Simultaneous travel: City, infinite evolution

Chapter 140 Time Reversal Ancient God - Nine-Headed Insect

Chen Hong couldn't understand why the monster reappeared, still alive and kicking, after time stopped and destroyed him.

I carefully recalled the details and analyzed them frantically.

Chen Hong began to realize what was going on.

"perhaps……"

"The stopping of time is relative."

"For the monster that was stopped, no matter how long I stayed in the stopped time, at the moment the meditation seal was released, it was as if only one Planck unit of time had passed for the monster."

Although it was killed by me within this Planck time unit.

However, as long as it pre-anchors a time point and initiates backtracking.

Although I killed him during the time stop.

But the moment time stops and ends, it can automatically rewind to one second ago.

In this way, it came back to life.

"What a shameless ability."

"However, I don't believe you can predict and set backpoints in advance every time."

"Time stops!"

"Time stops!"

"Time stops!"

Chen Hong repeatedly stopped time to kill the monster dragon.

But each time, the monster dragon manages to revive.

Now Chen Hong understood.

"That damned scoundrel actually set a time rewind point at every second of his own timeline."

Once you die, the switch will be triggered, and the timeline will begin to rewind.

A single, seemingly insignificant second perfectly covers the entire timeline.

This allows him to be resurrected no matter when he is killed.

Is this guy a mudfish?

"However, I don't believe that your time travel is without any limits."

"Great formation, activate!"

As soon as Chen Hong uttered his thought, countless densely packed talismans formed an array, surging with golden light and transforming into a golden lock.

It stretched out towards the strange dragon.

The strange dragon flapped its wings and fled.

Every time the golden lock bound him, he would rewind time to a second earlier, to when he wasn't bound.

Then, taking advantage of his foresight, he used a tricky angle to evade Jin Suo's pursuit.

Chen Hong's strategy was to increase the number of gold locks, expand the area, and cover the entire field.

Although the space here is large, it is not infinite.

The monstrous dragon was too large, and under Chen Hong's suppression, it could not escape the constraints of the arena.

Ultimately, they were still bound.

Without hesitation, Chen Hong swiftly unleashed the Boundless Flames.

Sovereign Flame, Blazing Black Gold, Samadhi True Fire.

Qiqi Barbecue, keep barbecuing.

"I refuse to believe that this won't kill you."

Under the relentless burning of the boundless flames, the monster dragon kept rewinding the timeline to 1 second earlier.

However, it is impossible for him to completely avoid experiencing real time and simply rewind to a point in time one second ago when there was no flame.

His time-manipulation ability, after all, has a cooldown period.

Although the CD duration is short and difficult to detect, it will eventually accumulate over time.

Even if his cooldown time is as short as 0.001 seconds, after 1000 rewinds, only 1 second will have passed.

Chen Hong's flames, however, were uninterrupted and burned continuously.

Ultimately, it will still cause him harm.

Chen Hong discovered this.

Flying swords, lightning magic, and flames were all used in a continuous attack.

Accelerate and increase the damage dealt to monsters.

The strange dragon grew weaker and weaker.

Sudden.

He abandoned the form of a dragon.

It turned into a pool of unidentified liquid and spread out.

For some reason, this pool of liquid gave Chen Hong an extremely chaotic feeling, as if it were out of place with the whole world, making him instinctively disgusted and repulsed by it.

Chen Hong's intuition told him that he should never touch the unknown liquid.

"Five Elements Golden Lotus".

"The power of sealing."

"combine!"

Chen Hong mobilized the power of the five elements of heaven and earth, transforming it into a golden lotus that bloomed beneath the unknown liquid.

The five lotus petals of five colors come together, like colorful transparent silk rolled up in the air above the brothel, or like petals closing together to form a flower bud.

It rolled up a viscous, unidentified liquid and trapped it inside the flower bud.

But soon, Chen Hong discovered that the unknown liquid was extremely corrosive, corroding the flower buds and causing them to leak out.

"Golden Bell!"

"receive!"

Chen Hong summoned a physical golden bell magic weapon and collected the unknown liquid inside.

But before long, the golden bell was corroded and even completely melted.

This time, Chen Hong understood.

"It has actually disrupted the material order and deconstructed matter and energy."

This creates an appearance of corrosion and melting.

"It's really tricky."

"Being tainted by the power of ancient gods is troublesome."

"All things are attracted by heaven!"

Chen Hong manipulated gravity using the power of the earth, creating a black sphere of gravity that briefly absorbed and controlled the unknown liquid, sealing it with the power of sealing.

Then they quickly entered the elixir well.

In just five seconds, Shenji Bailian, combined with his own abilities, refined the enormous and heavy [Guixu Gua Ding].

"receive!"

Chen Hong then summoned the Guixu Divination Cauldron and put away the burning [Sea Heart Ice Flame].

