Chapter 897

This area is empty in the present.

In the era of the Ancient Gods, it was also empty.

In the era of Xihua, it was also empty.

Moreover, this area has never been a core region throughout the long passage of time.

It was a quite remote area.

In the process of Time Regression, Lin Yan kept digging deep into the ancient years and found that in the eras before Xihua, this place was always empty.

There was nothing.

But strangely, in this place where there was nothing, that black shadow would come here once every period of time for an unknown, long duration.

And after the black shadow came here, it said nothing and did nothing; it would often just stay here for a while and then leave.

The time intervals between the black shadow's visits here were sometimes long and sometimes short.

The shortest time was a few million years.

The longest time, according to Lin Yan's calculations during Time Regression, was a full several hundred million years.

Throughout the long years, the number of times the black shadow came to this area was nearly a hundred.

Every time it came, it was about the same—it would just stay for a while and leave.

It seemed that this black shadow purely wanted to come and take a look at this place.

So, the question arises: what is there to see in this empty place?

After the last Time Regression ended, Lin Yan had once crushed this area into countless fragments and studied them one by one, but he did not find anything different about this area.

He even manifested his flame form and burned this area, including the space, completely clean, yet he still did not discover anything different about this area.

It was completely a place as ordinary as could be.

But now, when Lin Yan regressed time to the beginning of the world's birth and then moved the time point forward a little, Lin Yan finally discovered the difference.

This area, at that time, had something in it.

However, this thing seemed a bit strange.

Here, it was completely filled with something.

It seemed to be in the very middle of a continent?

No, that's not right.

The surrounding matter did not look like stone or other materials.

It looked more like a kind of matter that could wriggle.

"Chaos?"

Lin Yan whispered.

Before he transmigrated, he had heard the story of Pangu opening up the world; at the beginning of the world's birth, there was chaos between heaven and earth...

Well, Lin Yan quickly dismissed this possibility.

It wasn't even the same world; where would this world get a Pangu?

Lin Yan began to regress from the beginning of the world's birth forward.

Going forward was not possible; he couldn't regress past the beginning of the world's birth, and it had cost Lin Yan ten thousand drops of Main God power. It seemed that Lin Yan had no chance of seeing how this world was born.

Unless one day Lin Yan's divine power reached an infinite amount and could withstand the consumption, he might have a certain possibility.

Then he would regress forward; anyway, Lin Yan's goal was not to see how the world was born, but to find this black shadow.

After regressing forward, the image soon changed.

Lin Yan discovered that this area would wriggle once every few hundred years.

"Could it be inside some kind of ancient creature?"

Lin Yan thought again.

But it only wriggled once every few hundred years; were there such ancient creatures?

Lin Yan suppressed his doubts and continued to observe.

Another few hundred years passed, and this area wriggled for the second time!

"It wriggled again."

Lin Yan said to himself.

Then, Lin Yan directly regressed time to a few hundred years after the second wriggle, and this area wriggled for the third time.

"The interval between wriggles has narrowed a bit."

Lin Yan thought.

He continued to trace back forward.

He found that the interval of wriggling was indeed narrowing.

But this wriggling never stopped.

Until nearly a hundred thousand years later, the interval of this wriggling became once a year.

At the same time, Lin Yan felt a trace of unusual aura.

"This is..."

Lin Yan's gaze tightened slightly!

Lin Yan thought of something and continued to trace back forward rapidly.

That aura was getting stronger and stronger.

That was...

The aura of life!

Lin Yan finally knew why this area would wriggle!

It turned out that this area, for over a hundred thousand years, had actually...

Been gestating a life!

"Heaven and earth as a placenta—what could this be gestating?"

Lin Yan's brain was spinning rapidly.

Now, only a hundred thousand years had passed since the beginning of the world's birth, and the life gestating here had started to gestate shortly after the beginning of the world's birth!

I'm afraid...

This would be the first life at the beginning of this world's birth!

A large number of images flowed through Lin Yan's mind.

Lin Yan thought of how the black shadow had come here time and time again throughout the endless years of the past, seemingly just to take a look at this place.

That feeling was like an ordinary person who, after growing up and leaving home, would want to return home to take a look every once in a while.

"Could it be that the life gestating here is him!"

This thought popped into Lin Yan's head!

If that were really the case, then this black shadow could be the first life since the birth of heaven and earth!

This possibility was the greatest!

He continued to watch.

Another hundred thousand years passed, and the wriggling of this area finally became once a day!

And as this wriggling intensified, the aura of life in this area became increasingly strong.

In this area, another kind of sound also rang out.

That was...

A heartbeat!

The sound of a heartbeat!

But the rhythm of this heartbeat was very slow, also taking about a few hundred years to beat once.

Lin Yan did not stop and continued to regress.

Another hundred thousand years passed, and the rhythm of the heartbeat finally quickened, reaching once every few years.

Another hundred thousand years passed, and the rhythm of the heartbeat reached once a year.

When time reached the five hundred thousandth year, finally, a cry resounded throughout the entire world!

Using heaven and earth as a placenta, the life that had been gestating for a full five hundred thousand years was born!

It looked just like a human infant.

It wasn't big, its eyes were incredibly bright, and its cheeks were even a bit chubby.

"No." ### CHAPTER 1492