Cultivation starts with time management

For monks, lack of oxygen is not a problem.

As long as the inedia period is over, the body will be self-sufficient in its internal circulation and does not need to exchange anything with the outside world to maintain life.

But this does not mean that you can dive into the deep sea without dying, because the higher the depth, the greater the water pressure, and the monk's body will be crushed into a meatloaf...

However, about two quarters of an hour passed, Luo Yan was surprised to find that the surrounding water pressure did not increase at all.

Ok?

He thought for a moment, then came to his senses.

The so-called buoyancy is essentially caused by the difference in water pressure above and below the object.

If the sea water doesn't even have buoyancy, how can there be water pressure?

He fell into a long-term state of thinking, while Shi Liuli in his arms closed his eyes tightly, and his eyelashes trembled slightly.

She thought she was going to die, so she hugged Luo Yan and remained motionless, waiting for the coming of death in fear.

As a result, after waiting for two quarters of an hour, he still hadn't died, and finally lost his composure, and opened his eyes vigorously.

So dark.

After diving to this depth, the surrounding visibility is so dark that you can't see anything clearly, and you can only perceive Luo Yan's existence through the most basic sense of touch.

However, the sea water around her was extremely cold, which almost made her skin numb, and she had no choice but to hug Luo Yan tightly.

Suddenly, something seemed to entangle the two of them.

That thing seemed to be waterweed, but also like silk. It wrapped the two of them around a few times from the outside, and then dragged it downward.

Luo Yan tried to struggle for a while, but found that there was no way to break free... Not only that, but the true energy in his whole body seemed to be frozen, and he couldn't move at all.

After another quarter of an hour, light gradually appeared below.

What I saw floating in the ocean below was a brightly lit and beautiful palace.

Crystals are walls, corals are trees, clam beads are filled with candles, and saliva is used to create smoke, embellishing the whole palace like a fairyland, and it is also like the palace of the Dragon King in myths and legends, which is too beautiful to behold.

But what bound the two of them was a long and thin rope, which didn't look like it was woven from plant fibers, but rather like the tendons of some kind of animal...

The two were dragged into the Dragon Palace, only to see the palace gate quietly opened, revealing a layer of shining water film.

The body passed through the water film without hindrance, and the surroundings immediately became lighter.

The cold, sealed cultivation, and the strange sea water that seemed to make people breathless were all isolated from the water film. At this time, the two of them didn't even get wet on their clothes.

Shi Liuli trembled, and hugged Luo Yan's arm uneasily.

Luo Yan looked around calmly, and asked the Kunlun mirror in the sea of ​​knowledge:

"Where is my future soldier? Where is my strategy?"

"What kind of strategy do you want?" Kunlun Mirror was puzzled, "I didn't see that there was a death robbery, and I couldn't possibly stare at your future all day long."

"Is there no death calamity?" Luo Yan immediately acted eagerly, "Then I will just sweep this place!"

"Be careful." Kunlun Mirror didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "The so-called death calamity refers to a life-and-death crisis that you can't escape 100% without external interference! Don't act recklessly, forcibly create death from nothing. Rob it!"

"Understood." Luo Yan heaved a sigh of relief and said gratefully, "It's better for me to be nice to A Jing."

In other words, if I encounter the fate of 100% death, Ah Jing will remind me, right?

"Hmph." The Kunlun Mirror was not fooled at all, "Anyway, I'm just your tool, useful is 'A mirror', useless is 'broken mirror'...Hmph! You can continue to hug your Miss Shi."

It sank into the sea of ​​consciousness and didn't speak, no matter how Luo Yan called it, it didn't speak, so only Qingpingjian's low laughter remained in its ears.

Luo Yan brought his attention back to reality, and saw a long corridor in front of him, the doors on both sides were closed tightly, only the door at the end was open, the meaning was self-evident.

So Luo Yan planned to go forward to explore, but Miss Shi hugged her arm and refused to let him go.

