Age of Evolution

After acquiring the Ethereal Divine Clock, Lin Zhen let out a long sigh of relief.

The Ethereal Divine Clock was of great significance to him; it represented his future and hopes, and was indispensable.

Even though it cost him 10 billion, including a God Crystal, Lin Zhen felt it was worth it.

Though God Crystals were rare and plentiful in number, there may only be one Ethereal Divine Clock. In Lin Zhen’s heart, their values were incomparable.

After acquiring the Divine Clock, Lin Zhen left the auction house and returned to the Golden Pill Fang.

His clone was still doing alchemy. From now on, his clone had several primary tasks.

One was to accumulate a large number of Nine Revolutions Golden Pills. Lin Zhen had decided that after entering the eye of the storm, of his six shops only the Golden Pill Fang would sell a Nine Revolutions Golden Pill each day, and the remaining shops would no longer sell anything.

Aside from accumulating Nine Revolutions Golden Pills, Lin Zhen began to stockpile a large amount of medicinal materials.

He prepared to make Yang Hua Pills for the Three Flowers Middle Stage, stored medicinal materials for the late stage, and also saved medicinal materials for the Spiritual Mind Stage.

Thanks to Qian Tong’s proficiency in alchemical production of both the Three Flowers and Spiritual Mind stages, Lin Zhen did not have to spend a lot of time cultivating but had medicinal pills to use.

He strived to collect medicinal materials so he could cultivate to the God Realm Stage.@@novelbin@@

As for the elixirs that needed to be prepared after reaching the God Realm Stage, Lin Zhen currently had no ability to prepare them. The key problem was that he had no Dan prescriptions and could only search slowly for them later.

Although Qian Tong had Dan prescriptions, these medicines were very expensive. Lin Zhen’s six shops simultaneously posted signs for a large purchase. With countless gold coins flowing out every day, the six medicine shops managed to maintain a balanced income and expenditure during this period.

The outside work was proceeding methodically, and the days passed by one by one.

Meanwhile, Lin Zhen’s main body never showed up again. All his energy and time were spent on comprehending the Ethereal Divine Clock.

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The process of comprehending the Ethereal Divine Clock was unexpectedly difficult.

Lin Zhen sat in the back room of the Golden Pill Fang, with the huge brass bell large enough to cover several people at once, suspended in front of him.

There was a circle of engravings on the bell. The bell looked very ancient, but the carvings were quite bright.

On the body of the bell, there was a patch of gorgeous flowers.

There were blooming flowers, half-open blossoms, flower buds ready to bloom, and even withered flowers.

At a glance, this was the process of birth, growth, blooming, and withering of flowers.

When Lin Zhen’s spiritual power touched it, he immediately felt the uniqueness of this Divine Clock.

Once his spiritual power entered, it was like entering a real garden. All around were bright flowers, blooming, withering, being born and dying.

“What a miraculous treasure, I can even sense the flow of time in it, fast and slow, and so elusive.”

“Fast is time acceleration, slow is time deceleration.”

“It seems that as long as I can comprehend and understand this Ethereal Divine Clock, then I can control the time acceleration and deceleration of the Original World.”

“Acceleration has a miraculous effect on combat, and deceleration, besides combat, is even more miraculous for cultivation. But I haven’t found a breakthrough yet. The Time Law of the New World is completely different from that of the Original World, and it’s much more profound and complicated.”

“Let me start with time acceleration, understand and try to practice it.”

With his spiritual power maintaining the suspension of the Divine Clock, Lin Zhen discarded all distracting thoughts and began to concentrate on entering the Divine Clock Garden.

Lin Zhen thought that his understanding of the Divine Clock was already difficult enough, but he did not expect that the process of understanding was infinitely more difficult than he had imagined!

When his spiritual power entered the Divine Clock Garden, Lin Zhen found that the laws of time acceleration were contained in those blooming flowers.

The time a flower blooms is the most beautiful moment of a flower, but what’s beautiful is always ephemeral. It seemed that the master of the Divine Clock understood this, so the time of the blossoming of a flower was very short-lived.

Because of this fleeting nature, it was hard to grasp. Every time Lin Zhen contemplated a fresh flower, just when he felt a little bit of insight, the blooming of the fresh flower had already ended and it entered the withering period.

“Phew! It’s so hard!”

After finishing another round of contemplation, Lin Zhen looked at the time in the Dimensional Universe and found that half a month had passed!

“I didn’t realize how time flew while practicing. It felt very short to me, but I didn’t expect half a month had gone by. This is even when I hadn’t achieved anything in my meditation. Once I have success in my meditation, in the blink of an eye, it would be several decades, even hundreds of years!”

“I must get the time deceleration. The path to the peak is bound to be difficult, and I must do what others cannot. I need a lot of time to make up for the shortcomings of my lack of cultivation.”

After temporarily adjusting his defeated mentality from previous comprehensions, Lin Zhen began to summarize.

“There should be nothing wrong with the comprehension process. I’ve had some experience with the Time Law, and I’ve thoroughly contemplated the Time Stone and pocket watch. Although the Time Law of the Original World is more difficult, time is always the same in all its variations. It just needs more deduction, calculation, and understanding.”

