Chapter 1192, The Domain of Time

Translator:  Ashish

Translation Checker: Silvain

 

After bestowing the Artifact and giving Qing Gang a few simple instructions, Yu Zi Yu quietly departed.

 

As for those instructions, it was just a message to Qing Gang: From this day forth, Qing Gang would be a Guardian of the Demon Court.

 

The Demon Court could suffer defeat, the Demon Court could retreat, but the Wall of Sighs in his hand must never fall.

 

So long as the wall stood, he lived.

 

The day the wall fell, he would die.

 

There was no other choice.

 

At the time of giving this message, Yu Zi Yu himself hadn’t given it much thought.

 

He didn’t expect that this single, seemingly simple command would become the lifelong creed Qing Gang would uphold.

 

“So long as the wall stands, I live. If the wall falls, I fall,” over and over, Qing Gang repeated these words, standing atop a towering peak, gazing at the silent and immovable wall that stretched across the edge of the horizon.

 

His gaze flickered with determination.

 

He was the Demon Court’s final rampart. Its last guardian.

 

This was the price of wielding the Wall of Sighs.

 

“Master… I will never fail your expectations…”

 

Resolve burned ever brighter in Qing Gang’s eyes, and a faint earthen glow radiated from his body, pulsing stronger and stronger.

 

It was a sign, the power of earth was gathering more densely within him.

 

In that moment, he felt something stir within, a resonance with the earth itself, a deeper comprehension of it.

 

The earth, by its very natures, is the provider of all things, and protector of all.

 

…

 

While Qing Gang was experiencing a small breakthrough, in the Starry Sky…

 

*Booooom…* With a thunderous clap, a golden brilliance burst forth as sixteen golden wings spread open behind Yu Zi Yu.

 

“We’re going.”

 

“Okay,” a voice echoed in Yu Zi Yu’s mind, it was the Sixteen Holy Wings responding.

 

“En…” Nodding slightly, Yu Zi Yu no longer hesitated.

 

*Booooom…* With a deafening roar, the sixteen golden wings moved slightly, and in the blink of an eye, Yu Zi Yu’s figure tore through space, streaking toward the end of the Starry Sky.

 

In that instant, Yu Zi Yu transformed into countless rays of light.

 

No, not just rays of light, he transformed into particles of pure light itself, breaking through the limits of speed.

 

He was fast, unimaginably so.

 

The Sixteen Holy Wings was said to represent the pinnacle of speed, and it was no mere boast.

 

And after repeated mastery, Yu Zi Yu had finally shattered another barrier of speed—reaching a realm even many Hegemons could scarcely comprehend.

 

*Swooosh…* Within boundless radiance, an indistinct figure with sixteen golden wings upon its back and holy light crowning its head soared upon an endless stream of light particles, vanishing into the void.

 

The Sixteen Holy Wings could only be awakened when Yu Zi Yu took on the form of the Fifth Seraph of the Angel Clan.

 

In other words, Yu Zi Yu’s True Body could not control the Sixteen Holy Wings.

 

This was one of the few conditions the Sixteen Holy Wings ever imposed.

 

Though with the current bond between Yu Zi Yu and the Artifact, even if he tried to wield it in his True Form, Anzuiel would not object.

 

However, there was no need for that.

 

After all, the Seraph Form was perfectly suited to controlling the Sixteen Holy Wings.

 

Mind and will united, with a single thought, he shattered yet another barrier of speed.

 

Even Yu Zi Yu’s true form couldn’t achieve this feat while controlling it.

 

Such was the overwhelming advantage of the Seraph Bloodline.

 

And not only that…

 

As the very embodiment of light, Yu Zi Yu, now in Seraph Form, felt his comprehension of light deepen dramatically when wielding the Sixteen Holy Wings.

 

“What is light? Light is energy, it’s the infinite particles of light, and to control those countless particles… is to break the limits of light itself.

 

Just like this…”

 

As he whispered, Yu Zi Yu suddenly felt the Starry Sky freeze.

 

In that moment, cosmic storms stilled.

 

The spinning of planets seemed to slow… and then cease.

 

Everything had become slow.

 

However, this was not due to any manipulation of Time via the Gears of Time.

 

No…

 

“I’m moving too fast… So fast that I can feel the passage of Time… If I accelerate any further, I will catch up to Time itself and run alongside it… Then… Time will appear to stop…” murmuring, Yu Zi Yu’s understanding of speed reached a new level of profundity.

 

How fast can a living being truly be?

 

If one were to put it in Yu Zi Yu’s words, “Chase the wind. Chase the lightning. Until you chase the light itself… And when you surpass even light, you begin to chase Time.”

 

And now, Yu Zi Yu had already surpassed the speed of light.

 

As for chasing Time? He was already brushing against its edge.

 

However, this wasn’t a result of his own effort alone.

 

It was the power of the Sixteen Holy Wings that had made this possible. Without his blessing, no matter how fast one was, it would be near impossible to touch upon the domain of Time.

 

And in this domain… Time itself was layered in three stages.

 

The first, what Yu Zi Yu had just experienced: becoming aware of the Flow of Time.

 

The second, moving so fast that one ran side by side with Time.

 

From the perspective of others, it would appear as though Time had stopped, and even the universe itself had frozen.

 

And the final stage when the Sixteen Holy Wings was fully activated, and man and Artifact became one, a being could move beyond Time, ascend the river of Time, and flow against its current.

 

Simply put, it was reversing Time.

 

Since the creation of the Sixteen Holy Wings, only one person had ever reached that level.

 

Reversing Time, and not through its manipulation, but by sheer speed alone.

 

The very idea seemed inconceivable.

 

And yet, someone had actually done it.

 

*Hooooo…* Taking in a deep breath, Yu Zi Yu’s heart surged with a quiet thrill.

 

But just then, as if suddenly realizing something, he snapped back to reality.

 

He glanced behind him. Only then did he notice that in the span of a single breath, he had crossed over half a galaxy, without even noticing.

 

“Just now, it was like you had entered a state of enlightenment. You fully awakened me, and then pushed speed to a level that defies belief…”

 

Hearing Anzuiel’s voice, which was deep slightly grave and tinged with astonishment, u Zi Yu blinked in surprise.

 

“A level that defies belief… you mean, becoming aware of the Flow of Time?”

 

“Indeed,” Anzuiel heaved a soft sigh, looking at Yu Zi Yu as if he were some sort of monster.

 

[All my past inheritors… just to push their speed to such a realm took years, even with my aid. A thousand years… several thousand… even tens of thousands. And more importantly, every one of them had already stepped into the Realm of Hegemony.]

 

[But this one… This monster… In just a hundred years, he’s reached a level that defies reason. Even if he can’t sustain that speed for long, it’s still nothing short of terrifying. And the most frightening part? He’s only an Overlord. His physique might have reached the Seventh Order, but his cultivation… still rests at Tier-6.]

 

“That kind of talent… is truly fearsome…” With a complicated sigh, Anzuiel let out a bitter chuckle.

 

However, deep down, he understood: This was very likely because Yu Zi Yu had already touched upon the Quintessence of Time.

 

After all, he was a monster who had already condensed the Gears of Time.

 

He could no longer be judged by common sense.