Chapter 279 : Entering the Long River, Reversing Time
Li Xiang had already guessed the shape of the long river of time from the few words spoken by Sakyamuni and Taigong.
It was a huge, surging river, infinitely wide and infinitely long.
On both sides of the river, there are countless tributaries, and each tributary is connected to a world.
The long river of time is like a tree trunk, these tributaries are the branches, and those worlds are the fruits hanging on the tree of time.
Time is the nutrition of those "fruits".
Many years ago, for unknown reasons, the river of time gradually dried up, and the time nutrients poured into the "fruits" became less and less. Many "fruits" began to wither, and some of the "fruits" even fell off.
Every fallen fruit is a collapsed world.
There are countless creatures there.
As a result, the gods of many worlds entered the long river of time to seek a future for them and the world in which they lived.
Li Xiang took Nezha with him and finally arrived at the tributary of Time River in Heaven.
The long river surges, splashing countless water splashes like stars twinkling.
Every drop of water is a piece of time.
Li Xiang took Nezha along the river bank and flew all the way up. They flew for three days and three nights, but still did not see the source of the tributary.
Nezha was a little irritable, "Uncle Master, when will we arrive?"
Li Xiang looked at the surging river water in trance.
When Nezha saw that he didn't respond, out of boredom, divine power emerged from his hand. He flattened it and threw it diagonally.
The ellipse of divine power flew out in a rotation, landed in the river of time, bounced up again, swirled and flew a certain distance, and then fell back into the river of time without any movement.
Li Xiang suddenly said, "Perhaps, we have been flying on the shore, no matter how long, we can't find the source."
Nezha's big eyes were full of doubts.
Li Xiang said, "This long river of time is suspended above the Nine Heavens. However, I took you flying for three days and three nights, enough to circle the Nine Heavens twice, but I still haven't seen the tributaries of the long river. So there is only one possibility."
He took one step forward and stood directly on the edge of the long river of time.
The water splashed in the long river splashed on his body, and the skin that touched it aged at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Li Xiang was unmoved and continued, "This long river of time is a ring. Every place is a starting point and every place is an end point."
Nezha's head is full of questions.
In his understanding, the source of any river is high and the end point is low.
This is called beginning and end.
Li Xiang's words were completely beyond his understanding.
Facing Nezha's puzzled gaze, Li Xiang explained, "We are outside of time, so naturally we cannot see things in time, so we have this understanding."
“If you want to know a period of time, you have to walk into it.”
Li Xiang said, taking another step forward.
Nezha exclaimed.
A big wave came and swept the two of them into the middle of the river.
The river of time was so deep that Li Xiang's whole person was submerged in it.
In the turbulent water of time, he saw Nezha swimming some distance downstream, swimming towards him.
Li Xiang opened his mouth to speak, but found that the water of time poured into his mouth and his voice could not be transmitted at all.
He can only release his spiritual consciousness.
The spiritual consciousness was pulled by the purple silk thread and flowed down the river to Nezha's side.
"You go down, and when the time is right, you can go ashore."
Nezha also released his spiritual consciousness, but what shocked him was that as soon as this spiritual consciousness left his body, it dissipated in the water of time. He could only open his mouth and ask, "What about you?"
Li Xiang replied, "I'll go up there and see if I can find the source."
Nezha wanted to say something else, but was swept away by a wave.
Li Xiang turned around, stepped on the bottom of the long river of time, and walked forward step by step.
The water of time continues to wash away, the skin develops wrinkles, the muscles begin to atrophy, and the blood vessels and meridians also lose their elasticity.
This body begins to age rapidly.
Li Xiang frowned and nourished his body with spiritual energy.
After returning to his ancestor Yin Tianzi, his sea of consciousness was connected with the destiny of the netherworld and turned into a real ocean.
Later, when Taigong returned to his ancestor, he rebuilt Heaven and became the new heaven and earth. The sea of consciousness was connected to the fate of Heaven, and its margins expanded again, and its depth also doubled.
It can be said that in today's Kyushu, the combined consciousness capacity of all those who have returned to their ancestors cannot compare to his alone.
But now, entering this long river of time, in order to resist the power of time, the spiritual energy in his sea of consciousness is actually decreasing crazily.
Li Xiang went upstream.
Every time he takes a step, the spiritual energy consumed by his body is enough to fill the sea of consciousness of a fourth-level immortal.
Li Xiang walked out step by step.
The majestic consumption of spiritual energy finally resisted the aging rate of the physical body.
As he walked, he stared straight ahead.
A huge vortex passed by, and the huge pulling force almost sucked Li Xiang into it.
Li Xiang looked back at the distant whirlpool with lingering fear.
If I were involved in it, I don't know how much energy it would take to get out.
After walking a few steps, another wave came towards him and hit Li Xiang. Li Xiang staggered back a few steps and finally stabilized his figure.
When the water of time washes over his body, bypassing his arms, neck, and heels, it will form a small vortex. The vortices turn into vortices, some dissipate quickly, and some get bigger and bigger, swallowing up all the people along the way.
The water of time forms a huge vortex tornado downstream.
"Maybe because of my intrusion, this long river of time will undergo earth-shaking changes."
"I became that butterfly."
Li Xiang adjusted his mentality and continued to move forward.
Along the way upstream, you will encounter undercurrents, waves, and whirlpools from time to time.
The spiritual energy is consumed more and more, faster and faster.
The boundaries of the sea of consciousness are rapidly shrinking.
I don’t know how long I walked, I don’t know how many steps I walked.
The sea of consciousness changed from a boundless ocean to a huge lake, and then from a lake to a deep pool.
When the sea of consciousness changed from a deep pool to the size of a wellhead, Li Xiang finally stopped moving forward.
The sea of consciousness is almost dry.
The crazy influx of heavenly and netherworld luck was blocked by him from the sea of consciousness.
This is his own choice, and he cannot involve both the underworld and heaven.
And he didn't know how far the road ahead was.
The sea of consciousness finally dried up.
The physical body begins to age rapidly.
Aging bones crackle.
Muscles atrophy, and blood vessels and meridians also begin to shrink.
Many organs in the body begin to fail.
The heart also stopped beating.
Li Xiang sighed, and his soul left his body. Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly thought that if he goes against time, his body will age, but if he goes against time, will his body recover?
He made some calculations and poured a divine power into the dead body.
The physical body flows down the river, and under the constant influence of divine power, it flows faster than the water of time.
This extremely old body is actually becoming younger and more alive at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Li Xiang turned around and controlled his spirit to continue walking upstream.
Without physical protection, the water of time directly washes away the soul.
Divine power is continuously consumed, and the soul becomes weaker and weaker.
Li Xiang frowned, "I didn't expect that the water of time would consume the soul far more than it would harm the physical body."
"If this continues, I'm afraid I won't be able to take more than a few steps and I will lose my mind."
But at this moment, in the dry sea of consciousness, the innate godhead suddenly bloomed with light.
Purple light condensed a purple light film on the surface of Li Xiang's soul.
The water of time flows along the purple light film extremely smoothly.
Li Xiang tried to take a step forward.
Neither the divine power nor the divine soul was consumed.
It's just that the purple godhead is dimmed a bit.
He hesitated for a moment and continued walking forward.
I don’t know how long I walked, I don’t know how many steps I walked.
Li Xiang, who had been looking straight ahead, finally saw a figure.
