Chapter 1492: The Black Shadow

Lin Yan continued observing.

This thing had slept for several million years without waking again.

"Can really sleep, can't it?"

Lin Yan murmured.

This thing is undoubtedly the first life born at the dawn of this world!

As the first life born at the dawn of the world, this thing is indeed extraordinarily unique!

It was nurtured by heaven and earth for a full fifty thousand years!

Moreover, after heaven and earth gave birth to it, they did not abandon it—those nurturing substances became its nourishment, which it consumed, greatly strengthening its power.

Finally, after several million years passed, this thing awoke.

It glanced warily around again, found no anomalies, then crawled out of this region, off to do something unknown.

"Can't see it anymore."

Lin Yan thought.

He rewound further, watched the process of its birth, then the vision shattered.

He could only wait until next month, then return to the region it crawled to and see what it was doing.

This region had already been marked by Lin Yan; there was no risk of losing it.

After leaving a small spirit here, Lin Yan departed and returned to his divine realm.

At this moment, outside Lin Yan's divine realm, Venerable Tianlan was still pushing toward godhood.

Lin Yan sensed it—though Venerable Tianlan's current push was strenuous, she was not about to fail.

With no one daring to interfere, she had already succeeded in half of it!

The rest was merely a matter of time.

Lin Yan did not disturb her.

He had already arranged numerous space arrays around her, ensuring he had sufficient reaction time if any other god intervened.

Of course, the likelihood of other gods intervening was extremely low.

The Goddess of Life and the others would not.

Mother Earth, who had joined the Pantheon of Ten Thousand Gods, nor the Lord of Darkness would; nor would the Lord of Order.

As for the Lord of the Abyss, even when Lin Yan stormed into the Abyss, they dared not emerge—would they dare invade the Heavenly Realm again?

The only possible threat would be the Lord of Light and his kind.

If the Lord of Light and his kind emerged, it would suit Lin Yan perfectly.

Yet after learning of the Black Shadow's existence, Lin Yan knew the Lord of Light was surely waiting for Lin Yan to trigger the "mechanism" of the Black Shadow's awakening, so that the Black Shadow would harvest him—and then the Lord of Light and his kind could reap the benefits, continuing their strategy in the Heavenly Realm and surviving for countless eons.

"It should still take some time."

After briefly observing Venerable Tianlan's condition, Lin Yan turned his gaze away.

Another month passed, and Lin Yan arrived outside that region, wanting to see what the thing was doing.

In this region, Lin Yan saw…

Originally, in this region, countless eons ago, it had been…

Inside an egg!

Of course, this egg was still nurtured by heaven and earth—equivalent to heaven and earth incubating the egg.

The Black Shadow first consumed all the matter within the egg, then slept for several million years.

Upon waking, it did not eat the eggshell.

Instead, it dismantled the already shattered eggshell fragments and attached them to its own body.

The egg was enormous.

Yet miraculously, these shell fragments were precisely enough to completely cover its body!

No… slightly insufficient.

That spot was on the tip of its left little toe!

That spot had no eggshell covering!

After fully covering its body, these eggshell fragments gradually merged with it, becoming like its skin!

Vaguely, Lin Yan realized that he had likely identified a fatal flaw in this guy!

That was—the tip of its little toe, left uncovered by the eggshell!

Yet Lin Yan was still uncertain whether this thing was truly the Black Shadow.

Because the aura emanating from this thing now bore no trace of darkness.

Lin Yan continued tracing backward.

After fully utilizing the matter within the egg and the eggshell, this region became utterly empty, then it departed.

After roughly tens of thousands of years, this thing returned here again, stayed for several years, then left.

The second return came much later—it waited several million years before returning, stayed for a while, then departed.

Now, its aura remained normal.

Lin Yan continued observing.

Previously, to trace back to the world's origin, Lin Yan had skipped many time periods, so he had not seen these scenes before.

Gradually, over the next roughly one billion years, this thing returned about thirty times.

Yet its aura still differed greatly from that of the Black Shadow.

Each time it returned, it spoke not a word, sat silently for a long or short while, then departed!

Lin Yan continued tracing—now his tracing could last two full hours, each session equivalent to ten times what he once could manage, allowing him to extract vast amounts of information!