Still, while the current rate of growth was not slow, Jiang Xuan found it unbearable.
What relieved him was that his sect master had anticipated this long ago and found a solution for him.
With that thought, Jiang Xuan solemnly took the crystalline Time Sand from his storage pouch.
The grain was as translucent as crystal, speckled starlight contained within it, as though a miniature river of stars had been sealed inside.
After gazing at it for a moment, Jiang Xuan hesitated no longer. Opening his mouth, he swallowed the grain.
"Gulp..."
The instant the sand entered his stomach and was digested, an exceedingly peculiar force erupted from its depths, sweeping through his entire body—or rather, sweeping through the Golden Divine Tree.
"Rustle..."
At that moment, Jiang Xuan felt as though he had fallen into a phantom dream. His consciousness became hazy and weightless, as if he had been lifted beyond the ninth heavens.
Immediately afterward, a strange sense of distortion filled his mind and sea of consciousness.
He could still glimpse the outside world, where time flowed as usual and everything remained unchanged.
But when his consciousness sank back into his body, an entirely different sensation surged up from the depths of his heart.
"Buzz—!"
As his consciousness returned to himself, the first thing Jiang Xuan felt was a sense of "sealing."
The power of the Time Sand enveloped him, making him seem like an insect sealed within amber. Between his body and the outside world, a transparent barrier had appeared from nowhere.
The second sensation that followed was acceleration.
"Whoosh, whoosh..."
Accompanied by the sound of rushing water, Jiang Xuan discovered in horror that his physical body was operating madly at dozens of times its normal speed.
His blood raced through his veins, his cells metabolized desperately, and