Chapter 3111: The Power Of The Past
Lu Yin had just witnessed a scene that was nothing more than a fragment of the past.
He felt his heart grow heavy. So Progenitor Chen’s giant clone was also dead. Did that mean that all of Progenitor Chen"s other clones were dead as well?
In that case, was the Progenitor Chen that Lu Yin had spoken with in Burial Garden the man’s original body?
The last bit of the scene had also caught Lu Yin"s attention. Corpse G.o.d had taken the corpse of Progenitor Chen"s colossal giant clone away. What were the SkyG.o.d’s intentions with the body? If Ye Wu could create a cultivation method like symbiotic corpses, then did the Aeternals also have the ability to utilize the corpse of Progenitor Chen"s colossal giant clone? The possibility was disturbing.
Even if Progenitor Chen"s colossal giant clone had lost to Corpse G.o.d, the Progenitor’s opponent had been Corpse G.o.d, who was a sequence powerhouse. On top of that, the SkyG.o.d had essentially been immortal and indestructible. Despite all that, Progenitor Chen’s clone had still forced Corpse G.o.d to cough up blood during their fight. If humanity was forced to fight against Progenitor Chen"s colossal giant clone, they would certainly have a difficult time.
Lu Yin let out a deep breath and shook these dark thoughts away before he continued fishing.
Infinity stretched out from his fishing rod and dipped into the River of Time. Suddenly, the rod jerked, and another drop of water splashed out, and the same situation as before repeated. Lu Yin looked into a universe that had appeared above the flowing river. This time, he saw an enormous creature. It appeared to be sleeping, but its snores were so loud that they even shook the stars. The creature resembled a whale, but it was impossible to determine its actual size just from the scene.
Suddenly, the creature rolled over, and the simple movement caused the void to collapse. The destruction spread into the distance, and the Hollow appeared as far as Lu Yin could see.
His expression changed. Just such a minor movement had exposed the Hollow. Just how ma.s.sive was this creature?
Lu Yin’s strength had actually fished out such a scene from the River of Time.
Fishing in the River of Time could allow one to catch anything that existed in time: people, events, objects, everything.
By using his own strength as bait, Lu Yin had drawn out incidents from the past that were related to strength.
The clash between Corpse G.o.d and Progenitor Chen"s giant clone had been one such clash of strength.
The creature that Lu Yin was currently staring at was an even greater representation of pure power.
Lu Yin had never seen something that could expose the Hollow by simply rolling over. He had no idea where the creature might be.
The droplet fell back into the river, and Lu Yin continued fishing. He started to believe that he could pull up something from the past that would be able to help him improve his Infinity. Even if he failed to do so, he could at least pull out some interesting scenes from history.
The entire time, he kept one eye on the mist, making sure that it never touched him. He did not want to end up like Jue Yi.
Lu Yin was in the Mirari Realm, and time did not pa.s.s for anyone outside of this place. The River of Time flowed through it, and Lu Yin was in no hurry. He patiently continued to fish, hoping to find something that would allow Infinity to undergo a transformation. After that, he intended to also use Lightstream, Dust World, and the Wordless Heavenly Book as bait.
He wondered if he would even be able to drop the Wordless Heavenly Book into the river to use as bait.
One after another, droplets splashed up from the River of Time. Each one revealed some scene from the past that was related to physical might. Lu Yin felt as though he was seeing different paths that one could walk with strength, and he found the process rather enjoyable.
He lost track of how long he spent fishing, as well as how many scenes he had pulled out of the river, when he happened upon a scene that featured Ancient G.o.d.
The River of Time contained every event that had taken place in the megaverse from the moment it had first begun, which meant that it would never show the beginning or the end.
Lu Yin rarely ever saw familiar faces while fishing in the endless River of Time, but still, all of the people he was interested in were extraordinary individuals. The first scene that he had pulled out had shown Corpse G.o.d and Progenitor Chen"s giant clone fighting. Some time later, Lu Yin was now seeing Ancient G.o.d.
