Their commission was suspicious.

Chen Luo is now able to slow down time by using the power of time transformed from the Eye of the Elements. Although he cannot stop time by bypassing the Lunar Clock, Chen Luo's affinity with time-related abilities is unparalleled.

"Huh? Me? Not interested. Anyway, I don't have any special reaction to the River of Time. It's not that the River of Time is of no benefit to me; it should increase my affinity for time, but..." Chen Luo hesitated.

"Just tell me, why are you keeping me in suspense?"

"But... it's not as good as the monthly timekeeping system."

"What does this have to do with a lunar clock?"

"The effect of the Moon Clock is that as the number of times, frequency, and duration of use increase, the consumption of using the Moon Clock also decreases. In fact, this process increases or develops my adaptability to time. Drinking a sip of the River of Time is not as effective as using the Moon Clock to pause for a period of time and increasing my time affinity. It's better to sell the River of Time for money," Chen Luo said.

The more Chen Luo used the Moon Clock, the more he could feel the significant reduction in the consumption of time power.

Moreover, Chen Luo inexplicably felt that the Time River water wasn't much better than ordinary water.

It can't even be used to make tea!

What's so good about just drinking water?

"..." The Herrscher of Knowledge was stunned, not expecting Chen Luo to give such a reason.

"Doesn't that mean you're more suited to the Way of Time than the Heavenly Emperor? Why don't you try your best and see if you can surpass the Heavenly Emperor on the path of the Great Way of Time?" suggested the Herald of Knowledge.

"How can my efforts in a month surpass the achievements of others over thousands or tens of thousands of years? Although the Heavenly Emperor's time clone was quite reluctant to take out a cup of Time River Water, it now seems that obtaining Time River Water is so easy. The Heavenly Emperor's stinginess may simply be due to his stinginess."

“Although I don’t know much about the cultivators of the Great Dao of Time series, surely their progress in obtaining the River of Time water is slower than mine, which is obtained without effort?” Chen Luo pointed to the cup that was constantly rising and falling in the River of Time.

"...Maybe they really are slower than you?"

"How could that be? The River of Time I poured into it yesterday was even rejected by the River of Time itself. It was probably a diluted product. He's the Heavenly Emperor, after all. How could he usually use this kind of stuff?"

If it were an ordinary time-based cultivator instead of the Heavenly Emperor, obtaining the Time River water would probably be extremely difficult, but the Heavenly Emperor would likely be somewhat different.

“I think a great figure like the Heavenly Emperor is the kind of powerful being who takes advantage of the River of Time when no one is paying attention and then runs away. He’s not the kind of player who tries to gain favor with the River of Time and then shamelessly tries to freeload time to drink water,” Chen Luo said.

“That’s true…” The Herald of Knowledge nodded.

After all, the Heavenly Emperor sounds so powerful...

He must be the kind of character who reigns supreme for all time, right?

"Ding-a-ling." The wind chimes rang, and a barefoot figure ran into the bar and approached the table in front of Chen Luo and the others.

"Is there a River of Time now?" Kaguya Houraisan asked, leaning on the table and watching the jade cup that kept rising and falling in the River of Time.

"No." Chen Luo shook his head.

"Oh, I'll come back and check again in a bit." After saying that, Kaguya Houraisan tried to run towards the open bar door.

"You've come three times in 20 minutes, don't you find it troublesome?" Chen Luo complained.

"But it's been 20 minutes, and there's not a single drop of Time River water in your cup. Isn't that slow? And why don't you put more cups in there?" Kaguya Houraisan complained after stopping.

"I've put them all in. I've put all 23 cups in." Chen Luo pointed towards the bar, where a larger river of time floated above, containing 17 cups.

The small section of the River of Time in front of Chen Luo contained not only the jade cup, but also a silver cup and a gold cup.

To improve efficiency, Chen Luo threw all the cups given to him by the Heavenly Emperor into the river, and after summoning the gold and silver, he threw them into the River of Time.

The reason there are 23 is that at least one of the eight jade cups must be reserved to hold the original body, which is the 7/32 cups of the River of Time.

The three cups next to Chen Luo were indeed used to monitor the progress.

"Why don't you put in more other items? Wouldn't that be more efficient?"

"What are you thinking? I don't know what material these jade cups are made of, but they gather the aura of time much faster than other things. So these 23 cups are enough."

