When Sonia and Diya stepped into the Golden River, they understood why Ash hesitated.
Although time has indeed not caused any harm to them, it does not mean that time cannot keep them.
Knowledge.
Every drop of the Flowing Gold River water condenses a mortal's life. Just by witnessing the Flowing Gold River itself, one can quickly increase the experience of the Time Faction. Otherwise, magicians would not endure the torture of old age and death to bathe in the Flowing Gold River and try to enter the Time Faction.
But this knowledge is unnecessary noise to Ash and his friends, just like you see that doing a hundred arithmetic problems cannot improve your mathematical level. They who have a gold-level time faction can no longer draw more nutrition from it.
"Follow me." Ash said only one sentence, then dived into the golden river and paddled downwards to dive below.
There is so much resistance!
It's not just the resistance from the squeezing of the river water, more importantly there's an upward force. Ash doesn't feel like he's diving, but rather swimming upstream against the waterfall.
Yes, the rain is upstream rain, and the river is naturally upstream river.
Soon the resistance reached a point where Ash's mediocre swimming skills made it impossible to move forward. In addition to the resistance, the knowledge washed away by the Golden River water also made Ash extremely uncomfortable. His mind was almost filled with this foreign knowledge, and he couldn't think about anything else!
Suddenly, two colorful streaks swam by him. Ash looked closely and found that the Witch and Sword Lady had spread their golden and silver wings and were swimming underwater. He suddenly realized what was going on and quickly spread his virtual wings as well.
Swimming in the air is the same as swimming in the water, so the virtual wings can be used. As expected, Ash easily dived deeper, because the virtual wings did not require any effort, and the influence of time knowledge on him dropped sharply.
But soon, another emotion that was more grand than the wash of knowledge, lonely, painful, and irresistible, quickly occupied Ash's mind.
Small.
Facing the great river formed by thousands of years or even immeasurable time, Ash felt that he was not diving into the golden river, he was like a drop of water, dissolving into the water. His past twenty years were just a drop here, and everything he valued and hated would soon become a past without leaving any trace under the washing of the great river.
Give up.
Such a great river, such a small self, he felt that there was no meaning in his life, all his struggles were just insignificant waves, it would be better to go with the flow, flow downstream, and blend into the greatness...
wrong.
A hint of light purple flashed across Ash's pupils, and he quickly woke up from this self-destructive nothingness, just in time to reach out and grab the sword girl who was almost lost. At the moment the two of them touched, the six-color armor on their bodies seemed to be connected, and a hint of light golden light flashed between their hands.
With the help of the golden time faction, they had a glimmer of enlightenment——
If the will wants to resist the erosion of the long river of time, it must have a sufficient life span. If the life span of one person is not enough, then multiple people can splice it together.
Ash swam forward and grabbed the witch who was still struggling. The three of them were connected together, Sonia and Diya gradually regained consciousness, Diya used the aquatic line to tie everyone's hands together, and tried to dive deeper.
Not old enough, not enough people.
Ash then realized that, like the golden fish, the colorful tail also had a number requirement.
If they were two experienced old magicians in their forties, they could easily resist the erosion of time just by holding hands.
However, except for Ash who has slightly more experience, Fiora is a female college student who has not yet left the ivory tower, and the witch is an innocent girl who has not received any serious education and only reads fairy tale picture books. Their lives are really too short, and are left with only bubbles after being washed away by time.
If there were a few more operators, if they were a little older, if Ash could perform a dozen more prison escapes...then they could all easily capture Rainbow Tail.
Unfortunately, there is no if.
Seeing that they were almost unable to hold on, Ash woke them up. He wanted to speak but water couldn't carry sound, and using his eyes didn't work either. He suddenly had an idea and wrote on their palms.
"Demilo."
The two were slightly startled, recalling the first difficult battle in the Time Continent. Although Demilo was only a logistics commander, he still brought heavy pressure to them. They barely defeated this powerful enemy after doing everything they could and risking their lives.
"The Legendary Library."
Diya blushed. That time she was too greedy and went all the way to the fourth floor, but left without getting anything.
"The Amnesia Cabin."
Not to mention Diya, even Sonia now would blush when she recalled her performance in the amnesia cabin.
"The embodiment of the concept, the heroic spirit of the Queen."
This was the beginning of all the bad luck that Ash and his friends encountered in the virtual world.
"The Arena."
The Witch and the Sword Lady were delighted when they recalled the two male magicians who were beaten up by them.
"Cluttered Shopping Book."
Although they accidentally broke into the main city of the Oasis and triggered the war in the virtual world ahead of time, the reason for all this was just that they were both cursed with "looking at others"...
"Questions and Answers about Fate."
"Garden Battlefield."
"Dark Fantasy Miracle Park." Sonia pinched Ash's hand a little harder.
Under Ash's guidance, they gradually recalled their adventures in the Continent of Time during this period. The setbacks and successes, the adventures and gains, the powerful enemies and sufferings, everything became their nourishment and became each other's anchor.
Ash vaguely guessed what the other six color mechanisms modified by the gods were - they must be the "anchors" that allow the magicians to stay awake and chase time in the grand narrative of a long time.
Unfortunately, the color has been stolen by the God. If they want to obtain the anchor of the soul, they must not only risk their lives to kill the commander, but they can only forge the anchor of will by themselves.
The Lord God is extremely evil, and the magicians are complaining.jpg
The will of the people gathered together finally withstood the erosion of a long time. They kept going deeper and deeper, like three colorful fish trying to transform into dragons.
Suddenly, Ash and the others saw a white light appear in the depths of the Golden River. The three of them held each other's hands tightly, and three pairs of virtual wings flapped vigorously, leaving traces of colorful tail wings in the Golden River, completely breaking free from the shackles of time!
The moment they left the Golden River, Ash and the others felt a strange upside-down feeling and almost fell back into the river. Fortunately, the three of them supported each other and stabilized their bodies in an instant.
They walked out of the Liujin River.
This is a pure white and transparent world.
Ash looked down and saw four huge pillars walking on the golden ocean. They were at the top of the tail, and Ash could see that the tail was tightly attached to the belly of the beast, and each tail hair extended a golden river.
The Liujin River, into which they had dived with great difficulty, has now turned into a hanging waterfall.
As they swam up wearing the "Six-Colored Anchor", their colors quickly contaminated the entire tail. The tail hair at the end was fine, but the closer to the top, the closer the tail color was to seven colors.
Not only their tails, but they themselves were also dyed with the color of the Golden River, colorful and dazzling.
White giant bull with colorful tail.
The golden fish is not in the sea but in the sky; the colorful tail is not in the sky but in the river.
This is the true form of the Sky Car Bull, and this is the truth about the Seven-Colored Tail!
"There." Diya said suddenly.
Ash looked over and found that the source of the Golden River was not far away. It was a huge door, made up of purple stone tablets, green vines, red soil, blue ore, orange fruit, and green bones. At the bottom of the door, a steady stream of golden water was flowing out.
They walked to the front of the huge gate. Although there was nothing but a blank space on the other side of the gate, they all knew that what was waiting for them was not a blank space but a rainbow.
Sonia suddenly walked to the middle and held their hands. There was no need for more words. The three of them looked at each other and walked through the huge door in the white bull together.
The next second, they were broken apart.