Chen Hong quickly returned to the ground.

The unknown liquid was refined with the Sea Heart Ice Flame.

Under the scorching heat of the sea's heart ice flames.

The unidentified liquid seems to have met its match.

That sense of chaos was torn apart by order.

The power of the laws of heaven and earth inherent in the Sea Heart Ice Flame eliminated that chaotic and disorderly feeling.

Soon, the unidentified liquid could no longer hold on and was gradually burned and compressed, dissipating little by little from the outside.

Chen Hong was secretly amazed. "What incredible strange fire! This place is truly the world's home ground."

But just as the unknown liquid was about to completely vanish into nothingness...

A strange and chaotic murmur echoed in Chen Hong's mind.

Chen Hong seemed to hear a string of words composed of various strange tones:
"Humans from elsewhere..."

"I curse you..."

"You are cursed to be targeted by the great [Ancient God, Nine-Headed Worm], and to be trapped in the [Wheel of Life and Death]. The threads of fate will forever control you."

You will be bound by the karma of all living beings.

You will wander forever in the corridors of time...

There is no place for you in the Three Realms and Six Paths.

You will be forever alone, in darkness, and without freedom.

I curse you! You will suffer the same fate as my master—a terrible death, condemned to eternal damnation!

The murmurs slowly dissipated as the unknown liquid was completely refined into nothingness by the Sea Heart Ice Flame...

Suddenly, a roulette wheel pattern appeared on Chen Hong's neck.

The design is in black and white, with a spiraling worm having nine heads carved on it!
Chen Hong was startled. He touched his neck and rubbed it hard, but he couldn't get the stain off no matter what he did.

It was as if the pattern had taken root in Chen Hong's flesh and blood, and was engraved on his soul, and could not be removed no matter what.

"Ancient God?"

"Nine-headed worm?"

Chen Hong's face was grim.

"It is that ancient creature that exists outside of the universe, whose origin can be traced back to before Pangu separated heaven and earth."
Legend has it that the Wheel of Life and Death is a giant circular wheel composed of the six realms, in which all sentient beings and countless destinies of the three realms and six paths are contained, subject to birth, death, rise and fall, and are irreversible.

Only the Nine-Headed Insect, existing outside the Three Realms, can drive the cycle of life and death, reverse cause and effect, turn back time, and overturn the universe.

"I've actually been targeted by this monster?"

Chen Hong's face was extremely ugly; clearly, the pattern on his neck was a kind of mark.

The mark of the ancient gods.

With this mark, the ancient gods will probably be watching him all the time.

Like an audience member sitting outside the stage, enjoying the performance of the actors on stage.

Watching them experience joy, anger, sorrow, and all the events of life is like watching a comical monkey perform, entertaining oneself.

If the mood strikes, they might even go on stage and experience it for themselves.

Chen Hong's face was gloomy. Nobody wants to be targeted by an ancient god, especially an old antique who has transcended the world and is bored to death all day long.

Chen Hong attempted to refine the Sea Heart Ice Flame, hoping to use its power of the natural order to erase the mark.

But he discovered that his spiritual power would be burned into nothingness as soon as it got close.

It is impossible to refine.

"It seems that special secret techniques are needed to refine such a creation of heaven and earth."

Chen Hong sighed and retrieved the [Gui Xu Gua Ding].

The Guixu Gua Ding is a true treasure.

Chen Hong detected a dense array of formations above it, possessing all the functions of the alchemy process.

Moreover, the material of the heavy tripod itself seems to be unusual.

The sea-heart ice flames have been burning for a thousand years, yet they have not damaged the cauldron in the slightest; on the contrary, they have nourished and strengthened it.

Clearly, this ancient cauldron is no ordinary object; it has a remarkable history.

Chen Yulou recognized the origin of the Guixu Gua Ding.

"During the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was a country called Guixu in the South China Sea, and the Hentian clan used the Yinxu Dragon Fire to refine bronze. The bronze artifacts they cast were imbued with sea air, so they could be used to deduce the images of mountains, rivers, lakes and marshes."

However, due to its weak national strength, it had no choice but to submit to the Western Zhou Dynasty.

That year, the Hentian clan presented King Mu of Zhou with a bronze cauldron tempered by dragon fire.

The four sides are inlaid with divination mirrors, as well as the four symbols of human, ghost, dragon and fish.

It is said that this cauldron has the ability to communicate with heaven and earth and to predict the future.

King Mu of Zhou regarded them as treasures and buried them in his tomb after his death.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, the tomb of King Mu of Zhou was robbed, and the whereabouts of the divination mirror and the four talismans of humans, ghosts, dragons and fish were unknown. Only the bronze tripod was too heavy and remained alone in the tomb.

Over time, this cauldron fell into the hands of the South China Sea Dragon Clan, where it was refined with countless rare and precious materials from the South China Sea and used as a ritual object to suppress the water veins of the South China Sea.

