Chapter 71

"Pre-requisite technologies are insufficient; the spacetime tech tree isn't fully unlocked. First, establish a temporal observation station—get a data collection point up and running."

Hermes lightly traced his fingertip across the air; time flowed like water. Any ordinary human, in that instant, would have aged to death instantly.

Great Authority · Alchemy!

With meticulous care, he captured ripple after ripple of time. Under the effect of Great Authority · Alchemy, the ethereal time waves were refined into blocks of special 【bricks】, forming the foundation of the observation station.

The digital supercomputer operated at full power, helping him organize, categorize, and calculate the terrifying stream of information generated by this action.

"Keeper of Cosmic Order, calculate the ideal window for observing the flow of time."

"Yes, Lord Hermes. Scanning via quantum observation technology and mapping the structural diagram of this region."

"Hss~"

Barely one minute into operation, Hermes was slammed by this overwhelming torrent of information, leaving him dizzy, disoriented, and seeing stars.

"Hold on!"

The Keeper of Cosmic Order frantically processed the data, but even it began to falter under this endless flood of information.

Hermes refused to yield, his hands moving at blinding speed.

There was no time to build a complete 【Temporal Observation Station】.

In the final two seconds, he could only manage to lay the refined 【bricks】 into place, forming a small reef within this torrent of time.

That would have to suffice as a minor outpost.

Then, without surprise, Hermes finally collapsed under the strain and was swept out of this special domain.

"I wonder how the End Star God manages to move freely within the realm of time..."

Recalling the End Star God’s state, Hermes wondered how He accomplished it.

He himself, though not yet formally ascended to godhood, had reached a level nearly indistinguishable from divinity.

Yet even he found interfering with the realm of time this difficult.

Then how did the End King manage it?

"Could it be that the rumor—End Star God is just a mask worn by Archivili—isn’t fabricated by fictional historians after all?"

Returning to reality, Hermes’s expression grew subtly contemplative.

As a unique Herald of Expansion, Hermes could make rough estimates of what the Expansion Deity was capable of.

According to his calculations, if Archivili truly sought to expand into the past and future, it would be extremely difficult—but not entirely hopeless.

At that moment, if he simply donned the End Star God’s mask...

Wouldn’t he become the End King?

"Fictional historians—terrifyingly astute!"

After much thought, Hermes could only sigh in awe.

Setting aside his frustration over the failed spacetime research, Hermes finally turned his gaze toward the unique planet formed by the fusion of Blue Star and Teyvat.

With a thought, he activated the Heavenly Dao · Management System.

World Name: ~ (Pending Confirmation)

Cosmic Root: 0.003

Conceptual Power: Pure Beauty (0.7)

World Authority: Great Authority · Astrology (153), Great Authority · Quantum (49), Great Authority · Digital (132), Great Authority · Dimension (101), Great Authority · Alchemy (141)

World Capacity: 576/6000

Management System Alert: Please confirm the World’s True Name immediately. Please determine whether to integrate Teyvat’s Ley Line System. Please incorporate Teyvat’s Three Realms’ Power into governance as soon as possible. Please decide whether to remove Teyvat’s Destiny Seat System. The Management System has detected the Original Primordial Sea possesses unique value; please submit a specific disposal plan...

This action had greatly enriched the previously minimalist World Management System.

Most of the powers Hermes now wielded had become the foundational pillars of this world.

It was clearly visible: during this period, his Great Authority · Astrology, Great Authority · Alchemy, and Great Authority · Quantum had all made substantial progress.

He had even newly condensed two additional Great Authorities: Dimension and Digital!

"Still, the urgent matters flagged by the Management System must be addressed promptly."

First, Hermes projected a sweep of his will into two vast, boundless eyes, scanning the entire world—sky, earth, oceans, dimensional star seas...

Scene after scene flowed and shifted within his gaze.

Finally, a true name emerged in his mind—

World True Name · Star Crown Court!

"The land blessed by stars: Star Crown Court..."

At some point, a golden-haired girl had silently appeared before Hermes, waiting. Seeing the world’s master imprint its true name, she savored the words for a moment, her dual eyes—one blue, one gold, spiraling like DNA—filled with an indescribable complexity.

Hermes finally turned his gaze toward the four revived Teyvat Regents: Life, Death, Time, and Space.

The first to speak was the Regent of Life—Nabellis, clad in a black-and-white nun’s robe, symbolizing the hues of life.

"Nabellis, Rovana, Istalur, Asmodeus."

Hermes named them aloud.

He regarded the four Regents calmly, his eyes serene.

He felt no lingering sentiment toward them from a past life.

He had rescued them only because they were rare talents—letting them die would have been a waste.

To govern the Four Principles—Life, Death, Time, Space—is exceedingly rare. With proper cultivation, their potential for growth remains vast.

Though old novels claim “Time is King, Space is Noble” are nonsense.

In the end, strength on any path depends solely on the cultivator’s mastery—not some absurd dogma.

Yet, undeniably, certain paths possess unique advantages in their early stages.

For instance, under time stasis, if your level hasn’t reached a certain threshold, anyone who dares approach dies instantly!

Look at Himekami of the Lotus Mountain—didn’t she use her time ability to gain countless extra cultivation hours, leaping past countless peers who once stood at her level?

Thus, talents in Life, Death, Time, and Space are genuinely rare and precious at this stage.

Moreover, the Regent of Time, Istalur, can directly assist his research into time technology—her value is immense.

"Then, Lord Hermes, Itachi’ve spent precious time reviving us—what do Itachi require of us?"

The Regent of Time, Istalur, spoke softly, her small face calm. Two overlapping floating rings hovered above her head, symbolizing the cycle of time.

Among the four Regents present, she alone sensed a hint of the truth about this great being.

In Istalur’s eyes, Lord Hermes—bearing the title Primordial Great Celestial Lord—was already beginning to transcend the confines of the present.

He seemed to be slowly spreading into past and future.

The process was excruciatingly slow, yet his advance was utterly unstoppable.