Chapter 1303: Chapter 490: Yuding Nation (3)

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Danzi nodded again, and then, a drop of hot tear fell from his snow-white eyes, saying, "I heard Dan Mother’s plea for help, I saw Dan Mu suffering torture, I want to save him."

"But you’re too weak, you can’t save him?" Zhou Xuan interjected.

"..." Upon hearing this, Danzi turned his head and glared angrily at Zhou Xuan, but soon, he slumped down again, helplessly nodding his head.

"See, still fond of powerless fury, say a few words to you and you won’t like it."

Zhou Xuan reached out and poked Danzi’s heart, then switched the topic, saying,

"However, you’re just a pill, asking me to save this and that—let me be clear, I’m a man of greed, if you can’t name a price, then what Dan Mother, Dan Father, has nothing to do with me."

"What if I can name a price?"

"Then it depends on my mood, you know, I’m very busy." Zhou Xuan said.

"What if I offer a particularly high price..."

"What’s there to say? Respect the old, love the young, though I haven’t seen a Dan Mother, somehow, I feel... Dan Mother must be a kind elder."

"..." Danzi was stumped by Zhou Xuan’s flexible reasoning, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Finally, Danzi said, "I can name a price, and it’s very high."

"What price?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"I can let you rediscover Jing Country."

"What do you mean?"

Zhou Xuan didn’t quite understand what the method of "rediscover" was.

Danzi’s right index finger tip pierced into his arm, dug out a piece of finely shredded flesh, and beckoned Zhou Xuan: "Come closer to me."

Zhou Xuan wasn’t afraid; after all, this was his own Secret Realm, how could he be bullied by a Dan Demon?

He moved slightly forward, and Danzi placed the shredded flesh on Zhou Xuan’s brow.

Immediately, Zhou Xuan smelled a strange scent of meat, and then felt a sensation of something drilling into his brow.

Then he heard the babbling of a brook, along with some dripping sounds.

Danzi said to Zhou Xuan, "Do you have any tools for measuring time?"

"Yes."

"Take it out and have a look." Danzi said.

Zhou Xuan immediately took out the pocket watch, opened the lid, and the second hand was still ticking, nothing unusual visible.

"What do you want me to see?"

"Keep watching, a minute." Danzi said.

Zhou Xuan patiently watched the seemingly normal pocket watch, watching the second hand slowly ticking,

until the second hand pointed past "23," suddenly jumped over "0," directly to "1."

"Huh."

Zhou Xuan was somewhat skeptical, and continued watching, this minute was still like the previous one, the hand jumped directly from "23" to "1," as if the "0" in the watch didn’t exist.

He suddenly looked up at Danzi.

Danzi’s eyes remained pale, asking, "Did you see it?"

The pointer always jumps from 23 to 1," Zhou Xuan said.

Danzi said, "In Jing Country, there is a law called ’Time Law,’ and the reason this law exists is because—the time in Jing Country is not uniform."

"Rising with the sun, resting with its setting, that was the routine of the ancients in Jing Country, later evolving into tools for timekeeping, dividing a day into twenty-four hours."

Danzi continued: "And an hour is divided into sixty minutes, a minute into sixty seconds,

Jing Country’s time seems to be evenly placed within these artificially divided hours, minutes, and seconds,

but... time is not uniform, some minutes, seconds, hours are missing,

and the Time Law uses these missing times to form Divine Skills."

"This is some truth about Jing Country, of course, the truth doesn’t stop here."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xuan asked, "Is this the price you want me to find the Dan Mother?"

"Yes."

"Then can I suspect that my current sense of time loss is not the truth of Jing Country, but the effect of your elixir."

With a strong sense of doubt, Zhou Xuan said, "I know Human Pills can cause mental confusion, producing strange illusions."

Danzi, however, disagreed, saying, "A person deceived for long, when he sees the truth, believes the truth is false, such a situation can only be seen in Jing Country."

"Don’t talk nonsense and confuse the public."

Zhou Xuan said, "Whether what you say is true or false, I will verify."

"I hope you verify soon, when you discover my value, you will be willing to help me find the Dan Mother."

Danzi sat back cross-legged on the ground, continuing to chant scriptures.

...

In Xie Family’s Cave, in the Pill Furnace, a scholar in blue clothes carried a lantern, searching all around.

"The location of the Dan Demon’s remains should be here."

Mr. Yan’s lantern illuminated a piece of green stone, the color of which was located at the center of the Pill Furnace, the very place where the Dan Demon was born.

He slowly squatted down, brushed his right hand over the green stone, then placed the fingertip to his nose to smell.

A faintly discernible scent drifted into his nasal cavity.

He couldn’t distinguish whether he inhaled the fragrance of a "Human Pill" from this scent, but he had his own way of testing,

and that would be time...