The blue sand dunes shine countless brilliantly, as if every gravel in them is a gem.
Gathered together, endless.
Like the huge waves of the sea, they are frozen in the silence of heaven and earth.
And the fierceness from all directions spread in this silence, making everything here even more hazy.
Only the brilliance emitted by the sand and gravel, like stars, and like countless times intertwined with countless dreams here.
It's like a dream.
Looking at it, it is an illusory gorgeousness.
"Senior, this is the time desert, after crossing this desert, we can reach that ancient teleportation array."
"Through the formation, you can teleport to the area near Black Cloud City."
On the edge of the time desert, on a wooden boat in mid-air, Yunmen Qianfan was full of Xu Qing reading a book in front of him.
At this moment, she knelt aside, peeling off the peel of the fresh fruit for Xu Qing, and said in a pretty voice.
This way, for her, like the waves shown in this desert, her heart is always fluctuating, and her thoughts are like a dream.
Every time I recall, I feel amazing.
can cry death at a glance and accumulate the cultivation of the seven realms of the gods.
It can kill four elders in a few breaths.
It can suppress the gods with one hand.
This scene made it clear to her that the senior Yan Xuanzi in front of her must be the master!
Although she had seen other dominant level monks before, whether it was the ancestor of the family or the heavenly pride of that family, they were all masters.
And she had seen several foreign lords from a distance.
But it's all high.
No one has ever been so close to her and accompanied her all the way.
This feeling of being protected in the face of all dangers is a rare experience in her life, and it is also deeply rooted in her soul.
At the same time, in the past few days, she would occasionally take advantage of Xu Qing's drinking to ask questions about her own cultivation, and Xu Qing was not stingy and gave him some advice.
These guidance benefited her a lot, and many confusions about her practice ideas were also solved in the past few days.
Even in her opinion, the senior in front of her had to see many problems more thoroughly than her own ancestor.
As for why the monks of the dominant level would become guest ministers of their own family and hide their cultivation, she didn't want to think about this and didn't care.
After all, the family is like this, and everything has nothing to do with him.
"Senior Yan Xuanzi must have unavoidable difficulties, and there are secrets that he doesn't want outsiders to know."
Cloud Gate Qianfan said silently in his heart, then picked up another immortal fruit and continued to peel the fruit, while noticing that Xu Qing's wine pot was almost empty, so he skillfully replaced it.
In her storage bag, there are many items, and the food and drink are only part of it, but it is also quite rich.
This is naturally not the result of divination, but after she made a choice, she accurately positioned herself to be an all-round maid, and worked hard to make Xu Qing comfortable on this road, so as to increase her own certainty of survival.
Xu Qing didn't care about these thoughts of hers.
But I have to say that this Cloud Gate Qianfan did a very good job in the work of a maid along the way.
And this woman is very smart, especially the initiative to inform at the beginning and unseal the soil of space in advance, all of which are decisive.
So Xu Qing is also willing to fulfill his previous promise.
At this moment, while picking up the wine jug and taking a sip, his eyes also fell on the desert in front of him.
Looking at the brilliance, looking at the hazy, looking at the countless times of this place.
Nearby, the desert is picturesque, like a heavenly work writing law.
In the distance, the sand dunes are blurred, as if they are hiding ancient secrets.
In addition, the vegetation in the desert is sparse, and only a few plants are seen, and the leaves are degenerated into needle-shaped, and such species changes are to reduce water evaporation and delay the passage of life.
The tenacity of life is reflected here.
This is true for all things.
In fact, sentient beings are like this.
In the sky, several eagles soared, and their figures were particularly eye-catching under the sprinkler of the aurora.
The silence of the desert was also broken by the eagle cry coming from the sky curtain at this moment, but it was not abrupt, but added a bit of mystery and desolation.
"What is the name of this place?"
The wooden boat flew into the desert, and Xu Qing slowly spoke.
Qianfan, who knew everything about all kinds of places he passed by along the way, hesitated at the moment.
After a while, she spoke in a low voice with some uneasiness.
"Senior, the reason for the name of this desert is not recorded in any ancient books, and it is passed down by word of mouth by the people living in this desert."
"So why is it called this name, the younger generation doesn't know......"
Xu Qing nodded, his eyes swept over the cloud gate Qianfan, and a faint sound came out.
"The places you choose along the way are all very interesting, such as Tianshui Lake and this time desert, how much do you know about places with special names or ancient legends?"
When Yunmen Qianfan heard this, he quickly took out a bamboo book from the storage bag and respectfully placed it in front of Xu Qing.
"Senior, they are all here, I usually like those stories recorded in different landforms and environments, so I have always collected them."
"Except for some places within the family's sphere of influence, I have seen it with my own eyes, and most of the others have been told by people and have not had the opportunity to actually go there."
"So there may be truth or falsehood."
Xu Qing took the bamboo scroll, and after his thoughts swept it, a faint light appeared in his eyes.
