Chapter 801: Chapter 9: Little Fish in the River of Time

"How... is this possible?"

Staring in disbelief as everything around slowed down until it eventually fell into absolute stasis.

Batis knew it wasn’t that time truly stopped, but rather that he and Aten entered a state of high-speed motion, completely detaching from external changes.

In fact, normal time was still flowing.

It’s just that time flowed faster for himself and Aten, creating this seemingly time-stopped scene.

"You are clearly just a mortal..."

This sentence, when spoken from Thutmose’s mouth, was filled with anger and reluctance.

Yet, when the same words came from Batis, they were spoken with extreme shock and incredulity.

Time, which even ordinary Gods could not master, now appeared so real on Aten.

"As long as one understands the essence of time..."

"Whether mortal or god, there is no difference."

The way Gods interfere with time is by overlooking lower dimensional worlds from higher dimensions.

Aten’s golden pocket watch, however, keeps himself in a detached state, watching as ages pass, events change.

Neither way is superior or inferior, good or bad; they are simply different understandings of time, adopting different methods of interference.

"Even if you’ve created a Divine Artifact capable of controlling time, so what?"

After a brief silence, Batis finally shifted his gaze away from the golden pocket watch.

In this frozen space-time, Aten and Batis can move freely, but that doesn’t mean they can defeat Thutmose holding the Book of the Dead.

Gods are life forms of higher dimensions; their insight into time far surpasses normal creatures.

Especially when attacked; even a half-baked god in Aten’s words instinctively fights back.

"As long as the Book of the Dead isn’t dealt with, we have no chance of winning."

Those seemingly stagnant Divine Abominations are essentially remnant bodies of Gods with high-dimensional perspectives.

Once they detect the anomalous passage of time on Aten, they would attack his essence from higher dimensions, leaving no defense.

"I just said, we don’t actually need to fight those Divine Abominations."

Continuing with a smile, Aten began to turn the golden pocket watch’s hands again.

But this time, Aten was no longer accelerating the time passage on himself and Batis, but rather reversing time.

The time river did not change; Aten and Batis were merely reversing their individual time, returning their current consciousness to their bodies from a few minutes ago.

Crash!

Instantly, time in Aten and Batis’s eyes started to reverse, the days began to turn back.

The Divine Abominations that had emerged from the Book of the Dead retreated...

The Nether Realm that once enveloped the sky returned to the moment it was dispelled by the Sacred Beetle...

Even the state of Aten and Batis returned to the moment right before Thutmose pulled out the Book of the Dead...

"This is the power of time!"

Unlike a normal God of Time who interferes with the entire world’s time river.

The golden pocket watch merely altered the state of Aten and Batis, causing them to mismatch with the normal time river.

Compared to those who have long jumped out of the time river and can interfere with any time node as they wish.

Aten and Batis’s actions now are merely like two fish swimming upstream in the river.

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{"Indeed, no wonder he was once just a step away from being a genius Transcender."}

Aten’s method of jumping through time with the golden pocket watch inevitably alerted the Celestial Tao System.

In the hidden realms, Li Hao instantly saw through the essence of this "Time Reversal".

Rather than calling this "Time Reversal", it’s more aptly described as a kind of alternative "Time Jump"—a backward time jump phenomenon.

Jumping from the current time node back to a few minutes ago, Aten merely altered his own state.

As a non-time element...

No, to be specific, as a mortal, the golden pocket watch Aten created had already touched the authority of the God of Time, wielding divine power of time.

Next, all that’s needed is Li Hao’s nod, and the Celestial Tao System will acknowledge its authority, granting him investiture as a true God of Time.

This is the usual procedure for a normal God to ascend their Divine Throne.

Only in the Mountain and Sea Realm, a celestial system specially screens and partitions this to prevent any god from taking the path of a "One God System".

Clearly, having stayed in the Mountain and Sea Realm for so many years, Aten is well aware of the investiture process.

Not raising his Divine Throne using the golden pocket watch shows he doesn’t want his future to be confined within the divine position represented by this watch.

"So, what kind of god do you intend to become?"

In this frozen time, a wisp of black flame suddenly ignited from thin air.

Then, under Batis’s shocked gaze, a dog-headed, human-bodied god bearing a ring of flame appeared before Aten.

"Huo Dou!?"

Unable to suppress his inner shock, Batis certainly knew what Huo Dou symbolized.

In Mountain and Sea Realm’s mythology, this dog-headed, human-bodied majestic God is the Incarnation of the Creator, the only humanoid form of the Creator.

"What kind of god do I intend to become?"

Unlike Batis’s shock, although Aten showed a surprised expression, it was more a sense of calmness.

He knew playing with time in the Mountain and Sea Realm could not escape the Creator’s eyes—even if what he played with was merely an illusion of time.

"Honestly, I’m not sure."

"But it’s certain I don’t want to become that kind of half-baked ’God of Time’."

"Manipulating the sense of time on individuals, even if this ability is maxed out, it’s still just a small fish in the river of time."

"What I pursue should be like yours, the power to overturn the entire river of time."

Gently nodding, Huo Dou smiled noncommittally.

"Since so, I happen to have something I’d like you to help with."

"If you’re willing to accept my commission, it might allow you to gain a deeper understanding of ’time’."

Gently shaking the two tendrils on his head.

Aten knew the Creator wouldn’t appear just for this small matter.

"I trust you, even if you’re asking me to deal with the Transcender."

No need for excessive verbal exchange, the clever Aten instantly guessed Huo Dou’s intention.

In the current Mountain and Sea Realm, few matters truly warrant the Creator’s attention.

And for the Creator to appear personally, there’s only that Transcender Amon who covets the Mountain and Sea Realm.

"The matter indeed carries some risk, but I believe you can handle it well."

Turning to nod at Batis.

Huo Dou’s figure then disappeared again, and the originally still time resumed flowing.

"A word of advice, next time you perform a ’Time Jump’, if you can avoid bringing people, try not to."

"After all, not everyone can endure the negative effects of ’Time Jump’..."

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