Chapter 742: The Hourglass of Time (Part II)
Everyone stopped in the hall for a long time, not knowing what to do for a while, only to hear the "rustle" of sand falling in the hall.
After half an hour like this, Jin Muchen and Zhou Qingxi first felt that something was wrong. Jin Muchen wondered: "It's strange, how do you feel that the more you stay here, the greater the mental pressure, and the sound of this hourglass makes people feel very irritable." ”
Zhou Qingxi said: "Yes, I feel the same way!"
Cheng Ling's heart moved, he looked at the two hourglasses on the ground, his divine sense swept over, and he suddenly felt a little different. The sand in the hourglass that I took out seemed to fall much slower, but the time had not passed long, and the difference was still very weak, and few people could see the clues.
But he had to take the words of the two seniors to heart, and now he crossed his knees in front of the hourglass and observed it carefully.
When the rest of the crowd saw him like this, they each found a place and began to meditate with their eyes closed.
After another three hours, Cheng Ling also felt that the mental pressure began to increase. He felt a pang in his heart, this kind of pressure would gradually increase over time, and the cultivation of the two seniors was a great realm higher than his own, and his spiritual power was stronger than his own, and his sense was naturally more keen.
Excluding them, the strength of their own spiritual power in the hall should be ranked third, this is only a few hours later than them, if their inference is correct, next, Fang, Chu Tianheng, Ye Zhining and others will also feel this pressure.
Sure enough, after another two hours, Chu Tianheng couldn't help but say, "Master, how can I feel a sense of depression, my spiritual power is constantly being consumed!"
"Me too!"
"Me too!"
Jin Muxi and Zhou Qingxi's faces changed again, and now they feel that the pressure of mental power is much greater than before, there must be something unusual about this hall space!
Zhou Qingxi asked, "Cheng Ling, how do you feel?"
Cheng Ling replied: "I'm the same, but now I really want to touch a trace of the reason, everyone wait patiently for a while, you should be able to find the answer!"
Jin Muchen was stunned for a moment, and when he saw him staring at the hourglass, he couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "What are you doing staring at that hourglass all the time?"
"Uncle Shi, haven't you noticed that the speed at which sand particles fall from this hourglass is much faster. According to common sense, no matter how the size of the hourglass changes, the speed at which the sand particles drip should be the same, in other words, the flow of time is the same!"
Jin Muchen paused, nodded and said, "Not bad!"
"But if you look at the two hourglasses in front of me, the small one I carry with me, and the big one that I already have in the hall, and the speed of the hourglass between them is completely different. ”
Everyone hurriedly swept their senses over, and sure enough, they found a difference.
Ye Zhining asked suspiciously, "But what does this mean?"
"It means that time flows much faster in this hall than in the outer hall. ”
"I don't understand!"
"Let me put it another way, let's say we have passed two hours in the outer room, and more than two hours have passed in this hall, as for the exact ratio between the two, it is impossible to accurately determine at this time!"
Ye Zhining was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "According to you, if we stay in this hall for ten years, and the time that has passed outside may only be seven or eight years?
Cheng Ling smiled secretly in her heart, in the end, she is a girl, and the first thing she cares about is her age. He smiled indifferently and said, "Senior Sister Ye, don't worry, the hourglass I took out will only take a day to leak, and after a while, you will know the result!"
Ye Zhining immediately shut up, and her eyes couldn't help but cast into the hourglass.
Soon, everyone sighed, and all the sand in the big hourglass in the hall dripped off, and looking at the small hourglass that Cheng Ling took out, it was almost half dripping.
Cheng Ling immediately set off and flipped it over again.
In this way, all the sand in the small hourglass leaked out, and the large hourglass also leaked out of all the sand in the big hourglass.
Cheng Ling took a deep breath and said, "Now it's certain that the speed of time in this hall is twice as fast as that of the outside world. In other words, two days here and only one day outside!"
Ye Zhining said dejectedly: "But even if we know this, if we can't leave here, maybe our life span will be halved!"
Jin Muxi, Zhou Qingxi, Fang, and Chu Tianheng trembled slightly by Ye Zhining's words.
One of the big reasons why monks tirelessly pursue cultivation and improvement is immortality. If their longevity is suddenly reduced by half, this is unacceptable to anyone!
Cheng Ling didn't care, for him, what he lacked the most was time! His path of cultivation started too late, although he had the inheritance of the golden pages against the sky, and there were countless opportunities for his cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds, but in the Star Realm, he could still only be regarded as a low-level cultivator.
I don't dare to practice swordsmanship, I have to be cautious when I go out to practice, and I don't even dare to shout loudly when I stand on the street, so I can only be a low-key person, for fear of causing unnecessary trouble. If there was enough time, he believed that he would definitely be able to reach the Nine Star Land Immortal Realm within a hundred years.
At that time, Yang Hongqiu's head disease can be completely cured, and then find a way to travel through the entire Star Realm, and he must find a way to return to the Canglan Continent.
