Chapter 2622: Time Drip for Three Hundred Years

Chapter 2583

Time Drifts and Leaks for Three Hundred Years

"Too many years already... far too many years..."

Muddledness is a way to escape pain, hugging one's head and crying that one has forgotten everything might make it feel better. But someone like Cui Yi Geng, despite time's erosion, whose golden body and jade marrow have already decayed, still stands stubbornly, never bending. How could he not be painfully awake?

So he said again, "It has been three hundred thirty-two years, three months, and seven days since that incident occurred."

No one objected to this—the time Cui Yi Geng had experienced was clearly manifested on his Dao body. His frosty hair and decayed eyebrows were the scars of years.

Jiang Wang had only exchanged blows with Cui Yi Geng once, but the impression was very deep. He still remembered that Cui Yi Geng was a person who cherished time greatly.

But such a person who cherished time was here counting the days, bit by bit, wasting away.

This was truly cruel.

A God Arrival has a lifespan of five hundred sixteen years. With Cui Yi Geng's strength and disposition, he should not have decayed before his lifespan ended... The pain he endured in his heart far exceeded the pain his Dao body endured.

"What happened?" Jiang Wang asked.

He casually handed the green slip to Chong Xuan Zun.

As soon as he received the green slip, he swept it with his immortal sense. The slip recorded a segment of history—Dao Calendar 2531, Shao Country灭Yan (exterminated Yan).

Looking at the Six Yao Mountains and Rivers Ban that sealed Cui Yi Geng here, it was based on the mountains and rivers of Yan Country. The mountains and rivers of Yan Country overlapped significantly with the later Xia Country, but that was during Yan Country's prosperous period. On the eve of being exterminated by Shao Country, Yan Country was left with only three fu lands, including Xiang You Fu.

The largest battle in Qi's extermination of Xia happened in Tong Yang City in Xiang You Fu, where ten thousand cavalry charged across the Jiang Yin Plain...

The normal method to break the ban would certainly require an understanding of Yan Country's history, a considerable knowledge of Yan Country's politics, and decent cultivation in the art of seals and bans.

Jiang Wang had, after all, been made a marquis in the war to defeat Xia, and had a considerable understanding of Yue Tai Zong's death in the same period and Lian Shi's eastward migration. After breaking the ban, when he looked back at the subject, it was more like peeling away layers, and he easily understood this part of the Six Yao Mountains and Rivers Ban · Remnant Yan.

Perhaps Zuo Qiu Wu personally wrote this historical green slip and handed it to Chong Xuan Zun, wanting him to see if there were any hidden clues. After all, the Battle King was very useful, and there was no harm in using him.

Although Cui Yi Geng did not consciously shed tears, he did not show any expression of crying.

A person with such strong will did not need pity, only a little calm. This calm was obtained in Jiang Wang's gentle voice.

He faintly heard the sound of Sanskrit chants. Jiang Wang in front of him seemed to be in his twilight years, wearing hemp cloth monk's robes, full of Buddha nature.

The pain, which seemed to extend endlessly, seemed to have found solace. Cui Yi Geng clearly saw Jiang Wang's eyes. Not like that year, yet still like that year.

That year, this person came to the bamboo grove, only stating his name "Jiang Wang" and his purpose "to ask for a sword fight".

He only replied with "Can".

At that time, he thought that, at least in cultivation, this visitor was extremely similar to him. The path of cultivation was only about striving day and night. Other victories, defeats, honors, shames, benefits, and reputations were truly not worth minding.

But the road was long, and he had finally fallen behind.

Was it still not enough effort?

Was torment also counted as time, and pain a kind of slackness?

Cui Yi Geng, could it be... that you were unable to exhaust everything?

Cui Yi Geng was startled: "... I also don't know!"

"That day was no different from usual. I finished reading in Qin Xin Hall, and as usual, I went back to the mountain bamboo sea to practice sword. When I walked here... I discovered the change in time. One door separated, and spring and autumn were different."

