The past is the ancient bygone, the future is the present-to-come; past and future together constitute spacetime. The mantle of the Emperor of Years' inheritance was split in two —
Because Yang Xue cultivated the power of the ancient past, she was able to some extent reverse the flow of time — just as the technique she now employed against Feng Jun, and just as the technique she had previously used on
Borrowing the power of the Endless Hourglass, Yang Xue had restored Yang Kai's lost lifespan — and was that not also a form of time reversal?
And again borrowing the Hourglass's power, Yang Xue was able to rapidly revert Feng Jun's physical condition back to some earlier point in time.
Seeing the shock brimming in Yang Kai's eyes, the little girl burst out laughing: "This technique is not weak, but it has its limits. My power cannot yet bring the dead back to life — it can't even mend some fatal wounds."
It seemed she had seen right through what Yang Kai was thinking, which was why she said this.
Only then did Yang Kai nod. When he had first heard her say she could reverse time, his very first thought had been about bringing the dead back to life. If the law of time were truly so powerful, then whenever someone died before Yang Xue, she need only reverse time to bring them back? If that were the case, then this power would be far too precious.
But hearing Yang Xue say this, he realized such a notion was nothing short of a fantasy. If the law of time were truly so heaven-defying, then the Emperor of Years would never have perished — one who truly mastered the law of time should have been as eternal as heaven and earth itself.
Cultivators defied the heavens in their Cultivation, yet they needed to accept the will of heaven. Interfering with matters of life and death lay beyond the scope of any cultivator's ability.
Yang Xue continued: "Because we cultivated the Emperor's inheritance, Xiao'er and I are able to command this item..." She was, of course, referring to the Endless Hourglass in her hands.
When Yang Xiao had appeared moments ago, he had snatched the Endless Hourglass from Feng Jun's grasp with his fingers moving like a conch being twirled. Yang Xue, without even a trace of having gone through the refinement process, had directly activated the Hourglass's power. All of this was connected to their centuries of Cultivation.
They had Cultivated the orthodox inheritance of the Emperor of Years, and the Endless Hourglass was the Emperor's own bonded treasure, originally left here for his successors. Naturally, they could command it with ease — something Feng Jun could never hope to match, no matter how many centuries he spent trying to refine it.
Speaking of the Endless Hourglass, a trace of guilt crossed Yang Xue's face: "Xiao'er and I have known for a long time that this item was inside the Temple. But Uncle
"That's none of your doing — it was simply a tribulation I was meant to face." Yang Kai waved his hand dismissively. He had previously blamed Qiong Qi in his heart for letting a Grand Emperor's relic just sit there, allowing outsiders to claim it — he himself had paid dearly for that. But now it seemed Qiong Qi hadn't been unreasonable after all. The Endless Hourglass was a Grand Emperor's treasure, and though it was meant for the destined successor, encountering it too early would have done Yang Xiao and Yang Xue no good in their Cultivation. Only by building a solid foundation first, then taking up the treasure, could they wield it at will. Otherwise, without a stable Cultivation, gaining a mighty treasure would only cause one to lose oneself before its power — and that would only harm their Cultivation further.
Yang Xue, however, furrowed her brows and glanced back at Feng Jun, who was being pummeled mercilessly by Yang Xiao on the other side. She asked, puzzled: "Does Big Brother know how this person entered the Temple, and how he was able to refine this treasure?"
In principle, the Temple of Years had long been sealed. Unless it was opened from within, no one should have been able to unseal the entrance. Yet now someone had not only opened the Temple but had also taken the Endless Hourglass and even refined it — this was something Yang Xue couldn't quite figure out.
If it had merely been the refinement of the Endless Hourglass, that would have been one thing. But when Feng Jun and Yang Kai fought their great battle and Feng Jun, as a last resort, had channeled the Hourglass's power to activate the Temple's protective might and augment himself — and then
Still, they had to thank Feng Jun for that, because otherwise Yang Kai would truly have had no choice but to flee into the Minor Mystic World and cling to a miserable existence.
Yang Kai sighed and gave a brief account of his encounter with Feng Jun and the Demon Heaven Path, focusing especially on the existence of the Grand Emperor's remains.
Hearing this, Yang Xue's delicate brows furrowed deeply. She then raised her hand and grasped at the empty air.
A massive figure suddenly appeared before them — a fearsome, grotesque beast whose aura was nothing short of terrifying. Who else could it be but that old scoundrel Qiong Qi? But just as Yang Kai had found it before, the creature was still fast asleep, snoring thunderously without a care in the world.
Yang Xue explained: "When Xiao'er and I Cultivate the law of time, the Temple of Years is affected — there are occasional episodes of temporal and spatial distortion. So Uncle Qiong Qi had us place seals on him and Sister
After all, the two little ones had been Cultivating here for several centuries. Qiong Qi and Liu Yan had nothing to do here — just sitting around and waiting would be boring. With the seals in place, they could dream away a thousand years, which beat waiting around in tedium.
This was also the reason why Yang Kai had been unable to awaken Liu Yan and Qiong Qi before.
Yang Xue extended a jade-white finger and gently pressed it against Qiong Qi's massive forehead, giving a soft command: "Release!"
She pressed down, and invisibly, a sound like something shattering echoed through the air. Yang Xue withdrew her hand and waited. After a few breaths, Qiong Qi's snoring gradually subsided. His eyelids fluttered a few times, and then — slowly — his eyes opened.