Light and shadow shifted, and the scene before Pan Long's eyes turned back into the Great Ancestor's imperial tomb.
Bi Lingkong and the Wenchao Afterimage looked exactly as they had before. Nothing had changed.
Of course. Though he had spent several days in that castle, no time had passed in the Nine Provinces World.
Just as a thousand years had passed in the Nine Provinces World, while Wen Chao and Zhao Sheng had spent only a few months there.
Controlling the passage of time in a world was difficult, but adjusting the ratio between the passage of time in two worlds was much easier.
As far as anyone knew, only one fellow, whom many called "Jellyfish," could do the former. Plenty of people could do the latter. Shen Mo had demonstrated it to him and told him that, with the Classic of Mountains and Seas, he could do something similar.
During those days at the castle, besides experiencing modern life again, he had learned what had happened all those years ago.
The Nine Provinces World had originally been part of a vast world. But that world had reached the end of its cycle and given birth to the Beast of the End, also called the Doomsday Dragon, which embodied destruction. The beast's power was so immense that it destroyed half the world. Just as it was about to destroy the other half, Jellyfish happened to spot it while "surfing the web." He reached across countless worlds, temporarily suppressed the beast, and repaired the half of the world that had been destroyed.
That repaired world was the Nine Provinces World.
Back then, Jellyfish had chosen Shen Mo and the others by a method that looked unreliable from every angle and sent them to keep the peace in the half of the