"The Fire Cloud Branch actually contains the power of time?"
He continued to devour the Fire Cloud Branches, and before long, he had consumed all the Fire Cloud Branches in the Wilderness Treasure Vault.
There weren't many branches in total, only a little over a hundred.
Having absorbed over a hundred streams of time power, before the laws of time could react, his physical body underwent a change. Fang Xiu's skin turned an intense crimson, as if fire was burning within his veins.
The flames within his body burned wildly, forging his physique.
Despite the excruciating pain that felt like being burned alive, Fang Xiu remained calm and began cultivating according to the methods recorded in the Barbarian God Manual.
Three days later.
The crimson color on his body finally faded completely, replaced by bulging muscles, and his once well-fitting clothes were now stretched taut.
He picked up another sacred dragon fruit and began to devour it, but then something strange happened again: the power of time reappeared.
"The Fire Cloud Branch can provide the power of time, and so can the Sacred Dragon Fruit? This is no coincidence." Fang Xiu's cold eyes narrowed slightly as he switched to another rare and precious material—the Marrow Cleansing Tear!
The result remains the same; it can still provide the power of time.
Suddenly, he slowly raised his left hand, and a crack appeared in his palm, revealing his gleaming white teeth.
After staring for a long time, Fang Xiu murmured, "It seems the problem isn't with the rare and precious treasures, but with me! I never imagined that the combination of the Time Law and the Gluttony Law would produce such a wondrous ability—devouring time!"
He found the reason: it was a new ability gained from the combination of two laws—devouring time. The rare treasures he had just swallowed not only their life essence but also the time that existed within them.
Everything in the universe has time, some longer and some shorter. Time is not lifespan, but lifespan is a manifestation of time.
How many years a living being can live is determined by its vitality. For example, if a person has a lifespan of 100 years, it means that his vitality is enough to support him to live for 100 years, but his actual time is only one day.
A day later, he was hit by a car and died, ending his lifespan.
"However, these rare and precious materials contain very little time power. Logically speaking, rare and precious materials should have a long lifespan, so why do they provide so little time power?"
Fang Xiu casually picked up a piece of broken stone and then absorbed the time energy from it, but the time energy he gained was even less.
"It seems that the length of time is only one of the factors that determine the amount of power of time. A piece of stone occupies too small a place in the river of time. Even if this piece of stone can exist for ten thousand years, without the influence of external forces, it will not change its position for ten thousand years, and the time fluctuations it causes will be very small. Perhaps, the time that exists in a person should be much longer."
To conduct further experiments, he summoned Xu Ruohai and asked him to capture a barbarian.
After several days of recuperation, Xu Ruohai had completely metabolized the cartilage powder in his body. Although he still had no strength, his physical strength was comparable to that of a third-stage Ascension cultivator. He was a rare strongman in the wilderness, and capturing a barbarian would be a piece of cake.
Fang Xiu looked at the barbarian who had been knocked unconscious, opened his gluttonous maw, and began to devour the time of the other man.
The next moment, a power of time far exceeding that provided by rare and precious materials surged into his body, and when the barbarian's time was completely devoured, his life force also dissipated.
"As expected, the power of time that humans can provide far surpasses that of other things."
Fang Xiu was very satisfied with this discovery. Ever since he condensed the Time Law through fortune telling, he had never known how to condense a second Time Law. Now, he never expected that the combination of time and devouring would give him the ability to devour time.
He could sense that the Time Law within his body, having absorbed a considerable amount of time power, was showing signs of growing stronger, and even, due to its continuous expansion, a tiny crack had appeared at its center.
"People! I need more people!" A dark, cold light flashed in Fang Xiu's eyes.
"Xu Ruohai, go and bring more people over."
"Yes, Your Excellency, True God."
Just as Fang Xiu was cultivating diligently, the Central Plains were shaken.
Inside the royal palace of the Canglan Kingdom.
A middle-aged man dressed in a golden dragon robe sat on the dragon throne with a gloomy expression.
His hair was neatly combed and smooth, falling gently over his broad shoulders. His face was handsome and resolute, with an air of unapproachable arrogance between his brows. His nose was straight, and his lips were tightly closed, giving him a serious and cold impression.
This person is none other than Ling Xinghe, the emperor of Canglan Kingdom!
Ling Xinghe stared grimly at the scout kneeling on the ground and said in a deep voice, "Is the intelligence accurate?"
The scout was sweating profusely and dared not look up. He hurriedly replied, "Your Majesty, it is absolutely true. I have sent my spies who have been lurking in the wilderness to investigate several times. The entire Wilderness Royal Court has been reduced to ruins."
Ling Xinghe fell into an eerie silence; the atmosphere in the palace was extremely oppressive. "What about Ling Yao?"
The scout shuddered: "According to those lurking in the wilderness, some survivors of the Wilderness Royal Court seem to have seen a thin, silver-haired little girl standing with the murderer who destroyed the Royal Court."
Bang!
Ling Xinghe flew into a rage and kicked over the table in front of him. The huge jade desk was reduced to dust by the kick.
"Useless! The Barbarian King is a complete waste! He was actually killed so easily, and he couldn't even protect a little girl. If I had known this would happen, I shouldn't have sold Ling Yao to him in the first place!"
He vented for a while before continuing to ask, "Have you found out who destroyed the royal court?"
"No...no, that person has not shown up since destroying the royal court, so there is no way to find out. However, I am certain that this person is not a member of the Demonic Sect."
Hearing that he wasn't a member of the Demonic Sect, Ling Xinghe breathed a slight sigh of relief.
"Just because he is not a member of the Demonic Cult now does not mean he will not be in the future. This person actually managed to seize control of the Taotie statue from the Barbarian King and sacrificed the entire royal court. He is very likely to have obtained divine power like me. This dangerous person now controls Ling Yao. If he were to contact the Demonic Cult again, my Canglan Kingdom would be in grave danger."
"Immediately gather men, contact the Grandmasters on the Heavenly Ranking, and assassinate this man! Even if you can't kill him, you must kill Ling Yao!"
"It's Your Majesty!"
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Several days later, Fang Xiu emerged from the Desolate Treasure Vault, not because he had left seclusion, but because he was hungry.
He forgot that he had shed his immortal body and become a mortal, and that he needed to eat. Although he could eat rare and precious foods every day, those things were not enough to fill him up.
After not eating for several days in a row, he looked much more haggard.
As soon as he appeared, Fang Yao, who was hiding in a dark corner, immediately got up and ran over with great speed.
She ran to Fang Xiu's side, stared at him expressionlessly, and didn't say a word. Perhaps she didn't quite know how to communicate with others.
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