"Senior Sister, what's wrong with you?" Luo Yan asked.

Shi Liuli didn't speak, just shrank her neck and shook her head.

"Don't be afraid, Senior Sister." Luo Yan comforted her, "Since the master here brought us in safely, he didn't mean to hurt us."

Shi Liuli was still shaking her head, it seemed that she was really terrified.

"Follow me, be obedient!" Luo Yan's persuasion didn't work, so he simply raised her chin with his hand, making a gesture to kiss her on the lips.

Shi Liuli was so frightened that she hurriedly let go of his arm, stepped back a few steps like a little rabbit, and then suddenly realized that there was a dangerous and unfamiliar environment around her, so she quickly jumped over and hugged his arm again, her eyes widened and she rubbed her eyes. teeth, showing a vicious look of "if you tease me again, I will bite you to death".

Luo Yan was a little dumbfounded, but fortunately Miss Shi finally recovered her unique look, so he patiently persuaded again:

"Let's go, don't make people wait."

Shi Liuli hesitated for a while before asking in a low voice:

"Is this the Dragon Palace?"

"Not all the palaces built on the seabed belong to the Dragon Palace." Luo Yan laughed and analyzed, "Look at the width of the corridor and the height of the door, it is obvious that people are moving here, not some big monster..."

Before the words fell, only a leisurely voice came from the front:

"Not necessarily, after all, the big monster can take shape, can't it?"

Luo Yan was silent for a moment, then pulled Shi Liuli forward.

As soon as he passed through the door at the end of the corridor, he saw a handsome man in white leaning on the throne in the spacious and grand main hall, looking over lazily.

The other person's face is handsome and not like ordinary people, with a full sky, high nose bridge, narrow and long eyes, and an expression on his face... It is very similar to the Tu Shanjun I saw in the Shushan Demon Tower before.

"I've met the king." Luo Yan said quickly, saluting.

With the experience of getting along with Tu Shanjun, Luo Yan already knew how to deal with these big monsters:

The meeting must be interesting to attract the other party's attention; the middle must be smart to impress the other party; the end must be useful so that the other party is reluctant to kill oneself.

"Why do you call me 'big king'?" The man in white was really fooled and laughed, "Interesting. Others call me Zhenjun, or Your Excellency, but you call me 'big king'? I look like some kind of fake Is it the leader?"

"It's not a bandit leader, but a real dragon." Luo Yan immediately hit the snake on the stick, "If it's not the king of destiny, how can he sit on the throne?"

The man in white pondered for a moment, then tapped the armrest of the throne with his slender fingers, and continued:

"Sitting on the throne, must I be the king? Maybe it's because the king is not here, so I can just sit around by myself?"

Luo Yan just smiled and said nothing, showing an expression of incomparable determination and no need for explanation.

"Forget it." The man in white sighed and said, "You can be considered smart, and you can still tell that I am a dragon."

Hearing this, Shi Liuli couldn't help holding Luo Yan's arm even harder, only to hear the man in white continue to say:

"However, I am not a dragon king, and this is not a palace."

"I'm just a prisoner here."

Chapter 25 The Cage of Immortality

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

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, where is this place?"

"You can just call me Mr. Zhunmang." The man in white said softly, "This sea is called 'Dagu', and it is the end of the world's water."

"The waters of the eight corners and the nine wilds, the streams of the Han Dynasty, flow from west to east into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and all of them will eventually come to this great gully."

"In the depths of the great ravine, the palace here is called 'Return to the Market'."

Luo Yan silently memorized his words, and asked again:

"Mr. Zhunmang brought us here, but why?"

"Naturally to save you." Mr. Zhunmang blinked.

Luo Yan: ...

Damn, there is no way to refute.

"The depth of the ravine is endless." Mr. Zhunmang continued, "If you continue to sink and miss the return to the ruins, you will fall into eternal sinking and cannot extricate yourself."