“However, I don’t know why. Every time I feel something while contemplating, just as I am beginning to feel it, the blooming of the flower ends, leaving me without a reference, resulting in wasted efforts.”

Lin Zhen thought about it, but still didn’t come up with a result.

Feeling his thoughts were a bit chaotic, Lin Zhen temporarily stopped his contemplation and stood up to leave the back room.

Upon arriving at the front hall of Golden Pill Fang, it was morning, and the staff were just gearing up for business.

Golden Pill Fang now had many alchemists, daily common elixirs were not at all in trouble.

Moreover, Lin Zhen’s clone constantly engaged in alchemy, occasionally guiding the ordinary alchemists in their alchemical skills.

As a Saint-level Pinnacle alchemist, Lin Zhen’s guidance was enough to save them a lot of detours and were extremely helpful. In this way, more and more alchemists were willing to join Lin Zhen’s camp, forming a strong industrial chain.

The elixir industry of Tianfang City had already presented a scenario where Lin Zhen held absolute dominance.

Lin Zhen, appearing early in the morning, was greeted warmly by the alchemists and apprentices who could not distinguish between his clone and his real body.

“Saint Master! Good morning!”

“Saint Master, you are looking very good today.”

Lin Zhen, in high spirits, returned the salutes one by one, took a stroll around, and came to a side hall.

This was Lala Ti’s dwelling; she had just come out of her room, still yet to remove her helmet.

Her blonde hair was loose, her face radiant, exuding the exotic charm of a foreign beauty from Earth.

“Good morning!” Lin Zhen initiated the greeting.

Upon seeing Lin Zhen, Lala Ti snorted from her nostrils: “Seeing you first thing in the morning really destroys my good mood for the day. Apart from when you’re refining pills, you’re really a sight for sore eyes.”

Lin Zhen forced a wry smile: “Am I that annoying? You staying here wasn’t it also because you voluntarily proposed the wager?”

“Humph! You are annoying. If it weren’t for the desire to learn your alchemy skills, I would have already run away. Sadly, you’re too stingy, only allowing me to watch you refine pills for barely any time each day. It’s like the brief bloom of an epiphyllum, fleeting and short-lived.”

Upon hearing these words, Lin Zhen was momentarily taken aback.

Seeing Lin Zhen frozen into place, Lala Ti became a bit anxious: “Hey! Why are you standing there like a dummy? Don’t tell me you are upset because of what I said.”

“Hey! Hey! Hey! Why aren’t you saying anything? Actually…..actually, you do spend quite a lot of time on alchemy, at least you treat me differently, not like those cheap alchemists who flock to you. Each day I can watch for two hours, and I’m quite satisfied.”

“Hey! Just a vent, you’re not that narrow-minded, right? Say something!”

Seeing that Lin Zhen still wasn’t speaking, Lala Ti grew anxious.

At this moment, Lin Zhen finally came back to his senses: “What did you say just now?”

“Huh! What did I say?” Lala Ti was, in turn, stupefied.

“The words you just said.”

“I said you’re not being petty….”

“Further back!”

“I said you spend enough time on alchemy.”

“Further back than that.”

“I said…I said you were like a log… didn’t I? Don’t tell me you have any improper thoughts about me! This is my clone, you can’t mess around, I have no such intention.”

Lin Zhen frowned: “Not that, further back.”

“I said your alchemy is like the fleeting bloom of the epiphyllum…”

Lin Zhen’s eyes suddenly brightened: “The flashing bloom… I understand, it’s the blooming period… no matter the cultivation, it always starts from simple to complex, the path needs to be walked step by step, starting from the simple ones to gain insight… not as before, haha! Yes, that’s it!”

Watching Lin Zhen speak like this, Lala Ti was baffled and waved her hand in front of Lin Zhen: “What are you mumbling about? You haven’t gone mad, have you?”

Lin Zhen laughed: “You’re the one who’s gone mad. Thanks to you today, master is grateful to you.”

With that, Lin Zhen roughly messed up Lala Ti’s blonde hair, tangling it into a bird’s nest.

“Hey! Hey! Hey! Are you out of your mind, messing up my hairdo?”

“Forget your hairdo. The master has had an insight, I have decided to reward you. From now on, you can watch me refine pills for three hours every day.”

As Lin Zhen spoke, he waved his hand at Lala Ti, turned around, and re-entered the rear hall.

Watching Lin Zhen retreat, a look of astonishment flashed through Lala Ti’s eyes.

He had experienced a breakthrough just like that, this cheap master of hers seemed to possess a rather astounding aptitude!

“He is about to enter the eye of the storm. If he can make a breakthrough, his future would truly be boundless.”

“Human Clan… Galactic Giants, seems like a brilliant figure is about to emerge from the ground clans.”

“Moreover, this person is not so simple, he has involvement with many people and events, Empress Bai Susu… was not also saved by him? The future… what will happen in the future?”

Lala Ti’s eyes sparkled for a few times before she turned around and re-entered her room.