"I saw Senior Brother instantly grow old and die, and Senior Nephew's hair turn white. The moment before, they were still greeting me... The wave of time swept like a tsunami, and the academy was just an overturned small boat, no one could escape."

"It was the Dean who saved me."

"He sealed me here, saying that change had already occurred and that I should wait patiently here. Only by personally peering through Cave True could I walk out of this seal, pass on the message, and continue the academy's inheritance—but I... cannot do it!"

"I cannot..."

"Thank you all for being able to come. Handing all this over to you, I am greatly relieved—thank you."

"I have wasted time, unable to make any progress. My name is 'One Heart', but for the entire three hundred thirty years, I have not been able to focus on the sword. All I hear are crying sounds, and all I see are dead people... They all died."

Cui Yi Geng was like a hollowed-out tree, standing there, just withered and wrinkled bark. After unloading the heavy burden, he finally let out a breath. As this breath leaked out, his whole person withered. He murmured repeatedly, "They all died."

"You said 'they', who are you referring to?" Ju Kui asked.

Cui Yi Geng looked at him, painfully repeating, "The entire Qin Ku Academy, only I am still alive."

"This is impossible." Ju Kui's face was expressionless. "Unless it is a transcendent hand, otherwise no one can silently wipe out Qin Ku Academy. But the more transcendent it is, the more tightly it is watched. Such a huge action cannot leave no trace."

Even the secret Wu Ming Zhe was caught after blocking Dao Zuo Xiao.

The already titled "world first" Qin Ku Academy, with its heavy foundation and huge influence, could be called the contemporary Wen Mai. To gouge it out was simply to confront the flood of human Dao head-on. How could it be quietly without a sound?

This was not crushing a nest of ants.

Let's not say that a transcendent cannot wipe out such traces. But let's say that even a transcendent would find it difficult to wipe out the alarms of other transcendents in such a huge event!

"I have been here for these three hundred thirty years. The people who passed within my sight all died. The breaths I was once familiar with also withered one by one. This is my feeling, and also my experience." Cui Yi Geng gazed at the Fa Jia Zhen Jun in front of him, tears of blood in his eyes. "I would not lie about such a thing."

Ju Kui was still expressionless. "I believe you are not lying. My Fa Jia expertise also gives me such a judgment about you. But my 'belief' is not worth mentioning. What we need to emphasize is cognition, a correct understanding of cultivation and reality—based on the known conditions, 'the entire Qin Ku Academy has perished today', this cannot be established."

"No one is more willing to believe your correctness than I am. But—" Cui Yi Geng looked around, then raised his withered and wrinkled hand, which trembled. "I cannot deceive myself."

"Time always rushes forward, I cannot catch up... cannot hold it. I have no strength. Since that year, I have already been unable to hold a sword. For the entire three hundred thirty years, it has slipped away through my fingers."

Cui Yi Geng was a strong person.

If he were not strong enough, he would not have been able to endure until now, to witness the death of all his fellow disciples, and when there was no hope of moving forward, still endure for three hundred more years, endure until his golden body and jade marrow were all old and decayed, and he was still standing.

But dripping water can pierce stone.

Even the strongest heart will weather in endless failure.

Most importantly, he was no longer young. His Dao body was so decayed, and he had no more time. At most ten years, perhaps tomorrow, he would fall.

He didn't give up until he hit the south wall, but his blood traces were all dried on the south wall. Layer upon layer.

"Then why are you still alive?" Jiang Wang asked.

"For... inheritance." Cui Yi Geng answered instinctively. "The inheritance of Qin Ku Academy."

"Book Mountain is still there." Dou Zhao said from the side.

Book Mountain was still there, so the inheritance of Qin Ku Academy had not been broken. It was just that this batch of Confucian scholars died, and another batch would come down from the mountain. Cui Yi Geng's life and death were irrelevant to this.

These Tai Xu Ge members were too inhumane, cold to the point of being cruel.

Cui Yi Geng felt a moment of anger, but then it seemed to be struck by something. He finally asked his own heart in pain, bowed in silence for a long time, and finally raised his head: "I am not willing. I want to know exactly what happened. I hope I can seek justice for my dead fellow disciples."

