Talisman Emperor
Chapter 1438 Time Vortex
Another day passed, summer passed and autumn arrived. The leaves whistled to the ground as the sky and earth were filled with withered scenery.
Chen Xi was still walking forward tirelessly with an uncontrollable disposition, and she finally stopped moving as autumn passed to welcome winter.
When he turned around again, the scene before his eyes changed instantly.
There was still a plot of peach trees in full bloom while the surrounding plants were luxurious, and the spring sun and warm wind were intoxicating. It was spring again.
On the other hand, the place where Chen Xi stood was surprisingly where he stood when he had just entered the Realm of Time. Everywhere that met his eyes was a beautiful spring scene, and it was exactly like the scene he had seen before.
As I continued to move forward, time continued without end, and when I suddenly turned around, the scene had returned to its original state. Chen Xi stared blankly for a long time while the scene in her eyes quickly changed between spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The scene changed without end, and overlapped with no end.
This kind of change takes place between night and day, and it is revealed in the changing landscape and scenery. They were filled with lively vitality, flourishing with extremes, rustling and withering, or silent and silent …
Peach blossoms, summer lotus blooms, fall foliage of autumn, and withering of plants in winter.
During ancient times, there was a saying – beauty fades in an instant.
At this moment in Chen Xi's heart, the change of seasons, the rotation between day and night, the growth and withering of all things, and even the passage of time all surged into Chen Xi's heart.
After that, he began to close his eyes and make a deep contemplation. He let go of his thoughts and let them soar between the changes he saw at the moment, and he felt a shapeless trail of time filling the surroundings.
Where is the time?
It's everywhere!
Life, death, disease, age, changes in everything, repetition of growth and withering.
Thus, there was no need to capture the time before Chen Xi could sense it, yet his consciousness was unable to achieve it, causing him to be unable to understand it.
However, Chen Xi was not anxious because understanding the Dao required understanding.
Understanding means understanding and feeling with the heart.
Simply put, understanding the Dao is the perception that one's heart has towards the Dao. If the heart is felt, then the Dao belongs to one, and this is understanding.
Chen Xi Dao Heart gradually returned silent, and his heart was focused and clear. His entire mind and body were immersed in the search for the strands of time energy.
The sky, earth, and everything around him seemed to be motionless.
At the same time, Chen Xi had forgotten about heaven and earth, and even he had forgotten about time and himself.
Amidst this strange and profound state, his entire body suddenly fell into an infinite abyss of time. Consciousness, power, and even spirit, energy, essence, and life.Everything was quickly swept away!
From ancient times to the present, countless incredible figures had gained nothing from the comprehension of their time, yet their hair turned gray before they turned to ashes.
The reason was that time was the supreme power of the Heaven Dao. Once one came into contact with it, then if one could not understand it, one would suffer a backlash from the energy of time, so it was extremely dangerous.
Chen Xi had gained enlightenment about all of this from the moment he sensed the thread of the time trail, but there was no way to return now.
An infinite time gap lay before him. If he could understand it, then he would reach the Temporal Grand Dao, but if he failed, then his lifespan and life would be bound to be swept away in the abyss of time …
In other words, Chen Xi had found the time energy threshold at this moment, and her understanding had just begun!
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Outside the Realm of Time.
Hua Jiankong stood still there while his extremely deep and profound eyes seemed to be able to see everything within the Realm of Time.
At the moment when Chen Xi started to make contact with the energy of time, her eyes suddenly narrowed before exploding with a divine light. "Shocking comprehension ability!"
But right after, Hua Jiankong could not help but feel anxious in his heart.
The existence in his cultivation realm had long understood the energy of time, so he was naturally clearly aware that Chen Xi's understanding of time energy had just begun, and this process was clearly very dangerous.
Because it is the energy of time!
In an instant, it could make one change from a carefree state to a weak one, and then cause one's lifespan to dry up before it perishes. Yet it can also allow one to instantly return to one's past state and lose everything one has now!
In other words, the time was frightening because when extended indefinitely, he was able to exhaust the immortal lifespan, and when it retreated, it could turn the supreme expert back into a baby state!
These two kinds of terrifying power were called 'Boundless Time' and 'Reverse Time.'
For example, Immortal Kings were able to instantly and completely spend one's lifetime with a single thought, and they could also make one age in reverse from an infant state. However, in this way, the strength and cultivation that that person possessed would be snatched away, and it would be like an expert had returned to the starting point of the road to the Grand Dao!
This clearly showed how terrifying the energy of that time was.
However, if two Immortal Kings fought each other, then since they both understood the energy of time, it was not impossible for one to suffer such a miserable outcome.
"Sir." Hua Jiankong cupped his fists and bowed.
Meng Xinghe was the same as always. His face was young like the face of a young man, yet his eyes were waving with the aura of time and experience. His entire body was like a boundless expanse of starry sky, and when he stood there leisurely, it caused others to be unable to help but feel like they should look at him.
