Just do what they say, while the other shepherds are participating in the hunting ritual and leaving, while Saron is meditating under the sacred pillar, Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei come to the root of the sacred pillar along the body of the giant god machine, and enter the sacred pillar. In those gravel worlds.
In these gravel-like worlds, the world barrier has become extremely strong because it is compressed by some strange force. Countless looming rays of light surround the outside of these worlds like vast smoke waves. These smoke waves devoured the bones to nothing.
But this couldn't stop Bai Qiuran, he picked a world at random, drew the sword to cut these smoke waves and the barrier of the world together, and brought Tang Ruowei into it.
The two came to the inner side of the world, and the inner side of the world returned to its normal size. As far as the eye could see, stars with strange shapes and strange colors hung high in the sky. The ground was covered with crystal-like cities, not only cities, but also large cities. The animals and plants on the ground were also replaced by clusters of crystals.
Those crystal clusters flickered faintly like breathing. Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei once saw a creature formed of transparent crystals the size of an ox and horse, walking past them and swallowing a cluster of crystal clusters.
These crystal creatures are not aggressive. When they saw two "flesh monsters" entering this world, they were startled and hid, and then from those corners, they peeked out their heads and watched.
Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei walked back and forth towards a crystal city in the distance. The white-haired man walked in front with his hands behind his back, and the girl in a goose-yellow skirt looked at the back, walking briskly like a deer. The pace followed, and by the way, he stretched out his hands and took the man's arm on one side.
"You've been a little clingy lately."
Bai Qiuran gave her a sideways glance.
"Have I noticed that you are degenerating? In a while, am I going to sell you bottles and pacifiers to coax you?"
"Hmph, solid ironwood."
Tang Ruowei rolled his eyes at him and dismissed it, but she still didn't let go of Bai Qiuran's arm.
The two came to the city. The city was unexpectedly alive. Countless crystal-like humanoid creatures were walking back and forth. Seeing the two of them, these crystal humanoid creatures gathered curiously and surrounded them. , making a crisp "bang dang" and "bang dang" sound like the collision of crystals.
"This… are they talking to us?"
Tang Ruowei looked at the crystal human figure beside her in surprise, reached out her hand curiously, and touched the crystal creature.
As a result, the crystal creature was startled instead, it stumbled backwards, fell to the ground, its left hand and right foot broke and fell into pieces.
However, the crystal humanoid didn't seem to notice it. It used its only hands and feet to back up a distance, then quickly got up, jumped back on one leg, and disappeared at the corner of the street.
"Hey, it was fun."
Tang Ruowei became so playful, she simply let go of Bai Qiuran's hand, spread her arms, and ran towards the surrounding crystal figures.
Those crystal human figures were so frightened that they froze, and all of a sudden, the ground was full of crystal fragments, and then a group of crystal creatures without arms and legs got up from the ground and fled in various ways. There was even a crystal man with broken hands and feet, lying on the ground and rolling away.
Bai Qiuran captured Tang Ruowei and reprimanded:
"Are you wicked? Come here for me."
"Oh."
Tang Ruowei stuck out her tongue, continued to wrap her arms around him, and followed behind Bai Qiuran.
The two came to the center of the city, and a sturdy crystal column rose from the center of the ring road in the city, straight into the sky, and along this irregular crystal column, countless looming and looming objects could still be seen in the sky. Transparent veins.
"What are those?"
Tang Ruowei's eyesight is not good, she tried her best to open her eyes, but she could only see some translucent light.
"Those are fork-shaped crystals... So that's the case. No wonder Toynbee called the sacred pillar "Crystal Tree" when he brought me to the island. It seems that the crystal pillar is really a living crystal tree. Roots spread into the [gravel] of these worlds, drawing nourishment from each world."
Bai Qiuran came to the crystal pillar and touched it. The inside of the crystal pillar also had filaments gathering together, just like the holy pillar in the middle of the island.
"Ruowei."
After hesitating for a moment, Bai Qiuran ordered:
"I will start to analyze the power in this crystal column. I will set up a barrier that changes the flow of time. You can help me watch the time. If you have been outside for a year and I haven't finished analyzing it, you will enter the barrier. Inside, wake me up."
Tang Ruowei nodded.
"I know."
Bai Qiuran then came to the crystal column, pinched the magic formula, and set up a barrier containing the divine text of time, then sat cross-legged and began to analyze this wonderful filament power in the crystal column with all his strength.
Tang Ruowei stayed outside the barrier, found a clean place and sat down, resting her chin with one hand, and began to stare at Bai Qiuran who closed her eyes and meditated in a daze.
"You're pretty handsome when you don't stink."
she mumbled.
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Time passed quickly, half a year had passed in the outside world, and Bai Qiuran had already passed hundreds of years inside the Time Barrier.
In the past six months, Tang Ruowei has been staying near the crystal column, watching Bai Qiuran in a trance, most of the time thinking, and a small part of the time smirking.
And those crystal humanoids, after being occupied by two "flesh monsters" in the middle of the city, did not dare to appear nearby.
Once, a group of crystal figurines gathered and hid in the nearby crystal buildings to snoop, as if they were planning how to drive away these two uninvited guests and take back the downtown area, but they were chased away by Tang Ruowei. The crystal figurines were so frightened that they left behind the crystal shards on the ground and fled in tears. Since then, no crystal figurines have appeared within a mile.
And Bai Qiuran in the enchantment is nearing the end of his analysis of the power of light. Frankly speaking, this kind of light that is like energy and conceptual polymer is really amazing, even if it is Bai Qiuran was extremely difficult to parse.
Originally, it may have taken him a thousand or two thousand years to completely analyze the true body of these filaments of light, but after he began to analyze it, perhaps the part of the body that belonged to the "shepherd" group of concepts began to emerge. He felt an inexplicable affinity for the power of light.
This kind of affinity greatly accelerated his analysis of the power of light. Therefore, one day after half a year, Bai Qiuran successfully completed the analysis of this power.