Chapter 1780 - A Day in Heaven, a Year on Earth (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In Guanghan Temple, Zhang Ruochen pulled out the sundial and placed it at the center of the hall.

Then, Zhang Ruochen held the Oracle of Saint Monk Xumi and saw a cyan-colored light appear on the sundial. Its brilliance was magnificent.

“It is said that Saint Monk Xumi was the master of the sundial?” Zhang Ruochen asked.

Yueshen nodded before she said, “Yes, and no. Saint Monk Xumi was just one of its masters. In fact, the sundial has existed for a very long time, and it can be tracked all the way back to the genesis of civilization.”

Yueshen pushed her slender jade-like hands in the direction of the sundial, and a surge of mighty divine power poured into it.

Whoos.h.!.+

A dense cl.u.s.ter of light flew out of the sundial and engulfed the entire temple.

“It is the Mark of Time. Stand back.”

Zhang Ruochen’s expression changed, and he darted back as quick as lightning.

In the Frostfire Phoenix’s lair, where Zhang Ruochen had seen the sundial for the first time, being hit by three of the Marks of Time was enough to shave off fifty years from his lifespan.

Zhang Ruochen only stopped after he retreated about a hundred and twenty feet away.

On the other hand, Yueshen did not move at all and just stood in the same spot.

The Marks of Time were extinguished like a candle in the wind long before they got close to her.

“Amazing. She’s able to ignore the Power of Time,” Zhang Ruochen said to himself.

Yueshen’s strength was truly unpredictable, ma.s.sive, and omnipotent. What could the world throw at her to defeat her?

It seemed as though Yueshen had seen through Zhang Ruochen’s thoughts, and she said, “It is not that the Power of Time cannot harm me, but the Power of Time from the sundial is too weak.”

“This is considered weak? Even if a Nine-step Saint King were to step within a hundred and twenty feet radius of the sundial, he would barely be able to take a few breaths before his entire lifespan is exhausted,” Zhang Ruochen said.

Yueshen responded, “When the sundial’s power is fully unleashed, forget about the one hundred and twenty feet radius, even the time in a macroworld will be turned upside down. The damage it could cause is completely unimaginable for someone of your current cultivation level.”

“I have tried to infuse Saint Qi into the sundial, but it was like tossing rocks into the sea. I did not get any reaction from the sundial at all. Does it require divine power to be activated?” Zhang Ruochen secretly asked.

Whoos.h.!.+

Perhaps the flow of time was just too fast, as the sundial actually emitted a sound that was similar to flowing water.

Yueshen stared at the sundial and said, “You can place the Oracle of Saint Monk Xumi into the groove in the middle of the stone platform.”

Zhang Ruochen observed it carefully and noticed that there were three grooves at the center of the platform.

The size and shape of the groove in the middle almost matched the spherical jade Oracle in his hand.

Immediately after, Zhang Ruochen made a new discovery. As long as he held the Oracle in his hand, the Mark of Time light spots would automatically avoid him.

“Interesting, very interesting. What kind of material is this jade made of that it can cross such a long span of time from one hundred thousand years ago to one hundred thousand years later? Could it be that this jade used to be part of the sundial itself?”

Zhang Ruochen walked back into Guanghan Temple with the jade in hand and placed it in the middle of the three grooves.

Nothing changed.

What was going on? Was there zero connection between the jade and the sundial?

Suddenly, all the Marks of Time that were floating in the air disappeared as the flow of time went into flux, becoming slower and slower.

Zhang Ruochen made some careful calculations, and a look of shock appeared on his face as he muttered to himself, “How is this possible? How… is it possible for the ratio of time to reach such a terrifying state.”

Yueshen faintly replied, “You do not have to be surprised. There used to be a saying in the Kunlun Realm, ‘one day in Heaven is one year on Earth’. That is because, a hundred thousand years ago, during the middle and later stages of the battle between G.o.ds, Saint Monk Xumi unleashed the sundial’s power to its maximum and engulfed the entire Kunlun Realm. A year of training in the Kunlun Realm meant that only a day had pa.s.sed in the Celestial Court and other macroworlds.

“In just a few hundred years, a large number of elite powerhouses had been born in the Kunlun Realm. By the time the Infernal Court noticed it, it was already too late. At that point, the Kunlun Realm had already become the largest and strongest macroworld, and the power they possessed was enough to determine the outcome of the final battle. If it had not been for…”

Yueshen abruptly stopped at this juncture as a look of regret appeared in her eyes, and she uttered a sentence that had a deep meaning to it. “The human heart is just too complicated!”

That was true.

Within a hundred and twenty feet away from the sundial, the ratio of time flow was indeed an astonis.h.i.+ng one to three hundred and sixty-five.

A year of training under the sundial would only be a day in the outside world.

Zhang Ruochen was shaken as he asked, “Did the Kunlun Realm have such a glorious period a hundred thousand years ago?”

“It just went by in a flash. Relying on the Power of Time caused its power to swell in a short period of time, and that proved to be ultimately fatal. Blackheart Demonlord was a G.o.d who cultivated during that glorious age, and what became of him?” Yueshen said.

Zhang Ruochen felt that Yueshen’s words were not merely a reference to the Kunlun Realm a hundred thousand years ago, but they also seemed to be a reminder to him.

“No matter how you put it, that period is indeed the brightest page in the Kunlun Realm’s history. Unfortunately, it was erased by an invisible force, and now, no one knows about it aside from the cultivators who have lived through that period,” Yueshen said.

“Who covered up that part of history? Why did they do that?” Zhang Ruochen asked.