Ning Cheng took the jade talisman and thanked Man Lun, “Many thanks to Brother Man Lun, no matter what, in the future, Brother Man Lun and I will be brothers on the same front. As for these time stones, I just need this one.”
Great Emperor Man Lun put away the rest of the time stones and laughed, this was what he wanted, “Brother Ning, this is what I want as well. As long as Brother Ning needs my help, I, Man Lun, will definitely not hesitate for a moment. Brother Ning, this teleportation talisman was obtained in the Time Desolate Domain, and can be used to enter the Time Desolate Domain after being inspired anywhere.
If Brother Ning goes in without being teleported out, remember not to go to some dangerous places. This teleportation talisman will break within a year, and after it breaks, you can leave the Time Desolate Domain. But the fact is that no one who has used this teleportation talisman to enter the Time Barren Domain has ever come out. So I suspect that there is no way to come out after using this teleportation talisman to enter the Time Desolate Domain. Brother Ning had better find someone to go in without having to make the trip himself.”
Although his mouth dictated, Man Lun believed that Ning Cheng would not go in by himself. When he said that Ning Cheng should not go to the dangerous land, he was only asking Ning Cheng to admonish the people who entered the Time Desolate Domain. Having cultivated to their level, they would definitely not be so idiotic as to take such a risk, so he was not worried that Ning Cheng would fall. Giving two teleportation talismans to Ning Cheng was also an attempt to befriend Ning Cheng even more, so that Ning Cheng could send two people in.
“I understand.” Ning Cheng thanked him again.
Man Lun was satisfied and said goodbye to Ning Cheng, and the purpose of his visit here had basically been achieved. Even if the Piercing Heart Tower wanted to move him, in the face of the four Eternal Powers of Man Lun Starry Sky. There were also two Dan Emperors, so he would have to weigh up a few things.
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After the Man Lun Emperor had bid farewell, Ning Cheng handed the Xuanhuang Sect over to Cang Caihe. He allowed Gong Xiuzhu to take over the Kun Zhuo Star River and renamed it the Xuanhuang Star River. He also served as the King of the Xuanhuang Star River.
Cang Caihe was preoccupied with alchemy and was not enthusiastic about management. Ning Cheng did not expect him to manage the Jiangzhou Star either, and let him stay at the Xuanhuang Sect because his sister Ruo Lan and the others were all in retreat at the Xuanhuang Sect. With an Eternal Realm Dan Emperor like Cang Caihe looking after them, that was absolutely no problem at all.
Just in case, Ning Cheng had also set up an emergency teleportation formation in the place where Ruo Lan and the others were in seclusion. Ning Cheng believed that this teleportation formation should not be used.
Jiangzhou Star Ning Cheng still left it in the charge of Bei Junyi, while instructing him that if Valen and the others came over. Make sure to settle down. Valen was a very nice person, and Ning Cheng hoped that he would stay on the Jiangzhou Star to help him in the future.
After giving these explanations, Ning Cheng then left Jiangzhou Star and inspired the transmission jade talisman.
Man Lun did not know Ning Cheng, he thought that Ning Cheng would definitely not go to the Time Desolate Domain personally, but Ning Cheng went there instead.
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The jade talisman of transmission rolled up a white light and instantly sent Ning Cheng away. Ning Cheng had long been prepared, once he was pushed out by the Time Desolate Domain, he let his sister Ruo Lan go in with his Xuanhuang Pearl. As long as there was half a breath of time for him not to be pushed out, he would have the chance to enter the Xuanhuang Pearl and then find a way to enter the Sea of Twilight.
What amazed Ning Cheng was this. After he landed on the ground, where was there half a push? That meant that he was in this Time Desolate Domain exactly the same as the last time he had entered. Apart from that faintly flowing aura of time, there was nothing unusual at all. Not to mention being transported out.
Before Ning Cheng could breathe a sigh of relief, a powerful suppression came through. Ning Cheng was startled in his heart and wanted to enter the Xuanhuang Pearl. However, he quickly understood that the suppression was not teleporting him out, but suppressing his cultivation level. His cultivation level at the Life and Death realm was directly suppressed to the Perfection of Star Gathering.
There were indeed still restrictions here, and for Ning Cheng, the suppression of his cultivation level was better than teleporting out. It was countless times better. At the beginning, he was far from being able to cross the Sea of Twilight when he was far below the Perfection of Gathering Stars, and now he had a much deeper understanding of the Laws of Time. Crossing the Sea of Twilight again would definitely not be a problem.
Ning Cheng did not care about the situation around him and immediately headed to the Sea of Twilight. Shen Qin Yu had said that he was looking for him. It must be to the Sea of Twilight. After so many years had passed, Ning Cheng was worried that she was in a bad way. Even though Shen Qingyu had gone in on her own, Ning Cheng could not ignore this matter, he could not do so. Knowing that someone had risked their life to save him, he still pretended not to know anything. Or rather, excused himself from going in.
The second time he came to the Sea of Twilight, what Ning Cheng saw was still the beautiful world of the Sea of Light. A twilight light formed an ocean of beauty, but Ning Cheng knew clearly that this beauty was only superficial. Once he entered this sea of twilight light, he could be swallowed up and destroyed by the Wheel of Time at any time. Inside the Wheel of Time, years passed in an instant. There was not a drop of water here either, and when it died, it might become a piece of bark.
Without any stopping, Ning Cheng crossed into the Sea of Twilight. The endless vicissitudes of years instantly pressed down on him, causing him to be in a bit of a trance.
