I created Qin Tianjian in modern times

Seeing this scene, a hint of surprise flashed in Zhao Qi's eyes.

Obviously, this was also his first time to come to this place. But soon, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that his plan was successful.

The long river before us is obviously the long river of time. All of this has been sporadically recorded in ancient books.

In the long river of time, there is no time and no space.

The starting point is the end point, and the end point is the starting point.

There is only an ancient tree without any growth rings, blocking out the sky and the sun.

This is the beginning of all things in the world and also the destination of all things in the world.

Before actually coming here, Zhao Qi actually had no idea whether this ancient method would work.

Fortunately, this attempt was not in vain.

At least now, Zhao Qi really stood beside the long river of time, watching this long river flowing upstream.

Zhao Qi walked slowly along the river. He could clearly see that the clear river bottom was not ordinary rocks and sand, but scenes of history that had happened in the past.

The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the Seven Heroes fighting for supremacy... Just by taking these few steps, Zhao Qi seemed to have experienced a different life.

In this vast river, countless heroes have emerged, and their legendary deeds are still remembered by history.

However, if someone could stroll along this long river of time, he or she might feel the same as Zhao Qi: everything is changing in a flash, as illusory as flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water.

The rise of each ripple in the long river heralds the end of a period of history.

No matter whether it is the high king or the ordinary people, no one can escape the constraints of the laws of the long river of time.

Zhao Qi knew very well that he was just a fallen leaf floating in this long river.

He stared at the images flashing by at the bottom of the river, and walked forward step by step with determination. This was his plan, he wanted to use the power of the mountains and seas to step into this long river of time and explore the truth that led to the death of a team of members from the source.

This secret technique is similar to the method of passing through Yin, but its difficulty and danger are far more than a hundred times.

If I didn't have an extremely firm will, I would probably get lost in this long river very quickly, unable to reach the past or return to the present.

Every step Zhao Qi took was under tremendous pressure, and his bones made crisp sounds, but he did not flinch. He gritted his teeth and moved forward resolutely against the direction of the long river of time. The scenes in the water also kept moving backwards, showing the changes in history.

However, as he walked, Zhao Qi suddenly stopped, his hands trembling slightly. His eyes fell on the bottom of the long river of time, where several figures were looming.

Hu Bayi, Yang Xueli, Zhu Qingyang, Zhang Qilin, Pan Zi... Zhao Qi was shocked. He tried to call back the consciousness of several people from the underworld, but found that they had never set foot in the underworld.

Unexpectedly, they would appear in the long river of time.

This means that Zhao Qi’s previous speculation was correct, and the power of the laws of heaven that the few people encountered was indeed related to time.

Now, their spirits have been completely lost in the long river of time, and they can become any person or any role in this long history. But being lost means that they will never know who they are, and can only be trapped forever in this place without time, where a moment is eternity.

Hu Bayi and the others lay at the bottom of the water, eyes closed, as if they were asleep. Their bodies were translucent, drifting forward with the river. They were completely lost, a state more terrifying than death.

All practitioners of magic know that a person will never truly die unless his soul is shattered.

After life and death, the soul will enter the underworld and reincarnate again.

Over the past thousands of years, many reincarnation methods have even emerged, allowing practitioners to reincarnate with their memories and cultivation from their previous lives, and continue living in a new body.

This method is particularly popular in the Mahayana Buddhism of China and the West, and such people are called reincarnated Buddhas.

Of course, there are also people who will use the effects of some magical treasures from heaven and earth to temporarily escape life and death, such as Tai Sui meat.

This is because the special power contained in Tai Sui meat can make the Heavenly Dao temporarily unable to detect the existence of spiritual consciousness.

Although the physical body will still age, the aging rate will be greatly slowed down after taking Tai Sui meat.

In addition, there is a more special method. There are some ancient secret techniques in the world that can transcend the laws of the six realms of reincarnation by exchanging blood.

Zhang Qilin, Zhang Qishan and others were able to practice this art because of the bloodline passed down from generation to generation.

The first person or the first generation of the Zhang family must have practiced this secret art.

In other words, there are actually many ways to temporarily circumvent the laws of nature.

