"Wind and Light, with whom will you battle, and who is your opponent? Please stay, the Four Seasons Star needs your blessing!" the wizard shouted loudly.

"Time is but gravel; mortals are buried by gravel as tall as themselves, and even the gods struggle forward, bearing mountains of gravel."

The face of the deity was serene.

He looked into the distance.

"I will go to the future, fight for the sole fruit, ascend the throne once again, and become the master of time."

The deity no longer heeded the human's prayers.

"I, the monarch of Wind and Light, command joy to offer up the floating time."

The joy of a family at the birth of a child, the child's own joyful childhood as they grow, the happiness of love, honeymoon after the wedding...

Harvest, travel, power in hand, sudden wealth...

Time is brief in joy, passing in the blink of an eye, able to be captured by the deity.

"I, the monarch of Wind and Light, demand the accumulated time from sorrow."

The agony of a child's premature death, a tragic childhood, the sadness of losing a lover, the stifled sorrow of a broken marriage, a painful and sickly old age...

Time is slow in sorrow, heavy; the deity extends his hand and can catch the accumulated time.

The monarch of Wind and Light employed means beyond human comprehension, extracted time, opened the river of history, and anchored it to the future.

The placid deity roared at the Value Game: "I ordain myself to ascend the throne, to become the master of the world, the monarch of time!"

He stepped into the river of time, riding the waves, charging towards the future.

The crowd was almost breathless.

Li Changzhou incredulously watched the river of time in the sky, incomprehensible, untouchable, unapproachable.

Time is not really a river; nobody knows what form it truly takes, not even time itself knows how beings perceive it.

It is omnipresent, irresistible, eternally enduring.

Its path lies above gods and demon gods, traveling far beyond everything else.

And now, in the distant past, he had ascended the throne, becoming the monarch of Wind and Light, resurrected from death, transcending time, to battle with the master of time.

"With whom will He fight?" In this irresistible moment, Yafeiluna felt her body and soul had separated.

"The victor of the Value Game." Li Changzhou gazed at a scene beyond his wildest dreams.

"Only He can possess time eternally." Turquoise Pool looked deeply into the depths of the river of time, hoping to glimpse a trace of the future.

"And only He can make the powerful monarch of Wind and Light dare not waste a single bit of strength," said Yang Qinglan.

Her mood was very calm; though she could no longer return to Earth and was imprisoned by this small river, being with Li Changzhou and having their "Honeypot World" was enough.

Time changed its appearance again, from a river to a cosmic galaxy.

Time was still time, but the monarch of Wind and Light had already reached a future far enough that for Li Changzhou and the others, humans, the appearance of time had changed.

They saw innumerable nebulae, pervaded by a motionless haze.

The haze was tranquil and vast; countless star systems were as small as the stars seen from Earth, decorating the middle of the haze.

The star systems were like lights from individual homes, and the haze was like a city; so immense, it triggered an instinctual fear in any life form.

Even gods would despair in front of it.

The monarch of Wind and Light stood before it like an ant gazing at the sun, so minute as to be non-existent.

"Is that... the winner of the Value Game?" Aman murmured.

The Fiery Fire Phoenix involuntarily knelt down, an innate response of all things to greatness, even time itself was submissive.

But that was not Him.

It was merely a barrier set by time, like a guard who doesn't need the Emperor's command, automatically stopping anything that approaches the throne.

"Light weaves a cage, Wind captures everything." The monarch of Wind and Light raised the Black Hole Shield, charging towards the time city walls.

Time was sucked away by the Black Hole Shield, and he was about to break into the mist.

Boom!

Like the rush of water, or as if it were the roar of thunder and tsunami, another figure emerged from the river of time.

The river of time surrounding this silhouette quickly transformed into a universe, reaching the same dimension, the same time as the monarch of Wind and Light.

Then, He reached out to Him.

"Who dares obstruct me!" The monarch of Wind and Light swung a longsword condensed from the galaxy.

Li Changzhou couldn't comprehend the magnitude of this strike's power; if Earth were above the Four Seasons Star, it would merely be a nameless planet in the galaxy forged into the longsword.

