Amidst the towering buildings and bustling crowds, Gu Changqing looked around at the familiar surroundings.

At this moment, a woman saw Gu Changqing dressed in ancient costume, jogged up to him, said a string of words that Gu Changqing could not understand, and took out her mobile phone from her bag to take a picture of Gu Changqing.

Looking at the girl taking pictures opposite him, Gu Changqing frowned, then placed his hand on the girl's head. Under the girl's puzzled gaze, Gu Changqing activated the Soul Search.

A moment later, Gu Changqing left the place he had just arrived at, leaving only the girl lying motionless on the ground and the crowd surrounding her.

"It seems I've transmigrated to a world without magic. Since Soul Search can be activated, it means I'm still at the Foundation Establishment stage in this world. As long as I don't alarm the higher-ups in humanity, no one can stop me," Gu Changqing thought to himself as he wandered aimlessly, digesting the girl's memories.

A moment later, Gu Changqing felt a strange fluctuation. At the same time, she realized that her body seemed to be imprisoned by something.

Furthermore, Gu Changqing noticed that everything around him seemed to have frozen in time, and the whole world seemed to have quieted down.

Just as Gu Changqing was struggling to break free, a sleazy middle-aged man with an afro walked past her, muttering to himself as he went.

"What's going on? It's not like it's a comic convention today. Why are you trying to cosplay like other people? You're pretty handsome, but unfortunately I'm not Nan Tong."

In Gu Changqing's eyes, the middle-aged man walked straight to a couple by the roadside. He tied the man to a tree and then walked towards the woman.

In Gu Changqing's eyes, about half an hour had passed when the middle-aged man walked to the entrance of the alley and took out a stopwatch-like object from his pocket and pressed it.

At this moment, Gu Changqing and everything around him began to flow again. Gu Changqing ignored the couple's shouts and the onlookers who were walking towards the couple to see what was happening.

When Gu Changqing saw the middle-aged man walk into a rented room, she already guessed what it was. The item was the pocket watch that Gu Changqing had dreamed of when she first became the moderator of the forum before she transmigrated.

Legend has it that one can freely manipulate time without any cost, but as Gu Changqing has been the moderator of the forum for a while longer, he has long since stopped believing in such things.

However, Gu Changqing encountered this divine artifact in the very first world he transmigrated to.

Outside the middle-aged man's rented room, even though his cultivation level was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, he could still easily use his divine sense to spy on a mortal through the wall.

Gu Changqing observed the middle-aged man while pondering in his mind.

"If it functions like the pocket watch I remember, I can snatch it before he even realizes it. If not..."

Thinking of this, Gu Changqing frowned. After all, if this artifact could really control time, then if Gu Changqing returned to the Tian Tu Continent, he would have no fear of anyone.

Considering the possibility of something unexpected, Gu Changqing abandoned the idea of ​​directly seizing it. Instead, she took out a needle-shaped magical artifact engraved with runes from her ring.

Using her divine sense to pinpoint the middle-aged man's location, Gu Changqing flicked the magical artifact in her hand toward the door. The artifact easily passed through the door and pierced straight through the middle-aged man's brain.

As the magical artifact passed through, the middle-aged man's obese body collapsed to the ground with a thud. Gu Changqing used his divine sense to investigate and confirmed that the middle-aged man was dead.

With a slight effort, Gu Changqing broke the door lock and entered, then casually closed the door behind him to avoid alerting anyone and prompting them to call the police.

Gu Changqing took the pocket watch out of the corpse's bosom and stared at it carefully.

The exterior is plain blue, with no hour or minute hands on the surface, only a second hand moving slowly, and two buttons labeled "Start" and "Stop" on the side.

When Gu Changqing pressed the stop button, the second hand stopped ticking, and Gu Changqing found that everything around him was frozen except for himself. Looking out the window, everything in Gu Changqing's field of vision was still. In order to verify whether this pocket watch could only work in a certain area or the whole world, Gu Changqing flew eastward.

Since everything around them was still, Gu Changqing wasn't afraid of being discovered by higher-ups, so he flew high in the sky observing everything on the ground. Because he was worried about the unknown situation, Gu Changqing did not fly at full speed. After flying for a day and a night...

Gu Changqing has confirmed that this world is only about one-tenth the size of his previous world, and the entire world has been frozen in time.

After confirming, Gu Changqing pressed the start button, and everything resumed operation.

Afterwards, Gu Changqing spent a month traveling around the world, but found no other props similar to the timepiece. Apart from a few herbs with a slight spiritual energy in some deep mountains and forests, he gained nothing else.

"It seems that this world has no further value and should be destroyed to move on to the next world."

After saying that, Gu Changqing pressed the stop button on the pocket watch and activated the Ring Key. As streams of white gas from the world flowed into the Ring Key within Gu Changqing's body, the boundaries between heaven and earth began to collapse little by little.

Gu Changqing discovered that while the Key of Cycles absorbed the origin of heaven and earth, a small amount of that origin was also absorbed by him. He felt his cultivation level gradually improving. Finally, after a day, the origin of this world had been completely devoured by the Key of Cycles, and Gu Changqing's cultivation level was only one step away from advancing to the Golden Core stage.

Gu Changqing stood within the protective shield released by the Key of the Ring, looking at the fragments of the world around him, shattered by the loss of their origin and filled with death energy.

"This is the first, but it will never be the last!"

After saying this indifferently, Gu Changqing activated the Ring Key and traveled to the next world.