📖 Chapter 1071 - Flowing Time!

26 Aug, 2023

The sky was transparent, and there seemed to be a curtain covering it. There was a pattern embroidered on the curtain, which was… a sun that lacked any sense of artistry.

It was obvious that the needlework wasn’t very good, so the sun that should have been round was instead an irregular oval. It looked similar to a giant melon, and there were traces of stitches all over the edges. Apparently, the person who had embroidered the irregular sun had tried very hard to fix it, but… failed.

But no matter what, the melon-shaped sun was still a sun. It radiated light and heat that pierced through the transparent sky and landed warmly on the earth.

The earth… was overflowing with mushrooms.

Mushrooms of various colors were all over the ground, and it was impossible to see the end of them. If someone looked down from a higher vantage point, they would see nothing other than a vast sea of mushrooms. There were no mountains, nor rivers, nor oceans… just countless mushrooms of various colors.

Perhaps it was because this world had no moon, but when night fell, everything became pitch black. And as darkness descended over the world, the countless mushrooms opened their eyes one after another.

“It’s getting dark!”

“God-Immortal is sleeping!”

“Hahaha, it’s time to play!”

“Quiet, quiet! If the witch wakes up, everyone will die!”

“Yes, yes, the witch is too scary. A few days ago, I saw her snatch up Little Yellow…”

“Which Little Yellow? There are too many Little Yellows here, which one are you talking about?”

All the mushrooms started talking. At first glance, they seemed to be talking to each other, but in fact most of them were just thinking aloud. Thus, the whole world instantly became noisy, and as chattering voices echoed out, the mushrooms stood up one after another.

They sprouted legs, and arms stretched out from their bodies. On top of their heads were singular eyes, and they immediately started frolicking about in a lively manner.

Chen Han was one of the mushrooms!

His cap was a very ordinary earthen yellow color. Compared with the other mushrooms, he was the pinnacle of mundanity, completely inconspicuous among the countless mushrooms that filled the land. Wang Baole felt a little emotional as he saw this through the soul connection.

“This Chen Han’s past lives are each more ordinary than the last. But his luck seems pretty exceptional. After all, when ordinariness reaches the extreme, it becomes extraordinary instead!”

As Wang Baole sighed, the mushroom that was Chen Han suddenly spoke up.

“It wasn’t Little Yellow, I saw it too. Big Red is the one that the witch took. It wasn’t one of us Little Yellows!”

As if he thought he wasn’t loud enough, Chen Han jumped up and stood on the caps of other mushrooms, trying to attract the attention of his fellows. Wang Baole felt a headache coming on. Borrowing Chen Han’s eyes, he scanned the endless sea of mushrooms in his surroundings, feeling that their chatter was too noisy. He also tried looking up to see the sky, but unfortunately, Chen Han wasn’t looking there, so Wang Baole couldn’t see anything.

Just as Wang Baole was growing impatient and Chen Han was climbing over even more mushrooms… a ray of light suddenly appeared in the dark world.

This light fell from beyond the sky, and as soon as it appeared, all the mushrooms on the ground shuddered. They instantly squatted down, and their limbs disappeared. One by one, they turned back into normal mushrooms.

However, Chen Han and some of the other arrogant mushrooms seemed to have been petrified. They completely froze in place, and didn’t move at all. At that moment, the whole world fell into absolute silence.

Fortunately, before turning motionless, Chen Han had been looking up at the sky. Thus, Wang Baole was finally able to see what was above him. It seemed that someone had lifted the corner of the curtain that covered the sky, revealing an eye.

“Which one should I eat today… Let this highness see who’s been naughty…” As soon as he heard this voice, Wang Baole felt a sense of familiarity. At the same time, he noticed that the mushrooms were all trembling, as if they were utterly terrified.

But although Wang Baole’s consciousness fluctuated, he wasn’t shocked by the voice, nor by the eye that had appeared in the sky. He felt that he had become used to… meeting her in every life.

The eye in the sky was a little girl’s, as was the voice. It was the voice of a younger Wang Yiyi.

Her voice wasn’t scary at all, and the words were clearly those of a child trying to frighten people. However… for these mushrooms with little intelligence, it seemed to bring a calamity of life and death.

