Within the Midnight Inn, Lex slowly opened his eyes, ignoring the sore sensation in his body. It seemed like having his body act as a conduit for the release of countless years into the universe was a really good workout, because Lex did not remember the last time he was this sore without being beaten up by someone over a Major cultivation level higher than him.
Fortunately, soreness is all it was, and he would be fine after some rest. The Nexus event had already ended at some point after Lunareth was revived, but the time flowing out of Lex's body had not stopped. The rate of the release of time, though, had slowed down.
Currently, he was merely releasing a thousand years per second, which made him feel like the reserve of time that the Timekeeper wanted him to release was almost used up. One benefit of this was that, during this process, Lex's body had gained and developed an incredibly strong affinity for time.
