—Time Realm—
Compared to the Sin Source Realm, the Time Realm was another uniquely special Great Realm. It did not exist on the same temporal plane as the Zero Realm at all. Therefore, all records of the Time Realm's location carried special annotations stating that one had to traverse the temporal plane to reach it.
There were currently no Apostles within the Time Realm, but there were four great Time Sovereigns whose combined strength supported it. However, without an Apostle, the situation within was far from optimistic.
The Time Realm was an absolutely neutral realm, and most of the creatures within it were native lifeforms. Nightmares who came from the human world were exceedingly rare, because the path of time was simply too difficult to comprehend. Whether Prison Envoys or ghosts, few creatures followed the path of time.
Any ghost that followed the path of time was, at the very least, a rare species. Those capable of breaking through the final barrier of high-level ghosts and reaching the Nightmare level were even rarer, perhaps one in a thousand years. Yet someone like Qing Gui, who not only followed the path of time but was also a genius of Tianwang, had never appeared in the entire history of the Time Realm.
Otherwise, with such talent and the Time Realm's supply of resources, the birth of an Apostle would have been inevitable.
When the Five Nightmares of the Zero Realm were first established, Qing Gui had immediately received an enthusiastic invitation from the Time Realm upon entering the Zero Realm. The four Sovereigns had personally come to meet him, only to be rejected by Qing Gui.
The reason was simple. Qing Gui had only one condition for joining the Time Realm: unless the entire Time Realm was handed over to him, there