Chapter 254: The World's Pendant (A dull chapter, feel free to skip)

Empty.

Infinite visual range.

Countless chaotic sounds filled the space, as if stuffing cotton into the brain and pouring mercury into the blood vessels.

A roaring sound buzzed inside the head.

This feeling was extremely uncomfortable.

It was as if, in a dream, one had been staring at a single object, and the dream itself was just that object looping.

Zooming in, zooming out.

"This feeling?"

Lin Chao managed to concentrate his consciousness a little.

He then discovered that, as he was now, he had no physical form at all.

Or rather, within his field of vision, there was no sign of himself.

"Not a human..."

"Cannot cultivate..."

"My current state... a pendant?"

After an unknown amount of time had passed, Lin Chao finally understood his current state.

He was now somewhat similar to an invisible satellite, or perhaps a camera.

Just like a pendant hanging high above in the sky.

"Can I turn into a human now?"

Instantly, countless pieces of information flooded into Lin Chao's consciousness.

He could turn into a human.

He had not yet fully succeeded in his reincarnation.

He could choose to finalize his reincarnation as a human right now.

But... after becoming human.

Lin Chao would starve to death, or die from lack of oxygen.

This reminded him of a joke: do not ascend, there is no oxygen up there.

The world below, according to the description of the reincarnation, had no living beings at all.

Lin Chao also could not truly reincarnate.

"Let it be this way then."

Lin Chao resigned himself to his fate.

The world below did not even have living beings.

If he turned into a human, he would kick the bucket after a while.

"The Immortal Cultivation methods of Jiuzhou, the Supernatural paths of the Qiyuan World, the path of the Spirit Martial Artist... none of them work."

Lin Chao attempted to cultivate.

Unfortunately, there was no result whatsoever.

Cultivation requires a Spiritual Root, requires a heart, and requires meridians.

Not to mention the presence of Spiritual Qi, he did not even have a body right now.

It was even debatable whether he possessed a Divine Soul.

Perhaps, a trace of True Spirit existed?

He began to control his visual range, wanting to look downward to better understand that void world below.

However, his field of vision was exceptionally strange, and seeing things was very blurry.

Or rather, it was difficult for him to control his vision, and the images formed were all piled up from various lines.

It was as if the screen of an old television was broken; everything seen was made of lines of various colors, unable to become a true solid entity.

Lin Chao patiently adjusted his vision, looking toward the world below, grinding away bit by bit.

This was a meticulous task.

It was as if hundreds of billions of threads were tangled together, and he had to untie every knot and peel away every thread from among them.

If Lin Chao had not experienced other reincarnations, he would likely have collapsed by now.

Day after day, he adjusted with patience.

A hundred years of time passed, and Lin Chao felt joy in his heart.

"Finally, I am able to see some things clearly."

The lines in his vision were finally pieced together into things he could understand.

"That is... a stone."

"This is... a mountain."

"No rivers."

Lin Chao continued to adjust, dull and tedious.

In the blink of an eye, ten thousand years of time flowed by.

During these ten thousand years, Lin Chao's vision finally became capable of retracting and expanding at will.

He was able to see most things in this world.

This world was confirmed to be just as described.

A place of dead silence, without any living beings.

Or rather, perhaps living beings had once existed in this world, but now it was desolate.

"Perhaps, this is a good opportunity to understand the essence of the world."

Lin Chao felt invigorated.

He began to observe this world in detail.

Understanding every rock, every type of Earth in this world.

It was dull and tedious.

"However, I can only observe."

Lin Chao sighed.

He could only observe; he could not even manage to change this world.

"Continue... to observe?"

Lin Chao slowly went to observe this world.

"This world is somewhat larger than Jiuzhou."

Not knowing how many tens of thousands of years he had observed, Lin Chao reached this conclusion.

Time flew like a shuttle, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

At first, he would deliberately keep track of time.

Later, he just followed his heart.

Every interval was tens of thousands of years.

By now, Lin Chao did not know how many tens of thousands of years had passed.

For his tiny life, tens of thousands of years were far too long.

Yet, for the world before his eyes, it was truly but a fleeting moment.

This world remained a barren wasteland.

There was nothing at all.

Let alone the appearance of any living beings.

It was as if this were a Prison Cage.

In these countless tens of thousands of years, Lin Chao also tried various cultivation methods.

None succeeded.

Finally, after not knowing how many years of observation had passed.

Lin Chao let out a sigh: "So boring."

Even though his temperament was like that of a god, he felt a wave of boredom.

He even birthed some other thoughts, wanting to transform into a human, walk through this world, live for a few breaths, die, and then end this reincarnation.

However, this thought was snuffed out by himself.

"As expected, my strength increased too quickly, and my temperament is still lacking.

Having stayed here for endless years, perhaps I will get used to it."

In any case, he had an infinite lifespan and was not afraid of death at all.

"Will this world give birth to life?"

Looking at this barren world, Lin Chao suddenly felt an impulse.

Life is born from coincidence.

Here, could there be coincidence?

Unfortunately, yet another unknown number of tens of thousands of years passed.

The thing Lin Chao hoped for never happened.

Instead, his heart became increasingly resilient.

The years were endless, and time flowed by rapidly.

Lin Chao continued to observe this lifeless world that had no changes whatsoever.

