Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chapter 1165: Chapter 572: Power of Time Dust

[Divine Power Refining Technique: Spirit Life Divine Method (Unformed)]

[Experience: 1 point]

In a certain corner of the vast void, Chen Mu was comprehending the Spirit Life Divine Method.

After spending a little time, he figured out the efficiency of acquiring experience in cultivating the Spirit Life Divine Method. The efficiency was not fast, as it would take about a month for one point to be added to the system panel.

And to directly advance the Spirit Life Divine Method to the first layer, it would require a full thousand experience points.

Calculating this, it would take about a hundred Da Xuan years to accumulate enough to train the first layer of the Spirit Life Divine Method, and even when converted to the general boundary year of the endless void, it’s still ten boundary years.

“A bit slow.”

Chen Mu pondered slightly.

In fact, using the system panel, without any resources and relying solely on personal cultivation, being able to complete the first layer of a Divine Monarch level secret method in ten boundary years is actually extremely fast.

Many existences in the God Realm, even with specific resources assisting their cultivation, would require hundreds to thousands of boundary years to master the first layer of a Divine Monarch level secret method.

In reality, if Chen Mu didn’t rely on the system panel and solely depended on his own ability for comprehension, using the creation power to slowly refine the divine power true body, even if this cultivation had no bottleneck, it would still take several thousand boundary years to achieve!

Several thousand boundary years, placed in the Da Xuan World, that’s tens of thousands of years!

This is the cultivation path after entering the God Realm, where each session of cultivation might mean a thousand years or more have passed in the mortal world, an extended seclusion where seas turn into mulberry fields, a concept difficult for mortal beings to understand in terms of life level.

And as Chen Mu knows, in the endless universe, the counting of time is twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty boundary years as one era.

And precisely ten thousand eras is one calamity.

Although existences in the God Realm have lifespans nearly infinite, the supreme rules still place restrictions on the God Realm, where upon living past ten thousand eras, they face a calamity; passing through allows them to live peacefully through the next ten thousand eras, hence why ten thousand eras are called ‘one calamity.’

Generally speaking, even the weakest existences in the God Realm would find it not too difficult to live through the initial few calamities, but as these calamities progress, they become more difficult to overcome, typically only divine monarch-level existences can achieve immortality through endless calamities.

However.

In actuality, very few God Realm existences truly fall due to calamities.

Because the timespan of one calamity is incredibly long, so long that even with their endless lifespan, these beings will encounter all kinds of events in this duration, and a single misstep could result in their downfall.

“Seems like it’s time to use that thing.”

A thought flashed through Chen Mu’s mind, and with a move of his intent, a cluster of sand with a kaleidoscopic glow flew out from within him, appearing before him, floating in the void where the power of time nearby appeared visibly distorted.

Time Dust!

This was one of the Time Dao oddities Chen Mu acquired at the Source Land.

The Time Dust has the ability to distort the flow of time within a certain range, but such distortion also causes perception of the origin Dao to be twisted, thus it cannot be used to comprehend the origin Dao.

Yet, using it to cultivate divine power secret methods and accelerate the process fits perfectly.

Chen Mu relied on the system panel to cultivate the Spirit Life Divine Method, which would take ten boundary years to complete, and such efficiency simply couldn’t finish the first layer of the Spirit Life Divine Method before the demon clan arrives, therefore he needed greater efficiency.

“Let’s give it a try.”

Chen Mu looked at the cluster of Time Dust floating before him.

He’s not sure how effective the Time Dust can be for him now, having already stepped into the God Realm, possessing a perfect divine power true body, no longer a divine under being.

For a being that has not yet stepped into the God Realm, the Time Dust would surely produce perfect results, but for God Realm beings, its use will inevitably have some reduction in effect. After all, a divine power true body is essentially the equivalent of the three original powers of void, time, and creation, and distorting the passage of time for a divine power true body with the Time Dust is certainly more challenging than doing so for a mortal being.

Buzz!!

Chen Mu moved his intent, using the ability of the Time Dao to awaken the floating Time Dust, causing it to emit a vibrant blaze of multicolored light, then envelop his divine power true body.

Almost the instant the Time Dust engulfed his divine power true body, the cluster of Time Dust’s brilliance dimmed, swaying as if about to extinguish at any moment.

Chen Mu forcibly sustained it with the power of time, preventing it from collapsing.

At this moment,

He could feel the flow of time in the vicinity vastly differ from external time by dozens of times.

However, maintaining such a time flow disparity burdened the cluster of Time Dust heavily, not only rapidly consuming its power of time but also requiring Chen Mu to expend significant mental energy to apply the Time Dao in sustaining it.

Chen Mu slightly researched, then began to attempt reducing the time flow disparity, from several dozen times gradually lowering to twenty times, fifteen times… finally lowering it all the way to ten times.

When he adjusted the time flow to about ten times disparity, the cluster of Time Dust finally stabilized, although the internal power of time was still consumed rapidly, at last not necessitating further expenditure of Chen Mu’s mental power to sustain it.