Perhaps using the word ‘like’ wasn’t appropriate.0

That was because the memories of the past really were transforming from illusory into reality. And if those scenes became truly real, they would replace the present. As of this moment, time was elusive. It no longer flowed forward. Yet it didn’t flow backward either. It was like a spinning vortex.0

Within that vortex existed Xu Qing’s past, present, and future. However, the scenes of the future were blurry and impossible to see clearly. And that was even truer now as everything was mixing together. Even the word ‘time’ seemed to be losing meaning. Perhaps ‘time’ was really just an invention of intelligent beings to give meaning to life. Maybe ‘time’ didn’t even need to be defined. After all, any such definitions couldn’t be truly comprehensive.17

Xu Qing’s mind spun as this strange notion occurred to him. Everything was being turned upside down. To his eyes, the world was transforming again.1

Everything seemed blurry at first, but then he saw a host of indescribable gods moving through...6