Chapter 1571: True Eternity! Do You Ever Feel Trapped?

Time drifted on.

In Lin Yan's observation, the speed at which the world expanded kept increasing.

But no matter how much the world expanded, the closed loop of the Void Realm still existed.

Lin Yan's power kept growing.

In the blink of an eye, several hundred million years had passed again.

Lin Yan's lifespan had also reached several hundred million years.

He could be considered a genuine long-lived being.

The longer one lived, the more inevitable it was that one's thoughts would undergo some changes.

For instance, one's view of life.

Ordinary people might not understand why gods would be cold and aloof, looking down from on high.

But if you had watched generation after generation of ordinary people go through the entire process from birth to death, even watched a planet's destruction and the deaths of several billion people, only to soon see a new planet born and life flourishing again within a few thousand years—

Then the birth, aging, sickness, and death of ordinary people would no longer move you much.

Even watching wars between planets, one planet enslaving another in utter misery, would no longer move you much.

Because the lives of those people were far too short to you.

For a being who had lived several hundred million years, a few thousand years meant nothing; a few tens of thousands of years meant nothing just the same; even a few hundred thousand years still meant nothing.

But in fact, a few thousand years were enough for a civilization to reach its peak.

Enough for countless moving and tragic stories to unfold within a civilization.

Therefore, within the cosmic order Lin Yan had established, order remained a critically important piece.

Oppression, exploitation, and bullying were also reduced to a minimum.

Although the ordinary people of the entire world had been replaced batch after batch, to Lin Yan, he had long since witnessed the births, ages, sicknesses, and deaths of more generations of ordinary people than he could count. For ordinary people, the moment they were born, death was a certainty—no matter how they lived their lives, splendidly or miserably, none could escape death.

But within the world order Lin Yan had established, he still hoped that, bathed in the radiance of his glory, happiness would outweigh suffering.

That too was a sign of a world's prosperity.

Lin Yan, after all, was not a life like the Black Shadow.

He also knew how to guard his original heart.

He would not, simply because the years had worn on and he had witnessed too much, become utterly heartless.

That was not him.

A true supreme god, in terms of state of mind, had to withstand the grinding away of time.

No matter how time changed, his original intention never wavered.

Several hundred million years passed, and Lin Yan's divine-body form finally reached another stage.

It was a stage higher than Supreme God.

This stage had no name.

Because no one had ever reached this stage.

Lin Yan called it: World Lord!

The reason for naming it so was simple.

At this stage, Lin Yan had begun to come into contact with the origin of this world's laws.

That is, the source power from which laws were born.

World Lord was strongly exclusive.

In other words, there could only be one World Lord.

After becoming World Lord, Lin Yan began to come into contact with the deeper secrets of this world.

The power of his divine-body form also became terrifyingly immense.

And after Lin Yan became World Lord, the upper limit of this world was raised once again.

Lin Yan divided the Main Gods into tiers, splitting them into a full five ranks in total.

The Supreme tier was likewise divided into tiers.

And the threshold for becoming a god was raised further.

Rising water lifts all boats.

The entire world prospered further.

And so, time continued to flow on.

Another several hundred million years passed, and Lin Yan's flame form upgraded once again.

His flame form advanced from the End-Flame Fire to the World Fire.

The reason it upgraded so slowly was that upgrading the flame form required clearing the Abyss over and over.

At Lin Yan's current realm, the efficiency of clearing the Abyss was a bit too low.

If Lin Yan could bring himself to destroy the entire world once, he could upgrade it in one go, but then there would be no point.

This world had now completely become Lin Yan's world.

He had become the World Lord of this world.

It could be said that as long as Lin Yan didn't go courting death, he could remain in this world until the heavens grew old and the earth crumbled, achieving true eternity.

And so, time flowed on once more.

After Lin Yan became World Lord, he soon welcomed his first billion years.

Then the second, the third…

All the way to the fifth billion years, many of the stars he had created began to go out. Although Lin Yan's power kept growing, he still could not break through the closed loop formed by the Void Realm.

On this day, Lin Yan once again came to the Void Realm.