Chapter 526: Time Paradox

Miaomiao didn't like this. His hunch warned him that gathering all seven pieces of time-and-space murals might spell a disaster.

He repeatedly shook his head, "I don't think we should do it right now. How about I store this mural with me, and I'll put them together after the tournament is over?"

Miaomiao planned to gather them inside his Isolation Training Space first, so nobody could steal them from him. He hadn't fully trusted Lilith yet.

Lilith sighed, "You don't have to worry about a thing. What can go wrong when I and my girls are here with you? How about this? If you're that worried, give me the murals and I'll keep them safe in the Netherworld? No sane immortal, deity, or even ghosts will barge into my realm and steal my things."

"Senior, I have a bad feeling about this. Let's not-"

Lilith rolled her eyes and grabbed Miaomiao's face. She lifted him up and squeezed his head with one hand, "Look here, you pretentious little shit. Aside from the Devil, no one in Heaven Realms is my match. If you think I'll lose the treasures to some random gods?"

"OW-OW-OW-OW!! I'm sorry! Let go, please!"

Lilith threw Miaomiao on the floor. She scoffed, "Bring out the murals. That's an order."

"..."

Miaomiao gritted his teeth. The right eyebrow continued to twitch as if it was dancing to Elvis' songs.

Although Miaomiao was against this idea, he couldn't defy Lilith's order. He was afraid that she might harm his wives or even kill him.

He prayed that nothing would happen to him or his family after this.

"Okay. Don't do anything to me or my family, okay? I'm just a pitiful horny dog who wants to chill with my sexy wives."

"I know. I watched the highlight clips. Now, give them to me."

"Here?"

"Yes, here."

"Can't we do it in the Netherworld Realm? We might end up destroying the planet."

"Just shut up and give them here. Do you want to get the power or not?!"

"..."

Miaomiao reluctantly fetched the murals from his system inventory one by one. Fortunately, because of its size, Miaomiao had to clear some space before he could put one down.

When all the first five pieces were put together, and Lilith started connecting the jigsaw pieces. Then, Miaomiao reached for the last one, which he had recently received as a quest reward for killing Ling Tianlong.

He suddenly stopped moving. He saw something strange.

A thick karma thread suddenly came down from the sky, descending from the ceiling. It ignored the physical buildings and coiled around the six pieces that Lilith had been arranging.

Strangely, Lilith didn't pay attention to this thick karma thread. It was as if she couldn't see it.

'What the?'

BADUMP

The twitching eyebrow stopped. Instead of controllably shaking like usual, a small vein of blood snapped, and his was skin burst open. He started bleeding from his right eyebrow.

As soon as Miaomiao shed blood, the thick karma thread grew several branches like a tree. Each branch reached out for Miaomiao's eyebrow and his blood.

The mysterious karma moved too fast. One of the branches entered Miaomiao's right eyebrow!

"What are you doing, you little shit? Give me the last piece of the mural!"

Miaomiao opened his mouth and was about to tell her to look at the giant karma thread.

But he could not speak.

BADUMP

The colorful world suddenly turned into a black and white world as the sunlight rays were frozen. The clock stopped ticking, and the world became silent.

The time was stopped.

Miaomiao widened his eyes and attempted to move, but he couldn't move an inch. Though, he could still sense everything in his surroundings.

Tok Tok

Even though sound waves were paused, the sounds of footsteps were audible from the balcony of the hotel room.

An archangel in a hooded cloak and the black gas barged into the room, approaching Lilith, who was frozen by the power of time and space.

The angel had tentacle black wings, which were different than Uriel. He also emitted a killing intent aura and locked onto Lilith. Yet, he didn't seem to resent Miaomiao.

The visitor turned to look at the incomplete murals. Then, he turned to Lilith and Miaomiao.

"Mast-Mao Miaomiao," The angel stuttered, and his voice trembled as if he was in pain.

Miaomiao wanted to ask the angel who he was, but he couldn't speak.

The archangel slowly took off his hooded cloak and dispersed the gas around him, revealing his true appearance.

"!!!"

Miaomiao tried to scream in fright, shock, and panic, but he couldn't utter a word.

He knew this person.

Xie Tian

However, the aura of this Xie Tian was even stronger than Uriel or Lilith. This protagonist seemed to be over 40 years old, and he was in his final form, wielding various shining artifacts.

Miaomiao still remembered the description of Xie Tian's clone at 1,000% difficulty. One of his elemental powers was the godly Chrono Element.

