Shattered time would ultimately be restored; the Long River flowing backward would, in the end, still surge onward—if there truly were an eternal truth in this world, then "time moves forward" must be one of them.
The Divine Firmament World was a vibrant, complete world. It had to possess its own order of time and space.
In his earlier scheme, Xingnian had created a temporal labyrinth, pushing the time of the Divine Firmament Land away from that of the Demon Realm. This in itself made use of the Divine Firmament Land's world laws; in other words, breaking away from the Demon Realm's time and establishing its own temporal order was precisely what the Divine Firmament Land sought.
Even without Xingnian, it would have advanced in this direction.
Xingnian's move had been precisely in accordance with this "heavenly timing."
And now that events had progressed to this point, the destruction of Flying Light had shattered and reshaped the Divine Firmament Land's order of time and space. This was undoubtedly revolutionary in significance; as a result, this world had leapt forward.
It was amid the shattering of this temporal order that the young demons involved in the Divine Firmament scheme caught a glimpse of the Truth-Speaking Stele left behind by the Divine Firmament King all those years ago.
And now, amid the reshaping of the temporal order, they returned to this shore.
This process should originally have passed without wind or waves.
The risks of peering into the truth of history had been erased by the Truth-Speaking Stele, and returning to the "present," whose order had been restored, should have posed even less of a problem.
Yet amid that endlessly flashing stream of light, a voice rang out.
It was frail, aged, and anguished.
It said—
"Young ones, slow your steps!"
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