"So you cannot just hand it over to us," Jiang Wang said.

"Yes, I cannot just hand it over to you..." Cui Yi Geng used his trembling hand to approach the sword hilt, finger by finger climbing up. Like vines wrapping around a tree, they entwined tightly.

That wooden sword hilt, which looked like it would decay from insect infestation, yet brought him strength. He seemed to hear the sound of wind through the bamboo grove again, so clean... rustling.

He, who had been unable to be "one heart" for several hundred years, finally had only the sword in his eyes again.

"Ju Mister." Jiang Wang had already walked to Cui Yi Geng's side, but he was not in a hurry to pass through the moon gate. Instead, he turned back to look at Ju Kui. "'Qin Ku Academy cannot have perished completely' and 'Qin Ku Academy has perished'. These two things do not necessarily contradict each other. They can perfectly coexist."

Ju Kui understood as soon as he heard. "You mean, in different time-spaces?"

Huang She Li had been silently observing for a long time. At this time, she offered the professional insight of a time-space traveler, echoing Jiang Wang's judgment: "Different time-spaces have different stories. In the history of Qin Ku Academy, the anchor point of this 'difference' is not specific years, but different people. For example, in Cui Yi Geng's time-space, Qin Ku Academy has already perished, and everyone he knows has died out. But in Zhong Xuan's time-space, perhaps all of this still exists. Grass is growing and warblers are flying, and spring is just right, and he is still writing letters..."

Cui Yi Geng's decayed body shook. He suddenly raised his head! His breathing suddenly became heavy. "That is to say, what I saw, what I experienced, could all be false? Just a segment within one time-space?"

"History is ultimately recorded on paper." Chong Xuan Zun raised his hand, pointing at the green slip, his waves not surprised. "Which is true and which is false depends on which history book you bring out when you walk out."

This historical material of 《Shao Country Exterminate Yan》 was quite interesting. Not only was the period recorded in the book interesting—Shao Country later had an emperor named Yun Hui, who was the sworn brother of Qi Wu Emperor.

"I am now more and more certain that the chaos of many people's time-spaces collectively led to the overall time-space sinking of Qin Ku Academy." Huang She Li rubbed her chin. "Within Qin Ku Academy, not everyone had a separate time-space. These people are the key 'ant holes'."

She tilted her head to look at this ordinary-looking person. "Then Cui Yi Geng, what is special about you?"

Jiang Wang answered for him: "Brother Cui is the big disciple of Qin Ku Academy, and his sword technique is very good."

"Every generation has a big disciple. Although selected from the best, not all can become talents." Huang She Li looked back at Jiang Wang. "This 'sword technique is very good', is that your judgment when you were in Wai Lou realm?"

"I have nothing special about me. My appearance is ordinary, my cultivation is ordinary, my talent is ordinary, only one point—" Cui Yi Geng said. "In this inescapable seal, I have not made any progress for three hundred thirty years, but I have not stopped practicing sword for a single day in these three hundred thirty years. I don't know if that counts?"

"That naturally counts." Qin Zhi Zhen said after a moment of silence. "You are a strong one who has repeatedly defeated despair."

Huang She Li was silent for a while.

She did not look down on Cui Yi Geng.

She wanted to explore why Cui Yi Geng would become one of the ant holes that breached the dike. Finding the answer to this question might lead to the root cause of Qin Ku Academy's time-space sinking.

Could effort and persistence be the reason? It didn't seem very special.

Only within Tai Xu Ge, she knew that people cultivated every moment, just like Li Yi and Jiang Wang. After these two successively reached the summit, others also followed continuously... When she, Huang She Li, was appreciating beauty, she always conveniently practiced a few Dao techniques!

Where was life to be found?

No one could remain unmoved by three hundred thirty years of time. Ju Kui was probably an exception. He still had no expression on his face. "With your disposition and perseverance, it is impossible for you to have made no progress for three hundred thirty years. This does not conform to my understanding of cultivation."

