I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature

Chapter 1577 - 1114: Time Delay

"Ahhhh—why does a being like you exist!!" An Eternal Star God couldn’t help but let out a dying scream as his celestial body began to collapse.

Faced with Zheng Yichen maintaining Oblivion, even the Eternal Star God couldn’t withstand it. After Zheng Yichen withstood a barrage of attacks and landed on the surface of this Eternal Star God, the outcome was already decided.

The Earth Devouring was like a black hole inserted into this Star God’s body. Within an extremely short time, the colossal Star God was entirely reduced to ashes, and the gigantic Star Core was collected by the radiant Firmament Wheel.

As Zheng Yichen charged towards the second Eternal Star God, that sensation of time seemingly at a standstill appeared once more.

Having suffered once before, Zheng Yichen unhesitatingly opened up to Extreme Speed. Even so, the environment around him still showed a very obvious ’delay’ in his eyes. This delay was undoubtedly the influence of ’time’.

In Zheng Yichen’s perception, things that shouldn’t exist appeared around him.

These things collided with one another, imposing intense pressure on Zheng Yichen.

Even though Oblivion provided ’protection’, allowing Zheng Yichen to withstand most attacks, an abundance of external pressure would affect his own state.

The explosion caused by dozens of Star Gods converging disappeared.

Fine particles drifted away from Zheng Yichen’s body.

The Shadow of the Eye of the Heavenly Path, moving at high speed, captured this information immediately.

Then that sensation of time delay became permanent.

Extreme Speed ability could offset part of the influence, but not the surrounding environment.

The greatest issue was the delay caused.

This was already the result of his altered perception and vision. In a normal state, the resulting delay would be even more severe.

The enormous delay made it difficult for Zheng Yichen to judge changes in farther regions.

Various kinds of traps made Zheng Yichen somewhat irritated, yet he had to face them.

He couldn’t maintain Oblivion for too long. Even with an enhanced physique and the support of sufficient Essence of Life, just over an hour was his limit.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t attempt to use the Firmament Wheel to the extreme.

Now, the enemy was using this method to delay, intending to forcibly drag Zheng Yichen into a state where he couldn’t fight.

"How much longer can the Star God hold on?" Yu Heng arrived at the camp merged with the Shadow of the Eye of the Heavenly Path.

Her aura was chaotic. Although she avoided Zheng Yichen’s attack, facing Oblivion, she had to abandon part of the moonlight, which is her body.

At her level, ’elementalization’ was not difficult. Giving up part of the moonlight wasn’t significant, but with Zheng Yichen as the source of the attack, the impact was substantial.

"Burning through all the Star Gods can only last less than three hours," said the Boundary Breaker in a white coat.

Spatial power is advanced, but influencing space isn’t hard. However, what they’re using now isn’t spatial-related power—it’s time!

Powers truly involving time are not comparable to normal spatial power consumption. It’s not like the time abilities shown in certain works.

If someone has such abilities, using them always looks easy, as if it’s truly easygoing.

That would mean the person’s ability connects directly with the World Origin. The consumption isn’t borne by the individual but by the world itself, sharing the load.

If these Star Gods are used as fuel to control space, this many Star Gods controlling this space would last for tens of thousands of years, and such control would be similar to ’influencing time’.

Completely freezing this space is practically time suspension, isn’t it?

But what they’re using now isn’t the fake ’time influence.’ Freezing space doesn’t affect Zheng Yichen in Oblivion.

So they’re directly influencing time, which can only last less than three hours, using the method prioritizing extending the delay time, with a small coverage area, only part of the Starry Sky Colossus’s body.

Time possesses ’resilience.’ With just delay, consumption can still be greatly reduced. But if it truly ’stops,’ three hours? Instantly burn out these Star Gods, and at most less than six seconds.

During this time, the area under suspension naturally faces absolute stasis, not belonging to space freeze, but stasis like molecular activity suspension.

The sequence of action differs; freezing space uses space’s power to take effect first, while time stasis freezes everything, influencing space itself, not an influence from space freeze.

This involves an absoluteness.

Space freeze can’t freeze Zheng Yichen; he can still operate within it, even if frozen, inside he’s not ’undefeatable.’

Whereas time stasis represents true, unconditional absolute control.

Yet such strong control places the controlled into an ’undefeatable’ state as well.

If an attack can break this undefeated stance, then at the moment the attack takes effect, Zheng Yichen would regain his freedom.

Thus, this form of control is sometimes very useful, other times not so impactful.

It grants absolute protection to the target while effective unless this absolute protection is absent, meaning such seemingly stasis power belongs to a fake time category.

Additionally, this ’undefeated’ status is particularly dangerous. Near the boundary of time stasis, invisible temporal tears emerge.

