You don't want your secret to be revealed by others, right?

The terrifying knife light, transforming everything into chaos, crashed down suddenly, and Lin Yue only saw a peculiar dim yellow light abruptly emerge on the surface of Xiahou Shou's second primordial spirit.

Like the dusk heralding the evening's arrival, under the illumination of this peculiar light, everything in the surrounding void seemed to freeze instantly.

Only consciousness could remain active.

"Time freeze?"

Lin Yue immediately understood what was happening.

The Heavenly Demon Clan, being demons of time, though few in number, are born favored by time, possessing all kinds of time-related innate divine skills.

Generally, one must reach the level of a Demon God to achieve time freeze, so it was quite normal for Xiahou Shou's second primordial spirit to have such an ability.

But...

Even if able to freeze the time in a space, it depends on the circumstances of that space.

If the space contains some special entities that influence time and space, the difficulty of time freeze becomes extremely high, or even if it's simply a terrifyingly large mass, it can warp space-time to the point where freezing becomes challenging.

Therefore, against increasingly powerful entities, the effectiveness of time freeze becomes more challenging.

Yet, Xiahou Shou's second primordial spirit could forcibly freeze the time-space he was in, making his time manipulation quite terrifying.

In the frozen time-space, even light had completely stopped, and Lin Yue's consciousness remained active as his ethereal divine thought spread outward. Yet, he wasn't particularly panicked: "Time and space are also born from chaos..."

Sure enough, the knife light, transforming everything into chaos, only paused for a moment, then slightly trembled and continued to crash forward, shattering the frozen time-space into chaos!

Time resumed its flow.

However, while time was frozen for an instant, the time around Xiahou Shou's second primordial spirit flowed rapidly, allowing him to move his body and dodge the knife strike.

"Boom!"

Amidst the explosion of the knife light, the array barrier of the Heavenly Demon Palace instantly crumbled and shattered. With its passage, most of the Heavenly Demon Palace was destroyed, and even the parts not engulfed by chaos fell as countless fragments.

In an instant, only a remnant half of the Heavenly Demon Palace behind Lin Yue still barely stood.

"Quite capable."

Lin Yue narrowed his eyes, looking at Xiahou Shou's second primordial spirit retreating tens of miles away, while simultaneously waving his hand to store the Human Ancestor, who was merging his divine soul, along with the coffin, into a pocket world divine artifact.

This way, he could confront without worry.

Otherwise, if the Demon Clan directly ambushed and killed the Human Ancestor, that would be troublesome.

At the same time, it seemed the entire Demon Country had been alarmed.

Streams of light flew over from the tree's canopy, revealing several Demon Gods.

Meanwhile, many Demon Saints and Demon Kings below also flew away from the World Tree, heading towards the ground of the Demon Country below, where immense auras erupted as they saw array inscriptions illuminating in the earth's veins below.

Streams of light, exuding transcendent auras, flew to Xiahou Shou's second primordial spirit's side.

Among them were three Demon Gods from different clans, and a dreamlike figure of a woman in white, none other than the Dream Demon Ancestor.

Simultaneously, the World Tree gathered an immense power, conjuring out of thin air an elderly man in a green robe, apparently the Wood Demon Ancestor.

"King Xia!"

"Actually still alive? How is this possible..."

"He must have come out alive from the Yanfu World. Dream Demon Ancestor, quickly send a message to the Heavenly Demon Ancestor."

"The might of his knife just now was terrifying..."

Divine thought transmissions instantly completed the exchanges.

"Are you... King Xia?"

And Xiahou Shou's second primordial spirit, sizing up Lin Yue, slowly said, "Was it you who refined my main body?"

Lin Yue knew the other was waiting for the demon country's arrays to charge, preventing him from escaping, and he gladly took the opportunity to buy time for the Human Ancestor, smiling as he replied, "It was me. Shouldn't you be grateful for that as the second primordial spirit?"

"Grateful to you?" Xiahou Shou's second primordial spirit said coldly.

Lin Yue said with a hint of a smile, "If not for me, you'd only be the second primordial spirit, restrained by your main body, wouldn't you?"

Xiahou Shou's second primordial spirit was silent for a moment, then said, "You have a point. I do hate being controlled. You've refined my main body, which indeed made me... thanks to you, I can truly become Xiahou Shou."

Nearby, the Wood Demon Ancestor frowned slightly, speaking deeply, "Prison Demon God."

"Wood Demon God need not worry," Xiahou Shou said calmly. "I am almost identical to my main body, so naturally, my goals are the same."

Wood Demon God then relaxed a little, transmitting with divine thought, "What happened just now?"

Xiahou Shou replied with divine thought, "The Wood Demon Ancestor might have heard, tens of thousands of years ago, the Human Ancestor discovered the Ultimate Divine Artifact lost by the Ancestor of Old Days in the Eternal Night. However, the divine artifact concealed itself, and while the Ultimate Divine Artifact lay dormant, the Human Ancestor didn't know it was the Ultimate Divine Artifact and merely refined the primordial divine power within it. The Ultimate Divine Artifact consequently resided within the Human Ancestor."

"I did hear this from the Heavenly Demon Ancestor."

The Wood Demon Ancestor transmitted with divine thought, "And it was your main body who learned from the Ancestor of Old Days after proving his path in the Ancient World that their Ultimate Divine Artifact was left in the Eternal Night."

Xiahou Shou transmitted, "Yes, the Ancestor of Old Days granted my main body a token to find the Ultimate Divine Artifact. Upon returning to the Eternal Night, he discovered the Ancestor of Old Days' Ultimate Divine Artifact within the Human Ancestor's remains. Unfortunately, as the Ultimate Divine Artifact resided within the Human Ancestor and lay dormant, only my main body knew how to awaken it, yet before he could, the Divine Emperor suddenly killed him..."