The tablets were only able to stop the whirlpool tyrant momentarily, but that was enough for Zhang Lie.

"[Time's Passing]!" The blades infused with the power of time immemorial landed on the tyrant's body, but they had little effect. A century, a millennium—all that was but a moment to the disaster-grade whirlpool tyrant, who had lived for eons.

The pressure of the sea washed over Zhang Lie. Under the tyrant's control, the pressure hindered Zhang Lie's movements to a startling extent, making him feel as though he were trying to swim in the deep sea.

If not for the strength of Zhang Lie's own constitution, he might have been compressed into...