Ordinary observers in fast time travel

Shi Jia revealed the sapling and the array diagram without reservation in order to allow more people to learn the array and try to materialize the sapling.

Because he could not stay in this world for long, but also could not bear to see it destroyed, he hoped that one day in the future someone would be able to realize his plan.

The center of the turbid air was sealed, propelling the world to a higher dimension.

Therefore, he naturally wouldn't refuse when these people wanted to buy the fantasy paintings. However, he wasn't sure if others could materialize them, so he said, "Please don't worry, everyone. There are plenty of fantasy paintings, but I need to state one thing: even if you get a fantasy painting, you may not be able to materialize it."

Everyone nodded. Isn't this common sense? If everything could be materialized, would these large families need to go through so much trouble to collect so many fantasy diagrams?
After the money and goods were exchanged, Shi Jia smiled and walked towards Lan Chen and Madam Lan Xin, who were observing the banyan leaves.

"Such pure energy!" Lan Chen couldn't help but pick up a leaf, "snap!" and his hand was left with a leaf imprint.

"Hehe, this little guy has quite a temper!" Lan Chen raised an eyebrow.

Shi Jia smiled and said, "The sapling doesn't like being touched."

“A tangible manifestation of consciousness, quite interesting,” Lan Chen said softly.

Shi Jia was taken aback and remained silent.

"How big can the little guy grow?" Lan Chen asked.

A colossal figure occupying several star fields appeared in Shi Jia's mind. He shook his head, "I'm not sure either, it should be a few hundred meters tall, right?"

This is the size of the banyan tree I saw in the Painting Saint Space on Awakening Day.

Lan Chen was quite surprised, "Several hundred meters! That's huge!" It is huge enough.

"Hmm." Shi Jia nodded.

After the competition ended, Shi Jia's life returned to normal, but compared to before, he had more classes and an extraordinary teacher, Lan Chen.

With Lan Chen in charge, those families who originally wanted to make a move against Shi Jia had no choice but to back down. Four years passed in this way, and Shi Jia finally graduated.

In these four years, his strength had risen from the Azure Rank to the Purple Rank, a rate of improvement that was nothing short of astonishing and undeniably tempting. However, with Lan Chen present, Shi Jia remained largely undisturbed.

"Teacher, Madam! Lady Zi Linglong!" Shi Jiachao greeted the three of them.

"You're here. Do you know the consequences?" Lan Chen asked.

Shi Jia nodded.

"Let's go then."

The four of them rode directly into Lan Chen's flying car and sped towards the center of the Black Zone.

In four years, the Black Zone has expanded outward by ten meters! Ten meters may not seem like much, but don't forget that the Black Zone is more than ten times larger than the entire Kingdom of Painting. Expanding outward by ten meters means that the border of the Kingdom of Painting has shrunk inward by ten meters. How much territory has been lost?

This also means that the center of the Black Zone has expanded, although whether it has expanded by ten meters is currently unknown. This is because, apart from those at the Rainbow Rank and above, no one dares to set foot in the center of the Black Zone.

The closer you get to the center of the dark zone, the higher the concentration of turbid air and the higher the energy pressure. Even though Shi Jia has already entered the Purple Realm, he still feels a little short of breath.

The sapling appeared automatically, its pure energy rapidly purifying the turbid air and forcefully cleaving open the energy field. The group immediately felt a sense of relief.

"Roar—" Suddenly, a high-pitched beastly roar came from the center of the black area.

Madam Lanxin couldn't help but shudder. "It's that black dragon!" She had been injured by the black dragon in the center of the turbid air and still remembered its roar vividly.

After that high-pitched roar, several sharp roars followed.

Lan Chen nodded. "Judging from the sounds, it seems several beasts are fighting. We'll conceal our presence and observe the situation." "Yes!"

The four approached cautiously and saw four mountain-like figures in the distance. Any one of them could easily crush Shi Jia and the other two purple-ranked beings.

