390: Time Stops

"What is a reset?" Xiao Shi asked in a deep voice.

He had to first figure out if the 'reset' the other party spoke of was the same as the 'reset' he understood!

"The so-called reset..."

"...is that every three hundred years, The Primordial Martial Era will, under a reset, return to three hundred years ago. Everything experienced in these three hundred years will be erased, and the world will return to how it was three hundred years ago."

"Even those who died during these three hundred years will be resurrected under the reset."

"At the same time, regardless of body, cultivation, or memory, everything will regress to three hundred years ago during the reset."

"Including all buildings, territories, etc."

"In short, everything in The Primordial Martial Era will be reset; no one can escape it."

"This repeats endlessly."

"This... is the reset of The Primordial Martial Era!"

The words of the Silver-Haired Silver-Eyed Dao Lord were undoubtedly a thunderbolt.

They boomed and exploded in Xiao Shi's mind!

Even before this,

He had already learned through the records of the upper three realms of martial dao that this Different Space (different dimension) where The Primordial Martial Era was exiled could make time stop.

But he didn't expect that time here wasn't stopped.

Instead, it was constantly resetting!

"In other words,"

"Under this reset of The Primordial Martial Era, even if you have been in The Primordial Martial Era for many years, you are actually still the same as when you first entered The Primordial Martial Era?"

"But if that's the case, how did you transcend to become a Dao Lord?"

Xiao Shi felt this didn't make sense.

With everything being reset,

Even if they successfully Grasping the Dao here, they would also be affected by the reset.

Unless, after Grasping the Dao, they chose to leave The Primordial Martial Era before it reset.

This might allow them to preserve the Dao they had Grasping the Dao.

Otherwise, according to the other party's statement,

Even if they successfully Grasping the Dao, it would be reset.

"You should know that we are not people of The Primordial Martial Era; we are all outsiders from other eras."

The Silver-Haired Silver-Eyed Dao Lord said.

"For us outsiders, although we will also be reset, we will not be completely reset like the people of The Primordial Martial Era."

"There are three aspects of us that will not be affected by the reset."

"First, our memories will not be reset; otherwise, we wouldn't know that The Primordial Martial Era is constantly being reset."

"Second, our strength, cultivation, and bodies will not be reset. If we can successfully Grasping the Dao within three hundred years, then even after the reset, we will still possess the Dao of The Primordial Martial Era."

"Third, our lifespan will not be reset."

"This also means..."

"We cannot achieve immortality under the reset of The Primordial Martial Era. If we die, it is true death and we will not be resurrected under the reset of The Primordial Martial Era."

Xiao Shi nodded.

To some extent,

This reset of The Primordial Martial Era indeed granted immortality to these people of The Primordial Martial Era!

But the price of immortality... was to forever remain in these three hundred years.

Repeating endlessly.

Without a future.

No wonder other eras perished in the long river of history, yet The Primordial Martial Era, as the first era of Tianwu Continent, always existed.

"Of course."

"If you fear death and wish to possess immortality under The Primordial Martial Era, you can also choose to join The Primordial Martial Era."

"For us outsiders from other eras, we all have one chance to choose to join The Primordial Martial Era."

"Once you join, you will completely become a part of The Primordial Martial Era and enjoy immortality under the reset."

"There were once people from other eras who, after entering here, chose to join The Primordial Martial Era."

The Silver-Haired Silver-Eyed Dao Lord said.

For some people,

Such immortality could also be considered a good choice.

Although there was no future, one could live forever within the fixed three hundred years.

However, for Xiao Shi,

This was not the life he wanted.

He would definitely not choose to join The Primordial Martial Era.

"How many resets have you all experienced?"

Xiao Shi asked in confusion.

"For me, this should be the eighth reset."

The Silver-Haired Silver-Eyed Dao Lord said with emotion.

"Eighth time?"

Xiao Shi was surprised by this.

He felt that the timing didn't quite add up.

According to the other party's statement,

The Primordial Martial Era would reset every three hundred years.

If it was only the eighth reset, then only two thousand four hundred years had passed.

Unless... the flow of time in The Primordial Martial Era was different from outside!

"I once suspected this was because the flow of time in The Primordial Martial Era was different from the outside eras, but after years of speculation and summation, I found that..."

