Just as Shen Qian became wary, Nukan turned and left with his spear, quickly disappearing from the entrance of the main hall.
"You just left like that?"
The sinking was somewhat inexplicable.
He had expected another fierce battle, but it seemed to have ended rather abruptly.
However, the next moment, Shen Qian's expression changed, but he didn't have time to think much, because the backlash from the Yuan energy within his body finally erupted after he had been struggling to suppress it.
With no one else around, Chen Qian no longer cared about his image and was practically rolling on the ground in pain, constantly gasping for breath.
In the end, the system intervened and forcibly gathered all the chaotic elemental energy, allowing him to gradually recover.
The sinking was indeed successful, but there were very random factors involved.
In other words, when he first glimpsed that realm beyond the extreme, he successfully entered it briefly and took control of the five separate primordial energies.
However, this state... is extremely unstable.
If we try again, we might not succeed before sinking.
However, the advantage is that with such advanced experience, it will be much easier to try to fuse the two original elemental forces before sinking in.
Therefore, I am still quite satisfied before sinking.
After all, this time, he didn't rely on the system; he relied entirely on his own abilities to glimpse a higher realm of martial arts.
Nukan was too mysterious, and Shen Qian still couldn't figure out what his purpose was, but the other party did indeed keep his promise.
After their battle, it was unclear who won and who lost, but the other party still left behind the replica Chaos Bell.
After a good half hour, Shen Qian returned to normal after some breathing exercises, and the chaotic Yuan energy in his body began to circulate smoothly through his meridians again.
He stood up and went to the replica of the Chaos Bell.
He took a deep breath, focused his mind, and placed his palm on the Chaos Bell.
Buzz!
The Chaos Bell began to vibrate, and as Shen Qian raised an eyebrow, drops of blood from his finger were directly absorbed by the Chaos Bell.
"Blood oath?"
I had only seen such an ancient authentication method in ancient books before, and I was quite curious about it.
To his surprise, the Chaos Bell seemed to have no restrictions, and Nukan did not seem to have tampered with it.
The next moment, the Chaos Bell, which was originally as tall as a person, began to shrink, eventually becoming a miniature shape the size of a palm, and fell into Shen Qian's palm.
At the same time, a piece of information from this replica of the Chaos Bell also appeared in Shen Qian's mind.
As Shen Qian had predicted, this replica of the Chaos Bell did not possess any earth-shattering power. If used as a weapon in combat, it would probably not be much stronger than an ordinary A-grade psionic weapon.
The only truly impressive thing is the weight of this Chaos Bell. I didn't have a chance to test it before it sank, but according to the information it's giving me now, it weighs a whopping 36,000 jin!
The host naturally wouldn't feel anything before sinking, but in terms of weight, if it were thrown out, it could probably kill a large number of high-level martial artists, and even ordinary mountains and seas might not be able to withstand it.
This replica of the Chaos Bell has only one function: it can establish a stable connection with the River of Time, opening a path to the River of Time for the person who sank after tearing through spacetime.
This feature is only truly powerful when it's in the hands of someone who needs it.
"It's time to go home."
Perhaps it was because the moment had finally come, but even Shen Qian's usually high-spirited face couldn't help but show a hint of fatigue.
From the time he entered the River of Time until now, it has actually been less than ten days, but for Shen Qian, it has been an exceptionally long time, as he has experienced countless events.
After surveying the entire hall one last time and confirming that Nukan had truly disappeared, Chen Qian glanced once more at the small characters engraved on the edge of the white jade altar.
"This handwriting looks somewhat familiar..."
After muttering something, Chen Qian no longer hesitated and tapped his fingers on the Chaos Bell, which had grown larger again, with a strange rhythm.
winter! winter! winter!
The faint sound of bells echoed in the hall. Gradually, the bells began to disappear, and they were replaced by a strange sound like flowing water.
Before sinking, everything in front of him began to blur, and the surrounding scenery began to change rapidly.
After an unknown amount of time, when everything around him finally came to a standstill, Shen Qian was already enveloped in a gray haze.
This place is like the end of the universe, or the beginning of heaven and earth. In the gray haze, you can vaguely see stars, but you don't know what they are.
At the edge of a gray expanse, only a thousand-foot-long silver river surged forth, flowing past the feet of the one who had sunk.
It reflects all things in the world, the stars and the myriad phenomena.
It was so quiet here that there wasn't a sound, not even a breath or a heartbeat could be heard.
The river of time!
Returning to this familiar place, I felt a mix of emotions before I left.
Right next to the sinking figure, a replica of the Chaos Bell floated silently.
He put away the Chaos Bell, steadied his breathing, and then plunged headfirst into the silver river.
...
Within the vast, slowly flowing scroll, Shen Qian is making a difficult journey forward.
All around him were countless scenes of all kinds, each frame accompanied by a cacophony of sounds, and within them, a subtle pulling force seemed to want to drag Chen Qian into them.
Having already experienced the danger of losing focus once, he knew that if he relaxed his attention even slightly, he could easily lose himself in it again, just like last time.
Strangely, although the river of time is clearly flowing forward, the resistance to moving forward is several times stronger than the resistance to moving backward.
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