Shen Qin Yu looked up and the top of the canyon was out of her sight. Above her head were ice steps that had been dug out one by one.
She had waited by the teleportation formation for a few days without seeing anyone coming up, so she started digging the ice steps. In half a year’s time, she had dug out hundreds of ice steps. One by one, these ice steps accumulated above her head and stretched up as if they were heavenly ladders.
Shen Qin Yu knew very well that this kind of glacial canyon could not be reached by flying, and that she could only climb up one step at a time. To climb up, there was no other way than the ice steps.
She was a rational person, but she was not a cold-blooded person. She didn’t know if this wanderer’s real name was really just a wanderer, but the other had fallen down this abruptly split glacial gorge because of her. If she wanted to come up the canyon, she would have to dig ice steps.
When she was digging the first ice step, Shen Qin Yu was still shivering from the cold. As she exorcised the cold through the methods Ning Cheng had taught her, while plucking up her star energy to dig the ice steps, she surprisingly got used to the icy cold after a month. Even though it got colder the further down she went, she was barely able to hold it off.
Shen Qin Yu could only hope that one day the ice steps she dug could be connected to the ice steps the Rangers dug, but she knew very well in her heart that it would be too difficult to come back up again after being swept away by that raging vortex of power. Even if it was a star-river class warship, it would not be able to get up.
In fact deep in her heart, she had already made up her mind. If she dug to the bottom and that wanderer fell, she would take his corpse with her.
She had never been so capricious, not even once, since she had been cultivating at a very young age. But this time, she couldn’t stop herself from wanting to dig an ice stairway to save the wanderer.
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At this moment, Ning Cheng once again appeared at the bottom of the glacial canyon where he had been dropped down in the first place, and he searched all over this canyon. Apart from finding a dozen pieces of twilight sand. There was no exit whatsoever. He wanted to get out. There was no way out except to leave through this swirling funnel.
Initially, it wasn’t that he hadn’t thought of digging some ice steps up like Shen Qin Yu, but the ice valley in this area was unbelievably hard, and he had spent a day without digging out a single step.
He repeatedly kept driving his heavenly cloud wings, again and again, over and over again. Even his only one, the mountainous galactic warship, was in use. Under this terrifying vortex of time, the battleship was useless and far inferior to his Heavenly Cloud Twin Wings.
Countless methods had been tested, and he was still unable to break out of this stormy funnel with its time vortex.
A month later, Ning Cheng honestly took out the axe that Tang Yu had exchanged to him and began to dig one ice step after another.
Ning Cheng was different from Shen Qin Yu in that the technique he cultivated was Xuan Huang Wu Xiang, so even if he was digging ice steps, he could still cultivate them while doing so. However, Ning Cheng did not cultivate, his divine sense fell into the raging time vortex storm. Even though he was digging the ice steps in his hands. In his mind, however, he was thinking of some way to fly out directly through this time vortex storm.
One after another, ice steps stretched out beneath Ning Cheng’s feet. At this time, Ning Cheng had long forgotten what he was doing and that he wanted to fly out.
His consciousness was completely immersed in that crazy swirling time funnel storm, day after day, month after month, year after year ……
Time slowly flowed away like this, and Ning Cheng slowly moved upwards like this, his feet had long been a series of countless ice steps beneath him.
On this day, Ning Cheng suddenly stopped the mechanical movement of digging the ice steps in his hands, and did not even take out the axe that was placed on the ice steps, instead, he directly sacrificed his Nirvana Gun and blasted out with a single shot.
“Snort ……” A faint lightning light flashed in the middle of this glacial canyon, and after this shot was offered, everything around it seemed to stand still in this instant. The vortex stopped, the storm wind stopped, and even his breathing stopped.
After this spear was thrust out, Ning Cheng’s Sea of Consciousness was completely empty, his astral essence turned into nothingness, and at this moment, if he hadn’t clung to the ice steps, he would have fallen down long ago. This shot had depleted his astral essence and depleted the divine sense of his astral sea of consciousness.
“Ka-ching ……” The Nirvana Gun tore apart the space in front of him, curling up a faint residual shadow.
The vortex began to swirl once again, and the storm loopholes began to rage once more, and the breath continued to be palpable.
“Haha, I understand ……” Ning Cheng’s hands trembled as he gripped the Nirvana Gun in tears, he finally understood, he had finally touched this hint of the time rule.
