To the Time Divine Lord, this process lasted no more than a few short breaths.
But for Chen Yang, whom he had used as the means to break the deadlock, the moment that True God-level Light Divine Technique descended upon him, he felt everything around him fall into stillness.
In this state, Chen Yang once again experienced the same sensation as when he had previously been immersed in the River of Time.
And at that very moment, the mid-grade divine technique that he had not known how to wield or awaken began to stir to life within his mind of its own accord.
"This divine technique has been drawn forth by a higher-level divine technique!"
Chen Yang was quick to react. He immediately realized that this was the perfect opportunity to grasp the technique, then calmed his mind and sensed the fluctuations of the divine technique within himself amid this frozen time.
During this process, four characters from the sixteen-character true mantra spoken earlier by the Time Divine Lord quietly flowed into his consciousness.
"Untroubled before or after..."
As Chen Yang comprehended this mid-grade divine technique, he gradually opened his mind under the guidance of those four characters, allowing the laws of time permeating this heaven and earth to enter him.
By Chen Yang's perception, this bout of enlightenment should have lasted a very long time—measured by the time of the present world, perhaps several decades.
Yet at this exact moment, it had been no more than an exceedingly brief instant.
When the things around him began to move once more and the River of Time resumed its flow, the mid-grade divine technique fully merged into Chen Yang's consciousness.
"Untroubled before or after, lagging light preserves time; speak only of today."
As Chen Yang murmured, he spoke the name of