Ch 248: Stepping Against the River of Time! I am the Heavenly Dao!

Time flows bit by bit.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye.

Deep within the Primordial Sea, endless primordial light swirls, and strands of primordial qi almost solidify into substance, truly replacing the water in the Primordial Sea. An aura of great annihilation and great terror intertwines.

From time to time, immensely large Primordial Beasts with terrifying auras swim through the depths of this Primordial Sea. None of these Primordial Beasts are below the Seventh Level… and even Eighth Level beings are not unseen…

Three Sixth Level Primordial Beasts quietly swim forward. These three were naturally summoned by Chu Mo from the Blood River…

Nearly ten were initially summoned, but along the way, dangers lurked everywhere, and many Primordial Beasts were lost and destroyed. Chu Mo even supplemented the Primordial Beasts several times along the way, but in the end, only these three remained…

“…Almost there.” Chu Mo sensed, his eyes flashing with a strange luster, “Moreover, the current external environment… is truly comparable to the Primordial Sea of the Journey to the West world!”

He organized the information in his mind. He hadn’t been idle during these five days, using the Heavenly Dao Authority to constantly confirm the situation deep within the Primordial Sea… In the end, he confirmed what dangers surrounded the source of the Primordial Sea’s Black Qi, and even considered what methods could be used to avoid these dangers… He formulated a comprehensive plan!

Suddenly, the three Primordial Beasts stopped. Even the dead souls were trembling at this moment, as if feeling fear from the depths of their souls.

“…This is?!” Chu Mo’s expression turned solemn, and then he vaguely realized something, “Is the trial coming?”

Ahead, a colossal mountain trembled slightly. Suddenly, two enormous stone orbs lit up on it. Those were eyes, coldly surveying the three Primordial Beasts.

The last one, under Chu Mo’s control, swam to the front, its scales bristling, hissing as if to intimidate something.

The giant eyes stared at the Primordial Beast for a long time. Finally, the two eyes slowly closed.

The three Primordial Beasts carefully passed the giant mountain…

“As expected.” Chu Mo breathed a sigh of relief. This last Primordial Beast was one he had summoned additionally when planning. The reason Chu Mo did this was because… his race was the same as that of a notoriously fierce tycoon guarding the source of the Black Qi.

The Sixth Level was undoubtedly extremely weak in the depths of this Primordial Sea. But this level of strength appearing in this kind of place… plus being of the same race, would make many of the other race’s tycoons guess at its identity… This guess would make the Primordial Beasts who were qualified to question its entry turn a blind eye.

Most importantly…

“That tycoon who is of the same race as this Primordial Beast… is currently in a deep sleep!” The corners of Chu Mo’s mouth slightly rose. This was the terrifying aspect of the Heavenly Dao Authority. If you had enough information, you could play your opponent in the palm of your hand… Not to mention, Primordial Beasts were powerful, but their brains were notoriously lacking.

With the Primordial Beast in the lead, the three Primordial Beasts either dodged and avoided the Primordial Beasts who didn’t recognize the tycoons and were simply searching, or communicated with the tycoons, letting them pass…

They advanced little by little.

Finally.

What appeared before Chu Mo was an unimaginably vast underwater grand canyon. It was unfathomably deep, and terrifying Black Qi spewed out like a fountain at this moment…

Around it, there were three sleeping tycoons, and they were a full dozens of kilometers away from this source of Black Qi… Although, given their thousands of kilometers in length, these dozens of kilometers were about the same as if they were lying next to the giant canyon.

“Alright! Next is…” Chu Mo’s expression turned serious as he used the Heavenly Dao Authority again, “Is it safe for me to go out now, using the Honored One Demon Authority to conceal my aura…?”

“It takes ten minutes to get the search answer?” Chu Mo was stunned for a moment, and finally chose to wait quietly.

A moment later, when the information flooded into Chu Mo’s mind, his expression became strange.

“I can only stay outside for thirty minutes? After thirty minutes… a patrol unit of Primordial Beasts will search for my existence… The leader of the patrol is an Eighth Level Primordial Beast… My Honored One Demon can’t block his prying.”

Chu Mo pondered. Half an hour was definitely enough. When he absorbed Black Qi next to Zhu Di, it only took that little time… Moreover, the concentration of Black Qi on Zhu Di’s body and the concentration of Black Qi here were completely different concepts.

With a thought, Chu Mo directly appeared outside. The Honored One Demon magic altered his appearance, making him look like a simple Primordial Beast from the outside… At the same time, he used the Heavenly Dao Authority to distort and conceal his race, qi and blood, and other flaws from the conceptual level.

