Chapter 47 - Time Stops the Whole World

The iron rod is straight.　　But as long as you use enough force, it can be bent or even broken.　　Chen Xia bent the iron rod into a wavy shape and beat the pitch - black figure until it could no longer move.　　He is submissive in the Great Heavens, but in this small world, with the ability of time - stopping alone, he can be nearly invincible.　　Chen Xia sat on the stone lion, flipped out a cigarette from the cigarette box, held it in his mouth without lighting it, and looked at the pitch - black figure without any breath, thinking about a question.　　What is the essence of this world?　　He had thought about it these days but couldn't figure it out. Maybe his realm was too low to support this kind of thinking.　　Chen Xia turned his head and glanced at the Captain Gorilla next to him. Now he was taking in more air than letting it out.　　He could do nothing but wait for the new government to clean up this mess.　　Now a new doubt emerged in Chen Xia's mind. Does time - stopping count as the time in the system? If so, will it give points?　　This was a very worthy idea to try.　　Chen Xia decided to give it a try.　　Soon, the people from the new government came and cleaned everything up.　　Chen Xia was not suspected because there were no witnesses at the scene at all.　　After finishing the on - site records, he swayed back to under his overpass.　　The rejection of Chen Xia by the will of the world was getting smaller and smaller, which meant that he could start to take advantage of the loopholes.　　Three days later, the new government issued a notice.　　All the scholars at the academic seminar were dead, with no survivors.　　The new government was very angry.　　But it had nothing to do with Chen Xia. He hadn't stepped out from under the overpass for half a month.　　He had been researching his time - stopping ability all this time. After continuous tests, he could now stop time within a radius of 300 meters for 30 seconds.　　Thirty seconds was enough for him to kill anyone in this small world.　　But it was not enough. Chen Xia wanted to do something, and just 30 seconds of time - stopping was far from enough.　　So he began to diligently cultivate the "Giant Turtle Breathing Technique" and constantly use the time - stopping ability every day.　　Practice makes perfect. This saying was indeed reasonable. Chen Xia's time - stopping ability was increasing at a rate of one second per day.　　It didn't seem very fast, but Chen Xia was best at accumulating little by little.　　The new government had no tasks for him. Even if there were, Chen Xia didn't plan to take them.　　He could see that this new government was not a good thing either, just a pile of rubbish made up of lies and false beliefs.　　Chen Xia didn't want to care. After all, he was an outsider. There would always be a savior in this world.　　The will of the world still repelled him slightly until now. Chen Xia didn't want to integrate into this world either. The two sides just happened to reach an agreement and let it be.　　Everything was peaceful.　　Until the first year.　　Chen Xia froze the time under the overpass, counted the seconds, and waited for a year to see if the system would give points.　　The birds in the sky didn't fly, and the dogs on the ground didn't bark.　　Only Chen Xia sat on the tattered mat, witnessing the result.　　When the time was up.　　He sank his spiritual consciousness inward and saw that the system points clearly increased by 1.　　It worked!　　Chen Xia's expression was delighted, and he also knew what he was going to do. Every step from now on was very important to him.　　He was a rather cautious person and always wanted to have a backup plan for everything.　　The Cangtian Sword Sea made him feel very uneasy.　　The old fisherman fished him out and then let him drift in the sword sea for a hundred years. He had no ability to refuse all this. Even if the old fisherman wanted to kill him, Chen Xia could only resign himself to fate.　　In the Cangtian Sword Sea, he had no backup plan at all.　　You can't bet your life on someone else's conscience.　　Chen Xia wanted to take control himself. And these days, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.　　The reason why the old fisherman fished him out was that he was a potential Great Emperor, the only one in the world.　　Was this reasonable?　　It sounded reasonable.　　But Chen Xia just didn't believe it.　　Especially the later "descending into the ten thousand worlds". It sounded good for Chen Xia, and in fact, it was indeed good. But the problem was that the old fisherman didn't know that he could add points.　　If Chen Xia chose to descend into the ten thousand worlds, it would mean that he would waste hundreds of years in this small world.　　In this way, Chen Xia's understanding of the Cangtian Sword Sea would be extremely limited.　　Did the old fisherman not want him to know too much about the Cangtian Sword Sea?　　Chen Xia didn't know, but it was always right to be more cautious.　　Beware of others as if they were thieves.　　Even when you see a stray dog on the roadside, you still need to worry that it might come up and bite you.　　So Chen Xia had a plan.　　He wanted to stop the time of this whole small world!　　Eliminate the shackles of time on himself and the rejection of him by the will of the world.　　As long as time didn't move, then he was also a native.　　In this way, he could leave this divine thought in the small world as an external incarnation for cultivation, while his consciousness returned to his main body and began to explore more in the Cangtian Sword Sea, at least getting a preliminary understanding.　　This was the first backup plan he had in mind.　　With this operation, even if something unexpected happened to his main body, Chen Xia could still be reborn relying on this divine thought.　　He just didn't know if the old fisherman could use great supernatural powers to detect this divine thought of his.　　Chen Xia was a little troubled at the moment and sighed. He could no longer be lazy these days and had to practice and train diligently every day.　　After one year, his time - stopping range was 400 meters, and the time was six minutes.　　If he wanted to stop the time of the whole small world, Chen Xia calculated a little. It would probably take 80 to 100 years.　　The specific time depended on how fast his cultivation speed was.　　The time - stopping range and time were increasing every day.　　This was a boring process, and he could only practice continuously every day.　　And with the improvement of Chen Xia's realm, the number of seconds of his daily time - stopping was also increasing. From the initial one second, it had increased to one minute per day now.　　This number was still rising.　　Chen Xia was immersed in the long river of time like this. The time around him was pausing more and more frequently. Out of 24 hours a day, the time - stopping might last for 23 hours.　　Of course, this was only for him. For others in the small world, time had not changed at all.　　Because they couldn't feel the time - stopping at all.　　Chen Xia used the points given by the system to calculate the years.　　It was the 30th year now.　　He stopped the time of the whole city, and the daily time - stopping length was 23 hours and 57 seconds.　　The remaining three seconds were used for buffering.　　Still not enough.　　Chen Xia wanted to achieve thousands or even tens of thousands of years of time - stopping. Only in this way could he use this divine thought as a trump card.　　His current realm was the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage, and he was about to reach the Golden Elixir stage.　　The cultivation of the "Giant Turtle Breathing Technique" was very fast. It would only take 80 years to reach the Nascent Soul stage.　　Chen Xia was waiting. He added the points given each year to strength and luck respectively.　　Strength was now: 23.9.　　Luck: 161.　　The 70th year.　　Now the daily time - stopping length was... (Here seems to be some information missing in the original text)　　The world stopped turning. The old man eating noodles in front had maintained the action of picking up noodles for five years.　　Chen Xia seemed to be immersed in the long river of time. He began to think about a question.　　What was time?　　If it was a long river.　　Then could one cross the river and see the past and the future?　　If so, could one cut the future with the present?　　For example, if I slap you now, you will receive this big slap ten seconds later, with no way to avoid it, causing indelible psychological damage.　　This was somewhat related to the law of causality.　　This was another grand path.　　Many doubts emerged in his mind, and he began to think. This was the enlightenment of time, which meant that he would progress from being a beginner to truly proficient.　　The 100th year.　　The Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation piled up on the sky of the small world but didn't fall.　　Because Chen Xia had stopped the whole world.