Chapter 220: Blood Sword

"Stronger than expected." Yan Xiao's voice was a bit heavy.

Lin Yu pointed the sword arm at Yan Xiao's throat: "It's over."

"It's just beginning." Yan Xiao didn't retreat but advanced, grabbing with both hands in the air, actually condensing a black spear, the tip pointing straight at Lin Yu's heart.

The two were about to move.

Crack—

The sky suddenly split open a huge crack, lightning flashed in the crack, and a familiar figure walked out from it—Xu Jianhua!

Only, the current Xu Jianhua had completely changed his appearance, surrounded by dense Void tentacles, his eye sockets deeply sunken, flickering with blue light.

"Lin Yu." Xu Jianhua opened his mouth, his voice as unpleasant as metal rubbing. "You and I will meet again."

"But this time, I'm here to take you to see someone..."

The corners of Xu Jianhua's mouth twisted into a strange arc, not at all an expression a human could make.

"Your biological father."

Lin Yu's hand holding the sword arm trembled slightly, Xu Jianhua's words, every word like a thunderbolt.

"Biological father?"

Xu Jianhua didn't answer, just stretched out that alienated arm and grabbed at the void, and the space was torn like paper, revealing a pitch-black passage.

"He is waiting for you inside. Thirty years."

Yan Xiao suddenly roared: "Xu Jianhua, you dare to betray the New Origin Society—"

Before he could finish, Xu Jianhua had already pushed Lin Yu into the crack. Yan Xiao's roar came to an abrupt end, and the space barrier closed along with it.

There was no light or sound in the passage, Lin Yu felt himself falling continuously, like a weight.

Ten seconds later, his feet finally touched solid ground.

The scene around him took Lin Yu by surprise.

This place was too strange to describe. The sky looked like it was made of crystal, flashing with colorful light. The ground looked solid, but when stepped on, it rippled like water. In the distance floated countless fragments, and upon closer inspection, they were fragments of the real world—cities, mountains, oceans, like a shattered mirror.

"Void Frontier." Xu Jianhua's voice came from behind. "This is neither reality nor pure Void. It is the intersection of the two worlds."

Lin Yu turned around and found that Xu Jianhua's form had quietly changed—the Void tentacles were gone, and the blue light in his eyes had dimmed.

"You are no longer controlled?" Lin Yu asked.

"Here, the equilibrium state of Void energy is different." Xu Jianhua pointed forward. "He is waiting for you on that mountain."

Lin Yu looked in the direction he pointed, a mountain peak suspended in mid-air, with a simple wooden house built on the top, and smoke rising slowly from cooking.

"Why did you bring me here?" Lin Yu asked.

"Because I owe your father a life." Xu Jianhua smiled bitterly. "Thirty years ago, he saved me, and the price was staying in the frontier forever."

Walking up the mountain road, Lin Yu felt the black and gold energy in his body become unusually active, and the sword arm returned to human form without knowing it.

Behind him, the Heavenly Abyss Sword was re-materialized, hanging there.

Walking to the wooden house, the door opened, and a tall figure stood at the door.

It was a middle-aged man with a resolute face, looking seven parts like Lin Yu. He wore a simple robe, and his right arm to his chest was covered in dense gold and black scales, forming a very strange pattern.

Lin Yu's throat felt a bit tight: "Father?"

"Child." The man's voice was very low. "Thirty years, you have grown up."

Lin Tianxing—Lin Yu's biological father whom he had never met, the top expert of Destiny, the Void research pioneer who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago.

The furnishings in the wooden house were very simple, but the walls were covered with photos of Lin Yu from childhood to adulthood.

From the infant in the swaddling clothes, to the teenager, and then to the adult, each photo was marked with detailed dates and events.

"Although I was not by your side, I did not miss any important moments in your life." Lin Tianxing handed Lin Yu a cup of hot tea. "Sit down, time is limited."

Lin Yu sat down, his mind full of questions: "Why leave? Why see me only now?"

Lin Tianxing was silent for a while before opening his mouth: "Because the truth is too heavy. Thirty years ago, I discovered the secret of the Void. Humanity's understanding of the Void was completely wrong. To verify my conjecture, I voluntarily entered the Void Frontier for research."

