Chapter 1517: Challenge Rules! Time Vortex!

Qin Feng didn't bother to overthink it.

He simply asked directly, "Senior, what will the reward related to Myriad Phenomena be? Is it the Great Authority of Myriad Phenomena?"

Hearing Qin Feng's question.

The blue-purple starlight figure condensed by Starlight Goddess · Midais revealed a faint smile. "Of course not. This stage of the Path to the End is of a completion nature; as long as you clear it, there will be a specific reward."

"Up until now, a total of 17 players have cleared this stage. If you can clear it, you will be the 18th person…"

"All players who clear it will receive the exact same functional item reward~"

Is that so?

After hearing this, Qin Feng suddenly felt a bit disappointed.

"It's actually a completion-based stage?"

Qin Feng sighed. "So no matter how well I perform, I can't get a better reward than others?"

Hearing this, Starlight Goddess · Midais smiled. "It seems Student Shadow is very confident in his own strength? Although there is no point ranking for this stage, there is a completion time ranking… The shorter the time taken to clear it, the more free uses of the functional item will be granted!"

Hearing this, Qin Feng was even more speechless.

He shook his head. "So you mean that under normal circumstances, using that functional item requires payment? Is this thing really useful?"

Starlight Goddess · Midais's eyes were full of mystery. "Once you clear it, you will know what it is… As for now, let me first explain the challenge content of this stage."

Qin Feng found that this Starlight Goddess · Midais was relatively easy to communicate with.

Her personality was quite gentle, making her pleasant to be around, like a breath of fresh air.

Soon, through her explanation, Qin Feng understood the challenge content of this stage.

Once the challenge begins…

Starlight Goddess · Midais's starlight figure will manifest eight light spots, namely the left and right shoulders, left and right wrists, left and right knees, and left and right ankles.

Qin Feng needs to destroy all eight light spots in the shortest time possible!

Each light spot possesses considerably high durability.

If it were just this, the challenge would be extremely simple for Qin Feng.

After all, no matter how high the durability of those light spots, they certainly wouldn't withstand a single Instant Extinction from the current Qin Feng.

But, the difficulty of this stage lies in three core rules!

First, all displacement abilities are disabled, meaning no warping, teleporting, blinking, and so on.

Second, Midais's starlight figure will continuously and rapidly move away from Qin Feng.

Third, the entire challenge space is set within a 'Time Vortex', where the flow of time in different areas is completely different!

It's possible that the time flow in one area is ten thousand times faster than normal.

It's also possible that the time flow in another area is only one-billionth of normal.

This is where the difficulty of the challenge lies!

"Different time flows in different areas."

"This is a bit like the situation in Yue Shangyan's stage?"

In the Path to the End stage guarded by Yue Shangyan, the challenge players faced was the changing direction of all movement and energy, which is the change of spatial vectors.

Now, it's the change in the flow of time!

Of course, the time flow here is only positive, never negative.

Meaning, time reversal will not occur.

"If I attack Her starlight figure directly, I might enter an area with an extremely slow time flow. While one second passes outside, only 0.0001 seconds might pass inside."

"This is equivalent to being slowed down ten thousand times or even more. Crossing that area would take millions of times longer!"

"So, if there are areas where time slows down, I must bypass them in advance. Once caught inside, it might result in an immediate failure…"

Because Midais's starlight figure is continuously moving away from the challenger.

Once stuck in a time quagmire, by the time one gets out, who knows where that starlight figure will have flown to?

If it were just this, it would be fine.

One could just exit immediately after entering a slow-time area.

But obviously, the challenge will have certain restrictions for this situation.

As Starlight Goddess · Midais explained the rules, Qin Feng soon learned that during the challenge, once entering an area with a different time flow, one cannot leave that area for a certain period, and 'Starlight Butterfly Swarms' will appear to attack the player.

Only after clearing out the 'Starlight Butterfly Swarms' and staying in the area for a set amount of time can one continue to other areas with different time flows.

At the same time…

Each time the time flow is switched, Starlight Goddess · Midais's starlight figure will speed up its departure from the challenger.

In other words…

If one runs around aimlessly in this area, they will inevitably face a situation where they can never catch up with the starlight figure!

"This challenge is quite interesting."

Qin Feng couldn't help but think.

Because everyone's perception of time flow is entirely based on their own senses; even when switching to an area with a different time flow, they wouldn't feel it at all.

The speed of time flow is completely relative!

For example, in an area where time flow is only one-ten-thousandth of normal, a player wouldn't feel like their speed has slowed by ten thousand times… because within this area, the player's consciousness, feelings, perceptions, and even thinking speed are all only one-ten-thousandth of normal!

To the player themselves, the change in time flow is completely imperceptible.

What allows a player to notice the change is only the comparison with areas of normal time flow.

Once entering an area where time flow is only one-ten-thousandth, everything in the outside world will speed up by ten thousand times!

Clearly then…

In this challenge, if one relies purely on their physical body to detect the time flow of the surrounding areas, it would be the most foolish action.

All challengers must rely on other methods to detect the different time flows in the surrounding areas to decide which direction to move or which direction to launch an attack!

…

At this very moment.

Inside the boundary-breaking sword circling around Qin Feng, the soul of Sword Saintess · Aiya Xi was feeling somewhat sentimental.

Once, she had failed this stage.

But now, she had returned to this space as a companion weapon.

Feeling the surging time energy in this space, she couldn't help but think, 'Back then, I exhausted all my strength just to shatter four joints of the starlight figure, which was only half the challenge. In the end, I could only watch the starlight figure drift further and further away until it vanished… I wonder if Shadow can successfully complete this challenge?'

When the challenge began…

Starlight Goddess · Midais's starlight figure immediately began to move away from Qin Feng at the speed of sound!

Naturally, Qin Feng did not chase after it directly.

Who knew if the time flow ahead was slowed down?

Chasing directly, once stuck in a quagmire, would mean failing the challenge immediately!

And so…

Qin Feng raised his hand and directly activated the Divine Rule effect 'Oversized Projection'!

In an instant, thousands of Shadow Blades flew out in a 360-degree radius, like scattering flower petals!