For several years, he had long since touched the time rule, but he had never been able to perfectly interpret his time divine ability. He had heard Brother Cang Wei say that in the vast dimensional void, there were countless worlds of laws that contained various rules. If he met a law world containing the rules of time, it would not be impossible to shift time by countless years.
In other words, those who were proficient in the rules of time could even turn back the clock.
What Cang Wei said was correct, but Ning Cheng was wrong, he was wrong because his cultivation level was too low. He hadn’t even learned to walk yet, and he was ready to run.
Time might be able to flow backwards, but at least he didn’t have the ability to do so, and even big brother Cang Wei probably didn’t have the ability to make time flow backwards.
Ning Cheng recalled a movie he had once watched, in which there was this line, ‘Time is relative, it can be stretched or compressed, but it cannot be turned back.’ This meant that time could not be turned backwards.
Whether this statement was correct or not, Ning Cheng was certain that for him at this stage, this statement was incredibly correct. He had touched the rules of time and had sensed them countless times. He did not have the ability to turn back time, but he could stretch or compress it.
When this time was compressed to an extreme, it was a pause. Ning Cheng’s heart was still overwhelmed with excitement, yes, it was a pause. This pause was not time standing still, yet it could make all the senses around feel that this time was standing still, or infinitely close to standing still.
It was like a film reel in a movie, it was clearly all one still frame in succession, yet it could make the senses feel that the character was in motion.
His shot just now clearly and unmistakably illustrated this kind of time stillness, as he blasted out such a move that contained the laws of time through extreme compression of time. This would become his most powerful killing move, and would be his greatest killer move.
“From now on, this move will be called Dusk.” Ning Cheng, who had recovered some of his star energy, shook the Nirvana Gun in his hand and excitedly muttered to himself once again.
With this move out, the opponent would be like facing the setting dusk, with no other option but to wait for death in despair. He finally had a third shot, Dusk.
“When this shot of mine is fully accomplished and time can be turned backwards, I will call this shot the Twilight of the Stars.” Ning Cheng looked at the swirling storm that was still raging in the distance, and his tone was one of pride and ambition.
Even if this shot consumed too much star energy and divine sense, Ning Cheng still could not help but let out a long whistle after putting away this shot.
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The first thing that happened was that the person who had been in the room for a long time was the person who had been in the room for a long time. But again, what she heard wasn’t very real. Then she knew that it was her illusion. Even if she could resist the icy cold of this place, her body was still weak by now after several years of digging the ice steps here.
She wiped her eyes and looked up again at the ice steps stretching out above her head, knowing that she would no longer be able to dig this ice step to the bottom of the valley. The time-walking spell in her ring had long since indicated that she had been digging here for years, and the ten-year time frame for the opening of the Time Wasteland was fast approaching.
With a sigh, Shen Qin Yu left a few lines on the ice steps and slowly climbed up. If she missed being teleported out and continued to stay in here, she would only be waiting to die.
Any cultivator who entered the Time Desolate Domain would not be teleported out if they remained in some of the secret realms inside the Time Desolate Domain at the time of teleportation.
Shen Qin Yu did not know if she could be teleported out after missing the time, but even if she were to come back in, she had to bring the Time Stones she had obtained out with her. Now that she was carrying so many time stones on her body, she could not leave her life here yet.
A few days later, Shen Qin Yu arrived at the teleportation formation again. Beneath her head full of silver hair was a pair of eyes that were exhausted to the extreme. She looked at the unfathomable ice valley on the outskirts of the teleportation formation with some sadness, and with a deep sigh, she took out several star yuan stones and placed them on the groove of the teleportation formation.
A flash of white light passed, and when Shen Qin Yu landed on the ground again, she found that she had indeed appeared on the outskirts of the Sea of Twilight.
Shen Qingyu stood on the outskirts of the Sea of Twilight, silently looking at the twilight overlapping the sea of twilight in the distance, not moving. Several years ago, she had teamed up with a wanderer who had saved her and entered this Sea of Twilight, and several years later, she had come out alone.
If it had just been an ordinary co-teamer, she might have been a little sad, but never like this.
She did not know how long had passed, but Shen Qin Yu once again felt a lightness around her body, and she knew that time had come in the Time Desolate Domain and she had been transported out.
Shen Qin Yu’s divine sense swept out at first, and she longed for the sudden appearance of that familiar wanderer’s shadow in the crowd.
But she was soon disappointed, the small square built into the void was devoid of the familiar figure she wanted to see.