Time possesses the power to still the intangible—soul, consciousness, thought, and mind—while space can lock down the tangible—the divine body, bloodline, bone structure, and even divine power. When the profound mysteries of time and space operate in tandem, they can achieve a complete seal on both the invisible and the visible!

This was the great divine ability that Dicarro and Master Ming Hao deduced over the remainder of their lives after being defeated by the Bloodthirsty one. A pity that the former had only mastered the mystery of space and never found a contemporary master of the mystery of time to jointly verify the profound mystery of this technique.

Years later, at the bottom of the Shattered Sea, Mandis and Shi Yan worked in concert to unleash the "Great Sealing Art," generating considerable power that allowed them to safely shepherd the Divine Grace Continent into the Cloud Canopy Domain, isolating countless powerful entities outside.

At that time, Shi Yan’s realm was far from the formidable level he possessed today, and his comprehension of the mystery of space was not deep enough.

In the blink of an eye, Shi Yan had broken through to the second heaven of the Domain Ancestor. His accumulation of realm, power, and profound mysteries no longer lagged behind Mandis. The sheer power they could manifest by jointly employing the "Great Sealing Forbidden Art" once more was something neither of them dared to fully estimate.

Layer upon layer of spatial ripples, like surging ocean waves, spread out from his divine body to the surroundings.

Mysterious derivations of space sprung forth, resembling thousands upon hundreds of layers of illusory worlds reflected within a mirror.

Suddenly, the energy impact in this specific area violently congealed. One could still discern the trajectories of numerous brilliant azure and deep cyan lightning bolts twisting rigidly, fixed as if they were beams of light. Many wreckage pieces of warships, the corpses of martial artists, and drops of crimson blood, which had been suspended by the shockwaves of battle, drifting like seaweed in the ocean, now all stopped dead. They solidified instantly.

Centered on Shi Yan, the area enveloped by the spatial ripples was hundreds of miles wide. Everything visible to the naked eye within—clots of blood, muscle fibers, pulverized meteorite dust, fragments of divine weapons, and so on—all had their image frozen in time.

Among those still capable of movement, besides Shi Yan and Mandis, only Beifuli remained active.

Beifuli, with the body of a human head and a serpent’s torso, wore a chilling expression, horror blooming in her eyes. Her full, voluptuous body emitted a bizarre "creaking" sound, like rusted machinery struggling to operate.

A chilling dread filled her heart. She ceaselessly circulated her divine skills and mysteries. Her internal blood flow surged like a turbulent tide, desperately trying to compel her body to move.

Due to Shi Yan’s spatial seal, she felt as though countless invisible shackles were heavily clamped upon her, binding her divine body so tightly that every slight movement became a monumental effort.

Fortunately, because Mandis’s divine power was heavily depleted, the circulation of the mystery of time slowed slightly, failing to immediately keep pace with Shi Yan’s rhythm.

If the seal of time had arrived simultaneously, her soul, consciousness, and mysteries would have been utterly stilled, incapable of thought, variation, or intent. In that scenario, she would have lost even the ability to move her limbs, completely forfeiting her selfhood to become a mere puppet manipulated by Shi Yan and Mandis.

She gritted her teeth, struggling with all her might, inching backward toward the distant expanse.

The speed of her retreat was glacial. She, who could traverse millions of miles in a single breath, now moved as if she were the most ordinary low-tier martial artist, relying purely on the strength of her physical body to back away, appearing quite desperate.

Brilliant, dazzling lines of light flashed past the back of Mandis’s neck, resembling time flying away forever, akin to eternal years.

Mandis, at this moment, was in the prime of her bloom, possessing an unparalleled, peerless beauty that yielded nothing to Mei Ji, displaying a mature, captivating allure rarely seen in the world.

The former number one beauty of the Star Sea had reversed time to fix herself at the age of twelve or thirteen, concealing her true, breathtaking countenance and causing many to forget the legendary beauty she once possessed.

Now, due to the drain on her divine power, she could not maintain the seal on time any longer. Appearing at the age of twenty-five or twenty-six, that transcendent youthful splendor resurfaced once more.

Her silken hair flowed like a waterfall, swirling like the long river of time. As the mystery of time circulated, she kneaded wisps of her soul energy into the stream-like temporal energies, slowly permeating Shi Yan’s strange, sealed spatial domain, using time itself to render that seal ever more steadfast.

Turning it into an eternal restriction!

The flow of time, infused with her soul, mysteries, and intent, permeated the space first influenced by Shi Yan. That region of space suddenly began to undergo a marvelous transformation.

The void, once empty and silent, slowly solidified, condensing into something tangible, like a colossal piece of amber taking on a visible, strange form!

Simultaneously, a captivating blush bloomed suddenly across Mandis’s exquisitely beautiful face. She glanced at Shi Yan, and deep within her bright eyes, a hint of bewilderment and a deeply hidden shyness surfaced.

Her mystery of time seeped into the fixed space, as if her soul had merged with Shi Yan’s soul.

In that single instant, their souls seemed to converge and fuse, allowing them to sense each other's joys, sorrows, desires, and auras. She could profoundly experience Shi Yan’s emotions and his entire life's journey!

It was an indescribably wondrous sensation!