On this bamboo scroll, geography is written in writing, including different landforms, mountains, lakes, and even river basins, etc., and the names and stories are marked, and there is a general direction.
"Falling Evil Pool, Tianfeng Cave, Fire Sky Mountains, Immortal Fall Plain, Main Road Cliff, Earth Regulation Pool, Cloud Mud Basin ......"
Looking at these names, Xu Qing arose a strong interest.
"Even if only half of it is a truly special place like Tianshui Lake and this time desert, then it will help me a lot."
Thinking of this, Xu Qing put away the bamboo scroll.
In his opinion, the value of this bamboo scroll is no less than the soil containing the power of space.
Then Xu Qing looked at Cloud Gate Qianfan again.
"Are you in a hurry to go to Black Cloud City?"
"Not in a hurry, not in a hurry at all."
Seeing that Xu Qing was satisfied, Yunmen Qianfan was even more excited in her heart, as long as she could help Xu Qing, she felt that it was the embodiment of her own value.
Moreover, the guidance along the way made her even feel that it would be better if the journey was longer.
So when she heard Xu Qing's inquiry at this moment, she quickly responded happily.
Xu Qing nodded slightly, took a step forward on this boat, disappeared in an instant, and was already on the desert sand dunes when he appeared.
Sitting cross-legged there, Xu Qing's eyes were bright.
"Here, time is chaotic, or in other words, there are countless times flowing to varying degrees, but they blend with each other, making everything normal again."
In the muttering, Xu Qing's thoughts spread out, enveloping all directions.
Seeing Xu Qing cross-legged, she immediately put away the wooden boat, landed next to Xu Qing, and began to get busy.
Soon, she built a shed around Xu Qing, and arranged a mat woven from spiritual grass, and finally sat aside, with her chin resting and her beautiful big eyes, always looking at Xu Qing.
Although Xu Qing is middle-aged and has some vicissitudes of life, her old age has been revealed, but in her eyes, she has a special charm.
"When the seniors were young, they must have been full of spirit and magnificent."
"And he has a lot of stories......"
"Many times, he looked at the world in the distance, was he reminiscing? Remember his family, remember his old friends?"
"And that song, the rivers and lakes are leisurely, sassy, but also sad, when I played it, the back of a woman vaguely appeared in my mind......"
"That's ...... Is it a senior's Taoist partner?"
In the murmur of her heart, a hot wind blew, scattering Xu Qing's long hair and moving her clothes.
This wind also fell on Yunmen Qianfan's body, making his dress close to his delicate body, outlining undulating curves, which was very graceful.
The picture is beautiful.
Like the heavenly work in the dark, they all looked sideways and began to write on the desert, forming scenes of sand paintings with the flow of the desert.
In this way, time passed.
Five days passed.
Xu Qing's divine thoughts had already covered an endless range, enveloping this desert while also seeping into every grain of sand.
Five days ago, the first time she saw this desert, Xu Qing felt the chaos of time here.
As for the specific reason, he was not sure at the time, but he just felt that his sundial was stuck in the rotation of the sundial hand here, sometimes speeding up, sometimes slowing down, and sometimes standing still again.
And his own extreme time was also more turbulent than usual.
Until now, through five days of observation and research, combined with his own understanding of time, he has a faint guess.
"The endless sand here seems to be too vast to count, but in fact...... It gives me the feeling that we are one."
"This unity does not describe the desert as a whole, but ...... Individual consistency!"
Xu Qing pondered in his heart.
"To be precise, although there are slight differences in the size of each external abrasion mark of the gravel here, in fact, they may have been the same at the beginning."
"No matter how big or small, no matter how abrasive it is, it contains all the details, it is the same.
With so many quantities, it seems to have been copied."
This is an enlightenment that he has produced after five days of observation, research, and exploration.
Xu Qing raised his hand, scooped up a palm of gravel, and stared.
"It seems ...... There used to be only one gravel here."
"It was the wind blowing, or the influence of foreign objects, that caused the movement of this gravel, and each movement changed the time acting on it."
"Every change is equivalent to an extra line of time and an extra grain."
"As the years go by, under the influence of the wind or mysterious power, there are more and more timelines here, and there are more and more gravels."
"Each gravel has the same initial point, but soon they have their own timelines, and they have different frictions and trajectories in their respective timelines."
"In the end, this desert was formed."
"This is also the reason why there is so much time here and they are intertwined."
Xu Qing raised his head and looked at the end of the desert.
"This place is amazing, or ...... This place itself is actually a treasure related to time."
"But few people can take it away, because the way to collect it is to correct the time of every gravel here, so that the desert returns from confusion, and finally the sand and gravel are reduced one by one until it becomes the first grain."
"I can't do it now."
"But...... Here, I saw a deeper way to show the power of time."
Xu Qing's eyes flashed.
"Time branch!"