Fifty-three days later, the runes racing like light across the Time Tower's crystal walls gradually slowed, then finally stopped, solidifying and ceasing to flow like a river cut off at its source. At the same time, an exit appeared upon the layer of light...
Zhang Tie and Yan Feiqing emerged hand in hand.
"Ah, finally out..." Zhang Tie let out a long sigh toward the heavens.
After spending sixty years inside the Time Tower, suddenly coming out and no longer seeing the lonely river of stars within it, the familiar little courtyard, or the peach blossom grove that had left him and Yan Feiqing with countless memories, Zhang Tie felt a little unaccustomed to it all.
The two had spent an entire sixty-year cycle inside the Time Tower, yet outside, not quite two months had passed since Zhang Tie and Yan Feiqing entered it.
"Ah..." Yan Feiqing suddenly cried out. The instant the two stepped through the curtain of light, the beautiful gold-threaded long dress Zhang Tie had tailored for her abruptly turned into specks of flying-sand-like light and flew back into the Time Tower's light curtain. Caught entirely off guard, Yan Feiqing was instantly completely naked and could only cover the important parts of her body with her hands.
Zhang Tie burst into laughter. "I almost forgot to tell you—the metal items in the Rune Alchemy skill advancement area can't be brought out of the Time Tower..."
"Why didn't you tell me sooner..." Yan Feiqing shot Zhang Tie a reproachful glance. The former ice-cold beauty was breathtakingly charming at that moment.
In the blink of an eye, not even half a second later, Yan Feiqing took out a brand-new outfit from her spatial equipment and changed into it—of the dresses Zhang Tie had made for her, especially the many