How did the ancient era turn into the modern age in the blink of an eye?

"You little bastard, where the hell is this?"

Lu Xingshi crawled out of the World Core and looked around in bewilderment.

The World Core had been completely destroyed. It had not been his doing, but the result of external factors.

He had not understood why before, but after seeing the situation outside, he finally understood why it had been destroyed.

Outside was now a modern metropolis, leaving Lu Xingshi utterly at a loss.

In order to kill him and the Source Otherworld Demon, the world had employed a kind of temporal grinding, like a millstone.

The accelerated ratio of external time had inflicted damage upon the body. No matter how powerful one was, most were helpless before time and the passing years.

If Lu Xingshi had not been a Game Villager whose true body was a world, immune to time-related abilities, he would already have dropped dead.

Game characters could be killed by monsters and other game characters, have their accounts deleted by players, or even have their data erased when a game shut down. But no one had ever heard of a game character dying from time itself—except in games like Don't Starve, where leaving it idle really could get you killed.

Thus, the temporal grinding had ultimately destroyed the entire World Core, while conveniently taking Lu Xingshi with it.

It definitely could not take away the Source Otherworld Demon. With Lu Xingshi's "help," the Source Otherworld Demon had long since died.

"I was only inside the World Core for a year, right? How many years have passed outside?" Lu Xingshi's expression turned strange.

Over that year, he had gained tremendously. Using the Heavenly Mandate he had previously intercepted from this world, the Professional System, and the Transcendent Seed formed from the World Core, combined with the power of