Chapter 746: The True Face of Time

The Time Origin Divine Tree did not speak. Above this secret realm, before her eyes, fragments of time emerged one after another.

Those fragments were pieces of time concerning the youth.

In the Imperial Hall, the infant in arms was bestowed a name, and from birth, he was known throughout the world following the Imperial Edict.

Born into a prominent mansion, envied by countless people, his life was destined to have endless glory and wealth.

The child's courtyard, however, was extremely simple, fully displaying the frugal family style of a military family.

Playing chess, fishing, frolicking...

He did not cultivate like other children, nor did he have training in riding and archery, let alone studying military books or tactics.

Born unable to build a Foundation Establishment battle body, yet he could master all sorts of sword techniques and cultivation methods at a single glance.

He had a background envied by countless people, yet he only lived a simple life.

Until the relatives who went on the expedition returned in triumph, the youth's fate reversed. That battle's divine might shone upon Qingzhou City, and the snow of early winter fell early on that city, burying the footprints of the youth as he stepped out of the mansion...

The Time Origin Divine Tree silently gazed at these flipping time fragments. She could see that this youth's lifetime was a reincarnation; he had an early wisdom unusual for his age, which could absolutely not be explained by

natural talent.

But, this lifetime was extremely prominent, yet it was not lived happily.

As the Time Divine Tree, she had seen many heaven-gifted geniuses and had also seen their pasts.

There were those who suffered, filled with sorrow, losing both parents when young, like a lone star of heavenly evil, yet rising in adversity, obtaining opportunities, finding great teachers, rising step by step until they shone upon the world.

There were those who were prominent, born into the Imperial Clan, obtaining countless opportunities since childhood, living without worry, but with a firm heart, not addicted to beauty or external objects, finally walking their own path of cultivation.

There were also those who carried deep blood feuds, suffering all kinds of bullying since childhood, but finally killing a bloody path with their own strength, rushing out of the cage!

She had seen all kinds of strange life stories.

This youth's birth, to her, was just plain and unremarkable.

That so-called prominent Divine General Mansion, in her eyes, was just a scrap of the imperial brocade, counting for nothing.

If that youth had walked smoothly in the Divine General Mansion, or encountered some setbacks, and finally stood tall in adversity and rose, she wouldn't have cared at all.

She had seen too many examples like that.

But only this youth was somewhat different.

To say he was bitter, it couldn't be counted as bitter; after all, he had lived in luxury since childhood.

To say he was happy, it couldn't be counted either; the childhood companions who took care of him also left him, walking their own paths.

In the end, he couldn't even keep his own name, and was even worse off than those carrying deep blood feuds.

In that small figure, she only saw desolation, and the loneliness of living in isolation.

And in the long river of time, no matter how brilliant you are, you will eventually be annihilated.

No matter how peerless your talent, you will eventually be just bones of beauty.

No matter if you have the cultivation of a Great Emperor, suppressing the world, you will eventually fall and perish.

What can time leave behind? Nothing can be left behind. Only the destination of reading through countless brilliant, happy, hopeful, and hard-working lives—that is annihilation.

This is the destination of all things; it is a kind of desolation, and also a kind of loneliness.

That youth was like a miniature, and also like a piece of amber, dripping into the lake of her heart, making her feel a trace of movement, a trace of distraction.

"I thought sister could truly be iron-hearted and treat everyone equally. It turns out there are exceptions."

The Space Divine Tree incarnation laughed softly.

The Time Origin Divine Tree withdrew her eyes, her gaze falling on the time fragment of the youth fighting demons and bathing in blood in that human dynasty.

She said in a low voice: "You gave him the Divine Tree Dao Fruit so easily,

without even asking for a contract. This is not your style."

"Gentleness is a sharp knife. This youth was able to get the help of those five in the Five Origin City. I also quietly spied on him. Sister, don't forget, having been with you for so long, I also know a little bit about time."

The Space Divine Tree incarnation said with a smile.

The Time Origin Divine Tree looked at this sister of hers. Only she knew that beneath that soft and beautiful appearance, in this world, only her sister was the sharpest and most ruthless.

"Sister, are you sympathizing with him? This youth is indeed not easy. As a heaven-gifted genius, I have seen miserable ones; I have seen those who lost both parents at the start and were sold to the kiln of the lowly; I have seen those who suffered all kinds of humiliation. But those were just pain, just hatred. This youth is somewhat indescribable."

The Space Divine Tree said.

The Time Origin Divine Tree remained silent. She knew that pain and sorrow were two different feelings.

Pain is holding on tight, while sorrow is letting go.

"Sympathy? Do you think I would?"

