Lu Yin gripped the fishing rod tightly and unconsciously increased his strength. He stabilized himself and slowly sent Flowing Light into the River of Time.
In that instant, he was almost dragged away again. This wasn't a problem of strength, as if the River of Time wasn't dragging him away but Flowing Light. However, Flowing Light belonged to Lu Yin, which was why Lu Yin was implicated.
Flowing Light was space chasing after time, and space was the carrier of time. The flow of time drove space along.
Flowing Light had the ability to chase after time, but it belonged to space itself, so it was normal for it to be dragged away by the River of Time.
Lu Yin hurriedly pulled Flowing Light back, but this time, he didn't catch any water droplets.
He frowned and tried again. He wanted to see if he could really increase Flowing Light's viewing time by fishing.
This was an opportunity for Flowing Light to transform.
Flowing Light fell into the River of Time again, and he tried again and again, but he was almost dragged away again and again. Lu Yin could tell that as long as he pulled Flowing Light back quickly enough, he wouldn't be dragged away.
The River of Time's power to drag Flowing Light was stable.
He gradually grasped this stability.
This time, Liu Guang fished out another water droplet, and Lu Yin saw another image. This time, he saw a stranger that he didn't recognize. This person's face was ferocious, and he seemed to be struggling or fighting at the same time. The image disappeared in an instant, and that person's head flew off. He was dead.
The water droplet still didn't fall into the River of Time and was swallowed by Flowing Light.
Lu Yin tried again, and sure enough, three seconds were added. These three seconds were exactly the time the scene lasted.
Although he only managed to catch it once after many attempts, it was still much easier than trying to find a parallel spacetime with a different flow of time.
Finding it was one thing, but to be recognized by that parallel spacetime took too much time.
Lu Yin was excited and continued.
He continued fishing, and he caught a few more scenes. However, he didn't care much about them, as they were merely images of the passage of time.
Some images showed people, some images showed strange creatures, and some images showed nothing at all. It was complete darkness.
Until this time, Lu Yin stared blankly at the scene. It was the Undying God.
However, it wasn't a living Undying God, but a heavily injured one. Could this be … skipping time?
Lu Yin stared at the scene, and it instantly disappeared.
The Undying God had skipped time for only a moment. Lu Yin hadn't expected that his fishing in the River of Time would actually catch the Undying God's skipped time.
What was it that he had been fishing for?
Was it really the passing of time?
No, he thought of another possibility. Could it be that what he fished up was all erased time?
The river of time flowed endlessly. If he wanted to use the flowing light to fish out the past, wouldn't he be erasing everything that had happened in the past?
Lu Yin had always been suspicious of this, but he hadn't thought too much about it. Now that he thought about it, this was indeed the case.
The flowing light devoured the past of time, which meant that the past of time was gone, which meant that the past had been changed.
Clearly, Lu Yin did not have this ability, and neither did Liu Guang.
What it devoured wasn't the real past, but the time that couldn't be erased by the river of time.
For example, the time skipped by the Undead.
The Undead God had skipped that period of time and denied that period of time, so that period of time could not be tolerated in the long river of time, but there really was that period of time. Then, could it be understood that it was a drop of water that was not swept away by the long river?
Only that drop of water could be caught.
Therefore, Flowing Light continued to fish. Although it had clearly fallen into the long river of time, it could never catch anything. Even if it caught something, it could devour it.
What Flowing Light devoured was not the past of time, but the time that had been abandoned and erased.
Lu Yin exhaled. If this was really the case, then he recalled Mister Mu's Tracing of the Past. The reason why the Undead God had been killed was because he had skipped time and had been found by Senior Mu Carving. Then, what did Tracing of the Past mean?
Finding back the time that couldn't be tolerated in the long river of time?
Lu Yin recalled what Ancestor Lu Yuan had said. In the era of the Sect above Heaven, the ancestors were not allowed to reverse time and change the past. However, Mister Mu had Tracing of the Past and could find back the erased time.
No matter how he looked at it, these two people were maintaining the stability of the long river of time.
No matter how he thought about it, his current guess seemed to be reasonable.
If that was the case, then how much erased time was left in the long river of time?
Wouldn't it be more suitable for him to fish with Flowing Light rather than Tracing of the Past?
Faster?
He had to tell Mister Mu when he met him.
The erased time was like impurities in the long river of time, and he seemed to be the creator of these impurities.
He finally understood that those scenes of shuttling through the starry sky might be someone who had reached the speed of parallel time.
There might even be scenes of him using reverse time.
As he thought about it, Flowing Light continued to fish in the long river of time.
The more he fished, the more Lu Yin confirmed his thoughts. He saw more scenes of him shuttling through space, but this time, he wasn't shuttling through space, but rather on a battlefield.
Every time he encountered such a scene, he would take a closer look to see if it had anything to do with him.
During this period, he had spent the most time in parallel time.
Sure enough, he saw it.
