Chapter 3

After all, it was the first creature in this world to talk to him.

Although the word "talk" was still questionable, Lin Yu really couldn't bear to kill this living creature he had finally encountered after going through so many difficulties.

... Better beat it up and subdue it!

Thinking of this, Lin Yu smiled slightly and raised his right hand, which was clenched into a fist.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

For the next five minutes, deafening loud noises and the wails of the giant horned beast constantly came from the forest.

Five minutes later, the giant horned beast knelt on all fours, lying on the ground, its mountain-like body shivering.

Lin Yu stood beside the giant beast's left earthy-yellow eye, smiling and stroking its shattered scales.

"Good, be obedient and I won't hit you anymore~"

"Roar~"

The giant horned beast let out a weak low roar.

This wasn't because it understood Lin Yu's words; it was purely because it hadn't given a response last time, leading Lin Yu to mistakenly think it hadn't submitted yet, so he hit its eye socket again...

It could be seen that the kid was truly scared!

Lin Yu nodded with satisfaction, then turned around, hands on his hips, looking at the forest ahead with high spirits.

"Next, let's patrol my territory first and find a suitable place to settle down!"

For the next three days, Lin Yu rode this newly subdued little brother and traveled to every inch of the ten-mile territory.

After careful consideration, he still chose to return to the original starting point, cutting wood to build a house next to the hundred-meter-diameter crater, and built a shelter that was passable.

Of course, with his current status as a true body, nothing in this world could harm him, and he didn't need to eat or sleep.

The reason he chose to cut wood to build a house and weave a grass skirt was ultimately because his previous life's memories as a human were at work.

The power of inertia was very strong, especially for the current Lin Yu; that memory of drifting eternally in the endless void made him miss his previous life's memories, which he already missed immensely, even more, adding a layer of beautifying filter.

Thus, in the days that followed, Lin Yu lived the life of a savage, reigning supreme and acting as he pleased in the forest.

At the very beginning, the vibrant life of this world and every blade of grass and tree in the forest made him feel immensely excited.

But as time went on, he began to get used to the current situation and gradually began to yearn for real communication.

Although he now had wild beasts in the forest for company, these beasts had not yet opened their intelligence, and no matter how Lin Yu convinced himself, he knew deep down that they were just listening to his nagging unilaterally.

From some day on, Lin Yu began to look forward to higher intelligent creatures passing through his territory.

He was very sure that this world had such existences, because in this dense forest within ten miles, there was a forest path with very obvious cart tracks left on it.

Without a doubt, this was proof of the existence of humans, or rather, civilization.

It was a pity that this forest path seemed to have been abandoned long ago.

Lin Yu watched by the roadside for several months, but still had no harvest.

In the seventh month of coming to this world, Lin Yu rode the giant horned beast he named "Longlongyan" and came to the edge of his ten-mile territory as usual, habitually waiting for possible visitors.

"Boom boom boom—"

Accompanied by the shaking of the earth, the thirty-meter-long Longlongyan lay down on the spot, lazily closing its eyes, enjoying the sunshine.

Lin Yu, wearing a grass skirt around his waist, sat cross-legged on its head, eyes tightly closed, his consciousness sinking into his internal universe.

Because his internal universe hadn't been born for long, it was still at the beginning of the Big Bang.

The matter in the universe could currently only exist in a gaseous state, and the hot and dense energy accumulated in this narrow newborn universe, pushing the space of the entire universe to expand continuously at a speed faster than light.

At this time, stars and stellar systems had not yet formed, and the entire universe was in a state of extreme high temperature, high density, and high radiation.

In such a place that was even more hellish than hell, let alone matter, even the immortal-level powerhouses in the conventional sense of the myriad realms could not survive here.

Precisely because of this, Lin Yu could not treat his internal universe as a storage space at all.

The matter he swallowed when he first entered this world had already been completely destroyed at the beginning of the swallowing.

Seven full months after transmigrating to this world, Lin Yu had only stored some relatively mild foreign energy outside that terrifying energy source that could be called infinite, and had not made any changes to the entire universe.

If Lin Yu had mobilized the energy that already belonged to his internal universe when dealing with Longlongyan, then the external performance would not have been as simple as just beating Longlongyan into submission.

It might have destroyed the entire planet instantly!

Back to the point, the reason Lin Yu was observing his internal universe at this moment was not because of this harsh environment he had long been used to, but because of a mysterious power that had suddenly drifted into his internal universe from the endless void a month ago.

This thing was formless and qualityless, but it truly existed; even the hellish cosmic environment could not harm it in the slightest.

When it broke into his internal universe from the endless void, Lin Yu discovered it at the first moment, so he sank his consciousness into the universe and cast his gaze from a higher dimension as he was doing now.

What surprised Lin Yu was that this thing seemed to have sensed his existence, actually breaking through the void without hesitation the moment his "gaze" was cast, attempting to escape this universe.

To be honest, if time were turned back to when Lin Yu first merged with the world, it might have really escaped.

But the current Lin Yu was no longer the person he was at the beginning; in order to move in the endless void, he didn't know how much time he had spent, just to master his own authority and enhance his control over his internal universe.

Therefore, upon discovering that this thing intended to escape, Lin Yu chose to take action without hesitation.

In the time it took for a single thought to arise and perish, he firmly locked this wisp of mysterious power in his internal universe.

Afterward, he mobilized his own authority and observed it carefully from a higher dimension, only to find that the status of this thing was quite strange, seemingly in a state of rising and falling.

Sometimes, its status could be equal to Lin Yu's, and sometimes, it was even more lofty than Lin Yu's.

Of course, most of the time, its status was below Lin Yu's, probably an existence one level lower than the world consciousness.

Just as Lin Yu was observing silently, this thing seemed to realize that it could not escape, so it decisively gave up struggling, turning instead to actively merge into his internal world, choosing to acknowledge Lin Yu as its master.

Don't misunderstand; the so-called acknowledging as master was not Lin Yu's wishful thinking, but the information actively transmitted by this thing when it chose to merge.

Lin Yu was already very interested in this thing, and plus he was a dignified dimensional demon god and world consciousness, fearing nothing, so he gladly accepted the other party's acknowledgment as master.

However...

"It's been more than a month, why hasn't the process of acknowledging as master ended yet..."

Lin Yu opened his eyes, sitting on Longlongyan's head, and muttered to himself: "Could it be because my true body is too massive?"

"No, how could it be my reason? It must be that this guy is too unpromising!"

"Speaking of which, what exactly are you? If you can acknowledge as master, you must be either a magic treasure or a cheat, maybe even some kind of system..."

"Pah! You, a system? It's been a month and you still haven't acknowledged as master. How did I end up with such a weakling like you!"

Lin Yu sat on Longlongyan's head, cursing and muttering.

This state of talking to himself had lasted for a long time, and even the little brother beneath him had long been used to it.

Longlongyan snorted, ignoring the voice coming from above its head, and went on enjoying the sunshine by itself.

Just then, it suddenly opened its half-squinted eyes, staring fixedly at the forest path ahead, and opened its mouth to let out a vigilant low roar.

"Roar!"

At the same time, Lin Yu's muttering stopped abruptly.

He stood up suddenly, looking ahead with a burning gaze, his delicate face full of excitement, anticipation, nervousness, and agitation.

"Before coming here, I had thought about what exactly happened in this forest..."

Accompanied by an unexpected tone and the light sound of footsteps, a young and beautiful woman in a white robe walked out of the forest, looking with interest at the mountain-like giant beast and the youth on its head:

"But this scene really exceeded my expectations!"

(End of chapter)