After ten seconds of chanting, the skill "Dignified Compassion of Chaotic Space-Time (Dignified) (Compassion)" successfully took effect.
In an instant, the sun-and-moon gears, which had been spinning wildly counterclockwise like a world-destroying millstone intent on grinding every intruder to dust, abruptly stopped.
They had not been forcibly halted by an external force. Instead, the very underlying rules governing their operation, the invisible river called "time" upon which they depended, had been forcibly turned back by a higher power.
After a brief standstill, the endless blazing suns and bright moons began rotating clockwise in an utterly bizarre manner that defied all reason.
It was not that some external force had forcibly changed how the suns and moons moved. Rather, the skill "Dignified Compassion of Chaotic Space-Time (Dignified) (Compassion)" had forced them backward along the dimension of time.
Zhou Heng remained seated upright on the "Unordered Star Seat (Vastness)." Like an ancient deity strolling leisurely through the River of Time, he traveled unhurriedly deeper into the "Epic Divine Ability's Contemplation Return Path."
Afterward, Zhou Heng repeated the exact same procedure.
Whenever the sun-and-moon gears that blotted out the sky broke free of time reversal's influence and came grinding counterclockwise with unstoppable force once more, he activated "Dignified Compassion of Chaotic Space-Time (Dignified) (Compassion)." After ten seconds of chanting, he forcibly reversed their time again.
The cycle repeated, over and over.
Before Zhou Heng, the "infinity rotation of the ancient sun and moon," enough to drive any existence below a Sea of Stars Lord to despair, was like a battered music box with jammed gears endlessly repeating the same melody: clumsy, ridiculous, and utterly unthreatening.
After an unknown number of repetitions, Zhou Heng finally left that terrifying region covered by reversed suns and moons, capable of grinding all things out of existence.
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