Chapter 528: Dreaming Back to Ancient Times (23)

Ren Yidao was not interested in the affairs of the Butian Alliance and did not go to join in the excitement of storming the Heaven Gate, so naturally, he would not know that his disciple was currently in a desperate situation.

But there was one thing he could empathize with them about.

Moving step by step, being careful and cautious.

Like walking on thin ice!

Because he was currently in a very dangerous and urgent juncture himself!

"... Hiss!"

Ren Yidao was deducing a top-tier cultivation art that was who knows how many realms above his own.

The Ten Thousand Demon Incarnation Art and the Ten Thousand Dao Fusion Thought Art were both parts of a certain top-tier cultivation art, and even as fragments, their rank reached the astonishing Ninth Realm; they were authentic Immortal Scriptures.

If outsiders knew he was using the strength of the Sixth Realm to deduce a Ninth Realm cultivation art, it is unknown how they would evaluate it.

An ant trying to shake a giant tree, ridiculously overestimating one's own capabilities.

This was simply a fool's dream, an impossible task to complete.

Even Ren Yidao himself, although he thought about giving it a try, actually didn't have that much confidence; he just treated it as an attempt and held no hope at all.

But when he began to operate it, he discovered that the situation seemed different from what he had imagined.

Just like when he first learned the Ten Thousand Dao Fusion Thought Art, as he comprehended the Ten Thousand Demon Incarnation Art, a strange sense of familiarity surfaced in his heart again.

His body reacted naturally, and the details that required attention in every aspect were automatically mastered; there were no obstacles at all!

Scriptures that outsiders would need to spend months or even years to understand had no difficulty for him whatsoever.

"I seem to have seen this somewhere, but where exactly was it?"

This eerie sense of familiarity made a slight, hair-raising unease surface in the depths of his heart.

But this negative emotion was quickly cast to the back of his mind by Ren Yidao.

Nothing can interfere with me doing serious business, not even my own fear!

He discarded his other senses and immersed his entire mind in the deduction.

In a mere half an hour, he had combed through the Avatar Technique as if it were a matter of course, and by the time one hour had passed, he had already pushed the progress to ninety-seven percent.

The second hour, ninety-eight percent.

The fourth hour, ninety... nine percent!

At this moment, Ren Yidao opened his eyes and let out a long, turbid breath.

Ha!

His body shook uncontrollably; the massive deficit made his body tremble, nearly causing Ren Yidao to faint.

This was not killing an enemy across realms, but it consumed several times more energy than killing an enemy across realms.

His mental energy was almost completely exhausted, his whole person looked extremely haggard, his figure had even withered a bit, and his face was full of fatigue.

However, although Ren Yidao looked very disheveled at this moment, his spirit was extremely excited, and his eyes were as bright as torches.

"Good... slightly worn, used by a male demon, ninety-nine percent new!"

What was originally just an attempt without hope had successfully reached this step.

Ninety-nine percent, only one step away from perfection!

While swallowing medicinal herbs to replenish his mental energy raw, Ren Yidao couldn't help but think proudly in his heart: "Hahaha, everyone will have their jaws drop when they find out, right?"

However, it was a bit of a pity that there weren't many people qualified for him to share this news with; thinking it over, it was probably just Yaoyue and Jing Yueqin.

"Forget it, it's your two's lucky day, being qualified to witness the greatness of Huhu."

After fantasizing for a while about the shock and worship of Yaoyue and the others when they heard this news, Ren Yidao took the opportunity to digest the medicinal power and seized the time to recover some mental energy.

That's right, at this moment, Ren Yidao had almost reached his mental limit, but he was still prepared to continue the deduction.

There was a reason he was so urgent.

One vigorous effort (in one go), then it wanes, and by the third it is exhausted!

Inspiration is instantaneous; if this opportunity is missed, who knows how much time it might take to catch such an inspiration again.

Opportunity knocks but once.

Since he had already reached this point, there was naturally no reason to stop halfway.

After a short halftime break, Ren Yidao threw his energy back into the deduction.

And the situation was truly as he had expected; having missed the initial inspiration, the efficiency of the deduction was greatly reduced.

But fortunately, he was decisive and didn't waste too much time, narrowly catching the tail of that fleeting inspiration.

From ninety-nine percent to one hundred percent, this last little bit took longer than all the previous time combined.

The ninth hour... one hundred percent, success and perfection!

Hum—

After completing the final character, Ren Yidao didn't have time to be happy before his whole person suddenly froze.

He felt as if he had suddenly pierced through a barrier and entered a special realm.

He heard the sound of the wind, the pulse of the mountains beneath his feet; he heard the breathing of the world.

He saw the rosy light spilling down from above, a golden road extending beneath his feet, straight up to the firmament.

He saw dragons and phoenixes dancing in the sky, he saw a white fox the size of a mountain howling at the moon, saw bare-chested giants as tall as the sky running on the earth, saw the Demon God battling the Human Immortal...

In a trance, Ren Yidao felt as if he had accidentally wandered into the Immortal World.

He saw the Demon God, saw the Human Immortal, saw the lingering light of the ancient times.

"So, this is what the world originally looked like..."

In the ancient times, gods walked the earth, and they were the masters of this world.

He walked in this world, yet was not noticed by anyone, like an ant, like a speck of dust.

He forgot who he was, forgot how he came here, had no direction, no goal, just walking aimlessly like this.

Day by day, month by month, year by year.

Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years.

Time passed mercilessly, leaving traces upon his body.

He grew old, his hair grew long, his beard became thick, and his original appearance could no longer be discerned.

