Chapter 645: The First to Be Opened Up

Yu Lin lay for a long time.

Every day he slept until waking naturally, got up and ate breakfast, then wondered where to go for a stroll.

Yesterday he went to the mountains on the city outskirts to see the red leaves; the day before that he went to the seaside to feel the wind; three days ago he sat in a teahouse in an old town for an afternoon.

Anyway, Lao Jun and the Jade Emperor are maintaining that world, so it's not his turn to worry.

Maybe someday it will be his turn.

He doesn't even have a chance to slack off now; he'll play enough first and then talk.

That clone of Lao Jun who descended to the lower realm has become well acquainted with Ning Ya.

All day Ning Ya took him around to eat delicious food, from morning till night, from street to alley.

When Ning Ya said she wanted to go to a newly opened eatery, Lao Jun said okay.

When Ning Ya said she wanted to order this and that, Lao Jun said sure.

When Ning Ya asked if it was tasty, Lao Jun said not bad.

The two of them worked together seamlessly, neither minding the other's trouble.

Today they went out again, leaving early in the morning, saying they were going to a neighboring city to eat at an old-brand establishment hidden in an alley.

Long Ye and a few others were also taken along, said to be joining in the fun.

Only Yu Lin remained at home.

He had just returned from a trip elsewhere, his suitcase still spread in the corner unpacked, and he first lay down on the sofa.

Not long after he lay down, a knocking sounded at the door.

Yu Lin didn't move, nor did he open his eyes.

"Come in."

The door was pushed open.

Amaterasu walked in from outside, wearing modern clothes, her long hair draped over her shoulders, her face still as delicate as before, but with a bit more composure than last time they met.

She walked to the side of the sofa and performed a Nihong Guo salute toward Yu Lin, slightly bowing with her hands clasped in front.

"Yu-san."

"Hmm." Yu Lin glanced at her sideways, then lay back down:

"Just say it, what's the matter."

Amaterasu sat up straight and said her purpose: "The Heavenly Central Lord God wishes to invite you to come to our place first."

Yu Lin raised an eyebrow: "Why?"

Amaterasu did not answer immediately.

She plunged her hand into her own abdomen as if into water, with no blood, no wound, only fine ripples spreading from her fingertips.

She took out a ball of light from within, cupping it in both hands and raising it before Yu Lin.

That ball of light had no fixed color, sometimes pure white, sometimes pure black, sometimes variegated, like a kneaded rainbow.

Its aura was vast and boundless, like an abyss, like a vault, like something older than the world and more ancient than time!

Before Yu Lin could even speak, the fish in his mind surged forth!

It leapt from the space between Yu Lin's eyebrows, traced an arc in the air, opened its mouth, and gulped down that ball of light in one bite.

Then it flicked its tail, swam back to the space between Yu Lin's eyebrows, and vanished.

The next moment.

Words appeared before Yu Lin's eyes.

【Mission: Help Izanagi and Izanami open up the world】

【Reward: Heavenly Central Origin Power】

"..............."

Yu Lin looked at that line of text, fell silent for a moment, then said: "Alright."

"Just in time, I'm bored."

He stood up, stretched his neck, glanced sideways at Amaterasu, and said: "Do you want to come along?"

Amaterasu shook her head: "With my strength I still cannot go back to that primordial time, so I won't trouble you."

"Hmm." Yu Lin said no more, his body turning into a faint light that scattered.

The faint light drifted out the window, rose into the sky, and vanished among the clouds.

Amaterasu stood where she was, gazing into the distance.

The location of Neihong.

On the distant horizon, the phantom images of Gaotianyuan layered and overlapped, the Gaotianyuan of different dimensions, times, and possibilities intertwining together, like countless transparent canvases stacked atop one another, each depicting the same world yet each different!

When Yu Lin appeared again, there was no land beneath his feet, no water, nothing familiar.

He stood in an expanse of Chaos, with flowing, semi-transparent substance in all directions, like a jellyfish's bell, like the patterns of oil spreading on water.

There was no fixed shape, center of gravity, or boundary.

Everything was fluid, everything was uncertain.

This is the beginning of creation in the Neihong mythic world.

There was no land, only an endless, flowing Chaos Sea.

The sea surface had no waves, because there was no wind.

The seawater had no color, because there was no light.

But Yu Lin could see; he did not need light to see.

His gaze pierced through that Chaos and fell ahead.

A bridge floated above the sea surface.

It hung there, like a solidified arc.

The two ends of the bridge respectively connected to the sea of Chaos and the higher void.

The bridge is very high, extending upward from the sea surface, disappearing into the mist of Chaos.

Yu Lin stepped onto the sea surface.

Although there was no sensation under his feet, he stood very steadily.

He walked toward that bridge, not quickly, each step leaving a shallow depression on the sea surface, the edge of the depression faintly glowing, like ripples from a stone tossed into water.

Having walked to beneath the bridge, he glanced up, then stepped onto the bridge.

There were no railings on either side; looking down was bottomless Chaos, looking up was an endless void.

The bridge stretched beneath his feet, like a road that never ends.

But he could still see its end.

It didn't take long before he finished walking it.

The end of the bridge was a patch of light, very faint, like the pale white on the horizon before dawn, just about to brighten but not yet.

Passing through that light, he stood upon Gaotianyuan.

Here, the sky is not sky, the earth is not earth.

It is completely different from the later Gaotianyuan.

There is no sun, moon, stars, no mountains or rivers, only a vast, boundless plain.

The sky is also grayish-white, with no clouds, wind, or any other change.

However, compared to the damp, chaotic sea below, Gaotianyuan is dry and bright.

Yu Lin stood on the plain, looking around.

Finally, his gaze fell ahead.

In the midst of an enormous palace.

Actually, it cannot really be called a palace; it should be said to be a manifestation of some kind of rule.

Enabling the Neihong Gods to return to their places.

And at the highest point.

There is a mass of shadow constantly shifting its shape.

Although it has no eyes, Yu Lin can feel that it is looking at him.

Its aura is exactly the same as that mass of primordial power the fish just ate.

I suppose that must be the Heavenly Central!