Was the Previous Era's Herrscher of Sentience Actually a Follower of the River God Church?

"You shouldn't think looking through the Akashic Book is that simple. It actually comes at a huge cost." Chen Luo patted Little Nine on the head and said this after applying an intelligence-reducing buff to her.

"How huge?"

"As huge as three adult versions of your slime!"

"Smack!" Little Nine kicked Chen Luo in the shin.

Chen Luo was not lying. The cost of searching really was enormous, since it might take several hours.

And to Chen Luo, time was Primogems.

If Chen Luo had to do nothing for four days and just sit there spacing out, he would be depressed to death.

If a new customer came to the bar during that time and Chen Luo missed the chance to develop a new world, he might as well kill himself on the spot.

Two new customers? Kill himself twice!

This price might have seemed a little excessive to Chen Luo now, but once he grew accustomed to the passage of time, it could become a toy for quickly killing time.

The good thing about searching the Akashic Book was that the search time passed in a flash for Chen Luo, whether it was one minute, ten minutes, one hundred minutes, or even one hundred days.

Since it passed in a flash, he would not suffer the emotional impact brought by experiences during that period like he did with plot skipping.

But the bad news was that because he was spacing out rather than cultivating, he made very little progress.

"Then what about Scouting Ability? Can't that work either?"

"Scouting Ability can't do it either. To be precise, Ismar is currently in an extremely chaotic state. Scouting Ability can provide Ismar's subjective time, but because time flows unstably on her side, the timing may fluctuate."

"It says there are still