Chapter 941: The Three Noble Children as One
If it had been only Susanoo-no-Mikoto, then this incarnation would have been doomed without question. But with the incarnations of the other two Great Kami also present, the situation turned.
Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto unleashed his divine abilities once more. A shaft of moonlight manifested from thin air and fell upon Susanoo. Within its glow, time seemed to rewind, and Susanoo gradually returned to his original state.
Qi Xuansu, Zhang Yuelu, Li Changge, and Yao Pei had never seen such a mystical ability, so they were all struck with awe.
Only the Imperial Preceptor saw through it. He scoffed, “A trifling trick.”
Time was like a river, flowing forward without return. Yao Pei’s Staff of Merit and Tsukuyomi’s divine abilities had the same essence. It was like scooping up a handful of water from the river. Compared to the ceaseless flow, the water in one’s hands naturally appeared still.
The limitation was that any pause in time was restricted to a limited area, which was that handful of water. The higher one’s cultivation, the more water one could scoop, and thus the larger the range. Even so, it rarely exceeded the size of a city or a mountain, and it could not last long.
This time, Tsukuyomi attempted to “scoop” the Imperial Preceptor. But the Imperial Preceptor’s cultivation was far too high and beyond his grasp. It was as if an ordinary man had strained his back through overexertion. Tsukuyomi suffered backlash, his body’s radiance flickering unsteadily.
If time were likened to a great river, then even Immortals within it were swimmers. Though skilled, they were still carried by the current. They could pause briefly, hasten or slow their progress, or scoop a handful of water, but they could not swim against the current nor make the river flow backward.
If someone could go against the current and travel back in time, then the hundred-year limit in the mortal realm would mean nothing. For example, one could not just rewind time with future knowledge to defeat their enemy even before any enmities were formed. That was because one person’s existence shaped countless destinies. The cascade of aftereffects that would follow would be unimaginable.
Reversing time entirely was beyond imagination. It was more insane than tampering with the elements to create a new realm, as it involved not just every person past and present, but the world itself. Most people could do nothing against the end of the era, much less create a new realm, so how could one ever hope to reverse time?