Chapter 1485

Just as Lin Yan thought he would witness the moment the world was born, the image shattered.

Well, it's time again.

This time reversal consumed over a thousand drops of Primordial Divine Power; the cost was immense.

And the next time he does this kind of reversal, it will again consume over a thousand drops of Primordial Divine Power.

Fortunately, Lin Yan now has vast resources—he can easily afford this cost.

"Huh, the Time Rule just increased again."

Lin Yan suddenly noticed: the Time Rule had increased again!

The Time Rule's progress had reached 48%, and each time reversal now lasted forty minutes!

It seems this kind of unlimited time reversal greatly boosts the Time Rule.

Lin Yan paused, considering whether to trade Primordial Divine Power for further increases in the Time Rule.

"It's a viable approach."

Lin Yan thought.

Lin Yan now harvests over two drops of Primordial Divine Power per day.

Even when the Heavenly Realm was not as prosperous, he still harvested about one drop per day.

Over tens of thousands of years, Lin Yan's total stock of Primordial Divine Power was far from small.

Of course, Lin Yan had further refined some of his Primordial Divine Power into more potent forms.

But his ordinary Primordial Divine Power was still extremely abundant.

A single reversal costing a thousand drops of Primordial Divine Power, even if it only raised the Time Rule by 1%, meant he needed only fifty-two more such reversals—from 48% to 100%—just over fifty thousand drops total.

If this had been before Lin Yan controlled the entire Heavenly Realm, he would never have dared play such a game.

Without control of the entire Heavenly Realm, like other Primordial Gods who followed the slow, steady path, Lin Yan would never have accumulated fifty thousand drops in tens of thousands of years.

But now? Fifty thousand drops of Primordial Divine Power were child's play to Lin Yan!

Exchanging fifty thousand drops of Primordial Divine Power for 100% Time Rule was, to Lin Yan, an unbelievably profitable deal.

So Lin Yan immediately decided: first push the Time Rule to 100%, then continue searching for the origin of this shadow.

When the Time Rule reaches 100%, Lin Yan's mastery over time will further improve.

It will also allow Lin Yan to better trace the origin of this shadow.

And tracing the origin of this shadow ultimately aims to confront it; when the Time Rule reaches 100%, the duration of Lin Yan's time power will extend further, its effects will grow stronger, and when Lin Yan finally moves against this shadow, it will offer immense advantage.

After weighing all these factors, Lin Yan made his choice.

Thus, Lin Yan began, once every month, randomly selecting a region in the starry void to perform a time reversal.

Yes, Lin Yan did not choose the region where the shadow had appeared multiple times.

That region had already been recorded by Lin Yan—he would return to it for further reversals once the Time Rule reached 100%.

Now, he was casting a wide net across the starry void, hoping to find another region where the shadow had appeared.

"Is this digging a pit?"

In one region, Lin Yan muttered to himself.

He really did look like he was digging a pit.

Unearthing, one by one, events from countless eons ago, reversing time back to hundreds of millions of years in the past.

What else could this be but digging a pit?

This wasn't an ordinary pit—it was a pit dug in the River of Time.

And such pits were not just one.

In the time ahead, every month Lin Yan would arrive at a new region and dig a pit.

Yes, even with 48% Time Rule, Lin Yan still could not perform time reversals within the Heavenly Realm.

But the Heavenly Realm was irrelevant.

Remember, the Heavenly Realm only appeared in the age of the Ancient Gods.

In Xi Hua's era, there was no Heavenly Realm at all.

Let alone the eras before Xi Hua.

Though vast, the Heavenly Realm was not even comparable in pure spatial scale to the starry void.

The Heavenly Realm is now indeed the center of the world, with the strongest laws—but in the eras before Xi Hua, the region now occupied by the Heavenly Realm saw few major events.

So Lin Yan still chose random regions in the starry void to "dig pits."

He dug for countless years, nearly reaching the dawn of the world's creation!

Of course, the "pit locations" Lin Yan chose were not concentrated, but evenly distributed across the entire starry void.

To his surprise, he really did unearth many great events from countless eons ago.

Of course, time erases everything; those great events, now, had no impact whatsoever, and no one in this world would know of them—except Lin Yan, and that shadow whose lifespan was unknown.

No matter how grand the events, in the end, they vanished into time!

And through these reversals, Lin Yan gained many insights.

The Goddess of Life and the Goddess of the Ocean were right.

In the end, eternity is still necessary!

This world is immensely ancient; before Xi Hua's era, there were beings who ruled the world for hundreds of millions, even over a billion years—how mighty they were, invincible for eons upon eons—but in the end?

When the wheel of time rolled over them, now not even a name remained.

Though Lin Yan now rules the entire Heavenly Realm, suppressing all enemies of the world with his own strength, he has ruled for only tens of thousands of years.

Compared to those invincible beings from countless eons ago, it was far too short, far too short.

Those beings ultimately vanished into time, their names forgotten.

Where is Lin Yan?

Will the world one hundred million years from now still be dominated by Lin Yan?

Even if the world one hundred million years from now is still dominated by Lin Yan, will the world one billion years from now still be dominated by Lin Yan?

Even if the world one billion years from now is still dominated by Lin Yan, as long as Lin Yan cannot achieve true eternity, he will eventually be utterly forgotten, just like those supreme powerhouses from eons past.

At this moment, Lin Yan remembered the words of the Goddess of Life:

If there is no true eternity, what difference does it make to live one hundred million years or just one day?

Ordinary mortals have limited lifespans; being the supreme ruler of one lifetime is enough to satisfy them.

But the Supreme Deities stand atop the world—who does not wish to live forever and have their glory echoed through eternity?

Of course, Lin Yan differs greatly from those supreme powerhouses of eons past.

Even though Lin Yan still has a considerable distance to go before reaching the highest levels, he is confident he can eliminate the Shadow—the hidden hand that, over eons, has harvested countless supreme powerhouses!

Leaving aside Lin Yan's other trump cards, those supreme powerhouses of eons past knew nothing of this Shadow, but Lin Yan is nearly uncovering its origins.

This is also a killing blow!

Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles!

Back to the matter at hand.

In this process of constantly digging pits, Lin Yan discovered that his estimates had still contained some errors.

A single time reversal consuming over a thousand drops of Divine Power could not increase the Time Rule's progress by 1%.

It often took several attempts to increase the progress by just 1%.

Lin Yan did not mind.

It was merely a slight increase in consumption and time.

Thus, for the time that followed, Lin Yan dug "pits" once every month.

After doing this hundreds of times over several centuries, Lin Yan had dug thousands of "pits" and learned vast amounts of information about events from eons past and some details about the Shadow—when the Time Rule finally reached 100%!