The Supreme One

Chapter 595: Retreat in the Time Tower

Time slipped by slowly, but when the world became chaotic, time seemed to pass by very quickly.

Hundreds of years, millennia, thousands of years, and even tens of thousands of years have passed by so slowly and inadvertently.

This time was so long that even though Xia Xian was immersed in research, he could still feel that it seemed extremely long.

The most important thing is that since he participated in the academy's end-of-year assessment and won the well-deserved first place, he naturally had to use the academy's reward.

The most useful thing for Xia Xian is naturally the Time Tower. Other top-level spiritual resources are not of much use to Xia Xian.

Xia Xian took it and threw it directly to Sheng Wuya and the others to deal with. The Time Tower was indeed magical.

In this world, this power of time is unique. No other race, whether now or in the past, has such ability.

At least with Xiao Liuzi's information retrieval ability, he didn't find any.

Of course, some related abilities, such as aging and decay, can barely be considered time abilities, but in Xia Xian's opinion, most of them are not time abilities at all, but are equivalent to advancing the state of aging and decay.

For example, if the strength weakens or slows down a little, there are naturally records of the status of life and things in every time period in the world.

Or for newly emerged things like life, they can naturally be given the deduced state of aging and decay through the big data of rules.

This world doesn't even have the rules of time, which clearly shows how difficult it is.

The library's records show that many geniuses have challenged this rule.

After all, this rule can be said to be a blank rule that is open to the public. There is no need to worry about the remaining rules of the previous Taoist master becoming a huge obstacle on the road of cultivation.

But what I didn’t expect was that just comprehending this rule would be the biggest obstacle!

The most basic hurdle, the definition of time, has blocked too many talented monks throughout the ages.

After all, just talking about time, although it seems that everyone knows it and everyone can feel it, if you are serious about it, it is impossible to confirm what the real time is!

It seems that strictly speaking, time is just an artificial definition of certain phenomena.

The closest thing would be a unit of speed that defines change.

Then the key is the change of things, not the concept of time as defined.

For the rest, even the sight can become a rule, but this is indeed a fact, not a conceptual thing.

Therefore, everyone seems to feel that the conceptual definition of time is infinitely powerful and is a top-level avenue, but it is difficult to even get started.

The reason why this Time Tower has this name is that it is a consistent figurative name, that is, a tower that emits a strange light.

This kind of brilliance can accelerate the passage of time, that is, accelerate the speed of change of things, and is therefore called time.

But obviously, from the world's definition and imagination of time, it is not just the acceleration of time, but also the deceleration, stopping and even diversion of time, spanning the past and the future to be worthy of the status of time.

Obviously, this time tower is just a simple acceleration, making the individual faster. When compared with the outside world, there is naturally a time difference.

After staying in the Time Tower for a long time, Xia Xian naturally had a rough idea of ​​where this thing came from.

It is a peculiar spiritual stone that was born by chance, but it can release the ability to accelerate the speed of change of things.

After Lord Gu Rong got it, he cultivated it and built such a tower.

The closer they get, the more they are illuminated by the light called Time Stone, and the faster they accelerate.

Most of the time, the users of this time tower are races with extremely long lifespans and extremely long growth periods.

In order to grow up as quickly as possible, he simply slept in this time tower, accelerating the growth of his body, which would take tens of millions of years to grow, to millions or even hundreds of thousands of years.

It's not that it can't accelerate faster, but this acceleration ability is also limited.

If you stay in this time tower for too long, your own time will be affected and become chaotic.

That is to say, the body, which was originally connected to the world and changed at the same speed as the world, became less stable.

When the chaos reaches a certain level, it may even directly enter the final stage of decomposition and separation of life.

Every part of the body is separated by itself.

You may take a step, and your body moves away but your head remains there.

Or maybe the hands and feet become faster, but the brain becomes slower.

Even the entire person's soul collapses and splits, and it is basically irreversible. Even the Taoist master can only forcibly seal it but cannot completely heal it.

So after everyone enters, they naturally have to find the level of acceleration they can withstand.

It was only after Xia Xian actually experienced it that he discovered the real secret.

The effect of this time tower is indeed just acceleration, not speeding up the passage of time.

There is still an essential difference between them.

This acceleration increases the speed of change of individual things, but there is no acceleration in the core spirituality.

But in this world, spiritual changes have a pulling and guiding effect on material changes.

In other words, the soul that Xia Xian understands belongs to a future state, and spirituality also has similar characteristics.

Often when the spirit changes, it can guide and pull the material body to change.

However, the acceleration effect of this time tower obviously only affects the body.

Although the soul's thinking has also accelerated accordingly, it has done so at the expense of increasing the burden on the soul and physical spirituality.

Those who accelerate too long and too much and thus develop physical alienation do so because their spiritual burden is too heavy. Unable to bear it, their spirituality collapses and becomes chaotic.

However, Xia Xian's spiritual power was unprecedentedly strong. He even went straight into the core area of ​​the Time Tower and practiced next to the Time Stone.

That's an acceleration of nearly three thousand times, but its biggest effect on Xia Xian is just to make his thinking faster.

As for the speed of cultivation, it has absolutely no effect at all.

After all, what limits his cultivation speed is never how fast he cultivates, but whether he has insufficient spiritual power!

After he advanced to the fifth level, the original spiritual power that the spirit beads given by the insect extermination competition could provide had reached its upper limit. In order to maintain such a terrifying mental consumption, he had to spread his spiritual power to the outside world.

Now, the spiritual power refined by Xia Xian has spread throughout the entire Ancient Banyan Forest, and even spread to the outside world.

The purpose of spreading spiritual power over such a large area is to provide him with enough spiritual power to supply his own brain consumption.

If he had not made progress in studying the nature of energy and had not figured out a way to transmit energy through the air long ago, he probably would not have been able to maintain such powerful brain power so easily.

Naturally, he also spent some time and successfully studied the essence of this time tower.

It was also because of his clear research on the capabilities of the Time Tower that he made further breakthroughs in his understanding of the nature of energy, saving him a huge amount of time.

The power of this time tower is essentially a peculiar light wave, which can also be attributed to the special operation mode of energy.

After analyzing it thoroughly, Xia Xian can naturally use it in the form of spiritual patterns, and even increase the speed.

But the problem is that this is wasted spiritual power!

If you want to use the accelerating spiritual pattern created by Xia Xian to accelerate, the more powerful the energy body, the more spiritual power you will need to consume.

Xia Xian’s own realm is indeed not high, but he is on the path of perfect strengthening.

Just look at how much spiritual power he has consumed over the years to know how high the energy content in his body is.

Since this Time Tower is a reward, it naturally does not require his spiritual power to be consumed.

Although such a huge consumption of spiritual power is a big deal for Lord Gu Rong, he also knows that Xia Xian cannot stay for long, and this benefit can only be used for a short time, so he lets him use it.

Like other people outside the academy, even if they are qualified to enter the Time Tower, they still have to provide their own spiritual power as consumption, which is generally calculated by the number of times.

How long they can stay at a time depends on how many spirit crystals they bring with them.