Chapter 587 - 541: The Time Giant’s Legacy

[Congratulations, you have acquired a new "Form."]

[You can now transform into the Time Giant at a 1:1 ratio. While transformed into the Time Giant, you will inherit his original destiny and gain all of his Nirvana Skills and innate secret arts.]

[You have obtained the origin of the numbered Nirvana Skill, "Time."]

[You have obtained the origin of the Nirvana Skill, "Settle Calamity."]

[...]

Blue butterflies swirled in the void, outlining Candela’s form.

This was the Time Giant that Shi Ming had transformed into. As he felt the strange energy and secret arts within this body, three clusters of light appeared in his right hand.

One gold, one black-silver, and one mercury.

These were the remnants left behind after Candela’s death.

The golden cluster of light was only the size of a fist. It was filled with fine grains of sand, clock hands, astrolabes, and Time Runes. This was the origin of "Time."

The black-silver cluster of light was slightly smaller, and within it, overgrown thorns lay hidden—dangerous and chaotic. This was the origin of "Settle Calamity."

The final, more ethereal mercury-colored cluster of light was composed entirely of mercury-colored sand. This was the divine authority, the Sand of Destiny. Unfortunately, just like Huang Ji’s "Gift of Proliferation," the Sand of Destiny could not be used and could only return to the Star Sea. The fine mercury sand trickled from Shi Ming’s fingertips with each passing second. However, it also precipitated a strange energy, which, along with some of Candela’s other Holy Hall Origins that had been shattered beyond use, was intercepted and absorbed by the Right Arm Red Pattern on Shi Ming’s arm. Nothing went to waste.

This caused his attributes to climb once again.

[Attack Power: 8,192 (+1,278)]

[Vitality: 6,883 (+1,506)]

[Endurance: 7,922 (+1,054)]

[Defense Power: 7,011 (+1,812)]

[Spiritual Power: 37,597,104 (+1,895)]

Feeling the surging power within him, Shi Ming was in a great mood. As expected, killing a pseudo-god was difficult, but the rewards were immense. Even after setting aside the Nirvana origins for other uses, the rest of a pseudo-god’s power could still significantly boost his five core attributes.

The mercury sand had now completely dissipated.

The golden "Time" and the black-silver "Settle Calamity" remained in Shi Ming’s hands.

’Huang Ji’s "Life" isn’t suitable for me. Even if it were, no male can gain power through childbirth...’

’But Candela’s "Time" is something I can use.’

Shi Ming had already perfected a method to circumvent the "exclusivity" of Nirvana origins. By deconstructing and then reintegrating it, he could temporarily drop "Time" by a realm. After it re-fused and evolved, "Time" would become a skill he owned innately, as if he had comprehended it himself. At that point, even without using the Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary, Shi Ming would be able to use the numbered Nirvana Skill "Time" whenever he pleased, becoming the only powerhouse in the Star Sea to have mastered three numbered Nirvana Skills!

’It’s a shame Candela didn’t drop any other Gold Coins.’

’He didn’t even leave behind a single decent supreme treasure.’

The Time Giant had always disdained using items like supreme treasures in battle. His pride made him reluctant to rely on external objects, so Candela never bothered to actively collect treasures. The occasional spoils of war he did acquire were all stored in his Divine Country, the Gold and Silver Island. The Gold and Silver Island had already fallen apart. The strange space connected to the giant’s heart was now nothing but a torrent of flowing gold and silver sand.

’What a complete waste!’

But he had already reaped the greatest rewards from this encounter. The Time Giant was a unique life form in the Star Sea and the undisputed strongest pseudo-god. Its basic physical strength alone was enough to obliterate a Sealed King or even a Pillar Stone with a single punch, making it arguably the most powerful "Form" Shi Ming now possessed. After transforming, Shi Ming could also directly use Candela’s other innate secret arts.

Candela had six innate secret arts.

Each one was extremely powerful:

"Rhythm of Time" had already evolved into "Time." It connected to the most fundamental principles of the Star Sea and could be called the most powerful time-attribute skill.

"Echo of Misfortune" was a destiny-attribute attack skill. It could trigger calamities a target had once suffered in their fate, causing them to echo repeatedly. It could erupt up to ten times, forcing the target to experience the most profound pains of their past over and over again!

"Time Leap" was fundamentally a time-attribute skill, but its effect was spatial displacement. It could manipulate the timeline, return to a specific location on a past timeline, and then reset the timeline to achieve spatial teleportation. For example, if Shi Ming were to choose the timeline from a year ago when he was on the Endless Ocean, using the skill would cause him to instantly leap to the present-day Endless Ocean. The main advantage was its convenience and efficiency.

"Past Remanifestation" could make certain past scenes reappear. It could also pull projections of one-time-use items or treasures that once belonged to him for appropriate use.

"Voice of Entanglement" could force communications through the links between the fates of different beings. For example, Shi Ming could now use the fateful entanglement between himself and Ah Jian, the Three-Eyed Golden Crow, or even Bai Yimo to forcibly establish contact and convey his requests or commands.

"Gold and Silver Era" was the Time Giant’s true trump card. Upon activation, it could burn all the time and Destiny Power within his bloodline to return to the Time Giant’s most essential state—a giant’s body composed of different temporal silhouettes. His attributes would be greatly enhanced, and he could borrow or overdraft his own power from the past and future. Candela used this skill during his final, desperate struggle. Unfortunately, he still couldn’t utilize "Time" and "Destiny" at that point, so he only received a massive attribute boost.

Six secret arts, two Nirvana Skills, and powerful physical attributes.

This Time Giant was truly a treasure trove from head to toe.

Shi Ming delightedly shrank the giant’s body down to a height of two meters. He planned to use this body for a while to familiarize himself with this "Form" and the five secret arts he had gotten for free, while also beginning the analysis and reintegration of his third numbered Nirvana Skill, "Time."

As for the Six-armed Giant, Ron?

He was now just a forgotten footnote.

...

The two-meter-tall "giant" mounted his Sun-Shooter and traversed the Star Sea of the First Civilization Cosmic Country.

Glacier Star had been annihilated into dust during the battle and no longer existed, so the Teleportation Vortex on it was naturally unusable. Furthermore, after becoming the [Regent], Shi Ming had personally enacted a law that banned all means of travel within the territory except for Teleportation Vortexes. Therefore, if Shi Ming wanted to return to the Primordial Star, he needed to find the next Teleportation Vortex.

"Tianwen, how long will it take to fly to the nearest Teleportation Vortex from here?"

[It will take approximately 2.5 days.]

’Good, that’s not too long.’