Chapter 1696: Re-Entering the River of Time

Watching the horse-faced ghost put his hand on the roots of the Light Tree, and then disappeared in a flash, obviously entering the world of the Light Heavenly Dao, Wu Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at the black chain mark on his wrist again, Wu Yan raised his mouth slightly, and actually smiled mysteriously, where was the previous worry?

"The cause-effect life-claiming chain, the way of cause and effect, the master mentioned by this horse-faced ghost is probably closely related to the Zangtian Mingzun, and may even be one of his clones."

The way of cause and effect is closely related to the way of reincarnation, and it can even be said that it belongs to the same kind of heavenly way, but its existence is more mysterious.

Among all the heavens and the worlds, the affairs of the netherworld are the most mysterious. Even with the ability of Gu Yao Laodao and Sanqing Xuanzu, it is not an easy thing to enter the netherworld.

Although this cause-effect life-claiming chain is only a great sage realm fairy art, only the Tianzun who has insight into the way of reincarnation in the netherworld can perform it.

According to what Wu Yan learned from Taoist Gu Yao, in the Netherworld, only one Heavenly Venerable, Zangtianmingzun, has emerged in the past few epochs, and the highest of the others is only at the level of Immortal Venerable.

The most famous among them is undoubtedly Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, who had caused a bloody storm in the three realms of Hongmeng tens of thousands of years ago.

It is said that although he calls himself Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and seems to have only the cultivation of a Saint King, in fact his true strength is comparable to that of a peak Immortal Venerable, and he is a newly rising terrifying existence in the Netherworld.

Unfortunately, he acted too ostentatiously back then, and was eventually destroyed by the Supreme Masters of the Four Holy Lands of Xuantian. This incident once caused a sensation in Xuantian.

Even this incident attracted the attention of Taoist Gu Yao and other Hongmeng Heavenly Venerables.

They guessed at the time that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was most likely the incarnation of Zangtianmingzun, and they had investigated his origins, but Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva seemed to have calculated that they would investigate, and disappeared from the heavens and myriad realms one step earlier. It is rumored that he returned to the Netherworld.

This incident was also mentioned by chance when Taoist Gu Yao talked to Wu Yan about the Burial of Heaven and Hell. Wu Yan had seen the skull of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in the Wuliang Xumi Cave Heaven, and even Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's small netherworld, as well as his guardian beast Di Ting.

Because it involved Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Wu Yan listened very carefully at the time, and even told him about the strange thing that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was proficient in the reincarnation of heaven.

It was precisely because of this that Wu Yan made such a bold guess.

The reason why he dared to let the horse-faced ghost leave the mark of the cause and effect chain on him was not because Wu Yan was arrogant and thought he could solve this cause and effect, but because he had other calculations.

No matter who the person behind the horse-faced ghost was, if he dared to leave the cause and effect chain on him, he must be prepared to pay the price for it.

Who is Wu Yan?

He is now a legitimate heir of the Heaven Repairer. If he dared to leave the cause and effect on him, it meant that he was planning to leave the cause and effect on the matter of Heaven Repairer.

Even the existences like Gu Yao Laodao and Sanqing Xuanzu avoided the matter of mending the sky, fearing that they would be involved in karma. The master behind the horse-faced ghost actually dared to leave karma on Wu Yan. He was really ignorant of life and death.

The chain mark did not appear all the time. After the horse-faced ghost disappeared, it gradually disappeared, as if it had never appeared.

Even if Wu Yan had used his soul to sense himself, he could not find any trace of it.

Wu Yan did not waste time on this matter. He quickly walked to the root and reached out to press it. He felt that he was wrapped by a gentle force, just like soaking in a hot spring, and disappeared from the spot.

The process of entering the world of bright heaven was unexpectedly smooth.

Wu Yan felt his eyes light up, and his feet stepped on a flat and soft ground.

However, the next moment, after Wu Yan saw the surrounding scene clearly, he was stunned.

What appeared before his eyes was neither an imaginary world nor an imaginary universe of stars, but a river between reality and illusion, so vast that he could not see the edge at all.

At this moment, he was on a huge island in the river, or to be exact, on the edge of the huge island.

"River of Time! What... is going on?"

It was as if he had returned to the time when he broke into the 36th floor of the Spiritual Tower, and he was in the River of Time!

