Chapter 425: Chapter 426: Traversing Voranthos
Within the Voranthos.
At this moment, two translucent figures were shuttling through it.
They were Aster Grant and Sally!
Right now, Sally’s face was full of anxiety.
She knew that the first surge of Power was the strongest, so within the Voranthos they could also travel the farthest.
So she had to seize this chance and bring Aster to the most distant timeline possible.
But the sheer might of the Voranthos itself was far too terrifying; even if she went all out, she could hardly move an inch.
Every time she tried to go against the current and charge toward the past, an invisible wave of time would crash down, slamming her back to where she started.
What should she do?
What should she do?
If she couldn’t find the lost Divine Pattern of the Chronospirit Clan, how was she supposed to save Aster?
How was she supposed to save this world?
And how was she supposed to fulfill the mission entrusted to her by her clan?
Yet the reality was that with her current Power, she was far too insignificant...
However, just as she was incomparably anxious and at a complete loss of what to do...
The eyelashes of Aster’s Soul Body suddenly trembled lightly, and then he slowly opened his eyes.
Having just awakened, there was still a trace of confusion in Aster’s gaze.
But very soon, he snapped fully awake.
Just before, the Demon God had been right at his side.
If it had struck at him, how could he have had any chance of survival?
So he hadn’t dared to hesitate in the slightest and had immediately tried to mobilize all his Power.
But the moment he tried to mobilize it, he realized something was wrong.
Why was there no response?
He lowered his head sharply, and only then did he realize...
Why had he already become a Soul Body?
And what’s more, he seemed to no longer be on Dragon Island, but floating within a vast river of flowing light and surging Laws.
There was no water here, only endless trajectories of time made manifest as dazzling streams of light, running in silence yet with boundless momentum.
He froze, staring blankly around him:
Where... was this?
He scanned his surroundings, but saw no sign of Lazuli or Vera.
Where were his Beastbond companions?
His gaze finally fell on Sally at his side.
Sally?
Seeing the dense Time Law all around, and with Sally by his side.
Aster more or less formed a guess in his heart.
It seemed he had been rescued by Sally.
But if he had been saved...
What about Lazuli and Vera?
What about the Demon God?
What about the Dragon Emperor?
What had happened to them?
Sally was still struggling against the Voranthos and hadn’t noticed that Aster had awakened.
Hearing Aster suddenly call her name, she was startled out of her wits.
But she quickly came back to her senses.
"Master, you’re awake?"
At that moment, Sally’s tense gaze suddenly relaxed, as though she had found her pillar of support.
Aster nodded and asked, "Where are we?"
Hearing Aster’s question, Sally held nothing back and laid out everything that had happened after Aster’s death.
Including the inheritance she had received...
After Aster died, she had resurrected him as a Soul Body!
And the secrets of the Chronospirit Clan, as well as the information about the Voranthos...
She told him everything.
Hearing all this, Aster was stunned.
Only then did he understand that a mysterious Power had been hidden within Sally’s body, and that mysterious Power was the inheritance of the Chronospirit Clan.
However, what he hadn’t expected was...
The Chronospirit Clan was actually the Guardian of the Voranthos.
Finally, when he heard Sally say that they had to search the countless time nodes for the Chronospirit Clan’s Divine Pattern...
Aster felt incomparably pressured.
The entire Voranthos had existed for countless ages.
How was he supposed to know where the Chronospirit Clan’s Divine Pattern had ended up?
What made it worse was that they only had three chances!
If they failed to find the Chronospirit Clan’s Divine Pattern in those three attempts, the Voranthos would completely close.
At that point, the Chronospirit Clan’s Divine Pattern would vanish forever!
And Aster now understood very clearly that the Function of the Divine Pattern was incomparably important.
Every single Divine Pattern had its own unique Function.
So they absolutely could not afford to lose the Chronospirit Clan’s Divine Pattern.
Thinking of this gave Aster a splitting headache.
But this wasn’t something he could rush, so he changed the subject and instead asked about Lazuli and the others.
"Sally, since you managed to get me out, what about Lazuli and the others?"
Because within the Voranthos, Aster couldn’t sense the presence of his Beastbond Links at all.
So he could only ask Sally what had happened before.
However...
When she heard Aster’s question, Sally’s gaze dodged slightly.
Aster’s heart skipped a beat, a bad premonition rising within him.
Right then Sally bit her lip, not knowing how to begin.
After hesitating for quite a while, she finally spoke, full of guilt:
"I’m sorry, Lord Aster! At that time, all my Power was needed to open the entrance to the Voranthos."
"So I didn’t have the ability to save Lady Lazuli and Lady Vera."
"I’m sorry, Master!"
At this point, Sally lowered her head deeply.
In that situation, she had already done everything she could.
But before the Demon God, she didn’t have the ability to take everyone away.
So someone had to be sacrificed.
Hearing this, Aster froze.
Since Sally had only brought him alone, that meant Lazuli and Vera had stayed behind to face the Demon God on their own.
With the two of them at their current strength...
Aster’s fists clenched tight.
The chances were very high that the two of them...
But as his gaze fell on Sally, he suddenly relaxed his clenched fists.
It was too late to say anything now, and in the Demon God’s hands...
Lazuli and Vera weren’t necessarily dead.
What if some unexpected change had occurred?
With that thought, Aster calmed down in an instant.
Then he spoke slowly, comforting Sally:
"Sally, you’ve already done very well. There’s no need to blame yourself."
"What we need to do now is find the Divine Pattern in the shortest time possible."
Hearing this, Sally also pulled herself together.
"I understand, Lord Aster."
Then, both of their gazes turned to the Voranthos.
Although Sally, as a Time Spirit, had a natural affinity with the Voranthos.
Even so...
Trying to move upstream within the Voranthos was still incomparably difficult.
Aster was, of course, fully aware of this.
He then began to focus, carefully observing the surging Time Law all around them, and soon discovered the problem.
In truth, what was hindering them wasn’t a lack of Power, but the Voranthos’s innate repulsion toward "foreign existences."
This repulsion came from the rules themselves—the more they tried to go against the current, the stronger the resistance became.
If that was the case, what if he turned himself into a part of the Time Law?
Would going against the flow become much easier?
Once the thought arose, he put it into action!
Aster immediately mobilized his Totem Level Power, creating Time Law with all his strength.
Pale-white strands of Time Law emerged from his Soul Body, gradually condensing into a gentle Light Cocoon that wrapped around the two of them.
Sure enough.
The Voranthos did not repel the Time Law.
"Go!"
Aster gave a low shout and immediately led Sally upstream against the current.
This time, the resistance from the waves of time clearly weakened.
Following a vague intuition, he moved among the countless intersecting tributaries of time.
Relying on that intuition, he chose a certain time node and hurled himself into it without hesitation.
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