Chapter 975 – God of Time
”By the way, there’s something I want to ask you about.”
Lin Qiye looked like he remembered something and told Wang Mian about what happened to Jia Lan.
”You want to speed up the process of her becoming a god and awakening?” Wang Mian’s brows furrowed slightly, and after a moment of contemplation, he shook his head, “I can’t help you with this matter.”
”Aren’t you the agent of the God of Time?”
”In the world, there is more than one God of Time.” Wang Mian explained, “The scope of the Law of Time is too deep and wide, it is simply not something that a single god can fully control, the Gods of Time of the world’s many godly lineages jointly split the Law of Time, and each of them involves a different area of time.
The god of time that I represent is the Greek mythological god Coronus, and the time field that he dabbles in is more specialized in time retrospection, that is, my [Temporal Thugs], and the other time pause, deceleration, acceleration, although I can use these, but they are only skin deep.
What Calan needs now is a law that specializes in time acceleration, which neither I nor Kronos can do.”
”In other words, I need to go looking for other gods of time?” Lin Qiye frowned slightly, “Then which God of Time is the one that possesses this power?”
”I don’t know, but I can help you investigate and notify you when I have the results.”
”Thanks.” Lin Qiye nodded slightly.
Hazy mist rolled through the wreckage of the city, and before they knew it, the two of them walked to a crumbling intersection.
Under the dim sky, the roads of this gray intersection stretched out in different directions, submerged in the tumbling mists, and as far as the eye could see, there was no end in sight, leaving only endless mystery and the unknown.
They had just reached the center when they stopped at the same time as if they had sensed something.
The air suddenly fell into silence.
Lin Qiye stood on the crosswalk, consternation surfaced on his face, he first turned his head to look at the left turning road that was shrouded in mist, and after hesitating for a moment, he looked at the right turning road ……
”The one on the left, is here to find me.”
Wang Mian’s eyes gazed at the left side of the road and slowly spoke.
”The one on the right, should be looking for me.” Lin Qiye recalled what the Jade Cauldron Master had just said and replied.
”I’ll ask for you in passing.” Wang Mian stepped away and calmly walked towards the left side of the road, his figure gradually disappearing into the mist, “See you in Daxia.”
”Hm.”
Lin Qiye took a deep breath and turned around to walk into the road on the right.
Two figures, one gray and one red, disappeared without a trace as they walked in different directions in the crossroads of the mists.
Wang Mian walked in the mists for a long time.
The streets on both sides, which had been abandoned for a hundred years, were dead silent, and the rotting tree branches shattered into crumbs when gently blown by the wind, fluttering in the air like ghosts.
Ta–!
As Wang Mian crossed the crosswalk with one foot, the fluttering tree branch residue was suddenly frozen in the air, like a black dot embedded in the gray sky, eternally coming to a standstill.
Even the wind and fog were frozen in this instant.
Time was suspended.
Wang Mian’s footsteps slightly lurched, and he quickly ignored the abnormalities around him, cloaked in a gray cloak, and naturally walked forward.
This time’s time suspension was not of his doing.
In the center of the misty street in the distance, a black-clothed old man was standing quietly under the abandoned traffic light, his hands on his crutches, his eyes closed as if he was asleep.
Wang Mian saw him and stopped in his tracks.
”Why did you make me walk so far?” He spoke somewhat helplessly.
The black-clothed old man’s eyes slowly opened.
Radiant rivers of time flowed from his eyes, intertwining into a circle with a head and tail, endless time and vicissitudes surged out in this instant, and in an instant, the time of this street rapidly flowed backwards!
The flying tree branch remnants rolled back into the soil and transformed into a large decaying tree, which then resurfaced at a speed visible to the naked eye, and after ten seconds, it reappeared as a tall cherry blossom giant tree.
The mottling on the surface of the abandoned buildings on both sides, faded rapidly, and under the time regression, those dusty and tattered storefronts regained their luster, and the broken signboards automatically flew back on top of the facades, and a brand-new and vibrant Japanese-style commercial street reappeared in front of Wang Mian’s eyes.
Pink cherry blossoms fell like rain, and on the brand new street, two old men looked at each other from a distance across an intersection.
”The one from your Daxia is on the other side, I don’t want to get too close to him.” The old man gazed at the king’s face and spoke slowly.
”The primordial god of Greek mythology, the god of time, Kolonos, would also be afraid of the one from Great Xia?”
”It’s not fear, it’s mutual respect.” The old man said indifferently, “Did you take out the stuff?”
”Uh-huh.”
Wang Mian pulled out the eight-foot agaric hook jade with a broken corner from his bosom and spread it out in his palm, “Is it it?”
”It is it.” The old man’s gaze swept over the hook jade and nodded slightly.
”You came really fast, I just brought it out and you appeared.”
”It left the High Heavenly Plains, and its scent would naturally be sensed by me.” The old man paused, “As for the speed or slowness of time, it has no meaning to me.”
Wang Mian clutched the hook jade in his hand, and after a moment of silence, he still spoke, “I have a request.”
When the old man heard this, his eyes narrowed slightly and he did not speak.
”I want a period of time for the Laws.”
”You want to become a god?” The old man’s brows wrinkled slightly, “To attempt to become the God of Time in the body of a human …… your guts are not small.”
”I have reasons why I must become a god.”
The old man gazed into Wang Mian’s eyes for a moment before shaking his head.
”Impossible, the laws of time in this world have all been split and fused by the gods, and there is no longer any extra laws of time that can be given to you ……”
Hearing these words, Wang Mian’s brows tightly furrowed.
”Unless ……”
”Unless what?”
”Unless, when I die and my law returns to the heavens and earth, if you have the ability to take it away from the division of the other Gods of Time, then you can naturally replace me and become the God of Time.” The old man leisurely said.
Wang Mian was stunned, and bitterness surfaced at the corners of his mouth.
Theoretically, this path could indeed work, since there were no extra laws in the world, it would be fine to wait for Coronus to die and then inherit his laws, but this possibility was infinitely close to zero.
Kolonos was the original god of Greek mythology, how could he die so easily? There were only a handful of existences in this world that could fight him, let alone kill him.
And even if he did die, the Laws of Time he left behind would inevitably cause the Gods of Time of other god systems to coax and grab it, how could a human ceiling with Wang Mian seize this strand of the Laws of Time from amongst all the gods?