After all, the way of heaven also provides some heavenly treasures and good fortune.

However, the long river of time is absolutely unavoidable. The existence and extinction of anyone flows in the long river of time, and no one can stay out of it.

This was noticed by many powerful practitioners in the Fa-rectification Era. They spent their entire lives trying to understand the secrets of the long river of time. Therefore, these secret arts came into being.

However, most of the secret techniques could not be passed down. On the one hand, it was because the time interval was too long and too many things happened in the meantime; on the other hand, it was because any practitioner who entered the long river of time and spied on its secrets would consciously destroy the way to the long river of time.

After all, everything here is too mysterious. Just by walking a few steps along this long river, you can gain insights that others will never have in their entire lives.

In this boundless realm of time and space, there is neither the passage of time nor the boundaries of space. All practitioners who can set foot here wish to stay a little longer.

After all, a hundred years spent here is just a moment in the outside world.

Because of this, many monks who achieved enlightenment emerged in the Age of Dharma. Some of them passed away on the spot, while others ascended to heaven and became immortals, which shows how extraordinary and mysterious this place is.

However, even these extraordinary saints need great fortune to gain a foothold here in the Age of Dharma Rectification.

Otherwise, once the breath of the long river of time is on your body, after you leave this place, the way of heaven will ruthlessly wipe you out.

Those who cannot bear it will surely perish... The reason why Zhao Qi took the risk to come here is because he saw this from ancient books.

Since ancient times, the power of the laws set by Heaven rarely directly wipes out existence, unless it is tainted with the breath of the long river of time.

But Zhao Qi was deeply confused. How could these team members have come into contact with the river of time?

Their cultivation is far from being able to take a step on the edge of the river of time, let alone be contaminated by its aura.

This incident bothered Zhao Qi and he was eager to uncover the truth.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered something. Back in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the team members mentioned that there were many records about the 788 Exploration Team.

Combining the descriptions of the long river of time in ancient books, Zhao Qi suddenly realized that this might be the crux of the problem.

So, he resolutely embarked on the journey to the long river of time, even at the risk of being wiped out by the thunder. He vowed to find out what was going on.

Zhao Qi stared at the spirits of his team members sleeping in the long river of time, feeling mixed emotions.

Of course, he wanted to take the consciousness of his teammates away from here, but he knew that it was meaningless to do so. At this moment, he unexpectedly discovered that a diversion had appeared in the long river of time not far away.

This has never been recorded in ancient books, and the emergence of this diversion is extremely strange.

Under tremendous pressure, Zhao Qi quickly walked towards the diversion area.

When he arrived, he was surprised to find that the time when the river bottom appeared was the Qin Dynasty.

At this moment, Zhao Qi was stunned and his brows were furrowed.

Everything seemed to point to the Qin Dynasty, but how could the team members appear in the Qin Dynasty? The flow of the world is always reincarnation, but Zhao Qi didn't understand how the team members got the opportunity to go to the Qin Dynasty, and what they did to cause the long river of time to diverge.

He stood there, stunned for a long time. Thousands of possibilities flashed through his mind, but he rejected them one by one.

This seems to be an unsolvable problem, and after going around in circles, we are back to the starting point.

Zhao Qi was full of doubts and became more and more anxious.

This matter was much more complicated than he had imagined, and the longer he couldn't find the answer, the more he wanted to know it.

He stared at the branch, and the riverbed inside the branch kept showing scenes from the Qin Dynasty. But Zhao Qi soon realized that these scenes were completely different from the history that people were familiar with.

This made his eyes widen, and a bold idea suddenly popped up in his mind: "Could it be that... the history of the Qin Dynasty has changed because of something?"

"Could it be that all this is related to the 788 Exploration Team?" The emergence of this thought made Zhao Qi break out in a cold sweat.

He suddenly realized that he seemed to be trapped in a cycle. In order to find the end, he had to find the starting point first, but the starting point happened to be the end. Zhao Qi's face showed an unprecedented astonishment. He seemed to understand something, but he couldn't express it accurately for a while.

The long river of time has branches, which must be caused by something happening. And this branch that has not dissipated is constantly deriving a new river along a fixed direction.