He grew weary, ready to collapse at any moment.

But he still did not stop his footsteps.

He measured the world with his footprints, walking across every inch of mountains, rivers, and streams.

He passed through forests, climbed over mountains, crossed oceans, traversed deserts, and finally ascended to the sky, walking onto the continent floating in the heavens.

Yet the moment his foot landed, a change occurred in his body.

Suddenly, all the aging dissipated, his beard turned to dust, he returned to his youth, and his soul was no longer weary.

"What on earth has happened? Where exactly am I?"

He looked around in a daze, but everywhere he looked were magnificent palaces and jade towers, surrounded by immortal aura; he seemed to have stumbled into a Heavenly Palace.

But although the decorations of the Heavenly Palace were exquisite and dazzlingly gorgeous, he could not feel any aura of life.

After pondering for a while, not having figured out what had happened, he decided to keep walking.

He passed through a tall city gate, walked along a magnificent golden avenue, and picked up some enormous fruits outside a fruit grove.

While gnawing on the fruit, he strolled aimlessly.

Finally, while passing by a pool as vast as the sea, he, who had been walking without restraint, was finally noticed.

"Eh? Whose little one is this? How did you walk all the way here?"

Splash...

The calm water surface shattered, kicking up monstrous waves; the spray rushed onto the shore, causing him to stumble.

A head larger than a mountain emerged from the pool, blocking the sunlight from above and casting a shadow, while enormous, dim yellow eyes stared at the little one standing dazed on the shore, looking him up and down.

Although the way it appeared was somewhat terrifying, the giant beast's voice was very gentle, carrying a touch of doting and teasing for a junior.

"This is the forbidden ground of the Immortal Palace, you cannot just barge in. If I weren't here today, you would have died eight hundred times over! Hahaha! Alright, hurry back now... Hmm?"

"Hmm? What is this? Hmm!?"

The giant beast seemed to have finally discovered the difference in his state, blinking its eyes violently, whipping up a strong wind that blew him swaying back and forth.

"Such a thing actually exists! How could it be like this? So it turns out it would become like this?" The giant beast was shocked, sighed, and lamented, and finally sighed as if resigning itself to fate, "Since that is the case, then I understand."

"Little one, what is your name?"

The giant beast stared at the youth who was suddenly becoming illusory and said softly, "If there is a day when you and I can meet again, I will certainly grant you a stroke of fortune to repay the grace of leaking this secret today."

Who am I?

He was confused; did he originally have a name?

No, did he originally have a mouth!?

"I..."

And just at the moment he opened his mouth, he suddenly remembered everything.

!!!

He is Ren Yidao, the World Walker of the Divine Path Sect.

And at the moment of realization, Ren Yidao also felt a strong suction force coming from behind, about to drag him down from the sky.

Although he did not know what had happened, nor did he know where this place was, Ren Yidao realized that his time was likely running out.

This world was driving him away!

Before his body was expelled, he called out to the giant beast:

"My name is Ren Yidao!"

"... Ren Yidao, although lacking in virtue, it is still a decent name, hmm."

The giant beast watched the youth as he grew further and further away, slowly sinking its head into the water, watching him depart, and said earnestly, "I will remember you; you must come to find me."

Before Ren Yidao could feel anything more, his body had already flown down from the sky, falling rapidly toward the ground.

Suddenly, all the Immortal Gods noticed this little transparent figure and turned their heads to look at him at the same instant.

!!!

Being watched by those pairs of eyes, some bright and some terrifying, Ren Yidao did not even have time to feel fear before he directly retreated from that special state.

All the scenes before his eyes disappeared, and he returned to his Cave Abode.

Ren Yidao's eyes moved slightly, he slowly raised his hand to clench it into a fist a few times, sensed his own condition, and then let out a long breath.

His body had not aged, and only a very, very short time had passed.

"In the snap of a finger, a thousand years in an instant... what is this, a dream of Nanke?"

In that hallucination, Ren Yidao experienced a thousand years of time, but when he woke up, only a few breaths of time had passed.

Yet it was this state of just a few short breaths that caused his cultivation to skyrocket by a large margin.

After this realization, Ren Yidao discovered that he had already reached the Great Perfection of Void Refinement, only a thin layer of window paper away from the No-Form stage.

Furthermore, his Body, Dharma, and Divine paths were all like this, his foundation incomparably deep, as if he had truly experienced a thousand years in a dream.

But Ren Yidao knew this was impossible.

Because if he had truly lived for a thousand years, it would be impossible for him to still be stuck at Void Refinement!

"What on earth happened? Did I really dream of returning to the ancient times? Or is this just a reward from Heaven and Earth, a similar kind of experience? Or perhaps..."

Ren Yidao pondered, but could not think of an answer, so he could only tentatively conclude that it was the feedback from Heaven and Earth after he deduced the Avatar Technique.

"This time, I have truly become a World Walker; I have truly walked the world once." Even after waking up, Ren Yidao still felt his legs aching, incredibly sore.

"The place I went to at the end... should be the Central Divine Continent, right?"

Recalling what he saw in his dream, Ren Yidao could not help but raise his brows, rubbing his chin as he muttered to himself: "This time... it seems I have no choice but to go, right?"

Although I do not recognize that giant beast, nor can I be certain whether the conversation between us truly existed, after all, it did personally promise to give me, Huhu, a stroke of good fortune.

Regardless of whether it exists or not, I must make a trip there!

Someone as committed to keeping promises as I am surely cannot break an appointment, right?

Besides, what if it turns out to be real!