Chapter 1067: The Pugilistic World Drifts

The blue sand dunes shimmered with countless brilliance, as if every grain of sand within them were a gemstone.

Gathered together, they stretched on endlessly.

Like the giant waves of the sea, frozen in the silent heaven and earth.

And the scorching heat from all directions spread in this silence, making everything here even more hazy.

Only the brilliance emitted by the sand grains seemed like stars, and also like countless times intersecting here, creating countless dreams.

Dreamlike and illusory.

Looking at it, it was a piece of illusory splendor.

"Senior, this place is the Time Desert. After crossing this desert, we can reach that ancient teleportation array."

"Through the array, we can teleport to the area near Black Cloud City."

At the edge of the Time Desert, on the wooden boat in mid-air, Yunmen Qianfan's eyes were full of the figure of Xu Qing reading a book in front of her.

At this moment, she knelt to one side, peeling a fresh fruit for Xu Qing while speaking in a pretty voice.

This journey, for her, was just like the waves displayed by this desert; her heart was always fluctuating, her thoughts dreamlike and illusory.

Every time she recalled it, she felt it was incredibly wonderful.

To be able to cry a cultivator of the seventh realm of Spirit Containment to death with one glance.

To be able to kill four elders in a few breaths.

To be able to suppress a god with one hand.

These scenes made it clear to her that this Senior Yan Xuanzi in front of her must be a Sovereign!

Although she had seen other Sovereign-level cultivators before, whether it was the family's ancestor or that family genius, they were all Sovereigns.

And she had also seen a few Sovereigns of other clans from afar.

But they were all high and mighty.

Never had any of them been so close to her, and accompanying her all the way.

This feeling of being protected in the face of all dangers was a rare experience in her life, and it had gone deep into her soul.

At the same time, these past few days, she would occasionally take advantage of Xu Qing drinking to ask questions about her own cultivation, and Xu Qing was not stingy, giving her some guidance.

These pointers benefited her greatly, and many of her confusions about cultivation ideas were resolved in these few days.

Even in her view, this senior in front of her saw through many problems more thoroughly than her own family ancestor.

As for why a Sovereign-level cultivator would become a guest elder of her family and hide his cultivation, she didn't want to consider this, nor did she care.

After all, the family was already like this, and everything had nothing to do with her.

"Senior Yan Xuanzi must have some unavoidable difficulties, and even more secrets that he doesn't want outsiders to know."

Yunmen Qianfan thought silently in her heart, then picked up another kind of immortal fruit, continuing to peel the skin, while noticing that Xu Qing's wine flask was almost empty, so she skillfully replaced it.

In her storage bag, there were many items, and food and drink were only a part, but they were quite rich.

This was naturally not obtained by divination, but because after she made a choice, she precisely positioned herself to be an all-around maid, striving to make Xu Qing comfortable on this journey, thereby increasing her own chances of survival.

Xu Qing didn't care about these thoughts of hers.

But it had to be said that on this journey, this Yunmen Qianfan was indeed very outstanding in the job of a maid.

And this woman was very smart, especially the active notification at the beginning and the early unlocking of the space soil seal, all of which showed decisiveness.

So Xu Qing was also willing to fulfill his previous promise.

At this moment, while picking up the wine flask and taking a sip, his gaze also fell on the desert in front.

Looking at the brilliance, looking at the haziness, looking at the countless times of this place.

In the near range, the desert was like a painting, as if heaven's work was writing the laws.

In the far range, the outlines of the sand dunes were blurry, as if hiding ancient secrets.

Besides this, the vegetation in the desert was sparse, occasionally seeing a few plants, and they were all needle-like leaves. Such species change was to reduce water evaporation and delay the passage of life.

The tenacity of life was embodied here.

All things were like this.

All living beings were actually like this too.

In the sky, a few eagles soared, their figures appearing particularly striking under the sprinkling of the aurora.

The silence of the desert was also broken at this moment by the eagle cries coming from the sky, but it was not abrupt, instead adding a bit of mystery and desolation.

"Why is this place called Time?"

The wooden boat flew into the desert, and Xu Qing spoke slowly.

Yunmen Qianfan, who knew everything about the various places they passed on this journey, hesitated at this moment.

After a long while, she spoke in a low voice with some unease.

"Senior, regarding the reason for the name of this desert, it is not recorded in any ancient books; it is passed down by word of mouth by the people living in this desert."

"So why it is called this name, this junior also does not know..."

Xu Qing nodded, his gaze sweeping over Yunmen Qianfan, and a faint voice came out.

"The places you chose on this journey are all very interesting, like Heavenly Water Lake and this Time Desert. How many more places with special names or containing ancient legends do you know?"

Hearing this, Yunmen Qianfan hurriedly took out a bamboo book from her storage bag and respectfully placed it in front of Xu Qing.

"Senior, it's all here. I usually like stories recorded about different landforms and environments, so I have always been collecting them."

"Except for some places within the family's sphere of influence that I have seen with my own eyes, most of the others I have only heard people talk about and have not had the opportunity to truly visit."

"So there may be truth and falsehood."

