Just as Li Qi prepared to close the rift, he suddenly sensed a will descending behind him.
Yet it bore no hostility.
Moreover, time in the surroundings had already stagnated, and all matter was fixed in place.
He could not move. Matter itself had been locked dead.
Only the mind could still move.
"Don't worry. I have no intention of interfering, and time has already stopped." A voice came from behind Li Qi.
The voice was strange. Its gender could not be discerned, yet it was pleasant to hear, possessing a music-like clarity.
Because time had stopped, Li Qi's body and cultivation had all been halted as well. In other words... he could not move. The "time" of the material world had had its pause button pressed here.
It was simply a hair-raising power.
One had to know, this was not as simple as it sounded—though it did not sound simple in the first place... But now, the time of reality and the time of thought had become misaligned.
All motion in the real world had stilled. Whether one called this absolute zero or said "entropy has reached its maximum," in short, internal energy had fallen to zero and matter had become motionless. Yet thought had not stopped.
Time within thought still flowed. Reality and thought had completely slipped out of alignment, and Li Qi could not even begin to understand the principle behind it.
How was that possible?
For the subjective self, there could actually be two timelines? Li Qi knew relative time existed, but this was far too relative!
Li Qi suppressed the shock in his heart and tried to mobilize his perception and True Knowledge Dao Charm to turn around and see what was speaking to him.
"Stop looking. You cannot see me. Or rather... you will