Chapter 397: Unexpected
So heavy.
Even with the protection of “anchoring,” the mont Ashe stepped into the Golden Flow Water, a deep sense of powerlessness overwheld his soul.
It wasn’t because of the speed of the current or the weight of the water. In fact, “anchoring” literally blocked any external factors from affecting him. In this state, Ashe could wade through mountains of filth without getting stained.
But “anchoring” only blocked external influences on the sorcerer; it didn’t prevent the sorcerer from receiving external information through his senses.
When one is too weak, an overload of information can be poisonous.
The countless echoes stirred by the Golden Flow Water, the myriad reflections in the surging waves. Ashe seed to hear the sighs of countless beings as they lived and died, and saw the intertwined images of all living things over long ages. Just processing this overload of information almost made his soul freeze!
With his limited information processing ability, it was impossible for him to digest so much information at once. It was like being a struggling student in a math class, only able to grasp the simplest concepts, while the advanced formulas on the blackboard were beyond comprehension and retention.
But now, it was as if the teacher was drilling into the student’s head, forcibly stuffing hundreds of gigabytes of study materials into the student’s brain!
Even if Ashe closed his eyes and covered his ears, he could still feel that what was flowing over him wasn’t just water, but the lives of all beings. When he moved his fingers backward, he swept through the pasts of millions of people; when he splashed his feet in the river, he inadvertently trampled on the glorious history of a city.
Suddenly, he had an epiphany: the so-called Ti Sect didn’t refer to a force called ‘ti,’ but rather the flow of all beings forming ti. The essence of ti is flow.
Each drop of water in the Golden Flow Water originated from reality, possibly from people, long-lived species like elves, epheral mayflies, or perhaps floating clouds, immobile rocks, and withering leaves. Understanding this, Ashe found that while he was still constantly receiving excessive information, it no longer affected his thinking. Moreover, his excellent forgetting chanism kicked in, quickly throwing the new files cramd into his brain straight into the recycling bin for complete destruction.
No wonder the Golden Flow Water is considered the most terrifying natural phenonon on the Ti Continent. Even “anchoring” couldn’t fully protect a sorcerer. As Ashe couldn’t help but worry about his operators, he looked up and saw the two of them already swimming ahead of him.
The Witch swam the fastest, followed by the Sword Princess—there’s no sorcerer who can’t swim. Swimming is a basic requirent for crossing the Sea of Knowledge, so even a sorcerer from the desert becos a swimming expert.
Faced with the informational onslaught of the Golden Flow Water, Ashe needed a second to update his ntal processes, while the Sword Princess and Witch adapted to the river’s environnt almost instantly.
Ashe couldn’t help but marvel: No wonder they were top-rated geniuses selected by “Aurora’s Sorcerer Handbook”. Ordinary people like him were indeed far behind them.
But they had only crossed the basic threshold of the Golden Flow Water. The real danger was yet to co.
The “anchoring” lasted only five seconds, and the mont it wore off, the imnse pressure of ti nearly crushed the three of them instantly!
Ashe felt his stamina plumt rapidly, his vision blurring as if he were viewing through an old phone cara, and his throat produced a broken, fan-like rasping sound. His thoughts slowed, like screws that had locked up.
Although Ashe quickly re-entered the “anchoring” state, in those brief monts exposed to the Golden Flow Water, he had almost aged decades!
This was to be expected. Simply approaching the Golden Flow Water accelerated aging, and they were now swimming directly in it. It was a miracle the river hadn’t dissolved them on the spot.
Because of the “anchoring” state, Ashe couldn’t expend soul energy to restore his aged soul body. He had no choice but to continue swimming. Although the river wasn’t wide, and it seed like he could swim across with a burst of speed, Ashe estimated he could only withstand two or three more waves of this before he would be literally swallowed by the ‘tides of ti.’
The “anchoring” effect of the Two-tone Anchor had only a 20% activation chance. Unless the activation chance could be raised to 100%, the Golden Flow Water would continue to be a forbidden zone for the living!
The Golden Flow was teeming with ti spirits. Seeing Ashe swimming so bravely, they might have mistaken him for a new species of spirit and sward around to greet him. Among them, Ashe recognized more than a dozen rare spirits, including the precious spirit “Hear Day” that the Witch had lost in the Amnesia Cabin. However, he had no ti to spare for even picking up trash, and he struggled desperately to swim forward.
Perhaps because this section of the Golden Flow was just a small tributary, Ashe and the others soon swam halfway across. When they were only one or two ters from the shore, the five seconds elapsed, and the anchoring deactivated once more.
