Eternal Life: My Millennia in the Jiaofang Division

Zhao Mu walked forward step by step on the stone bridge, his eyes focused on the surrounding situation, not missing any changes.

He even released his divine consciousness, like filtering through a sieve, carefully filtering every inch of space, every speck of dust, and every possible abnormality.

Finally, he walked to the end of the stone bridge and was about to cross it.

But just when one of his feet was about to leave the stone bridge, the front suddenly turned dark.

He stepped into the darkness, as if passing through some kind of soft wall.

When the darkness disappeared, he found himself standing at the front of the stone bridge, and everything started again.

"So this is the cycle that those monks experienced?"

Zhao Mu frowned and pondered: "What was that darkness just now? Why did I return to the starting point as soon as I passed through the darkness?"

"Then... What would happen if I walked to the end of the stone bridge and didn't walk into the darkness and turned back?"

Thinking of it, Zhao Mu immediately walked forward again.

When he walked to the end of the stone bridge, the darkness really appeared again, and he turned around without hesitation.

But at this moment, a strange force suddenly appeared, as if countless hands grabbed his body and twisted him back forcibly.

This force was so huge that even his immortal realm cultivation was powerless to resist.

The next moment, the force pushed Zhao Mu into the darkness and reappeared at the starting point of the stone bridge.

"What is that force?"

Zhao Mu was shocked.

I didn't expect that you can't turn back on this stone bridge. In this way, isn't it equivalent to forcing people to cycle?

"It seems that I can only cycle like others. That rough man from the Shenyue Saint Clan can find abnormalities in the cycles again and again. I believe I can do it too."

Zhao Mu narrowed his eyes slightly and continued to move forward.

Once!

Ten times!

One hundred times!

Zhao Mu walked across the stone bridge again and again, passed through the darkness again and again, and returned to the starting point again and again.

During this period, his huge divine consciousness enveloped the surroundings, trying to find possible changes from the cycles again and again.

Hard work pays off.

Gradually, he discovered some patterns in the cycle.

Each cycle seemed to be exactly the same, but there were actually subtle differences.

That is, every time he walked to the center of the stone bridge, there would be an extremely slight deviation in the angle of forward movement, either continuing to move forward to the right or to the left.

It felt as if there seemed to be something invisible and intangible in the center of the stone bridge, forcing him to change the direction of his forward movement.

However, this deviation was extremely subtle, and the influence of that thing on people was almost untraceable, so even the cultivators of the sage realm could not detect it at all.

Even with Zhao Mu's immortal realm cultivation, it was only after 128 cycles that he finally sensed the abnormality.

"Is there something in the middle of the stone bridge? What is that?"

Zhao Mu looked at the center of the stone bridge, but he could not see anything, and his divine sense swept over it and found nothing.

"It seems that I can only continue the cycle, hoping to find something."

Zhao Mu was not discouraged, so he continued to move forward, crossing the center of the stone bridge again and again.

At the same time, every time he walked across the stone bridge, he would deliberately pinch the seal and try various detection spells to observe possible changes.

It cycled over and over again.

When the 567th time, when he was about to walk into the darkness, the feeling of impulse outside suddenly came to his mind again.

Zhao Mu looked back as if he had come to his mind, and his eyes widened suddenly.

He saw a vague figure suddenly appear in the center of the stone bridge.

Although it was blurry, he could still vaguely see that it was the shadow of the young Taoist standing on the stone bridge outside.

The next moment, Zhao Mu was pushed into the darkness.

He waited for the darkness to disappear and he would reappear at the starting point of the stone bridge, so that he could continue to detect the Taoist shadow that suddenly appeared.

But this time, the darkness did not disappear, and Zhao Mu could not return to the starting point of the stone bridge.

He actually sank into the darkness and could not get out.

The darkness was boundless, without distinction between front and back, and without knowing the past and the future. It seemed like a void with nothing in it, which made people feel lonely and empty.

"What's going on? Why did the cycle stop? Is it... because I saw the Taoist phantom?"

"Isn't he on the stone bridge outside? Why did he appear in the candlelight? Is the reason why the burly man was shocked also because he saw the Taoist phantom?"

Just when Zhao Mu was confused, suddenly the huge force that pushed him into the darkness emerged again.

Amazing waves rippled in the darkness. Zhao Mu felt as if he was trapped in the deep sea. The terrible pressure around him invaded from all directions, constantly squeezing and tearing his body.

The pain that penetrated deep into his bones made him groan. He felt that if he continued like this, he would be torn to pieces.

"It seems that the burly man was killed by this darkness because he saw the Taoist phantom."

"Perhaps, the candlestick sucks people in with a fixed order, that is, people experience cycles again and again, and then people are eroded by some kind of power in the cycle, and finally transformed into slaves."

"But if the people who come in can see the Taoist shadow, it will destroy the normal process of this order, and the annoyed Candlestick will use its own power to forcibly kill the people who come in."

"If that's the case, maybe the Taoist shadow is the key to escape, otherwise why would Candlestick care so much?"

The more Zhao Mu thought about it, the more likely it was.

At this time, the terrible pressure around him has become more and more huge, even surpassing the level of a saint.

With such terrible pressure, it's no wonder that the rough man couldn't stand it and died.

And the pressure is still increasing. It is estimated that if it continues like this, it will soon rise to the immortal realm, or even stronger.

"But this can't trap me."

Zhao Mu snorted coldly, and his whole body suddenly burst into brilliant nine-color light.

The light formed a circle of ripples, with Zhao Mu as the center, spreading in all directions, and colliding head-on with the pressure from the surrounding invasion.

Boom!

The whole darkness shook violently, and even cracks appeared around it, as if it was about to collapse.

"Woo..."

But the next moment, a strange cry came, as if something came alive.

At this moment, outside, Zhou Yu Niang and others suddenly found that the candlesticks floating in the air gathered in the middle and merged into the candlestick where Zhao Mu was.

When all the candlesticks merged into one, the flames on the candlesticks suddenly rose, as if they had turned into torches, burning fiercely.

"What's going on?"

"What did Master Jiankong do? Why did all the candlesticks merge?"

"It's over, it's over. The candlesticks have such an accident. It's obvious that they are trying their best to encircle and suppress Master Jiankong. It seems that he can't get out."

The screams of the crowd came one after another.