At noon on August 17, Black Iron Calendar Black Iron Calendar 932, inside the Time Tower of the Golden Crown beneath Gabidu, capital of the Stellan Republic on the Western Continent...
After sensing the temporal torque within the Time Tower slowly diminish to nothing, Zhang Tie finally opened his eyes. The radiant seven-colored halo behind him, brilliant as a river of stars, also gradually faded away, vanishing like a peacock folding up its beautiful tail feathers.
Zhang Tie slowly rose from his cross-legged posture, drew a deep breath, and stretched his body. Looking up at the river of stars overhead, a smile finally appeared on his face. "Five years... I've finally recovered..."
That smile slowly widened until Zhang Tie threw back his head and laughed within the Time Tower. The entire tower seemed to tremble beneath his laughter.
Over these five years in the Time Tower, Zhang Tie had not only easily weathered the period of weakness caused by using his secret technique, but within the past two years, his first divine wheel had nearly condensed to the stage of its first transformation. Zhang Tie's overall strength had risen another great step beyond what it had been at his peak in the Sky-Piercing Realm.
After all, when he had been in the Sky-Piercing Realm, Zhang Tie had not yet possessed that seven-colored energy he had gained from the Chaos and the gap between spaces. That energy alone had increased the strength of Zhang Tie, who had passed through his weakened period, by at least thirty percent. Driven by that energy, every one of his divine abilities and secret techniques had only grown stronger, surpassing their former power.
The divine wheel he had begun to condense was also allowing Zhang Tie to stride forward from the saint rank toward the Divine