"Time Stop... Is such an almost heaven-defying method truly something humans can reach?"
Ling Qingzhu stared blankly at Xiao Ling before her. Her usually cool and aloof face, as cold as jade, had rarely shed all traces of indifference, leaving behind only unconcealable shock.
She subconsciously murmured softly. Her voice was quieter than a mosquito's buzz, yet every word revealed the storm surging within her heart. Her usually clear, tranquil eyes trembled faintly, filled with incredulous astonishment. Even the faint aura of Origin Energy lingering around her rippled almost imperceptibly under the agitation of her emotions.
She was not someone with shallow experience. Since embarking on the path of cultivation, she had seen countless experts and naturally understood that, for true supreme powers who had reached the pinnacle, Power of Space was no longer some secret, incommunicable divine ability.
Experts who stood at the summit of heaven and earth, like her master, could tear the void apart with a raise of their hand and traverse dimensions with a single step. Moving space and folding territories were all matters they could accomplish with ease.
But time...
That was a supreme law entirely different from space, and even above it.
It was the most profound, mysterious, and inviolable ultimate power between heaven and earth.
Since ancient times, countless prodigies, overlords, and supreme experts had exhausted their life's efforts, yet could only gaze from afar beyond the river of time. To say nothing of controlling it—even touching its edge slightly was as difficult as ascending the heavens.
In all her years of cultivation, after reading countless ancient texts and secret scriptures and traversing the vast territories, she had never heard of anyone who could truly control time, much less someone who could so casually cause the flow of time in an entire region