Ashe was prepared to endure the ti wash again, but perhaps the white bull had moved away, causing the current of the Golden Flow to suddenly accelerate. The churning waves splashed several drops of golden liquid, and one drop landed on Ashe’s ear, slipping into his soul like silky milk.
Even though Ashe imdiately re-entered the “anchoring” state with his next breath, his ear still exploded with sound. But this ti, what he heard was not the echoes of others’ lives, but the echoes of his own soul!
“Such an ugly baby, looks a lot like you.”
“No, more like you. I’m not this ugly.”
“I just gave birth; can’t you cut
so slack? Clearly, the baby looks ugly like you!”
“You two, all newborns look this ugly!”
“Brother, why are we different sizes?”
“Ashe, that’s normal. When you grow up… Σ(っ°Д°;)っWhat!? Wait, why?”
“(*/ω＼*) Shh, Ashe, keep your voice down. This is my classmate, here to study…””
“Mom! Brother brought a girl ho!”
“Such an ugly baby, looks like your dad.”
“Do you have any manners? How can you insult my grandson like this? If you want to insult your brother, just say it directly!”
“Exactly, exactly!”
“I found an internship. If I’m lucky, I might get a job at this company.”
“Did you find a girlfriend?”
“It’s a mobile ga company. They offer fourteen salaries and a year-end bonus, and they provide housing benefits…”
“Did you find a girlfriend?”
“Can’t you ask sothing else?”
“How much did your fund lose?”
“I didn’t find a girlfriend.”
“I told you there’s no need to co back. Dad just strained his back a little; I’ve got it covered.”
“You, you stay away!”
“What’s the matter, Igor? Didn’t you want to fight
ten tis? Now you’ve won once, and I’ve won once. There are still eight more tis to go.”
“Cough, cough, haha! What a pity, Valcas! You almost dragged
down with you, but thankfully the Executioner was faster… thankfully you’re an Elf despised by the people!”
“Freya, co with . I need you.”
“Bewitcher, the Gospel Kingdom almost doesn’t have your kind anymore… But neither of you are sorcerers, so how did you cross the virtual realm passage? Never mind, from today onwards, you’re employees of my Funeral Firm.”
The Echo stirred mories, and the mories surged with emotion!
His ears were filled with these vague voices, and Ashe’s mind was almost instantly shattered by the noise. His soul was trapped in the past echoes, making it difficult even to keep himself afloat, let alone continue swimming!
The Golden Ti Flow, a mont, a lifeti!
The Sword Princess seed to notice sothing was wrong with him and struggled back to pull him along. However, this delay caused the five seconds to slip by quickly, and the third wash of the Golden Flow Water almost turned the two of them into withered corpses!
They had lost the ability to cross the Golden Flow.
“Alarpha Senhaeser,” Danzel said, “you have an armor specialty. Try to bring them back.”
The nad heroic soul commander nodded silently, ard his troop type, and stepped into the Golden Flow region. The ti power of the Golden Flow was just as effective on heroic souls, but the armor’s reduction effect was equally effective against ti. For a commander like Alarpha, his maximum armor reduction reached an astounding 95%. Although soul power consumption was enormous, it could have a decisive tactical effect at critical monts.
Alarpha soon returned to the legion, empty-handed.
“They’re not at the shore,” Alarpha explained. “To cross the Golden Flow, you need to break through the Ti Barrier. My Ti Sect realm is insufficient.”
“Ti Barrier…” Danzel bit her thin lip, feeling a wave of helplessness.
She had already maximized the resources at her disposal, but those sorcerers sohow had special troop types that could resist the Golden Flow and even break through the Ti Barrier to cross the Golden Flow. The Golden Flow Water itself was toxic to sorcerers; only geniuses who understood the essence of ti could utilize or even touch it. This was the so-called Ti Barrier.
In simple terms, the Ti Barrier was a chanism for gauging a sorcerer’s potential. Only those with the potential to ascend to the legendary realm of the Ti Sect could possibly pass through the Ti Barrier.
Though it was rely theoretical potential, the fact that all three sorcerers managed to pass was outrageous. Then again, the fact that they could team up and drive through the Ti Continent was already absurd enough. Compared to that, being genius sorcerers seed almost insignificant.
Unexpected, unexpected, unexpected…
Although this was just their first pursuit, there were many more Spider Tower rounds to co, and these three sorcerers would undoubtedly stay in the Ti Continent for many more turns. But Danzel’s one-sixth soul fragnt was telling her—using the sa trick on them twice would be ineffective.
She needed to resort to more underhanded tactics, she thought.
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