Chapter 500 - 315: Assailing the Entry-Level Time Law

Chapter 500: Chapter 315: Assailing the Entry-Level Time Law

Li Wen’s expression was calm. He simply gave a slight nod and a faint, good-natured smile before walking inside with a steady gait.

His figure soon disappeared into the entrance, which was shrouded in a silvery glow.

Only after Li Wen’s figure had completely vanished into the Time Tower did the briefly suppressed discussions in the square surge back like a tidal wave.

"That was Senior Brother Li Wen!"

"Hiss... The way he just appeared... I couldn’t detect a single trace of his movement. It was as if... time itself skipped for him?" a senior student remarked in amazement.

"This feeling... He majors in the Time Law. Judging by the looks of it, he must be close to truly reaching the entry-level, right?" another person said, his tone laced with disbelief.

"Nonsense! That’s Li Wen! The only monster in the entire Alka Empire to have reached the eighth floor of the Heaven-Reaching Tower in recent years!

And how long has it been? A year! To have comprehended the Time Law to such a frightening degree in that time... what else could he be but a prodigy?"

"That’s right. I heard that in the virtual combat arena, he even beat those arrogant kings from the imperial capital into submission. Even someone like Ares Titan lost to him...

And that was nearly a year ago. Who knows how strong the Li Wen of today has become."

The few members who had just joined yesterday listened to the senior students’ reverent discussions, their eyes wide with astonishment.

Gazing at the sealed gates of the Time Tower, the shock in their hearts was immense.

"The man just now... was that the legendary Senior Brother Li Wen?" one newcomer asked, his voice trembling.

"So... so strong! I really didn’t sense how he appeared at all. It was truly like he materialized out of thin air!" another person said, still replaying the scene in his mind.

"Oh my god... I can’t believe that on my first day, I get to train at the same trial base as a legendary figure like him..."

The third newcomer’s face was filled with excitement and honor, as if merely being in the same place as Li Wen was a tremendous glory.

「...」

「Inside the Time Tower.」

The vast, silvery void enveloped Li Wen once again.

An illusory River of Time snaked beneath his feet.

Illusory, giant gears of time flickered in and out of existence within the void, emitting a low, eternal rumble.

The aura of the Time Law was so dense it was almost tangible, permeating every inch of space.

’Today is my last day here, and also my last free entry into the Time Tower.’ A faint ripple stirred in Li Wen’s heart as he gazed at this familiar, profound, silvery world.

One year of time, accelerated a hundredfold. This place had borne witness to his countless days and nights of arduous cultivation and comprehension.

’From now on, I’ll need contribution points to get in.’

Without dwelling on sentiment, he quickly collected his thoughts.

He connected his mind with the Time Token and, without hesitation, adjusted the time flow to its current limit—100 times the normal rate!

One hour outside was a hundred hours inside the tower.

Immediately after, his eyes focused, and he chanted inwardly, ’Absolute Focus!’

HUM!

An indescribable sense of clarity instantly swept through his sea of consciousness.

In that instant, his thought processing speed and the acuity of his Law perception surged to 200%.

The lines of the Time Law, already clear around him, now appeared unprecedentedly sharp and vibrant in his eyes.

He floated cross-legged in the silvery void, his mind completely immersed.

The power of his Primordial Spirit extended like the most precise of probes toward the illusory, flowing River of Time.

He attempted to capture the fleeting Law runes that contained the contradictory true meanings of "transience" and "eternity."

Every pulsating point of light, every subtle ripple, became a target for his analysis.

At the same time, his gaze also locked onto the largest illusory gear of time in the void.

Under "Absolute Focus," he could "see" that as the gear turned, the meshing and separation of its massive teeth did not simply cause spatial distortions.

Instead, it was countless fine, dizzyingly complex chains of the Time Law being created, destroyed, interwoven, broken, and reassembled.

It was the personification of "order" and "change."

Finally, he tried to guide these insights and integrate them into himself.

Exceedingly faint, almost imperceptible ripples of time began to appear on the surface of his body.

It was as if his body existed in the seams between different time flows, sometimes blurry, sometimes clear.

He tried to understand the deeper nature of "acceleration" and "stagnation," wanting to construct a stable core node of the Time Law within his body.

At a certain moment, he seemed to touch an invisible "door."

Behind the door lay an even vaster ocean of the Time Law.

He could feel that his application of the time acceleration contained within Blade Intents like "Voidsever" had deepened.

He had a deeper understanding of the trace of "time stagnation" attached to the annihilation power of the All Things Return to Ruins Finger.

He could even more clearly perceive the subtle changes his own Primordial Spirit underwent under the wash of time.

But that "door" remained solid, impossible to push open.

He was missing a crucial opportunity, a moment of epiphany that would fully condense his countless fragmented insights into an "entry-level Dao Seed."

In his state of absolute focus, time lost all meaning.

In the blink of an eye, four hours passed in the outside world.

Under the Time Tower’s 100x time flow, a full 400 hours had passed inside.

This was equivalent to more than sixteen straight days and nights of dedicated comprehension.

The silvery brilliance slowly faded, and Li Wen’s closed eyes opened.

Within his profound eyes, countless fragments of time seemed to flash and vanish.

They finally returned to a state of calm, leaving only a faint, silvery halo behind.

"Hooo..." He let out a long, turbid breath, which unexpectedly carried a faint, imperceptible ripple of time.

"I’m still a long way from reaching the entry-level. What a pity." His whisper held a trace of subtle regret.