Hearing her sister's teasing voice, the Time Origin Divine Tree's eyes became cold: "Don't you see that there is extraordinary power guarding behind this youth?"

"Is sister interested in the existence of that extraordinary power?"

The Space Divine Tree raised her brows slightly. Based on her understanding of her sister, she knew that eighty percent of it was true.

To say it was sympathy, as a sister who had read through countless times, that was an emotion that could absolutely not exist.

"Even I cannot see his identity in the previous life, but he could master many cultivation methods at a single glance since childhood; he must have brought memories from his previous life, and his cultivation in the previous life was not low."

The Time Origin Divine Tree believed that Li Hao was a powerhouse reincarnated, and such a situation was not strange. After all, many heaven-gifted geniuses or powerhouses reincarnated into large clans for certain bloodlines. This was not strange, it just required prior negotiation with those large clans; otherwise, once the large clans investigated, they would encounter disaster.

In the large clans of the True World, children were measured for soul age from childhood. The soul age of normal children matched their actual age.

The soul age of reincarnated people was not like this.

In this way, they could also guard against certain powerhouses reincarnating to become spies for large clans.

And those powerhouses who had negotiated in advance, reincarnating into large clans, would receive meticulous care from childhood; the essence was a joint effort.

"Indeed, this point is very incredible. To be able to block sister's investigation, he must be at least at the Eighth Realm of the Immortal King realm, or even higher!"

The Space Divine Tree said with a solemn expression.

The Time Origin Divine Tree said coldly: "Moreover, there is a fragment of time restricted by some kind of power, unable to be presented. How he climbed out after falling into that demon valley forbidden land must have a reason. It must be that he inherited an extraordinary inheritance there. Looking at his performance,

it seems likely to be the inheritance of a top powerhouse in the Immortal King realm, or it could be the inheritance left behind by the Great Emperor who created that pseudo-world."

The Space Divine Tree's eyes moved, but she nodded slightly, not doubting such a guess.

"If he truly obtained that Great Emperor's inheritance, with this youth's talent, it is highly likely that he will walk his own path in the future and become a new Great Emperor. Bestowing him a portion of dew is worth it."

The Time Origin Divine Tree said.

The Space Divine Tree said softly: "I don't know if he can encounter his own opportunity. Relying only on the Nine-Order Immortal Seal, it is still a bit lacking. If it doesn't condense into a Dao Origin Immortal Seal, there is no hope in this life."

"The time left for him is still generous. Although the Immortal Seal of the Immortal Monarch realm is fixed and cannot be changed, the transformation of the Nine-Order into the Dao Origin is an alternative. As long as he doesn't become an Immortal King and the Immortal Seal doesn't transform into an Immortal Kingdom, it is still possible!"

The Time Origin Divine Tree said.

"His soul age is only a hundred years; he is already a peerless talent. To cultivate to the peak of the Immortal Monarch realm, even at the fastest speed, it will take a thousand years. It should be in time. I hope he won't be like those other heaven-gifted geniuses who flashed by and died halfway."

The Space Divine Tree said, shaking her head and sighing lightly.

They had seen too many heaven-gifted geniuses, extremely rapid in the early stages, shocking people, but encountering some setbacks, unable to recover, and some even stuck at some bottleneck. As time passed, they gradually became mediocre.

The Time Origin Divine Tree did not speak, her gaze just falling on those time fragments, her eyes flickering.

On the Time Origin Divine Tree.

Li Hao obtained that Time Dew. Without hesitation, he consumed it right there on the divine tree.

As this dew flowed into his body, an aura of the Time Dao filled his whole body. His pores seemed to be trembling, a feeling of being baptized by the river of time.

His body seemed to turn into countless quicksand, merging into the surrounding wave-like torrent of time. Every grain of sand and skin was delicately sensing the changes in the Time Origin Dao.

Li Hao was immersed in this delicate perception. Suddenly, he gradually discovered that the long river of time was not really like a river, moving forward from the source and flowing downward continuously.

Time is a constant, yet also a disordered force.

It is as if it is some kind of cycle, repeating endlessly.

The end is the beginning, and the beginning is the end.

Or rather, time is a painting.

Wherever your gaze falls, that place is the origin!

Having this feeling in his heart, Li Hao suddenly felt a sense of horror. If this were true, wouldn't it mean that everything was already destined in the dark?

If one has extremely strong control over time, one can even wander in the long river of time?

Then can the past still be called the past?

Can the future still be called the future?

Is the past the future, and the future the past?

Then who am I?

His pores were trembling, but at this moment he was bewildered, horrified, shocked, with an indescribable feeling.

