Gone in an instant, returned the same way.
To the Past Self standing above the Star River,
time was merely a toy in his palm.
It changed form according to his will.
Thus, if he wished, a single instant above the Star River could be converted into countless years within the Myriad Heavens. Likewise, if he wished, no matter how much time passed above the Star River, within the Myriad Heavens it would have happened in but an instant. One day and ten thousand days, ten thousand days and one day—on some level, they truly were quite alike.
Of course.
The same was true for Lu Yuan.
After the two met.
More precisely,
after they had made everything clear.
Lu Yuan's awe toward this Past Self rapidly faded. Now that he knew the upper limit of what he could do, he also had the mindset to dare attempt it. Although he could not divide the gap in time to such an extent—leaving one party's time forever frozen at a single moment while the other's continued to flow normally, with the former remaining but an instant no matter how long passed for the latter—he was unable to do so only because his realm was not high enough.
In other words,
he could create a lower-end version of this temporal division.
That was, while time continued to flow normally,
he could accelerate one party's time.
To put it more plainly,
it was like four cars on two highways.
What this powerful being—who called himself Lu Yuan's Past Self but should actually be called his original body, and whose name remained unknown—could do was, while two cars were driving on one highway, suddenly stop one of them and allow the other to continue at its normal speed.
What Lu Yuan could do was,