"If you have any questions, you can ask them now."

"May I ask, Your Majesty, where is this place?"

"You can just call me Zhunmang Jun." The man in white said gently, "This sea is called 'Dahe', and it is the end of all the water in the world."

"Water from the eight directions and nine fields, the flow of the Milky Way, flows from west to east into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and finally all ends up in this great abyss."

"Deep in the great ravine, there is a palace called 'Guixu'."

Luo Yan silently noted his words and asked:

"Why did Zhunmang-jun bring us here?"

"Of course it's to save you." Zhunmangjun blinked.

Luo Yan: ...

Shit, there's no way to argue with that.

"The depth of the abyss is endless." Zhunmang Jun continued, "If you continue to sink and miss Guixu, you will fall into eternal perdition and be unable to extricate yourself."

"Thank you, Junmang, for saving me." Luo Yan could only bow in thanks.

"You're welcome." Zhunmang Jun said gently, "I saved you, but I also have some selfish motives."

Here comes the point! Luo Yan and Shi Liuli immediately pricked up their ears to see what price this dragon would offer.

"If the Great Abyss is the end of all space, then Guixu is the observation station closest to the Great Abyss." Zhunmang Jun said with a smile, "I don't know who built it, but it must be earlier than the most ancient history of our dragon race."

"In Guixu, there are many historical records left by the elders of the Dragon Clan. According to the current research results, the Great Ravine itself is actually a formation."

"Formation?" Luo Yan was surprised.

"Yes, a formation." Zhunmang Jun said slowly, "What do you think a formation is?"

Shi Liuli remained silent and carefully hid behind Luo Yan.

Luo Yan pondered for a moment and replied:

"Array is a special orderly distribution of matter and energy."

"Huh?" Zhunmangjun's eyes flashed with a strange look, "Do you know anything about battle formations?"

"I wouldn't say I've researched it, but I've studied it." Luo Yan said modestly.

"That's great!" Zhunmang Jun laughed and clapped his hands. "After such a long time, finally there comes another cultivator who knows formations! Human, what's your name?"

Shi Liuli was about to speak when Luo Yan replied:

"To reply to Lord Zhunmang, my name is Luo Yan."

"Luo Yan... OK, Luo Yan." Zhunmangjun nodded and wrote down the name. "Luo Yan, you said that the formation is a special orderly distribution of matter and energy. Then let me ask you: Is the world we live in an orderly distribution of matter and energy?"

Luo Yan opened his mouth slightly, feeling some kind of enlightenment rising from the bottom of his heart.

"Why does the sun rise in the east and set in the west? Why do all things fall to the ground? Why does water turn into clouds when heated?" Zhunmangjun spread his hands and said loudly as if chanting, "Our world runs under a well-woven system of rules."

"This world is a huge formation. Or, in other words, the 'formation' we understand is actually learning to understand the essential mechanism of this world."

"The Great Ravine is one of the most important formation centers in this world."

Luo Yan listened to him patiently before asking:

"Excuse me, what does this have to do with 'prison'?"

"Because it is located deep in the Great Ravine, the speed of time in Guixu is very special." Zhunmangjun smiled, "Time passes very slowly here."

"Here, for every year you perceive, your body actually only grows by three days, and only three days pass in the outside world."

The speed of time passing is different? Luo Yan was stunned for a moment, then slowly reacted: "Doesn't that mean..."

"That's right." Zhunmang Jun said frankly, "After discovering this feature of Guixu, the dragon clan used this place as a prison for their exiled prisoners."

"A prison of time, where prisoners live almost forever. But what is more torturous than eternal life is the near-eternal boredom and the irresistible desire to escape from this prison."

He stood up and motioned for the two to follow him.

The three of them walked through the main hall and came to the side hall.

All I could see in the side hall was bookshelves, which looked like the walls of a maze, dividing the hall into pieces.

The bookshelves are filled with paper-bound books, but even more books are stacked directly on the ground like raised hills.

Many monks stood in front of bookshelves or piles of books, some were immersed in reading, while others were writing furiously at their desks with fanatical expressions.

Among them were human monks and great dragon monsters; some wore ancient clothes that had never been seen before, while others wore the long robes of the ancient Chan and Jie sects.

The only thing they have in common is that their expressions are particularly crazy.

"They are all cultivators who, before you, were also unfortunate enough to fall into the Great Abyss and were rescued by me and brought to Guixu." Zhunmang Jun explained calmly, "In the Great Abyss, there is an extremely strong sealing power. The cultivators cannot mobilize their true essence and can only slowly sink in the deep sea."

"But only in this Guixu, cultivators will not be subject to similar restrictions."

"In other words, you need to study the mechanism of this Guixu." Luo Yan suddenly realized and concluded, "Find a way to resist the Great Abyss's ban from inside, so that you can escape from here!"

"That's right." Zhunmang Jun nodded, "This Guixu is composed of a large formation."

"Before this place was used as an exile prison, many dragon elders had mistakenly entered here and were unable to escape from the great ravine. They could only study the formation here, hoping to find a way to escape."

"Then, with the rise of you humans, human monks began to come here one after another."

"What you see now, all the books in this hall - there are probably more than 100,000 volumes now, all of which are the results of their research."

Luo Yan: ...

Shi Liuli: ...

"Eternal life, what a boring word." Zhunmang Jun sighed, "Among all the cultivators who came here, some initially indulged themselves in pleasure, some practiced hard, and some did nothing... but in the end, all of them concentrated on studying the Guixu formation."

"After all, once you have unlimited time, you will find that those hobbies that make you obsessed are nothing at all under the ruthless erosion of time - one day you will get tired of it."

Luo Yan pretended to be distressed, but he didn't agree in his heart:

Without cell phones and the internet, this is what it's like. If I have both, can I survive until the world ends?

Of course, this was ultimately an unrealistic fantasy, so Luo Yan gently patted the trembling Miss Shi beside him and asked:

"So, when can we start studying the Guixu formation?"

"Any time is fine." Zhunmang Jun said with a smile, "But I suggest you stay here for a few days first, so you can adapt and adjust your mood and state of mind."

"Anyway, the thing we have the most here is time."