyes were filled with disbelief as she straio activate the power of fate, but she couldn’t even slow it down!
Meanwhile, Matthew spoke in a calm, gentle voice to the disbelieving Tai Ji:
"Maybe to you, I’m just a mortal."
"Maybe you ruly uood the secret hidden within me..."
Tai Ji watched in horror as all her tendrils were pletely withdrawn, stantly w why!
Sensing her fusion, Matthew patiently tinued:
"You see, you never uood why a mere Level 1 Arist like me could form a life bond with Yaya."
"Why when I formed life bonds with her magical creatures, it didn’t repair my soul?"
Hearing Matthew's questions, Tai Ji's faow starting to crumble again, gred at him with hatred in her eyes.
Seeing that Tai Ji still wasn’t ied in uanding, Matthew simply shrugged and tinued, speaking to himself:
"The reason is actually quite simple."
"Yaya and I are beings of the same level!"
"I gave her wisdom, and she gave me the seed of strength!"
"We both wield the power of time!!"
On Matthew’s attribute pahe long-dormant talent
Finally began to reveal itself amidst flickering light and shadow.
"dle Dragon Bloodline LV2: Master of Time, Reverser of Time!"
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