manynovel Chapter 33 Time is about to accelerate!
Chapter 33 Time is about to accelerate!
As the soul power descended, a small gap was carved into the 100,000-year soul ring.
However, in an instant, the gap widened, and a massive surge of soul power burst forth from the crack in the soul ring, flowing entirely into Jiang Ci'an's body.
In the past, such a mistake would probably have meant restarting the game.
This time, however, Jiang Ci'an remained calm and composed, his spirit rings shining brightly as he activated "Time Control".
Everything suddenly stopped.
The surging soul power solidified within the meridians, and the expanding meridians stopped just before they were about to explode.
Then, everything went backwards.
Soul power, like the receding tide, flowed back through the meridians, returning little by little along the path it had come from to the 100,000-year soul ring with the gap that had been chiseled open.
The crack healed, and the soul ring was restored to its original state.
Jiang Ci'an withdrew his hand, a slight smile playing on his lips.
"That makes things much simpler."
With "Time Control," he no longer needs to kill himself and restart every time. He can simply turn back time, like watching a video in reverse, and then do it again, greatly improving his research efficiency.
At the same time, he can slow down time or pause time directly, so as to better observe those subtle, fleeting details and make it easier to fill in the gaps.
well.
Jiang Ci'an suppressed her smile, closed her eyes, and a familiar sense of rising surged through her. When she opened her eyes again, she was back in reality.
The virtual world has been reset.
Then, Jiang Ci'an closed his eyes again.
The familiar feeling of falling washed over me.
When I opened my eyes again, I was on the same blue silver grass lawn, and in the distance were the same gray walls of Notting College.
Jiang Ci'an silently enveloped himself in a layer of "indifference," and his figure slowly rose into the air with the support of his soul power.
He chose a spot with a wide view, freezing himself in mid-air like a speck of dust suspended in the sky.
Then, the deep purple spirit ring beside him emitted a dazzling light.
The domain belonging to "Shiyu" began to spread outward from his body.
It was a feeling that was hard to describe in words, like ripples on water or waves of light, spreading rapidly in all directions from him.
It covers Notting Academy, Holy Soul Village, and Soul Hunter Forest...
In the blink of an eye, it covered the entire virtual world.
Jiang Ci'an took a deep breath, and his gaze calmed down.
Time... has started to speed up.
The world began to change.
Below, figures began to move within Notting College: those attending classes, those leaving classes, those eating, those training—everything was operating according to its predetermined trajectory.
Then it gets faster and faster.
A person walks out of the classroom, quickly crosses the corridor, and nods to the person coming towards them. All these actions are completed in just one or two seconds, as fast as a videotape being played at double speed.
More and more people moved back and forth in the academy, leaving trails of afterimages as they moved, their countless lines blurring into a blur that was difficult to see clearly.
In the sky, the sun began to sink rapidly in the west.
The orange-red sunset lasted for less than half a second before dissipating, and night fell immediately. The moon rose from the east, trailing a silvery-white band of light across the sky, and set before it could be seen clearly.
Then the sun rises again and sets again.
The sun rises and the moon sets, the moon sets and the sun rises, the speed of day and night alternation is getting faster and faster, a continuous path of light is dragged across the sky, the light bands of the sun and the moon intertwine, like a brocade being woven at a fast pace.
The world flickers between light and darkness, like a heartbeat.
The trees beside me grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, their branches lengthened, their leaves unfurled, their tender green turned into dark green, and then the dark green turned yellowish-brown. The yellowish-brown leaves fell one after another, and the branches soon became bare. Then new buds sprouted again, and the branches and leaves became lush again, and a new cycle began.
One year, two years, three years...
Time is rushing forward at an astonishing speed.
Jiang Ci'an hovered in mid-air, his golden eyes calmly and indifferently watching everything below, unseen and unfelt by anyone.
His gaze fell on Tang San.
He watched as Tang San assembled hidden weapons in the work-study dormitory. With his fingers flying, many hidden weapons took shape, the speed of which was accelerated by time, like a skipping animation.
Seeing Tang San leave Notting Academy and acquire his second spirit ring in the Soul Hunting Forest, and then seeing Xiao Wu leave her dormitory alone on a moonlit night and hide in the woods behind Notting Academy, secretly condensing a new spirit ring for herself.
I watched them grow up, their faces changing from childish to mature, their figures from short to tall, and then they left Notting College, traveling south in a carriage.
Jiang Ci'an followed them and traveled to another city.
He watched as Tang San and Xiao Wu clashed with Dai Mubai, who was embracing the twin sisters, but the conflict quickly ended. The next day, he enrolled in Shrek Academy.
Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, Ma Hongjun... one after another, characters that were both familiar and unfamiliar to him appeared on the scene.
Jiang Ci'an silently observed all of this, without any intention of interfering for the time being.
Time continues to race forward.
Soon, Zhao Wuji led the Shrek Seven Devils into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for spirit rings.
Subsequently, after successfully obtaining Oscar's third spirit ring, Erming appeared with a roar and kidnapped Xiaowu in front of everyone.
Jiang Ci'an's gaze followed Xiao Wu and Er Ming, and soon they arrived at the Lake of Life, which exuded a rich aura of life.
At this point, Jiang Ci'an slightly slowed down the time acceleration.
Ignoring the chatter of Da Ming, Er Ming, and Xiao Wu, Jiang Ci'an's pupils gleamed faintly as his gaze pierced through the lake water, heading downwards.
Soon, he saw a huge underground cavity beneath the Lake of Life.
Here, dozens of terrifying figures stood.
The enormous, varied, and almost all-ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts quietly occupied their respective corners, exuding a sense of order.
Among them were several figures with even more terrifying auras.
Jiang Ci'an looked at them one by one, and the names of these beings naturally flashed through his mind.
Red King, Bear King, King of Ten Thousand Demons, Purple Princess, Jade Princess, Emperor Tian... and even a large golden cat curled up and fast asleep to the side.
Jiang Ci'an's gaze lingered on the big cat for a moment, and a strange sense of closeness arose in his heart.
Why do I suddenly want to try it out?
Suppressing the strange thought that suddenly arose, Jiang Ci'an shook his head and continued to look around.
At the center of all the soul beasts, a giant silkworm with a pure white body and golden patterns on its body was bound by chains.
The energy within its body was continuously overflowing and being evenly consumed by every soul beast present.
With each wisp they consume, their aura naturally rises slightly.
The speed may not seem very fast, but it is far, far faster than their normal cultivation speed.
After glancing briefly at this unique million-year-old soul beast material, Jiang Ci'an's gaze swept over the dozens of ferocious beast figures and continued to probe deeper below.
And there, in an equally enormous underground cavern, a colossal figure lay asleep.