Guarding the River of Time-Chapter 281 - 272: Cutting Off the River of Time, All for Your Arrival!
In this tributary, a bottomless pit extending underground appeared, and the river water on the tributary continuously flowed into this abyss-like pit.
This caused the sizable tributary channel to be cut off at the bottomless pit.
Su Mu looked down towards the tributary’s lower section. Because all the river water was flowing into the bottomless pit, the downstream tributary was completely deprived of any irrigation, causing the riverbed to dry up and crack. The sandy riverbed was covered with various fish bones, with no signs of life anywhere in sight.
Not only that, but along the downstream path, the riverine grasses and other vegetation had all withered, leaving a desolate wilderness.
This tributary, though not small, had a wide channel and should have been very rich in aquatic resources. By rights, it should have contained many Treasure Fish.
But due to the presence of the bottomless pit on the riverbed, most of the Treasure Fish in this tributary were all drawn into the bottomless pit by the strong attraction of the water.
If this situation is left unattended, continuing like this would completely ruin this tributary.
This is the first time Su Mu has encountered such a situation. In the past, he usually dealt with some vortices and small holes, which were easy to handle.
This large-scale hole is something Su Mu has never seen before.
Su Mu stood on the river water, and as soon as his feet touched the water’s surface, he personally felt how strong the suction was.
Walking towards the abyss of the bottomless pit, the closer he got, the stronger the suction became, as if it could sweep Su Mu’s body into the bottomless pit at any moment.
But now Su Mu, with a thirty percent Affinity with the river, found any situation on the river’s surface to not be an issue for him.
For convenience in observation, Su Mu waved his large hand, directly halting the flow of this tributary, and then walked towards the abyss of the bottomless pit.
Standing at the edge of the pit, looking down, he found... his Divine Sense couldn’t probe to the bottom; it was pitch black, and nothing was visible.
...
This is a situation Su Mu clearly couldn’t sit by and watch without doing anything; he had to find a way to fill it up to ensure the normal flow of this tributary.
Earning Favor Points is secondary. The main thing is that I, Su Mu, am a person who loves to protect the environment! (manual dog head)
First, he needed to probe how deep this hole was to estimate how much river sand would be needed to fill it.
Because this hole was very strange, and Divine Sense seemed unable to enter, Su Mu could only go down personally to take a look.
At this time, the Little Fox stood on the shore, looking at Su Mu with a nervous face, wanting to follow.
Seeing this, Su Mu waved his hand to the Little Fox and said, "Wait for me on the shore." 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎
Having said that, Su Mu leaped and jumped into the hole.
Spiritual Power swirled around Su Mu’s body, allowing him to descend at a very fast speed, but the surroundings remained pitch black, with nothing visible.
After descending about a few thousand meters, he finally saw some faint lights below.
Thud—
Su Mu landed on the ground; the ground beneath was very solid, surprisingly without water??
The next second, green and blue fireflies emerged from the walls, resembling specks of luminescence, illuminating the surrounding scene.
The surroundings were walls of purple-black, the ground was rock but very smooth; not a drop of water was visible on the ground, which greatly puzzled Su Mu.
With such a large volume of river water flowing down from above, a Dark River should have formed here long ago, yet no water was seen. So then... where did the falling river water go???
Su Mu carefully examined the place but found nothing unusual. The distance from here to the river’s surface is about three thousand meters, thankfully not very deep; otherwise, the workload would be too great.
After looking around, he found another path ahead, and Su Mu followed the stone path using the light from the fireflies, continuing forward.
After walking about five hundred meters, he saw a faint light coming from a cave entrance.
...
Very quickly, Su Mu came to an open area where the space was much larger, and the view opened up significantly.
This enclosed space, surrounded by rock, was cylindrical, about a thousand meters in height, and with a radius of about two hundred meters.
Su Mu waved his large hand, causing Spiritual Power to transform into paths of candlelight, lighting them on the ground, instantly illuminating this space.
At this time, when he looked towards the surrounding walls, his pupils suddenly constricted.
Immediately, he quickly approached the walls.
Upon closer inspection, he found that the rock walls were engraved with protruding reliefs; with thorough observation, he noticed that these reliefs took the form of various creatures.
With nine claws waving, a dragon’s body coiled, majestic dragon horns, and dragon eyes adorned—this was a dragon!
Looking from the side, wings spread wide, flame-like patterns spreading, tail feathers agile, resembling a phoenix ascending to the nine heavens—this was a phoenix!
The body was robust, scales like carvings, a long tail raised, dragon-like Asura runes covering the body, head held high—this was a Qilin!
Su Mu carefully counted and found there were as many as one hundred and eight different creatures carved on these four walls. These creatures were not ordinary ones; all were noble and rare species recorded in Ancient Texts, etched into the four walls, forming a vivid Hundred Beasts Map.
At this moment, Su Mu realized something was amiss. He extended his right hand, and the instant his fingertip touched one of the dragon reliefs—
He felt something, as if electrified, and his eyes widened with incredulity.
These were not reliefs, but corpses!
To be precise, the protruding reliefs were carved using the bones of these Fierce Beasts as materials. To put it plainly, someone had killed these Fierce Beasts and carved their bones onto these walls!
....
At this moment, Su Mu turned around to look at a black rock in the center.
This rock, about the height of Su Mu’s head, stood quietly at the center of this space, the most conspicuous position. However, this oddly-shaped rock had nothing unusual.
But a slender blue column of light appeared above this rock, shooting straight to the top.
Looking up, he found this slender blue light column connected to a round white Spirit Stone on the ceiling.
The next second.
The ground began to shake slightly.
The head-height rock before him started to tremble, and then one rock piece after another began to fall off until finally transforming into the silhouette of a seated figure.
Seeing this scene, Su Mu was stunned.
Because he actually never noticed that within this rock, a person was sealed?
...
After a while.
The figure slowly opened its eyes, and the thin layer of stone covering its body began to peel away.
After seeing Su Mu, the figure slowly stood up, dusting off some of the remaining gravel from its shoulders before finally raising its head to gaze at Su Mu, revealing a smile.
"You’ve finally arrived."