Wu Yan took a deep breath and calmed down his shocked emotions completely. Only then did he use his divine consciousness to quietly scan the entire gathering.

What surprised him was that the entire exploration process went smoothly beyond his expectations. Not only did he not encounter any resistance, he did not even find any signs of life on the island.

This was actually a dead island!

A dead island without any life, or even any vitality.

Everywhere were ruins that had weathered after withering, or rocks that had become fossils. Not even a trace of water vapor could be felt, let alone the vitality of cultivation.

This was actually a completely dead island!

Wu Yan took another deep breath.

He really couldn't express how he felt at the moment.

Before coming in, he had made several assumptions and guesses, but no matter what kind of assumptions and guesses, they were obviously completely different from the scene in front of him.

"Is this the world of the bright heavenly way? But this is clearly in the river of time. This huge island is probably just an insignificant dead island in the river of time, forgotten by time."

Wu Yan frowned and pondered, and began to scan the river of time.

Suddenly, Wu Yan's eyes lit up slightly.

In front of him, in the river of time, he actually found another giant island.

The giant island seemed to be only a few thousand miles away from the giant island under his feet. Wu Yan could even clearly see that the giant island was lush and full of life, unlike the dead island under his feet, which had nothing but gray rocks and sand.

However, Wu Yan did not rashly try to fly to the giant island.

Having experienced it once in the river of time, Wu Yan knew that even though the giant island seemed to be only a few thousand miles away from the one under his feet, if he really wanted to go from this giant island to that giant island, I am afraid that even the Heavenly Venerable might not be able to do it.

The river water here is between reality and illusion, and it can be real or unreal. It is full of extremely mysterious and profound time power, which is impossible to grasp.

Even if you are familiar with the laws of time, at best you can only stay in this river of time and not be affected by the erosion of the power of time. If you want to cross the river of time, you not only need to master the art of time, but also have a boat that can drift on this river.

In this world, things that are not afraid of the erosion of the power of time, I am afraid they do not exist at all. Because only things that are eternal and indestructible are truly not afraid of the erosion of time.

According to legend, among the billions of creatures in the Hongmeng Immortal Realm, there is only one Panzu who has achieved the legendary immortality, and it is only a rumor. Whether it is true or not, no one knows.

Wu Yan frowned and pondered for a moment, then reached out and grabbed a stone and threw it into the river of time.

The stone drew an arc and flew out in the direction he threw it. However, as soon as it left the shoreline, it suddenly disappeared, and it couldn't even touch the edge of the river of time!

Hiss!

Wu Yan took a breath of cold air!

However, when he turned his head to find another stone, he suddenly found that the stone he had just thrown out was still there, as if it had not been moved at all.

Wu Yan shook his head and smiled bitterly.

After thinking about it, he tried dozens of times in succession, and finally, he found out what it was like to be on the dead island in the river of time.

Strictly speaking, the dead island under his feet was not a real island, but a fragment of time. He was in this fragment of time. Although he could temporarily live here, he could not change any scene or thing here.

After realizing this, Wu Yan also had a deeper understanding of the river of time in front of him.

He then sat cross-legged on the spot, then closed his eyes, closed all his pores and acupoints, locked all his breath, and did not let any of his power and breath leak out, and then stopped moving.

Half an hour later, Wu Yan's eyebrows moved slightly, as if he felt something.

An hour later, Wu Yan's expression moved again, as if he had discovered something, but he still did not move.

However, incredible changes began to occur in his body.

Except for the components of his own body, all other external items, including clothes, belts, hairpins, storage rings, and other items, all turned into dead dust, fell off his body, fell to the ground, and merged into the dead sand and stones, and no trace could be found.

Naked Wu Yan just sat cross-legged on the dead island, still silent and motionless, and no breath leaked out.

It was said that half an hour passed, but in fact, Wu Yan could not feel the change of time at all. To be precise, the time around him was completely solidified.

He just counted according to his habitual way, and it felt like half an hour or an hour had passed. But in fact, it is very likely that the time he sat cross-legged was just a moment, or it may have been hundreds of thousands of years.

In the river of time, time cannot be calculated at all. All time can no longer be calculated using the usual counting method.

Although he had completely sealed all his pores and all his breath, Wu Yan could still clearly feel that his body was gradually dying at an extremely slow speed.

He could clearly feel that this kind of withering was a real death, a death that had lost all vitality and could never be restored!