Constantly exposed to the sea air of the South China Sea, nourished by the water veins and sea energy, and worshipped with incense, it becomes increasingly mystical.

Later, during the Tang Dynasty, it was rumored that the son of a chosen one rose to prominence and, by chance, traveled to the South China Sea and obtained this treasure.

He reassembled the divination mirror and the four talismans of human, ghost, dragon and fish, and refined them with extremely high-grade natural materials, reaching the peak of his refinement.

It will become a precious treasure that can be used for alchemy, weapon crafting, and divination.

Later, as this chosen one mysteriously disappeared, he too vanished without a trace.

I never expected it to be here.

Chen Yulou sighed repeatedly, feeling deeply moved.

Chen Hong shrunk the cauldron, placed it on the ground, and checked if there were any treasures inside.

The crowd followed, watching with curiosity.

Partridge Whistle noticed that the words "The Muchen Pearl was refined here" were engraved on the inner wall of the cauldron.

"The Muchen Pearl? The Muchen Pearl really exists?" Partridge Whistle was overjoyed.

He looked left and right, but couldn't find a single Muchen Pearl.

Only a few poison pills remained, which were of little use.

The evil pill, the "Undying Dragon Transformation Pill," which had been refined for a thousand years, was also swallowed by the centipede demon long ago.

"No, there isn't any." Partridge Whistle was immediately disappointed, his joy turning to despair, and he was instantly dumbfounded.

Chen Hong sighed, "The Muchen Pearl is in another large tomb."

Partridge Whistle and the others were instantly overjoyed, "Really?"

"Does the thing our clan has been searching for for a thousand years truly exist?"

"It's true." Chen Hong nodded.

"Please tell us, Immortal, the Zaglama clan of the Mountain Moving lineage will be eternally grateful."

Chen Hong shook his head. "That place is too dangerous for you. If you go there, you'll probably die."

"However, you will be able to find your future granddaughter by chance and break the thousand-year curse of the Zaglama tribe."

Partridge Whistle felt a mix of emotions, both disappointment and excitement.

Disappointed that he had spent his life wandering and never found the Muchen Pearl.

He was overjoyed that his granddaughter had succeeded and broken the curse.

I didn’t know what to say for a moment.

Chen Hong put the [Sea Heart Ice Flame] into the [Return to the Void Divination Cauldron] and put the Return to the Void Divination Cauldron away.

Returning to the Danjing well, I searched around and found a scripture.

The pages are made of human skin, and the text is engraved with blood curses, bearing the four large characters: "Mysterious Yin Elixir Book".

The "Mysterious Yin Elixir Book" mainly records alchemy methods that use the essence and blood of living people and the inner cores of demonic beasts as materials.

There is even a technique called "Blood Refining and Fusion Pill Technique" that involves throwing living people into the alchemy furnace to extract their souls, essences, and blood to increase the success rate of alchemy, speed up the alchemy process, and fuse different pills.

It also contains various evil elixirs.

For example, the "Mysterious Yin Blood Soul Pill" can quickly improve one's cultivation level, increasing it by a whole realm after consumption. However, it requires drinking fresh human blood daily to maintain this level, otherwise one's meridians will be severed.

"Mysterious Yin Beast Gathering Pill": Refined from the inner cores of a hundred kinds of demonic beasts, it can transform one into a beast demon after consumption, but one will gradually lose intelligence.

"Earthly Fiend Corpse Pill": A corpse buried in a fiendish burial site for a hundred years absorbs all the fiendish energy of the earth and is then refined into a corpse pill, which can control thousands of corpses.

"Ten Thousand Gu Heavenly Corpse Pill": A secret medicine of the corpse path made from Gu King eggs, zombie inner cores, and decaying immortal miasma. After taking it, the body becomes as stiff as iron and loses all sense of pain.

There is also the "Five Ghosts Devouring Heart Pill" that can remotely control others.

It even contains the recipe for the "Immortal Dragon Transformation Pill" by the Boundless Taoist.

Without exception, these pills were all evil, and the materials they used were either the blood essence of ninety-nine cultivators, or the hearts, vengeful spirits, and malevolent ghosts of boys and girls born on yin years, yin months, and yin days.

Chen Hong put away the "Mysterious Yin Elixir Book" and used it as a reserve of his alchemy knowledge and reference.

This was the first time Chen Hong had ever seen such an alchemy technique that clearly had the flavor of cultivating immortality, even though it was a demonic alchemy book.

This made Chen Hong even more curious about the master of this unscrupulous Taoist.

Someone who can produce something like this is no ordinary person.

Could there really be some kind of cultivation power in this world?

It seems that the history of tomb raiding is not simple either, with various myths and legends interspersed throughout.

(End of this chapter)