Bizarre Realm

Moreover, he also needed to make a trip to outer space.

Shawn spent a week gathering other materials for the demigod ascension ritual.

Later, Shawn began arranging the matters of the Mechanical Heart and simultaneously entered the River of Space-Time, exchanging a divine relic obtained from the Time Dragon in battle for a core legendary spell.

—— "Advanced Time Stop [Legendary Spell]: You resist the Sands of Time, causing everything in the world to stop in the time stream, except for yourself. During the duration of the spell, other areas in the world are in a paused state, seemingly stagnant, while you can move freely, cast spells, move, attack, etc. When the effective time of the spell ends, the time stream resumes its normal flow."

This is the true Time Stop.

Shawn still doesn’t know how strong its effect is because it manipulates the time stream rather than an extreme accelerated state.

"How wide is the range of this Time Stop?"

"A plane? A planet? Or a Crystal Wall System Universe?"

This is Shawn’s current most puzzling question. Analyzing the time stream is tremendously difficult, even for him now, but according to the Time Dragon’s description of this legendary spell, it seems that during the Time Stop, the entire world is in a completely static state.

This made Shawn wonder, does a legendary-level time spell truly have such power?

Can it pause a world, a universe?

The difficulty of analyzing the legendary spell Advanced Time Stop is exceedingly high, and Shawn’s progress in mastering it is very slow in the short term. Moreover, he constantly feels that the spell’s description is somewhat incorrect; merely stopping a planet from rotating alone is beyond human capability.

"This time spell surely holds secrets I am unaware of, which are the key to mastering this legendary spell."

Shawn began adding various BUFF statuses to himself.

—— Polarized Cognition.

No one knows how much time had passed when he suddenly seemed to perceive something in a flash of inspiration, muttering, "It’s not time stream stopping; the description is misleading. Strictly speaking, it allows oneself to exceed the time stream and gain an additional segment of time!"

"Therefore, during this additional segment of time, everything external is static, even the entire universe is static!"

The time stream of the entire universe hasn’t changed; it hasn’t been paused in the true sense.

It’s just that in the transition from one second to two seconds, Shawn’s existence transcended the time stream through this legendary spell. He resisted the Sands of Time, so the world timeline continued at that pace, but in the cracks of time, Shawn obtained an extra segment of time.

The extra time he obtained is the truth behind the world being paused!

While others have 24 hours in a day, Shawn, after casting this legendary spell, has 24 hours and 6 seconds, so during his extra six seconds, the whole world is stopped.

In an instant!

Mysterious knowledge in the brain began to operate crazily.

"Analyze Legendary Spell [Advanced Time Stop]!..."

"Spell Recognition Successful!... Current Analysis Progress 73%!... You have gained some insight into the Time Domain!..."

"All your time series spells are enhanced by Domain Law!"

"You have perceived the Time Flow Law."

Grains of pale golden sand appeared at Shawn’s fingertips, as if they had emerged out of thin air, resembling a translucent hourglass, with countless Sands of Time flowing continuously.

This is his extra time, time outside the time stream, a power belonging solely to the time law.

"I roughly guess how the Heart Stealer Empire traveled from the future to the past."

A brilliant golden glimmer appeared in Shaw’s eyes. The power of immortal divinity was transforming, and those divine origins began to merge with the law of time, showing him a certain possibility of traversing space-time, a power very close to that of the ancient Time Dragon’s ’Time Divine Transformation.’

Even his ’Death Retrospect,’ Shawn also figured out how this capability came to be.

Time flew by.

A void tore through the space law.

Shawn’s figure stepped out from the Astronomical Observatory, and in the next second, he flashed into outer space, with a star system nearly the size of the Solar System in his view, breaking through the grey mist enveloping Divine Terra for the first time entering the universe of the Distant Realm.

—— Illusionary Spirit Body!

Shawn’s figure gradually became vague, and he began to wander across the entire star system at a speed close to sub-light, while recording the spatial waypoints in the star map.

Although the effect of flight spells is greatly increased after entering outer space, roaming a star system is best done by spirit form. In the spirit state, mass approaches zero, allowing acceleration to near sub-light speed levels.

But if one intends to traverse star systems to roam the cosmos, even the spirit state falls short; one must rely on spatial waypoints to directly warp to other space nodes.

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