The sudden turn of events jolted the many Great Xia Gods present awake. They turned to look at King Mask, their eyes filled with shock!
"Time Law?!" Lingbao Tianzun swiftly rose from the ground.
"What is it?"
Lin Qiye asked in confusion.
Lingbao Tianzun stared at King Mask, opened his mouth, then slowly said:
"He... is about to ascend to godhood."
Lin Qiye froze where he stood.
King Mask was equally bewildered. He had merely been breathing and absorbing Earth's "anchors" when a strand of time law suddenly descended upon him, pushing his realm toward a level beyond the human apex!
"Kronos..." King Mask quickly came to his senses, the image of that elderly man in black appearing in his mind.
He was more familiar with this strand of time law than anyone. It was the time law that had given rise to the Time Sequence Thug. It had always been in Kronos's possession, yet now it had appeared before him out of nowhere. Did that mean...
The God of Time, Kronos, whom he represented, was dead?
King Mask bore no ill will toward Kronos. On the contrary, he was somewhat grateful to him. If Kronos had not intervened back then, he would have died in that car accident long ago. And Kronos's only condition for taking him on as a representative had been for him to help find an item; he had never forced him to do anything else.
There truly were not many gods like Kronos, who treated their representatives this way.
Just as King Mask's mind was filled with thoughts of Kronos, Lingbao Tianzun's voice reached him:
"King Mask, absorb the time law without worry. We will guard you."
A trace of resolve flashed through King Mask's eyes at those words. He immediately sat cross-legged on the