Time passed, slowly but surely.1

A month of in-universe time passed in the Nineshores Heaven. That month was relevant to the universes in the Nineshores Heaven, not the star domains, star whirlpools, and galaxies. The reality was that in the massive Nineshores Heaven, the way time flowed in the endless universes changed depending on what civilizations and species were there, and how they recorded history.0

In the end, that wasn’t important. Any given species in the Nineshores Heaven would usually have multiple ways of recording the passage of time. After all, they would have records of their own planet, but also records of the galaxy they were in. Some large species would have records of the star whirlpools, star domains, or even of the entire universe.4

The month that passed for Xu Qing in the Inkland was different for the species that lived in the multitude of other locations. To them, it might have been dozens of years or even hundreds. More time would pass the smaller the galaxy was. It could also reflect incomplete or damaged natural and magical laws, or low...0