But one day, Lin Chao's heart suddenly jolted.

The world seemed to have gained some color.

This world seemed to have gained an Outsider.

Lin Chao's attention was completely drawn over.

After all, this was the first time he had seen a living being.

In nearly a million years of time, he saw a real living being.

It was a remnant soul, fleeing rapidly, burning its Essence Blood as it landed in this barren world.

He hid in a place, muttering: "You bastards, once I recover my cultivation, I will surely pierce your hearts with ten thousand arrows."

Lin Chao judged that this remnant soul before him should be only one step away from the realm of a god.

Reaching the realm of a god, there would be no problem surviving in a world of ruins like this.

This remnant soul was severely injured.

Every day, he worked hard to heal his wounds.

Occasionally, one could hear him cursing that pair of bastards.

"You bastards, you swindled me out of my God Position!"

"Once I hide here for a few hundred years and become a god, at that time, hehe..."

The man cultivated, a smile curling at the corners of his mouth, as if he were full of longing for the future.

The bored Lin Chao observed that god every day.

This was one of the few pleasures in his life.

That man, who was but a single step away from the realm of the gods, naturally did not discover him.

That man's injuries had healed slightly, and he also explored this world a little.

He ultimately determined that this world seemed to be completely devoid of life; it was simply a world of dead silence.

He returned to the cave dwelling he had simply arranged to continue healing his injuries and cultivating.

"Give me another hundred years, and I will certainly be able to ascend to a God Position.

By then, I will definitely make that pair of wretched lovers pay!

Qiangan, I will surely behead you!

Ruoliu, I will force you into my harem!"

The man muttered to himself, as if speaking a few words could make him feel less lonely.

Unfortunately, he still cultivated every day, cursing and swearing every day, just waiting to take his revenge.

But one dark night, the man's eyes suddenly turned blood-red, and blood flowed from them: "There is poison here!"

Blood foam spilled from the corners of his mouth, and his whole body convulsed.

"What a ruthless, wretched woman; she was plotting against me from the very beginning!"

The man vomited blood, attempting to heal himself several times to recover, but it was to no avail.

In the end, he died in this desolate world.

However, before he died, he specifically left behind a legacy.

In the legacy, he wrote that he was waiting for a fated person to come and take it, only requiring them to avenge him in the future.

Lin Chao felt somewhat disappointed.

That god who had strived for a hundred years had died in the end after all.

He did not sigh, but simply felt that his only source of amusement was gone.

A hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years, one hundred thousand years, one million years of time passed.

Lin Chao suddenly remembered that man who had intruded.

He looked over.

Unfortunately, the bones were gone, and the cave dwelling was gone.

The legacy that the man had left behind was also long gone.

Even if one approached the realm of the gods, one was ultimately unable to truly stand shoulder to shoulder with time.

That man's grudge could ultimately never be avenged.

His corpse turned to ash, and no one came to search for it.

That pair of wretched lovers he spoke of had perhaps already perished by now.

In the face of time, living beings appear exceptionally insignificant.

Lin Chao was like a pendant.

He had now entered a special state.

It was as if he were still observing this world.

And then his consciousness drifted into a deep slumber.

In this world, there was almost nothing that caught his attention.

He did not know how much more time had passed.

Lin Chao's dim consciousness finally moved again.

"Someone has come again?"

He looked over.

He saw that above the Heavenly Vault, there was an additional special living being.

Her face could not be seen clearly, and even her body could not be seen clearly.

Ethereal, illusory, and unfathomable.

However, based on his intuition, Lin Chao knew that this was a young woman.

Lin Chao could not discern her realm either.

"Sigh." The young woman walked through this world and let out a sigh.

She whispered, her eyes carrying a trace of disappointment: "As expected... has it fallen after all?

Everything was just my illusion."

The woman was dejected, and she walked through this world for three days.

Lin Chao also watched her for three days.

For these three days, his gaze remained fixed upon this woman.

It was merely to add some interest to his dull and tedious life.

During these three days, the mysterious woman walked across this desolate world.

She also appeared at the place where the previous man had fallen.

She waved her slender hand.

Some phantoms appeared in the air.

One could see the scene of the man before his death being reenacted.

A deep disappointment appeared in the woman's eyes.

This kind of method, tracing back events that happened over a million years ago, was extremely terrifying!

Lin Chao felt that even if he broke through to the Ninth Tier and became a Main God, he would fundamentally be unable to do such a thing.

The woman murmured, her voice incomparably lonely: "This is merely an Ancient Battlefield after all."

Just at this moment, the expression on the woman's face changed.

She seemed to be communicating with someone.

Even Lin Chao was unable to learn the content of what the other person was saying.

He could only hear the mysterious woman's low-voiced disappointment.

"……No, he seems to have truly fallen."

"I did not expect that the one who traded with me back then was him."

"I also did not expect that what he took from me…… was given to you."

"You will die, your spirit will dissipate just like his."

"Once the True Spirit dissipates, the Three Lives Seal will also be nothing but a futile effort."

"Why bother?"

The mysterious woman sighed, the communication ended, and she stood in the desolate world, revealing a red dress as cold and elegant as frost.

She finally murmured in a low whisper.

"Sigh, are you just your emotions?"

There is one more chapter, on the way, cough cough.

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(End of this chapter)