A Promise

What was Zhou Ming trying to say?

He was leaving.

He would be gone for a while.

The time was expected to be very long—possibly a hundred years, perhaps a thousand, or even longer.

And this time, it would not just be Zhou Ming's soul leaving. Even his body would be transported into the instance dungeon "Stars and Seas," where he would embark on a brand-new adventure.

That was right.

In order to clear the final instance dungeon, Zhou Ming would vanish from the human world this time, disappearing completely from Earth.

He would use the "full entry" mode to enter the ultimate instance dungeon and begin his ultimate strategy.

But why could he not do as he had with the previous instance dungeons—sending only his soul into the dungeon while leaving his body in reality, protected by the system and granted countless chances to start over?

He was actually giving up that greatest safeguard, sending both his soul and body into the dungeon. Was that not far too risky?

There was no choice. Zhou Ming had no choice but to do this.

Why?

There were two main reasons:

First, the ultimate instance dungeon, "Stars and Seas," was not safe. Even miraculous entities like the "system" existed there in countless numbers. Many extraordinary powers possessed all kinds of methods to completely destroy the "system" bound to Zhou Ming's soul, let alone Zhou Ming himself.

In other words, within the ultimate instance dungeon, the system could no longer ensure Zhou Ming's soul's safety or provide him with another chance to try. Whether it was the system or Zhou Ming, they had only one life and one attempt.

Once he failed, the game would be completely over.

Second, the ratio of time flow.

What was the ratio between the flow of time