"Thank you Zhunmang for saving me." Luo Yan could only bow to thank him.

"You're welcome." Zhunmang Jun said gently, "I saved you, but I also have a bit of selfishness."

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

"If Dahe is the end of all space, then Guixu is the closest observation station to Dahe." Mr. Zhunmang said with a smile, "I don't know who built it, but it must be older than the oldest history of our dragon clan." earlier."

"In Guixu, there are many historical records left by the predecessors of the Dragon Clan. Judging from the current research results, what constitutes the Great Gully itself is actually a formation."

"Formation?" Luo Yan was startled.

"Yes, the formation." Zhunmang Jun said leisurely, "What do you think the formation is?"

Shi Liuli remained silent and hid behind Luo Yan carefully.

Luo Yan pondered for a moment, then replied:

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

"Huh?" Jun Mang's eyes flashed strangely, "Have you studied the formation?"

"I dare not say research, I have studied before." Luo Yan said modestly.

"That's great!" Mr. Zhunmang clapped his hands and laughed, "It's been a long time, and finally a monk who understands formations has come! Human, what's your name?"

Shi Liuli was about to speak, but Luo Yan had already replied:

"Mr. Hui Zhunmang, my name is Luo Yan."

"Luo Yan...Okay, Luo Yan." Zhunmang nodded and wrote down the name, "Luo Yan, you said that formations are a special and orderly distribution of matter and energy, so let me ask you: what do we live in? Is this world an orderly distribution of matter and energy?"

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

"Why does the sun rise in the east and set in the west? Why does everything fall to the ground? Why does water turn into clouds after being heated?" Mr. Zhunmang spread his hands and said loudly as if singing, "Our world is based on a system of woven rules. run down."

"This world is a huge array. Or the 'array' we understand is to learn to understand the essential mechanism of this world."

"Dagu is one of the most important formation eyes in this world."

Luo Yan listened to him patiently before asking:

"With all due respect, what does this have to do with 'prison'?"

"Because it's located deep in the gully, the speed of time in Guixu is very special." Mr. Zhunmang smiled, "Time passes very slowly here."

"Here, every year your perception passes, your body actually only grows for three days, and the time in the outside world only passes for three days."

Different rates of time passing?Luo Yan was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then slowly came to his senses: "Isn't that..."

"That's right." Mr. Zhunmang said frankly, "After discovering this feature of Guixu, the Dragon Clan used this place as a prison for them to exile prisoners."

"A prison of time, where prisoners live almost forever. But what is more tormenting than eternal life is the near-eternal boredom and the uncontrollable 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.

I saw that the side hall was full of bookshelves as far as the eye could see, like the walls of a maze, splitting the hall into fragments.

There are densely packed paper and thread-bound books in the bookshelves, but more books are stacked directly on the ground, like raised hills.

Many monks stood in front of the bookshelves or stacks of books, some were indulging in reading blankly, and some were writing furiously on their desks with fanatic expressions.

Among them are human monks and dragon monsters; some are dressed in simple and unsophisticated clothes that have never been seen before, and some are wearing ancient robes of the two religions.

The only thing they have in common is their bewildered expressions.

"They were all monks who unfortunately fell into the big ravine before you and were rescued by me to return to the ruins." Mr. Zhunmang explained lightly, "In the great ravine, there is an extremely powerful ability to seal. The monks cannot To mobilize true energy, you can only sink slowly in the deep sea."

"But only in this ruins, monks will not be subject to similar restrictions."

"That is to say, you have to study the mechanism of this Guixu." Luo Yan suddenly realized, and concluded, "Find a way to resist the blockade of Dahe 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 a prison for exile, many dragon seniors strayed into this place and couldn't escape from the big gully, so they could only conduct research on this big formation, 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 are seeing now, all the books in this entire hall—there are probably more than a hundred thousand volumes now, and they are all the materials they have studied."

Luo Yan: ...

Shi Liuli: ...