The instant Qin Siyang returned to the real world and regained control of his body, strength flooded every inch of him. It felt as though a wandering ghost had suddenly rejoined its own body.
He looked around, gripped by profound doubt.
Why was everything exactly as it had been before I entered the illusion? The people around me haven't even realized my consciousness was gone for a while. The enemies are still desperately retreating, and the Huan Family is still beating them while they're down.
Qin Siyang felt as though a lifetime had passed. He frowned in bewilderment.
Then he closed his eyes and checked. His [Feast Kingdom] was still active; it had not ended.
How was that possible?
[Feast Kingdom] only lasted a little over five minutes, but I clearly spent at least several hours in that illusion!
Qin Siyang's eyes suddenly widened.
Could time in the illusion pass at a completely different rate from time in the real world?
The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed.
There was no other reasonable explanation besides a difference in the flow of time.
No wonder nobody had disturbed him despite how long he had been trapped in the illusion. Hardly any time had passed in the real world.
Yet the torment he had suffered in the illusion had not entirely faded, leaving him somewhat mentally drained.
He checked again. [Taste of Deification] was already on cooldown. His experience of using the skill in the illusion had not been imaginary.
"That was downright absurd."
Qin Siyang shook his head, still horrified by Crawford's skill.
He had thought that after setting foot on the Path to Godhood and advancing to origin sequence level two, he should have been able to handle enemies at sequence level seven with ease.
Yet