Cui Yi Geng was silent, then said bitterly, "It is I who am too untalented. Perhaps my talent is limited. All of you are world-class figures, unable to understand mediocrity. Some people are born to only be able to walk this far."

Jiang Wang still remembered that after the sword fight ended, the defeated Cui Yi Geng was completely unfazed. He just picked up his sword and continued practicing. Later, he did indeed reach God Arrival and walked forward step by step solidly. Time was truly too cruel.

"Give me your sword." Li Yi, who had been silent since entering Qin Ku Academy, stretched out his hand to him at this time.

Looking at this person wearing a white Dao robe, with only a wooden hairpin holding up his hair, simple to the point of having no excess at all, Tai Yu Zhen Jun... Cui Yi Geng's emotions were complex and difficult to describe.

One Heart Sword was a very pure sword, and he was also a very pure person in cultivation.

But he understood that Li Yi was even more of a person who sought the Dao with a pure heart.

Li Yi cultivated the sword of "One".

"One Heart" and "One".

Just one more word. But between him and Li Yi, there was a difference of heaven and earth.

He tried to make his hands more stable, holding the sword with both hands, presenting it to Tai Yu: "Please."

Li Yi took the One Heart Sword, took about less than two breaths, and then put it back in Cui Yi Geng's hand.

Cui Yi Geng clearly felt that his One Heart Sword had left its sheath once, but he did not see how his sword left its sheath, how it returned to its sheath, and he didn't even capture any sword energy or feel the sharpness of the sword.

He had no idea what had happened in the past two breaths.

But he heard Li Yi say, "Your cultivation is locked."

He didn't know how this conclusion was reached, but he knew that Tai Yu Zhen Jun would not deceive him. Li Yi's words were heavier than the truth he knew!

He was stunned there.

He opened his mouth wanting to say something, but could not say anything.

He thought he would probably shed tears, but instead, he laughed.

Three hundred thirty-two years, three months, and seven days!

Watching with open eyes as his fellow disciples died one by one, and being powerless, utterly powerless.

He held this wooden-hilted, bamboo-sheathed long sword, his eyes wide, grinning like a smile: "So it's not that I and my sword are useless... right?"

Li Yi looked at him calmly: "Your sword is still not bad."

Cui Yi Geng suddenly closed his mouth, biting his teeth tightly!

Who locked Cui Yi Geng's cultivation? Was it this segment of time-space? Was it the people behind all this? Or was it Zuo Qiu Wu, who saved Cui Yi Geng and sealed him here?

"Is it possible that Brother Cui appeared in other time-spaces?" Jiang Wang asked Huang She Li.

The person Yan Xiao saw before losing contact was also Cui Yi Geng.

At this moment, the person he saw after breaking through the Six Yao Mountains and Rivers Ban was also Cui Yi Geng.

But that one was young and strong, while this one was old.

Or perhaps they were in different segments of time-space.

But Cui Yi Geng said that he had been here all along, standing in the middle of the moon gate, eroded by time for three hundred thirty years.

He could completely feel the emotions of this Cui Yi Geng, but he did not relax his vigilance. The two of them were so close now, and if there was any change, he could respond in time.

"Given the special nature of this segment of years, everyone who has a separately extended time-space will not appear in other people's time-spaces." Huang She Li looked at Cui Yi Geng. "Have you seen Zhong Xuan?"

Cui Yi Geng thought seriously for a moment and shook his head.

Huang She Li said, "Then Mister Zhong should still be alright."

"As the Dean of Qin Ku Academy, a contemporary Zhen Jun, and a Confucian Master, is it difficult for him not to have a separately extended time-space?" Cang Ming stood on the various outer god images, his voice extending down through the darkness, slightly stern.

If it was said that the long dike of Qin Ku Academy was breached at multiple key ant holes, with Zuo Qiu Wu's identity and strength, it was impossible for him not to be a key!

But Cui Yi Geng had seen Zuo Qiu Wu, and Zuo Qiu Wu had also left behind the seal...

Huang She Li said solemnly, "Dean Zuo may not only appear within Cui Yi Geng's time-space, but may also not exist as a passerby."

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