Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 472 The First Step in the Actions of Time: Energizing Matter into Energy

"This spatial ring is quite sturdy." Tang San stepped on the spatial ring beneath his feet, sensing the stable spatial power contained within, and exclaimed in admiration, "I'm afraid it can't be destroyed without the power to destroy a star, right? However, you don't seem to be good at close combat?"

"Indeed, I'm not good at it," the Lord of Eternity admitted. "If we divide it into physical and magical attacks, my magical attack is one hundred, while my physical attack is a bit lower, only ninety-nine."

Tang San: "..."

"This is no joke." Seeing Tang San's apparent pain, the Lord of Eternity covered his mouth and chuckled. "After all, without the blessing of Eternity and the Throne of the God of Creation, my physical combat ability is truly only [99]. Moreover, in that aspect, I am truly inferior to you. Besides, am I dressed like this for the convenience of fighting?"

As she spoke, the Lord of Eternity tugged at the hem of her dress and continued, "If I were to fight someone weaker than me, dressed like this, I could still kill them with a single punch. But against you, even wearing the Armor of Eternity and Creation would be useless. Not to mention, we are currently within the Eternal Realm, and even if I could freely borrow the power of the Throne, I wouldn't be able to unleash its full potential... Therefore, it's better to focus on [magical attacks]."

"This is not to look down on you, but it's just that this is all I can do right now."

"Otherwise, King Easton, the Holy Dragon, and the Eternal Angel would not need to contribute their power to me."

Tang San was aware of this, but asked, "So, is this still an assessment?"

"Of course." The Eternal Lord's smile remained serene. "To defeat me also includes gaining my recognition, or for me to voluntarily concede defeat."

The creator god has his own pride.

But He wasn't a fool. If they really started fighting, all the creatures in the Eternal Realm might be destroyed because of their battle.

That would be a losing proposition.

"You have passed the test of space; now comes the test of time."

The voice just fell.

The vertical wheel representing time in the hands of the Lord of Eternity began to rotate counterclockwise, and Tang San noticed that his physical body was beginning to shrink... This situation was the same as what he had experienced in the arena of life and death!

However, at that time, Tang San was powerless to resist and did not even know how that power was acting on him.

Now, Tang San realized that the so-called power of time was not a real substance or energy, but a conceptual ability that could influence and distort the mind.

Unlike the illusions of spiritual power, this power of time, while acting on the mind, also influences the body, causing it to become energized. However, the stability of energy is far less than that of tangible matter, and it is more easily affected by the mind.

At such times, as long as you have the thought of "turning back to being six years old", no matter how this thought arises, whether it is an external illusion or an internal idea, as long as you have this thought, your energy-based body will really revert to the state of being six years old, and then your energy-based body will revert back to a flesh-and-blood body.

This is the truth!

The so-called time ability is to accelerate the movement of matter and energy in space. When applied to the physical body, it means to completely energize the basic substances that make up the physical body, and then apply certain illusions to make people's thoughts have illusions, thereby affecting the energy that makes up the physical body and causing it to regress to the age of six.

Similarly, this ability can also turn a person into a decaying old man.

To control time means to control the conversion between matter and energy, which is equivalent to controlling a truth close to the universe...

Probably not!

Tang San denied this conjecture. Controlling the ability does not mean controlling the essence. After all, if he really controlled the truth that is close to the universe, how could the Lord of Eternity have fallen to this state?

Most likely, He only knows how to use it, and has only a superficial understanding of the underlying principles, or even no understanding at all.

After understanding the essence of the ability to time, Tang San also understood why the rune representing time among the twelve basic soul guide runes developed by the Golden Civilization was so illusory.

because--

Time doesn't exist!

Time is merely a man-made concept. In essence, it influences people's minds, causing them to make cognitive errors, and then controls the transformation between matter and energy!

At this moment, the Lord of Eternity, gazing at Tang San who remained unchanged, exclaimed in astonishment, "Even with your long lifespan, you shouldn't have lasted this long under the immense power of time! Could it be that you too have mastered the power of time?"

"Not yet, it's just that my primordial spirit is stable and my mind is resolute." Tang San shook his head slightly and recited a limerick: "First there was creation, then heaven, my body was born before creation, I was only eighteen years old, one year of chaos."

The Lord of Eternity knew that Tang San was definitely joking, but for some reason, he felt that it wasn't just empty talk, but rather a fact that could be achieved in the future...

What existed before creation?

"Know yourself," Tang San blurted out without any hesitation.

"No wonder you are immune to the power of time." The Lord of Eternity suddenly realized that He also understood how time affects things, that it is the most fundamental movement between matter and energy.

Like a fruit, when the power of time is applied directly to it, it will not rot or be bitten, but will directly turn into energy and disintegrate.

This is the effect obtained by the original creator god after he gained control of the power of time and conducted a simple experiment.

When the power of time acts on a person, and with a little bit of spiritual influence, it can transform a middle-aged person into a vibrant teenager, a lively and adorable child, or even an elderly person in their eighties.

But for a newborn infant, the power of time is useless; it cannot transform them into a child, youth, middle-aged person, or old person. They remain an ignorant and unaware infant.

At that time, the creator god believed that infants were pure and innocent, and were in harmony with the forces of nature, so the unnatural forces of time could not be applied to them.

However, according to Tang San's explanation, another possibility has emerged: infants have no concept of time and are unaware of who they are. Therefore, even if their physical bodies are energized and influenced by mental energy, their still-developing brains do not have concepts such as "young," "old," or "aging." Thus, their energized bodies remain unchanged, retaining the appearance of infants.

The first step time takes effect on an object is to convert matter into energy.

If this step is not completed, then the subsequent operations will never be possible...

(End of this chapter)