[The Free and Unfettered God could not struggle for even a few rounds in your hands before you knocked him unconscious with the Seven Divine Starry Steps.]
[You condensed chains from divine power and bound him to carry him away. You were a projection and could not directly touch physical entities, but you could make indirect contact through divine power.]
[Below, the people of the Free and Unfettered Holy Land were shouting and screaming, as if their own father had been taken away.]
[You ignored them, carrying the Free and Unfettered God to a deserted small island and casually tossing him onto the ground.]
[You delivered a slap through the air, physically waking the Free and Unfettered God.]
[The Free and Unfettered God groggily regained consciousness, touched his somewhat stinging face, looked around, and then locked his gaze onto you.]
["I don't know what madness has gotten into you. If you want the Time Room, there's no way I'll give it to you. Kill me or torture me, do as you please!"]
[You let out a cold sneer.]
["There's no one else here, so stop putting on a show for me."]
[You crossed your arms over your chest and paced around him.]
["I clearly closed all the gaps, yet the Dragon-Man tribe still quickly opened new ones, because someone on this side was helping them.]
The Dragon-Man tribe had just attacked, and you died. A dignified Martial God dying so casually is a bit too arbitrary.
When the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm was attacked, every Martial God and Martial Saint in the entire human world was present, yet you alone were absent. Oh right, you were in the Time Room.
[Now, I ask you to hand over the Time Room, and you refuse. How could I not suspect you?"]
["What are you talking about? What Dragon-Man tribe? What gaps? I don't understand..."]
["I don't give a damn whether you understand! Just take out the Time Room and you can prove your innocence!"]
["Why should I hand over my treasure to you!"]
["I already told you! I just want one look! Who wants your damned turtle shell! Are your ears deaf?! Besides, did you even create the Time Room? Didn't you also get it from somewhere else!"]
[Your loud shouting finally managed to yell the Free and Unfettered God back to calm.]
["What exactly are you suspecting me of?"]
["If you're innocent, telling you won't make sense to you. If I'm not wrong about you, then don't ask that question."]
["So as long as I prove the Time Room's existence, I'm what you call 'innocent'?"]
["Not necessarily. Prove this step first and we'll talk! Honestly, I don't have that much time to waste dawdling here with you. If you can't prove it, I'll send you on your way!"]
[Seeing the Triple-Origin True Fire swirling above your hand, the Free and Unfettered God let out a sigh, as if he had made some kind of decision.]
["Fine, take me to the Path to Immortality."]
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["What are we going to the Path to Immortality for?"]
["You'll know when we get there."]
[As a Guardian, you could go wherever you wanted in the human world.]
[You linked yourself and the Free and Unfettered God with divine power, and with a single thought, you brought him to the end of the North Sea.]
[This year's Path to Immortality had already appeared, and because no one had used it yet, it remained in a visible state.]
[On a nearby island, there was a cultivator army stationed to guard it, preventing anyone from using the Path to Immortality without approval.]
[This was Chen Six's arrangement.]
[You concealed your aura and traces, and these troops did not discover your arrival.]
["We're here."]
[The Free and Unfettered God pointed at the Path to Immortality and spoke.]
["This is my Time Room."]
["What?"]
["The Path to Immortality is the Time Room!"]
["Nonsense, how could the Path to Immortality have a time flow different from the outside..."]
[Your words came to an abrupt halt.]
[In the sixth simulation, when you first entered the Path to Immortality, you discovered that you couldn't draw trait tags inside it.]
[That was the first time you saw the "draw failed" notification.]
[The explanation given by the trait tag system was:]
[The current environment's time flow is inconsistent with the River of Time. Unable to draw trait tags.] (See Chapter 342)
["Still not right. Since when could the Path to Immortality be entered and exited freely?]
I believe with your abilities you could cross this entrance section and easily enter the Path to Immortality, but how could you also come back from inside?
[Also, this Path to Immortality used to be inside the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm, controlled by the Ancient Wasteland Survivors, so, you..."]
[The Free and Unfettered God finished your sentence for you.]
["That's right, I am an Ancient Wasteland Survivor! One of the eyes the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm planted in the human world!"]
[The Free and Unfettered God spoke these words with complete openness, hands clasped behind his back, his face already bearing the resolve of a man prepared to die.]
["You people have no way to freely enter and exit the Path to Immortality, but the Ancient Wasteland Survivors have controlled it for countless ages. They have a method, but it requires certain innate conditions.]
Any Ancient Wasteland Survivor who meets these conditions is using the Path to Immortality to indirectly extend their lifespan.
Every time I enter the Time Room, I am actually returning to the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm to pass along intelligence for them.
[Then I enter the Path to Immortality and stay for a period, so that my existence in the real world can span a longer stretch of time."]
[You were truly speechless at these Ancient Wasteland Survivors.]
[Using a Martial God as an informant?]
["So, walking one year inside the Path to Immortality means a hundred years pass outside? No, that's not right. I've walked it before. I stayed inside for a few years, and hundreds of years didn't pass outside."]
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["You've walked it? How did you come back?"]
["None of your business."]
["That's because time is divided into subjective time and objective time.]
Inside the Path to Immortality, one year passed in your subjective time, but it wasn't necessarily one year in objective time.
Looking purely at objective time, one year inside the Path to Immortality is one hundred years outside.
[But from your subjective time, even if one hundred years passed outside, it would feel like one hundred years to you."]
["Oh..."]
[You nodded as if you half-understood.]
["Don't understand?"]
["Bullshit! Of course I understand! Relativity! Quantum mechanics! I get it, I get it!"]
[Actually, you didn't fully understand.]
[The main thing was that the theory sounded fine, but if you'd actually experienced it, it would still feel abstract.]
[The Free and Unfettered God added one more thing.]
["It's like dreaming. In a dream you might experience an entire lifetime, but in reality only a single night passes. Yet for the you in the dream, that was the length of an entire lifetime, not a single night."]
[You suddenly saw the light.]
["Oh, stream of consciousness! I get it, I get it!"]
[The Free and Unfettered God told you that a life's theoretical lifespan is calculated according to the passage of objective time, not subjective time.]
[Therefore, in theory, anyone could use a special existence like the Path to Immortality to indirectly extend the time they existed in objective time.]
[But the problem was, not everyone could travel back and forth through the Path to Immortality.]
[Even Ancient Wasteland Survivors required careful selection among thousands, specific training methods, and piles of resources before one such cultivator could be created.]
[Now that the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm no longer existed, this method could no longer be reproduced.]
[The Free and Unfettered God let out a sigh.]
["I know everything the Ancient Wasteland Survivors have done to the human world, and what I did was indeed as an accomplice. Since you've discovered my identity, kill me if you must."]

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