"What should I do, then?"
Lingbao Tianzun took a cloth bag from his sleeve and solemnly placed it in King Mask's arms. "Listen carefully to what I'm about to say..."
Lingbao Tianzun's voice echoed through the hall. After hearing him out, King Mask stood stunned for a long while.
"Will this really work?"
Lingbao Tianzun nodded. "Going back more than a year will already consume most of your lifespan. If we don't minimize the influence of karmic force this way, your lifespan will likely be exhausted outright, and you'll never be able to return."
King Mask looked at the cloth bag in his hand and pondered for a moment. "I understand."
"Go."
Standing before the Alchemy Furnace, Lingbao Tianzun waved at King Mask.
King Mask clenched the cloth bag in his palm and took a deep breath. The rings of time in his eyes swiftly began to spin in reverse, and the Time Law surged through the hall!
Space-time around King Mask rapidly twisted, and a fissure spread open behind him. Before this, he had only ever retraced time by a single day at most. Now, with the Time Law, a long-term reversal of time had become possible.
Strands of silver-white hair fell from his head, and the wrinkles on King Mask's face grew increasingly dense. He felt the lifespan within him draining away madly, yet he did not feel the slightest regret. Instead, unprecedented anticipation shone in his clouded eyes!
As the distortion of space-time intensified, the temporal fissure abruptly tore open and swallowed King Mask whole!
After King Mask vanished, time throughout the great hall returned to normal. In the silence, only the crackling flames of the Alchemy Furnace could be heard.
The River of Time rushed backward beneath King Mask's feet, leaving his body somewhat unsteady.