Defiance of the Fall

Chapter 1259: Insane or Genius

Cracks teeming with temporal mayhem spread across Zac's body, and his human half inside the shrine wasn't faring much better. A surge of hostile Dao and Energy at this level would be incredibly dangerous no matter which affinity it held. It being the Dao of Time simply made it so much worse.The Dao tearing him apart was at least at the level of a Late Earthly Dao. It could be even higher, seeing how effortlessly the invasion overwhelmed his attempts at fighting back with all three of his [Spiritual Void]-empowered Daos. There seemed to be no end to the truths coming from the resurrected [Solidarity Link]. Worse, just holding out took everything Zac had.

Zac could only hopelessly watch on as the two command brands crumbled, unable to withstand the differing time flow between guardian and controller. Zac tried to infuse another surge of Dao before it was too late, but only scraps got through the temporal gauntlet before it was too late. The connection was severed, and Zac's vantage of the outside disappeared.

The situation far surpassed Zac's expectations, even if he'd been aware of his weakness against Time since his breakthrough into Middle Hegemony. He'd

As for upgrading his Cosmic Core post-tribulation in a subspace being torn apart by leviathans duking it out, while somehow taking out the pope? That was a problem for after he'd wrapped up the thread of Karma standing before him. Provided he survived the next couple of seconds. Zac could already feel the Heavens breathing down his neck, and he dragged the Core Formation Arrays' protective barriers through his Duplicity Core's hatch, at which point he finally let go.

The ignition had begun. Genius or insane, there was only one way to find out.