Chapter 2616: The Second Person to Board the Boat
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The long river in front of him was vast, and the water was rolling down.
Looking forward, he could not see its source.
Looking back, he could not see where it was flowing.
Zhang Ruochen knew that the River of Time was not actual. It existed in the dark, in every big world and every corner of the universe.
The reason why he could see such a long river was primarily because of the Canon of Time.
Zhang Ruochen could feel a lot of Canon of Time and Dimension covering the entire ancient temple. Because of them, he could go against the flow of the River of Time. He did not have to worry about being crushed by space or destroyed by time.
The Canon of Dimension was the boat, and the Canon of Time was the oar.
Saint Monk Xumi and this ancient temple were used to strengthen the boat’s stability. After all, the boat wasn’t under Zhang Ruochen’s control now.
If Zhang Ruochen could reach the height of Saint Monk Xumi in the future and control all the Canon of Time and Dimension here, he might be able to walk on the River of Time and go to the past and the future.
“This is impossible.”
Saint Monk Xumi’s voice came from the hall again, “The higher the cultivation, the greater the karma. The backlash will be stronger if you want to travel across time to the past and the future. You’ll even have to pay a huge price with your life if you want to interfere with the past and the future.”
Zhang Ruochen returned to the hall. Saint Monk Xumi’s corpse was still sitting there with his legs crossed. Golden light flashed, but it was lifeless.
The golden light in the corpse exploded from the light spots.
Each golden light was a relic.
Any god would go crazy if they came here. They knew that the relics in Saint Monk Xumi’s body were comparable to Buddha’s relics. It had endless uses and could be considered a peerless treasure.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t have any intention of taking the relics. It was disrespectful to Saint Monk Xumi.
If Saint Monk Xumi had intended to pass the relics to him, they would have flown into his body. Why would he do such a disrespectful thing? Since Saint Monk did not make such an arrangement, there must be a reason.
“How long will it take to go back to the beginning of time?”
Zhang Ruochen could not help but smile when this question just appeared in his mind.
He was sailing on the River of Time, but he was thinking about the length of time. Weren’t there two timelines between heaven and earth? One was the time of heaven and earth, and the other was the time created by the Canon of Time.
He stopped thinking about these annoying things. This ancient temple was filled with the Canon of Time and Dimensional. He could use this opportunity to condense the Time and Dimension Saintwill.
Zhang Ruochen had cultivated eight types of Saintwill:
Fist Saintwill, Palm Saintwill, Swordsmanship Saintwill, and Five-Element Saintwill.
He would have ten types of Saintwill if he simultaneously condensed Time and Dimension Saintwill.
This was an impossible challenge!
Legend had it that a Supreme Saint could only cultivate nine types of Saintwill at most.
“Let’s condense the Dimension Saintwill as the ninth first.’
After practicing with the Lord of Nephilim Island, Zhang Ruochen’s spatial attainments improved significantly. With the Canon of Dimensional, it was easy for him to condense a high-grade Dimension Saintwill.
Just as Zhang Ruochen was about to condense it, he was shocked to find light footsteps outside the ancient temple.
What was going on?
He was sure that the Lord of Nephilim Island and Gong Nanfeng had disappeared after entering the stone temple.
Because they were no longer in the same time and space.
Zhang Ruochen’s heart was pounding. He felt his scalp go numb. He rushed into the main hall and hid behind the Buddha statue riding on the white elephant. With Saint Monk Xumi’s Buddhist light shining and the unique space in Sumeru Temple, they wouldn’t be able to find him no matter how high their cultivation was.
The sound of footsteps came toward the hall.
It became clearer.
A moment later, Zhang Ruochen felt the person walking into the hall and heard the faint sound of kneeling and kowtowing.
Zhang Ruochen was slightly relieved. To be able to kneel and kowtow to Saint
Monk Xumi, he should not be a ferocious creature or a terrifying demon that
he could not understand.
He carefully poked his head out and looked at the hall. Then he was stunned.
Kneeling in the hall was a woman with a perfect figure. Divine light flowed around her body, and her skin was as white as jade. She looked like a fairy who had descended to the mortal world.
It was the Empress of Thousand Bones, Hanakage Keizen.
Zhang Ruochen breathed a sigh of relief. He was about to walk out, but he suddenly thought of something. He immediately retracted his head and broke out in cold sweat.
“No, I understand!”
