Time Cycle

Nearly a month had passed since Lin Xiao refined Nora and returned to the original world to live in seclusion. He discovered that although his soul's True Spirit had been in constant contact with the Power of Time, it showed no sign of fusing with or even being tainted by it.

This strand of Power of Time moved back and forth within the prison formed by the shell around his soul, occasionally passing straight through it without leaving the slightest trace, as though it were illusory and did not exist.

Lin Xiao held his chin and pondered for a long time, but no matter what methods he used, he could neither touch nor fuse with it.

It was as though this thing did not exist within this world's projection at all. He could not even sense its existence, much less refine it, and his progress came to a standstill.

After trying for a long time without success, Lin Xiao simply gave up on fusing with this Time Power for now. It was locked inside his Sea of Consciousness and could not escape anytime soon. He would first fuse with the remaining true body and advance to the Seventh Order.

Fortunately, fusing with his true body went quite smoothly. Most of it had already been completed earlier, and the rest was merely a matter of patient effort.

As wisps of power from his original true body, along with the essence of the True Spirit, were extracted from the True Spirit, Lin Xiao vaguely felt as though he were merging with himself.

That was indeed the truth. The power of his original true body had been compressed into the True Spirit, while his current body had regrown based on his own True Spirit. They had originally shared the same source. Put simply,