"When The Primordial Martial Era begins to reset, the entire The Primordial Martial Era will fall into a state of time stagnation. I'm not sure how long it will stagnate, but it will be at least ten thousand years."

"For us who are inside The Primordial Martial Era, we don't feel the time stagnation at all. Each reset seems to be only an instant, but in that instant, many years have actually passed outside."

The reason for this discovery was that when the Silver-Haired Silver-Eyed Dao Lord was in his third reset, a Saint Grade from outside happened to enter The Primordial Martial Era.

And the era this Saint Grade belonged to was nearly one hundred thousand years after the era the Silver-Haired Silver-Eyed Dao Lord belonged to.

The Silver-Haired Silver-Eyed Dao Lord had only spent nine hundred years within The Primordial Martial Era... yet nearly one hundred thousand years had passed outside!

This made him feel that something was wrong.

Subsequently, through the later arrivals to The Primordial Martial Era, they successively verified that with each reset of The Primordial Martial Era, at least tens of thousands of years would pass outside.

After all, for people of various eras outside,

To enter The Primordial Martial Era, they could only do so through the Initial Martial Retrospection Dao.

And the Initial Martial Retrospection Dao would take at least ten thousand years to be born.

And there was also a certain probability of its birth.

Sometimes, even if an era lasted for ten thousand years, the Initial Martial Retrospection Dao still wouldn't be born.

There were also some, like the Great Wu Dynasty, that perished before lasting ten thousand years.

This led to an extremely small number of people being able to enter The Primordial Martial Era.

It was not guaranteed that someone could enter The Primordial Martial Era through the Initial Martial Retrospection Dao every ten thousand years.

These people who entered The Primordial Martial Era had different time intervals between their arrivals.

It could be tens of thousands of years.

It could also be hundreds of thousands of years.

However, what was certain was that when people from outside eras entered The Primordial Martial Era, they would inevitably arrive after a reset, not during the three hundred years when there was no reset.

They all arrived at the beginning stage of a reset in The Primordial Martial Era.

Xiao Shi's arrival this time was also like this.

The time of his arrival happened to be the beginning of a new round of reset.

All of this was not a coincidence.

After much summation,

Everyone realized that during the time stagnation when The Primordial Martial Era was resetting,

If someone from outside entered The Primordial Martial Era, the reset of The Primordial Martial Era would end early.

For example, if each reset of The Primordial Martial Era was supposed to stagnate for fifty thousand years, but during those fifty thousand years, someone from an outside era entered The Primordial Martial Era, then the stagnation would end early.

This led to each reset of The Primordial Martial Era having different stagnation times.

Sometimes it might only stagnate for twenty thousand years, sometimes for forty thousand years, and more often, after one reset was completed, no one entered The Primordial Martial Era.

However, even the fastest reset required a stagnation of ten thousand years, as only when an era lasted for ten thousand years was there a possibility for the Initial Martial Retrospection Dao to be born.

As for the people inside The Primordial Martial Era,

They all felt no such time stagnation.

After all, when time stagnated, they were in a static state, and from their own perception, only an instant had passed.

Yet, in reality, tens of thousands of years had passed outside.

After understanding this,

Xiao Shi's mind immediately became solemn.

He knew the other party's speculation was correct.

The Different Space (different dimension) where The Primordial Martial Era was located could indeed cause time to stagnate.

Thus,

He couldn't undergo multiple resets within The Primordial Martial Era.

Even one reset

Would mean at least ten thousand years passing outside.

By then, even if he successfully Grasping the Dao... the outside would have long since changed dynasties.

Other people who entered The Primordial Martial Era might be able to try Grasping the Dao repeatedly through one reset after another.

But Xiao Shi didn't have that opportunity.

He had to Grasping the Dao before the next reset.

Otherwise, everything would be too late.

However, from these people, Xiao Shi realized that trying to Grasping the Dao in a short period was extremely difficult, almost impossible.

After all, among these people currently,

Except for this Silver-Haired Silver-Eyed Dao Lord, everyone else had not transcended to become a Dao Lord.

And the Silver-Haired Silver-Eyed Dao Lord also only transcended to become a Dao Lord after experiencing eight resets, and it was still unknown if the Dao he Grasping the Dao was the Heavenly Dao... This made Xiao Shi feel tricky.

But the good news was that

When Xiao Shi learned that the time in The Primordial Martial Era was different from the time on Tianwu Continent, he secretly conducted a test.

