Warrior's Promise

The Fourteenth Time Holy Hall contained the Rule to turn back time, quite a mystical one.

Gain control of the Rule of time in the Fourteenth Time Holy Hall and one could make time flow backward. Su Mo had spent about two hours mastering that.

With one thought, Su Mo triggered the Rule. In front of him, countless scenes flowed backwards at rapid speed. Going back in time, he found himself returning to the Cloud Ridge World a hundred years ago, when he had been on Dosu Star.

It all seemed so real. There he was, trying to snatch the Dosu Fruit in Dosu Star, and got attacked by the Dosu Tree.

And Su Mo watched it all unfold as an outsider, from the Gods’ perspective.

He could not change whatever had happened in the past. He could only watch in silence. After a while, he stopped applying the Rule of the Fourteenth Time Holy Hall, and everything returned to normal. He stood alone in the centre of the temple.

“Time... and space!” Su Mo muttered, deep in thought. Perhaps the Rule of Time in this Time Holy Hall only allowed time to go back a hundred years, yet the space remained unchanged.

“Sovereign Shi Kong!” Su Mo squinted. He realized that the most powerful being in the Cosmic World was not the Reincarnation Heavenly Sovereign, nor the Chaos God Emperor, who was rumored to be the champion of the Cosmic World, but this Sovereign Shi Kong.

The Spatiotemporal Rule was the combination of the Time Rule and the Space Rule. Sovereign Shi Kong controlled the Spatiotemporal Rule, did that mean he could travel to the past and future?

Some claimed that Sovereign Shi Kong was dead. Others claimed that Sovereign Shi Kong had lost his way in the Void Sea. but from Su Mo’s point of view, both were impossible.

Sovereign Shi Kong would never die. In fact, he was far beyond what anyone in the Cosmic World could imagine.

At this moment, Su Mo realized how scary the Spatiotemporal Rule could be. No wonder it was considered a combination of the most powerful Rules.

“I want to study the Spatiotemporal Rule too. No, I want to study all the Rules!” Su Mo thought. Among the three thousand Dosu Fruits, he had given the one containing the Immortal Rule to Quan Ruhai, and another two containing the Space Rule and the Life Rule to Ling Chang. The rest were still with him.

It seemed he had to take some time to consume all the Dosu Fruits and reachRank 1 Great Completion Realm for all the Rules before taking the next step.

“The Fourteenth Time Holy Hall turns back time, the Fifteenth Time Holy Hall slows down time, the Sixteenth Time Holy Hall speeds up time, and so on. That means the Seventeenth, Twentieth, Twenty-Third, Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Ninth, and Thirty-Second Time Holy Hall also turns back time. So, if I reach the Thirty-Second Time Holy Hall, can I go back to my past life and witness all that Sovereign Shi Kong has done?” Su Mo thought, thrilled by the surprising realization.

Thousands of thoughts raced through his mind. The Spatiotemporal City was simply marvelous.

He was utterly impressed by Sovereign Shi Kong.

“Continue!” Taking a deep breath, Su Mo pressed on towards the Fifteenth Time Holy Hall.

Fifteenth Time Holy Hall!

Sixteenth Time Holy Hall!

Twenty-Fourth Time Holy Hall!

Twenty-Fifth Time Holy Hall!

He stopped for a while when he had mastered the Rule of the Twenty-Fifth Time Holy Hall. He did not have much time left.

He calculated an estimate. Eight days had passed. There were twenty-four hours, which was exactly one day, left in the nine-day period before the Spatiotemporal City was expected to open.

Therefore, he would not advance for the time being. The Twenty-Fifth Time Holy Hall was about accelerating time. He planned to train there for now and proceed with the others next time.

Initially he had thought, with his current training high perception, he could go all the way to the end. He had not expected to stop at the Twenty-Fifth Time Holy Hall.

“Over thirty thousand times!”

Su Mo exerted the Rule of the Twenty-Fifth Time Holy Hall, and felt the time flow over thirty thousand times faster than that of the outside world. In fact, it was close to thirty-three thousand times.

Previously, when he had reached the Thirteenth Time Holy Hall, time had sped up about twenty-thousand times. However, the further he ventured, the smaller the increase was.

But, time flowing at a rate of thirty-three thousand times faster was scary enough.

Su Mo still had twenty-four hours to train. If multiplied by thirty-three thousand times, that would be seven hundred and ninety-two thousand hours!

That would be thirty-three thousand days! Exactly ninety years! That was quite enough for training!

“Ninety years!” Su Mo took a deep breath. He had never been secluded for that long. He was not sure if he could break through to the Supreme Realm.

Next, Su Mo sat down began to study the Devouring Rule. He wanted to get to Rank 7, and then hit up the Advanced Supreme Being Realm.

His Devouring Rule was currently at Rank 6 End Realm, almost at Rank 6 Great Completion Realm.

Su Mo held his breath in deep concentration and released his Devouring Primordial Spirit to be suspended above his head.

The space was filled with faint Devouring Power as Su Mo began to study. His Devouring Rule was not among the three thousand Paths. He had to make it his main direction in training.

Su Mo abandoned all miscellaneous thoughts in his mind and shut his eyes as he studied in peace.

Time flowed like water in the Time Holy Hall. Years passed.

Soon, thirty years came and went.

One day, Su Mo opened his eyes and spilled out foul gas from his mouth.

“Finally! Rank 6 Great Completion Realm!”

Su Mo sighed, his eyelids drooped. He had found a problem. It would be much more difficult to study the Rules in the Cosmic World than to do so in the Cloud Ridge World.

Admittedly, the studying of the Rule was similar to training. Progress would get slower in later stages.

His Devouring Rule had been close to Rank 6 Great Completion Realm. In his view, ten years should have been enough to break through, but now he had spent an exaggerated thirty years.

It could be that the Rules of Cosmic World had unknowingly restricted the martial artist’s progress. In other words, this was the bottleneck of the Lower Worlds.

Everyone was well aware that, in the Supreme Being Realm, the main factor for restricting improvement was the strength of the Rules. As for those Advanced Supreme Beings of the Cosmic World, their Realms had been shackled for millions of years.

Could it be that those Advanced Supreme Beings had terrible perceptions?

Not being able to master their Rules in millions of years?

No, that could not be it.

The Cosmic World had restricted them!

In other words, those older Advanced Supreme Beings had actually mastered their Rule powers, but only the sort of mastery defined by the Cosmic World.

“It seems it’ll take a lot more time to get to Rank 7 Beginning Realm!” Su Mo sighed. He was measuring the Rules based on the standards of the Cloud Ridge World. In the Cosmic World, that would be Rank 8 and above, which would surely be difficult.

Su Mo shut his eyes and continued his studies.

However, next, the time it would take for him to reach Rank 7 of the Devouring Rule exceeded Su Mo’s expectations.

Ten years!

Twenty years!

Forty years!

Fifty years!

In the blink of an eye, fifty years passed. Time flowed like water. Su Mo had finally gone one step further.