120: Time's dust settles, enlightenment comes in an instant.

Yun Feng merged into the Law network, his consciousness wandering through the underlying code of the Endless Void Sea. Following the guidance of the Law diagram and the origin core within his Physical Body, his "existence" approached the first clearly locked target—that source core fragment floating in the ancient river of "time dust"—in a way that transcended conventional cognition.

After an unknown period of "traveling," the Law layer ahead began to exhibit a peculiar "flow rate difference." It was as if he had gradually sailed from a calm sea into a turbulent and ancient river. Countless shimmering "time dust" particles, like grains of sand, filled the gaps in the Laws. Each particle carried the eternal imprint of a certain moment, be it the first cry of a civilization's birth or the last glimmer of a star's demise.

This was the "River of Time Dust," a peculiar dimension flowing at the Law layer, formed by the convergence of countless time fragments. Even if an ordinary being's consciousness merely touched this place, it would instantly be overwhelmed by countless chaotic time imprints, lost in fragments of eternity, while its Physical Body would instantly turn to withered bones in the outside world.

However, for Yun Feng, who was already a Chaos Sovereign and a Law aggregate himself, this River of Time was merely a slightly special "stream."

His consciousness was like the most stable reef, standing firm in the turbulent flow of time, unaffected in the slightest. He could even clearly "read" the information carried by the time dust flowing past him, discerning the joys and sorrows, the rise and fall of civilizations contained within.

"Interesting." Yun Feng's mind stirred slightly, and a wisp of Divine Sense entwined around a particularly brilliant particle of time dust, within which seemed to be sealed a scene of creation. In an instant, he felt as if he had personally experienced the entire process of that distant epoch's world coming into being, gaining a deeper understanding of the Laws of "creation" and "beginning."

He did not indulge in this. His goal was clear—the deepest part of the river, where the time dust was most dense, almost solidified. There, a ripple, co-Origin with his own origin core but more ancient and silent, pulsed slowly like a sleeping heart.

The deeper he went, the more chaotic and violent the flow of time became. Sometimes, in a single thought, it felt as if ten thousand years had passed; at other times, everything around him seemed to fall into near-absolute stillness. There were even "Time Ephemera," composed of pure temporal obsession, attempting to attach themselves to Yun Feng's consciousness, to suck his "time."

Yun Feng merely released a faint trace of a Chaos Sovereign's majesty, and those Time Ephemera scattered in terror as if encountering their nemesis. Wherever he passed, the violent flow of time also became docile, automatically parting to form a path.

Finally, he reached his destination.

It was an "amber" formed by condensed time dust. At the core of the amber, a crystal about the size of a fist, irregularly shaped, and emitting a soft Chaos glow, was quietly suspended. It was another void origin core fragment! The luster flowing on its surface seemed to condense the sedimentation of countless ages.

However, guarding this fragment was not a physical creature, but an incredibly powerful "imprint" condensed from pure time Law—a remnant will of an ancient existence. This will was filled with the vicissitudes of time and the obsession to protect, as if it had existed here since eternity, refusing all outsiders.

When Yun Feng's consciousness approached, that time imprint was instantly activated!

In an instant, Yun Feng felt the flow of time around him undergo billions of times of frantic change! Sometimes accelerating, attempting to drag him to the end of time, grinding him into dust; sometimes reversing, trying to send him back to the Origin of life, returning him to nothingness; sometimes chaotic, fragments of past, present, and future intertwined into a deadly labyrinth, strangling the consciousness of any intruder!

This was the ultimate assault at the temporal level! Enough to instantly obliterate any Heavenly Mandate Rank expert, even their traces erased from the timeline!

Facing this time killing array capable of bringing despair to all beings, Yun Feng's consciousness remained unmoving, like a gentle breeze sweeping over a mountain.

"Time is merely a manifestation of Law." He calmly "watched" the frantically operating time imprint. "Your guardianship stems from obsession, but you are also trapped by obsession, losing the true meaning of time's inherent 'flow' and 'change.'"

He did not choose to forcibly break the imprint with stronger power. While that was possible, it might damage the origin core fragment inside and would also betray the "meaning" of this imprint's guardianship for countless epochs.

He made an even more incredible move—he actively integrated a wisp of his own consciousness into that time imprint! Not to confront, but to understand, to embrace, to... assimilate!

With his Realm as a Chaos Sovereign, he comprehended the countless epochs of solitude and perseverance in guarding time contained within this imprint, and felt every subtle change in the time Law during this long guardianship.

From the outside, perhaps only an instant had passed.

But at the level of Yun Feng's consciousness, he felt as if he had experienced billions of years of jointly guarding this place with the time imprint. He understood why this unknown ancient existence had left the imprint and felt its test and expectation for later generations.

"So that's it... You weren't rejecting, but searching... for a successor worthy of inheriting it and capable of wielding its power." Yun Feng realized.

When he "opened" his eyes again, the violent time killing array around him had subsided. That ancient time imprint was no longer hostile; instead, it exuded a gentle, approving, and even slightly relieved fluctuation. Like an old soldier who had completed his final mission, its light gradually dimmed, eventually transforming into specks of time fragments, merging into the surrounding River of Time Dust, and completely dissipating.

With the obstruction of the imprint gone, the origin core fragment enveloped by the time amber slowly floated before Yun Feng, its light soft, as if saluting him.

Yun Feng reached out (a conscious action) and gently grasped this second source core fragment.

The moment the fragment touched him, a more vast and pure origin core Qi surged into his Chaos Origin than before, perfectly merging with his original source core fragment! His understanding of time Law instantly reached an unprecedented height! Many previous ideas and Bottlenecks regarding time Divine Ability suddenly became clear, and he could even vaguely touch the mysteries of "transcending the timeline"!

At the same time, on the Law diagram, the light spot representing this fragment was completely lit, and it formed a clearer connection with the light spots of other fragments, indicating the direction of the next target.

The harvest far exceeded expectations!

Yun Feng did not leave immediately. He hovered in the depths of this River of Time Dust, taking advantage of the opportune moment when his understanding of time Law was most acute after merging the fragment, and closed his eyes again.

He no longer "read" individual time dust particles, but infinitely expanded his Divine Sense to feel the "flow" of the entire River of Time, to comprehend the "eternity" and "instant" that permeated past, present, and future.

After an unknown period, he slowly opened his eyes. In their depths, countless phantom images of long rivers of time seemed to arise and perish.

"An instant is eternity... It turns out that the essence of time is not in its length, but in... the depth of choice and existence."

He smiled faintly, his figure once again becoming ethereal, merging into the Laws, and with the newly acquired power and comprehension, he leisurely journeyed towards the next target indicated by the Law diagram—the "Dream Mountain Range" drifting at the boundary between reality and illusion.