With his cultivation level suppressed at the Gathering Star, Ning Cheng’s divine sense stretched out, still farther than it had been back then, and a radius of nearly a hundred miles appeared in his divine sense.
Ning Cheng merely walked for half a day before flying away. He knew that the only way to be transported to the deepest part of the Sea of Twilight was to fly up here, this was what Shen Qin Yu had told him.
Sure enough, the moment Ning Cheng flew up, a powerful tearing force and a time blade aura blasted at his body. Immediately afterwards, a time vortex rolled over and took Ning Cheng away.
With a “stabbing sound”, Ning Cheng’s clothes were torn apart with a dozen cracks. Ning Cheng’s body was not half damaged, and there was not even a trace of it.
His cultivation had been suppressed, and there was no way for his powerful physical body to be suppressed here.
When Ning Cheng was pulled underground again by that powerful whirlpool, his divine sense was suppressed from a range of a hundred miles to a range of several miles. It was clear to Ning Cheng that he had been swept into the deepest part of the Sea of Twilight by the Time Vortex.
It was here that he and Shen Qin Yu had both run for several years back then.
Standing here alone once again, Ning Cheng was surprisingly a little lost in thought. Last time he had come here unintentionally, this time he had come here intentionally.
Thinking about it at this moment, he realised that even Qiong Hua and Luo Fei had never walked with him holding hands for months on end like this, and then carried on their backs for such a long period of time.
It was also here. He saw Shen Qin Yu’s face for the first time, and that beauty was breathtaking. Even Ning Cheng had to admit that Shen Qin Yu was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. However. His heart was all about Concubine Luo and Qiong Hua, and he looked at Shen Qin Yu’s face. What he was thinking of was Consort Luo and Qiong Hua.
The passing years hit him, and Ning Cheng soon felt that life in the years as he was once again plunged into an epiphany.
Time never stopped passing by Ning Cheng, but it could no longer take away a single bit of Ning Cheng’s life. Once he was here carrying Shen Qin Yu’s epiphany on his back, and he was covered in white hair. Now, he was once again alone in the Sea of Twilight for an epiphany, but his life was growing stronger and more solid.
Soon Ning Cheng was running, and a stream of light from the ages gathered around him. A circle after circle of lawful light formed.
Ning Cheng’s Law of Time was no longer limited to the sunset twilight that touched the skin, he vaguely felt that he was about to grasp the more elusive corner of the Law of Time, only that corner was always a little distance away from him, hidden as if it were nothing.
“Boom …….” A glorious evening glow brought Ning Cheng out of his epiphany.
Ning Cheng looked up at the beautiful setting sun in the distance and sighed. He hadn’t grasped that little bit of distance after all, just that little bit away from truly grasping the corner of the Law of Time, that little bit was like an immense and incomparable heavenly rift that he couldn’t surmount.
Ning Cheng quickly cast these losses aside, he had not come here to feel the Laws of Time. He had come to look for Shen Qin Yu.
With his heart enlightened, Ning Cheng rushed into the setting sun and the evening sun with a long whistle.
The moment Ning Cheng passed through that Sunset Evening Sun, a sudden tremor shook deep within Ning Cheng’s heart. At this moment, he was enlightened, he had finally caught a glimpse of the law of time.
Such a long epiphany had not allowed him to truly grasp a corner of the Law of Time, and as he completely let go, he had surprisingly grasped that corner of the Law of Time.
An icy coldness came over Ning Cheng, but he did not feel it in the slightest. There was only a fire in his heart, a wildness. What he had grasped was a form, yes, it was tangible. Everything was tangible. He remembered when he had comprehended Return to One earlier, ‘Fu Zhaozhao was born in the underworld. There is Lun born from the formless, and the spirit is born from the Tao. Form is born from essence, and all things are born in form ……’.
When he realized that time was also tangible, he even understood why ‘Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle ……’
As long as you can pounce on the arrow of light and time, you can stop the speed of that arrow and slow it down. When you have reached a certain level of this sense, you can even grasp this arrow in your hand and make it stand still. Even if one day, it is not impossible for you to make this arrow of light and darkness shoot backwards.
When you control all these rules, you can make the flow of the sun and moon stop ……
This is a supreme divine power.
Ning Cheng felt something in his heart and suddenly raised his hand and grasped it forward.
The surroundings were instantly stagnant, everything was completely still. This was not the illusion of the setting sun causing the opponent to feel that time was extremely slow, but true stillness, this was a true divine ability of the Laws of Time.
The feeling of weakness came, Ning Cheng did not stop and once again waved his hand.
“Poof ……” a mouthful of blood spurted out, Ning Cheng sat down on the ground, he hurriedly took out a pill and swallowed it, slowly panting.
His strength was still too low, even if he had caught a corner of the Law of Time and comprehended the skin of it. It was still impossible to make time stand still for a longer period of time, let alone make it go backwards, not even for a split second.
Ning Cheng swallowed a pill and waited for his injuries to slowly calm down before he stood up again. He didn’t feel frustrated, he hadn’t learned to walk yet and he wanted to run, this was a kind of impatience. It was like before when he had had an epiphany for a long time and hadn’t caught the tip of the Law of Time, he simply put it down, instead he comprehended the true Law of Time when he was walking through the setting sun and evening sun.
The Dao is a natural process, ‘Man follows the laws of earth, earth follows the laws of heaven, heaven follows the laws of the Dao, and the Dao follows the laws of nature.’
Being deliberate instead would not allow him to make greater progress, he had just been too deliberate.