The Dragon King turned its head, carefully observing Ian.
Then, the dragon laughed: [To recognize the true essence of Dragon Island at first glance... Over the years, the number of people who’ve been able to discern this through the layers of ether flow fields is indeed very few.]
[Perhaps, this is also an ability inherited from The Creator?]
Upon saying this, the Galewind Dragon King became intrigued.
It raised its head and curiously asked: [In that case, do you know... what exactly is the use of the black hole on Dragon Island?]
Ian did not answer immediately; he carefully observed the Dragon Island before him.
Dragon Island was entirely dark-toned, with black and gray as its base colors.
Its specific shape was a perfect circular disk, somewhat like a spinning top, also reminiscent of a traditional UFO.
In the middle was a massive sphere, with the main body being a uniformly flat disk.
It was evenly divided into four major zones and twelve regions by eleven pillars, while the most crucial sphere was shrouded in a layer of rainbow-like dancing light and shadow...
The ’black hole’ Ian saw was located right there.
Is it really a black hole?
In truth, Ian had much data and theory to make this speculation.
Firstly, with the keen senses of The Unyielding Fortress’ Earth Origin Quality, he detected an extremely terrifying gravitational anomaly there.
Secondly, he observed the mass imbalance of Dragon Island, and an anomaly in the curvature of space-time.
Lastly, the disk shape of Dragon Island reminded him of an accretion disk, and the central core zone of Dragon Island did indeed emit strong pulse streams from its poles.
This material’s strength had reached an unimaginable level—even material supported by aether could withstand the gravity of a black hole. Dragon Island might be the most durable material structure in this world!
In conclusion, all of these could prove that within the central sphere zone of Dragon Island, there was a black hole.
And the simplest proof was only one: The Silver Chip told Ian that there indeed was a black hole inside.
Ian saw that in the four major zones of Dragon Island, each had exceptionally rich True Dragon’s aura and Ether qualities lingering.
Among them, the Galewind Dragon King was the most active, having awakened many times recently.
And its lair, a Y-shaped Flashsilver high tower, was very close to the central zone.
In other words, close to the black hole’s vicinity.
Seeing this, Ian was certain in his mind.
He spoke with an unwavering tone, "The black hole is the way for the Dragon Kings to bypass the limitation of lifespan."
The Thunder Dragon Eyes of the Galewind Dragon King flickered, quite surprised: [You actually know?]
Generally speaking, black holes are formed when supermassive stars collapse for various reasons.
They possess gravity that surpasses limits, but as long as one is at a distance, there is no anomaly. The latest_epɪ_sodes are on_the novel•fire.net
However, if one approaches a black hole, due to the distortion of space-time curvature by the supergravity, time will slow down as a result.
Of course, this time dilation does not mean ’living longer.’ The slowed time is relative.
For example, a person near a black hole experiences a year in his own frame of reference, without any feeling of being slowed himself.
One must leave the black hole’s zone of influence, far from the twisted space-time curvature, to realize that a year spent near the black hole equates to ten or even a hundred years outside.
And if someone outside could observe the person near the black hole, he would see every move of the person close to the black hole slow down tenfold or even a hundredfold.
The ’slowdown’ on one side is the relative ’acceleration’ on the other.
In a certain sense, this might be a kind of one-way ’time travel device’—as long as someone is willing to circle near the event horizon of a black hole, by the time they emerge again, the outside world might already have passed hundreds or even thousands of years.
What’s the difference between this and time travel?
The prerequisite is that the existence near the black hole has the ability to escape the gravitational ’pull’ of the black hole.
Ian scrutinized the Galewind Dragon King before him.
—Can it do that? Effortlessly breaking free from the black hole’s gravity, escaping the twisted space-time curvature?
Because becoming the magnetic field and lightning, comparable to ’light,’ the Galewind Dragon King, aside from possibly greater consumption, is essentially equivalent to the phototransformation of the Sunbird.
The speed of light is enough to escape the gravitational pull before reaching the event horizon of a black hole.
Moreover... it can manipulate aether.
Aether is a medium that transcends space-time.
The ’Ether Furnace Core’ essentially forms a curvature bubble, attracting surrounding Origin Quality and Spirit Energy to create a Semi-Perpetual Machine.
The Curvature Engine is a higher-level application of the Ether Furnace Core: a complete Ether Furnace Core will expand its curvature bubble, thereby enveloping the human body or vessel, making possible curvature navigation or beyond space-time transition.
And the Galewind Dragon King evidently possesses this spacetime skill.
Therefore, even in the ’slow time’ within the black hole, with the capability to think at light speed, and the spacetime methods of the Galewind Dragon King, it can ensure itself breaking loose from the curvature of the black hole at critical moments, respond in real-time to the call of accelerated external states, and arrive on the normal timeline to intervene in the outside world.
"... Dare I ask, Dragon King, how long have you lived?"
Ian was silent for a moment, carefully choosing his words before cautiously inquiring: "The small black hole in Dragon Island, what level of time-space distortion has it reached?"
[I have already gone through four hundred seventy-two years of usage time.]
The Galewind Dragon King smiled and said: [And the Dragon Island black hole has very little mass; it is sustained by the ether field, an ultramicro black hole, with mass only a third of New Moon combined with a quarter of the Nemsis Planet (Tella Eleventh Planet, demolished in the Ancestral True Dragon civil war) ...]