Time itself was distorting, and in the universe displayed to the onlookers, stars shattered, futures of countless people thus obliterated.

These individuals were destined to be erased by the aftermath of this strike from the monarch of Wind and Light at some time.

The galaxy longsword stabbed towards another figure in the time universe.

It was a woman, tall, with exquisitely beautiful contours and curves.

Facing the strike from the monarch of Wind and Light, as if he were smashing down the galaxy, She transformed into a line.

The time universe transformed again, turning into countless threads flowing with the years; her divine essence changed what time looked like in the eyes of Li Changzhou and others once again.

"To become one with time?" the voice of the Sovereign of Wind and Light exclaimed in surprise, "What good is that!"

She roared in anger, shattering countless people's futures, swinging her sword towards the timelines, intending to cut through time!

At that moment, a life somewhere helplessly watched as countless stars forming a long sword fell down, quickly shrinking to become ashes mid-way.

Her divine essence decapitated the head of the Sovereign of Wind and Light.

No one saw clearly what happened.

In that distant future, deep in the years, where exactly those two gods crossed hands and how many moves each countered in Li Changzhou's space-time, no one understood.

"Where did she come from? Why did she strike at the Sovereign of Wind and Light?"

"Is she the final player before victory?"

Time turned back into the universe, and she stood under the Great Wall of Time, taking the crown from the head of the Sovereign of Wind and Light.

The time universe suddenly collapsed, and the force of time, in the form of a black hole, appeared in front of Li Changzhou and others; the black hole sucked her in, attempting to tear her apart.

Time backlash ensued.

Even gods could only bear the burden under the oppression of time until the end.

There were only two methods to transcend time, one, winning in the Value Game; two, traveling to the future, defeating the winner of the Value Game before the backlash of time.

Just as she was about to be devoured by the black hole, she transformed back into a timeline.

Time transformed into lines too, each snapping and chasing the divine timeline.

Time grew more distant; on Four Seasons Star, the force of time awakened by the Sovereign of Wind and Light quickly depleted.

The vision slowly faded, but time did not disappear.

She merged into everything, watching all, whether life or non-life, in front of time, even the universe and the existence of multiple realities will one day end.

Only behind the majestic Great Wall of Time, the final winner of the Value Game, mastering time, was devoid of time.

Time turned back into a river, and as the river water gradually dried up, leaving only a small splash, an object leaped out from the splash.

Time disappeared, the crown falling toward the ground, and before it touched the ground, supported by the wind and light, it floated in midair.

The constant light of Four Seasons Star descended again, the dark night sky devoid of starlight gradually brightened.

All that had happened seemed like a dream.

"We are born of wind and light, and to wind and light we shall return," the Central King, Mage, Guard Captain, and Hou Feng, tears streaming down their faces, prayed to the divine being departing into the distant cosmos.

Li Changzhou stepped forward, his hands gripping the crown tightly.

"Brother!"

"Changzhou..."

Li Changzhou placed the crown on his head.

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Summer—

Qing Shui lifted her head, the newly bright sun was obscured by dark clouds, and heavy rain pelted her face.

The rainwater was absorbed by her skin, giving her a pleasurable sense of suffocation.

Spring—

The forest turned into a desert, numerous sprouts breaking through the soil.

A young tree sprang from the ground, its leaves brushing the tear-stained cheeks of the forest people, their blurred vision following the tree as they looked up to the sky.

Winter—

In a blizzard, ice curiously surveyed the world.

Under the gorgeous auroras, the surviving ice people approached this new life.

Autumn—

A dwarf held a tiny, thumb-sized young fruit in his hands which inflated as if blown by air, and the branches sagged under the weight of the heavy fruit.

Center—

On the ruins, a brick fell, light breached the shadow, a wild grass in the light bloomed with a small flower.

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Without divine power, Four Seasons Star simply became Li Changzhou's body.

Li Changzhou looked down at the severely damaged Four Seasons Star.

Immanuel Kant in "Critique of Practical Reason" stated that there are two things, the more we think about them often and persistently, the more our hearts are filled with awe and admiration—

the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

His understanding was shallow:

How many strong entities are left in the starry skies? Is there any morality in slaughtering others for one's own survival?

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