Facing an E Hun roughly on his level, along with the Heavenly Demon Infant, whose strength surpassed his own, Mu Qing immediately judged that an early retreat would be best.
Otherwise, he risked perishing here!
If it had only been E Hun, Mu Qing might have been able to defeat him after spending some time. But the Heavenly Demon Infant's appearance had robbed Mu Qing of any desire to keep fighting.
There were two solutions, both related to the Starry Sky Book's abilities.
One was to upgrade the Tianming Scripture and use its time-stop ability to flee directly.
With Mu Qing's current strength, he had opened up the power of eight realms of starry skies within his body—enough to bear the expenditure of using time stop.
The second method was to upgrade another Sovereign-level scripture already at the major completion realm, bringing it to the perfected realm.
Once it reached the perfected realm, Mu Qing's strength would rise to the level of a final-stage tenth-layer Supreme, allowing him to contend against the combined forces of the Heavenly Demon Infant and E Hun.
After considering it, Mu Qing still decided on the former.
Truthfully, even for him now, activating a perfected-realm scripture still consumed an enormous amount of power.
Though it was far better than before, it still could not be sustained for very long.
To be safe, Mu Qing chose the more reliable power of time. In any case, the Time Curse was temporarily being held back by the Starry Sky Book. Once the Three Powers Grand Tournament ended, Mu Qing could enter the Spacetime Gate and seek traces left behind by the Time Sovereign. Perhaps he might gain something.
And if all else failed, he could later upgrade the World Serpent's abilities to resist the Time Curse.
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