Time Sovereign's words struck like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, sending violent ripples through the surroundings. Faintly, the furious roar of a great river rushing by could be heard as time began to fall into disorder.
He glanced around and sighed. "I never expected that even this method would draw the River of Time's attention."
"But it is still acceptable. It is enough for me to reveal the information. My previous conjecture was correct."
Time Sovereign's gaze flashed like lightning. From the small body of the green monster erupted an unimaginably terrifying aura. Time symbols blanketed the surroundings, branding themselves into the air and forming a barrier.
Dimly, Mu Qing could see a silver-white River of Time surging through the void, threatening to crash down and drown this place, only to be held back by Time Sovereign.
"I first returned to the past, intending to find those races related to time and research a method to completely eradicate the curse. Unfortunately, I found nothing—unless some of their powerful members were willing to forsake their lives and bestow their innate abilities."
"Yet leaving aside whether the members of those races would willingly offer themselves, even if one obtained an innate ability, one was not truly a member of that race. There were immense limitations, and no way to improve it."
"I returned empty-handed. An innate ability that could not be improved could never remove the curse. I even suffered backlash for interfering with the past."
"But it was not entirely without gain. I saw the Primordial Spacetime Dragon Clan being exterminated. The one who acted may have been Death Demon. He was likely trying to study the power of time."
"However, Death Demon fell in battle against Life Ancestral Dragon, and there are no records indicating that he wielded the