"One Super Saint-level beast and three early Saint-level beasts!" Lan Chen's expression was solemn. In just four years, the Black Zone had nurtured three Saint-level turbid beasts!
However, in the past four years, very few people in the Kingdom of Painting have advanced to the Rainbow Rank.

Shi Jia and the other two gasped. "Teacher! Should we continue?" Faced with such strength, even if all four of them were Rainbow Rank, let alone Lan Chen being the only one at that level, they still wouldn't be a match for those turbid beasts!

"We won't go close; we'll monitor from here!" Lan Chen said. After he finished speaking, he began to assign tasks. Their purpose this time was to monitor the data from the center of the turbid gas to facilitate the design and improvement of their formation.

Although the distance is far and the measurement data is not very accurate, safety is the top priority.

Besides, it's not necessarily true that there's no chance!
Lan Chen watched the fierce battle in the distance, pondering the possibility of someone else profiting from it.

Within a radius of one thousand kilometers from the center of the turbid air, the air is dense and the energy pressure is high, but there are no turbid beasts. The presence of saplings means they are completely unconcerned about the turbid air's intrusion or the high energy pressure.

Moreover, they are constantly in a pure energy field, and everyone's strength is rapidly increasing.

The four people, caught up in their busy work, seemed to have forgotten the passage of time. All they knew was that one day, the energy field around them suddenly weakened, the four enormous creatures on the horizon disappeared, and a strong smell of blood spread.

Lan Chen noticed the change immediately, "I'll go check it out!"

"Teacher, I want to join too!" Shi Jia quickly said.

Since Shi Jia was leaving, Xiao Shu Miao would definitely follow, so in the end, the four of them traveled in a flying car.

Lan Chen was very cautious. He had come here with Madam Lan Xin before and was well aware of the strength of a Transcendent Saint. The flying chariot silently approached the center of the turbid energy vortex.

That's right, the center of the turbid energy is also a vortex! This is why he was so excited when he saw the point of collapse of Shi Jia's sealed secret realm back then.

At that moment, he thought that perhaps there was still hope for this world.

The flying vehicle stopped ten kilometers away from the giant vortex. Any closer, and it would disturb the super-saint-level turbid beast.

"We can't get any closer. Xiao Shi, you stay here and keep watch. I'll go closer and take a look," Lan Chen instructed.

"Teacher, be careful." Shi Jia looked at the enormous, imperceptible vortex before her, her heart heavy. The small banyan tree simply couldn't cover it!

The sapling, which had already grown to the peak of the purple rank, had a canopy diameter of nearly a hundred meters, but compared to the enormous vortex in front of it, which was thousands of meters wide, it was just a drop in the ocean.

He took a deep breath and suddenly felt that he seemed to be too naive and too fanciful.

With a heavy heart, he carefully monitored the data of the vortex, such as the speed of the turbid air rotation, and compared the center, middle, and edge.

For example, the size of the turbid air vortex, the energy pressure, and so on.

This monitoring equipment was designed by Lan Chen based on the results of an investigation four years ago, and it can analyze the data they want in great detail.

Shi Jia stared at the test results on the equipment. "Just as I guessed, the center of the turbid gas is slowly absorbing energy."

He couldn't help but wonder: if the vortex in the small secret realm led to the dark zone, then what lay behind the turbid energy vortex? And what provided the turbid energy vortex with its energy?
Having lost his memory, Shi Jia was unaware that this so-called turbid vortex was actually the World Well, also known as the Energy Well, though Shi Jia used to prefer calling it the Virtual Well.

It is the key to the growth of a world. A world without the Void Well cannot grow, and the Void Well's ability to absorb and release energy is too weak to sustain the world's growth.

Of course, if the world cannot process the energy it absorbs, it will also collapse. Just like this painted world we have now.

Of course, he was unaware of this at the time; he was still trying to seal the vortex of turbid energy. (End of Chapter)