"I've reached the peak of a Sovereign-level in the Law of Time! I can control all time beneath the heavens, I am TIME!" Mentally, he violently roared as the surrounding area heavily distorted. Any outside observers would only see an area similar to an ocean's reflection with a mash of various figures.

His heavenly might, his heavenly shrine, s.h.i.+fted into a pure grey color! It contained the heavenly law of time and various concepts, not limited to just anyone! His heavenly might erupted once more, this time more subtly as it engulfed his body like a soft layer of light. With a clenched fist, he threw it forward to meet that inexplicable palm.

PA!!

Both palm and fist met, stopping each other. An eerie, ghastly silence erupted from a thousand miles in all directions. The plant life, animal life, air, water, and even bystanders were influenced by this silence. They were all like still pictures or a mark of a brush for a painting.

The world was frozen!

The grey-robed woman let out a startled sound. She didn't expect her fist to be intercepted so directly, carrying an essence of flowing time energy to counter her distorted time! This direct confrontation induced a state of stasis in the surrounding area, even if a Heavenly Monarch at the Minor Heaven were right there, they would've been frozen in time as well!

Only two existences held complete control over their facilities, capable of keeping their bodies at a constant flow of consistent time.

"Tch, you are at least worth being one of 'his' descendant," she scoffed slightly before pulling her palm back.

Yan Zaizen didn't comprehend why she said this, but his eyes grew slightly cold. If she wanted to see his abilities, then he was more than willing to show her!

Let's have a battle of time!!!

Clenching both fists, he shot them forth in a ferocious punch. His right contained the law of the past while his left contained the future. When they both were launched, they created a unique field that seemed to put all things into stasis! To defeat someone using time laws, Yan Zaizen already had an inkling on the direction.

The goal: To break their consistent flow of time!

The grey-robed woman sneered, her palm became palms as she replied with two strikes of her own, clas.h.i.+ng directly with Yan Zaizen's. The clash nullified each other, inducing a state of nothingness in much the same way as the sum of a negative and positive equivalent of a number created zero, this did the same.

If one of them breaks the other's consistent flow of time, they could be aged or regressed thousands of years in a blink. Both sides knew this, so they kept their aura raised and their strength exploding outwards constantly to retaliate against any minute change.

The clashes continued.

Pa! Pa! Pa!

A fierce engagement of close-combat strikes was made, from palms, fists, to feet and legs. Yan Zaizen was excited, and invigorated that he discovered an interesting fact!

This woman was not a Heavenly Cultivator! She cultivated her own energy, didn't rely on the energy of the heavens, and struck using a unique base inside her that seemed to have been thoroughly developed. With every clash, she revealed a little bit of her internal world that fueled her strikes, allowing Yan Zaizen to see more of her abilities and origins.

Only after a thousand clashes did Yan Zaizen finally deduce her origin.

A Celestial!

While he was casually engaging, deducing her origins, the grey-robed woman was startled into disbelief! She did not expect someone who recently stole the body of another to be so proficient in using it! Was this the body of a Non-Ent.i.ty? Not to mention, the laws exuded by Yan Zaizen exceeded her expectations. He seemed to grasp the very core of time laws beneath the heavens. Every strike leveraged the heavenly forces, produced minute domains that clashed with her own Celestial Energy.

It was beyond mind-boggling!

"Someone at this level must be at the Sovereign-Level of the Time Laws, perhaps even at the very peak!" When she thought this, her brows furrowed. To reach that level in Time Laws should be immensely difficult, requiring the utmost talent and strength. After all, it was a World Law!

As a Celestial, they had their own divisions according to their own Internal Heavens, their own quality and quant.i.ty of Celestial Energy, and she was deeply aware of the level one must reach to be at that level. If you wanted to put it in comparison, then it equaled her very own level! She, by celestial standards and its Path, was at the Celestial Monarch, Ninth Phase.

This meant, in terms of her own Internal Heaven, her understanding and structure of her essence of time, equaled the peak of the Heavenly Law of Time!

She grew frustrated. Deeply so!

Celestials were powerful, fiercely so. They weren't restricted by the environment, and they can construct their own heavens within their bodies without requiring a shrine that wors.h.i.+ps before the heavens for power! It was fundamentally different and freer! However, it had its own limitations.

Firstly, it based highly on talent, resources, and one's intelligence! This essence of time was developed by her, constructed by her, and was unique to her! While it may carry similarities to the Heavenly Law of Time, there were crucial differences between them. However, this did not mean she was more powerful than the heavens above and below!

If that wasn't the case, why weren't all Celestials the G.o.ds beneath all creation? Why did Heavenly Cultivators, those who borrow and comprehend another ent.i.ty's power, be capable of rivaling their own?

So, she was deeply frustrated.

Because…

As she fights Yan Zaizen more and more, she realized...she was his equal!