Previously, he only felt the Time Origin Dao was vast and boundless, but at this moment, he truly felt that this vastness had surrounded him. In the long river of time, he was just a grain of dust!

See the true self, know the vastness!

At this moment, Li Hao truly leaped out of the Third Realm of the Time Origin Dao and caught a glimpse of a veil of the true face of time!

Soon, it seemed like only a short moment had passed, and Li Hao was squeezed out of that vast torrent of time. He felt exhausted, his whole body left with only horror, fear, and trembling.

But at the same time, his understanding of the Time Origin, compared to before, had a qualitative improvement.

Time is not flowing endlessly, but is static!!

When he realized this, his Time Origin improved from the Third Realm to the Fourth Realm, truly entering the hall and mastering the Time Origin!

Li Hao sat on the branch, without the joy of breaking through the realm, left only with the horror and complexity of his changing expression. If

everything is static, then what is the struggle of oneself, and the hard cultivation of countless people for?

If everything already has an ending, then what is the meaning of all suffering and struggle?

Perhaps, having no meaning is the meaning given by time?!

He sat there blankly, thinking, completely forgetting that every second was extremely precious cultivation time.

For a long time, a long time.

Li Hao gradually calmed down from that bewildered, complex, and trembling shock, but in his eyes, there was slowly a trace of luck—luck for his initial choice.

If everything is already destined, if the ending is the origin, if everything has no meaning, then perhaps how to live this life well is the greatest meaning.

So he watched the flowers bloom and the snow fall along the way, not wasting time, not wasting cultivation, doing it because he liked it, and thus his life had the meaning belonging to this life.

Thinking of this, he felt a sense of transparency throughout his body. A scolding voice in his mind that he had ignored, but which occasionally echoed, completely vanished at this moment.

Since time is static, when everything has no meaning, then everything has meaning!

Thinking this through, he laughed, but there was a slight roaring feeling in his mind.

His Dao heart seemed to be baptized by time at this moment, radiating a more brilliant light, taking another small step toward the highest Heavenly Dao Emperor Heart realm.

This change in the Dao heart would not improve his strength, unless it was some immortal technique specifically targeting the Dao heart.

In the secret realm of the Time Origin Divine Tree.

The Space Origin Divine Tree looked at the youth on the branch whose expression was constantly changing, and couldn't help but laugh. She had seen this scene too many times, saying:

"Sister, it seems your dew effect is very good. His Time Origin realm has broken through, reaching the Fourth Realm. This is almost catching up to the level of the Dao Fruit you bestowed, right?"

The Time Origin Divine Tree gazed, saying calmly:

"Only if he reaches the Fifth Realm is he qualified to eat my Dao Fruit. Moreover, the Dao Fruits in my hand are all used up. We are not like those five brothers and sisters in the Five Origin City; they can condense one every ten thousand years, while we need thirty thousand years to condense one. The two I had accumulated were already given to that little girl earlier."

"Is it the one who traversed over not long ago? She is indeed worthy. I didn't expect that she didn't fall in that great battle. In this lifetime, she might be able to achieve the Great Emperor realm, surpassing her teacher!"

The Space Divine Tree said.

"With the Dao she cultivates, it is difficult, but if she can truly succeed, she will not be an easy existence among the Great Emperors."

The Time Origin Divine Tree said.

"It's a pity for this little guy, he was one step late. He just caught a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of time, and at this moment, he is probably already trembling. I don't know if his Dao heart will decline."

The Space Divine Tree looked at the youth whose face revealed shock and fear, teasingly saying.

The Time Origin Divine Tree did not speak. She had seen many such things. Besides the difficulty of comprehending the Time Dao, when one comprehends it, the deeper one comprehends, the closer one gets to the truth of the world, and the further one gets from the original many cognitions, even completely subverting them, which would make many people unable to bear it for a while.

And the fate standing at the peak of ten thousand Daos once drove countless heaven-gifted geniuses mad. When they saw fate clearly, it would instead make people crazy, and the consequences were even more terrible.

While the two were talking, the Time Origin Divine Tree suddenly saw the youth on the branch's fear slowly calm down, and suddenly he laughed by himself.

It was a relieved laugh, and also a light laugh, which made her somewhat stunned.

The Space Divine Tree was also stunned, surprise and astonishment appearing in her eyes.

After a long while, the Time Origin Divine Tree's mouth slowly raised a rare arc, saying plainly:

"It seems he is indeed different from others. This dew, he is worthy of it."

The Space Divine Tree was silent, gazing at the youth, her evaluation of him rising another level in her heart. ===== CHAPTER 747 =====

The Space Origin Divine Tree fell silent, gazing intently at the youth, her assessment of him rising another level in her heart.