Chapter 745 — The Prodigies of High Antiquity
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
" Shen Mu and Kaihuang were slightly taken aback. The woman was expounding her principle, unhurried. "All things, including space, are matter. Divine abilities too are arrangements and orderings of matter, formed by primordial qi particles into different combinations, expounding the principles of the great Dao and forming power.
Is time matter?
It is not. You cannot touch time, and therefore time does not exist.
" The crowd fell into thought. Some shook their heads, but could think of no words to refute her. Shen Mu stepped forward. "Ling Tianzun, then why do we grow old? People are born, age, sicken, and die—is that not growing old as time flows on? " Ling Tianzun looked at him, and suddenly drew out her hairpin.
The peach wood was already withered and dry.
"Brother, do you think this hairpin has already died of old age? " she asked. Shen Mu nodded.
Ling Tianzun activated her divine ability, and the peach wood gradually turned green, then red, then put forth branches and sprouted, growing tender buds, and one after another peach blossoms bloomed from the revived dead branch, while several peach leaves pushed out fresh shoots.
"Is this me reversing time?
" Ling Tianzun asked with a smile.
Shen Mu was dumbstruck, then shook his head. "You only used a creation divine ability to change the structure of the dead wood, to bring it back from death. . .
wait, I understand what you mean!
" A look of disbelief came over him, and he blurted out, "You mean time is our illusion! Our birth, aging, sickness, and death are in fact changes in the matter of our bodies. Time does not exist—it is a false appearance caused by the changes of matter!
" Ling Tianzun looked at him with both shock and joy, and said delightedly, "I have finally met someone who can understand my words! I told the Heavenly Venerable and the others my thoughts, and they said I was talking nonsense! You are my fellow Daoist! Yes—time does not exist.
If time existed, then there would be time divine abilities in this world! But there are no time divine abilities in this world; there is only the false appearance caused by the changes of matter! You called my divine ability just now a creation divine ability? Creation—well named! Truly well named! " Her mind was simple and pure; when she said "truly well named," the feeling she revealed came from the heart, with no excess of adjectives. Shen Mu was profoundly shaken, standing there like a wooden statue, murmuring, "Then is it possible for someone to return to the past? " "The past does not exist.
What exists is only matter in change. " Ling Tianzun's eyes sparkled.
"If matter can return to a past form, then one can return to high antiquity. That is what I believe.
Can you understand me?
" The surrounding crowd still could not understand her, and a humming of discussion rose, mostly criticism. Someone said in a low voice, "Ling Tianzun has lost her mind. .
. " Ling Tianzun was angered, and shouted, "In the future I will surely create a divine ability that freezes matter in eternal stillness!
So long as one stands upon that matter, one can see the entire universe's past, present, and future! "