Beast Taming Patrol Chapter 1597 447: The Final Battle (5) [Endgame Countdown: 3]

The River of Time merges the past, present, and future of every living creature across a world.

What might the riverbed resemble? What hides below its surface?

Such thoughts had never entered Qiuqiu's head.

Yet now, knowing full well the Time Master's sly nature, Qiuqiu dove straight into the crumbling vortex of the River of Time right alongside it, determined to stop any escape.

The instant it plunged into the vortex, Qiuqiu found itself inside a strange tunnel.

Countless beings and visions from past, present, and future kept appearing on the tunnel walls, flashing endlessly before Qiuqiu's eyes in what felt like an boundless display.

A short distance ahead lay the Time Master's silhouette again.

Yet before Qiuqiu could react, the Time Master vanished at the tunnel's far end.

This tightened its face, prompting it to chase without delay, vanishing into the light at the tunnel's opposite side too.

In that very next moment, both arrived in a different space-time.

Here, besides the invading Time Master, stood yet another Time Master.

This one belonged natively to this space-time.

Qiuqiu whipped its head to the side, its ice-blue eyes shrinking sharply.

The moment their gazes locked, it knew at once this was its own counterpart from this space-time.

One who had already reached mythic tier, yet shaped as an Arctic Dream Demon!

Right then, this version of itself was locked in combat with the Time Master too.

Still, the disadvantaged fighter was its Arctic Dream Demon form.

And as Qiuqiu sensed a link and glanced around, it spotted the other five little ones' forms.

But maybe from a butterfly effect, these five in this space-time lagged behind their originals in power, sparking a fierce clash all the same.

Silence abruptly gripped the scene.

The pair from the original space-time hadn't foreseen that tumbling into the River of Time's collapse would thrust them into a parallel space-time.

Likewise, this space-time's fighters hadn't anticipated their alternates bursting from the River of Time mid-battle crisis.

However, as mythic-tier Time system experts, they grasped the situation in a flash.

"The other me from another space-time is so weak!" This space-time's Time Master laughed, ditching its local Qiuqiu to rush the original-space-time Qiuqiu without pause.

"Come try it yourself!" The original space-time's Time Master sneered and lunged without delay at this space-time's weaker Qiuqiu.

At that point, threads of cause and effect across space-times tangled, driving the two Time Masters to swap foes decisively for ultimate triumph.

This space-time's flawless Time Master squared off against the original-space-time Qiuqiu, already holding the advantage.

The original space-time's battered Time Master met this space-time's struggling, weakened Qiuqiu.

"Kill!"

Ferocious battle lust gleamed in the two Qiuqius' eyes; a quick look passed between them before they both charged into combat.

Here in this space-time, the four mythic-tier powerhouses collided anew.

In the fight, thanks to common roots, the Qiuqius' paths from varied space-times merged, just as the Time Masters' did.

Through this fusion, they came to know each other's histories and uncovered why the space-times diverged.

This space-time's Qiuqiu unleashed its peak Eternal Freeze Storm to halt time and the river briefly, pinning the original space-time's injured Time Master for a moment, then stole a look toward Qiuqiu.

Eternal Stone…

Could this really spark all of it?

Past memories surged instantly through this space-time Qiuqiu's thoughts.

In this space-time, it skipped the Eternal Stone, picking a different Time system treasure from the Immortal Phoenix Sect's Treasure Hall instead.

An eighth-level item known as the Time Feather.

That granted it a mighty Time system skill, so this space-time's Qiuqiu always thought its pick unbeatable.

And lacking grasp of eternal rules, the Qiuqiu entering One Life Reincarnation Hall didn't gain the original Qiuqiu's insights from Endless Sea's long vigil, yielding altered rules on exit, and before Northern God Realm journey, skipped another shift via Return to the Secret Realm.

This space-time Qiuqiu joined Northern God Realm's Supplement Heaven Secret Realm too, but rule limits blocked gaining Time's Heart inside Time Shape, crippling its Time Scripture command.

Despite raising its Time system rules sky-high over a millennium on Blue Star, this Qiuqiu's rules fell short of quasi-dao before mythic tier breakthrough.

Like the original space-time Time Master, it forged its own Time's Heart, yet poor fit with Time Scripture's secrets left it wanting.

The other little ones too, with big brother Qiuqiu advancing slower, faced less cutthroat rivalry than originally, so influences kept their power from peaking higher.

A single misstep snowballed into endless errors.

As the original space-time Time Master struck again, regret flickered in this space-time Qiuqiu's gaze.

That alternate self—had it really damaged the Time Master this badly?

Had it taken the Eternal Stone then, might all have changed?