Chapter 1212 - 840: Time Skill Evolution

Zhang Chen thought as much, but just looking at the imposing figure of The Queen Mother of the West, his heart couldn’t help but skip a beat.

"I am less than a hundred miles away from The Queen Mother of the West. This woman has hands that reach the heavens, and the Peach Tree also has spirituality. If she truly notices my little actions, wouldn’t that be unfortunate? Moreover, there’s also an old ape in the Daluo Realm watching intently."

Zhang Chen glanced around and saw the old ape hidden among the branches of the Peach Tree, immediately stifling all his little thoughts.

It’s better to eat the Peach of Immortality honestly and resist the power of the river of time!

While Zhang Chen was eating the Peach of Immortality, the old ape was also eating it, and at a faster pace than Zhang Chen.

Amidst the myriad thoughts in Zhang Chen’s mind, his authority over time slightly trembled. The power of time invading his body stimulated his Time Superpower. In his Primordial Spirit, the Time Superpower flashed, evolving countless symbols, absorbing the invading power of time, and even actively drawing the external power of time into his body.

The Queen Mother of the West was constantly maneuvering within the river of time, raising towering waves. The river of time rippled with layers of waves, which traveled through the chaos, landing on the altar and transforming into droplets of time flowing on the altar.

At this moment, the altar staggered, and Zhang Chen couldn’t hold onto the Peach Tree, falling directly from it. As splashes hit Zhang Chen and his body aged visibly at the point of impact, before he could bite the peach, the power of time in his Primordial Spirit surged, absorbing the droplets clinging to his skin. Then, the time power symbols in Zhang Chen’s Primordial Spirit visibly proliferated, and the power of time grew stronger.

"My power of time... The water of the river of time is the origin of time, the tangible manifestation of time’s power. For my Time Divine Techniques, this is an immense resource," Zhang Chen’s eyes lit up as he gazed at the continually splashing droplets from the river of time, his sight clearer than ever before.

"But I can’t expose my methods in front of The Queen Mother of the West and that Daluo Immortal. Otherwise, if something stirs up, drawing calculations from The Queen Mother, it would be dire." Zhang Chen wanted to greedily absorb the water flying onto the altar, but he quickly quelled this impulse, fearing he might cause trouble he couldn’t handle.

With water splashing everywhere, surrounding the altar was filled with water. As Zhang Chen’s feet hit the ground, the water droplets of time that splattered on the altar were absorbed by him.

"I only need to quietly absorb them on the ground, pretending to dodge the water everywhere and make a panicked scene all around." A thought flashed through Zhang Chen’s mind, and the next moment, he started shouting wildly:

"How terrifying these water droplets are!!! It’s deadly, absolutely deadly!!!"

While running wildly, Zhang Chen absorbed the water droplets on the ground. At this moment, countless water droplets crashed down like waves, the sensation akin to a giant wave pounding on the deck. Zhang Chen, while munching on the Peach of Immortality, sprinted frantically across the altar.

Over there, a thousand Golden Armored Warriors sensed something amiss, gathered together, formed an array, and encircled the Peach Tree, clutching its roots and interconnected like chains. One by one, they plucked the peaches like scooping the moon from a well in an elementary school text, passing them to each other.

Observing this intrigue, Zhang Chen did not fly up to join in the commotion, merely scampering wildly around the Peach Tree, absorbing the fallen droplets.

At this moment, the force in Zhang Chen’s soul representing Time Divine Techniques surged wildly. Numerous mystical symbols flashed, increasingly proliferating and arranging in some mystical order. When the symbols reached their extreme at a certain moment, they aligned to form a transparent silk thread. As soon as the thread formed, Zhang Chen felt his Primordial Spirit quiver, his mind buzzing, as endless information surged into his mind. Then, the thread emitted a strong suction force, absorbing all the droplets of time on the surrounding ground. The time thread began to replicate wildly, splitting from one to two, and two into three...

"The power of time has strengthened! What an incredible creation to have gained access to the river of time with my own Divine Techniques, let alone directly absorbing the power of time droplets," Zhang Chen’s eyes revealed a trace of disbelief.

At this moment, the river of time stirred up countless waves, constantly shooting droplets that splashed across the expansive altar ground, offering Zhang Chen a Great Creation.

As The Queen Mother of the West drove the altar through the chaos, she had no time for Zhang Chen. Hearing his robust shouts, and considering Zhang Chen had consumed immortal peaches for fifty years in the Peach Garden, who could outlive him? Therefore, she disregarded Zhang Chen, allowing him to scamper wildly on the ground, yelling incessantly.

