A good dog

"The laws of nature don't apply here," he muttered under his breath and then heard his own voice whispering those words back into his ears.

After carefully balancing himself Hao Xuan stood up to get a better look at the river of time. The coffin was moving up the current of its own accord and he had no way to control either the speed or the trajectory.

His previously somber expression was suddenly replaced by an austere look, not unlike a mask that had been taken off.

Hao Xuan closed his eyes before gently tapping the spot between his eyebrows with his middle finger five times, three in succession and two after a brief pause. As a result, accompanied by a cascading crescendo of white and blue lights, Mr. Hyde's ethereal figure materialized out of the void in front of him.

He looked vastly different from his previous self which he quickly realized after seeing his reflection in the river of time.

"What is- What have you done?!" he immediately shouted in rage.