162: Deadlock

On the fifth day of Qingyang searching for resources, he discovered that these continuous palaces were all tightly shut, making him feel somewhat despairing.

For this, Qingyang even specifically flew higher above these grand halls, hoping to see their full appearance.

Ultimately, Qingyang really did discover some clues: these numerous grand halls, numbering at least several thousand, actually formed a giant Bagua shape as a whole.

The giant Bagua had eight main halls open in different directions, and the position where he and the others initially entered was the Gate of Death within the Bagua.

Since he had seen the full appearance clearly, Qingyang immediately had his own plan, which was to first see how the grand halls in the other directions were.

The first grand hall he would go to must be the Gate of Life.

Very luckily, when Qingyang led Blood Dragon and Bai Rou Rou to the Gate of Life, he immediately discovered that many doors in the small palaces were ajar.

"This... it really is the Gate of Life, ah hahaha, we're saved." Bai Rou Rou said excitedly.

However, just as Bai Rou Rou and Blood Dragon were extremely excited, Qingyang's expression changed drastically after he noticed the words on the distant stone stele.

There were only a few words on the stone stele, but the amount of information was too vast.

"Within life is death, within death is life, seas turn into fields, a lifetime in an instant - Time Eater."

Below the sixteen large characters, a line of smaller text read.

"Those who enter the hall, one day is a hundred years, the living return, the dead are buried."

"One day is a hundred years, as expected of the world's only Divine Beast that controls lifespan." Qingyang muttered to himself.

Qingyang's words also instantly calmed down the originally excited Blood Dragon and Bai Rou Rou.

With these words, at this moment, those ajar palace doors instantly seemed to turn into the Hall of Yama in the eyes of Qingyang, Blood Dragon, and Bai Rou Rou.

Without a doubt, these palaces were the only hope of survival, but just by looking at the text, it was clear that this hope of survival was extremely slim.

The choice now was actually very simple: enter, and there was a possibility of dying directly in about ten days; don't enter, and there was at least quite a bit of time for a turning point.

Seemingly seeing the fear of Blood Dragon and Bai Rou Rou, Qingyang's mind raced.

At a certain moment, Qingyang suddenly remembered the words Qingtian had told him.

"Time gone is time lost forever, if the true heart is not extinguished, the heavens can be shaken."

Thinking of this, the seven-colored energy around Qingyang suddenly gathered.

Then, Qingyang turned around and said to Blood Dragon and Bai Rou Rou behind him: "Enter, only by approaching death can you see the hope of life."

As he spoke, Qingyang had already driven his massive seven-colored giant dragon bone body to quickly walk into one of the palaces.

Originally, Qingyang's idea was that he would go in first, followed closely by Bai Rou Rou and Blood Dragon.

However, after Qingyang saw the words "One Hall, One Soul" at the entrance, he could only abandon this idea.

Finally, just as Qingyang was about to enter the grand hall, he turned his head and nodded heavily towards Blood Dragon and Bai Rou Rou, whose eyes were filled with fear.

"Buzz~"

As Qingyang walked into the hall without hesitation, at this moment, a strange energy fluctuation instantly enveloped him.

Subconsciously, Qingyang turned his head to look outside.

But it was this turn of the head that shocked Qingyang.

He saw that the door to the grand hall behind him had silently closed, and everything outside seemed to be completely sealed off; even his perception could not extend outwards.

Helpless, Qingyang could only focus all his attention back on the entire grand hall.

Inside the grand hall, it was empty, with only a single cushion at the very front, looking like a temple.

On the cushion, there was a book.

Seeing this scene, Qingyang's body quickly shrank, and at the same time, he climbed onto the cushion and began to look at the book.

However, the moment Qingyang's entire body climbed onto the cushion, he could clearly sense that his life force was rapidly draining away this time.

Seeing this, Qingyang immediately wanted to turn around and leave the cushion.

But at this moment, Qingyang was shocked to find that he could no longer leave the area of this cushion and could only move within this half-meter-sized cushion.

On the entire cushion, the book was naturally the first thing Qingyang noticed.

Quickly opening the book, the first sentence inside made Qingyang's scalp tingle.

"Comprehend life, not death."

Qingyang's current lifespan was about a thousand years.

A thousand years, calculated at one day being a hundred years, meant he had ten days left.

Thinking of this, Qingyang immediately began to flip through the book page by page to examine it.

In the book, there was a method for the inverse operation of energy.

According to the book, this inverse operation of energy would damage life force, which is lifespan.

But as long as you learn the inverse operation, not only can your combat power double, but you can also gain some accompanying things called reverse particles.

Without much thought, after quickly finishing reading the energy inverse operation method in the book, Qingyang immediately began to try it.

One must know that the operation of energy was fixed from the very beginning, just like how people drink water and eat.

Now, wanting to make energy operate inversely, how could it be easy?

On the first day, after Qingyang finished reading the method for inverse energy operation in the book, he attempted to mobilize energy for the first time, but the result was that as soon as the energy fluctuations around his body were mobilized, it directly failed.

Yes, the inverse energy operation, at the beginning, required controlling all of one's own energy.

But this matter, how could it be easy?

If energy were compared to a particle, then as one's strength increased, the particles within one's body would also become more numerous.

Currently, Qingyang's own strength had reached the thirteenth rank, and the amount of energy within his body could only be described as massive.

To mobilize such a vast amount of energy without missing a single bit, the difficulty of this task was imaginable.

What was most terrifying was that almost every minute and second, Qingyang still had to endure the feeling of his life force draining away, making it impossible for his thoughts to concentrate at all.

Because he had completely understood the method for inverse energy operation on the first day, from then on, Qingyang had been working hard to first control all of his own energy.

To be honest, Qingyang had never before sensed every bit of his energy with such meticulous detail, but now, because of this matter, he had to work hard to sense and mobilize it.

The second day passed, and Qingyang's lifespan had eight days left.

And after countless attempts, Qingyang finally managed to control his own energy, albeit barely, from ninety-five percent to ninety-six percent.

Seeing these changes, Qingyang worked even harder, and while continuing to strive to control all of his own energy, he muttered to himself: "Increasing by zero point one each day, it's just a matter of five or six days."

On the third day, just as Qingyang had guessed, his energy control reached ninety-seven percent.

Everything seemed to be developing in a good direction, making Qingyang extremely excited.