Xu Qing took the bamboo scroll, and after his divine sense swept over it, a gleam of light appeared in his eyes.

On this bamboo scroll, geography was written in text, including different landforms, mountains, lakes, and even rivers, basins, etc., and marked with names and stories, as well as approximate directions.

"Evil-Falling Pool, Heavenly Wind Cave, Fire Void Mountain Range, Immortal-Fallen Plain, Main Dao Cliff, Earth Rule Pool, Cloud Mud Basin..."

Looking at these names, Xu Qing's interest grew strong.

"Even if only a small part of them are truly special places like Heavenly Water Lake and this Time Desert, then the help to me will not be small."

Thinking of this, Xu Qing put away the bamboo scroll.

In his view, the value of this bamboo scroll was no less than that soil containing spatial energy.

Then Xu Qing looked at Yunmen Qianfan again.

"Are you in a hurry to go to Black Cloud City?"

"Not in a hurry, not in a hurry, not in a hurry at all."

Seeing Xu Qing satisfied, Yunmen Qianfan felt even more excited in her heart. As long as she could be of help to Xu Qing, she felt it was the embodiment of her value.

Moreover, the guidance on this journey made her feel that if the journey were longer, it would be even better.

So hearing Xu Qing's inquiry at this moment, she hurriedly responded happily.

Xu Qing nodded slightly, took a step forward on the boat, disappeared in an instant, and appeared on the desert dunes.

Sitting cross-legged there, Xu Qing's eyes had a sharp gleam.

"Here, time is chaotic, or rather, there are countless times flowing to different degrees, but they intersect in this fusion, making everything return to normal."

Muttering, Xu Qing's divine sense spread out, covering all directions.

Yunmen Qianfan was already used to Xu Qing's moments of enlightenment. Seeing Xu Qing sitting cross-legged, she immediately put away the wooden boat, landed beside Xu Qing, and began to get busy.

Soon, she built a shed around Xu Qing and arranged a mat woven from spirit grass. Finally, she sat to one side, resting her chin on her hand, her beautiful big eyes always looking at Xu Qing.

Although Xu Qing's current appearance was middle-aged and somewhat weathered, with signs of old age, in her eyes, he possessed a special charm.

"When Senior was young, he must have been dashing and heroic."

"And on him, there are many stories..."

"Many times, he was looking at the heaven and earth in the distance. Is he reminiscing? Reminiscing about his family, reminiscing about his old friends?"

"And that piece of music, the pugilistic world drifts, dashing and unparalleled, yet carrying sorrow. When playing it, a woman's back vaguely appeared in my mind..."

"Is that... Senior's Dao companion?"

As she whispered in her heart, a hot wind blew, making Xu Qing's long hair scatter and his clothes flutter.

This wind also fell on Yunmen Qianfan, making her dress cling to her delicate body, outlining undulating curves, very graceful.

The scene was very beautiful.

It seemed that the heaven's work in the dark also looked sideways, starting to write on the desert, and as the desert flowed, it formed sand paintings one after another.

Just like this, time passed.

Five days passed.

Xu Qing's divine sense had already covered an endless range, and while covering this desert, it also seeped into every grain of sand.

Five days ago, at the first glance of this desert, Xu Qing felt the chaos of time here.

As for the specific reason, he was not sure at the time, only feeling that his sundial's gnomon stuttered here, sometimes speeding up, sometimes slowing down, sometimes stopping.

And his Extreme Time Dao was also more turbulent than usual.

Until now, through five days of observation and research, combined with his own understanding of time, he vaguely had a guess.

"The endless sand here, seemingly massive and uncountable, but actually... the feeling it gives me is one body."

"This one body is not describing the desert as a whole, but... the consistency of the individual!"

Xu Qing pondered in his heart.

"To be precise, although there are subtle differences in the wear and size of each grain of sand here, in fact, they might have all been the same at the beginning."

"Regardless of size, regardless of wear, including all subtle details, they are all the same."

Such a large quantity, it is as if it were copied."

This was an epiphany he had after five days of observation, research, and exploration.

Xu Qing raised his hand, scooped up a palm of sand, and gazed at it.

"It is as if... here in the past, there was only one grain of sand."

"It was the blowing of the wind, or the influence of external objects, that caused this grain of sand to move. Every movement caused the time acting on it to change."

"Every change is equivalent to one more time line, and one more grain of sand."

"With the passage of time like this, under the blowing of the wind or mysterious power, the time lines here became more and more, and the sand grains became more and more."

"Each grain of sand had the same starting point, but soon they all had independent time lines. In their respective time lines, they appeared with different friction and trajectories."

"Finally, this desert in my eyes was formed."

"This is also why there are so many times here, and they intersect with each other."

Xu Qing raised his head and looked toward the end of the desert.

"This place is magical, or rather... this place is actually a supreme treasure related to time."

"But very few people can take it away, because the method to take it away is to dial the time of every grain of sand here correctly, making this desert return from chaos, and finally the sand grains decrease one by one, until it becomes that initial one."

"Now I cannot do it either."

"But... here, I saw a deeper display method of time power."

Xu Qing's eyes flashed.

"Time branching!" ===== CHAPTER 1070 =====