Temporal stasis only worked on the weak, with very limited effect on combatants on the level of superior kings. Even in Fang Yi's region of locked time, the various combatants on the battlefield could slowly, if arduously, move.

Three existences easily shrugged off the effect of the time lock: first, the king of keys, whose body was a world in its own right, and who was least affected by the imposition of external law; and second, Zhang Lie, whose strength was far beyond everyone else present, and who was two or three levels of strength above Fang Yi.

Fang Yi's temporal stasis had no effect on Zhang Lie whatsoever.

However, neither the king of keys nor Zhang Lie had any intention of interfering....