mesbooks Chapter 680 The Familiar River of Time
Chapter 680 The Familiar River of Time
"Receive it from me!"
Lin Hanzhou's eyes shone brightly with crimson gold and deep purple light.
Without the slightest hesitation, he directly used his most powerful Emperor Dao Law.
The Heavenly Flame transformed into a layer of fine, dragon-scale-like crimson-gold divine patterns on his body, while the Heavenly Punishment Thunder intertwined into an invisible net of lightning that blotted out the sky, effectively imprisoning a three-foot radius space into an absolutely independent domain.
Thunder and fire merged, and Tai Chi generated each other, forming a perfect sealing ring.
Lin Hanzhou used his supreme divine body as a furnace and the dual laws as chains to forcefully suppress the extraordinary phenomenon of the laws that was enough to make the universe boil within his palm.
The wind and snow continued to howl around them, and the neon lights of the mortal city below continued to flash. No living being knew that just a moment ago, they had already walked through the gates of hell.
After suppressing the strange phenomenon, Lin Hanzhou took out a jade box.
This jade box originated from the former Mausoleum of the Taiyin Emperor and was carved from the most exquisite divine material in the universe.
Lin Hanzhou carefully placed the Harmony Flower into the jade box.
Strangely enough, once the Dao-Harmony Flower detached from the icy, snowy landscape and completely fell into the jade box, the violent roar of ten thousand paths instantly subsided, and it once again transformed into the appearance of a wildflower in the mortal world.
With a thought, Lin Hanzhou directly stored the jade box into his own internal space.
Only then did he let out a long sigh of relief, wiping away non-existent sweat from his forehead with a hint of helplessness.
"As expected of something that disrupts the balance of the universe, picking a flower is made to look like it's going to destroy the world."
Lin Hanzhou chuckled self-deprecatingly.
However, in the short few breaths that he had just deeply contacted the Dao-Merging Flower with his divine sense and magic power, he had thoroughly understood some of the core mysteries of this divine object, thanks to his keen perception of the Great Dao.
Although the Harmony Flower is a supreme divine object evolved from the laws of Heaven, there are no overly strict requirements for its preservation and blooming, and it does not require specific divine elixir for nourishment.
However, its existence is not eternal.
A Dao-harmonizing flower is born and blooms from nothingness, and its upper limit of existence is exactly one million years.
Once the one million-year period is reached, regardless of whether the flower has been consumed by a cultivator, the myriad origins contained within it will disintegrate autonomously due to the periodic contraction of the rules of heaven and earth, and will revert to the most primordial fragments of law scattered throughout the void of the universe.
And at that time, in some unknown corner of the universe, a new flower of harmony will be born.
In other words, at any given time, there will only ever be one of these in the entire universe, and it has a limited lifespan.
Through the touch just now, Lin Hanzhou clearly understood that the Dao-Harmony Flower in his hand had been quietly blooming for 170,000 years on the snow-capped mountain of this mortal planet.
"It has been in bloom for 170,000 years... which means that this flower has a full 830,000 years left."
This 830,000-year validity period is more than enough time for his plan to reincarnate, consume the flower in his next life, and regain the throne.
"The expiration date isn't a concern, but... this is a bit difficult to do."
Lin Hanzhou stopped, his brows furrowing slightly, a thoughtful expression on his face.
His ultimate goal in consuming the Harmony Flower was to achieve a rapid breakthrough in his next life, thus avoiding the long and arduous years of arduous cultivation and directly returning to the pinnacle of imperial power.
The problem is that since he is reincarnated, his starting point in the next life will definitely not be high.
In this situation, if the Dao-Merging Flower is too far away from the planet where he will be reincarnated, he will have a hard time finding it.
"It seems I need to find a safe way, ideally someone will kindly bring this flower to my lips the moment I open my eyes in my next life..."
Lin Hanzhou stroked his chin, his eyes darting around slightly, and a classic yet extremely practical idea popped into his mind.
"Should we consider cultivating an absolutely loyal successor with strong enough potential in this lifetime, or perhaps even taking on a disciple?"
"When I'm about to die in this life, I'll pass the treasure vault and the Harmony Flower to him, making him a 'tool' specifically for providing me with resources in each of my reincarnations?"
As soon as the idea popped into Lin Hanzhou's head, he immediately felt that it was quite feasible.
The successor of the Great Emperor is an existence of utmost nobility in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
As long as you nurture it carefully and leave it with an ultimate imperial weapon and a massive amount of divine source resources, it is not a problem to let it live for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years.
Just as Lin Hanzhou stood atop the snow-capped mountain, planning the famous "tool training program" for the future.
suddenly!
"boom--"
Without any warning or violent energy fluctuations, Lin Hanzhou felt his heart skip a beat for no apparent reason.
Immediately afterwards, an indescribable, eerie feeling swept over his entire body.
The howling wind and snow that had been raging around them suddenly disappeared in that instant.
Not only did the sound disappear, but Lin Hanzhou was also surprised to find that the white snowflakes that were originally flying everywhere and carrying ice crystals were now strangely suspended in mid-air.
Snowflakes of various shapes remained still in the air, just inches away from his nose, without even trembling.
Lin Hanzhou instinctively released his divine sense to explore the entire planet.
On the bustling streets below the capital, the endless stream of people is all eerily frozen in time;
The tires of the metal vehicles speeding along the road have stopped turning; the contrails of aircraft flying high in the sky have solidified into a stiff white line...
The entire planet, no, the entire universe of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, was forcibly frozen in time by an irresistible and supreme power!
Time stood still at this moment!
"Who is it?! Someone who can stop time in the entire universe?!"
Lin Hanzhou's hair stood on end, and the Emperor's Law within his body surged wildly in that instant. Crimson Gold Sacred Flame and Heavenly Punishment Thunder burst forth from his body, attempting to forcefully break through this shackle of time.
However, to his utter astonishment, even with his invincible combat power now comparable to that of a fourth-generation emperor, he was like an insect stuck in a quagmire, struggling to resist this power that had frozen everything in time and space.
"Splash splash splash—"
A series of extremely clear, vast, and ceaseless sounds of flowing water suddenly rang in Lin Hanzhou's ears.
The sound came from afar, initially like the gentle murmur of a stream, but after only half a breath, it transformed into a terrifying roar like waves crashing against the shore.
Under Lin Hanzhou's gaze, filled with astonishment and uncertainty, the void beneath his feet, the mortal snow-capped mountain peak, began to collapse on a large scale.
A vast, silvery-white river suddenly stretched across the endless void and descended directly onto the summit of this snow-capped mountain!
With each rolling wave, one can vaguely see the rise and fall of an era, the fall of a supreme being, and the beginning of an ancient epic.
This is the river of time he is familiar with!