He took out a crystal ball and tapped it lightly, and the scene of the universe appeared inside the ball.

"The Void is not as evil as many people think, it is another energy form that coexists with reality in the universe. The two energies should have been balanced and coexisting, nourishing each other."

The scene inside the crystal ball changed, showing the harmonious blending of golden and black energy in the initial universe.

"The Void Monarch was originally a guardian of balance, responsible for maintaining the balance between the two worlds. But humanity feared the unknown and regarded the Void as a threat. This collective subconscious gradually distorted the Void origin, and finally, the Void Monarch was forced to become an invader."

Lin Yu frowned: "You say the Void is not an enemy? Then what about the invasion I witnessed with my own eyes?"

Lin Tianxing sighed: "That is the distorted Void. Think carefully, the gold and black dual-colored energy in your body, initially repelled each other, but now can gradually coexist. What does this explain?"

Lin Yu fell into deep thought. He recalled that after his bloodline awakened, although the Void energy in his body was violent, it had never truly harmed him.

"Child, I want to teach you the 'Void-Reality Unification Art'—this is the secret method to truly control the energy in your body."

Lin Tianxing stood up and took Lin Yu to the platform outside the house. Standing here, the peculiar scene of the Void Frontier was in full view.

"Void-Reality Unification, the key lies in 'identification,' not 'confrontation'."

Lin Tianxing guided Lin Yu into deep meditation. In the depths of his consciousness, Lin Yu saw the golden True Qi and black Void energy in his body intertwining like two giant dragons. They were not fighting, but... dancing together.

"Do not forcibly control, let them find a natural balance point."

Lin Yu let go of the prejudice in his heart and allowed the two energies to flow freely. A miracle happened—the gold and black energies began to interweave and merge, forming a brand-new energy form, neither golden nor black, but a pure energy form as transparent as crystal.

Time passed in cultivation, and when Lin Yu opened his eyes again, it was three days later.

The energy in his body had completely transformed, reaching a state of harmony never seen before. Lin Yu felt that every cell in his body was full of vitality, and his senses were so sharp that he could even perceive the vibration of air molecules.

"Are you ready?" Lin Tianxing asked. "The next step is the most critical one—enter the Void core and obtain the true knowledge."

Lin Tianxing led Lin Yu through several space barriers and arrived at a floating platform. In the center of the platform was a bottomless well.

"Jump down. Do not resist anything you see."

Lin Yu jumped into the well without hesitation. The feeling of falling was fleeting, and he found himself floating in a boundless ocean of energy. There was no physical body here, only energy fluctuations composed of pure consciousness.

Countless light spheres floated around, each containing a fragment of a "Lin Yu" life. Some were fighting Void creatures, some had become Void puppets, and others had found balance and become guardians of the two worlds.

These were the possible fates of "Lin Yu" in countless parallel universes.

Lin Yu reached out and touched the first light sphere, and in an instant, the complete memory of that "Lin Yu" surged into his mind. He experienced that self's entire life—joy, pain, struggle, success.

The second, the third...

Finally, Lin Yu received the memories of "himself" from tens of thousands of parallel universes simultaneously. The pain nearly caused him to collapse, but the newly born energy structure supported his consciousness.

When everything calmed down, Lin Yu had already acquired an unprecedented "omniscient perspective"—able to understand the essence of things from multiple dimensions simultaneously. Those problems that had troubled him in the past were all understood at once.

"This is the truth." Returning to the platform, Lin Yu said softly.

Lin Tianxing nodded: "You are ready to return to the real world. But before that, you must know the final secret."

He took a deep breath: "Xuanyuan Qing is not an ordinary descendant of the Bell Clan, she is the reincarnation of the Void Monarch's heart."

Lin Yu was shocked.

"The heart is the purest part of the Void Monarch, separated by Xuan Qingzi three thousand years ago and reincarnated as a human. Reborn once every three hundred years, this generation was reincarnated as Xuanyuan Qing. Now, Yan Xiao has taken her to the Origin Land, preparing to awaken..."

"Wait, then what should I do now?" Lin Yu interrupted Lin Tianxing. ===== CHAPTER 221 =====