1462 The Town Where Time Flows Backwards
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
Mo Fan, Mu Bai, Lingling, and Mui Qing raised their eyes. They were stunned, frozen like statues when they saw the enormous eye!
A huge vortex formed around the eye. It widened slowly, firing thousands of rays down at the town. The rays encapsulated the ancient ruined town in a cone of energy and light.
They saw the ashes scattered across the place rising into the air. The debris of the structures that Mo Fan and Mu Xumian had destroyed were lifted off the ground. Everything stood out under the light emitted by the eye!
“This…this…” Zhao Manyan was stammering in shock.
He thought the eye in the sky was about to crush them to pieces for intruding on the town. He was already prepared to face death, but to his surprise, not only did the light not bring them any harm, the light felt extremely comfortable and warm, as if he was taking a sunbath!
The broken structures, destroyed streets, and ashes lingered in the air… then suddenly came to a stop after reaching a certain height. They were all mixed up, like a ma.s.sive black ball floating in the sky.
As they stared in astonishment, the black lump of debris fell down rapidly!
It was like a huge landfill was pouring down its trash from the sky, but the debris was clearly falling in an orderly manner. The parts that fell first were the pieces of the streets that Mu Xumian had destroyed with her Super Fire Spell.
The bricks that made up the streets had been burned to black powder. However, as the black powder fell to the ground, it regained their initial color, and even the form of bricks…
More black powder fell from the sky, repairing the destroyed streets!
Not only were the streets being repaired, but the structures that had collapsed to the ground soon regained their initial appearance, reforming from the dust and debris that fell from the sky…
The structures, buildings, streets, plants, and wooden banners… it felt like the five of them were in the middle of a film that was rewinding. Everything that was destroyed was being restored to its original appearance!
A smooth, white rock fell on the statue of a young woman. The thin veil covering her body was as elegantly made as it was originally, and her skin was just as alluring.
The dried-up fountain was filled with water once again. The pebbles stacked up to build the fountain were glittering now!
The streets had no sign of dust. Orderly structures were on both sides of them. A minute ago, the scorched land was covered in debris, but now, an elegant, secluded town had descended from the sky and presented itself to Mo Fan and the others in an unbelievable manner.
Mo Fan, Mui Qing, Mu Bai, Lingling, and Zhao Manyan stood there in the town that was now fully restored. When they looked up at the sky again, the eye had disappeared. Mo Fan went to the fountain and touched the statue, just to see if it was just an illusion. However, he immediately felt it was smooth and icy to the touch!
“Are we in a dream now?” Zhao Manyan asked, his face blank.
“I…I have no idea either.” Mui Qing had gone blank too.
How could they even explain this? Everything had returned to how it was before!
Mo Fan and Mu Xumian had clearly razed the town to the ground, their flames had burned everything to ashes. Was there really some magic that could restore something that was already destroyed, let alone a whole town!?
“Turning back time…” Lingling murmured after some time.
“How is that even possible!?”
“If time was really turned back, we’d find ourselves in our previous spots, and Mu Xumian wouldn’t be injured, either…” Mo Fan shook his head.
Time had not been reverted. If time was really turned back, it had only occurred to the strange town, since it had been restored to its original form!
“What is going on here? I feel like I’m about to lose my mind,” Zhao Manyan said.
Mo Fan ran out of the town, and found Zhao Manyan’s carvings on the fallen wall.
It meant that the town was the only place that had been restored. The fact that the statue of a young woman that had previously turned into dust had recovered meant it was not the first time this had happened. It was like even the slightest changes to the town would be restored after a while, returning its initial appearance!
“I think we should hurry up and leave this place…” Mui Qing was a little scared.
Humans were afraid of the unknown, and the eye that was staring at them from the sky and how the town had reclaimed its initial appearance certainly qualified. It was not a place that anyone would want to stay in for too long.
“I agree, let’s go!” Zhao Manyan spoke up.
There was no explanation for it. Even Lingling, who seemed to know everything, was struggling to find an explanation for it. Perhaps they could discover the truth if they learned who the eye in the sky belonged to, but with their current strength and status, they did not dare stir up any trouble. The fact that it could restore the town so easily indicated that its power was beyond the understanding of Mages. It might even possess some other destructive power!
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The group did not dare stay in the town any longer. They quickly headed back along the path they had come from.
After leaving the town’s vicinity, the scorching heat slowly returned. The familiar curtain of White Lava appeared in their eyes soon enough.
As a matter of fact, Mo Fan was not too fond of this place. Mui Guangqing’s speculation had obviously been wrong. There was no precious treasure inside the White Lava, nor was it where the flames of the meteorite had landed. It had been around for a long time, a path leading to a Spatial Relay Point unknown to modern people.
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Mo Fan, Zhao Manyan, and Mu Bai were able to use their magic after leaving the White Lava. Tong Li, Qi Shan, and the others might be a little strong, but they clearly did not stand a chance against the trio. They quickly took care of their enemies with the energy they had recovered.
Unfortunately, Qi Shan managed to escape!
The tunnels were accessible from all directions, and some of the junctions felt like a maze. It was unlikely they would be able to find him. Since the only way to leave the place was the Scroll of s.p.a.ce, the guy would have nowhere to run to when they Summoned the people of the Mui Clan and the Dongfang Clan in!
“We’ll talk later, let’s set up the teleportation formation first. I don’t want any accidents to happen again,” Mo Fan told Mui Zhuocheng.
Mui Zhuocheng could not believe it. Didn’t Mu Xumian go inside the White Lava to catch them? How did she end up being subdued instead? Was she just a fake Super Mage?