"After gaining my insight, how did you feel?"
Li Qingshan's voice was not loud, and his tone even carried an unusual hint of concern.
Yet when that concerned question fell into Qingfeng's ears, fused with the True Spirit, it stirred up towering waves.
"F... feel?"
Only then did Qingfeng remember his most important goal, one far more important than making Li Qingshan admit defeat—comprehending time and taking control of the Immortal Venerable Dao Fruit!
He instinctively began to "look inward," trying to sense that "heaven-defying insight" he had dreamed of, even scheming through two tribulations to obtain.
Violent thoughts surged, searched, and analyzed at the True Spirit level...
However,
There was no expected clarity and lucidity, nor that sense of control over everything!
"No... it shouldn't be like this..."
Qingfeng voiced his confusion, then immediately looked through Li Qingshan's eyes toward the Time Tracing Profound Gate Array surrounding the imprint.
Seated high upon the meditation cushion and coiled above the lake of time, every formation pattern lay plainly before his eyes.
Those lines that should have flowed with the rhythm of time, playing out countless possibilities of past and future, now seemed to be covered in a thick layer of greasy grime in his "eyes"—
Sticking together, sluggish, utterly chaotic!
One glance alone left him dizzy and muddleheaded!
"Sluggish... how could it be this sluggish?!"
Qingfeng's Heart's Desire roared as he tried to break down the trajectory of the most basic "time ripple."
But his thoughts were like rusted gears. Every deduction came with a shriek of grinding friction; logic was overturned and contradictions sprouted everywhere.
"That's impossible! Li Qingshan's insight is as vast as the Stellar Sea. How could he fail to analyze even the most basic formation patterns?"
"No, no!"
"Li Qingshan had clearly been comprehending 'time' just