After talking freely with Ming Xuan for several days, Mu Qing finally left the Black Realm.
Both of them had some understanding of the power of time, but Mu Qing's grasp of it was clearly inferior to Ming Xuan's. Thus, he had gained quite a lot over the past few days.
Mu Qing's understanding of time grew ever deeper, but so did his wariness!
Yet the two of them had only mastered the barest surface of the power of time. At most, they could use the Tianming Scripture to slow the Time Curse's rate of erosion.
However, Ming Xuan did not have much time left—at most several hundred to a thousand years!
By comparison, the Time Sovereign of the Life Royal Court understood the power of time to an extent far beyond either of them. He believed he had already mastered it, so he had never restrained his use of temporal power.
And even so, after becoming a Sovereign, the Time Sovereign had continued to live for tens of millions of years.
Mu Qing could basically be certain that the Time Sovereign had found a way to suppress the Time Curse.
For time's curse did not take effect in an instant. It slowly eroded the flesh, transforming the body into something monster-like.
Even Mu Qing and Ming Xuan had discovered the problem early on during that gradual process.
It was impossible for the Time Sovereign not to have noticed the curse of time. But unlike Mu Qing and the other man, the Time Sovereign had not stopped using the power of time.
Ming Xuan had said it himself: every use of the power of time accelerated the Time Curse's erosion!
After realizing this, both Mu Qing and Ming Xuan had deliberately avoided using temporal power unless it was absolutely necessary.