These tears are absorbed by the flowing time itself but don’t make the continuously tearing area safe, much like spatial rifts.

If you don’t try to court disaster by reaching out and touching it directly, there’ll be no problem; if you touch it, your hand is bound to be gone.

Spatial rifts usually act on a single plane, while temporal tears affect everything from all directions.

Regardless of any spatial rift, if it touches the junction of a temporal tear, it will be instantly shattered.

As for using time stasis to eliminate certain enemies, that’s unrealistic—time is a highly abstract force, and everything bears time.

This means such a force would have to directly act on something that exists as a cohesive whole.

Cover a stone, cover a person; as for covering a space, it can be done, but space isn’t a normally existent whole.

During the creation of time stasis, if something isn’t enveloped within, it won’t cause the entity being touched to be ’torn apart.’

At that time, the touched entity will be entirely affected, similarly residing in an ’undefeatable’ state, surrounded by dangerous temporal tears.

So using this method to directly eliminate enemies in combat isn’t very realistic.

Though the impact of temporal tears can be absorbed by the normal flow of time, nearby normal time will be disturbed.

Simply put, near the area of time stasis, time is slowed down somewhat; a tear first pulls before reaching an extreme when it breaks.

Thus, anyone with normal perception wouldn’t foolishly crash into the point of stasis.

Moreover, the time stasis zone appears as a ’black domain’ to the external observer.

Not a blind person, a fool, nor someone presuming to ignore everything, touching anything recklessly, would fall into such a pitfall.

Therefore, compared to complete stasis, this kind of time delay is more useful, holding the world’s temporal ’elasticity’ limit, avoiding time tear issues.

Maintaining such a time delay is equivalent to artificially creating a small range ’light cone,’ where everything is normal; at least for Zheng Yichen within it, it’s normal.

Events occurring outside the range are ’past’ from Zheng Yichen’s perspective.

He finds it difficult to interfere with events that happened in the ’past,’ only passively accepting the ’past’ influences. As long as it isn’t time stasis, there’s no ’undefeatable’ protection from stasis.

Almost three hours with barely six seconds of absolute control, there’s no need to choose.

Absolute control can’t eliminate Zheng Yichen, but three hours of special control could exhaust him.

Analysis from the Shadow of the Eye of Heavenly Path suggests Zheng Yichen can’t maintain it for that long.

Since they planned to kill Zheng Yichen once, they naturally aim to maximize resource use, delaying his state as much as possible, then integrating Star Gods to directly eliminate Zheng Yichen.

As for Breakworld? Meaningless now that Zheng Yichen disturbed the Sea of Chaos and solidified it; the world’s value isn’t that high anymore.

The upcoming actions would further deplete Star Gods, diminishing its value even more.

Before the Sea of Chaos solidified, the world’s main characters weren’t humans, but Star Gods. After solidification, Star Gods weren’t the only high-end combat power in this world.

Training value naturally greatly decreases if they can still be the only high-end combat power.

Should Breakworld succeed, Star Gods could associate with their great domain, creating a uniquely special domain master.

Forget it.

The Starry Sky Colossus’s form begins to contract, changing from a humanoid form to a spherical form, as the Eternal Star God roars unwillingly, not wanting to become the fuel for future consumption.

However, the parasitic Constellation Resonance renders them unable to resist the influence exerted upon them.

The Shadow of the Eye of Heavenly Path transforms from a black mass to a huge black curtain.

The Star Cluster composed of stars wraps around it, some dangerous thing stirring within the black ’curtain.’

The Boundary Breakers prepare to abandon the inevitable Breakworld opportunity in exchange for conditions to kill Zheng Yichen.

"Boss! The surroundings are changing." Lilith alerts Zheng Yichen.

The environment around, despite significant delay, prevents them from determining information about further areas, occasionally facing some attacks creeping over.

The closer to Zheng Yichen’s area, the less the delay; the farther, the more delayed, as if he’s at the center of a massive vortex.

Time isn’t a straight line connecting the center to the edge but forms a large arc following the vortex.

Moreover, the vortex’s rotation speed continuously adjusts, making it difficult for Lilith to accurately tally the distance-related delay.

Clearly, the enemy knows of her existence, thus creating this restriction.

At this moment, she must provide sufficiently accurate data information; any problem caused by deviation would be borne by Zheng Yichen himself.

Thus, she cannot assist in the combat aspects, only aiding in analyzing delayed information acquisition, constructing a skill for reference as an external model.

Within the delayed information collected, external Star God distribution undergoes enormous changes, smaller changes would require further analysis, but the current change is substantial.

Preliminary analysis confirms significant upheaval.

Such significant change implies that the Starry Sky Colossus has thoroughly transformed, and now Zheng Yichen is inside the Starry Sky Colossus!