Chapter 1568: Xi Hua

"A closed-loop void land? So, there's no way to break out?"

When Lin Yan returned to the dark universe, Xi Hua asked softly.

Lin Yan sat across from her and nodded gently.

Now, Xi Hua's power was gradually recovering to its peak.

"So, the shadow's claim of being trapped might actually be true—it likely wanted to escape this world, but simply couldn't."

Xi Hua said.

Lin Yan agreed.

The shadow understood the void land well.

After sensing it could never shake off Lin Yan's observation, the shadow must have tried for a time to escape this world.

Over endless eons, the shadow had surely explored the void land.

And the duration of its exploration was certainly not short.

Perhaps tens or hundreds of millions of years.

Given the shadow's life tier, it likely also discovered the closed-loop structure of the void land.

And this closed-loop void land, it could not break.

Even Lin Yan now could not break it.

How much less could it?

Under these circumstances, the shadow fell into despair.

Because it could not remain in the void land forever.

If the void land were not a closed loop, but truly infinite, it might not have felt trapped.

For if it were truly infinite, walking deeper and deeper into the void would let it escape this world, escape the "eyes" that terrified it.

But this closed-loop void land—no matter how deep you went, you remained near this world.

Impossible to break through.

The shadow's despair was plain to see.

It was this despair, combined with other factors, that caused the shadow to begin harvesting this world, even wanting to destroy it.

But how could a world be destroyed so easily?

Even if the shadow killed every living thing in the world, turning it into utter silence, given enough time, the world would flourish again.

In the past, the shadow had not failed to do such things.

The world had been destroyed by it countless times.

To ordinary beings, the destruction of a world was naturally terrifying.

But from the shadow's temporal scale, even if it could render the world lifeless for hundreds of millions of years, another few hundred million years would bring life back—and its plan would fail.

And in the process of destroying worlds, the shadow likely collapsed again and again, growing increasingly unhinged.

"I don't know—is this a bondage, or a protection?"

Xi Hua said again.

Lin Yan had pondered this same question.

Xi Hua looked at Lin Yan with bright eyes: "Lord Yan, if… tens of billions, hundreds of billions of years pass, and you still cannot break this world, trapped here, would you grow weary? Even… break down?"

This question was indeed one that could not be avoided.

But some questions yield different conclusions depending on the perspective.

After hearing Xi Hua's words, Lin Yan shook his head slightly.

"No."

He said softly.

The shadow broke down not only because it was terrified, but because it was utterly alone.

And Lin Yan would not.

Xi Hua looked at him.

Lin Yan reached out and gently stroked her hair: "Because I have you."

Xi Hua trembled instantly.

Even though Lin Yan had spent over ten million years in the dark universe, accompanying her for a long time, he had mostly been helping her rebuild this world—she… had not yet become his woman.

Moreover, at her level, emotional expression was not like that of ordinary beings.

Even emotion, for her, might not be essential.

After all,

She had spent more than a billion years in the Dark Abyss Prison just to fight the shadow!

That was endless time measured in billions of years.

In such an impossibly long time, sitting alone, who would still think of love or affection?

Moreover, Xi Hua had never, in her entire growth, felt anything for any man.

But…

That was in the past.

Upon hearing Lin Yan's words, her body trembled lightly.

After several dozen seconds, she softly murmured, "Mm."