The old man's sudden movement instantly made everyone's expressions change drastically!
However, only a small handful of martial artists wore gleeful smiles. Luo Zheng had risen like a comet, basking in boundless glory for a time, but in the end, someone was still going to deal with him?
A fierce glint flashed across Ning Yu Die's face. She stamped both feet, her pearl-inlaid crown swaying atop her head, and was about to rush toward Luo Zheng.
Jade Granny, Qingxu Daoren, and the three portly alliance leaders also looked terribly grim...
But before anyone could react, time suddenly ground to a halt.
When the Progenitor Dragon Egg was being hatched in the Heavenly Star Sacred Land, the Heavenly Rank Race had accelerated the flow of time a thousandfold! Within that barrier, time truly flowed like sand slipping through one's fingers, racing past at a visible speed. One year inside was equivalent to a thousand years outside.
Now, within the Cloud Palace, time was still a thousandfold faster—but it had been slowed by a thousandfold!
Everything was moving at one-thousandth of its normal speed. Everyone's movements were countless times slower than a snail's, so slow that the naked eye could barely detect them moving.
Even more terrifying was the enormous range of this slowed time. With the Cloud Palace as its center, it spread across a range of over a thousand miles, completely freezing time...
Birds hung motionless in the sky. Cooking smoke had solidified into pillars that would never drift away, and the ripples on the lake remained perfectly unchanged.
Xi Youqin's cleaver was still embedded in the stove, and only the Progenitor Dragon had remained unaffected.
"Gah-goo!" The Progenitor Dragon whimpered. Its intelligence was only on the level of a human child a few years old. Though unaffected by the