Elder Future Stillness tapped his foot on the ground and swallowed his words while he thought. For a few minutes all was silent.
"So...?" Hamar quietly reminded him.
The Elder stopped tapping his foot on the wooden floorboards and turned around. He gestured back, "Follow me. It'll be easier to just show you."
Hamar looked around and decided to follow on, calling forward, "Yes sir!"
Elder Future Stillness didn't raise his hands but kept them low while he made a few gestures, causing a bubble to form around Hamar. "Just follow me, I'll explain all that I know. But that won't be the best, even I do not know everything, but I should be able to explain it well enough."
Hamar nodded, "Thank you, can I ask how long I have? You said the fight with Yi Sect will start soon...I need to join this fight."
"Hmm..." He scratched his head and thought for a few moments, "I have limited communications so it may not be up-to-date but there's a week or so"
Hamar breathed out a sigh of relief and pushed his chest, communicating to Hou within their shared Consciousness within the Nascent Soul. "Hou, you heard that? We have a week, will that be enough to regain the aura we lost when forming the 'causality'?"
"That should be fine...remember what I theorised about in the time chamber? If that goes true then it should be even more correct."
What Hou was referring to was a small piece of information Hamar had given to Hou which he extrapolated further.
Previously, Hamar could absorb laws and convert them into his own temporarily, Hou theorised that as the aura progressed he should be able to achieve laws to regenerate aura. This would mean he could ask the other cultivators for help to gain aura, by asking for laws. But sure to their circumstances, being in the time chamber, they left that experimentation for later. Even a moment couldn't be wasted.
Hamar squeezed his fist, he needed to test that if he wanted to be in peak condition for his showdown with Yi Sect.
***
Araxis explained what he knew about the demonic rifts and his plans to Edmund and had already dismissed him.
He picked up the teacup with his own body and poured another cup of tea, taking a sip he pondered, "How can I pass on the way for Hamar to use his inner true world effectively...without using much causality, that is"
Looking at the reflection rippling in the surface of the black tea, Araxis muttered, "So it has to be that..." He placed the cup of tea down and walked around his study before stopping and changing course to end up in front of the armillary sphere in the back of the room.
By placing a finger on one of the bronze rings spinning around the blue core, Araxis felt something start to drain out of him. Luckily he had a whole world's worth of causality, he could keep himself relatively safe. He reached further into the armillary sphere and a finger made contact with the orb in the centre.
He sent a portion of wills and thoughts down through his fingertip, into the miniature world. As soon as they penetrated the surface, Araxis backed off holding his finger, who's tip was vanishing into thin air.
"Now I simply pray the causality was worth it...let's hope this revelation doesn't get misinterpreted," Araxis closed his eyes tightly and turned around, "This is the most I can help now...I hope you succeed for both our sakes."
***
Inside the miniature world, Hamar looked amazed at the outside of the bubble where he and Elder Future Stillness walked. The world didn't just morph from pure speed but Hamar was seeing all times in one as they walked at speed.
As Hamar looked around with an open mouth, the bubble suddenly stopped and the surrounding became visible.
Hamar, still walking on instinct, stumbled into Elder Future Stillness and pushed him into a wall. Hamar saw this and went to help him up until he saw what the wall was.
It wasn't something he could describe with words. It wasn't nothing, nor was it something. It was white...black...transparent...opaque. when Hamar looked into it's surface, he didn't see anything but more like he felt the existence of...not something but not nothing.
"This," Hamar's eyes dilated.
Elder Future Stillness made his way back upright and looked up in a similar reverence to Hamar. He put his hand on Hamar's shoulder, "What do you think it is?"
Hamar hovered his hand over 'it' and looked back, "I can't even begin to think of...any sort of description. What is it?"
"I dunno!" Elder Future Stillness shrugged his hands and spoke honestly, "I have a theory that it's some manifestation of the Sea of Worlds...which is a sort of realm in which many different worlds are contained."
Hamar rubbed his head, "That's better than my thoughts, so why'd you bring me here?"
Elder Future Stillness put his hand on the border and pushed with all his might but couldn't breakthrough though, "This is why," he said while pushing and turning out of breath.
Hamar raised one eyebrow which caused Elder Future Stillness to explain, "How about you try to stick your hand out?"
He kept his eyebrows raised but nodded and walked forward, slowly pushing his hand through the border and feeling a cold refreshing wind wash over his skin.
Hamar took another step forward but was blocked by Elder Future Stillness' hand, "Don't exit yet. Once you do that the enchantment will activate and your memories will be erased. I haven't tried it yet, but I do have a way to keep your memories intact, just not yet."
Hamar reactively pulled his hand out of 'it' and held it cautiously, "That would be an issue, thanks." He looked to Elder Future Stillness leaning against 'it', "So you cant leave because of causality?"
"Not exactly, I could leave by using causality. But causality is linked to the reason I cannot leave...not yet."