It was not until this moment that Ash fully realized that he was no longer an ordinary being.

It is impossible for ordinary life to swim in the Liujin River, let alone taste the golden juice - it has no taste, a bit like cold well water. I wonder what steamed milk yellow Lalafei made with Liujin River water tastes like.

His previous "sensory foresight" was actually his body feeling the direction of the flow of the Golden River. Because the Golden River is the source of the flow of all things in the world, reality is also the source of the Golden River. The reason why all things age and decay is because they are poisoned by the invisible Golden River water bit by bit - at least that's how aging is defined in the magician world.

Ordinary people and even magicians cannot feel the flow of the Golden River water, but Ash and other trial-takers can vaguely feel the flow because their time talent is superimposed to an outrageous degree, and can even change the direction of the flow to a certain extent, thus developing an instinct similar to precognition.

In a sense, it is impossible for Ash to die of old age. He can now swim in the Golden River, so he is naturally not affected by time. Just like you can drink molten lava, so why would you be afraid of eating spicy hot pot?

But judging from the reactions of Scarlett and the others, this "extreme time talent" might be limited. Perhaps it can only last for a certain number of days, or it might disappear once you leave this underground palace.

If you want to maintain this state, or even go a step further and turn the water of the Golden River into the source of life, you have to accommodate the real time life - Fangyuan Cicada!

eternal life!

It would be a lie to say that Ash doesn't want it. Although there is such a saying as "eternal suffering", you can see that the gods have ruled the world for so many years, and you have never heard of any god hanging himself. Instead, they have been doing this and that, creating different forms of social countries in reality, and the Six Kingdoms in the virtual world. It can be seen that the happiness of eternal life is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Moreover, you can gain eternal life by eating just one bite. It would be a pity to miss such a good thing. Ash even thought that this was too good a deal. Should he add some curses like "being chased by snails"? Otherwise, this eternal life would not be very secure.

Soon, they saw a giant golden cicada appear at the end of the passage. It was clinging to the wall, about three meters long, with two pairs of membranous wings trembling slightly, and huge compound eyes on both sides of its head. When Ash looked over, he found that one of the pupils of the compound eyes was staring at him.

Its head and tail segment are almost perfect circles, but its body and wings are angular rectangles. At first glance, it looks like something drawn by a child. No wonder it is called the square cicada.

Its location is on the cicada-shaped mural that Ashweiser had seen before. Now the mural has disappeared and the round cicada has appeared. I'm afraid it has been lingering on the wall until it is resurrected from the mural after being irrigated with enough water from the Golden River.

At this moment, the Orc Legend in the front had swam to the finish line. He jumped up and hugged Fang Yuan Cicada. It could be seen that he was a little hesitant - how to eat such a big cicada?

But he didn't stop. He just grabbed one of the membranous wings and bit it!

Bang!

The teeth of the orc legend were definitely strong enough to bite through marble, but when faced with the thinnest cicada wing, he actually broke his teeth and chipped a front tooth!

At this time, the excited legendary magicians finally calmed down, and Ash and Weisser also hurriedly stopped their trends.

They realized they had a very serious problem.

"Your original plan was not to eat the Fangyuan Cicada by yourselves, right?" Yaxiu asked, "I remember that even with ordinary magic, it is impossible to kill it through ordinary means. You either kill all the believers first, or exhaust the energy of its host gods first..."

"In the original plan, we woke up at the dining table and shared the processed cicadas." Scarlett murmured in front of him, "If the experiment is successful, a few cicadas will be left, and they will be fed with the water of the Flowing Gold River and reborn. Then they will continue to be shared, so that everyone will be immortal and indestructible..."

"But now the Fangyuan Cicada Sect is gone," Ash said, "Don't you trialists have any backup plans?"

At this time, Weisser suddenly asked, "You said that Fangyuan cicada's food is the water of Liujin River?"

"If it likes to drink the water of the Flowing Gold River, then what are we, the trial-takers whose Gate of Truth can connect to the Flowing Gold River and swim freely in it, who are almost equivalent to time and life, in its eyes?"

At this time, everyone noticed that as Fang Yuan Cicada continued to chirp, the orc legend holding Fang Yuan Cicada was slowly melting.

It was like a straw was poked into his body, sucking it quickly like yogurt, not only was his body emptied, but even his skin was dissolved into the body of Fangyuan Cicada without a drop left, just like the yogurt cover. After a while, the Orc Legend had disappeared, and only Fangyuan Cicada seemed to have grown a little bigger than before.

As if feeling an endless aftertaste, Fang Yuan Cicada gently fell into the Liujin River, staring at the little cutie in the river with its compound eyes.

At this moment, Ash suddenly understood how Lala Fei felt.

There was no need to say anything more, everyone immediately turned around and swam back up the Golden River. Originally, Ash and Weisser were at the back of the main group, but now they should be in the front. However, these legendary magicians were not only at a higher level than them, but also had better swimming skills than them. Soon, all of them swam past them.

Weisser is okay, at least she is the second to last, because Ash is the last.

Although Ash knew that 'you have to make up for the classes you skipped eventually', he didn't expect that the swimming class he skipped in the sea of ​​knowledge would become his shortcoming at this critical moment of life and death!

He looked back. Fortunately, Fang Yuanchan was very slow, so even with his swimming speed, he should be able to get rid of him easily.

Um!?

Ash's body froze, and he was almost washed to Fang Yuanchan's mouth by the Golden River.

