Time was the most abstract and unfathomable power in this world.
It was impartial and indifferent, towering above all living beings and all things, like Heaven's Will Strike suspended above every world, ready to fall at any moment and harvest all life with the utmost fairness.
Every living being in the world was manipulated by the power of time. Yet they could almost never touch the essence of time, merely enduring its erosion passively and without awareness.
Only by becoming immortals could they gradually escape that manipulation and cease to be numb before time.
After attaining kingship or even becoming emperors, individuals could gradually transcend time's constraints, achieve true transcendence, and enjoy immortality and eternity.
He Mu's Dao Fruit of the apex of immortality rivaled an Immortal King's Dao Fruit and had only just entered this level. Thus, as he rose and sank in the River of Time, he had barely managed to preserve himself rather than succumb at once.
At the same time, thanks to the unique nature and strength of his Dao Fruit, the Wuliang Dao Wheel, the Dao-Proving Divine Weapon He Mu had cultivated with his very life, was likewise unique among the "artifacts" of all ages. It could almost be regarded as a living Quasi-King Creature, an exceptionally extraordinary existence.
Yet even He Mu himself could not move freely before time and the passage of years at present. He remained subject to considerable restrictions, let alone a weapon like the Wuliang Dao Wheel.
Thus, after that sword strike of the Sole Ruler of Eternity in the River of Time, the Wuliang Dao Wheel had been forced to part from He Mu and tumble against the river's current into a more ancient stretch of time.
That sword strike of the Sole Ruler of Eternity had been