“The Empress I see now must have been the first time she came to Sumeru Temple. It must have happened in the past. It must have happened 800 years ago.”
“At that time, she didn’t know me at all. She didn’t know my father either. She didn’t know Zhang Ruochen or Emperor Ming.”
“When she saw me appear in Sumeru Temple, she must have killed me because I had the blood of Immortal Vampire in my body.”
A god of Kunlun who had a deep blood feud with the Infernal Court suddenly saw a Supreme Saint with the blood of the Infernal Court in such a sacred place as the place of death of Saint Monk Xumi. She would probably slash at Zhang Ruochen with her sword without giving Zhang Ruochen a chance to explain.
It would be tough to convince her even if he explained.
Once his soul was searched, it would cause severe damage to Zhang Ruochen’s spirit and Saint Soul.
Although Zhang Ruochen had a few things that could prove himself, he still didn’t dare to take the risk. The Empress wasn’t the Lord of Nephilim Island. Her sword had killed countless cultivators from Infernal Court.
Zhang Ruochen restrained his aura even more carefully.
At the same time, he thought Saint Monk Xumi should have sent him back. Why was the Empress able to board this “boat”?
Did the Empress have a purpose for going back?
According to Zhang Ruochen’s knowledge, the Empress was not the only cultivator who found this ancient temple and the Frostfire Phoenix from Zuling Realm. However, the Frostfire Phoenix did not appear in the ancient temple.
This meant that this was not a retrogression of time. It really opened up another timeline.
Zhang Ruochen got on the “boat” at the starting point. The Empress was picked up halfway.
As for the Frostfire Phoenix, who might have come to the Sumeru temple, they stayed in real time and space and could not enter this timeline to the past.
“What does the Empress want to do in the past? Is she going back to the past to teach her younger self the path of practice?”
Zhang Ruochen had heard the Empress say this before. She said she would often go back to the past in the future to teach herself a deeper level of the path. She also claimed that she had 30% of the Canon of Time and Divine Artifact that could fight against time.
However, the strength of the Canon of Time in the ancient temple did not seem to have changed.
Where did she get this 30% of the Canon of Time?
It did not seem like there was a Divine Artifact in this temple.
After an unknown amount of time, the Empress finally stood up and walked out of the hall. Immediately, she let out a soft exclamation. It was clear that she had discovered the River of Time.
She muttered to herself, “The Sumeru Temple is sailing on the River of Time. It’s going against the current. Isn’t it going back to the past? I understand now.
So this is how I see myself in the future.”
She seemed to have figured something out. Suddenly, a pleasant, shallow laugh came from outside.
“Saint Monk, Saint Monk, why did you bring me back?”
Zhang Ruochen carefully walked out behind the Buddha statue as the footsteps faded. Just in case, he planned to summon Sikong the Elder and Sikong the Younger from Qiankun Realm.
Two of them might be able to prove his identity if the Empress found out.
However, Zhang Ruochen was surprised to find that there was no Qiankun Realm in his sea of Qi.
“The Qiankun Realm has stayed in the original time and space. There is no way to go back.”
Zhang Ruochen thought about it and felt that it was normal. When Saint Monk Xumi was alive, he couldn’t bring a big world back to the past, let alone now that he had passed away.
Zhang Ruochen checked again and found that all the artifacts related to space and time, including internal space artifacts, had disappeared.
Fortunately, the Quasi-Emperor Grade Saintwill Pill was still here.
The Emperor Grade Saintwill Pill helped to condense the Saintwill.
The Quasi-Emperor Grade Saintwill Pill helped to integrate the Saintwill.
The Quasi-Emperor Grade Saintwill Pill was essential for Zhang Ruochen to break through to the Grade One Saintwill.
“This is troublesome. I’d better be careful of the Empress. I can’t let her find me.”
Zhang Ruochen looked at the stone wall of the hall. A picture of the Portrait of the Sixth Buddha’s Zen hung on it. Saint Monk Xumi himself drew every line on the picture. It matched with the Spatial Vein and was a spatial treasure.
Zhang Ruochen tore off the picture and wrapped it around his body. This time, he walked out of the hall carefully. He planned to see where the Empress had gone and what she was doing.
He was really curious.
He also planned to look around the Sumeru Temple and see if the Frostfire Phoenix had really hidden the Stellar Soul of God in the temple.
It would greatly help him break through to the 69th level of spiritual power if he could find it..
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