novelraw Chapter 1119 - 334: [Flow of Time]
Chapter 1119 - 334: [Flow of Time]
Chapter 334 [Flow of Time]
The sharp sword tip carved onto the stone platform, small stone dust falling and being quickly blown away.
The horizontal line was the last horizontal line below the character "zheng," and once it was carved, Chen Yan nodded with satisfaction and stepped back half a step.
On the stone platform, there were already a total of "six" zheng characters carved.
Six "zheng" characters, with a stroke carved every day, meant that Chen Yan had been trapped in this "Library" "Archives" for over thirty days.
He tried many ways to leave this place.
The door wouldn’t open, and even using force wouldn’t budge it!
At least, using his Third Realm cultivation to hit the door with all his strength, it didn’t move an inch, and the mana would repulse him!
The door was like this, and so was the window.
He also tried to destroy the roof, attempted to dig a hole in the ground, but all efforts were in vain.
This place was covered by an array, enveloped in a 360-degree angle without any dead ends.
Chen Yan understood that he was like a bird trapped in a cage.
In the first few days, he did not read books; he was destructive every day, trying to find any possible loopholes in this place.
The crazy old man would occasionally appear now and then.
But it quickly became apparent to Chen Yan that the old guy only showed up to see him make a fool of himself.
The mocking and schadenfreude look on his face wasn’t even concealed.
Watching Chen Yan repeatedly crash into the array, attack the door, damage the windows, drill the roof, and dig the floor.
Then, each time being thrown back by the power of the array, falling flat on his back, dizzy and light-headed.
The old man even couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Then, after he had laughed enough, he would turn around and walk back through that door without saying a word.
On the day he finished the second "zheng" character, Chen Yan suddenly calmed down and abandoned the headless, chaotic efforts.
He stopped trying to attack the door with various spells and charging the array.
He stopped digging tunnels.
He even stopped knocking on that door inside, no longer trying to communicate with that old guy.
Because Chen Yan discovered something very important!
His beard hadn’t grown long at all!
This matter was very important!
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When he arrived at the Black Wood Tribe and moved into that luxurious big room on the top floor of the earthen building, he had a good wash that night, and he remembered very clearly that he had also shaved his beard that day.
He had shaved his chin clean, very smooth.
Then, the next day, Chen Yan went out.
Generally developed men have the experience; if you shave clean in the evening, the next day when waking up, the beard won’t have grown out, you still look smooth to the naked eye, but actually, there’s a little stubble that if you run your hand over it, there’s a very short but very hard, prickly feeling.
That day he went out to the atrium hall where the East Sea created a massacre, slaughtering the high-ranking tribal elders of the Black Wood Tribe. The East Sea brought him here and into this "Library."
Initially in the library, he read the stone tablets, using delicacies as a bargaining chip to get some information from the crazy old man...
Then, he couldn’t get out.
By this point, it had been about three or four days.
He went mad, trying every way to escape, trying for a full ten days, finishing both "zheng" characters.
In total, it added up to about thirteen or fourteen days!
Thirteen or fourteen days!
Chen Yan suddenly realized that his beard was still very short, with that prickly feeling.
Meaning, in those thirteen or fourteen days, his beard hadn’t grown at all! Not even a little!
Upon this realization, Chen Yan immediately found more subtle details.
His hair hadn’t changed; it hadn’t grown.
He started to conduct more experiments.
He took out an apple from his Storage Jade Pendant, a fresh apple.
He peeled the apple and placed it on the table, exposed to the air.
After an hour, the flesh of the apple was still fresh and crisp!
This wasn’t right.
If an apple were peeled and exposed to the air, it would quickly oxidize and develop a brown, rust-like color on the flesh!
The peeled apple stood on the table, exposed to the air for an hour, unchanged in color.
Chen Yan deliberately ignored it and, suppressing his thoughts, meditated to channeling Primordial Qi, practicing for an entire day.
The next day, after a whole day and night, Chen Yan looked at the apple on the table, its flesh still as fresh as new.
He stared at the apple for a long time and then suddenly smiled.
Chen Yan took the apple and without hesitation, bit into it hard.
Sweet and crisp flesh filled his mouth as Chen Yan chewed vigorously, enjoying it thoroughly, until he finished the apple, tossing the core casually on the table.
He suddenly wasn’t anxious anymore.
This place has an issue with the flow of time!
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The old lady placed him in a place where the flow of time is exceedingly slow?
Obviously, she was giving him enough time, but what did she want him to do with this time?
Looking at the more than forty rows of stone cabinets in the room, Chen Yan had an answer in his heart.
On the tenth day of drawing "zheng" characters, after completing two full "zheng" characters, Chen Yan resumed his reading.
He began to read the vast number of stone tablet records and documents on the cabinets again.