<h2 ss="wp-block-heading">Chapter 5673</h2>


    “What?!”


    David’s pupils constricted, his heart filled with shock!


    His time-slowing technique had been ineffective against his opponent.


    It seemed… he’d been used against him?


    In the blink of an eye, before he could even process the thought, the elerating fist was upon him!


    “Five Elements Sword Qi, Protect Me!”


    David roared, his five-colored sword qi erupting instantly, weaving into a dazzling sword to protect him.


    His Indestructible Golden Body activated instantly,pletely enveloping him.


    Simultaneously, he stomped his feet, pushing his speed to the limit, attempting to dodge the bizarre punch.


    “Boom—!”


    The sword formed by the Five Elements Sword Qi shattered in less than a breath upon contact with the fist!


    Although David tried his best to dodge, the force of the punch still grazed his shoulder.


    “Crack!”


    A clear sound of bone breaking rang out.


    David groaned as his left shoulder instantly caved in, excruciating pain shooting through him!


    He was sent flying again, spitting out a mouthful of blood mid-air.


    “David!”


    Liu Xue could no longer hold back, letting out a sharp cry. Her icy blue longsword transformed into a dazzling rainbow, carrying a blizzard as it shed towards the burly man, attempting to rescue David.


    “Get out of my way, you ant.”


    The burly man didn’t even look, casually pping back.


    A palm wind containing the power of time distortion howled out.


    As Liu Xue’s fierce sword strike approached the palm wind, it seemed to sink into quagmire, its speed drastically decreasing, and the sword light dimmed visibly, as if eroded by the passage of time, its power greatly diminished.


    “Bang!”


    The palm wind struck Liu Xue’s longsword, and she was struck as if by a heavy blow. The longsword flew from her hand, and she coughed up blood, flying backward. Yan Nantian hurriedly caught her, but her face was ashen, and her breath was weak.


    “His power… can erode time…”


    Liu Xue said with difficulty, her eyes filled with horror.


    Yan Nantian’s face was ashen, his fists clenched so tightly his nails dug into his flesh.


    He wanted to step forward, but he knew that even David and Liu Xue were so easily defeated; if he went up, he would only be throwing his life away. At


    this moment, he could only ce his hopes on David, and on the powerful figure who might be behind David.


    The Soul Devourer watched this scene, his smile growing increasingly pleased, as if he were enjoying this cat-and-mouse game.


    David crashed heavily to the ground, then quickly bounced up. He didn’t bother wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth; the excruciating pain in his right shoulder and Liu Xue’s serious injury fueled his rage, but even more so, a cold rationality.


    “Time… the source of time he controls is far more profound than mine!”


    David stared intently at the burly man. “My time slowing is ineffective against him, and might even be reversed, elerating his attack… Liu Xue’s attack was also eroded by the power of time… could it be…”


    A terrifying thought surfaced in David’s mind.


    Just then, the burly man closed in again, delivering another unadorned punch aimed straight at David’s face.


    This punch seemed intent on shattering his skull!


    David gritted his teeth, fully activating his Time Slowing Domain while simultaneously unleashing his Holy Light Fist. The golden fist imprint, imbued with a solemn aura of purifying demons, sted forth.


    He wanted to experience firsthand what the opponent’s timews were all about!


    “Buzz—!”


    Just as his Holy Light Fist was about to collide with the opponent’s fist, that familiar, higher-level fluctuation of timews reappeared.


    This time, David concentrated all his divine sense, intently sensing the change in that instant!


    He “saw” it!


    At the critical point of contact between their forces, on the burly man’s fist, time… underwent an extremely subtle… reversal!


    Not eleration, nor deceleration, but a genuine, localized, small-scale time reversal!


    Although the reversalsted extremely briefly, perhaps less than a hundredth of a breath, it was terrifying enough!


    It was this extremely subtle time reversal that forcibly “pulled back” David’s Holy Light Fist from its peak power, just before it shed head-on with his opponent, to a state where its power had just begun and had not yet reached its peak!


    Meanwhile, the opponent’s fist, taking advantage of this brief time difference, solidly struck the weakened Holy Light Fist!


    The result was without suspense!


    The golden fist imprint instantly dissipated, and David’s Holy Light Fist waspletely shattered!


    The fist force containing the power of time reversal mmed into his chest once more!.