It was precisely because Mu Bai was the first spirit seed in Dai Long's Inner World that he had stirred the Concept of Time within it, thereby truly bringing Dai Long's Inner World to life. At the same time, the Inner World provided the foundation for the spirit seed to grow and multiply, and the lives propagated by the spirit seed were also subject to the constraints of time.
World, life, and time were intimately connected. Life was the trigger that awakened time; without life, there was no such thing as time. Naturally, every life was constrained by time. A world, meanwhile, was the soil in which life and time interacted. In different soils, the union of life and time would bear different fruit.
However, life here referred to the initial life within a world. For the multitude of beings that came afterward, their relationship with time was different. For each life, time existed only while it lived; death meant the cessation of its individual time. Yet the time of a world continued, because other lives still existed. If every life within a world reached its end, that would mean the extinction of that world's time.
That world would then cease to exist.
From this, it was clear that time was nothing more than the relationships between lives!
To stop one life's time, one needed only to sever all its connections to other lives. When it formed connections with other lives again, that meant this life had begun a new cycle of Reincarnation!
Mu Bai spent five or six consecutive days in quiet contemplation in Dai Long's secret chamber, slowly sorting through his memories of countless cycles of Reincarnation within Dai Long's Inner World. He grasped a single point, gradually extended it into a line, then wove countless lines into