Chen Miao had barely fallen into a deep sleep when his eyes snapped open!
In the dim room, Chen Miao first sensed his surroundings, then rolled over and looked toward Ma Jie's bed.
It was still just as messy as before. Faintly, Chen Miao could even smell urine.
His gaze shifted to the floor beside his own bed.
The pile of ashes from earlier was still there, uncleared.
By the faint daylight seeping through the window, Chen Miao confirmed that everything was exactly as he had left it.
When I woke up in reality, it was the hour when yang energy rose. But by the time I entered the Mortal World again, an entire day had actually passed. Yet now that I'm awake here, it seems as though no time has passed at all.
Could time flow differently in the two worlds?
No, a different rate of time flow can't explain this anymore. It's more like time stopped outright!
But is that really what happened?
When Chen Miao used Notes on Achieving Divinity in the Mortal World to project his consciousness into a chapter, time in the outside world stood still.
But the chapters in Notes on Achieving Divinity in the Mortal World concerned Chen Miao alone, whereas he was far from the only person who could enter the Mortal World. To use a gaming analogy, the chapters in Notes on Achieving Divinity in the Mortal World were single-player games. Chen Miao could enter whatever cheat codes he pleased without affecting anyone else.
The Mortal World, however, was an online multiplayer game. One small change could affect everything.
If the Mortal World stopped for Chen Miao whenever he left, what happened to everyone else inside it?
Would they also freeze because Chen Miao had left?
For the moment, Chen Miao