"Then why don't you duplicate a few more jade cups? Don't you have the Void Treasury?"

"Copying doesn't cost money? You spendthrift! What's wrong with waiting a little longer?" Chen Luo said angrily.

It's incredibly difficult to replicate this jade cup using the Void Archives, mainly because it's expensive and requires a lot of Honkai Crystals.

You can make several one-time use Heavenly Judgment Honkai Crystals to make one one-time use Jade Cup? Has Chen Luo lost his mind?

"But it's so slow, when will I be able to drink the water of the River of Time?" Kaguya Houraisan sighed.

"If you want to drink it, you can have it now."

"really?"

"Why would I lie to you?" Chen Luo reached out and hooked his hand, and countless cups flew out from the illusory river of time, then floated to his front.

Kaguya Houraisan glanced at them curiously, but didn't see a single drop of water in any of the cups.

But as all the cups gathered together, Chen Luo pointed, and it seemed as if countless water vapors slowly rose from the cups and gathered in the air.

"Tick!"

"Tick!"

……

Under Kaguya Houraisan's expectant gaze, four and a half drops of water fell into the cup below.

"There doesn't seem to be any moisture..." The Herald of Knowledge tilted his head.

"I used water vapor to describe the River of Time, not that it actually is water vapor." Chen Luo rolled his eyes at the Lawrence of Knowledge.

"Do you think that if you throw these cups into the river and let them soak for 10 or 15 days, they'll be full of water? Rather than water vapor, it's more like squeezing juice, extracting the essence of the river of time from the cups. Luckily, I'm also a river god, otherwise, if Kaguya of Houraisan wanted to drink this river water, she really would have to lick each cup one by one."

They might even have to hold the cup in their mouth for a while.

Ordinary people can't condense the water vapor from such a long river into water droplets, but Chen Luo is the river god, after all.

Even the river of time is still a river.

[Ding! Mission complete]

Seeing the longing look in Houraisan Kaguya's eyes, Chen Luo was too embarrassed to even complete another mission, so he threw half a drop of the River of Time into Houraisan Kaguya's already open mouth.

"Give me more, it's even less than yesterday. Yesterday, at least one lick was enough... cough cough. I mean, if you collected all the Time River water from your clothes, it wouldn't even fill half a cup," Kaguya Houraisan complained.

It was really enjoyable to drink it yesterday.

Let alone half a drop, a single lick will yield at least three drops!

It's so juicy!

"By the way, would you like to see the real River of Time?" Chen Luo ignored Kaguya Houraisan and instead took out another drop of water from the cup and asked.

"Yes!" Kaguya Houraisan nodded quickly.

The water droplet hovering on Chen Luo's finger leaped out and flew into a relatively large illusory river of time that Chen Luo had just created.

After that drop of water flowed into the illusory river of time, the river of time began to surge, and the original sense of vicissitude and profoundness became even more unfathomable.

As she gazed at the section of the river that had been cut off, countless fragments of time flashed through Kaguya Houraisan's eyes.

After seeing that river, Kaguya Houraisan seemed to be re-examining her entire life, scrutinizing the fragments of time closely connected to her.

There's not much to say about the beginning; it was only after Kaguya Houraisan decided to research the Hourai Medicine with Eirin Yagokoro that she became somewhat interested.

The last one that represents a turning point in Houraisan Kaguya's life is the door that Yakumo Yukari presented to her.

When the time scale was pulled back to the present, Kaguya Houraisan suddenly awoke, as if from another world.

The next moment, Kaguya Houraisan couldn't help but rush towards the river of time, which was now so real it couldn't be more real.

water!

So much water!

Who could resist this?

"Don't be impulsive." Seeing the impulsive Kaguya Houraisan, Chen Luo wanted to get up, but after lowering his head, he felt helpless.

Chen Luo wasn't worried about the River of Time; he was worried about Kaguya of Houraisan.

What is there to worry about in the long river of time?

"Splash!" Before Kaguya Houraisan, who was rushing towards the river of time, could even touch it, a surging wave burst out directly from the river of time.

It was just a small wave, seemingly flashy but ultimately ineffective, but after splashing onto Kaguya Houraisan's face, it sent her flying.

A 3600-degree spin and landing!

