Chapter 2818: Let Me Take a Look, the Fate of the Great Vase

After a full two quarters of an hour, He Lingchuan finally opened his eyes and stood up.

The Soul-Capturing Mirror immediately checked his eyes: "Oh, the redness and swelling in your right eye seem to have gone down a bit?"

His complexion also looked a bit better, not as deathly pale as before.

He Lingchuan said in a low voice: "A bit better."

In such a short time, a soul injury could not possibly be truly healed. Warriors who get wounded always look for a chance to bandage themselves and stop the bleeding; he was doing the same thing.

Afterwards, he tidied up the equipment he was to take with him, and then took another deep breath.

Are you ready? Of course not.

His current state is still a hundred and eight thousand miles away from "perfect."

But the vortex of fate never waits for him to be ready before it begins.

Even he, the Nine Nether Great Emperor renowned throughout the world, must eventually face the judgment of fate.

Then, he took a step forward and vanished from the Lingxu Cave.

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He Lingchuan's vision blurred.

To his surprise, he did not directly return to the Panlong Secret Realm he knew so well.

He was in the sea.

To be precise, he was being swept forward by a rushing current, surrounded by red seawater, and not far ahead was a giant seaweed forest, each strand of seaweed hanging with long tassels.

He immediately recognized it as the divine body of the Hidden God!

That is to say, he had first entered the Chaos Sea?

The Chaos Sea lies within the Great Vase between it and the Panlong Secret Realm; to enter the Secret Realm, he must indeed first pass through the Chaos Sea. But last year he had also used the skill to return to the Secret Realm, and at that time the sensation was stepping and arriving instantly, directly entering the Panlong Secret Realm, with the Great Vase not first making him come here for a swim.

So, why, before this return to the Secret Realm, was he first summoned into the Chaos Sea? The Great Vase clearly knows he is in a hurry.

What has happened here?

He Lingchuan is not worried that this interlude will delay reality. For here is a temporal interstice, also called "flash," "glimpse," or "lingering," and no matter how long he stays here, in reality only a fleeting instant passes.

The dark current flows very fast; as he approached the seaweed forest, He Lingchuan suddenly noticed that these seaweed leaves were different from what he had seen in the Liuli Sea—not sheet-like nor fine-leaved, but rather somewhat like ferns.

Actually, putting it even more absurdly…… they look somewhat like humanoids, as if they had split into limbs, lower long and upper short, with the uppermost leaf stalk being round——does it not resemble the shape of a human head?

He Lingchuan stared, his heartbeat quickening by two beats.

This is the divine body of the Hidden God, possessing the heavenly talent of infinite metamorphosis, which the celestial demons once used to craft the Descended God Body!

The foundation of the Descended God Body is humanoid form.

But the celestial demons simply cannot control the Hidden God's body to directly transform into humanoid form, even if they could first turn it into a starfish or other strange and wondrous creatures.

Because the human body is an extremely complex composition, requiring exquisite precision and balance.

However, just because the celestial demons cannot do it does not mean other powers cannot; after all, the experiments on Lingyun Island later succeeded, and the Great Vase also knows how they did it.

So, will it be as he guessed?

Can his long-held wish come true?

Then, He Lingchuan saw the Chaos.

This deep purple giant, usually leisurely and lax, shook its head and swayed its tail, fiercely striking the Panlong Secret Realm directly above!

The entire Chaos Sea trembled because of it.

It failed, of course it failed; Chaos retreated, then swirled in the sea, always staying not far from the Panlong Secret Realm.

It appeared unusually agitated, its entire body of chains clanging and clanking nonstop, stirring up one icy, cold echo after another in this dark deep sea.

He Lingchuan's heart suddenly stirred; he pressed the snake bracelet on his hand, and a faint light flashed in his eyes.

It is interesting that he has held the Fate Divine Glyph for a long time, yet never thought to view Chaos from the perspective of "Fate."

The red sea became illusory, but Chaos's form did not.

Even if He Lingchuan now does not look at appearances but only grasps causality, what he sees of Chaos is still a purplish-red colossus; originally, its body was not composed of flesh and blood, but of endless threads of causality!

Putting it even more plainly, this is the most tangled, largest ball of thread He Lingchuan has ever seen, with countless strands all knotted together.

The so-called "tangled into a ball" is just describing it.

Even if He Lingchuan had the ability to untangle causality, gazing for a few breaths would already make his eyes dizzy, forcing him to close them and rest.

Originally, his soul had suffered heavy injury in the Panlong Great War, impairing his calculative ability; moreover, the complexity of these causality threads far exceeds his limits—just how many causality threads are entwined on Chaos?

If He Lingchuan, as the Nine Nether Great Emperor, has influenced the fates of countless people in the world, then Chaos, as the embodiment of the Great Vase's laws, is intervening in the operation of the world's laws!

How many living beings will this affect?

All.

Even what it affects is not merely the human world, but also the heavenly realm that gazes upon the human world across the Tianluo Star!

How can the causality borne by Chaos possibly be calculated by human strength?

Upon approaching, He Lingchuan even discovered that faint red threads on Chaos's body were connected to him.

Not just one or two, but in bundles and groups.

That's right, He Lingchuan is the newest collaborator of the Great Vase; his actions, likewise, will directly or indirectly affect the Great Vase's fate. For example, he previously often helped the Divine Bone Necklace collect rare treasures, all of which were needed for the Great Vase's deduction of laws; conversely, the operation of the Great Vase also deeply influenced He Lingchuan's fate.

He has long been forcibly bound to the Great Vase, becoming a community of fate.

Thinking of this, he suddenly had an idea; seeing himself about to be swept by the current into the Panlong Secret Realm, he suddenly reached out and grabbed the floating chain before him, that is, Chaos's chain:

"Wait!"

—He Lingchuan had long been able to breathe freely and speak in this red sea without choking on water.

He let out a great shout, and the current immediately stalled.

The entire ocean fell still, as if waiting for his next words.

Seeing this, He Lingchuan became even more certain: the Great Vase chose this very moment to let him enter the red sea, and it must have its purpose.

He only guessed at the intentions of the Great Square Vase, almost entirely relying on speculation, which was utterly detestable.

Now he floated before this colossus, chaos unprecedentedly still, utterly motionless.

He Lingchuan raised his hand, pointing at Chaos and commanding the Fate Divinity on his wrist:

"Let me see, the fate of the Great Square Vase!"

These words rang like a great bell and bronze cauldron, actually triggering ripples of echo underwater, like a whale's long cry.

In this endless deep sea, he faced such a colossal being, like a tiny sesame seed before a great whale, insignificant and not worth mentioning.

Yet he dared to say, he would see clearly the fate of this colossal entity!

The little snake's eyes brightened for a moment, it lifted its head to look at Chaos, then at him.

(End of Chapter)