116 Chapter 115: Artifacts of Time! (2/2)
Hearing his replies, Duan Li couldn't help but to nod in agreement.
Once one had reached the Core formation realm, cultivating too fast would leave their foundation to be weak and inefficient.
This was because of the purity of the spiritual Qi within the Qi balls inside of one's dantian, that has merged together to form Qi Core, and hence why the realm was called the Core formation realm.
The main point of reaching the Core formation realm besides becoming more powerful was so that a cultivator could have a boundless amount of spiritual Qi within them that they could use for an extended period of time.
Therefore, if someone at such a realm were to continue to cultivate without solidifying their skill arts, they would just be wasting their spiritual Qi with each usage as they lack the amount of proper output control.
”En, you should do that.” said Duan Li with a nod as a sign of his approval.
With that, Duan Li was the only one left in the courtyard. As he walked around, his mind started to wander.
”Hmm..”
Recalling the numerous events that was happening in the past, he couldn't help but to feel that there was something amiss.
Only that, he didn't know what that is.
Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Duan Li calmed his state of mind as he tried to piece together the little details of the events that had transpired during the past few days.
”My whole life changed the moment I encountered the golden mysterious pearl. After that, Ancestor Zong told me that my life was not connected to the strings of fate.. then during the second trial, I witnessed for myself of what the original timeline would be in 8 years from now on..”
Was encountering the golden mysterious pearl a coincidence?
He closed his eyes as he pondered even more deeply.
”My memories then merged together with myself of the original timeline and I seemed to inherit quite a bit of information from it as well. But why was it that, some certain event, even when I tried to recall it, I just can't seemed to remember?”
This started to bug him when he felt that he had met the Emperor before somewhere in the future few years later, but he can't even remember when and why he met the Emperor.
Also, a big figure such as Liu Sheng Juan, it cannot be that it was also my first time seeing or even knowing about him?
This all seemed too strange!
”Furthermore, since that encounter itself with the golden mysterious pearl, I had become a lot more stronger than from that timeline. This has already deviate significantly from the original event that was supposed to happen..”
The thing that had him really concerned about was that the monster stampede this time was far more dangerous than what he remembered.
Usually, only about a few thousand would arrive at most per wave. But according to the information from Shen Lu, that number has now suddenly increased to a staggering 30,000!
Unable to drive away this uneasy feeling that was nudging at him constantly, Duan Li decided to meet with a figure that should know the most regarding the world, the millennium Yidara tree - Ancestor Zong!
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Arriving at the vast hall, the millennium Yidara tree stood grandly at the middle of it all as the spiritual Qi around it hums gently.
”Ahh.. Child.. come forward.. it seems that.. you have.. quite a number.. of questions.. to ask..” Ancestor Zong said as soon as he noticed the presence of Duan Li entering the hall.
Hearing the manner of which the latter was speaking with, Duan Li couldn't help but to wonder of why Ancestor Zong was speaking so slowly all the time.
Was it due to the latter's age?
Coming forward, Duan Li explained the gist of his concerns to Ancestor Zong.
”I see.. so you have begun.. to feel.. the artifacts.. of time..” said Ancestor Zong.
Hearing this, Duan Li creased his brows together.
”Artifacts of time? Please, enlighten me Ancestor Zong!”
Ancestor Zong fell silent for a while before speaking.
”In the annals.. of legends.. before everything began.. there was only.. a single and linear.. 'Timeline'.. as with all creation.. everything.. has an eventual end..”
”This.. was supposed.. to repeat.. to loop.. for all eternity.. and was called.. the Ring of Eternal Time..”
”But, an existence.. an anomaly.. appeared.. that forces.. this single 'Timeline'.. to branch out.. from the loop.. creating a.. second 'Timeline'..”
”This anomaly.. exists in the.. second 'Timeline'.. and gained.. a power.. that none.. should have.. and through it.. created the.. third 'Timeline'.. that intervenes.. in the first 'Timeline'..”
”When the.. Ring of.. Eternal Time.. senses that the.. Second 'Timeline'.. intervening in the.. first 'Timeline'.. through the.. third 'Timeline'.. 'Time' began to produce.. the.. 'Artifacts of Time'..”
”This.. is a natural.. balance mechanism.. to counter.. the change.. to prevent the.. Ring of.. Eternal Time.. from being.. unravelled..”
”And you Child.. is also a product.. of this change.. with your life.. cut off from.. the strings of fate.. that I have.. already.. told you before.. Time.. will began to.. make a move.. on you.. everytime you make.. a change..”
Becoming a silent again, Ancestor Zong sighed out.
”This.. is the only.. thing.. that I could tell.. you.. for my ability.. is limited to tell.. what change.. will affect what.. and you.. would have to.. depend on yourselves.. for this one..”
After Duan Li listened to everything that the Ancestor Zong had just said to him, he found out that he had become even more confused!
The scale of that explanation regarding 'Time' seems to be too humongous on him at the moment, and he could not make any deep correlation to it.
”I need to investigate further if I wanted to know what Ancestor Zong meant..”
However now, there was one thing that was clear to him.
It was that 'Time' seems to try and prevent him from changing the future, and the weird changes to the nature of the oncoming monster stampede should be the result to balance out the changes that he made!
A deviation of history and 'Time' trying to correct itself..
This was the 'Artifacts of Time!'
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