Time Law, Mastered! Venerable!
In the Initial Universe Chaos, there were no stars turning or the passage of time, only eternal stillness.
"Whoosh~"
The sound of the churning, rippling Nether Sea became the only rhythm in this deathly silent world.
Tang Ping stood on the shore of the Nether Sea, raising his eyes to gaze at the vast sky.
The gaze pierced through the void, landing on those intricate patterns, which were the concrete manifestation of the Universe Origin Laws. Each line contained the ultimate truth of the operation of heaven and earth.
With a slight thought, the profound diagram of the top- Venerable Level secret technique <Sword Ten>, passed down by Wind-Thunder Venerable, slowly unfolded in his sea of consciousness. By referencing the dense patterns in the sky, his comprehension became twice as effective.
Tang Ping knew that in this world, the fastest shortcut to advancement was to create one's own secret techniques.
Through continuous deduction and creation, as long as one can refine a top-level secret technique at the Universe Venerable level, one's realm will rapidly rise; once the secret technique has accumulated to a certain degree, one can even naturally break through to the Venerable realm.
Of course, this is a paradox in itself: how can one decipher the core of Venerable Level secret technique without ever reaching the Venerable Realm?
But nothing in this world is absolute. Just as the Secret Pattern Diagram School, passed down by the Mountain Sitting Guest, helped Luo Feng rise against all odds, Tang Ping relied on his own extraordinary comprehension and perception, as well as a little bit of talent.
A thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye.
When the last wisp of profound mystery of <Sword Ten> completely merged into his divine sense, Tang Ping looked up at the dense patterns in the sky again, and his eyes showed a hint of understanding.
Some of those intricate patterns resemble silver lightning, carving fleeting trails in the void; others resemble ancient glaciers; still others resemble rushing rivers and seas, flowing ceaselessly along invisible veins.
Among the myriad secret patterns, three exceptionally dazzling figures intertwined yet remained relatively independent, clearly representing the concrete manifestation of the three major branches of the Time Law.
The one on the left is a blazing golden rune. The speed at which the rune flows has exceeded the limits of perception, as if it is completing billions of iterations and cycles every instant.
Tang Ping stared for a moment, and his divine sense was uncontrollably swept into a rapid torrent.
Suddenly, the entirety of a star appears before my eyes: from its formation as a nebula, to its core fusion and radiance, and finally, the exhaustion of its fuel...
Expansion and collapse, ultimately returning to stillness—this magnificent evolution, which originally required billions of years, came to a complete end in the blink of an eye.
A tiny speck of dust, shrouded in golden runes, transforms from a molecule into a shape and then weathers away into particles in the blink of an eye.
This is Time Acceleration, the ultimate leap in the dimension of time. It compresses long periods of time into brief moments, allowing the continuity of material movement to be fully displayed at extreme speed.
The secret pattern on the right side, however, is a deep, dark blue. The patterns flow slowly, like a tortoise crawling, and every ripple carries a heavy, weighty feeling, as if it bears the weight of countless ages.
The moment Tang Ping's divine sense touched it, everything around him slowed down to an extreme level before coming to a standstill.
The drifting of cosmic dust, which was originally too subtle to be detected, is now visible to the naked eye; the collision of energy particles, which used to be fleeting, now has every trajectory clearly discernible; even the operation of his own divine sense has slowed down by several times, as if bound by invisible shackles.
He seemed to see a high-speed meteorite enter the range of the dark blue runes, its speed suddenly decreasing, from a rapid rush that tore through the void to a slow glide, and finally hovering in the void. The originally fleeting flight process was infinitely stretched, becoming a period of time that could be carefully observed and dissected.
This is Time Deceleration, a deliberate slowing down of the flow of time. It makes the sequential nature of the movement of matter clearly visible, with no step left out.
At the very center of these two diametrically opposed runes, a colorless and transparent rune floats. It stands still in the void, without any fluctuation, as if it has never changed since time immemorial.
As soon as Tang Ping focused his divine sense on it, all the movement around him completely froze.
The rapid flow of the golden runes came to an abrupt halt, the slow fluctuations of the dark blue runes subsided, and even the subtle tremors of the void itself vanished without a trace.
There is no passage of time, no lingering before stagnation, only the absolute "now" magnified infinitely. Time periods lose their meaning here; the past and the future are severed, only the present moment exists Yongheng.
This is the Time Stasis, the absolute anchor point in the dimension of time. It may seem to sever the movement of all things, but in reality, it is another ultimate manifestation of the Time Essence.
Tang Ping was completely immersed in the deduction of the three secret patterns. Countless thoughts collided and annihilated in his divine sense, and new insights were born.
He once thought that the three branches of time were independent and unrelated to each other, but in the Initial Universe, an environment close to the origin, he gradually deciphered the hidden threads between them.
When the golden acceleration rune reaches its peak, a faint blue afterimage of deceleration will appear at the edge of the rune; as the blue deceleration rune comes to a standstill, its core aura will quietly resonate with the colorless rune in the center.
That colorless, static rune, seemingly absolutely still, actually contains a crucial opportunity for the transformation between acceleration and deceleration deep within its core patterns.
"The unity of the three and the one" —Tang Ping murmured softly, his tone carrying a hint of enlightenment.
He actively guided the three runes formed from Divine Power, slowly moving them closer to the center. The moment the golden, dark blue, and colorless runes touched each other according to the specific form of the Sword 10 Secret Technique.
The golden speed and the deep blue slowness dissolve into each other, their characteristics merging in the collision; the colorless stillness runes become the foundation that supports both, firmly locking in this fusion of power.
Finally, the three secret runes merged completely, coalescing into a single, ancient, grayish rune.
This secret rune no longer indicates a specific speed, but it contains infinite possibilities of change. The flow of each line seems to encompass all states from extreme acceleration to absolute stillness; every fluctuation contains the ultimate truth of the operation of time.
At the very moment the three secret runes merged, Tang Ping's divine sense seemed to penetrate the layers of time and directly touch its core essence.
Countless questions about time suddenly became clear at this moment.
Time is not an illusion derived from human memory; it truly exists in every corner of the universe. It is an invisible and intangible abstract yet objective existence that extends forward relentlessly along a one-dimensional path.
This hazy, mysterious pattern is the embodiment of the Time Essence. It carries the cycle of birth and death of all things and witnesses the expansion and evolution of the universe. It is the ultimate manifestation of the continuity and sequence of the Yongheng movement and change of matter. It contains both the precise anchor point of "moment" and the continuous flow of "time period".
Everything in the universe, from the fission and fusion of elementary particles to the aging and replacement of life, and the birth and death of stars, proceeds in an orderly manner within the framework of time.
Without time, the movement of matter loses its foundation, and the birth and death of all things become nothing but a mirage.
Tang Ping's divine sense hovered quietly in front of the hazy gray rune, no longer deliberately trying to capture any information, but simply letting the understanding of the Time Essence flow and settle slowly in his divine sense.
In the vast emptiness of the Initial Universe, it seemed that only he and this secret rune, which carried one of the ultimate truths of the universe, remained, reflecting and resonating with each other.
After an unknown amount of time, Tang Ping withdrew his divine sense, and a relieved smile slowly appeared on his lips.
"The Time Law has been established."