"What a fleeting dream!"
Lin Bai stared blankly at the mural. Although he had already returned to the real world, he could clearly sense that everything that had happened within the mural world had truly occurred.
Within the mural, an ancient Demoness was still waiting to awaken.
Despite how dispassionate and desireless the Demoness appeared now, if she were ever freed, even Lin Bai could not imagine how great a storm she would raise in the real world!
Fortunately, everything he had encountered within the mural world had truly existed.
The cultivation Lin Bai had gained within the mural world had also all been brought back to the real world.
"How much time has passed?"
There had been no concept of time in the mural world. At first, Lin Bai had calculated the time in his heart, but as he later immersed himself completely in cultivating sword techniques, he gradually forgot about it bit by bit.
According to Lin Bai's estimate, he had spent at least ten years or so within the mural world.
"How long?" The courtesan from Red Candle Hall looked at Lin Bai in confusion, as if she could not understand why he would ask such a question. Still, she answered, "About a quarter of an hour, I suppose!"
A quarter of an hour... Lin Bai stared at the courtesan from Red Candle Hall in astonishment, a baffled look appearing on his face.
He had spent more than ten years in the mural world, yet only a quarter of an hour had passed in the outside world.
"Could it be that time inside is different from time outside?" Lin Bai walked a few steps closer to the mural again and carefully examined the marks upon it. In a low voice, he said, "The methods of the Mending