He tried to sense the clone he had left in his domain.

And he issued an order to the clone.

He wanted to determine if there was a time difference between The Primordial Martial Era and Tianwu Continent through the clone.

And the result of his sensing surprised him a little.

He found that his clone was completely in a static state at this moment!

In other words... currently, Tianwu Continent was in a state of time stagnation!

"In other words,"

"During the three hundred years that The Primordial Martial Era is operating, Tianwu Continent will be in a state of time stagnation, and once the three hundred years pass, when The Primordial Martial Era begins time stagnation under a reset, the time on Tianwu Continent will resume its operation..."

Xiao Shi suddenly understood.

This way,

He would effectively have three hundred years.

As long as he could successfully Grasping the Dao within three hundred years, everything would be in time.

But if he couldn't Grasping the Dao within three hundred years... then there would be no more chances.

"Three hundred years..."

"Should be enough, right?"

Xiao Shi was a bit unsure.

If it were on Tianwu Continent,

Three hundred years was an extremely long time for him, definitely more than enough.

But in The Primordial Martial Era... that was a bit uncertain.

The fact that among these people, there was only one Dao Lord already indicated the difficulty involved.

After the other party told Xiao Shi this information about The Primordial Martial Era,

Xiao Shi also kept his promise.

He roughly told the other party about the situation of the Great Wu Dynasty.

He didn't go into too much detail.

He just briefly mentioned some basic information about the Great Wu Dynasty.

"Looking at it this way, it's not that the Saint Grade of the future era is stronger than the Saint Grade of our era, but rather that this person himself is stronger than the Saint Grade of various eras..."

Everyone suddenly understood.

Their gazes towards Xiao Shi held more apprehension.

They realized that this person, no matter which era he was placed in, would undoubtedly be an existence that ordinary Saint Grade could not contend with.

"Alright, now that the serious matters are done, it's time to choose an identity."

The Silver-Haired Silver-Eyed Dao Lord pointed to the nine cloaks and hats in front of Xiao Shi.

"These nine Dao robes each represent nine different identities, and it's a choice we have to make every time The Primordial Martial Era resets."

"Although our memories in The Primordial Martial Era are not reset, our identities are."

"Don't blame Scarlet Sword for attacking you just now; he wasn't trying to kill you, he was just afraid you would choose the identity he wanted."

"Normally, the order in which we choose identities is determined by the order in which we arrived in The Primordial Martial Era."

"Since you are new, you can only choose your identity last."

As the other party spoke,

Xiao Shi's gaze also focused on the nine cloaks and hats nearby.

Previously, due to the distance,

His vision hadn't displayed any information about these cloaks and hats.

Now, as he gazed at them,

Information about them immediately appeared in his vision.

["Name: Primordial Martial Dao Robe (Six)"]

["Type: Robe, Identity"]

["Grade: Saint Grade"]

["Introduction: All Saint Grade or Dao Lords who enter The Primordial Martial Era can choose one of the nine Primordial Martial Dao Robes to obtain the identity of a 'Dao Ancestor' disciple. The nine Primordial Martial Dao Robes correspond to the nine different identities from the Dao Ancestor's first disciple to ninth disciple, and each identity's Grasping the Dao inclination will be different."]

["Note: The Grasping the Dao inclination of the Dao Ancestor's sixth disciple lies in secluded cultivation for enlightenment. Through secluded cultivation for enlightenment, there will be the greatest chance to Grasping the Dao."]

...Xiao Shi pondered this.

He then looked at another cloak and hat.

["Name: Primordial Martial Dao Robe (Three)"]

["Type: Robe, Identity"]

["Grade: Saint Grade"]

["Introduction: All Saint Grade or Dao Lords who enter The Primordial Martial Era can choose one of the nine Primordial Martial Dao Robes to obtain the identity of a 'Dao Ancestor' disciple. The nine Primordial Martial Dao Robes correspond to the nine different identities from the Dao Ancestor's first disciple to ninth disciple, and each identity's Grasping the Dao inclination will also be different."]

["Note: The Grasping the Dao inclination of the Dao Ancestor's third disciple mainly lies in gathering luck. The more luck one gathers, the easier it will be to Grasping the Dao."]

..."Different identities have different ways of Grasping the Dao..."

Xiao Shi suddenly understood.