I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 845 Evolution of Time Skills

Zhang Chen thought so, but looking at the Queen Mother of the West's imposing figure, his heart skipped a beat.

"I am only a hundred miles away from the Queen Mother of the West. This woman has connections everywhere, and the peach tree is even sentient. What if she really notices my little tricks? Wouldn't that be bad? Besides, there is an old ape at the Great Luo realm watching me like a hawk." Zhang Chen glanced around and saw the old ape hiding in the branches of the peach tree. Immediately, all his little thoughts disappeared.

Let's just eat the peaches of immortality and fight against the power of the river of time!
Zhang Chen was eating peaches, and the old ape was also eating peaches, and it was eating them even faster than Zhang Chen.

Just as Zhang Chen's mind was filled with countless thoughts, his Time Authority trembled slightly. The time power that had invaded his body actually stimulated his time ability. His time ability flickered in his primordial spirit, evolving into countless symbols. Not only did it absorb the invading time power, it also actively drew the time power from the outside into his body.

The Queen Mother of the West constantly battled in the river of time, stirring up towering waves. At that time, the river of time rippled with layers of waves, and those waves stirred up endless waves. Each wave passed through the chaos and fell on the altar, turning into water droplets of time that flowed on the altar.

At this moment, the altar staggered, and Zhang Chen lost his grip on the peach tree, falling directly off it. Water splashed onto Zhang Chen's body, and the places where his body was hit aged at a visible speed. However, before he could even eat the peach, the power of time in his primordial spirit surged, absorbing the water splashed onto his skin. Then, the time power runes in Zhang Chen's primordial spirit grew at a visible speed, and the power of time was growing stronger.

"My power of time... The water of the River of Time is the origin of time, a concrete manifestation of the power of time. For my time-related supernatural abilities, this is a great tonic." Zhang Chen's eyes lit up as he watched the water droplets splashing out from the River of Time, his gaze clearer than ever before.

"However, I can't reveal my abilities to the Queen Mother of the West and that Great Immortal. Otherwise, if I cause any trouble and the Queen Mother of the West starts plotting again, things will get really bad." Zhang Chen wanted to absorb the waters of the River of Time splashing on the altar, but he quickly stopped himself after thinking about it. He was afraid that he wouldn't be able to handle the consequences if he caused any big trouble.

However, at this moment, the water of time was splashing everywhere, and the entire altar was surrounded by water. When Zhang Chen stepped on the ground, water droplets splashed by the power of time fell on the altar and were then absorbed by Zhang Chen.

"I just need to quietly absorb it on the ground, pretending to dodge the water flow, and running around in a panic." A thought flashed through Zhang Chen's mind, and the next moment he began to squeal and scream:
"Those water droplets are terrifying!!! This is awful, absolutely awful!!!"

As Zhang Chen ran, he absorbed the water droplets on the ground. At this moment, countless water droplets crashed down like ocean waves, feeling as if a huge wave was crashing onto the deck. Zhang Chen ate peaches while running around on the altar.

The thousand golden-armored warriors over there also sensed something amiss. They gathered together, forming a magic array around the peach tree. They clung to the tree's roots, their bodies intertwined like chains, and the peaches were continuously picked off by the group, like the monkeys in the elementary school story trying to catch the moon's reflection in a well, passing the peaches among themselves.

Zhang Chen found it fascinating, but he didn't fly up to join in the fun. Instead, he scurried around the peach tree, chirping and absorbing the falling water droplets.

At this moment, the power representing time magic within Zhang Chen's soul surged wildly, with countless mysterious runes flashing. These runes multiplied, arranging themselves according to some mysterious law. When they reached their peak, they combined in a specific order, transforming into a transparent thread. As soon as the thread formed, Zhang Chen felt a jolt in his primordial spirit, his mind buzzing as countless pieces of information flooded into his brain. Then, the thread emitted a powerful suction force, absorbing all the time droplets on the nearby ground. The time thread began to replicate wildly, splitting from one into two, then two into three…

"The power of time has become stronger! This is truly an incredible stroke of luck. How could I possibly approach the River of Time with my own supernatural abilities? Let alone directly absorb the power of the time droplets." Zhang Chen's eyes revealed an incredulous look.

At this moment, the river of time surged with countless waves, and water droplets kept shooting over, splashing onto the ground of the altar that stretched for thousands of miles. Water droplets were everywhere, which was a great fortune for Zhang Chen.

At this moment, the Queen Mother of the West was riding the altar through the chaos and could no longer care about Zhang Chen. Hearing Zhang Chen's powerful shouts and thinking about how he had eaten peaches of immortality for fifty years in the Peach Garden, who could live as long as him? So she ignored Zhang Chen and let him run around on the ground, shouting incessantly.