"Bang!" He landed face down.

Chen Luo looked in pain.

Fortunately, people can't hurt each other in a bar.

Then Chen Luo watched as the wave that flew out of the River of Time turned into a puddle of water and landed next to Kaguya of Houraisan, before hopping and skipping back into the River of Time.

This scene left Chen Luo completely stunned.

Although Kaguya Houraisan was a little dizzy from spinning around, she still struggled to get up and then relentlessly charged towards the river of time.

"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!" This time, it wasn't just a single wave attacking Kaguya of Houraisan.

Instead, a giant wave crashed directly onto Kaguya Houraisan, sending her flying and nearly flooding the bar.

"Bang!" This time, Kaguya Houraisan flew even further, flying directly out of the bar.

Because Kaguya Houraisan was hit by a giant wave that happened to be inside the bar door she entered through, she was not blocked by the bar's invisible wall.

Due to the angle, Kaguya Houraisan landed directly on the bed, but she didn't appear to be injured.

Moreover, it seems that Kaguya Houraisan achieved her goal. When the giant wave knocked Kaguya Houraisan away, some river water also flew directly out of the bar.

Although the river water in the bar quickly receded and returned to the river, and even the river became an illusion, the river water that existed outside the bar did not seem to be taken back.

"Whoosh! Take off!" The incredibly resilient Houraisan Kaguya exclaimed as she watched the river water fly out.

But the river water seemed to hear Kaguya Houraisan's cheers and the mockery contained within them, and it took off from the ground in an unreasonable manner, then smeared Kaguya Houraisan's face with it.

Immediately afterwards, under the watchful eyes of Chen Luo and the Herrscher of Knowledge, Kaguya Houraisan's figure slowly shrank until she became a small child.

"Wah!" Wearing clothes several times larger than her body, Kaguya Houraisan glanced blankly at Chen Luo and the Herrscher of Knowledge beside him, then burst into tears.

"Who is it? Why are you making so much noise!" The crying of Kaguya Houraisan woke up Chen Luo, who had been too afraid to move.

Mebius, who was lying on Chen Luo's lap taking a nap with his earplugs in, got up in annoyance, took off his earplugs, and went looking for the jerk who had woken him up.

"Sweetie, keep sleeping. You've only been asleep for 20 minutes," Chen Luo said, holding Möbius's shoulders as she sat up. He then gently pushed her back down onto the thickly cushioned chair next to him, resting her head on his lap.

With Chen Luo's gentle massage and the renewed wave of drowsiness, Mebius enjoyed Chen Luo's lap pillow and drifted back into sleep.

In the morning, Möbius was somewhat listless due to working on experiments all night, so Chen Luo brought him along without explanation to participate in the long-awaited fusion surgery.

Then Chen Luo pulled me into a bar to catch up on sleep.

Although Chen Luo recommended that Mebius go up to the third floor to get a good night's sleep, Mebius, for some unknown reason, insisted on sleeping on Chen Luo's lap.

When Mebius made this decision, there was a Herald of Knowledge standing beside him who dared not speak out against his anger.

Although the Herrscher of Knowledge wanted to say something, seeing Mebius always brought back some unpleasant memories.

For example, being captured and experimented on, being captured and experimented on, and being captured and experimented on...

In short, every time the Herrscher of Knowledge sees Mebius, she subconsciously feels a sense of fear.

The timeline of the Herrscher of Knowledge was the timeline before Chen Luo appeared, and Hua was dragged to do experiments quite a few times.

Even in Chen Luo's current timeline, Hua was still pulled into numerous experiments.

But at least the number of times has decreased, perhaps out of consideration for Chen Luo...

But don't panic, those who understand the laws are not panicked at all.

Just kidding, a mere lap pillow...

Chen Luoke and I are acquaintances who only sleep in the same bed, so what's the big deal about using a lap pillow... ha!

When the Herald of Knowledge looked at Mebius, who was lying on Chen Luo's lap with his eyes closed, a hint of smugness appeared in his eyes.

Do you know the value of staying together forever?

Therefore, those who understand the law are certain that Mebius never experienced what he enjoyed!

Chapter 1020 Chen Luo: Mom! Someone is bullying me!

"【The Curse of Time】..." Chen Luo looked at Kaguya Houraisan's status bar and felt a headache coming on.