After Time Stop.
The Bone Snake Tail continued to sway several times without realizing anything, but the Spatial Ripples it churned up seemed to have been smeared with glue, freezing behind it.
Only then did that half-shattered eyeball realize what had happened. Boundless blood-red light instantly spilled from its furious eye, transforming into a red cloud. Its narrow pupil tightened, like a pitch-black crack splitting open across the crimson cloud.
"Who is it?!!"
It roared, seemingly urging the Heaven and Earth Great Millstone to continue turning.
Thunder exploded through the deathly silent world. With time gone, the sound stretched on without end. Yet beings like Xuanhuang and Taiyi, who had not fully transcended, did not hear the Sea Demon King's urging—or rather, perhaps they had heard it, but were unwilling to obey the Sea Demon King's command. Rather than resist the concept of stopped time, they had simply paused along with it.
Just like that.
Time stopped for one second.
Or perhaps three seconds, even five.
The Sea Demon King's gaze flickered. The narrow pupil upon the red cloud swept wantonly in every direction, instantly noticing the young wizard on the Inner Fort Battlements, clutching a Pocket Watch with his fingertip pressed against its second hand.
It roared. Its remaining half-eye blinked sharply, and a crescent-shaped black ripple abruptly appeared above the Inner Castle Wall, falling straight toward the young wizard's head.
Zheng Qing saw everything.
But he had no ability to dodge at all.
The Magic Power originally stored within the Pocket Watch was depleted in an instant. Then, following the pull of their shared origin, it began drawing upon the newly born Magic Power within Zheng Qing.
His fingertip seemed glued to the watch face. The newly born Forbidden Curse power flowed from his fingertip into the Pocket