The journey spanned 24 billion light-years; naturally, it was impossible to rely entirely on teleportation.
After Qin Heng teleported away from Evergreen Realm, he changed locations several times, then used Void Passages and void shortcuts laid down by predecessors to advance.
Previously, his clone had ridden a qilin on the journey. The stretches between each Void Passage had all been crossed by flight, which was why it had taken so long to arrive.
Now that he was traveling this route himself, after exiting one Void Passage, a single teleportation brought him to the next entrance. He traveled through the void the entire way, at a speed beyond imagination.
If he had not needed to leave Dong Huaiyue some time to adapt to her new power, he could probably have reached the Thirty-Two Tribulation Arena in just over an hour.
Within the Inner World Embryo, Dong Huaiyue was forging God of Death Armor.
The same materials produced different results in different hands.
Qin Heng tempered the God of Death Battle Armor with spatial origin, producing a protective treasure capable of resisting powerful attacks.
Dong Huaiyue tempered it with temporal origin. Beyond its defensive properties, it gained a certain curvature of time, allowing force that landed upon her to be scattered across multiple points in time. The pain would last a few seconds longer, but the force felt at any one moment would be drastically weakened, preventing her from being heavily injured in a single blow.
After forging the armor, she quietly contemplated and comprehended her brand-new power while exchanging insights with Qin Heng on the level of Laws.
The half portions of origin they had exchanged were not merely hidden moves for emergencies; they were also opportunities for each other to gain enlightenment.
They both understood that Time Law or Space