Chapter 3: My Golden Finger Is Definitely Broken

After all, it was the first living being in this world to speak to him.

Although the word “speak” is still debatable, if he were to kill this living creature he had finally encountered after countless trials, he truly couldn’t bring himself to do it.

……Better just beat it into submission!

Thinking this, Lin Yu smiled faintly and raised his clenched right fist.

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”

For the next five minutes, deafening roars and the agonized bellowing of the unicorn beast echoed continuously through the forest.

Five minutes later, the unicorn beast knelt on all fours, collapsed onto the ground, its massive, mountain-sized body trembling violently.

Lin Yu stood beside the beast’s left earth-yellow eye, smiling as he stroked the shattered scales.

“Good boy, behave and I won’t hit you again~”

“Roar~”

The unicorn beast let out a weak, feeble growl.

It wasn’t that it understood Lin Yu’s words—it simply hadn’t responded last time, causing Lin Yu to assume it hadn’t submitted, so he gave its eye socket another hit…

Clearly, the kid was genuinely terrified!

Lin Yu nodded in satisfaction, then turned around, hands on hips, gazing proudly ahead at the forest.

“Next, I’ll patrol my territory and find a suitable spot to settle down!”

……

……

In the following three days, Lin Yu rode his newly tamed subordinate across every inch of land within a ten-mile radius.

After careful consideration, he chose to return to the very beginning, cutting trees beside the hundred-meter-wide crater to build a shelter that was passable at least.

Of course, given his current physical form, nothing in this world could harm him, nor did he need food or sleep.

His reason for cutting wood and weaving a grass skirt was ultimately due to his human past-life memories haunting him.

The power of habit is immense, especially for Lin Yu now—those endless eons of drifting in the void had cast an even more idealized filter over his already cherished memories of his former life.

Thus, in the days that followed, Lin Yu lived like a wild king, ruling the forest with absolute authority.

At first, the vibrant life of this world, every blade of grass and tree, filled him with exhilaration.

But as time passed, he grew accustomed to his surroundings and gradually began to crave true communication.

Though he now had wild beasts for company, they lacked sentience; no matter how much he convinced himself, deep down he knew they were merely listening passively to his rambling.

From some unknown day onward, Lin Yu began longing for a higher-intelligence being to pass through his territory.

He was certain such beings existed in this world, for within the dense forest spanning ten miles, there lay a forest path marked by unmistakable cart ruts.

Undoubtedly, this was proof of human—or rather, civilized—existence.

Unfortunately, this forest path appeared to have long been abandoned.

Lin Yu waited beside the path for months, yet received no visitors.

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……

On the seventh month since arriving in this world, Lin Yu rode his newly named “Longlongyan” unicorn beast as usual to the edge of his ten-mile territory, habitually waiting for possible visitors.

“Boom—boom—boom—”

As the earth trembled, the thirty-meter-long Longlongyan lay down, closing its eyes lazily to bask in the sunlight.

Lin Yu, wearing a grass skirt tied at his waist, sat cross-legged atop its head, eyes shut, his spirit sinking into his inner universe.

Since his inner universe had only just been born, it remained in its initial state of the Big Bang.

Matter within it could only exist as gas, with scorching, dense energy concentrated in this narrow newborn universe, driving its space to expand faster than light.

At this stage, stars and star systems had yet to form; the entire universe was immersed in extreme heat, density, and radiation.

In such a place more hellish than hell itself, not even ordinary immortal-level beings from the myriad realms could survive.

Precisely because of this, Lin Yu could not use his inner universe as a storage space.

The matter he had devoured upon first entering this world had been entirely destroyed the moment he consumed it.

After seven full months in this world, Lin Yu had only stored a few relatively mild external energies beyond the universe’s infinite, terrifying energy source, making no meaningful change to the cosmos.

If, when confronting Longlongyan, Lin Yu had drawn upon the energy already belonging to his inner universe, the outward display wouldn’t have been merely subduing Longlongyan.

The entire planet might have been obliterated instantly!

Back to the matter at hand—Lin Yu was observing his inner universe not because of its familiar, hostile environment, but because of a mysterious force that had drifted into it from the endless void a month ago.

This thing had no form or substance, yet it was undeniably real; even the hellish conditions of the universe could not harm it in the slightest.

The moment it entered his inner universe from the endless void, Lin Yu immediately sensed it, and plunged his spirit into the cosmos, observing it from a higher dimension as he did now.

To Lin Yu’s surprise, the thing seemed aware of his presence—it instantly tore through the void the moment his “gaze” fell upon it, attempting to flee the universe.

Honestly, if this had happened at the very beginning when Lin Yu first fused with this world, it might have escaped.

But Lin Yu was no longer the same being he once was—he had spent countless eons mastering his authority and strengthening his control over his inner universe just to move through the endless void.

Thus, the moment he realized the thing intended to flee, Lin Yu acted without hesitation.

In the blink of a thought, he sealed the mysterious force firmly within his inner universe.

Afterwards, he activated his authority and observed it from a higher dimension, discovering its rank was strangely unstable, fluctuating between rising and falling.

Sometimes its rank equaled Lin Yu’s; sometimes, it surpassed even him.

Of course, most of the time, its rank was beneath Lin Yu’s—roughly one level below the world’s consciousness.

As Lin Yu silently observed, the thing seemed to realize escape was impossible, so it decisively abandoned resistance and willingly merged into his inner world, choosing to recognize Lin Yu as its master.

Don’t misunderstand—this “recognition of mastery” was not Lin Yu’s wishful thinking, but information actively transmitted by the thing during its fusion.

Lin Yu had already been intrigued by this thing, and as a Dimensional Demon God, Lord of World Consciousness, fearless of heaven or earth, he gladly accepted its submission.

But…

“It’s been over a month—why hasn’t the submission process finished yet…?”

Lin Yu opened his eyes, sitting atop Longlongyan’s head, muttering to himself: “Could it be because my physical form is too massive?”

“No, it couldn’t possibly be my fault—it’s definitely this thing’s incompetence!”

“By the way, what exactly are you? If you can submit, you’re either a treasure or an external aid—maybe even some kind of system…”

“Pfft! You a system? Still can’t submit after a month—I’m stuck with such a weakling!”

Lin Yu sat atop Longlongyan’s head, grumbling and cursing.

This habit of talking to himself had persisted for a long time—even the beast beneath him had grown accustomed to it.

Longlongyan snorted, ignoring the noise from above, contentedly basking in the sun.

Suddenly, it opened half-lidded eyes, staring intently down the forest path, and let out a warning growl.

“Roar!”

At the same moment, Lin Yu’s muttering ceased abruptly.

He sprang to his feet, eyes blazing as he gazed ahead, his handsome face filled with excitement, anticipation, nervousness, and thrill.

“Before you came, I’d imagined what might have happened in this forest…”

With an astonished tone and light footsteps, a young, beautiful woman in white robes stepped from the trees, curiously observing the mountain-sized beast and the boy atop its head:

“But this scene… is far beyond what I expected!”

(End of Chapter)