As news of the gods' waning divine power trickled in from the several great Divine Courts of the eastern and western regions, the Mortal World, on the other hand, was a picture of tranquility, with the sky over Demon City being sunny and dotted with white clouds, as beautiful as one could wish for.
In reality, time is eternally static. What does this mean? In short, it refers to the theory of time's eternity. In the eyes of mortals, there are four seasons in a year, corresponding to spring, summer, fall, and winter. A day is divided into twelve Shichen, which is twenty-four hours, with both daylight and nighttime.
But for immortals, time is forever unchanged, perhaps because they have long been as eternal as the heavens and the earth. Anyway, for these powerful beings, time has little to no effect on them.
To give the common people of the Mortal World an intuitive understanding of the concepts of the stillness and eternity of time, Master Damo explains this way.
