Ethan sat cross legged within the heart of the time field, his eyes closed, his presence was calm yet immeasurably vast. The time zone around him no longer resembled a mere cultivation array. It had become a distorted domain where causality itself bent and obeyed his will.
Inside this space, time flowed millions of times faster than the outside world.
What would take epochs beyond count elsewhere would conclude here in mere seconds.
This time, Ethan knew his evolution would finally reach completion.
The boundless golden light around him pulsed in slow, deliberate rhythms, as though responding to the beat of a cosmic heart. His breath was steady, yet every inhale and exhale carried the weight of galaxies being born and extinguished.
He opened his eyes and looked toward the shadowed edge of his inner dimension.
There, Erebus stood silently.