That expanse of void, fixed by Shi Yan using spatial power, contained the imprint of his very being. At his current cultivation level of Domain Ancestor Second Heaven, as his mysteries operated, his divine power, soul, and consciousness would gather with absolute fidelity. His soul was inherently present within the restrictive energy of that space, bearing his spiritual and mental imprint.

Previously, when his realm was lower, and he worked with Mandis to activate the "Great Sealing Forbidden Art," they had not achieved soul resonance or the fusion of consciousness and thought, so he had felt nothing unusual then. Similarly, Mandis hadn't felt anything strong the last time.

This time was different.

According to the speculations of the old masters Dicarro and Ming Hao, if two people activated this divine ability, and their realms, mysteries, and powers were extremely close, then during the operation of the "Great Sealing Forbidden Art," their souls could interweave, their consciousness could resonate and vibrate together, achieving a miraculous state of temporary oneness.

Today, Shi Yan was also at the Domain Ancestor Second Heaven, his realm, power, and mysteries perfectly aligned with Mandis’s. The anomaly that didn't trigger last time was finally unleashed on this occasion.

As the mystery of time permeated, the formless void turned tangible, resembling a liquid lake.

At the same time, the minds, thoughts, and souls of Mandis and Shi Yan seemed to fuse momentarily. The mingling of their male and female souls achieved a profound state of soul-communion. The resonance and vibration generated by this spiritual union caused a stimulation a hundred, even a thousand times more violent than the intense pleasure of physical intimacy between a man and a woman!

Shi Yan held fast to his core essence, using the mystery of space to lock down his own expression, maintaining an impassive face so as not to let out a moan of ecstasy and expose his weakness before Mandis.

But the ecstatic stimulation of the soul crashed over him like endless oceanic waves, bringing a thrilling, indescribable pleasure that surged through his spirit, powerful enough to be uncontrollable.

Mandis, who had survived for tens of thousands of years, the former foremost beauty of the Star Sea, had always adhered to a single creed throughout her long life: the relentless pursuit of strength and the prosperity of the Glamour Race. She had never once developed feelings for any man, and in her entire existence, she had not even experienced the slightest physical contact with the opposite sex—she had never sampled even a hint of carnal pleasure.

Yet today, by some strange twist of fate, during the bizarre fusion of the "Great Sealing Forbidden Art," her soul connected impossibly with Shi Yan’s. The resonance and vibration produced by their soul fusion—a stimulation a thousand times more intense than actual coupling—nearly caused her to collapse instantly, submerged entirely by an endless sea of desire.

She stopped looking at Shi Yan, closing her eyes tightly, a blush spreading across her cheeks. Waves of temporal light pulsed involuntarily from her body, injecting themselves into that sealed space.

Centered on her and Shi Yan, the amber-like sealed domain spread outward at an astonishing velocity!

Beifuli, a Domain Ancestor Second Heaven expert, could not escape. She was instantly locked by the spatial freeze infused with the mystery of time. At a glance, she looked like a small snake trapped in amber, her face fixed in an expression of terror, her body caught mid-retreat, now sealed fast.

"Leave the space enveloped by Mandis and me! At the fastest speed!"

At this critical moment, the Primordial Essence Blood within Shi Yan ignited. With supremely tenacious willpower, he transmitted his thought to the minds of Hantian, Xiluo, Dracula, and the others, commanding them to take immediate precautions.

He felt that the fusion of his and Mandis’s souls had pushed the "Great Sealing Forbidden Art" to a terrifying degree of uncontrollability. The amber-like space was spreading wildly, already imprisoning Beifuli of the Domain Ancestor Second Heaven. If it expanded unchecked, who knew how many others would be frozen.

He was seized by a dreadful feeling that once the seal took final form, even he might be unable to undo it. The true merging power of time and space and the horrifying effects it achieved left him deeply unsettled.

His final conscious warning struck Hantian and the others with extreme alarm. Regardless of being temporarily at a disadvantage in their current fights, they relayed Shi Yan’s warning.

Instantly, all members of the Profound Heaven Race and White Bone Race engaged in combat with the Devourer Race, Dark Demon Race, Ancient Demon Race, and Soul Race, as well as the Tian Gong Race members and the Sky Fiends affiliated with Purple Radiance, disengaged everything and pulled back with the most swift and urgent speed, fleeing far away from the space occupied by Mandis and Shi Yan.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Countless figures shot away. The battle descended into chaos. The battered and routed clansmen of the four races, not understanding what was happening, secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

But very quickly, they saw a massive, amber-like space spreading furiously, enveloping the entire region!

In a flash, thousands of members of the Soul Race, Ancient Demon Race, Devourer Race, and Dark Demon Race were stilled, eternally sealed by the power of time and spatial mysteries!

Void Gods, Beginning Gods, Immortals, and even Domain Ancestors, once enveloped by that amber space, became like insects frozen inside fossilized resin. Their consciousness, souls, altars, and thoughts were locked, their divine bodies immobilized and restrained, unable to ever emerge. They would remain fixed in that single moment for all eternity.

Centered on Mandis and Shi Yan, a vast expanse of void stretching for hundreds of millions of miles took the shape of a massive, clear lake. Inside, millions of members of the Devourer, Dark Demon, Ancient Demon, and Soul races were frozen solid. These individuals were the elites of the four races, powerful figures famous throughout the Star Sea, and several were even Domain Ancestors!

At this moment, space was locked, time was stilled, and all living beings fell silent before it.

...RQ