The power of the river of time was indeed ferocious, even capable of penetrating through the power of chaos. Despite The Queen Mother of the West and eighty-one Innate Grand Arrays, they couldn’t completely isolate the endless waves.

After an unknown duration battling through wind and waves, Zhang Chen suddenly felt a slight tremor in his Primordial Spirit. The thread made of time’s power shot out an incredible mystery, continually self-replicating until it had transformed into a ’rope’. Watching the ’rope’, Zhang Chen clearly understood that it wasn’t a simple rope but a miniature time river comprised of 129,600 threads.

"I actually evolved a river of time?" Zhang Chen’s eyes filled with amazement, most crucially, now possessing the ability to manipulate time.

Using his own river of time as fuel, he could accelerate time, freeze time, or reverse time.

"But my time power is still too weak, constrained so that it can only spur a single object, limiting me to once a day per object." Zhang Chen mumbled to himself quietly.

For him, it was just adding two functions, that is, time reversal and time pause, but the time limit was still only three jiazi.

"It’s truly unbelievable. I wonder if I jump into the river of time, causing it to overflow, how incredible my river of time would become," Zhang Chen pondered in his heart.

However, after a brief reflection, Zhang Chen dismissed the idea. As long as he wasn’t foolish, he should anticipate that if he really jumped into the river of time, what awaited him wasn’t the growth of his river of time but rather his tributary being swallowed up directly.

It’s like a ditch and a great river; once they collide, the ditch would be instantly devoured, even filled up with sediment.

"I can’t be suicidal. Isn’t living well better? Once my small tributary touches the great river, only death awaits me." Zhang Chen restrained the thought, having no intention of jumping from the altar to experiment. He simply bit into a Peach of Immortality while running in the flow.

The waves roared, and peaches continuously fell from the Peach Tree to the ground, shaking even the innate spiritual plants.

As Zhang Chen was secretly absorbing the Power of Time, suddenly the entire altar became calm, and the whole river of time had been thrown behind, leaving it far off in the distance.

"Have I crossed it?" Zhang Chen gazed at the time river water being repelled like ebbing tide from the altar, his eyes filled with regret.

This was indeed a rare opportunity for him.

"What a pity!" Zhang Chen collected his thoughts and scanned the external world with his eyes, seeing the Qi of Chaos already dispersed, reforming into the Five Directions Banner, reverting to the original form of the Innate Grand Array. But the altar beneath his feet had changed form, shining like jade, inscribed with countless golden patterns. These patterns flashed and moved according to some mysterious law, with an indestructible aura flowing through them.

"This altar was originally just ordinary Kunlun Mountain stones, later integrated with eighty-one Innate Grand Arrays, tempered by Celestial Thunder, and further refined by the river of time, now evolving into something extraordinary, from ordinary materials transformed into Heavenly and Earthly Treasures. Even the power of time is inscribed upon it." A touch of caution was evident in Zhang Chen’s eyes.

No matter what material, as long as it has traveled the river of time, it becomes extraordinary.

The Golden Armor Divine General on the tree quickly descended to the ground, automatically picking up the fallen peaches, while The Queen Mother of the West turned her head to glance at Zhang Chen, showing no change, then continued to ride the altar, flying through the void.

At this time, having crossed that river of time, a violent space storm arose in the void. The space storm was suppressed by the Innate Grand Array, refined into pure Power of Space, tempering the material of the Jade Platform below.

"Where exactly does The Queen Mother of the West want to go? What is her destination?" Countless thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen’s mind, but he couldn’t guess The Queen Mother of the West’s target, so he simply sat down, pondering his own river of time.

Looking closely at what lay deep within his Primordial Spirit, it truly was a meandering and twisting river, with no known beginning or end, endlessly traversing the void.

"Unbelievable!" Zhang Chen marveled. How could a person possibly control a river of time?

The Time Divine Techniques he obtained back then indeed exceeded his expectations, even evolving to such a degree one day.

But when his gaze swept over the interface and saw the data on the Golden Finger Interface, he couldn’t help but feel a tinge of distress, subconsciously taking a deep breath:

[21 Skills (Twelfth Tier): Time Control (0/100000000000000000)]

[Remark 1: You can accelerate the time on a certain object for three jiazi years.]

[Remark 2: You can reverse the time on a certain object for three jiazi, including related cause and effect of the event.]

[Remark 3: You can pause the time flow of a single target, including related cause and effect of the event.]

[Remark 3: The same object can only be activated once a day.]