875: Chapter 864 The Spirit of the Eternal River Map!!

"Saint Son Chen Xun, you go forward and see what is in that room over there."

Qin Yan's gaze swept across the tightly closed door on one side of the palace, and he instructed in a flat tone.

Upon hearing this, the envious expression on Saint Son Chen Xun's face instantly froze—Qin Yan was treating him as a pathfinder to test for traps.

It was simply atrocious.

"Alright then." Although Saint Son Chen Xun was grumbling inwardly, he put on a bright smile and, without another word, stepped forward to lead the way.

He arrived at the door and channeled the Power of Time within his body into it, causing the door to open in response.

The three of them filed in, and as soon as they stepped into the room, a blinding white light nearly dazzled them all.

The three of them simultaneously mobilized their Mental Energy to look, only to see that the inside of the room was densely packed with time crystals!

Silver-white time crystals were neatly stacked in every corner of the room, from the floor all the way to the ceiling.

"I'm afraid there must be hundreds of thousands of time crystals here!"

Saint Son Chen Xun stared at the silver-white hill piled up from time crystals before him, his entire being somewhat stunned.

Such a massive quantity was something he had only been fortunate enough to glimpse from afar once in his life, within the core treasury of the Temple of Time.

Beside him, Saintess Qian Xi was also heavily shocked by the mountain of crystals before her.

However, she quickly sobered up from the shock; although these time crystals were outrageously numerous, not a single one belonged to her.

Qin Yan looked at the mountain of time crystals piled to the brim before him, and an undisguisable look of joy welled up in his deep eyes.

With so many time crystals, his trip to the Sea of Time was an absolute massive profit.

However, when Qin Yan channeled his True Qi, attempting to store the time crystals in this room into the Blood Demon Nest, he discovered that no matter how he mobilized his Mental Energy and True Qi, those time crystals remained motionless as if they had been nailed to the spot.

Refusing to believe it, he had Saintess Qian Xi and Saint Son Chen Xun each step forward to try, but both of them channeled the Power of Time in an attempt to take the crystals away, only to return empty-handed, unable to move even a single one.

"These time crystals are reserved for this old man to heal his wounds; you cannot take them away."

Just then, an aged and distant voice sounded in the room without warning.

Immediately following this, the sound of surging, ceaseless river water came from the Void Realm, and a phantom of the silver-white River of Time slowly emerged from the void, flowing quietly above the heads of the three.

"Are you the Spirit of the eternal river scroll?"

Qin Yan's gaze fell upon the phantom of the river, his expression becoming a bit more solemn.

The river before him was exactly the same as the River of Time he had seen earlier in the eternal river scroll painting—the same silver-white, the same vastness, the same antiquity.

"Your strength is still too weak; you are not yet qualified to inherit this palace. Come back when your cultivation has reached the Great Grandmaster Realm—now, get out."

The phantom of the River of Time did not answer Qin Yan's question.

It merely finished saying these words on its own.

Immediately, without further ado, it stirred up monstrous silver waves, sweeping towards the three of them like a roaring silver Dragon.

Qin Yan only felt his vision blur, and his body was wrapped and sent out by that gentle yet irresistible Power of Time.

When Qin Yan regained his footing, he discovered that he had already appeared outside the eternal palace.

However, when he looked around, wanting to find the figures of Saintess Qian Xi and Saint Son Chen Xun, he discovered that the surroundings were completely empty—the two of them had not been teleported out together with him.

"This Spirit is truly something."

Qin Yan didn't need to think to know that it was the Spirit's doing!

As for the so-called insufficient strength and lack of qualifications, it was nine times out of ten because the Spirit felt that since he did not Cultivate the Power of Time and was incompatible with the Legacy of the eternal True Emperor, it had kicked him, an "outsider," out alone.

As for those two, Saint Son Chen Xun and Saintess Qian Xi of the Temple of Time, they were likely still inside the palace, undergoing the Spirit's trials.

Qin Yan was not in a hurry to leave; he simply found a spot next to the palace, sat down cross-legged, took out the moyuan spirit weapon, and continued his day-after-day Spear Technique training.

However, he cultivated here for seven whole days, and that silver-white palace still stood quietly in its original place.

The figures of Saint Son Chen Xun and Saintess Qian Xi never appeared.

Qin Yan had also tried to directly store this palace into the Blood Demon Nest to take it away, but no matter how hard he tried, it was to no avail; clearly, the Spirit did not intend to let him just take the whole thing away.

There was still some time left before the Sea of Time closed, and Qin Yan did not want to continue wasting time here, so he decisively turned and left this sea area.

As for Saint Son Chen Xun and Saintess Qian Xi, Qin Yan was not worried.

The life and death of those two were already in his hands, and more importantly—they had already been afflicted with the Dark Enslavement rune.

The most terrifying aspect of this Heavenly Demon secret technique was that it could not only control the life and death of the subject, but could also, over time, imperceptibly erode the subject's mind and will.

It caused them to sink little by little from the depths of their Soul, eventually becoming the most loyal servants of the caster without even realizing it.

They wouldn't even have a single thought of resistance.

Although this process was slow, it was irreversible.

"I actually hope that those two can successfully pass the Spirit's trials. When the Spirit discovers that the new master it painstakingly selected for the eternal palace is nothing more than my servant, its expression will surely be very interesting."

Qin Yan thought viciously in his heart as he sped towards the deeper parts of the Sea of Time.

He had noted down this debt for that old Spirit kicking him out without a word.

...

Meanwhile, inside the palace.

Saintess Qian Xi was lying quietly on the huge bed carved from time crystals.

The Power of Time flowing from the bed gently enveloped her entire being like a warm, silver stream of water.

Under the nourishment of this extremely pure Power of Time, the aura around her was slowly rising at a steady and continuous speed.

After her condition was fully restored, Saintess Qian Xi looked out through the palace and discovered that the silver sea area outside was already empty.

Qin Yan had left.

Seeing that the figure she both feared and dreaded had finally disappeared, an undisguisable look of joy could not help but well up in Saintess Qian Xi's eyes.

Although she did not understand why Qin Yan did not activate the curse seal to force her out, regardless, this was a great thing!

"Do you still intend to continue staying here?"

At this moment, the phantom of the River of Time appeared silently beside Saintess Qian Xi.