Ancient G.o.d’s body was shrouded with Wielder-realm battle force as he fought against someone. Lu Yin did not recognize the other person, and he was not sure whether or not the other man was from the Origin Universe. What was clear was that this man was powerful enough to challenge Ancient G.o.d. Only someone at the level of the Seven SkyG.o.ds could pull that off, as anyone else would be instantly destroyed.
The fight was intense. Lu Yin saw Ancient G.o.d use his Purgatory Seal, Wielder - Indestructible, and even Wielder - Void to chase time. In the end, Ancient G.o.d defeated his opponent.
Just as Ancient G.o.d was about to deliver the final blow, the other man lost consciousness and collapsed.
Surprisingly, Ancient G.o.d spared the man’s life, and he instead tossed him into a parallel universe.
Lu Yin watched in disbelief. Why had Ancient G.o.d spared that man? The person had not shown any mercy during their fight, and every attack had been an attempt to kill Ancient G.o.d.
After getting rid of his defeated foe, Ancient G.o.d abruptly whipped around. "Someone’s using the power of time? Who’s there? Show yourself!"
He then threw a punch at outer s.p.a.ce. The fist contained a terrifying level of power, as well as the full force of his Wielder-realm battle force. The attack contained a formidable pressure that was unlike anything that Lu Yin had ever felt before. Stars shattered around the point of impact.
Just one punch shattered multiple stars.
Lu Yin"s inner world, Infinity, shattered, and his fishing rod snapped as he staggered back. He even spat out blood. It was horrifying.
Ancient G.o.d had punched through the River of Time, launching an attack even more terrifying than anything he had revealed in the First Scourge. Ancient G.o.d had kept his true strength hidden.
Lu Yin had just witnessed the true power of one of the Three Realms and Six Daos and the leader of the Seven SkyG.o.ds.
He cleaned the blood from his lips while trying to catch his breath. Thankfully, he had faced Ancient G.o.d’s punch after it traveled through the River of Time. If Lu Yin had faced that attack in person, there was no question that it would have killed him before he could even try to escape. That punch had shattered the universe, and it had felt even more powerful than the Nine-Star Civilization’s nine-star technique, Restart.
Who had that person been? Ancient G.o.d had struggled to defeat him, and yet he had spared his life. On top of that, Ancient G.o.d had not thrown such a powerful punch just because he had felt someone watching him; it was most likely because the man suspected that someone had seen Ancient G.o.d spare his opponent.
Lu Yin stared at the River of Time, a wild thought suddenly occurring to him: could Ancient G.o.d be a spy that humanity had planted within Aeternus?
Lu Yin had long since speculated that there could be a human spy among the Seven SkyG.o.ds. With Shaman G.o.d and Undying G.o.d both dead, the surviving SkyG.o.ds were Ancient G.o.d, Corpse G.o.d, Forgotten Ruins G.o.d, Whiteless G.o.d, and Blackless G.o.d.
Corpse G.o.d was unlikely to be a spy, given that he had nearly been killed before, and he was also a super giant with no connection to the Origin Universe. The super giants did not care about humanity at all.
Whiteless G.o.d was the most mysterious of the Seven SkyG.o.ds, and Lu Yin had no idea what her true ident.i.ty was. However, countless human spies and Redbacks had been recruited by Whiteless G.o.d. If she were a human spy, it would be beyond ridiculous, and there would be no need for her to keep her ident.i.ty such a secret.
Ancient G.o.d had never been a suspect due to the fact that he had been one of the Three Realms and Six Daos. A betrayal by such an influential individual had to have drawn True G.o.d"s scrutiny. If Ancient G.o.d were a human spy, True G.o.d would look like a joke.
Lu Yin had once suspected Forgotten Ruins G.o.d, but she had pulled both w.a.n.g Xiaoyu and w.a.n.g Fan over to Aeternus, and she had practically destroyed the entire w.a.n.g family’s reputation. w.a.n.g Xiaoyu was known as the greatest traitor in the Fifth Mainland"s entire history, given that she had triggered the war between the Fifth and Sixth Mainlands. It was very unlikely for Forgotten Ruins G.o.d to be a human spy.
The most suspicious one was Blackless G.o.d, who had offered Lu Yin 10,000 years to consider joining Aeternus.
