Primal God Temple.
King Mask recuperated where he was for a long time before slowly rising to his feet with Lin Qiye's support.
Bang—!
The process of dissolution into the Dao had not stopped. This was Lin Qiye's first time witnessing, from such close range, a human body being crushed apart by laws, only to be restored by the reversal of time.
"Are you alright?" Lin Qiye asked worriedly.
"...I'm fine. It just hurts a little." King Mask looked utterly haggard. He took a deep breath and gave a bleak smile. "So this is the God of Time..."
A pair of time rings, their heads and tails joined, flowed slowly within King Mask's pupils. Lin Qiye felt dizzy after merely meeting his gaze.
"What about your lifespan? Has it increased?"
"I suppose..." King Mask closed his eyes and sensed it for a moment. "Becoming a god does bring certain changes to the body. I can feel that my lifespan has increased by nearly thirty years, but..."
"But what?"
"Suppressing this thing comes at a price too."
King Mask pointed at the blood mist drifting from his body as it dissolved into the Dao and spoke bitterly. "Using time reversal so frequently, I can feel my lifespan draining many times faster than before... If I don't use the Time Sequence Thug to alter history, I should still have seven or eight years left."
"Seven or eight years?"
Lin Qiye froze slightly.
After King Mask stepped into the Human Apex, he had only two years of life remaining. They had thought breaking into godhood would greatly extend his lifespan, and it indeed had... but the dissolution into the Dao had drastically shortened it again. Compared to before, he had only gained another five or six years.
Moreover, during these years, King Mask