The power of that River of Time was indeed fierce. Even the power of chaos could not completely keep the waves out. Countless waves surged and burst forth, and even the Queen Mother of the West and the eighty-one innate formations could not completely block them.

He didn't know how long he had been battling the wind and waves when he suddenly felt his primordial spirit tremble slightly. The threads formed by his own power of time were now bursting with incredible mystery. The threads kept replicating themselves and actually replicated into a 'rope'. Looking at the 'rope', Zhang Chen knew clearly that it was not a rope, but a miniature version of the river of time composed of 129,600 threads.

"I actually evolved a river of time?" Zhang Chen's eyes were full of surprise, and most importantly, he already had the ability to manipulate time.

Using one's own river of time as fuel, one can accelerate time, stop time, or reverse time.

"It's just that my time is too weak, and there are still constraints. I can only activate a single object, and I can only activate a single object once a day," Zhang Chen muttered to himself.

For him, it was just adding two functions: time reversal and time pause, but the time limit remained at three Jiazi (a unit of time in Chinese calendar). "It's incredible. I wonder how incredible my time river would expand if I jumped into the River of Time and caused it to overflow," Zhang Chen thought curiously.

However, after a little thought, Zhang Chen dismissed the idea. Unless he was a fool, he should have foreseen that if he really jumped into the river of time, what awaited him would not be the expansion of his own river of time, but rather the direct engulfment of his own tributary of time.

It's like a ditch and a river; once they collide, the ditch will be swallowed up instantly, or even filled in by the silt.

"I can't be reckless. Isn't it better to live a good life? Once my little tributary comes into contact with the main river, death will be all that awaits me." Zhang Chen suppressed this thought and had no intention of jumping off the altar to experiment. He simply ate a peach while running in the water.

The waves surged violently, causing peaches to fall from the peach tree to the ground, even shaking the innate spiritual plant.

Just as Zhang Chen was secretly absorbing the power of time, the entire altar suddenly became calm, and the entire river of time was left behind him, far ahead of him.

"Did you get through it?" Zhang Chen looked at the river of time on the ground, which was being pushed out of the altar like a receding tide, his eyes filled with regret.

This was indeed a rare and great opportunity for him.

"What a pity!" Zhang Chen collected his thoughts and scanned the outside world. He saw that the chaotic energy had dispersed and transformed back into the Five Banners, evolving into the original form of the Innate Grand Array. However, the altar under his feet had changed. It had become as lustrous as jade, with countless golden patterns engraved on it. The patterns flickered and moved according to some mysterious law, and an indestructible aura flowed through them.

“This altar was originally just an ordinary stone from Kunlun Mountain. Later, it was integrated with eighty-one innate grand formations, tempered by heavenly lightning, and refined by the river of time. It has begun to become incredible, evolving from an ordinary material into a rare and precious treasure, and even imprinted with the power of time.” A look of caution appeared in Zhang Chen’s eyes.

No matter what the material is, once it has traveled through the river of time, it will become extraordinary.

The golden-armored general on the tree quickly landed on the ground and automatically picked up the fallen peaches. The Queen Mother of the West turned to look at Zhang Chen without any change in expression, and then continued to fly in the void, riding the altar.

At this moment, after passing through that river of time, a fierce spatial storm swept through the void. The spatial storm was suppressed by the innate grand formation and refined into pure spatial power, tempering the material of the jade platform beneath their feet.

"Where exactly does the Queen Mother of the West want to go? Where is she headed?" Countless thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen's mind, but he couldn't guess the Queen Mother of the West's goal. So he simply sat cross-legged and began to ponder his own River of Time.

Upon closer inspection of the depths of one's own primordial spirit, it was indeed a winding, twisting river, whose origin and destination were unknown, endlessly traversing the void.

"Incredible!" Zhang Chen exclaimed in astonishment. How could a human possibly control the river of time?
The time-manipulation ability I acquired back then was truly beyond my expectations, evolving to this extent one day.

But when his gaze swept across the page and he saw the data on the Golden Finger page, he couldn't help but feel a pang of unease and subconsciously gasped:
[Skill 21 (Tier 12): Time Control (0/1000000000000000000)]

[Note 1: Activating a skill on a certain item can accelerate time by three Jiazi years.]

[Note 2: You can activate a skill on a certain item, reversing time by three Jiazi (60 years) and revisiting the cause and effect related to that event.]

[Note 3: You can pause the time elapsed for a single target, as well as the causal relationships associated with it.]

[Note 3: The same item can only be activated once per day]

(End of this chapter)