Xiang Yu also assigned the light clone a crucial side mission of researching the time domain. This wasn't something he'd decided on randomly or as an afterthought. When the empress had been demonstrating the time domain to them earlier, Xiang Yu had witnessed two distinctly different phenomena that fascinated him beyond measure.
First was witnessing the zone where time still flowed naturally, unaffected by the domain's influence. The second was witnessing the zone where time didn't flow at all, completely frozen in an eternal moment. When the empress had activated the time stop ability, his clone hadn't been positioned within the range of the naturally flowing time and had become part of the stopped time instead.
