The flow of time in Mao's realm was different from the surface world's. A month within the latter translated to three months in the Xia Empire, otherwise, the system would have not told Sofony that the real history of the empire spanned several hundred years. It would have been very odd considering the fact that Mao himself, the founder, was only a little over a hundred years old.
It had been two weeks on the surface and a month and a half since both Sofony and Steffy disappeared.
In the Xia Empire's Violet Cloud City, Sofony was in the middle of a conversation with one of her high-ranking followers, a royal princess from a kingdom outside of the Xia Empire. Her lovely figure was seated behind a patterned screen, preventing the other party from seeing her face. She had declared to everyone that she would no longer show her face until the new dynasty arose.