He saw the scene of the first battle in the Realm of Calamity, the scene of him riding a seven-star mantis, the pure energy body, and himself. The scene of him being seen was definitely the scene of an Ancient God using Void Realm.
Time had not disappeared.
Even if it was parallel time or reverse time, it still took time to achieve this. However, this time was not part of the long river of time. If the long river of time was the main body and the universe's development trend, then this time was like a branch.
No matter what one did, time existed and flowed. It just didn't flow into the main body of the long river of time that everyone existed in.
Some things could be erased or reversed, but time could never be truly erased.
Lu Yin finally understood.
He also understood many things. Why Patriarch Lu Yuan and the others had not told him, saying that it was useless. Only when he understood it himself could he truly understand it.
The ancestors definitely knew this, but even if they told him, would he truly understand it?
Not necessarily.
At this moment, he truly did understand.
Then, what about this fog?
Lu Yin looked behind him. This fog was a form of time, so did it also mean that it could not be contained in the long river of time?
Could it also be devoured by the flowing light?
Lu Yin wanted to give it a try, but after thinking about it for a while, he decided against it. He was wrong. His flowing light devoured things that had already happened in the past, and the river of time was actually history itself. The fog, on the other hand, had never happened before. Unless his flowing light coincidentally touched the fog and corroded someone, then the fog that had corroded that person might be able to be devoured.
However, most of the fog here should not have corroded anyone, which meant that nothing had happened. It was just pure time, and such time could return to the long river of time, just like a real river. The fog was like a river.
This meant that the fog could naturally return to the river. This fog should not be devoured by the flowing light.
Lu Yin retracted his gaze and continued fishing. There was no need to think about the fog, as his guess should be correct.
Every time he fished, he continuously increased the time he could look back.
When he had first entered the mirage domain, he had been able to look back for six hundred seconds. Now, he could look back for seven hundred seconds. Lu Yin did not know how long he had spent, but in any case, it was very long.
It would take at least a few decades to reach this point.
However, this amount of time was much better than searching for a parallel universe with a different flow of time.
He did not even need to move; he just needed to sit there.
No, that was not right. He still needed to move, as he needed to avoid the fog.
Since he was fishing in a time that could not be contained in the long river of time, it was always good to change his position.
This time was like a fish in the long river of time, and Lu Yin truly experienced the joy of fishing.
The flowing light had its own direction of transformation, and Lu Yin had long since guessed it. However, there was still quite some time before it could transform. Lu Yin guessed that he would need to look back for at least a thousand seconds before he could try it out.
Eh?
On this day, Lu Yin saw himself appear in a scene of the past. How could it be him?
Lu Yin stared at it closely. At that moment, did he seem to be an Enlighter?
The scene disappeared very quickly.
Lu Yin felt a chill run down his spine, as someone was staring at him. Could it be Mister Mu?
Every time Mister Mu appeared, time would stop.
No, that was not a scene of Mister Mu. Furthermore, every time Mister Mu appeared, the scene would last for a very long time, as if he was conversing with Lu Yin.
Then who was it?
Was someone staring at him while stopping time?
After a while, Lu Yin saw himself again. This time, he was an Emissary who had just survived his origin tribulation. Who was it?
It was definitely not Mister Mu.
Lu Yin's expression turned ugly as he continued to fish. A chill ran down his spine. Had someone been watching him all this time?
The more he thought about it, the colder he felt. There had been a pair of eyes watching him all this time, but he had not noticed.
The first person he thought of was Bai Wushen. Of the Seven Skygods, Bai Wushen was the most mysterious. She had appeared a few times, but she had either threatened Lu Yin or retreated without exchanging any blows. Even Lu Tianyi and the others did not know how strong Bai Wushen was.
However, if it was Bai Wushen, then since she could watch him, she could naturally kill him. In those scenes, Lu Yin was only an Enlighter and an Emissary. There was even one scene in which he was an Explorer, which meant that he had been watched ever since he had become an Explorer.
If it was Bai Wushen, then she should have killed him. No matter how he looked at it, she did not seem like a human spy.
If it wasn't Bai Wushen, then who would be watching him like this?
Was he being watched right now?
Lu Yin suddenly waved his hand, and a ray of light shot back to check the time.
No, but it was also possible that he had not noticed.
The person who was watching him was definitely a powerhouse that Lu Yin could not touch.
Lu Yin hoped that this person was protecting him and was not an enemy. This possibility was very high, but if it was an enemy, then it would mean that this person's goal was so great that even Lu Yin could not guess it.
An Everlasting?
A powerhouse from outside the Domain?
Or was it a powerhouse that had existed for countless years?
Lu Yin could not figure it out no matter how hard he tried, and he only came back to his senses after some time.
No matter what, it was impossible for anyone to be watching him in this mirage. He had just met the Primogenitor and Mister Mu. If the person who was watching him could hide from the Primogenitor and the others, then Lu Yin would accept it.
This might not be a bad thing.