Swallowing the Stars: I'll Destroy the Universe with My Talent Attributes

The strength of the time field drops by 30%, or even more...

Almost simultaneously, the Shadow Gun resonated and launched. The bullet traced a distorted trajectory in the slow time field, but the firing angle was meticulously calculated, striking the "second hand shadow" at the center of the vortex in the Light Time Beast's head precisely at the moment when the time force field was weakest!

clang!

It sounded like a clock being stopped.

The Time Beast let out a piercing shriek, and the time field weakened again, restoring its flow rate to 0.8 times.

It's now!

"Iwayama!"

Qin Yuan roared.

The rocky mountain, which had been poised to strike, slammed its giant shield into the fragmented ground beneath its feet!

The C9-grade hardness photocrystalline ground cracked instantly, the fissures spreading like a spider web. The Light-Time Beast lost its footing and its body went out of balance.

Qin Yuan finally used the Starlight Law for the first time since entering the world.

There was no grand gesture, only starlight concentrated to its fullest potential at the fingertips.

The starlight wasn't aimed at the Time Beast, but rather at a fragment three meters behind it, where the time flow was currently at 8.5 times the normal speed.

"Refraction of Light, Deflection of Time!"

With Qin Yuan's near-perfect mastery of the Starlight Law, combined with his understanding of the flow field of time, he executed a truly exquisite maneuver:

The starlight that was shot out did not dissipate after hitting the edge of the high-speed zone fragment. Instead, it was "captured" by the time force field on the surface of the fragment. It was accelerated, amplified, and refracted at 8.5 times the time flow rate, and finally circled back in a strange arc, accurately hitting the back of the Light Time Beast's neck!

That place is the "time node" of the Lighttime Beast in the records of the Light-Eyed Clan, which is equivalent to the center of the biological clock.

puff~

A slight penetrating sound.

The Light Beast's body trembled violently, the crystalline skin on its body quickly lost its luster, and the vortex on its head began to spin out of control, sometimes accelerating to the point of blurring, and sometimes stopping as if it were a dead object.

The time field completely collapsed, and the surrounding debris returned to its normal flow rate.

"Now's the time!"

Yan Feng was the first to recover and unleashed a full-force strike with his Molten Blade!

A fiery blade slashed across the Light Beast's neck, finally shattering its crystalline skin and revealing the flowing silver blood within. The Shadow Spear followed immediately, three armor-piercing bullets penetrating the same wound.

The Light Beast let out its final lament, its massive body crashing to the ground, the last glimmer of light on its surface extinguished.

The battle is over.

From the moment of the surprise attack to the moment the powerful enemy was killed, only eight seconds actually passed, but in everyone's subjective perception, it felt as if they had experienced a long and fierce battle.

The cognitive disorientation caused by the disordered flow of time results in enormous mental exhaustion.

"Huh...huh..."

Yan Shan knelt on one knee, his giant shield resting on the ground: "This damn thing... is more troublesome than all twelve puppets combined."

Qinghe quickly provided each person with a mental stabilizer.

"Time-based challenges put too much strain on the brain. Everyone, take a two-minute break and check for any aftereffects of time-disorder."

Chapter 195 The Trial of Aurora

Qin Yuan walked to the corpse of the Lighttime Beast, squatted down, and examined it carefully.

Deep within the vortex of its shattered head, a crystal core the size of a pigeon egg was emitting a soft, silvery-gray light. Inside the crystal core, the faint, shimmering shadows of tiny clocks could be seen turning.

Fragments of the laws of time condensed.

Qin Yuan carefully took out the crystal core. It was slightly cool to the touch, but he could clearly feel the strange power contained inside, which was a trace of the most basic truth of the law of time.

Even if it's just a tiny, insignificant part, its value is still high enough, after all, it's one of the higher laws that is even more difficult to comprehend than the law of space—the law of time.

"Based on your contribution, this crystal core is yours."

Yan Feng walked over and patted Qin Yuan on the shoulder: "Without your command and the final blow, let alone killing it, we would have had a problem getting away unscathed."

Qin Yuan did not refuse.

His understanding of the laws of time is crucial, as it will pave the way for him to comprehend and integrate multiple laws when he breaks through to immortality in the future.

He placed the crystal nucleus close to his forehead, attempting to absorb it.

Instantly, a massive influx of information flooded my mind.

That is not words or images, but the purest experience of time:

A second can be stretched into eternity, or a thousand years can be condensed into a fleeting moment.

The boundaries between past, present, and future become blurred, and the projection of causality onto the dimension of time...

Qin Yuan's [Exceptional Talent (Blue)] attribute, combined with his [Battle Genius] analytical abilities, allowed him to frantically digest these insights. Within his body, the Starlight Law, which had already reached its limit, began to resonate with this trace of the true meaning of time.

