Chapter 935

In the Land of Nothingness, Lin Yan appeared once again.

Lin Yan had explored the Land of Nothingness more than once, wanting to know what was in the depths of the Land of Nothingness and whether there were other worlds.

This time, Lin Yan spent even longer in the Land of Nothingness.

He explored the Land of Nothingness for a full ten million years.

"Closed-loop structure."

Ten million years later, finally, Lin Yan ended his exploration and muttered to himself.

Yes, in Lin Yan's exploration, the Land of Nothingness was completely a closed-loop structure.

It was like a shell, firmly wrapping the world where the Heavenly Realm was located.

As for what was outside this shell, Lin Yan did not know.

The form of the world naturally could not be simply understood as an egg.

The Land of Nothingness could not be simply understood as the shell outside this egg; imagining it as a shell was just for convenience of understanding.

And after ten million years of exploration, Lin Yan discovered that the Land of Nothingness, while said to be endless, was indeed endless, but it was not endless in the true sense.

Simply put, no matter where you entered the Land of Nothingness from in this world, and kept going deeper in one direction, you would never reach a new place.

If you kept walking, you would never reach the end, no matter which direction you went, even with Lin Yan's mastery of the Laws of Nothingness, it was the same, as if it were endless.

But...

Lin Yan had already discovered that this endlessness was like a Möbius strip; it looked endless, but in fact, you were always turning in that area.

That is to say, the Land of Nothingness outside the world is a quite profound closed-loop structure.

Moreover, its area is quite large.

It gave Lin Yan the feeling that it was even bigger than the entire world.

And the Land of Nothingness of the Heavenly Realm was actually because the shadow and others pierced the barrier during the great war in the past, causing the Land of Nothingness to invade.

And this Möbius strip-like structure formed by the Land of Nothingness, even with Lin Yan's strength, could not be forcibly broken through or broken.

"Is this a shackle, or a protection for the world?"

Lin Yan couldn't help but think.

Lin Yan's imagination was not small, and this imagination was supported by a large number of details.

It was not blind thinking or daydreaming.

Of course, if he thought deeper, it would involve things like: how this world was born, and what would be outside the Land of Nothingness.

However, at Lin Yan's level, having lived for such a long time, it would be a lie to say he hadn't thought about these questions.

In fact, after living for hundreds of millions of years, although life in this world still filled Lin Yan with incomparable fun, Lin Yan was indeed curious about what was outside the world and whether there were other worlds.

According to Lin Yan's understanding, other worlds should exist; not to mention anything else, wasn't the world Lin Yan transmigrated from one...

It's just that since he couldn't get out of the Land of Nothingness for the time being, Lin Yan had no interest in continuing to explore.

He returned to the Heavenly Realm once again and lived a "little life" with his women.

As time passed, some feelings became more and more intense.

His women were all gods, not humans. Even though more than a hundred million years had passed, they still maintained their peak state, and neither their mentality nor their bodies showed any signs of decline.

As long as this world did not decline, they would not exist in a state of decline, and instead, they were becoming more and more powerful.

And how long a world can exist actually depends on the people in this world; the lifespan of a world is not fixed.

It's not that the origin will be exhausted in tens of billions or hundreds of billions of years; that is actually nonsense.

And before Lin Yan transmigrated, there was a saying of the reincarnation of all things, but this world did not have reincarnation.

Dead is dead.

This is the world controlled by Lin Yan.

It can be said that as long as Lin Yan wants it to exist, it can exist for as long as he wants.

Just like the dark universe, it was almost destroyed by the shadow, but it was still made to prosper and grow again by Lin Yan and Xihua.

What is needed is nothing more than time.

"A closed-loop Void Land—does this mean there's no way to break out?"

When Lin Yan returned to the Dark Universe, Xihua asked softly.

Lin Yan sat opposite her and nodded gently.

Xihua’s power had now gradually recovered to its peak.

"In that case, what the Shadow said about being trapped might truly be the case. It likely wanted to escape this world but found it impossible to do so."

Xihua said.

Lin Yan agreed.

The Shadow knew quite a bit about the Void Land.

After realizing it could never escape Lin Yan’s surveillance, there must have been a time when the Shadow wanted to flee this world.

Throughout endless ages, the Shadow must have explored the Void Land.

And it surely spent a long time doing so.

Perhaps tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years.

Given the Shadow’s level of existence, it likely discovered the closed-loop structure of the Void Land.

And this closed-loop Void Land was something it could not break.

Even the current Lin Yan could not break it.

How could it?

Under such circumstances, the Shadow fell into despair.

Because it could not stay in the Void Land forever.

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

Because if it were truly infinite, one could simply keep traveling deeper into the Void Land to escape this world and the "eyes" that filled it with dread.

However, in a closed-loop Void Land, no matter how deep one goes, one always remains near this world.

It was impossible to break through.

The despair in the Shadow’s heart was evident.

It was this despair, combined with other factors, that led the Shadow to begin harvesting this world, and 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 and turned it into a dead silence, given enough time, the world would flourish once more.

In the past, it wasn't as if the Shadow hadn't done such things before.

The world had been destroyed by him countless times.

By the scale of ordinary people, the destruction of a world is naturally terrifying.

But on the Shadow’s timescale, even if it could keep the world devoid of life for hundreds of millions of years, once life reappeared after another few hundred million years, its plans would fall through.

And in the process of destroying the world, the Shadow likely collapsed time and again, becoming increasingly abnormal.

"I wonder, is this a shackle, or a protection?"

Xihua asked again.

Lin Yan had pondered this question as well.

Xihua looked at Lin Yan with bright eyes: "Master Yan, if... tens of billions, hundreds of billions of years pass, and you are still unable to break this world and remain trapped here, would you feel weary or even... collapse?"

This was indeed a question one had to face.

However, for some questions, the conclusion depends on the perspective from which one views them.

Hearing Xihua’s words, Lin Yan shook his head slightly.

"I would not."

He said softly.

The reason the Shadow collapsed was not just because it was frightened, but because it was all alone.

But Lin Yan would not be.

Xihua looked at him.

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

Xihua trembled instantly.

Even though Lin Yan had spent over ten million years in the Dark Universe and had spent much time accompanying her, he had mostly been with her to restructure the world; she... had not yet become Lin Yan’s woman.

Moreover, at her level, the expression of emotion was not like that of ordinary people.

Perhaps emotion was not even a necessity for her.

After all.

To deal with the Shadow, she had spent more than a hundred million years in the Dark Abyss!

That was an endless stretch of time measured in billions of years.

Over such a long time, sitting alone in one place, who would consider matters of love or affection?

Furthermore, as Xihua grew to where she was today, she had never felt for any man.

However...

That was in the past.

Upon hearing Lin Yan’s words, her body trembled slightly.

After several tens of seconds, she finally let out a soft "Mm."