Nian Shi raised the Blade of Eternity high, its edge humming with the condensed power of dead universes. "I will not be mocked by a dead bird's final tantrum! Time's End!"
He unleashed a concentrated beam of pure entropy, a lance of gray nothingness designed to unravel the fundamental laws holding the barrier together. It struck the fiery storm with the force of a collapsing galaxy.
The barrier shimmered. The flames rippled. But it did not break. The beam of ending time simply... dissolved upon contact, its power absorbed and neutralized by the perpetual, self-sustaining cycle of life and sacrifice within the flames.
He tried again. And again. He fractured the space around it, trying to isolate it from the flow of time. He summoned echoes of past cataclysms to batter it. He attempted to fast-forward its existence to a point of natural decay.
Nothing worked.