He forced himself to steady himself and struggled against the current, but he felt an increasingly greater resistance. Unspeakable loneliness, despair, and gloom gradually ate away at his soul.

Small.

Every drop of the flowing golden river water is the life of a mortal. What he passes by with a wave of his hand is the past of millions of people. When he moves forward a little, he crosses the rise and fall of the city. Everything he values ​​and hates is not even a drop of water.

At this time, Ash recalled the experience of him and Sword Witch sneaking into the Golden River. With the length of mortal life, it is difficult to resist the erosion of the Golden River. If you just go with the flow or stand still, it is fine, but trying to go against the Golden River is like a drop of water trying to go against thousands of drops of water.

When swimming upstream in the Golden River, he and the Sword Lady and the Witch supported each other. By combining the lives of the three of them, they were able to barely maintain themselves in the vast and magnificent Golden River.

But how can a person persist in the long scour of time?

He looked up and saw that Yindeng was still in front of him. Although Yindeng's speed had slowed down, she was still moving forward bit by bit, and the golden river had not eroded her determination or confidence.

In front of the silver lamp, the legendary magicians were also struggling forward. Although their lifespans were much longer than those of Ash and the others, they had no experience of swimming against the Golden River. If they were to encounter this level of consciousness washout rashly, they would definitely need a lot of time to adapt.

Suddenly, Yindeng stopped. Even though she tried very hard to swim forward, she just couldn't move forward an inch. Every time she swam forward a little, her body would naturally lose strength and be swept back.

But Ash encountered his limit earlier than her. He floated up and down in the Golden River. Although he would not be blown away by the waves, he could not break through the waves. This had nothing to do with his determination. It was simply because his life was not long enough. Even the sharpest blade must rely on a tough enough blade.

Both men realized what to do here, but both men waited.

After a brief hesitation, the cicada suddenly chirped, and Ash instantly stretched out his hand forward, and Weisser stretched out her hand backward, and the two coordinated their movements almost perfectly, and then hurriedly went upstream, quickly catching up with the legendary troops in front of them who were struggling to make any progress!

Just then, they saw waves splashing in front of them, and it turned out that someone was fighting.

Someone yelled, "Mes, are you crazy? Two hundred years have passed outside. Is it time to settle the score now?!"

"I'm not crazy," Meis said, "Now our only way to survive is to swim out of the Flowing Golden River. The flow rate of the Flowing Golden River is related to the number of tributaries... Although we are all seeds of the Divine Fire, the Gate of Truth opened by resonance cannot be closed at all, but as long as people die, the Gate of Truth must be closed no matter what!"

"Besides, it takes time for Fangyuan Cicada to eat people!"

With a loud shout, a middle-aged magician was kicked up into the air. Ash and Weisser quickly dodged and watched him being washed to Fang Yuanchan's mouth by the Flowing Golden River. Fang Yuanchan really stopped. Even though the middle-aged magician wanted to swim back immediately, Fang Yuanchan's three pairs of legs had already tied him up tightly.

There were no screams, no wails, only the cheerful chirping of cicadas telling of the joy of the owner of the sound.

The flow rate of the Golden River seemed to have really slowed down a bit. The trial participants continued to move forward a lot, and then faced a bottleneck again.

This time, when the legends were confronting each other, two of them turned around and looked at the two weakest ones here.

Even Weisser quietly let go of Ash's hand, her pupils under the fox mask full of vigilance.

Bang!

As the waves splashed, the Murloc Legend found Ash, and the Sanctuary Mage and the Legendary Mage started a hand-to-hand fight in the Golden River that was completely without any miracles.

As soon as the fight started, Ash felt a heavy pressure - because all his senses were resisting the time scouring of the golden river, his time perception was almost completely ineffective, and of course the same was true for others.

However, the Fishman Legend was not only superior in water combat skills, his physical quality also surpassed Ash's pure natural body. For example, Silver Lantern had used Silver Dragon Blood to strengthen his body. How could these orthodox legendary magicians of the Gray Fox God Age not have used fantasy creations to strengthen their bodies?

Faced with the dual suppression of technology and attributes, Ash soon fell into a disadvantage and could only rely on constant movement to delay time.

At this time, he saw that Weisser was also in a tough fight. He had an idea and suddenly broke into Weisser's battle situation, cooperating with Weisser in attacking the Bear Man Legend!

The bear man was caught off guard and was beaten back instantly, but at this time the murloc also came over. Ash stepped back and drew his sword to attack, but swinging the sword was too slow in a water battle, so that his unprotected left side was completely exposed, and he was attacked by the murloc!

However, Visser filled his loophole in time, and the chain hand tightly grasped the murloc's arm. Ash fell with a sword and almost cut the murloc's throat!

The murlocs and bearmen retreated to the sides, eagerly trying to reorganize their positions. Ash and Visser fought side by side, but both turned their heads to the other side without looking at each other.

Now that their sensory perception has failed, they find that the only people they can team up with are each other, who have been fighting for four consecutive days. Not only because they are the weaklings that this group of legends target first, but more importantly, because they have been fighting for so many days, they completely understand all of the opponent's tactical thinking. As soon as the opponent sticks out his butt, they know whether it is pooping or peeing, so there is no need for any adjustment when forming a team.

"The Viewer has been dead for an hour and you're still so close to me. He won't be jealous, right?" Weisser didn't miss any opportunity to provoke Ash.

"I'll chop you into pieces and feed you to Lala as fat when I get out." said Ash.