Chapter 1341

Hum—"

Familiar yet strange buzzing sound.

In Lin An's eyes, the final image was Mo Ling, his head severed, eyes bloodshot.

And Chu An, standing nearby, took off his glasses.

The next second, endless darkness filled his vision, as if death itself.

No sound, no vibration, nothing at all.

Like a void, only a few non-material structures existed in the space turbulence of YiKongjian; after a brief moment of dazedness, Lin An opened his eyes again.

"Is this... YiKongjian?"

Opening his eyes was useless; in fact, only his mental force could barely grasp some indescribable "existence" beyond observation, and Lin An instantly realized he had entered the YiKongjian created by the ghost infant.

Unlike his many previous uses of teleportation, this time entering the ghost infant's YiKongjian was actually his first genuine perception of this place.

Previous teleportations were instantaneous.

Strictly speaking, aside from the first time he was swallowed by the ghost infant, no one could know what this place is like.

"Absolute void, yet does something exist within the void?"

"No size or range, yet there are boundaries?"

Muttering softly, in the darkness Lin An frowned slightly and instinctively sensed the space he was in.

Very strange.

This is different from when he activated spatial travel.

It exists within the world but does not rely on the real world; one could say the existence of YiKongjian is like the Big Bang, produced only when Mo Ling's head was torn off...

"If this is a rule... what rule could it be..."

"Space? Death? Time? Dimension?"

While waiting patiently, Lin An couldn't help pondering the nature of this YiKongjian.

After the Fourth Stage, to human eyes everything material appears as countless intertwining rules; faintly, Lin An sensed that the YiKongjian created by the ghost infant was not low in rank...

Hard to imagine how he survived facing those rules back then...

Deathly silence, eternal silence.

Just as Chu An described the inside of a balloon, this place belongs neither to three‑dimensional reality nor to higher dimensions.

Like a void "gas" surrounded by a three‑dimensional spacetime net, its meaning is simply to prove existence.

Only able to sense below himself, in the absolute silence Lin An saw a white flash in his hand, and two sharp longswords appeared.

Muscles tensed, spiritual energy mobilized, rules blanketed.

He had made ready to rush in at a moment's notice!

To enter the Alien Species world as soon as possible, Chu An's solution was to place him into YiKongjian ahead of the imminent Descent.

At the moment the higher‑dimensional Alien Species Descend, he will also appear simultaneously in the capital!

This is a blatant ploy! The most violent solution!

Even if the Alien Species knew this, they would have no ability to stop it!

"What is the Alien Species world really like..."

In a low murmur, Lin An's heart began to race involuntarily.

Even while trying to stay as rational as possible, he could feel immense pressure and anxiety weighing on his mind; especially being alone in this void YiKongjian, that sense of loneliness struck his spirit like a hundred‑fold amplification....

With his own strength, he charged into another world.

Either the Alien Species are destroyed, or humanity perishes...

In this staggering gamble, if his mind weren't sufficiently resolute, an ordinary person would have already broken down, wailing and fleeing in tears.

("Don't think about it.")

("What you should consider is whether you'll die the moment you appear in the capital...")

In the darkness, Second Will appeared indifferently; though his words carried mockery this time, they were mostly helplessness and resentment.

He could not stop Lin An.

Just as Mo Ling could not stop Lin An.

To some extent, their steadfast beliefs were the same, or rather Lin An was more extreme.

For survival, one can abandon everything!

For survival, one can abandon everything, even existence itself!

"Do you know the situation in the Alien Species world?"

"Do you know what's there?"

Ignoring the mockery in Second Will's tone, Lin An frowned and simply asked.

If he remembered correctly, Second Will had never shown this information, but had unintentionally revealed that he actually knew a lot about the Alien Species.

After a moment of silence, Second Will snorted coldly and did not deny it.

("Never been there, but I know.")

("When you became a monster in your Past Life, I absorbed some fragmentary memories.")

("Or perhaps that monster tried to assimilate me.")

("Didn't Chu An say you actually fused with the corpse of a perfect Alien Species? So those memory fragments should belong to that monster as well.")

Perhaps he was striving to survive.

Faced with Lin An's question, Second Will hid nothing and spoke openly.

Even if he had once intended to conceal this information...

After all, this is the main source of the information gap between him and Lin An.

He raised his eyebrows, hearing that the Second Will indeed knew this information, Lin An instantly grew extremely interested. For some unknown reason, a picture suddenly flashed in his mind.

A towering tree, an altar..

No, that's not right.

That is a fragment of AnXia's memory, a piece shared with him when Chu An read AnXia's memory.

Why did I suddenly think of this?

Before Lin An could even think with some doubt how such an irrelevant fragment flashed in his mind, the next second the Second Will coldly said:

("The Alien Species world should be a highly post-cataclysm world, belonging to a planetary world. But compared to Earth, its ecological environment has deteriorated to the extreme.")

("In the vision I saw, the monster you fused with should be living in an underground world.")

("Or rather.. the core.")

As the words fell, the Second Will waved his right hand, and a constantly rotating red planet appeared before Lin An.

Only seen on the slowly rotating planet's projection, the whole planet resembled a shattered eyeball, with deep cracks that almost split the world, covering it.

Looking closely, one could even see the deepest part of the core, the liquid metal core representing a planet's 'life'.

Dark red, ferocious.

In the simulation, the thousands-of-degrees-hot liquid metal constantly spewing from the core's depths fell like fire rain upon the land.

The dark red metal solution can be ejected up to thirteen thousand meters high, then as it falls it rapidly cools, turning into solid metal that smashes into the ground.

At every moment, under the pull of the planet's rotation, fine long cracks suddenly appear.

Enveloping the shattered eyeball's exterior is a grayish-yellow atmosphere that barely protects the whole planet. Its thick, high concentration, like a heavy-metal poison, wraps the surface.

Endless acid rain mixed with sky‑shooting lava repeatedly creates high‑temperature toxic steam.

Under the sealed, heavy atmosphere, the planet's temperature should drop to minus two hundred degrees Celsius.

But under the temperature of the erupting fractured core, the surface temperature is forced up to three hundred to seven hundred degrees Celsius.

It is like an ice block wrapped in cotton, while inside boundless flames rise. The planet's continental plates shuttle between extreme heat and absolute zero.

Looking at the world before him that could hardly be called a planet, Lin An's expression twitched slightly, and he couldn't help but feel a jolt in his heart.

How could this be a world where civilization can survive?

This is simply..

Hell