NOVPUB"At last, it has come!"
Gazing at the Heavenly General Great Divine Power on the system interface, a smile involuntarily appeared on Shen Yuan’s face.
After suppressing the rebellion in the incense offering magic domain, he had stayed in the Imperial Capital with the purpose of witnessing Xia Yunqiu’s coronation.
Previously, when Shen Yuan suppressed the unrest in the incense offering magic domain, the impact spread throughout the Primal Chaos Realm, and during that period, Gong Buyu, his disciple who received his personal coaching, even killed Emperor Xia.
Yet, despite the gravity of the situation, apart from successfully gaining some benefits from the incense offering magic domain, it didn’t trigger the Artificial Intelligence System’s hidden task, which puzzled Shen Yuan.
It wasn’t until after he witnessed Xia Yunqiu’s coronation that Shen Yuan finally received the completion prompt for the hidden task.
With this hidden task, Shen Yuan faintly guessed at the operating logic of the Artificial Intelligence System.
"The trigger for hidden tasks seems not to be about just making a big splash.
The great hand that took away the incense offering magic domain was witnessed by the entire Primal Chaos Realm. If it was just about causing a commotion and spreading fame, that giant hand alone would have been enough to trigger a hidden achievement, but that wasn’t the case."
Becoming the Falling Clouds Sect Master, defeating the Candle Dragon Sword Master, suppressing the Yunmeng Dragon Palace, decreeing the River Ji Dragon Sovereign... These hidden achievements themselves corresponded to timespaces thousands of years ago.
Although the passage of thousands of years brought differences in the time dimension, it couldn’t cover the essence of the things from thousands of years ago that these hidden achievements represented."
Shen Yuan’s index finger lightly tapped the stone table, starlight swirling in his eyes.
"Legends... witnessing..."
After a brief contemplation, Shen Yuan still temporarily gave up thinking about the conditions for triggering hidden achievements.
"The source of information is too singular, all triggered after these thousands of years.
If I could use Heaven’s Decree Secret Order to cross thousands of years back to those times, maybe I could have a chance to uncover their essence by triggering a hidden achievement in that space-time."
Gathering his scattered thoughts, Shen Yuan refocused his attention on the system interface in front of him.
Reaching out, he lightly touched it, and the information of the Rebounding Wind Returning Fire Great Divine Power fully appeared before Shen Yuan.
Rebounding Wind Returning Fire (Heavenly General rank thirty): Wields the Time Major Path, can make the development of things regress, fierce winds retreat, and flames shrink back. (Reversing the flow of time and causality, its mighty power is boundless.)
Ranked thirtieth among the Heavenly General Methods, it barely eclipses the Arrows Piercing Voodoo Strawman Divine Power, and is far less powerful than the Rain Invocation and Nine Breaths Qi Absorption Great Divine Power Shen Yuan wields.
The Rebounding Wind Returning Fire Great Divine Power, similar to the Arrows Piercing Voodoo Strawman Divine Power, lacks the essence of the great path, meaning that even with mastery over it, it’s difficult to ascend to the Highest Heaven Realm through it.
From the current information, the Rebounding Wind Returning Fire Great Divine Power is far from as outstanding as other Great Divine Powers, and even inferior to the two Earthly Destroyer Divine Skills, Unimpeded Netherworld and Gods Purging.
It seems that such a divine skill might not hold much value for the current Shen Yuan, who has many cards up his sleeve.
However, reality is quite the contrary; Shen Yuan values the Rebounding Wind Returning Fire Great Divine Power far more than one might imagine.
That’s because the Rebounding Wind Returning Fire is a Time Great Divine Power; divine skills involving the Time Major Path are hard to find across all realms.
Apart from a few naturally gifted innate deities, only by comprehending the essence of the great path to ascend to the Highest Heaven Realm does one qualify to step into the river of history and contemplate the Time Major Path.
Even for those at the peak stage like the Divinity Path Emperor and the Highest Heaven Exalted One, who possess the capacity to interfere with time, they may not necessarily possess the methods of the Time Great Divine Power.
Moreover, since Rebounding Wind Returning Fire is one of the thirty-six Heavenly General Methods, its status in the Time Great Divine Skills is also one of the most elite; if one could fully comprehend it, one might even get a glimpse of the Time Major Path’s essence.
In all the realms, the last to wield the essence of the Time Major Path was known as the Candle Dragon, an innate deity standing at the apex of all realms.
But eventually, due to the decline of the innate deity lineage under the Heavenly Court’s suppression, Candle Dragon, relying on his Natural Divine Power, traversed the river of history to forcibly change history and reverse causality.
This action angered the one called the cause of all effects, the Primitive Great Exalted One. The Great Exalted One spanned the river of history and annihilated Candle Dragon at every point in time, and at the moment of its downfall, the multitude of deities wept, and its blood sprayed across the heavens.
The Candle Dragon Immortal Sword in Shen Yuan’s hand was forged from a piece of ordinary iron that was stained with the blood of Candle Dragon.
Although Candle Dragon had fallen, to deter those who would disturb the causality of time and space, the Primitive Great Exalted One decreed that his name be passed down through later generations of Daoism.
Shen Yuan, holding the Candle Dragon Sword, had also looked into the related records and was naturally clear about this legend.
Even though Candle Dragon, who held the essence of the Time Major Path, ultimately fell, the fact that the Great Exalted One himself intervened is enough to attest to its extraordinary nature, giving an indication of the formidable power of the Time Major Path.
With a slight sense of awe, Shen Yuan chose to accept the Rebounding Wind Returning Fire Great Divine Power.
In an instant, Shen Yuan felt the scenery before his eyes shift, and when his vision stabilized again, the scene before him had turned into a wilderness.
Shen Yuan’s spirit was greatly shaken, and he activated his Star Astrology Divine Power to probe the scenery before him, only to find that everything in his line of sight was not a false illusion.
It seemed Shen Yuan had thought of something; his expression shifted slightly and then returned to its usual calmness as he watched the scene quietly.
The scenery seemed to accelerate countless times, everything in view began to change rapidly, an ancient city being built in the distance expanded gradually, incorporating this area into its territory.
A rudimentary wooden hut was erected here, and then people changed, coming and going through the cycles of life and death.
Afterward, a war swept through here, turning everything into ruins, followed by cyclical changes of dynasties, the wooden hut transformed into stone buildings, and then into luxurious mansions.
