Chapter 1708

Calling it a stone pillar is not accurate.

Because it was a hundred zhang wide, extending infinitely upward into the darkness, covered by mist, with no end in sight.

Below the stone pillar was a black lake, without any luster, extremely wide, almost without end.

"Finally there is water! This God Venerable wants to take a good bath!"

Er Gouzi pounced into the water, and the next second it jumped back.

"What's wrong?" Fairy Nichang asked urgently.

This black lake was unheard of; who knows what kind of unimaginable influence it might have, and if something went wrong, the trouble would be huge.

"Ice, very cold." Er Gouzi said honestly.

Fairy Nichang: "..."

Everyone gathered in front of the stone pillar, hope shining in their eyes.

Finally able to get out...

"According to the records on the stone wall, this place is called the 'Road to Freedom and Eternity'." Xu Que looked at this towering stone pillar and explained, "And this freedom and eternity, in the meaning of that race at that time, meant the road to the outside world; find the stone pillar, and you find the road."

Everyone looked at each other, completely confused.

Then the question is, where is the road?

Where is the road?

Looking at it, except for water and pillars, where is the road?

Er Gouzi rushed forward excitedly: "Forget it, it must be climbing up this stone pillar!"

Xu Que couldn't even stop it in time, and Er Gouzi had already rushed out.

Then, he saw its movements getting slower and slower...

"Holy crap! There is time turbulence around this stone pillar!" a cultivator screamed suddenly, hurriedly retreating.

The cultivators who originally wanted to walk over and try it also retreated one after another, not daring to get close.

I saw Er Gouzi like a clay sculpture, frozen in the air, neither up nor down, neither forward nor backward.

No matter how Xu Que looked at it, he felt this time turbulence was unscientific, completely violating common sense of physics.

But this was ultimately a cultivation world; humans being able to erupt with such powerful strength was already very unscientific, so don't worry about these details.

"This... there is no record of these things on the stone wall!" a cultivator said anxiously.

Xu Que saw this and stood out when it was time to act cool.

"Everyone, don't panic; this poor monk discovered a secret method that can measure the speed of time turbulence while translating the stone wall, so let this poor monk take a look!"

Hearing that Xu Que could measure time turbulence, everyone surrounded him in unison.

"Truly worthy of being Master Tang! Truly a genius!"

"Master Tang, hurry up and take a look! Our lives are entrusted to you!"

"Master Tang, you are truly a living Bodhisattva who saves the suffering!"

Facing the eager eyes of the crowd, Xu Que put his hands together and said with a smile: "Amitabha, but this secret method consumes a lot..."

Before he finished speaking, a large pile of heavenly materials and earthly treasures were sent up, which could be said to have everything.

Xu Que's eyes went straight; this bunch of dog things actually hid so many secretly!

He put away these heavenly materials and earthly treasures, closed his eyes, and a burst of golden light emerged around his body.

Then...

"System, calculate the specific value of the time turbulence over there."

Didn't expect it, Grandpa has a cheat!

Along the way, he discovered that although the system had no way to solve the situation of time turbulence, it could concretize time turbulence into values.

For example, the time turbulence in a certain area could be evaluated as one-third the flow rate of actual time.

That is to say, the time spent passing through that area would be three times the actual time.

If the actual time takes one minute, passing through that area would take nine minutes.

So he actually led everyone to walk through many areas where time flow was not so abnormal, although it took more time, it wasn't that exaggerated.

After a while, the system sent a reply.

"Ding, according to the system calculation, the time flow rate in this place decays exponentially; in the area near the stone pillar, the time flow rate is about one-millionth of the normal speed, and the actual time required to pass through the entire area is about three years."

"Three years?!"

Holy crap!

Xu Que was stunned on the spot.

From where everyone was to the stone pillar, it was visually estimated to be about five hundred meters, and it actually took three years!

Are you kidding me!

By the time I get out of here, Rou'er will have a child, right!

"System, crack this time turbulence for me."

"Ding, please upgrade..."

"Get lost!"

Xu Que felt a bit helpless in his heart; this broken system is becoming less and less useful now.

Actually, he wanted to upgrade, but he didn't have enough Acting Cool Points!

Hearing Xu Que blurt out those three years, the surrounding cultivators were also stunned.

These Immortal Venerables of theirs, crossing this area was actually just a blink of an eye.

But just this blink of an eye actually took three years?

Such a large drop in time flow rate made everyone's heart surge with despair.

"Actually, everyone doesn't have to be like this; we can pass through this area and wait for the next batch of cultivators to open the Forest of Chaos!" a cultivator suggested.

But no one paid attention to him.

Xu Que was amused; a cultivator who could say such things is also a talent.

Not to mention whether it's possible to get out through this stone pillar, does the next Heavenly Gate competition necessarily have to be in the Forest of Chaos?

Fairy Nichang said before that the assessment methods and assessment locations for each Heavenly Gate competition were the same.

If the assessment location for the next time isn't here, wouldn't they have to wait again?

That would be waiting until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.

Just at this moment, a figure suddenly flashed past everyone and rushed towards Xu Que quickly.

Xu Que was stunned, almost shouted "Protect the driver", turned his head, and saw Er Gouzi looking terrified, shrinking behind him.

He was surprised: "Aren't you frozen by the time flow?"

The position Er Gouzi was in just now was enough for it to walk for three or four weeks, and maybe it could only move less than a meter; how did it suddenly run back?

Er Gouzi was confused: "This God Venerable doesn't know either; just now I suddenly saw your movements become very fast, then this God Venerable didn't dare to move around, then I saw your movements become normal, so I hurried back."

Being in a slow time flow, one would see the movements of people in a normal time flow become fast.

It's like a stone looking at humans; if it could blink, it would feel that humans changed from youth to old age in just a blink.

Xu Que was stunned, grabbed a handful of Er Gouzi, and his hand was full of water.

Holy crap... could it be?

Xu Que dived into the water and let the system start detection.

"Ding, detection complete, the time flow rate underwater is normal."

Xu Que was overjoyed, grabbed Er Gouzi and hugged it: "Well done!"

Er Gouzi started to panic: "What are you doing! This God Venerable likes the Warden!"