"Headmaster Wu, was it you who stopped time back then, indirectly helping me?"
Filled with doubt, Mu Qing decided to ask directly.
Moreover, the entire Three Powers Grand Tournament had been under the watch of the Great Sovereigns. Didn't that mean the several times he had used time stop had all been seen by those great experts?
"Time stop?" Wu Xuanji gave Mu Qing a rather surprised look, then laughed heartily. "As expected, you were able to sense it. It seems you truly possess the power of time. Otherwise, there's no way you could have detected a time stop of that level. However, it wasn't me who helped you. I merely noticed it."
"Oh, right. I learned that you possess the power of time from a Supreme. That Life Royal Court member named Clear Child reported you to the higher-ups, claiming that you possessed the power of time and carried a curse. Of course, I've already suppressed the matter, and very few people know about it."
"As for whether you used time stop during the Three Powers Grand Tournament, I don't know. Neither do the other Great Sovereign experts."
Those words only left Mu Qing even more confused.
The person secretly helping him had not been Wu Xuanji?
As for Clear Child's report, Mu Qing recalled it now. Back when he had still been weak, he had used time stop on Clear Child. But because the gap between them had been too great, the other party had retained some awareness and discovered the existence of time power.
Yet during the Three Powers Grand Tournament, the person who had acted behind the scenes was clearly extraordinary—powerful enough to directly conceal it from every Great Sovereign.
Originally, Wu Xuanji had merely harbored suspicions about Mu Qing possessing the power of time after