The order to return to the capital was issued.
The warships turned around together.
Lin Xiaosu raised his eyes toward the fluttering banner on the warship ahead. For one fleeting instant, it seemed to stop moving.
His heart surged with emotion.
The battle flag's stillness was no illusion. It had truly happened.
No one else noticed, because they were all caught within a temporal blind spot.
Inside Lin Xiaosu, before his heart, the Temporal Dao Seed that had spun day and night broke open at that moment, blossoming into a Dao Flower of time law.
Two months had passed from the moment he began analyzing this Dao Seed to the blossoming of the Time Dao Flower.
That might not seem particularly fast, but Lin Xiaosu knew how extraordinary it was.
What practical benefit did the blossoming of the Time Dao Flower bring him?
His time sword dao technique, Time Severance, would become a legend.
With a raised hand, he could stop time. Although the pause could only be measured in seconds, even that fleeting instant was enough for him to kill his opponent ten times over!
There was another benefit: his Time Reversal had taken a great stride forward.
For instance, aboard the warship, he could look at a half-grown boy in a village below and see him nursing in his mother's arms more than ten years earlier.
In other words, his Time Reversal was no longer limited to a single year. It could reach back ten or twenty years!
The warships returned from Jiangnan in three double-hours.
Upon their arrival at the Wilderness Capital, a group of yellow-robed attendants waited before the Return-to-Capital Platform.
Whether officials or troops dispatched on official business, everyone returning to the capital had to arrive at the Return-to-Capital Platform.
This was a peculiar age,