The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1176

Chapter 1176: Forbidden Ground

Rowan's sight zoomed toward the various streams of time around the rotating cogs and gears in his blood, and he began to follow the flow between all these chaotic streams of time. It did not take long for him to notice that there was a pattern here, it was grand, spread across a distance that could be considered infinity, but Rowan had already conquered the Supreme Circles, and this would be easy for him to decipher.

Yet he stopped himself from following this path, not because it would not lead him to the truth, but because he wanted to feel time. He was not a soulless machine that grew just by gathering data, he wanted to experience it in its entirety, he wanted to love his powers in a way he had never set out to do before and Rowan disregarded all that he knew and he allowed his senses to fall deeper into himself.

Every moment after this one was a revelation to his senses, and Rowan delighted in it. If not for the vastness of his soul that made such a thing impossible, he could become a cultivation zombie, endlessly chasing the high if delving into the plane of the mysterious.

For the first time in a long time, Rowan held nothing back, previously he would always have an eye out watching for dangers, no matter how deeply he entered any sort of meditative state. He could never truly devote himself to a single thing, and although that should not matter as much for him, there were certain experiences that could not be appreciated if one had to hold back.

His paranoia and the state of his consciousness which was similar to a Hive Mind would never allow him to place himself in such a compromising position, but there was a reason he came to find the Shiik, and it was not just to prepare her for the coming battle.

If there was anyone in the entire realm who he could depend on to protect him when he was this deep into his mind, it would be her... although, thinking about the Shiik angrily tapping at the throne without considering anything else made him sigh once more... at least if danger unexpectedly came, it would go a long way to resolve her boredom.

The thought occurred to him that perhaps the Shiik might have trouble with his other children, especially the Lady of Shadows when he freed them all from his dormant dimension, but he shrugged, knowing that such conflicts would most likely be minor.

With these last thoughts, he allowed himself to sink deeper.

Time took him and tore his mind to pieces. _{freeweɓnovēl.coɱ}

His senses entered all 33,000 streams of disjointed Time, and even with his powerful soul, Rowan had to take a while before his mind could fully accept being split into all these different streams of time.

One part of his mind saw a million years go by in a second, another saw a second move so slowly that a million years would have to pass before it was completed. As soon as he could perfectly grasp all these different time streams, the chaotic nature of Time in his soul ceased to exist and he began to glimpse the pattern that governed them all on an instinctive level.

This was different from his usual intellectual understanding of power, this state was deeper. Almost like breathing, all 33,000 streams of Time were known to him and he knew that this was a power that was unique to him, like a fingerprint.