Heavenly Ghost Grey Emperor

The older Yan Nu grew, the stronger he became. From this, one could deduce that both combatants were hacking their way toward the dawn of time.

Countless powerhouses dug through and analyzed ancient history, growing increasingly aware of the nature of Yan Nu's battle.

Luo Yan keenly observed, "No way? The Grey Emperor is about to achieve Taiyi."

"Ah?" Everyone was a bit dazed.

Yemeng also spoke up, "Indeed. If they keep fighting like this, the Grey Emperor will reach Taiyi very soon."

Shen Leling anxiously asked, "What does 'soon' even mean?"

"Doesn't the nine-dimensional time flow rate trend toward zero? Shouldn't it take us eons of years to pass while they do a single thing?"

The higher the dimension, the slower time moved; by the ninth dimension, the time flow rate trended toward infinitesimal.

This was the result of their previous deduction, and Yan Nu had said as much.

Gulan-Batuo explained, "It's not a contradiction. You're simply viewing things from the perspective of your own time."

"If we existed in the same dimension, then yes, that rate difference would mean we could do countless things while they only managed one."

"The problem is that we aren't in the same dimension. The ninth dimension isn't simply a matter of us spending ten thousand years while they spend a mere blink, as one might conventionally understand it."

"Instead... they experience a blink first, and only then do we get our ten thousand years..."

"Understand? To them, time is entirely a motionless, dead thing beneath their feet. It has instead become something to be manipulated and played with at will, like a currency."

"Look, see that? A single instant of combat for them truly spans eons for us down here... it's just that it stretches all the way from 3.6 billion years