At first glance, the workmanship looked very crude. Traces of pits and bumps were still visible on the surface. In short, it was anything but exquisite.
"Ever since I got my hands on this thing, I almost never stopped using it. Only when I broke through to a new realm did I... But before I give it to you, I hope you'll promise me something first..."
Ye Changqing spoke with great reluctance to part with it.
"What treasure is this?"
Zuo Xiaoduo rather disliked the thing, for a simple, blunt reason: it was too ugly!
Well, this was probably a flaw of Zuo Xiaoduo's, though whether it counted as a weakness was hard to say. He liked beautiful things very much and developed an inexplicably unfavorable impression of things that looked ugly. Of course, the vast majority of people felt this way. First impressions had always been very important.
"This object... Back then, all the spatial experts across the entire continent were brought together, along with many leading scientists who studied space, to research the possibility of merging time and space..."
Ye Changqing said evenly, "If they succeeded, it might have been possible to create a Spatial Container that incorporated the time attribute. As the name suggests, such a space would differ fundamentally from spatial tools. It would possess both space and a flow of time different from the outside world's. It could be one-tenth of normal outside time, one-thirtieth, or even more!"
"Understand? If this research succeeded, a cultivator who entered that space to cultivate could cultivate inside for a month while only a single day of real time passed outside! And that wild flight of fancy was actually inspired by those novel writers back then..."
"Far, far too many novels and storybooks mentioned some grotto-heaven paradise where Spirit