bioinnovel Chapter 543 Born of Time, Grown by Time
Chapter 543 Born of Time, Grown by Time
After a brief moment of shock, Lin Hanzhou lowered his head, looking at his hands in disbelief, and then touched his chest.
The body that was originally covered with terrifying cracks and had even burned away the Great Emperor's Dao Fruit has now been completely restored.
Not only was it completely intact, but he even felt that the blood and energy in his body were even more vigorous than at his peak. The original source of the Time Emperor, which had been depleted, was now like a divine spring that never dried up, surging outward with surging vitality and power.
Is this the method used by the future self?
With just a casual wave of his hand, he released an invisible force that could not only ignore the combined blockade of the three strange immortal kings and forcibly pull him in, but also instantly pull a dying man who had one foot in the coffin back to his peak condition.
This method has completely surpassed Lin Hanzhou's current understanding of "treatment" or "creation".
Lin Hanzhou took a deep breath of the air, which carried the rich scent of time, and slowly stood up.
He shifted his gaze from his unharmed body and began to carefully examine the seemingly dilapidated wooden boat beneath his feet.
The wooden boat was not large, only about 20 feet long and less than 5 feet wide. Its hull was a dull grayish-brown color and was covered with mottled marks.
The bow of the boat was slightly raised, and a simple awning was placed at the stern to shelter it from the wind and rain.
From any angle, it looks exactly like the ordinary small fishing boats used by the lowest-level old fishermen in the Jiangnan water towns to make a living on the river.
There were no elaborate array patterns, no dazzling immortal golden luster, and not even the slightest fluctuation of magical treasure spiritual power.
Yet this seemingly ordinary wooden boat is now sailing steadily on the River of Time, a river that strikes fear into the hearts of all living beings in the myriad realms!
Lin Hanzhou was someone who had personally summoned the phantom of the River of Time, and he knew better than anyone else how terrifying this river was.
The waters of the River of Time are not water in the ordinary sense; they are the embodiment of the pure laws of time, the laws of cause and effect, and fragments of history spanning billions of epochs.
Ordinary cultivators, even those at the Great Emperor level, would have hundreds of thousands of years of lifespan washed away in an instant by the terrifying power of time if they dared to touch a drop of the true River of Time with their physical bodies, turning into a pile of withered bones.
Even the most powerful immortal kings cannot allow the waters of the River of Time to taint their bodies for long.
Otherwise, one will inevitably be tainted by overwhelming karma that is difficult to wash away. At best, one's cultivation level will drop; at worst, one will suffer karmic backlash, resulting in death and the dissipation of one's cultivation.
However, as this wooden boat cuts through the waves...
"Splash... splash..."
The surging river of time constantly laps against the gunwale of the wooden boat, splashing up waves that contain countless scenes of the world's birth and death.
Some of the river water even splashed directly onto the deck of the wooden boat, flowing past Lin Hanzhou's feet.
What's truly baffling is that the river of time, powerful enough to decay everything, slid off as easily as ordinary water splashed onto a waxed tarpaulin when it came into contact with the seemingly ordinary wooden hull. It left not even the slightest trace of erosion on the wooden boat!
This wooden boat is clearly no ordinary object!
It not only carries people against the current in the long river of time, but also completely ignores the erosion of time and the entanglement of cause and effect.
This is like an ordinary person holding a piece of raw iron, yet able to withstand the sun's true fire that can melt stars; it exudes an unreasonable and bizarre power.
Lin Hanzhou squatted down, stretched out his fingers, and wanted to touch the gray-brown wooden deck.
Just as his fingertips were about to touch the deck.
"I know what you're curious about."
A gentle voice suddenly rang out in front of Lin Hanzhou.
Lin Hanzhou paused, then looked up.
Lin Hanzhou, wearing a tattered straw hat and a rough raincoat, had turned his back to the world again.
He gripped the wooden oar with both hands, maintaining a steady and leisurely rhythm as he rowed, stroke by stroke, amidst the raging torrent of time.
Lin Hanzhou, dressed in a straw raincoat, did not turn around, but it was as if he had eyes in the back of his head, or directly saw through Lin Hanzhou's thoughts, and he calmly explained.
"Don't you think this wooden boat is made of ordinary wood from the mortal world? Are you curious why it has remained intact throughout the long river of time?"
"Actually, the material of this awning boat is not complicated; in fact, it can be said that it is simply a byproduct of the long river of time."
"Byproducts?"
A hint of doubt flashed in Lin Hanzhou's eyes.
"good."
Lin Hanzhou, dressed in a straw raincoat, spoke slowly and deliberately as he rowed the boat.
"At the source of the river of time, where almost no one can venture, and on the riverbank where the laws of time are most concentrated, grows a special kind of plant."
"This plant uses the dust of history as its soil, the karma of all living beings as its water, and the changing of eras as its light."
"They are not within the Five Elements, nor are they governed by any of the Great Daos in the myriad realms, because they themselves are the material manifestation of the concept of [time]."
"The supreme beings of later generations called it—the Tree of Time."
Lin Hanzhou's voice echoed amidst the rushing water, revealing a secret belonging to a truly supreme realm.
"The growth cycle of the Tree of Time is so long that it is despairing; the birth and death of an era may only allow it to grow a single leaf."
"The time required for a log to grow into a sturdy log suitable for building a ship is countless times longer than the history of this immortal realm."
"Because they are born of time and grow with time, every grain of wood inside them is formed by the purest laws of time."
"Therefore, the wooden boats made from the trunk of the Tree of Time are naturally of the same origin as the River of Time."
"When the waters of the River of Time fall upon it, it's like a drop of water falling into the ocean; naturally, it cannot cause any erosion or damage."
"Only such implements, crafted from the roots of the Tree of Time, can truly resist the violent erosion of the River of Time, allowing living beings to sail freely on this forbidden river."
After listening to the detailed explanation from his future self, the doubt on Lin Hanzhou's face gradually disappeared, replaced by a deep sense of realization and shock.
"I see... We are born of time, we grow up in time, therefore we can disregard time."
Lin Hanzhou looked thoughtfully at the wooden boat beneath his feet, gently stroking the rough hull with his hand, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
"No wonder this wooden boat looks so ordinary. Treasures of this level have long since returned to their original simplicity, shedding all their ornate appearances and retaining only the most essential laws."
Just as the two were talking and exchanging questions.
The awning boat, propelled by the straw raincoat-covered forest on the cold islet, appeared to move slowly, but in reality, it was traveling at a terrifying speed that transcended the laws of time and space, heading towards the depths of the river of time.
The surrounding dark red ruins of the immortal realm began to distort and blur at a visible speed.
The laws of space shattered inch by inch under the immense power of the river of time, transforming into countless bizarre and colorful blocks of light that sped backward on both sides of the wooden boat.
Gradually, the figures of the two people and the wooden boat were shrouded in a thick mist of time, and began to become illusory in this void. Finally, accompanied by a melodious sound of flowing water, they drifted away and disappeared into the distance at the end of this world.