But it seemed that Wang Yiyi wasn’t interested in catching mushrooms today. Instead, she just took off the curtain covering the sky, causing brightness to instantly fill the world, and allowing Wang Baole to see what was beyond!

It was… still the same room that he had seen last time!

The furniture and everything else was exactly the same. The only difference was that Wang Yiyi’s father, the white-haired middle-aged man, wasn’t there. Wang Yiyi was the only person in the room, and her appearance was indeed younger than last time.

Her hair was bundled up in two small buns, making her look very cute. As she held onto the curtain, her cheeks puffed out in a pout.

“Isn’t it just embroidering a moon? What’s so tough about that? Daddy actually said that I wouldn’t be able to do it. Hmph, there’s nothing that Yiyi can’t do!

“Am I right?” After she finished speaking, the little girl lowered her head and swept her gaze across the mushrooms. Soon, some of the mushrooms who were too scared to move opened their mouths and spoke some pretty words. In an instant, the previous chatter returned, all of them speaking flattery as best they could. Unfortunately, their skills were clearly lacking.

Wang Baole didn’t pay any attention to the boot-licking mushrooms, and he didn’t even look at the smug Wang Yiyi. Instead, he gathered his divine sense and sent it toward the room beyond the sky.

He wanted to go out!

Right now, this was the dominating thought in Wang Baole’s mind.

Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to do so. However, that didn’t stop him from looking around the room. It was a simply furnished room, with a bunch of toys on display and nothing out of the ordinary about it.

While Wang Baole observed the room, Wang Yiyi’s voice echoed out.

“Blazing Sun, Flowing Time^[1], Sundered Night… It’s so difficult. I already learned Blazing Sun, but what’s the ‘flow’ in Flowing Time mean? How am I supposed to embroider a flowing moon… And I can’t figure out Sundered Night at all. Hmph, only a freak like Daddy could learn Flowing Time and Sundered Night!” Wang Yiyi seemed to be going crazy. Her words attracted Wang Baole’s attention, and he no longer looked around the room but instead looked at Wang Yiyi with a complicated gaze.

“Little Missy… what’s going on with you…?” Wang Baole muttered as he stared at Wang Yiyi. But soon, his complicated feelings dissipated, and waves of shock battered his mind. He saw that after letting out a shout of frustration, Wang Yiyi attempted to use the spell she was trying to learn again…

This spell seemed to be called Flowing Time. It was as if invisible threads were gathering in Wang Yiyi’s hands, interweaving with each other and forcibly changing the laws of the world. The invisible void suddenly turned tangible, and ripples of a mysterious force spread out.

Wherever the ripples passed, time seemed to speed up. As they entered the mushroom world, time seemed to pass at an even more accelerated rate. In just a moment, it was as if dozens of years had passed!

“This is… the law of time!!” Wang Baole felt like heavenly thunder was exploding in his mind. Among the myriad laws of the universe, the laws of space and time were the most profound. Very few people had ever mastered them, and anyone who had grasped even a little bit was certain to become a supreme existence among their generation!

Most cultivators went their entire lifetimes without even getting a chance to obtain enlightenment of these two laws. That was because too few people had mastered them, and it even beginning was extremely difficult. Moreover, to some extent, magics of space and time were considered forbidden techniques. At the same time… Special Planets possessing laws of space or time seemed to be even rarer than Dao Planets!

In Wang Baole’s life, only the Underworld Dream could barely be considered a brush with the natural law of time.

Thus, Wang Baole immediately stopped paying attention to the mushrooms in his surroundings and the room outside. The only thing in his mind at that moment was… those few threads of time law in Wang Yiyi’s hands!

As Wang Yiyi tried again and again and failed again and again, Wang Baole continued observing and obtaining insights. Unknowingly, the void in his surroundings began to… resonate slightly with the threads in Wang Yiyi’s hands!!

“Ahhhh, I can’t learn it! Too freakish, too freakish! This crap is impossible to learn at all!!” While Wang Baole was immersed in enlightenment, Wang Yiyi shouted in an even crazier voice.