High Martial: I Grind Professions

The short, stout student was even more ecstatic, his face flushed red as he flailed his arms and legs about:

"See?! See?! I knew it! My intuition is never wrong! We’re witnessing history! Hahaha!"

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Meanwhile, having stepped into the Time Tower, Li Wen was completely captivated by the sight before him, the clamor of the outside world utterly shut out.

The space inside the tower was countless times vaster than it looked from the outside.

There were no clear divisions between floors. Before him lay a vast, boundless silver void.

Under his feet was not solid ground, but a river of time that flowed slowly like mercury, twinkling with specks of starlight.

Overhead, in the deep void, hung countless enormous, slowly rotating phantasmal gears.

The rotation of each gear seemed to drive the passage of time, emitting a low, arcane CLICKING sound—the whisper of the Time Law.

The surrounding walls were made of flowing, translucent sands of time.

The shimmering grains of sand continuously formed and reformed into all manner of arcane spacetime runes, a ceaseless cycle of creation and destruction.

The air was filled with pure energy so dense it was almost liquid.

But this energy was different from that of the outside world, possessing a unique temporal quality.

When he inhaled it, even his thoughts seemed to become clearer and quicker.

The light throughout the space was soft and constant. It had no source, yet it was everywhere.

’So this is the inside of the Time Tower... A place where the Time Law is made manifest,’ Li Wen thought, filled with awe.

He immediately centered himself, settling into a cross-legged position above the flowing river of time, and focused his entire consciousness on the Time Token in his hand.

’It’s time to test my theory.’ Without a moment’s hesitation, he began using the Time Token to mentally control the flow of time within the tower.

1:1... 1:10... 1:30... 1:50... 1:80... 1:100!

Like a wild horse breaking its reins, the rate of time’s flow instantly soared to its limit: a hundredfold acceleration!

A terrifying pressure, enough to tear an ordinary Venerable’s Primordial Spirit and shatter their consciousness, suddenly descended!

The turbulent currents of time frantically battered his senses. The surrounding phantasmal gears blurred into indistinct afterimages.

In his perception, the river of time began to flow with a wild, chaotic frenzy.

However, at the very instant this mind-shattering pressure reached Li Wen’s sea of consciousness, a cool, constant power, impervious to all corruption, surged forth from the depths of his soul.

It was the Martial Daoist passive: Eternal Heart.

The rampaging temporal turbulence was instantly smoothed out, as if it had met an invisible dam.

All feelings of confusion, tearing, and dizziness receded like a tide.

Li Wen’s consciousness was like a steadfast boulder, completely unshaken.

Within his perception, the raging, hundredfold time-flow gradually settled, feeling normal once more.

He could feel with perfect clarity that his temporal connection to the outside world had been stretched to an astonishing ratio.

"It worked!" Li Wen opened his eyes, which shone with an irrepressible, ecstatic light.

"It’s just as I predicted! The Eternal Heart grants immunity to all negative status effects. That includes the mental interference and sensory distortion from the accelerated time flow! I can perfectly adapt to this hundredfold speed!"

This confirmation was even more exhilarating than his victory in the Heaven-Reaching Tower.

This meant his greatest weakness—a lack of time—would be remedied by this Time Tower, at a hundredfold efficiency.

Suppressing his elation, Li Wen wasted no time and immediately began his training.

With a thought, the long saber that had accompanied him through many battles appeared in his hand.

He did not immediately practice complex moves, but instead closed his eyes.

Simultaneously, he activated his level 20 Absolute Focus, instantly receiving a 200% boost to his comprehension.

The life-and-death battles within the Heaven-Reaching Tower—against the construct guardians, the man of Law, and finally, the Star Lord Level metal giant—flashed through his mind in rapid succession.