Annihilation Mid-Stage

Deep within the Years Mist, shattered cosmos-time fragments floated one after another. Chen Mu sat alone in Nihility, cross-legged amid the broken time and space, looking down upon those isolated corners of cosmoses and glimpsing the evolving mysteries of the Years Path within them.

As he continued to comprehend it, his experience in the Years Path steadily accumulated.

As for Chen Yue and Chen Yao, they had completely sunk into the shattered time and space. They could not break free from the reincarnation of time and space through their own abilities, nor could they see through its truth. But with Chen Mu there, they faced no danger. Instead, it was a rare opportunity for tempering.

Within the trajectories of shattered time and space, all their memories were sealed, and they began anew. Yet because of certain exceedingly subtle changes originating from the Great Dao itself, the events they experienced would each undergo slight deviations. Those deviations would affect their choices, and once any one choice differed drastically from the original time and space, it could lead to their deaths.

Yet such death was not true death. They would instead fall into Time Reincarnation and return to the initial starting point.

Just as Chen Mu had said,

This was a fine place to temper one's original heart and true self.

Only by keeping one's original heart unchanged from beginning to end, and one's true self ever unaltered, could one ensure that the entire trajectory of time remained on its proper course. As for comprehending the mysteries of Time Dao... that was still far too difficult for Chen Yue and Chen Yao.

The fact that they could gain the tempering of their original hearts and true selves from this was already no small fortuitous encounter.

In the vast cosmos, time shifted