Chapter 1106

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

That severed timeline, wrapped in Creation Power, actually began to slowly extend at both broken ends.

It looked like a dried-up riverbed into which water was flowing once more.

Although the speed of extension was extremely slow, and the degree extremely slight, it was indeed extending.

Seeing this scene, Xu Zhangqing's pupils contracted slightly.

Creation Power actually had an effect on Interstice Dust.

Not destruction, not absorption.

But mending!

That severed timeline, under the nourishment of his Creation Power, was beginning to regrow in some way that could not be fully understood.

When the two severed ends touched each other, they closed together.

Like a snapped thread, now reconnected.

Although faint traces still remained at the junction, they were indeed connected.

And at the moment the timeline reconnected, the golden light on the surface of that grain of Interstice Dust suddenly flared for an instant.

Then, it was no longer "Interstice Dust."

It had become a complete, closed, miniature temporal circulation independent of the long river of time.

Although small enough to be negligible, it had indeed become an independent closed loop.

Xu Zhangqing pinched this repaired grain of "Interstice Dust" at his fingertip, sensing the subtle power flowing within.

Suddenly, a thought occurred to him.

If he used Creation Power to mend the timelines of all the Interstice Dust in the Spirit Field, would these time closed loops affect the growth of the spirit plants?

Spirit plants that originally required ninety-nine years to mature — would they grow faster?

Or would they produce completely different changes?

If it was truly as he thought, that would equal discovering another ripening method!

And this ripening method would probably be more powerful than all those he had mastered before.

At this moment, Xu Zhangqing held that repaired grain of Interstice Dust at his fingertip, sensing the power of time flowing within.

Suddenly, his heart stirred.

In that battle with Kong Fang, the Six-Colored Lotus had once absorbed fragments of the other's Time and Space Laws.

Granting him, too, a sliver of control over time and space.

The timeline inside this grain of Interstice Dust before him had already been repaired into a complete closed loop.

If he absorbed it, what would happen?

Xu Zhangqing did not hesitate for long.

He wrapped the Interstice Dust in Creation Power and slowly guided it into his body.

The instant the Interstice Dust entered his body, that closed timeline traveled along his meridians all the way inward, finally sinking into his Qi Sea, where it was absorbed by the Six-Colored Lotus.

The next moment, an extremely subtle sensation emerged.

It was neither an increase in power.

Nor a loosening of his cultivation realm.

But a finer change.

Xu Zhangqing's understanding of time increased by just a tiny bit.

Like a riverbed dried for who knows how many years, finally receiving its first drop of water.

Although this one drop was insignificant for the entire riverbed, not even filling a single crack, it at least moistened it for that instant.

Seeing it truly had an effect, Xu Zhangqing's eyes brightened.

The time closed loop repaired by Creation Power could actually be absorbed by him.

And after absorption, there was indeed a thread of progress in the Time Law.

How slight was this progress?

So slight that if he did not carefully perceive it, it could not be detected at all!

But Xu Zhangqing was not comparing with others, but with himself.

From zero to one, no matter how small this "one" might be, that is still a qualitative change.

However, the excitement lasted only an instant.

Soon, he calmed down.

Interstice Dust.

Came from the Dao Venerate.

The other party, with might Xu Zhangqing currently could not imagine, scattered it across the entire Beidou Star Domain.

Every drop of heavenly dew contained Interstice Dust.

Every wisp of wind contained Interstice Dust.

Every inch of soil contained Interstice Dust.

The entire Beidou Star Domain, from the revolution of the seven stars down to the growth of a single spirit rice plant, all relied on the stability brought by Interstice Dust.

The consumption of these things must be unimaginably vast.

Every day, every moment, every minute, even every second.

The Great Dao Venerable alone, with his own power, maintains the operation of this Star Domain.

Precisely because the consumption is enormous, a few fewer Dust of Time particles would most likely go unnoticed by him.

Like scooping a bowl of water from a great river that surges ceaselessly — who would notice?

The problem is, Xu Zhangqing doesn't want to scoop just one bowl.

He wants to scoop many bowls!

If he mends Dust of Time on a large scale in the Spirit Field and then absorbs them, there might be no issue in the short term, but over time, with repeated occurrences, who can guarantee it definitely won't be discovered?

If discovered, that wouldn't be something explainable in a few words.

After all, the Creation Heavenly Scripture bestowed by the Great Dao Venerable has only four layers.

Yet Xu Zhangqing had only arrived the day before yesterday, and he had already advanced to the fifth layer.

Anyone would know something is off!

Xu Zhangqing fell silent, his mind rapidly calculating.

Soon, he had an idea.

It's not that he won't absorb.

It's that he can't absorb here.

The next time the Heavenly Dew descends, he will secretly intercept a portion and directly put it into his Personal Space.

The Personal Space is a completely independent world separate from the Outside; once inside, he can then mend the Dust of Time and absorb them.

At that time, even if the Great Dao Venerable is more powerful, he still cannot perceive what happens inside an independent space.

This way, he won't be discovered, and he can slowly accumulate.

Having made up his mind, Xu Zhangqing no longer dwelled on this problem.

His figure flashed, and he arrived at the Spirit Field Ridge outside.

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The night was deep, the starlight flourishing.

A thin mist permeated the Spirit Field.

Xu Zhangqing stood on the Spirit Field Ridge, first glancing at the Fifth-Grade Spirit Field.

The dark-gold Breath Soil rose and fell faintly beneath the starlight, as if breathing.

At the very center of the Fifth-Grade Spirit Field, seven seeds of Nine-Revolution Star Grass were quietly developing.

He thought for a moment, then shifted his gaze away from the Fifth-Grade Spirit Field, moving it sideways to the Third-Grade Spirit Field.

The Third-Grade Spirit Field grows Spirit Rice.

The most common, the most ordinary, the least valuable.

Using it for a trial right now couldn't be more suitable.

Even if something unexpected happens, the loss can be ignored.

Xu Zhangqing's Divine Sense probed into the soil, quickly locking onto a Dust of Time particle.

This Dust of Time's internal timeline was exactly the same as the previous one — both ends neatly severed by someone with mighty power.

Xu Zhangqing activated the Creation Power, probing into the Dust of Time's interior.

Nourished by the Creation Power, the severed ends began to extend.

The speed was extremely slow, but they were indeed moving.

A moment later, the two severed ends touched.

The next second, they closed!

Golden light flashed faintly deep in the soil, then dimmed.

Repair complete.

Another small Time Closed Loop was thus born.

Xu Zhangqing gave a light push, sending it to a Spirit Rice plant beside it.

Immediately he stood up, quietly watching the Spirit Rice.

Initially, there was no change at all.

The Spirit Rice was still that same Spirit Rice, no different from the surrounding Spirit Rice.

But soon, change came.

It began to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye — its stalk slowly rising taller, its root system extending outward in the soil, continuously absorbing nutrients and Spiritual Energy.

Moreover, this wasn't the violent forced growth of a Cultivation Acceleration Technique, but a more natural growth, closer to the passage of time itself.

As if this Spirit Rice's time had quietly been sped up a little!