He died and rewound more than three hundred times, which allowed him to catch the tail end of time and gain a glimpse of insight from the cosmic dragon.
Suddenly, Fang Xiu discovered that he could actually control the timing of the death rollback!
It truly achieves the same save and load functionality as in a game, allowing you to save anytime, anywhere, and then load the save by dying.
However, based on his current understanding of time, the time limit for saving is only seven days. In other words, he can rewind to the seventh day at most, and of course, he can choose any point in time within those seven days.
This improvement wasn't a huge deal for Fang Xiu; it only reduced some trouble. However, it gave him a glimmer of hope—the glimmer of hope for him to fully comprehend the Divine Dragon.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, but once you grasp the basics, the rest is just a matter of patience and perseverance.
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"Captain, you...you're back so soon?" a staff member at headquarters exclaimed in surprise.
Fang Xiu nodded: "Pass down the word that I am going into seclusion and should not be disturbed unless it is important."
He gave a brief explanation and then went into seclusion.
Time flies when you're cultivating; seven days have passed in the blink of an eye.
In the secluded chamber, Fang Xiu suddenly opened his eyes, then took out a scalpel and examined himself.
Returning to seven days prior, I resumed my seclusion.
With the ability to rewind after death, he essentially has unlimited time.
A month of invasion from the other side may seem like a tight schedule, but for Fang Xiu, it's enough, because he can turn this month into a year, ten years, or even a hundred years!
Isn't the power of the cosmos difficult to comprehend? Isn't the power of time obscure and hard to understand?
Simple, use time to deal with time!
Seven days, then another seven days, a constant cycle of death and rewind, a constant stream of insights, until finally Fang Xiu couldn't remember how much time he had spent—a year, two years, or even more.
Bang!
The door to the seclusion room suddenly swung open.
A tall, slender figure in black emerged from within.
Just then, the staff member outside the door turned around, preparing to leave, and upon hearing the door open, quickly turned back.
"Captain, did you forget something? I'll go get it for you."
Fang Xiu slowly shook his head: "No, I just finished my seclusion."
The staff member was stunned: "You're... finished your seclusion?! But you've only been inside for less than a minute..."
Fang Xiu did not explain, but went straight back to his office.
Inside the office, a graceful figure was lounging unceremoniously in the captain's chair, still wearing a black suit skirt, slightly raised, her fair and slender legs crossed and propped up on the desk, her high heels casually scattered on the floor, holding potato chips in one hand and a can of soda in the other, eating and drinking heartily.
The laptop I usually use for work is currently playing a variety show.
The one who dared to be so presumptuous in the captain's office was none other than Xiao Chuxia.
Bang!
The office door opened, and Xiao Chuxia was startled. She hurriedly pulled at her short skirt, about to scold him, but when she saw it was Fang Xiu, a look of surprise flashed in her beautiful eyes.
She didn't care about the skirt anymore.
"Hugh, what brings you back?"
Fang Xiu looked at Xiao Chuxia, who showed no ladylike demeanor whatsoever, and asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Eating potato chips and watching variety shows."
"Have you collected all the power of lies for today?"
Xiao Chuxia raised her head, revealing her smooth chin, and said, "Yes."
"As expected, we haven't finished collecting them all. We'll go collect them right now."
Xiao Chuxia's face fell: "Brother Xiu, how did you know they were lying?"
After saying that, she seemed to have thought of something, and her expression brightened: "Hehe, Brother Hugh, it must be because you know me too well, right?"
"Because you never tell the truth."
Xiao Chuxia's smile froze.
"Hmph! I'm ignoring you!" She angrily pulled her long legs back from the table with a large movement, her feet landing heavily on the ground. She stuck her butt out, put on her high heels, and walked away with a clattering sound.
After Xiao Chuxia left, Fang Xiu slowly walked to the windowsill and gazed at the green ivy on it.
After gazing at it for a long time, he suddenly reached out his hand to the green ivy, and a strange fluctuation of time appeared, which was very secretive and obscure.
Under the influence of that time fluctuation, the once-blooming green ivy was visibly turning yellow and then withering.
It was as if time had sped up countless times at that moment, and in that short time, the green ivy experienced and ended its brief life.
As the pothos withered, Fang Xiu's actions did not stop, and the mysterious and unpredictable fluctuations in time changed once again.
Then, a miraculous scene unfolded.
The once withered pothos seemed to have turned back time, slowly regaining its vitality. Fallen leaves sprouted from the soil and flew onto the branches, their yellowish color turning emerald green. As time went on, the fully recovered pothos began to shrink, getting smaller and smaller, until it shrank back into the soil.
"Local time acceleration and time reversal, the power to change the speed and direction of time." Fang Xiu murmured calmly, his eyes extremely deep, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.
"It's just a pity that the limitations are too great. The higher the speed of acceleration and reversal, the more spiritual energy is consumed. Moreover, the pre-activation animation is too long, making it difficult to use on moving objects."
Fang Xiu shook his head slightly. This was an ability he had comprehended from the Zhoulong after countless seven-day seclusions: localized time acceleration and time reversal.
It can locally change the flow and direction of time. If time is likened to a long river, then Fang Xiu's ability is like a person stirring the river with their hand, thereby changing the flow of the river in a small area. Stirring with the river is like accelerating time, and stirring against the river is like reversing time.
However, this seemingly powerful ability is greatly diminished due to its excessively long casting animation.
To activate this ability, he needs at least a minute of preparation time to select an area and thus change the flow of time. If used against an enemy, let alone a spirit master, even an ordinary person would have run a hundred meters in a minute.
It is ultimately too difficult for a mortal to move the river of time.
It's like a toddler trying to swing a sledgehammer; it takes a lot of effort to get the sledgehammer up, but the problem is, the toddler has already run away.
This means that, with Fang Xiu's current strength, his ability to accelerate and reverse time in certain areas can only be applied to inanimate objects, because inanimate objects cannot move.
Dealing with living creatures is impractical. It's impossible to simply accelerate time to make the enemy old and frail, or reverse time to turn them into frightened eggs, as one might imagine.
Chicken ribs, tasteless to eat, but a pity to throw away.
"The Way of Time is something I can't touch at my current level. If it weren't for the ability to rewind after death, I wouldn't even be qualified to comprehend it. Now, if I force myself to comprehend it, I can only gain such a useless ability."
Fang Xiu gazed intently at the ever-blooming and withering green ivy.
It wasn't that he didn't want to comprehend more of the time-related abilities, but rather that he had already reached the limit of what he could achieve at this stage.
At the fifth level, before the immense power of time, they are less than ants.
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