Taking complete control of the Stone Door left behind by the sick man was no easy task.
Strictly speaking, this door was not a "weapon" in the full sense of the word. Over the long ages, it had merely picked up countless inexplicable auras, which had caused it to transform naturally until it became an extraordinary treasure that stood above all laws.
Whenever Yuangeng pressed his hand against the Stone Door, he would be dragged away and forcibly connected to the River of Time. While consuming immense quantities of his essence, energy, and spirit, he would truly gain the power to travel through that river.
Unfortunately, Yuangeng had never deliberately traversed the River of Time before. He knew too little about it, and his methods were exceedingly crude. Even with the Stone Door as his precious anchor, he still frequently lost his bearings and fell back out.
Yet Yuangeng never once entertained the thought of giving up.
He had tried gazing upstream through the River of Time into the past, only to see boundless Great Luo sword light engulfing everything. This was the work of someone who had single-handedly severed the eternal ages, shielding his entire homeland.
He had tried comprehending and cultivating the Great Dao of Time within the river. This had undeniably been the right choice. With Carefree Heavenly Venerate's Nine Secrets: Xing as his foundation, Yuangeng had crossed the threshold of time in relatively little time.
After that, he had also tried looking downstream along the River of Time into the future, only to see hundreds of millions of utterly different scenes in an instant. An astronomical torrent of information had surged toward him, and even Yuangeng's vision had gone black beneath its onslaught.
Only after a long while had Yuangeng come to understand. Looking downstream along