Still, Miaomiao was confused. How could the middle-aged Xie Tian appear here when he was sure that Xie Tian was dead? Did the clone come out from the dantian space?

"I know that you have a thousand questions to ask me, but I don't have enough time. Let's say, I don't belong in this timeline, and I'm not connected to the person that you killed whatsoever. We're neither the same person nor are we related in any way."

"..."

"For now, don't entrust these murals to anyone. You have my counterpart's luck and destiny, so you need to fulfill your role. If you don't, this timeline and the entire universe will be consumed by the Devil and Kishin Douji's new timeline, and your new counterparts will be forever a side character."

Miaomiao was confused. His limited intelligence couldn't follow what Deity Xie Tian meant.

"I know that you have one of those systems. It's different from Pangu's incarnations, but I think I can do this since we're connected by karma... *mumble* It belongs to you anyway."

Ding

[You have received the Protagonist Grand Quest: (DATA EXPUNGED)]

Miaomiao couldn't even lift his fingers or look at the quest content. However, he could hear Dion's voice in his mind.

"Remember my words, Mao Miaomiao. Take the murals and flee from here. Abandon your wives and survive first, then you can return and save them later! You need to survive, or the entire universe and your-I mean, our sacrifices will be in vain! Don't allow Lilith, Qin Shi Huang, Sun Wu, or the Golden Crow Clan to snatch those murals! Also, don't cultivate Dragon Elements or inherit the Asmodeus Bloodline! It's a trap!"

Miaomiao had so many questions to ask since this matter was too sudden and shocking. Alas, he couldn't speak.

The middle-aged Xie Tian bit his lower lips while his eyes were on the verge of shedding tears. He slowly walked to Miaomiao.

And he hugged him!

Xie Tian's tears rolled down on his cheeks. He trembled and cried.

"I'm so sorry..."

'That should have been my words.'

Miaomiao was further confused why this Xie Tian was apologizing to him and crying. Something was terribly wrong.

"I did my best, but I failed you."

"..."

"Please... take care of the other me when you meet him, okay?"

"???"

Now, Miaomiao's brain was on the verge of being short-circuited.

While Miaomiao was extorting and complaining in his mind, he had a vague sense that Xie Tian's body was fading.

Xie Tian stepped away from Miaomiao two steps and wiped his tears. He slowly knelt and kowtowed to Miaomiao three times. Then, he stood up.

"I've broken the Heavenly Laws of Time-and-Space, and I'm about to pay the price. Well, it's worth it," Xie Tian had a sad smile on his face, "I've managed to find you before it's too late. Master, when you meet the other me, be gentle, okay? I almost died several times because of your sadistic crash courses."

Now, Miaomiao's brain.exe stopped working.

Since when he had become Xie Tian's master?

As Xie Tian was fading, he turned around and punched Lilith to the chest. His fist punctured through her.

Xie Tian pulled his fist back, but his entire arm dissipated into dust. Yet, he laughed.

"Master, your greatest regret has been solved. You will never suffer from that torment ever again."

What was he talking about? Miaomiao couldn't keep up with this development.

Xie Tian walked back to Miaomiao and lightly tapped the latter's forehead with the remaining hand. Then, the giant karma that had been coiling around the mural pieces entered Miaomiao's right eyebrow.

"I'm so sorry master. I almost forgot to return the power to you."

Xie Tian's legs and lower torso were disintegrating at a rapid rate as if Thanos had done something to him.

"Remember, master. Don't give the murals to anyone. They belong to you and only you, not Olympus, not Kishin Douji, not the Pangu's incarnations, not Brocell, not Lilith, not my father, just you!"

The middle-aged Xie Tian was disintegrated into sparkling ashes. Yet, Miaomiao sensed that his former rival had finally found peace.

However, a wisp of light among the ashes rushed into Miaomiao's chest.

Ding

[The Soul Fragment of Xie Tian, the God of Time, has entered your Isolation Training Space.]

[Warning, one of the opponents in the Protagonist Rematch Mode, Xie Tian, has been disabled due to the unforeseen errors.]

[Until the Soul Fragment of Xie Tian has been driven out of the Isolation Training Space, you can't summon Xie Tian's clones.]

[Warning, the Soul Fragment of Xie Tian has infiltrated one of your Dao Pillars, the Pillar of Luck Plundering Dao.]

'Dafuq?!'

BADUMP

As soon as the series of warning showed up and the thick thread of karma completely entered Miaomiao's eyebrow, the flow of memory flooded his mind.