In the past few years since he came to the Star Realm, he has been cultivating desperately, and he has not given himself any free time at all. In order not to think of his beloved and relatives and friends on the Canglan Continent when he is lonely, that feeling is too painful.
After being silent for a long time, he said leisurely: "Actually, this is a great opportunity for everyone. Let's not talk about whether our lifespan will be halved if we are trapped here, even the cultivation time is twice as long as that of ordinary people. In other words, if you have been cultivating here for ten years, it is equivalent to twenty years outside. ”
"Such a gap is terrifying, haven't you thought about it?"
When everyone heard this, they suddenly woke up, and their previous worries were diluted a lot.
Zhou Qingxi said: "The words are good, but don't you feel that with the passage of time, the mental pressure is getting bigger and bigger? Now that only one day has passed, we may still be able to bear it, if it is a long time, the spiritual power will be exhausted, and even the entire spiritual world will be completely crushed." ”
"As a result, you will either become an idiot, or your soul will be annihilated and you will die completely!"
When everyone heard this, they immediately became nervous again, and they all turned their heads to look at Cheng Ling, hoping that he could think of something!
Cheng Ling nodded silently, Zhou Qingxi was worried that it was likely to become a reality, and the hall space here did not know what kind of place it was, which would produce this kind of mental pressure. If you can't crack it, you must find a way to leave, otherwise you won't be able to bear it for a long time.
He said: "The words of the predecessors are very reasonable, but I think this should be a cultivation secret realm in the Star Monarch's Mansion, there will definitely be no way out, everyone look carefully and see what is special!"
When everyone heard this, they took action one after another, carefully observing all corners of the hall, three thousand monks, almost everyone turned over the walls and floors in the hall, even on the ceiling, Jin Muchen and Zhou Qingxi searched, and still did not find any abnormalities.
Now, they began to get restless again.
Cheng Ling was patient and comforted: "Don't worry, there must be a way, everyone give me some time!"
With that, he sat down cross-legged beside the hourglass. At this time, he didn't dare to have any reservations, preferring to risk being discovered by Jin Muchen and Zhou Qingxi, the Nine Turns of the Divine Soul Exercise was running at full speed, and his spiritual power was like a spider web, with himself as the center, radiating around the hall.
His luck, Jin Muchen and Zhou Qingxi suddenly sensed it. The hearts of the two of them shook wildly, covered by such dense spiritual power, how did he do it with his one-star Xuan Immortal Realm's cultivation?
Zhou Qingxi glanced at Jin Muxi enviously, and said: "Brother Jin, the inheritance of the Five Spirits Sect is indeed strong, Zhou sincerely admires it!"
Jin Muchen smiled bitterly and said, "The Five Spirits Sect doesn't have the inheritance of the Divine Consciousness Exercises, or the mysterious exercises that Senior Sister Yang has recently obtained, in short, I won't!"
Zhou Qingxi was stunned for a moment and asked, "Isn't Brother Jin not going to do this kind of exercise?"
"No!"
"This kid is so unexpected!"
Jin Muchen felt the same way, and secretly envied Yang Hongqiu in his heart. If it weren't for the fact that he was inferior to the other party in terms of cultivation and combat power, maybe he would have killed Lei Ling Peak directly and snatched Cheng Ling to be a disciple of Wuling Peak.
The transmission between the two did not disturb Cheng Ling, he exerted the nine turns of the divine soul to the limit at one time, and the consumption of spiritual power was greatly increased. However, the results are also gratifying, and after holding on to a stick of incense, the divine consciousness finally touched a slight change.
The center of this change is none other than the hourglass.
He noticed that in the bottom pattern of the hourglass, there was a silk thread representing the scale, which was slowly rotating in very small increments. The sound it causes is so small that if you don't pay attention to all of it, you won't be able to detect the subtle differences.
But under the practice of the Nine Revolutions of the Divine Soul, he was finally captured by Cheng Ling. He hurriedly opened his eyes, carefully examined the patterns on the ground, and listened carefully, and found that the illusory hands seemed to turn slowly like the modern hour hand.
Now a day has passed, and the distance that the hand has moved at that time happens to be exactly one-thirtieth of the distance. He suddenly realized that this ring should record the loss of time, if the guess is correct, as long as the entire hour hand goes around once, even if it is a reincarnation, the closed door of this hall will automatically open!
He breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and said, "Guys, I probably understand the purpose of this secret room. According to the scale of the ring and the time of the hourglass, this secret room will be automatically opened after a month. ”
"It's not yet time to open horizontally, everyone can seize the time to cultivate, one month is equivalent to two months in the outer world, although it is not much, it is also a rare opportunity!"
When everyone heard this, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Chu Tianheng also asked again: "Cheng Ling, what you said is true?"
"According to the speculation below, at least ninety percent of the time is certain! Time is pressing, while the mental pressure is not very great now, let's hurry up and cultivate!"
After receiving his affirmation, everyone relaxed again, and the three thousand monks each chose a corner to sit cross-legged and began to cultivate!