Chapter 1652: Time True Explanation

"Perhaps he just scanned the content with his divine consciousness and couldn't actually memorize it?" After a while, Nangong Yuanfeng couldn't help but comment.

Scanning and memorizing are two distinct concepts.

The former is merely a quick glance, where the content doesn't need to be understood or recited, while the latter involves forced memorization. There's a significant difference between the two; they can't be compared.

If it were just scanning, he could do that as well.

"Well... we'll see as we go on!"

Receiving a reply, Tantai Zhenqing had barely finished speaking when he saw all the suspended books simultaneously flip to their last page, then fall back onto the shelves.

"We'll have to trouble the Eighth Elder to return the books!"

Closing his eyes, Zhang Xuan took a deep breath, as if digesting something. After more than ten breaths, he finally opened his eyes and spoke calmly.

"Yes!" The Eighth Elder nodded, bewilderedly put the books into his spatial ring, and flew out again.

"You've previously learned simpler techniques from the Zhang Clan's cultivation methods. I've guided you and fixed their flaws, so you don't need to continue studying them for now. Your main focus should be on martial techniques and understanding the Laws of Time. I've just compiled two sets of cultivation methods based on the content of these books, and I will now transmit them to you!"

After speaking, Zhang Xuan pointed a finger, and a stream of thought immediately entered Zhang Jiuxiao's mind.

"This..."

As he clearly understood the knowledge transmitted by his teacher, Zhang Jiuxiao's entire body trembled.

The Laws of Time are a truth more difficult to comprehend than the Laws of Space. Many people, even when witnessing them firsthand, cannot grasp them. Because of this, the Zhang Clan's truth of time is rarely unleashed by anyone under normal circumstances, unless aided by bloodline power and sword techniques.

He had originally thought that mastering it would take an unknown amount of time. He never imagined that the cultivation method transmitted by his teacher, progressing from shallow to deep and becoming gradually clear, had reduced the difficulty by countless times.

If he cultivated according to this method, he should be able to fully comprehend it in less than a month.

However... one month was still too long.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look up and say, "Teacher, time is too pressing..."

It wasn't that he didn't want to bring honor to the family, but even with such a powerful cultivation method, he still didn't know how long it would take to achieve mastery.

It couldn't be achieved in an instant.

The half-hour his teacher mentioned was simply too rushed.

"Don't worry. Burn this drop of blood within your body!"

As if he had long anticipated this situation, Zhang Xuan flicked his finger, and a drop of blood floated to Zhang Jiuxiao's glabella, drilling straight in.

It was the purest blood collected by the Zhang Clan.

As soon as the blood entered Zhang Jiuxiao's body, it immediately began to burn, and in the blink of an eye, Zhang Jiuxiao entered a special state of mind.

"Time acceleration?"

Tantai Zhenqing's eyes narrowed.

With this drop of blood entering his body, he could clearly feel that Zhang Jiuxiao's consciousness had fallen into a temporal vortex, where time was drastically different from the outside world, having been accelerated.

In other words, even though only half an hour would pass outside, Zhang Jiuxiao might experience one, two, or even more than ten days of comprehension within that state.

"Only allowing the consciousness to enter time acceleration is somewhat similar to the Blood Pool..."

An elder also noticed this and murmured.

The Zhang Clan's Blood Pool precisely allowed one's consciousness to accelerate cultivation. It was precisely because of this that the Zhang Clan could produce so many geniuses, far surpassing the Luo Clan.

"The Blood Pool can at most increase time by tenfold, but the Clan Head's method increases it by more than a hundredfold..." another elder beside him commented.

"He is using the clan's purest bloodline to set up a special time acceleration formation in Zhang Jiuxiao's mind. It only targets consciousness, so the consumption is extremely low!" Xing Jiansheng nodded and explained.

Others might not understand, but as a former Clan Head and one of the most powerful experts in the clan, he could understand his son's purpose in doing this.

Under normal circumstances, burning one's bloodline not only leads to a period of weakness but also consumes a vast amount of blood. Sometimes, one can't even execute a full set of martial techniques before the blood is completely depleted.

Zhang Xuan used a special method, only altering the time perception for consciousness. This not only minimized blood wastage but also made the time acceleration many times faster.

"Even if the consumption is extremely low and time is increased by a hundredfold... that's still only a few days. What can he learn in such a short time? Can he really defeat that person?" the elder who had spoken earlier couldn't help but ask.

Disregarding everyone's doubts and shock, Zhang Xuan returned to his seat, closed his eyes, and began to study the knowledge he had previously scanned in his mind.

Earlier, he had used his divine consciousness to scan the books merely to conceal his true abilities from the many clans and the Zhang Clan members. In reality, with a single glance, he had already recorded all the content in the books and formed them into Heaven's Path cultivation methods.

What he transmitted to Zhang Jiuxiao was just a simplified version, while he was now cultivating the complete version.

"The Zhang Clan's ancestors' comprehension of time is indeed formidable..." Zhang Xuan sighed in his heart.

It must be said that many predecessors of the Zhang Clan have indeed gone very far on the path of the truth of time. No wonder they could become the continent's foremost clan, with no one able to overshadow their brilliance for tens of thousands of years.

As he continued to study, his comprehension of the Laws of Time also grew deeper.

After an unknown period of time.

Boom!

As if grasping something, his mind suddenly cleared, and a stream of thought continuously flowed in his mind.

At the same moment, everything that had happened in the Luo Clan's ancestral hall also occurred in the Zhang Clan's ancestral hall. However, all the clan members were drawn by the ongoing competition, and no one paid attention.

Zhang Xuan opened his eyes, light shining brilliantly, as if a vortex was spinning within them.

"I've finally comprehended it... but it's personal time acceleration!"

Having fully comprehended the Zhang Clan's truth, he also came to understand.

This truth allows one's own time to accelerate, making movements faster and difficult for others to react to.

However, it cannot achieve what the Time and Space Hall of the Master Teacher Pavilion does, where an outsider cultivates for one month while a year passes outside.

Even so, it was still formidable.

At the very least, his strength had improved once more.

"Previously, one drop of blood would be completely depleted after I used it twice. Now, I can directly store it in my body and use it whenever I want, without wasting a single bit! One drop of blood is enough for dozens of battles..."

He smiled slightly.

Of the three drops of blood Xing Jiansheng had given him, he had used one when encountering the Dragon Bone Divine Spear and another when giving it to Zhang Jiuxiao earlier. Only the last drop remained. However, having comprehended the truth of time acceleration, using it again would save a lot.

His first usage could be said to have been too wasteful.

Almost ninety-nine percent of its power had dissipated.

Now, he could easily control it, and one drop of blood could be used at least dozens of times.