Three Enclosures and Four Symbols
Chapter 49 Thirty-Six Layers of Time and Space, the Gu Clan Expert's Overflowing Malice
However, when he considered this possibility, Jiang Xuan couldn't help but feel a chill. What level of being could open up such a small world? A Supreme? Or even an Immortal?
He knew very little about the Immortal Ancient era. Logically speaking, besides the ten most powerful among the Taigu Ten Ferocious, there were other Immortal Dao experts. For example, the ancestor of the Fallen Blood Phoenix Clan was once of the True Phoenix lineage.
Then there was the second in all under heaven, the Dragon Clan, who had once contended for the name of True Dragon, or the Kun Peng King, the female Kun Peng, and so on.
During the Immortal Ancient era, the Gu Clan might have had other Immortal Dao experts, but the probability wasn’t high, because the ancient history never mentioned it. Even in his memories, there were no memories of this kind.
"Regardless of whether it exists, this is the only clue. I can only search for it." Jiang Xuan thought in his heart, dispersed the Void Ripples, and directly entered the next spacetime.
Time flowed bit by bit, and Jiang Xuan walked through one small world after another, seeing deserts, ice plains, vast oceans, and divine mountains…
Each small world had a unique scenery, and it also nurtured many treasures.
During this period, the three scattered hand techniques he comprehended also progressed rapidly. After all, he had to constantly maintain the Void Ripples, and only within the range of the Void Ripples could he extend his divine sense and use teleportation techniques. And when the consumption was huge, he would use Origin Tracing and Restoration to forcibly restore himself to his peak state.
Over time, the three ultimate techniques naturally became more and more proficient, and the understanding became more and more profound.
Similarly, during this period, he also discovered many broken relics, all of which seemed to be thrown away at random and smashed into the world.
There was very little information that could be found in these broken relics, only fragments, and they were not continuous, and did not come from the same place.
In the blink of an eye, three months had passed, and Jiang Xuan verified the small world in front of him again, and finally came to a conclusion in his heart.
"The temporal overlap of thirty-six small worlds, no wonder those who found this place in the past would get lost."
In these three months, he entered hundreds of spacetimes, but ultimately concluded that there were only thirty-six layers of temporal overlap in this ancient land.
The Gu Clan powerhouse integrated thirty-six small worlds into one spacetime, and disordered the rules of spacetime, which would cause those who entered to become lost, constantly shuttling through various small worlds.
If one couldn't, like Jiang Xuan, master the Void Ripples to avoid this, then one could only be constantly moved, unless one could comprehend the rules of this ancient land, understand everything, and control spacetime.
But this was obviously impossible. Even now that Jiang Xuan had obtained several Gu Clan scattered hand techniques, and had a deeper understanding of this world, faintly resonating with it, he was still completely in the dark and had no way to start if he wanted to comprehend the rules of this ancient land.
"But why are there no traces of the ruins? Could it be in the sky or underground? Or is there a hidden thirty-seventh layer of spacetime?"
Jiang Xuan guessed in his heart. He searched all thirty-six layers of spacetime, but could not find the source of those ruins. Now he either had to dig three feet into the ground in each world, or go to the sky and stand shoulder to shoulder with the great sun.
Apart from these two possibilities, he could only think that there was a hidden thirty-seventh layer of spacetime.
Moreover, he felt that the possibility of the thirty-seventh layer of spacetime was greater. After all, it was the Gu Clan's method, so it had to be related to spacetime.
"Could it be that temporal movement really has certain rules? Or is there a node in each spacetime that can enter the thirty-seventh layer of spacetime?"
Thinking of this, he went through the hundreds of times he had been moved to spacetime in his mind, sorting them, and he really found something!
The spacetimes he was moved into each time were indeed without any order, but there would never be a repeated spacetime before completing a cycle.
In other words, from the first to the thirty-sixth time, he did not enter a repeated spacetime, and in hundreds of shifts, this had never changed.
This ancient land was like a closed loop, and living beings would be constantly moved within the thirty-six layers of spacetime. Every time a cycle of thirty-six layers of spacetime was completed, they would randomly jump to the next spacetime and cycle again.
"The key is the thirty-sixth layer of spacetime!"
If one wanted to jump out of the cycle of spacetime movement, perhaps there was only a chance in the thirty-sixth layer of spacetime.
Jiang Xuan speculated that the node to enter the thirty-seventh layer of spacetime was not fixed in a certain spacetime, but was constantly changing, and perhaps only appeared in each thirty-sixth layer of spacetime.
"Now I am in the four hundred and twenty-eighth spacetime, and there are still four left before the next thirty-sixth layer of spacetime!"
In other words, he still needed to be moved four times to reach the next thirty-sixth layer of spacetime.
He didn't know if his speculation was wrong, but at this point, he had to try even if there was only a little chance, otherwise he could only get lost in this ancient land like those creatures of the past.
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The four hundred and thirty-second spacetime, this was a desert, the scorching sun shone high, and the earth was red, but there was not a trace of wind or sand, like a calm and secluded ancient pool, without any waves.
It was quiet to the extreme here, and the entire ancient land was the same. If ordinary people were constantly moved through spacetime for months in this environment where everything was silent, they would probably be not far from madness.
After entering this spacetime, Jiang Xuan unfolded the Void Ripples, forming a domain of his own, constantly searching in this small world, inside and out, up and down, he carefully vibrated every corner with the Void Ripples.
If there really was a spacetime node, this was the only way he could think of to find it.
After all, his other methods could not avoid spacetime movement.
One day, three days, ten days…
Finally, after a month, Jiang Xuan had a discovery that was different from the past in a void ten thousand feet above the ground.
When his Void Ripples spread out, they would directly avoid a certain place. After trying in various directions, he found that it was a circle with a diameter of one zhang, but the width was almost non-existent. (One zhang is approximately 3.3 meters.)
Jiang Xuan didn't hesitate either. Anyway, he had no way out if he was trapped here all the time. He had to try even if it was a dead end.
He came to the circle, almost touching it tightly, then removed the Void Ripples, and then stepped into it.
The next moment, spacetime changed, but the scene in front of him was different from any of the spacetimes he had seen before.
There really was a thirty-seventh layer of spacetime, but Jiang Xuan couldn't help but feel a headache just thinking about the difficulties of entering this layer of spacetime.
He was lucky, and fortunately comprehended the means of Void Ripples, which could avoid spacetime movement and form a domain, but he also needed to find a spacetime node with a diameter of one zhang in a space that was tens of thousands of miles long and thousands of miles high!
But if those who couldn't even avoid spacetime movement, it would simply be torture, unless they were lucky enough to be transferred to the front of the node to enter the thirty-seventh layer of spacetime, and happened to be able to step into it in one step, then it was possible to enter the thirty-seventh layer of spacetime.
But this probability was obviously too small. After all, although there were thirty-six small worlds, each small world was at least tens of thousands of miles long and thousands of miles high after he measured it. The probability of being accidentally transferred to the front of the spacetime node was the same as stepping on True Dragon excrement while walking outside.
This inevitably made him feel that the Gu Clan powerhouse who created this ancient land had a lot of malice towards outsiders like them…