The Qin Dynasty, this important time point, even concerns the fate of the entire Chinese nation.

Zhao Qi frowned and thought, and at this moment, he finally made a decision. He strode to the lost consciousness of the team members, pinched his fingers and stretched them into the river.

Instantly, a strong suction force seemed to be generated in the water, pulling Zhao Qi into the water. When he opened his eyes again, everything in front of him had changed drastically...

If Zhao Qi had not been present, the team members would not have dared to believe that the person in front of them was the butcher Zhang Qilin, because he was completely different now.

Under the leadership of Zhao Qi, the team members walked up to the butcher.

The butcher still lowered his head, his voice revealing a bit of impatience: "What do you want to buy?"

When Zhu Qingyang heard this, he immediately stepped forward and said, "Give me the ancient black gold sword."

The butcher's hands suddenly stopped moving, as if something in his mind was triggered.

But soon, he returned to normal, looked at Zhao Qi and others impatiently and said, "I sell meat here, not knives. Go away, don't make fun of me!"

At this moment, Zhao Qi looked directly into the butcher's eyes and said word by word: "We are pressed for time, so..."

Then, he looked at Hu Bayi and Zhu Qingyang beside him, "If we beat him, we can only stimulate his potential by pushing him to the extreme. Under the influence of the power of blood, it will be difficult to awaken him as easily as we did with you."

After receiving Zhao Qi's instructions, Hu Bayi and Zhu Qingyang stepped on the table and punched the butcher in the face without saying a word.

"boom!"

With a dull thud, the butcher's face twisted in pain, he hit the wall while covering his bleeding nose.

"What are you doing!" the butcher shouted in confusion, but the two men did not respond and continued to kick the butcher.

Their posture was disorganized, just like ordinary people in a melee.

The two men seemed to cherish the opportunity to beat Zhang Qilin and they showed no mercy. Zhu Qingyang even showed a smug look on his face.

Soon, the butcher's defensive moves became more and more professional. At first he could only passively take the beating, but now he can actually defend against most of them.

Immediately afterwards, Hu Bayi and Zhu Qingyang sensed a familiar aura spreading from the butcher.

The two men immediately realized that the situation was not good, so they kept their distance.

The butcher slowly stood up and looked at the two men with anger in his eyes.

Then, without saying a word, he picked up the butcher knife and chopped at Zhu Qingyang while cursing.

"Hey hey hey... I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding!" Zhu Qingyang dodged in a hurry, and the butcher knife hit the wooden board behind him.

"Crash..." The whole table collapsed because it could not withstand the force.

Zhu Qingyang's eyes widened, and he subconsciously touched his neck: "Oh my god, if I get hit by this knife, I will be disabled if not dead, right?"

At this time, Zhao Qi's voice came from behind the two of them: "Don't worry, strictly speaking, you are just spirits now, and you won't die again."

As soon as Zhao Qi finished speaking, the butcher rushed up again. His body temperature rose due to his rage, and the Qilin tattoo gradually emerged from his birthmark.

"It's now!"

Zhao Qi took a step forward and slapped the butcher in the face.

This tragic scene was too horrific for the three of them to bear to watch.

The butcher was stunned by the palm strike, and then Zhao Qi stepped on the butcher's chest, and then slapped the butcher's face repeatedly as if it was free.

But the strange thing is that with every palm strike from Zhao Qi, Zhang Qilin's aura became stronger and stronger.

Although Hu Bayi and others didn't know what the exact principle was, they were sincerely glad that they were not bloodline warriors.

Otherwise, you will be in great trouble.

As Zhao Qi slapped the butcher in the face one slap after another, the butcher's resistance became weaker and weaker, and gradually he lay there motionless as if he were dead.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Qi finally stopped what he was doing.

He looked at the butcher who seemed to have stopped breathing, patted his shoulder and asked, "Zhang Qilin, are you awake?"

Under the surprised gaze of the team members, the butcher's appearance finally turned into the cold and aloof look that everyone was familiar with.

Zhang Qilin looked blankly at Zhao Qi and the surrounding environment in front of him, then slowly stood up.

The pain in his body made him feel a little overwhelmed: "What happened? I seem to remember that I was beaten just now." (End of this chapter)