The one who’d reverted the flow of time with the Timelight Tower hadn’t been Empress Timelight’s soul, nor her internal demon. Neither was capable of commanding the treasure’s true power and accomplishing such a feat.

There was yet another existence inside the celestial master tomb that’d been quietly observing Lu Yun.

He could sense this presence exercising control over the entire tomb and stifling various treacherous dangers inside so that void realm cultivators could ascend to immortality. In fact, he was dead certain that his brief visit to the Timelight Tower’s minor world was due to the presence overseeing the tomb.

That was why, secure in the knowledge that he wasn’t entirely on his own, he’d been confident enough to travel here with Empress Timelight’s soul and her internal demon,...