"Oh, so you're the priest from the mural." Qi Suian understood the whole story after listening to the bandaged face's explanation.
In short, this wasn't the first time the sun had been in and out of the bottle.
The cause was not much different from what Qi Suian already knew—the greed of the upper class had led to the creation of the sun in the bottle.
The difference, however, was that the moment the sun in the bottle generated its extreme heat and the polar day began, the entire Horizon Realm was plunged into a time loop caused by observational collapse.
It would restart every hundred years, forcing everything to begin anew.
This meant that the Desolate Beasts and humanity's Power of the Limit hadn't evolved in a mere hundred years, but had been shaped bit by bit over countless cycles.
The cycles continued, but the evolution of living beings never stopped.
