"Time direction?"
This involves Li Xingkong's unknown territory. Even now, although Li Xingkong has become much stronger, he still hasn't been able to touch the realm of time.
Even before the practice of cultivation, people had proposed a hypothetical scenario: if one could exceed the speed of light, then time could be reversed.
But this idea, while seemingly reasonable, is actually not.
The so-called time reversal is simply because for things to be seen in the world, they need the propagation of light. When the speed exceeds the speed of light, you have an additional way of looking at this event that is carried by light and spreads in all directions, compared to ordinary people.
When ordinary people go to the cinema to watch a movie, since they don't have the right to control the playback, they can only watch the movie as it plays and follow the plot.
Reaching the speed of light is equivalent to pressing the pause button; your speed becomes synchronized with a scene in the movie, achieving what's known as time stopping.
The speed exceeds the speed of light, which is like watching a video on your own computer—you can fast forward or rewind as you like, or even watch it backwards without any problem.
However, you can only change how you watch the video; you can't directly modify the scene when the video was filmed.
This so-called time travel may indeed be useful in revealing the truth, but it doesn't actually change time. Everything you can see has already happened, so there's no question of changing it.
However, the time described by Li Xingkong and the system is completely different. It is a power to change time in a true sense, which is different from the time deduced by existing theories.
"Is this kind of power something that civilization can even begin to control...?"
Li Xingkong thought about it and realized that the power of this authority was truly unimaginable.
"Of course, it's possible, but extremely difficult. Looking across the entire system pool, there are very few people who can control time."
"The power of this authority is far too complex; I think these forces will have made a wasted trip."
The system's voice had a slightly mocking tone.
I originally thought these guys were looking for it, but it turns out they were looking for this thing.
Although they are considered to be at the pinnacle of civilization in this universe, they are still somewhat unqualified to access true time-related powers.
"Then why do I feel a strange sense of familiarity when I see her?"
Time is a very complex thing, and Li Xingkong knew that he was far from being qualified to touch it, so he naturally didn't think about it too much.
The scenario in the novel where powerful forces fight tooth and nail for a precious treasure, only to have it ultimately benefit the protagonist, is destined not to play out around him.
After all, the gap between reality and fiction is too great. Treasures that can attract the attention of major powers are completely unknown to Li Xingkong and even slightly less powerful civilizations.
Even its form, mode of existence, mechanism of action, and how to capture it are all unknown secrets.
How can one participate in this level of competition when everything is unknown?
However, he had no hope of competing for it, but he was curious to know something about Jian Yu's Jian Yu Li Xingkong.
The system was delighted.
"Is it possible that you are an orphan they abandoned on Earth, and now that you've met them, the kinship you share has been rekindled?"
"Get lost! Do you think I don't know whether I was born from my mother or not? Stop spouting nonsense. You've been watching too much Dragon Ball!"
"Sigh, what's this called? A poor kid who's been hanging around for years discovers he's the real, wild, legitimate prince. Novels always have this kind of plot."
"Nonsense, what were you doing while I was cultivating? Were you reading novels on Ocean Tomato?"
"Okay, okay, I was just teasing you."
The system stopped joking and said seriously.
"It's normal for you to feel a sense of familiarity with them. I estimate that 80% of species in the entire universe feel a sense of familiarity when they are in their presence."
"Because their species is so unique, all the aliens you've ever seen, regardless of their physique or appearance, have some degree of close connection with them."
The system's words made Li Xingkong even more curious. There were so many aliens in the universe, and they didn't seem to have anything in common.
"Judging from the body structure we Jian Yu saw, it is itself a ray of light. Unlike conventional carbon-based life forms or even spirits, you can think of it as a beam of light with sentience, and most civilizations in this universe have evolved in environments with light."
"In other words, its type of existence is equivalent to your wet nurse or foster mother. As civilization develops, individual worship of the sun is gradually fading, but it is undeniable that humans have a natural affinity for light itself."
"No wonder... now that you put it that way, it makes sense. But why does she feel like I'm familiar? If this sense of closeness is common in most civilizations, then she shouldn't find it strange at all."
"Have you forgotten what your innate Golden Core ability is? You think 'Earth-Traversing Golden Light' is just an escape technique?"
The system rolled its eyes at Li Xingkong.
"Supernatural powers are not like magic, which can be used when needed and have no effect when not used. Supernatural powers have permanent effects on your body. Now that you can transform into light, you already have a certain similarity to their structure, so it's not surprising that they recognize you."
"The relationship between lights is different from that between humans. There are no barriers to the fusion between lights. Perhaps at the very first glance, the part of your body that has been evolved by supernatural powers has already deeply merged with it, exchanging a great deal of information. It's just that because you are not of their race, you cannot absorb this kind of information."
"Oh, this..."
Li Xingkong was completely bewildered by the system's description; was this system even speaking seriously?
"Moreover, the vitality of her race is absolutely the strongest among all the aliens you've ever seen; it can be described as immortal."
The system remarked that even it was somewhat envious.
Some species are born at heights that are beyond our sight, while others, like mayflies, struggle to live only a day.
"Light is indeed difficult to destroy, but it doesn't have anything to do with immortality..."
As long as a physical form exists, there should be a way to destroy it.
"If it were just light, that would be one thing, but the Kingdom of Fixed Light, a civilization that possesses weapons of nature, is not so simple."
"Let me put it this way: its existence is not simply a beam of light, but rather a 'long' state that this light has existed from its birth until it reaches here."
"To destroy such a creature, you need to follow its entire path, extinguishing all the light it leaves behind, going all the way back to its origin, erasing all traces of this beam of light that has lasted for countless years and spanned countless light-years, only then can you completely eliminate it."
"If you were in charge, how would you kill such a creature? With just your Ten Thousand Swords Art and supernatural powers?"
Hearing what the system said, Li Xingkong fell into deep thought. Good heavens, once a life form arrives at an advanced civilization, it's like entering a completely different world.
Even though the aliens around him were just savages yelling and wielding guns, these advanced civilizations were like figures from the Myth —none of them were easy to mess with.
Previously, he felt that the projection of the Sihali Kingdom was already quite difficult to deal with, but now it seems that he has no way to harm the Kingdom of Fixed Light at all.