Chapter 1453

So, over the past few decades, Angesite's strength growth has relied almost entirely on herself.

Occasionally, Lin Yan would give her some guidance, allowing Angesite to suddenly understand at critical moments and break through minor bottlenecks.

Recently, Angesite has been working on breaking into the fourth tier.

Lin Yan is still continuing his research into the rules of time.

Every month, Lin Yan arrives at a certain region of the Dark Starry Sky, then rewinds time, attempting to glimpse hidden events from the past.

But the Dark Starry Sky is vast, and Lin Yan's time rewind can only cover a tiny region.

That tiny region is actually quite large—equivalent to the size of a galaxy.

Yet Lin Yan hopes to use this rewind to uncover secrets of the entire world.

That's too small.

In some regions, even if Lin Yan rewinds to before the time of the Ancient Gods, he learns nothing.

He can only see the formation process of planets.

To ordinary people, witnessing the formation of a planet millions of years ago would likely fill them with overwhelming excitement.

But to Lin Yan, it's utterly uninteresting.

He now needs no materials—only a minimal amount of Supreme Power—to effortlessly convert enough matter to create a planet, even multiple planets.

However, after another few decades, Lin Yan made some discoveries within the Dark Starry Sky.

These discoveries occurred in an extremely ancient time period.

That was before the Ancient Gods, before even that.

From the edge of the Dark Starry Sky, a beam of light seemed to shoot past at incredible speed.

Every month, Lin Yan follows that beam of light.

From one region to another.

That beam of light is highly unusual—even just seeing its past image, Lin Yan feels it is no ordinary thing.

So Lin Yan wants to understand where this beam of light came from and where it is headed.

This is a massive undertaking.

The beam of light moves far too quickly.

Fortunately, it travels in a straight line.

So Lin Yan can first go to a region, rewind time to when that beam appeared in that region, and observe repeatedly for ten minutes.

After a month, calculate the beam's path, then travel far ahead of its trajectory, find a region, and use the rules of time to rewind to countless eons ago, when the beam first appeared, and observe repeatedly for ten minutes.

Keep in mind, this beam likely traversed more than half the world.

Lin Yan is essentially tracking the beam's path across endless ages.

Each capture only yields ten minutes from a tiny region, and he must wait a month before the next capture.

So this is bound to be an extremely laborious and time-consuming task.

Yet Lin Yan finds it endlessly enjoyable.

Lin Yan has a feeling that this beam of light, which shot across the stars countless ages ago, might be tied to some great secret of this world!

He will dig out its entire origin and trajectory!

Thus, every month, Lin Yan appears in the Dark Starry Sky, following a straight line, continuously observing that beam of light.

The distance this beam has traveled is indeed immense.

It is also remarkably persistent, always moving in a straight line.

This has greatly aided Lin Yan's "retrieval" work.

Hmm, Lin Yan calls what he's doing now "retrieval."

Isn't that right? Each time, he must search through the river of time to find this beam. Though he cannot interfere, the very act of searching feels like retrieval.

Thus, after "retrieving" for a full hundred years, Lin Yan still has not found the beam's origin.

Lin Yan continues moving forward in his "retrieval."

His time is endless, and for now he has nothing else to do—he can afford to wait.

Of course, "retrieving" this beam doesn't take him much time.

Only once a month, only ten minutes each time.

Less than one of his sessions with Weivila and the others… cough…

As time passed, all the goddesses in Lin Yan's divine system became fourth-tier deities.

the Eternal Night Goddess and Weivila, along with the Goddess of Light, had already touched the Laws and become Law Lords.

All of Lin Yan's holy maidens had ascended to the Heavenly Realm.

The number of female holy spirits in his divine realm had also begun to increase.

These female holy spirits were all pure devotees from the Flame Empire who held deep devotion to Lin Yan.

These devotees must remain unmarried for life and maintain absolute spiritual purity to qualify, after death, for their souls to be guided to his divine realm and become eternal holy spirits.

Of course, eternity is a false concept.

If Lin Yan, their god, were to perish, these holy spirits could never truly be eternal.

Throughout the entire Heavenly Realm, the waters continued to rise.

The Supreme Light God and the others remained completely silent.

A conspiracy or scheme by one Supreme God against another typically takes millennia—or even millions of years—to bear fruit.

Only a few centuries have passed; it is normal for the Supreme Light God and the others to remain dormant, waiting for the right moment.

Lin Yan does not believe the Supreme Light God and the others have surrendered completely.

Yet he feels not the slightest worry.

The celestial realm rose with the tide, and the greatest beneficiary was the controller of the Pantheon, namely Lin Yan.

Absolute power resides here; if the Lord of Light and the others dare to strike, Lin Yan will show them no mercy whatsoever.

As it happens, the Goddess of Light also became a Master of Law, making rapid strides in the Law of Light with Lin Yan's aid.

Lin Yan wouldn't mind replacing the Lord of Light.

Thus, the celestial realm passed another hundred years in peace.

On the Continent of Gods, hundreds of years had passed, and the population had multiplied several times over.

Average lifespan had increased dramatically.

Of course, given the vastness of the Continent of Gods, this population still could not fill it.

Now, on the Continent of Gods, countless space gates had been built; the Flame Empire's flying ships were sold across the entire Continent of Gods, and the sky above teemed with them.

After capturing a Star Nation, the Flame Empire even built flying ships capable of leaving the Continent of Gods.

These flying ships could still perform space jumps, and many nations used them to enter the Dark Starry Void, retrieving numerous asteroid fragments rich in minerals.

Of course, it was still nearly impossible for these flying ships to reach the portion of the Dark Starry Void currently being lit.

It was too far away.

And during this hundred years, Lin Yan continued chasing that beam of light.

He had been chasing this beam of light for a full two hundred years.

Since he only retrieved it once a month, Lin Yan spent most of the remaining time enjoying life, and it wasn't boring at all.

Lin Yan felt he would need to chase it for much longer before catching up.

Indeed.

Lin Yan chased it for another hundred years.

He was locked in a standoff with this beam of light.

He had chased it for a full three hundred years.

But after three hundred years, Lin Yan still had not reached the source of this beam of light.

His Time Rule had improved, rising from 10% to 12%.

A two-percentage-point increase.

And after three hundred years, Angesite had long become a fourth-tier god, having stayed beside that Dark Lord for over three hundred years.

That Dark Lord remained utterly motionless.

Not a single movement.

It seemed he truly intended to sit there until the end of time.

Angesite did not disturb her.

Here, her growth rate was exceptionally fast; after several hundred years, Angesite had even captured a trace of Law Force.