"Jiankong, how long do you think Chen Xi needs to understand the energy of time?" Meng Xinghe smiled as she asked.
Hua Jiankong thought for a moment and said, "I can't say it for sure."
He really did not dare to guess in a hurry because through the understanding he had gained in the past few years, he was completely unable to judge Chen Xi based on convention.
This person was simply too outstanding, and every single thing he did exceeded everyone's expectations. Under such circumstances, how could Hua Jiankong dare to guess?
Meng Xinghe smiled, and she seemed to completely understand Hua Jiankong's thoughts as she said, "I originally intended to meet him after he fully understood the legacy of the Dao Emperor. Unfortunately, time was not with me, and I had no choice but to make preparations in advance. "
Hua Jiankong was shocked in his heart. Time not with the Master? Could it be that some sort of major incident would happen in three dimensions again?
However, Meng Xinghe did not speak any further about this, and she simply instructed. "Regardless of whether Chen Xi can advance to the Half-Step Half-King Realm within a hundred years, you should bring him to come see me."
As soon as he finished talking, he turned around and left.
Hua Jiankong on the other hand was stunned on the spot. In a hundred years? Wh why? Could the three-dimensional upheaval erupt a hundred years from now?
When he thought up to here, his eyes could not help but narrow.
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Nature Time.
A formless energy of time enveloped Chen Xi, and his vitality and lifespan seemed to have passed by a thousand years at this moment.
His long hair fell to the ground and grew endlessly while his face gradually grew into an adult, and it carried an aura of experience. As an Immortal Saint, his appearance could remain ageless, yet it was absolutely impossible to hide under the loss of lifespan.
Her hair started to turn from black to gray, and then to white …
His skin began to be stamped with wrinkles as he aged, and his face gradually aged.
All of this was because the energy of time had flowed throughout his body in that instant, and it washed away his lifespan and vitality with an extremely terrifying speed.
Gods were said to have an age equivalent to the age of heaven, yet in the end they were not immortal. There are limits too. Even though Chen Xi had cultivated for less than a thousand years until now, relying on his cultivation in the Immortal Sacred Realm, the, it was still enough for his lifetime to allow him to exist without worry for several hundred thousand to over a million years.
However, if his lifespan were to pass at his current speed, then his lifespan would probably be completely depleted in less than a hundred years, and he would wither and die!
This is why time energy is so terrifying.
If Chen Xi was unable to comprehend its depth, then his cultivation path would probably stop here as well.
However, Chen Xi did not seem to notice this at all.
Time energy surged, his white hair trembled and fell as his face aged. He was like a statue corroded by the wind. He sat still in meditation but was unable to block the corrosion of time.
Just like this, an entire twenty years had passed.
Twenty years of time was like flicking a finger at ordinary gods, yet to Chen Xi who understood the energy of time, it caused nearly half of his lifespan to be washed away!
At this moment, his hair was as white as snow while his face was still handsome, yet it was covered with layers of thick age aura and experience. If someone familiar were to see Chen Xi at this moment, they would probably not dare to believe the sight before their eyes.
However, even if twenty years had passed, Chen Xi still looked as if he had not noticed the change in him at all, and he understood it in silence.
“Twenty years have passed. Why was there no movement at all from him? "Outside the Realm of Time, Hua Jiankong frowned. He remembered the time he had comprehended the Temporal Laws all those years ago, and he had only exhausted ten years of time to comprehend a strand of time energy, the Time Layer.
Although the Time Layer was only a branch of the supreme Temporal Grand Dao, it was like the Shadow of Time that Yun Fusheng had. It was not a complete Temporal Grand Dao, yet he was considered to have crossed the threshold of the Temporal Grand Dao.
Yet Chen Xi had actually run out of twenty years and still had not shown any signs of movement until now. This caused Hua Jiankong to be unable to help but have a slightly bad feeling in his heart.
After all, in his understanding, Chen Xi was a peerless genius, yet it just so happened that Chen Xi seemed to be having trouble while comprehending the energy of time and showed no signs of progress. So Hua Jiankong could not help but worry.
"Could he be a little too impatient?" Hua Jiankong's brows united even tighter. He was clearly aware that Chen Xi had just advanced to the Saint Immortal Realm a few years ago, and Chen Xi had just set up his own Saint Dao Law before trying to grasp the energy of time.
If it was an ordinary Saint Immortal, that Saint Immortal would probably not try to rush the charge to the Half-step Immortal King Realm at all. Yet it just so happened that Chen Xi had done this.
Now, when she thought about it carefully, Hua Jiankong had no choice but to doubt whether Chen Xi's choice to quickly grasp the energy of time was right or wrong.
"Hmm?" Right at this moment, Hua Jiankong's disciple was suddenly built up. He felt his astonishment that the figure of Chen Xi in the Realm of Time was suddenly enveloped by a formless vortex of time!
The vortex was formless, yet filled with the depths of time. As it spun, it revealed a beautiful light that was translucent like glass. It was a time trail, and it looked material!