“…Then!” Chu Mo sensed the frantically trembling Doors of Time in his mind. He even had a feeling that he could summon the Doors of Time to the outside world. This was the first time he had this feeling…

However, Chu Mo didn’t really summon it out to seek death. Although the Heavenly Dao search had no problems… that didn’t mean Chu Mo could act recklessly and seek death without consequences.

He took a deep breath, using his body as a medium for the Doors of Time, and frantically began to devour and absorb…

At this moment, this deep part of the Primordial Sea was like an additional black hole. The vast, unimaginable Black Qi that erupted from the bottomless, terrifying abyss… at least a third, or even more, directly poured into Chu Mo’s body.

One second, two seconds, three seconds…

Chu Mo instantly felt that his cooldown time was over, but if he wanted, he could continue to devour.

“If I devour for half an hour like this… will the Doors of Time evolve again?” A hint of anticipation rose in Chu Mo’s heart.

One minute, two minutes, three minutes!

Chu Mo’s body suddenly stiffened. He felt a threat that was difficult to describe in words, just like when he left the Journey to the West world and entered the Primordial Sea. Without the slightest hesitation, he didn’t even choose to enter the Heavenly Dao World, but directly began to transmigrate.

In the next instant…

The nine-headed serpent, thousands of kilometers long in the distance, suddenly opened its eyes. Its eyes, like stars in the sky, were cold and murderous, and the light locked onto Chu Mo and the Primordial Beast. Two of its heads opened their mouths and bit towards Chu Mo’s direction.

And this… was the last scene Chu Mo saw.

The surface of the Doors of Time in his mind was now coated with a layer of brilliant black light. It shook slightly, directly sucking Chu Mo’s soul into it.

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In a daze.

After Chu Mo regained consciousness, he scanned his surroundings, his expression stiffening, and a huge wave arose in his heart.

“Here… what the hell… my god!”

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He actually found that he was standing on a vast, unimaginably large River of Time.

Every drop of water in the river under his feet symbolized a point in time… Chu Mo stared at those water droplets, and at this moment, he saw countless things.

He saw the Divine Province, he saw the Island Country, he saw the isolated overseas continent, he saw Europa… he saw countless things!

Chu Mo took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and then organized the information that the Doors of Time sent into his mind, “Is it telling me… to go against the current?”

“Also, didn’t it say… it was safe for half an hour?” Chu Mo’s expression was a little unsightly, but after thinking about it, the corners of his mouth suddenly twitched, “Could it be… that this half hour meant it was safe if I didn’t do anything… I directly absorbed… so…”

Biting his lower lip, Chu Mo smiled bitterly and threw his thoughts to the back of his mind. He took a difficult step forward. At this moment, ripples were stirred out of thin air. Chu Mo even saw that because of his footsteps, a certain point in time had a slight deviation, resulting in a brand new, extremely small tributary.

Narrowing his eyes, Chu Mo walked forward little by little. Every drop of water contained a point in time… contained everything that happened in the universe during that period… The amount of information contained was too vast.

Although, from Chu Mo’s position overlooking the River of Time, he could see everything if he wanted to, it was precisely because he saw too much that there was very little useful information… Of course, the Heavenly Dao Authority could play a slight role at this time, but it was limited… It wasn’t omnipotent!

One year… ten years… one hundred years… five hundred years… six hundred years…

Relying on the Heavenly Dao Authority, Chu Mo vaguely saw the scenes of the awakening of human Heroic Spirits. Even if they had excavated all the technology, and even gone further, six hundred years ago, humans were still at the bottom of the food chain… just food for demons and monsters!

However, six hundred years ago, Heroic Spirits descended!

One powerful existence after another, one forbidden powerhouse after another who had their names imprinted in myths. They descended to the mortal world like meteors!

The Eastern Emperor, Di Jun, the Twelve Ancestral Sorcerers… the Jade Emperor, the Great Heavenly Emperor… Liu Bang… Qin Shi Huang…

However, countless of them fell for it. Because the enemies they faced were too terrifying… They were one existence after another that Chu Mo found both strange and familiar.

Black Sky, Day, Yellow Sky, Azure Sky… and even the affiliated races of these Heavens! They returned from the Primordial Sea. Those demons, monsters, and ghosts who fed on humans… seemed to have a close connection with these Heavens.

