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The manifestation of the "Time and Heavenly Way" is a river.

Chu Yang entered [Tiandao Mountain].

Then they arrived directly in front of the [River of Time].

It's called "climbing a mountain," but to gain the approval of the "Time and Heavenly Way," what you actually need to do is "cross the river"!

Beside the River of Time, there is a small boat.

Once the awakened one crosses the river by boat, their physical body, soul, and the [Time Dao] can be perfectly integrated.

This sounds simple, but it's actually extremely difficult.

Because what propels the small boat is not force or oars, but the Awakened One's ability to locate time.

Locating a point in time within the "river of time" is an extremely difficult task.

Chu Yang boarded the small boat.

He closed his eyes.

Time, containing the past, present, and future, rubs against his senses like grains of sand.

It is also eroding his perception of time.

Time moves from front to back; front represents the past, and back represents the future.

The fact that he is "crossing the river" on a horizontal line means that he must always keep himself in the present moment.

Therefore, the essence of "crossing the river" is to test the ability to position oneself in the "present".

In the river of time, the past, present, and future are intertwined.

It's like a bottle containing three kinds of fine sand that are the same size, color, and quality.

The awakened ones who participate in the test need to distinguish all the grains of sand and find all the grains that represent "the present".

If even one grain is missed, one grain is added, or one grain is misplaced, the Awakener's boat will be unable to reach the other side of the river.

Those who wish to merge with the [Time Dao] often need to explore within the [River of Time] for months, years, or even centuries.

However, no one could have predicted this.

The test of the "River of Time" was incredibly simple for Chu Yang.

Because, within the [River of Time], he didn't use the [Heavenly Way of Time] to determine time, but rather...

[The Law of Cause and Effect]!

As mentioned before, there are countless connections between the various Heavenly Paths.

Among them, the one most closely related to the "Time Heavenly Way" is the "Cause Heavenly Way".

In the "River of Time," it is difficult to locate time using the "Time Dao," but it is very simple using the "Cause Dao."

At this moment, in Chu Yang's eyes, what flows in the [River of Time] is no longer time, but rather lines of cause and effect that are clearly defined.

Within the [Cause and Effect Line], the past, present, and future are laid bare before Chu Yang with unparalleled clarity.

He only needs to grasp all the points representing the present in these causal lines to easily sail to the other side of the river.

It shouldn't take more than half an hour.

Of course, this is a method that only Chu Yang can use.

Because he is the only one in this world who can simultaneously possess both the laws of time and cause and effect.

However, what Chu Yang reached out and grasped was not "now".

Rather... it's the past!

In the long river of time, Chu Yang should have easily seized the present and successfully crossed the river.

Instead of crossing the river, they started swimming upstream!

For every meter you go upstream in the River of Time, time will rewind by one year.

Chu Yang glided upstream for 125768 meters in one go!

Then, he jumped off the small boat.

I jumped into the river of time.

In this world, some rules are predetermined by fate and can never be broken.

One of the rules is that time cannot be reversed, and the past cannot be returned to.

The gods who control the "Time Dao" can at most pause time, but cannot reverse it.

The skill Chu Yang once used, which resembled rewinding time—"Time Corridor"—was not actually rewinding time; it was simply restoring his past self.

Anyone who tries to travel back in time through the River of Time will be devoured by the power of Heaven the moment they jump into it.

However, Chu Yang was an exception.

Because he is a heretic.

The backlash from the Heavenly Dao could not affect him.

Thus, Chu Yang returned to 125768 years ago.

Chu Yang, who fell from the River of Time, still appears outside Tiandao Mountain.

Before him was still the complete Heavenly Dao Mountain, with less than a third of the Heavenly Dao materialized on it.

Chu Yang can now choose to go into the mountains and first integrate most of the Heavenly Dao.

But he didn't do that; instead, he walked out of the mountain.

Returning to more than 120,000 years ago, the [Heavenly Dao Mark] above Chu Yang's head had long since disappeared.

He walked in the "Divine Realm" in the form of a god.

At this time, there were not many gods in the divine realm, and they existed in the form of tribes.

Chu Yang passed by a tribe of gods. When the gods in the tribe saw Chu Yang, they gave him a simple and honest smile.

The gods at this time were not at all as aloof as the gods of later generations.

Soon, Chu Yang arrived at his destination.

This is a small hill, and on the hill are the skeletons of a human.

The skeleton had red and white striped patterns.

Beside the skeleton sat a young god-like boy named Nong.

The boy stared at the red and white stripes on the skeleton, sensing a trace of the Heavenly Dao called "Creation".

Unfortunately, the "creation" contained in the remains was too faint for the young man to truly grasp.

Watching this scene from afar, Chu Yang stretched out his finger and touched the boy's brow.

In an instant, the boy seemed to have an epiphany.

From this skeleton, insights into the [Creation and Heavenly Dao] flowed continuously into the boy's body.

This realization will then last for seven days.

Seven days later, the boy will gain 100% comprehension of the [Creation Heavenly Dao], and then go to [Heavenly Dao Mountain] to obtain his own Creation Godhood.

Then, the boy will use his divine power to give this skeleton new life...

Twelve thousand years later, a human will use the power of cause and effect in a battle with the gods to forcibly gain life under their control.

At that time, that human's understanding of the "Dao of Cause and Effect" was not deep; he thought that cause and effect was just a kind of power.

Little did they know that every use of the power of cause and effect subtly influenced the past and future of this world.

Those who use the power of cause and effect also need to bear the responsibility of maintaining the stability of cause and effect.

Therefore, Chu Yang went back to the past.

In addition to merging with the Heavenly Dao, they are also dealing with the karma they have sown.

If he doesn't do this, the world will have no choice but to forcibly repair the cause and effect.

Therefore, as the creator of the chaotic cause and effect, Chu Yang's ability to cause and effect will be sealed.

This is a rule governing the application of the "Cause and Effect Heavenly Way".