Taiyi Dao Fruit-Chapter 1146 - 368: One Day in Heaven, One Year in the Mortal World

In theory, there is still some time until the sealing completely collapses, but the Great Venerable is not just sitting idly like a wooden stump.

When the seal became unstable, he immediately seized the opportunity to start attacking, secretly storing power, and at this subtle moment, he broke through the seal with one swift move.

In that instant, the sky darkened, and all light vanished, yet an eye like a Great Sun remained high in the sky.

Cosmic Light stagnated at this moment, space froze as if solidified amber, the weight of heaven and earth descended upon the body of a single monkey.

"Darkness and Brightness."

Sun Wukong appeared radiating vast golden light, resisting with Divine Skills, but the surrounding heaven and earth were already halted by the Cosmic Light Divine Ability. In this frozen heaven and earth, every move faced infinite resistance.

"Boom!"

Extreme pressure crushed down, deforming even the Vajra Unbreakable body.

Then, it was crushed into... a strand of monkey fur!

"I have long guarded against you."

A voice echoed outside the frozen world, a golden Heavenly Pillar shattered the solidified world, followed immediately by a golden violent ape wielding a staff charging in.

The stagnant space was forcibly activated with violence, the Jingu Bang swung horizontally, unleashing earth, water, wind, and fire, and then standing the staff across the sky dome, piercing straight into the heavens.

"Dong!"

In the thunderous explosion that shook the heavens and earth, the stagnant Cosmic Light resumed its flow, light reappeared, illuminating an incomparably massive figure.

A human body with a dragon tail, each of its crimson scales had the diameter of an average person's height, its form matched the volume of that earlier eye.

Even Sun Wukong, using Fatian Xiangdi, appeared somewhat small before this immense Candle Dragon Dao Body, and the Jingu Bang struck into the dragon's palm, held firmly.

Power was contested through the Jingu Bang and the palm, the earth violently trembled, then suddenly cracked.

"Boom!"

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"It is I, finally caught you."

Above the vast sea of clouds, beneath the clear universe, Jiang Li had just said this to the Heavenly Monarch when his mind stirred, sensing the seal being broken, with the giant ape and Candle Dragon fiercely battling.

Even when isolated from the Mortal World, Jiang Li could still detect the situation through the Taixu Qi he left behind, further perceiving certain anomalies.

It was time!

Time is off.

How long has he and the Heavenly Monarch been moved to this place? Hardly even a tea's time.

In such a short period, the sealing of the Map of Mountains and Rivers was broken?

Theoretically, even with Jiang Li's power transmission lost, the Map of Mountains and Rivers should be able to maintain for a not-so-short period before beginning to collapse and then be breached by the Great Venerable.

Time has a discrepancy.

"Have you discovered it?"

The Heavenly Monarch didn't notice any anomaly from Jiang Li's expression, but he still perceived... or rather determined that Jiang Li had discovered the anomaly.

"One day in heaven, one year in the Mortal World. The flow of time in the heavenly realm differs from that in the Mortal World, one day here equals a year in the Mortal World."

"While you confront me here, the Promotion Ceremony is already more than halfway complete, not far from completion."

"The heavenly realm indeed…." Jiang Li felt a sense of familiarity surrounding him.

He once infused power and Divine Thought into heaven using the Heavenly Mirror, attempting to make an imprint, thus gaining some understanding of heaven. However, due to the existence of the Heavenly Mirror and Jiang Li needing to focus to form an imprint, he did not clearly perceive the flow of time differences in heaven.

This time, the Heavenly Monarch deliberately brought Jiang Li to the heavenly realm for mutual confrontation, making it so Jiang Li didn't instantly perceive the surroundings. Until now, he truly realized he had come to heaven, and the flow of time here differs from the Mortal World.

Jiang Li's one breath, one second in time, equaled Tianxuan's three hundred sixty-five seconds, which is six minutes and five seconds more in time. In the brief moment Jiang Li confronted the Heavenly Monarch, Tianxuan and others had engaged in combat with the opposing side for quite some time, with several twists and turns.

This is indeed the true intention behind the Heavenly Monarch's choice of battlefield in heaven.

Not only wanting to isolate the effect of the Divine Skill "I am the State," but also minimizing Jiang Li's interference with the Promotion ceremony, maximizing his own advantage.

A time flow difference of three hundred sixty-five times is enough to impact the outcome of this battle.

Originally, the Heavenly Monarch considered his strength superior to Jiang Li, and now he manufactured an enormous time challenge for Jiang Li.

How much longer till the completion of the Heavenly Monarch's Promotion Ceremony?

One day? Or two?

Under the time flow difference of three hundred sixty-five, one day of time equates to nearly four minutes. If Jiang Li wishes to stop the Heavenly Monarch's ascent by defeating him, he must kill him within this period.

Otherwise, hope could only be placed on the Mortal World's side to destroy the Heavenly Monarch's Promotion Ceremony.

Yet, this is not easy.

The Heavenly Monarch has long plotted, even paving the way with Zhang Zhixuan and Manjusri, ready for it. Especially Manjusri, he verified the feasibility of embedding Dao Fruit in advance within the External Dharma Form, using Dao Fruit to enhance his own power.

Through the combination of Incense Fire Thought Power and this Secret Technique, obtain a leap in strength early.

Manjusri relied on this method to cultivate the Tathagata Undestructible True Body, back then if not for Jiang Li scheming against Manjusri, fighting openly and directly, Jiang Li indeed couldn't have taken down Manjusri.

And now—

Yellow Cloud manifested behind the Heavenly Monarch, a cold boat-shaped vertical eye gathers.

With the Promotion Ceremony largely complete, the Yellow Heaven Dharma Form neared full completion, raising the Heavenly Monarch's strength once more.

This enabled "Shen Hou" to borrow more power and made Jiang Li face an even stronger opponent.

Within four minutes, the Heavenly Monarch's Yellow Heaven Dharma Form approached full completion, his power constantly improving, thus increasing the threat to Jiang Li. Should the Heavenly Monarch defeat Jiang Li, seizing Jiang Li's Divine Skills, then the power of the Great Zhou Country would fall entirely into the Heavenly Monarch's grasp, completing the ascension directly.

With time flowing in the Mortal World, the Heavenly Monarch could elevate his power not only to deal with Jiang Li but also to suppress situations, subdue those ill-intended adversaries or "allies."

In contrast, Jiang Li had to confront the steadily strengthening Heavenly Monarch within this four-minute time.

Time seems not to favor Jiang Li.

Not to mention other things, merely the time Jiang Li consumed in analyzing the Heavenly Monarch's words and reaching a conclusion had already eaten away some of the brief time.

The Heavenly Monarch knowingly revealed information, actually not because of a villain's tendency but to reduce Jiang Li's time as much as possible, to the maximum extent.

With thoughts flashing, after quickly understanding the Heavenly Monarch's plan, Jiang Li couldn't help but marvel at the Heavenly Monarch's boldness and caution.

Clearly assuming himself stronger than Jiang Li, yet still making such cautious arrangements, ensuring to suppress Jiang Li's advantage to the extreme.

Even Jiang Li didn't expect the Heavenly Monarch could achieve this.