At that moment, Luo Chen felt as though he were being swallowed by these memories. They surged toward him from every direction, trying to drag him in and make him a part of them.
He gritted his teeth and held fast to his mental power.
Time was irreversible. What had passed could never be reclaimed. He couldn't sink into these memories or be assimilated by them. He had to remember who he was and why he had come here.
Silvery-white temporal power welled up from within him, resonating with the scattered memory fragments around him.
In the next moment, the fragments seemed to awaken and began gathering toward him. But they weren't attacking him; it was more as if they were telling him something.
Luo Chen closed his eyes and stopped resisting. He let the memories flow through his consciousness like water flowing over stones. He didn't lose himself in them or flee from them. He simply felt them.
He felt time passing.
He felt those moments that could never be relived.
He felt the weight of the words "irreversible."
No one knew how much time passed before Luo Chen opened his eyes.
The sixth mark on the Pocket Watch had fully lit up, replaced by a new line of text:
[Third Trial complete. Reward: Time Indicator unlocks "Time Mark." Mental power exceeds 10000 points. Soul Power increases to level 57, and Soul Ring lifespan increases by one thousand years.]
Luo Chen stood and stretched his stiff body. His eyes seemed deeper than before—not in color, but with something indescribable settled within them.
He was about to leave when his mental power suddenly picked up a strange fluctuation.
It wasn't temporal power, but... spatial power!
Deep within that sea of memory fragments, in a place buried beneath the