However, what Lu Yin had just seen left him confused, as Ancient G.o.d"s behavior had been very strange.
If only Lu Yin could find the man that Ancient G.o.d had defeated and find out who they were.
After receiving Ancient G.o.d’s punch through the River of Time, Lu Yin was in bad condition and needed to recover.
The wind blew around him, and mist drifted closer, forcing him to move.
Lu Yin had not kept track of the time since entering the Mirari Realm, but he felt like years had already pa.s.sed. The higher his cultivation rose, the less that time seemed to matter.
When he had traveled through time and s.p.a.ce in the Daosource Sect"s main hall with the power of the Origin Progenitor’s Sword, twenty years had pa.s.sed before Lu Yin could return to the Origin Universe. At the moment, two decades felt insignificant to Lu Yin.
After spending a long time recovering, Lu Yin returned to fishing. He found that he quite enjoyed fishing the River of Time.
Fishing in the River of Time allowed him to witness both ancient and modern history. How many others could experience such an opportunity?
Lu Yin had once envied the Sword Sect’s sect master Liu Qianjue because he was able to fish between stars. As a result, Lu Yin had started to occasionally fish when he was in the Heavens Sect. However, if Liu Qianjue knew that Lu Yin was fishing in the River of Time, who knew what sort of reaction the man would have?
After all, Jue Yi had been so terrified of the mere sight of the River of Time that he had refused to even try to escape.
The fishing line reentered the River of Time, and Lu Yin resumed fishing with Infinity.
It was possible that years or even decades pa.s.sed for Lu Yin as he continued fishing. He witnessed numerous events from the past, and he saw many more familiar faces as his power drew out scenes featuring them. He even managed to pull out the scene of his own Semi-Progenitor tribulation.
However, Lu Yin immediately let go of that scene as soon as he saw it. Both True G.o.d and the Great Sovereign had been present at that moment in time, and either of them might attack Lu Yin through the River of Time. That would be far more dangerous than Ancient G.o.d"s punch.
One day, Lu Yin fished out a scene that shocked him.
There was a ma.s.sive landma.s.s that was breaking apart and shattering. An enormous elephant roared as it charged at the continent, shoving a gigantic figure into the shattered land, from which a tree grew. It was the Mavis family’s Divine Tree.
There was no mistaking this scene, as it was the destruction of the Second Mainland.
The colossal elephant was, of course, the Immovable Heavenly King Elephant.
Lu Yin only caught a momentary glimpse of that moment from the past. In that fleeting vision, he also saw Ancestor Lu Yuan. The giant that the Heavenly King Elephant had shoved through the Second Mainland had most likely been Corpse G.o.d.
It was a terrifying scene, and without the strength to endure what he was seeing, Lu Yin did not dare to examine the scene too closely, even through the River of Time.
This was much like when he had witnessed his own Semi-Progenitor tribulation.
He let out a long breath. He vowed to himself that there would come a day when he would become so powerful that no one would dare to spy on him, even across time.
That thought made something occur to him. Since he was able to peer into the past through the River of Time, could someone else be observing him from further down the river as well? Lu Yin’s head snapped up, and he looked around at the nearby mist, suddenly feeling uncertain about his situation.
If someone was truly capable of watching Lu Yin’s life through the River of Time, it would be quite unsettling.
He eventually resumed fishing.
Time pa.s.sed without notice. One day, Lu Yin witnessed a universe being destroyed. He saw the scene of a serene universe where stars revolved.
For some unknown reason, the stars suddenly slammed into each other and shattered. It looked as though they had been manipulated by some unfathomable power. The stars started to collide like pinb.a.l.l.s, and each impact generated a tremendous amount of power that triggered further collisions. The chain reaction spread throughout the entire universe, leading to its eventual destruction.
Lu Yin sat on the bank of the River of Time and stared blankly at the scene. His mind started racing as his eyes glazed over.
The spectacle had sparked a sudden inspiration. Collisions, force, action, and reaction.
Every time the stars collided, the resulting power had stunned Lu Yin. He felt like he was on the brink of epiphany, but it remained just out of his reach. It eluded him by a hair"s breadth.