On the Divine-Demonic Battlefield, there were numerous life-forbidden zones—each more treacherous than the last. Approaching any of these areas was tantamount to courting death. Even paragons of great cultivation avoided them. That was the nature of a forbidden zone: countless beings buried within, powerful figures perished, secrets sealed for eternity.
And the God-Demon Well lay deep within such a zone.
No one approached. Not even the Evernight Fiends—their instincts warned them to stay away. The area was cloaked in a hazy gray fog, seemingly formless, yet shrouding everything. It didn't obstruct visibility, but a heavy sense of decay hung in the air.
The ground was littered with bones, all of them a strange ashen-gray, as if time itself had eroded them into dust.
Clatter—
Yi Tianxing raised his hand, and an invisible force lifted a bone from the edge of the zone.
The moment it landed in his hand, cracks spread rapidly across its surface. Within a few breaths, it crumbled into a handful of gray ash, scattering in the wind, vanishing between his fingers.
"Completely decayed. All power within the bone—extinguished. It's as if it's been buried for tens of thousands of years."
Yi Tianxing narrowed his eyes, watching the last traces of ash drift away.
"This is a forbidden zone. We must probe it carefully first.I suggest capturing some Evernight creatures and sending them in,"said Liu Bowen.
Every forbidden zone was unique—each contained a different deadly power. Until tested, no one could predict its nature.
"Good. Dispatch a squad and capture some Evernight fiends,"Yi Tianxing agreed.
A team moved swiftly. The battlefield was full of targets—capturing fiends was easy. Soon, about a thousand Evernight creatures—of various types and races—were shackled and brought forth. Though some resembled humans or other Eternal World races, their minds had long been twisted by Evernight's corruption.
They knew only slaughter and destruction.
"Send a hundred in first."
At his command, a hundred insectoid fiends were thrown into the forbidden zone.
All eyes locked on them—every second mattered.
But then...
"Hssss—!"
Gasps echoed across the wall.
The insectoids stumbled in erratic loops, some spinning in place, others panicking in circles. Then came their screams—howls of fear—before their bodies began to age at horrifying speed.
Within moments, they were too frail to move. Their flesh withered, their bones turned gray, and even the vitality in their marrow faded—until nothing remained but husks of dust.
"How is this happening?"Hua Mulan's expression was one of shock.
Insectoids typically had long lifespans. Yet here, in just seconds, they aged into death and crumbled into nothing. The silence of their passing was deeply unsettling.
"The flow of time here is... unnatural,"said Zhuge Liang, inhaling deeply."Time itself is warped. Even creatures with long lifespans can't survive—it's no wonder this is a life-forbidden zone."
"Again," Yi Tianxing nodded. "Send in another batch."
Another hundred Evernight creatures were thrown in.
But this time, things changed.
Some followed the same fate—quickly decaying and dying. But others were… stranger.
A few froze in place, motionless and suspended.
Some walked in circles endlessly, unable to escape.
Others… began to regress.
Their bodies grew younger—adult forms shrinking to adolescents, then children, then infants… then nothing.
Time was reversing.
Some were erased entirely, returning to a state before their birth—ceasing to exist in the timeline altogether.
Even more horrifying were those caught in half-states—half of their body aging to decay, the other half regressing to youth. It was a gruesome, impossible sight.
Some were walking… then suddenly split apart, as if torn by invisible blades of spatial force.
Others lost their heads in the blink of an eye.
Scene after scene unfolded—a gallery of death so bizarre and terrifying, it made all who watched tremble.
The forbidden zone was no exaggeration—it was truly forbidden.
"This is no ordinary danger," Yi Tianxing murmured, eyes gleaming with insight."This zone isn't just corrupted by time or space…The real terror is that time and space here are both in chaos."
"One moment, time flows forward; the next, it runs backward.Space shatters and folds randomly.Even a powerful cultivator would be lost and destroyed in such a place."
"This is a supreme-level forbidden zone.When time and space go awry, death is inevitable."
Both time and space were supreme laws of the universe. When even one was thrown into disorder, regions became uninhabitable. But when both overlapped and conflicted, the consequences were far worse than the sum of their parts.
This was a place that had claimed countless lives—a wellspring of ruin.
"The God-Demon Well lies within," Liu Bowen said gravely."But if we can't even enter the zone…how can we use the well to reach the Evernight World?"
"Perhaps this chaotic zone is precisely why Evernight has failed to discover the well at all."
It was a troubling thought. Everyone frowned.
The truth was clear: if they couldn't even enter this zone, any talk of traveling to Evernight was meaningless.
"Difficult. Extremely difficult!"
"Difficult, yes. But not impossible."
Yi Tianxing's eyes flashed.
Clearly, Longevity Dao Lord and Zhuang Zhou had known of this forbidden zone, yet neither had warned him. That alone suggested they'd hoped he would turn back—abandon this dangerous venture.
They were not wrong. The Evernight World's dangers were unknown and vast. If something went wrong, the loss would be too great to bear.
That silence was their way of deterring him.
But…
"It's unfortunate," Yi Tianxing said calmly,"that I've never been one to turn back."
"Where I wish to go, no one can stop me.The best defense is attack.I, Yi Tianxing, will be the first to break the path."
"Let's go. Into the forbidden zone.Temporal and spatial chaos will not block my way."
With that, a golden pocket watch rose into the air, hovering above White Crow City. A silver-white spatial gate manifested next to it. The golden timepiece hung from the gate like a celestial ornament.
These were Innate Spirit Treasures—the Time Pocket Watch and the Spatial Gate. Both wielded dominion over the laws of time and space. Normally, they could only shield a handful of people.
But Yi Tianxing wasn't "normal."
He could channel the Heavenly Origin Power of the Hongmeng Heavenly Emperor Tower, empowering the two treasures far beyond their limits.
A wave of temporal and spatial force surged out—enveloping the entire White Crow City