“What a pity.” Chu Mo was full of regret. Perhaps, if these top Heroic Spirit powerhouses grew to their peak, they wouldn’t be weaker than the Forbidden Heavens. Especially those Sage Heroic Spirit Awakeners…

But unfortunately, the moment the Heroic Spirits awakened was precisely when they were at their weakest. They needed to awaken twice to climb to the peak of the awakened Heroic Spirits…

Therefore, the enemy grasped this period of weakness!

Even the most powerful existence could easily be replaced. Or rather, the more powerful the existence, the more attention it would attract, and the easier it would be to replace…

Even… if they faced the real Heavens, they would be captured alive, and even be refined and stripped of their Heroic Spirit power… As for what the enemies would do after stripping the Heroic Spirit power… no one knew… but anyone could guess that it would contain malice!

Either they would devour it, or they would turn it into their own puppet…

“No wonder!” Chu Mo muttered. From the fragments of information revealed from the River of Time, the current First Dragon was actually the fourth generation. The first one was a man of great talent and bold strategy who changed the trajectory of the human race’s destiny, but he also died extremely tragically. However, the First Dragon seemed to have used some means to deceive the heavens, using a certain Heroic Spirit skill to naturally have someone inherit at the moment of his death.

Thus, they constantly died, until the current one… At that time, the situation seemed to have changed, and she gradually grew to her peak? But the details were unknown… As the saying goes, the information was too vast and complex.

“Could it be that Nüwa becoming an artificial intelligence… is also because of this!” Chu Mo stepped forward on the River of Time, and he fell into contemplation. He didn’t see how Nüwa died… There was no way, the amount of information was too vast, and he couldn’t process it all.

In fact, he was already doing his best to use the Heavenly Dao Authority to obtain so much useful information…

However, the information he obtained was already vast enough, and he could draw many conclusions by combining the two and reverse-deducing.

“Speaking of which… the Master of Heaven, the Primordial Celestial Lord, and the Sage Nüwa… If I remember correctly, according to the information obtained from the Journey to the West world… they should have entered the Primordial Sea? What was left behind were just clones!”

“So, are they dead… That shouldn’t be possible! Their strength shouldn’t be weaker than the Heavens… So, why did they turn into Heroic Spirits? Or rather, what exactly is the essence of Heroic Spirits…”

“Moreover, why aren’t the Heavens taking action anymore… Logically speaking, these Black Skies and Days should have always reigned over the human race, constantly watching the human race, and would harvest them whenever the human race awakened a powerful Heroic Spirit! Is it because… the human powerhouses have already grown up, and Zhu Yuanzhang can already rival the Black Emperor? Or even stop the Black Sky? Or is it for some other reason?”

“What are those Primordial Beasts… and what is their relationship with those Heavens…?”

“And those damn demons, monsters, and ghosts…”

“I call the Primordial Sea of the Journey to the West world the Primordial Sea… and modern society also calls the ocean the Primordial Sea… Is it just a coincidence?”

Chu Mo’s brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and he felt a headache. It could only be said that the more you knew, the more confused you became.

Finally.

He crossed two thousand years ago.

This was the era before the Great Cataclysm… The corresponding timeline should also be before Chu Mo’s transmigration. Chu Mo was very curious… what happened during this time…

But soon, the look of anticipation on Chu Mo’s face froze. That period of time was completely chaotic, and he couldn’t see anything. The River of Time was vast and turbulent, and unimaginably violent… as if it was going to destroy everything.

However, the Doors of Time were ultimately powerful to the point of defying the heavens, sheltering Chu Mo, and continued to swim upstream as always.

“…During the Republic of China period, I can vaguely see some clues!” Chu Mo sensed the River of Time under his feet, and the corners of his mouth twitched. Of course, the River of Time was still somewhat chaotic during this period…

Chu Mo continued to step forward, walking towards the upper reaches of the River of Time…

It wasn’t until before the First Opium War that the River of Time completely calmed down. At this time, Chu Mo naturally had a feeling that he could enter… and then be reincarnated… He fell silent!

Turning around, he stared at the forbidden reincarnation area, his expression so wonderful that it couldn’t be described in words, “Tnnnd…”

Patting his cheeks, Chu Mo continued to step upward somewhat speechlessly. He could be reincarnated, but he naturally couldn’t be reincarnated into the late Qing Dynasty… That was no different from not being reincarnated at all…

Continuing to walk forward, Chu Mo’s expression changed drastically as he walked.

“This feeling is…”

“Damn it!” Chu Mo’s heart beat uncontrollably, “How is it possible… My Heavenly Dao Authority, is completely activated?!!”