Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, ten years had passed.
During the first two years, Qi Yunsheng traveled through the Vast Sky Sea Domain day and night without pause.
After such relentless travel, he finally reached the nearest city.
Having received Qi Yunsheng's notice, Fang Xiao took the opportunity to conceal his identity as a cultivator and experience the customs of this city, where martial cultivators set the prevailing tone—customs utterly unlike those of cultivator territories.
However, they did not remain there for long.
After waiting only three months, Qi Yunsheng found a suitable merchant caravan.
Their destination was the same, and it even had a Body Integration Realm cultivator overseeing it.
Fang Xiao naturally had no objections to that.
It was only that, for the time to come, he could no longer leave the Small World at will.
After all, there was a Body Integration Realm cultivator aboard the Cross-Domain Flying Boat. If Fang Xiao's identity as a cultivator were discovered by chance, it would be a heaven-shaking disaster.
Thus, Fang Xiao once more began his long cultivation.
Ten years had passed in the outside world, while a full century had already gone by in the Small World.
He discovered that the flow of time in the Small World had increased slightly again, rising from a little over nine times in previous years to ten times now.
That counted as a good thing.
After all, this gave him more time than others to improve his cultivation and strength.
Yet the tenfold difference between inner and outer time flows seemed to have reached its current limit. Though it had slowed, it had not accelerated any further.
By Fang Xiao's estimation, the flow of time in a growing cosmos like the Small World should not have stabilized