Light records time, and time gives meaning to light; both are the most fundamental information carriers in the universe.

Three minutes later, Qin Yuan opened his eyes.

The speed at which the starlight in his eyes shifted seemed to change subtly, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, as if an invisible clock was adjusting it.

Qin Yuan's perception of time has improved. Now, even without relying on the [Battle Genius (Blue)] attribute, he can roughly predict the change in the flow of time within half a second.

Although I haven't grasped the laws of time, I have understood some of their manifestations.

More importantly, he touched upon the prototype of "Starlight Time Sequence," integrating the essence of time acceleration into starlight attacks to double the speed of gunplay, or integrating the ability to slow down time into starlight to slow down the enemy's movements.

"How about it?"

Qinghe asked curiously.

"I learned a lot."

Qin Yuan said succinctly: "Let's move forward. There are still forty-seven seconds until the next core jump. We must enter the Tianxuan Light Pillar before then."

After resting, the five set off again.

The last seven jumps went exceptionally smoothly.

Perhaps the Lighttime Beast is the last guardian of this area. Two minutes later, they successfully reached the base of the Heavenly Pivot Light Pillar.

Similar to the Tian Shu light pillar, this is a seven-colored light pillar with a diameter of 100 meters that connects heaven and earth.

The surface of the column has ripples of time, and when you get close, you can hear a faint ticking sound of a clock.

"The reward for entering the second level should be inside."

Yan Feng looked at Qin Yuan, "Should you do it?"

Qin Yuan nodded and reached out to touch the pillar of light.

Ripples spread across the surface of the light beam, forming a stable entrance.

The five people filed in.

Inside the pillar of light was a pure white spherical space, with three items suspended in the center:

The first item is a fist-sized piece of "Time Sand," its surface shimmering with iridescent light. This is a treasure one tier below Time Crystal, capable of creating a localized three-fold time acceleration that lasts for a month.

The second item was a book made of light, with the title "The Foundation of Time Flow: Remnants" on the cover.

The third item was a palm-sized silver token with the Big Dipper pattern engraved on its surface, in which the stars Dubhe and Merak were already lit up.

"It seems we should choose the reward."

Qinghe analyzed, "The Sands of Time are worth about fifty Chaos Yuan. The *Fundamentals of Time Flow: Remnant* is a classic text related to the laws of time, but its significance to those of us who are not time specialists is limited. As for this token..."

Qin Yuan accepted the token, and starlight seeped in to investigate:

"It's a pass. Each level you pass lights up a star. After passing all seven levels, the token will guide us to the core of the world. I suggest choosing the token. Although the Sands of Time and the fragments of the Laws Tome are precious, they are not as valuable as the final reward for passing all seven levels."

Yan Feng agreed: "Agreed. The token is very likely the key to obtaining the core treasure."

Everyone unanimously decided to choose the token.

The moment Qin Yuan picked up the token, the other two items turned into specks of light and vanished.

The star Tianxuan on the token shone brightly, projecting a three-dimensional star map.

That was a partial map of the third layer, the "Focus Zone of Light," marking three danger zones and one resource point.

"The third level of the test is 'focusing on light'."

Qin Yuan deciphered the information transmitted by the token: "It requires concentrating the scattered light energy into a single point, testing energy compression and control capabilities. There are a large number of 'light energy crystal' veins there, but the guardian is a 'light-gathering beast,' a creature that can instantly compress light energy a hundredfold for attack."

"It sounds even more complicated than the Time Corridor."

Iwayama muttered.

"But the rewards are also more generous."

Yan Feng's fighting spirit remained undiminished. "Rest for ten minutes, then set off. We must get ahead of the Blood Wolf Clan; they should have entered the second level by now."

......

Just as the Spark Squad was resting inside the pillar of light, at the other entrance of the Time Corridor, the Blood Wolf Clan had just stepped into the second level.

Blood Howl stared at the chaotic fragments of time before him, a ferocious smile spreading across his wolf-like face.

"Phantom Eye, can you find any trace of them?"

The Gray-Eyed Clan member opened his gray-glowing eyes and scanned the void.

A moment later, he pointed in a direction: "They went that way. There are remnants of time turbulence where the battle took place... They encountered 'time creatures,' but they won."

"Oh?"

Blood Howl raised an eyebrow. "Has Yan Feng's strength increased again?"

"Do not."

Huan Tong's tone was unusually solemn. "It's that human who specializes in light-based magic. In the temporal turbulence I sensed, there was an extremely pure fluctuation of light-based laws, which was also mixed with... the nascent true meaning of time. That human may have touched the laws of time."

The Blood Wolf Clan fell into a brief silence.

"interesting."