Using a Formation left behind in the ruins, Ye Changsheng discovered an entirely new set of ruins deep in the Lost Forest. Then he triggered something, and he vanished before Coroa's eyes.
Coroa waited there for who knew how many days and drove off who knew how many High-Rank Magic Beasts before Ye Changsheng finally reappeared. He was still relieved that Ye Changsheng had not ended up somewhere else and that his wait had not been in vain when he noticed how much the man before him seemed to have changed.
"Are you... still Ye Changsheng?"
Chapter 161: City of Time 03: Ye Changsheng Extra II
Coroa was no fool. With Ye Changsheng, he said what was on his mind. If something really was wrong, probing around the subject would get him nowhere. He might as well ask outright.
Something was indeed wrong with Ye Changsheng.
He had thought he had found lost Divine Ruins. The Ancient Divine Language had been vague, saying nothing about the ruins themselves. It had only described how to use the Formation and explained that most of the markings were Formation patterns.
Only after activating the Teleportation Array and entering the true ruins did he realize how narrow his thinking had been. These were not merely Divine Ruins. They were World-Law Ruins.
This was the City of Time, a Land of Inheritance formed under the Time Law.
Some unknown accident had caused it to sink deep into the Lost Forest. Now that Ye Changsheng had stumbled into it and passed every trial to stand beside the River of Time, it had come alive once more.
Ye Changsheng had gained the Time Inheritance—or rather, the power hidden within him had finally returned, along with the memories that had always been hazy to him.
A weighty inheritance,