Chapter 3112: Transformation
The droplet fell back into the River of Time. It had contained the scene of a shattering universe, without any people or anything else taking place. In fact, there had not even been any sign of life. Even so, the scene left Lu Yin dazed for a long time.
He sat where he was, motionless and in deep thought. Fishing was abandoned.
Even when the wind blew the mist closer to him, Lu Yin did not notice.
At the most dangerous moment, the mist even touched his hair, which caused a strand to vanish. Even so, he still did not move.
His eyes were glazed over as his mind constantly replayed the scene of the shattering universe and the colliding stars.
The scene was etched into Infinity, and Lu Yin even started to simulate what he had seen with his inner world. After countless simulations, his eyes lit up, his confusion completely gone. He shot to his feet, startled to see the mist drifting so close, and quickly moved to a different location.
How long had he been sitting on the sh.o.r.e of the river? He had nearly been swallowed by the mist and died.
The thought filled him with dread.
After relocating to a safer distance, Lu Yin brought out Infinity. The lines of strength flickered like shooting stars. It was a mesmerizing display.
Every line of strength that merged with Lu Yin’s body increased his physical strength. Infinity seemed to have endless lines of strength, like the number of stars in a universe. No one could count the stars.
While powerful individuals were capable of destroying stars and even entire universes, counting all the stars in a universe remained an impossible task due to the sheer number.
Lu Yin had watched a universe’s destruction, and it had all started with the collision of individual stars. Could Infinity also generate greater power through collisions?
The universe consisted of countless stars, and in a similar manner, Infinity consisted of countless lines of strength, representing the infinite.
If a universe remained fixed, then the power of the stars would be limited. However, the power created from their collisions was enough to destroy the universe, which represented the finite.
This was the principle of transforming the finite into the infinite.
To encompa.s.s all possibilities within Infinity and transform the inner world; this was the essence of what Lu Yuan had told Lu Yin. The young man had not fully understood what this meant in the past, and he had intended to transform Infinity by visualizing the Fifth Mainland and continuously increasing his own physical strength. But now, he had realized that the power that colliding stars could generate was truly infinite. Even if the stars came from the universe itself, a finite universe could generate infinite power, and that infinite power could destroy that universe itself.
These were Lu Yin’s thoughts as the lines of strength that composed his inner world started to collide with each other.
Lu Yin initially struggled to control the collisions, which meant that they occurred freely. That simply caused Infinity to grow increasingly unstable. While new power was being generated, if it was uncontrolled, then the force could backfire on Lu Yin.
Fortunately, the power created by the collisions transformed into more lines of strength, growing and expanding Lu Yin’s inner world.
In other words, once the collisions started, there would be no end to the inner world’s growth.
Ancestor Tianyi had once advised Lu Yin to improve Infinity by visualizing the Fifth Mainland. That was one path he could take, but generating power by forcing the lines of strength to collide and produce more lines and greater power was another path.
In fact, the two paths did not conflict with each other.
One of the two expanded the scope of Lu Yin’s inner world, while the other increased its potency. The two paths complemented each other perfectly.
Now, Lu Yin needed to visualize the Fifth Mainland and expand Infinity while simultaneously producing more lines of strength through controlled collisions. If he could accomplish this, then the strength of his inner world would rise beyond anything he could imagine.
However, it would undoubtedly be a very lengthy process.
Fortunately, Lu Yin was in the Mirage Domain, which meant that time did not exist. It was truly the perfect place to train.
As time pa.s.sed, Lu Yin observed Infinity. He started by trying to control the collision of two lines of strength. The moment a collision occurred, a chain reaction would be triggered. He needed to control the lines of strength produced by each collision within that chain reaction in order to maintain control over his inner world.
As time pa.s.sed, Lu Yin moved on from controlling the collision of two lines to four, then to eight, ten, and more. He constantly added lines and improved his control.
He lost track of time and did not bother trying to count the days.
Lu Yin was in true secluded training.
Time was a precious commodity, which was why powerhouses would often seek out parallel universes where time flowed at accelerated rates.
The fact that the Origin Progenitor could allow Lu Yin to access the Mirari Realm was quite remarkable. Had everyone in the Immemorial Citadel visited this place? If people used the Mirari Realm, would they not also see their strength improve rapidly? There had to be some limitations to the place.
Lu Yin did not concern himself with others. At this moment, his sole focus was on perfecting Infinity.
For the moment, there was no reason to try expanding the inner world’s scope. Controlling the collisions at their current level was already challenging enough for Lu Yin. Expanding the inner world would be counterproductive.
Time pa.s.sed, and Lu Yin had already shifted his location dozens of times to avoid the troublesome mist. He had even tried to block the mist with physical items, but nothing was able to withstand the power of time, so he had eventually given up.
One day, Infinity’s lines of strength started to collide, and the reaction continued steadily. The newly created lines continued colliding, and the reaction became an endless cycle.
Lu Yin’s eyes grew sharply focused as the lines started to merge with his body. The continuous collisions did not stop, and his strength rose accordingly. However, there was a limit to how much force his body could endure.
He quickly reached that limit and was forced to use Extremes Must Be Reversed.
This was an experiment that Lu Yin had wanted to try. He already knew that his body was limited in terms of endurance, so the possibility of using Extremes Must Be Reversed to surpa.s.s those limits had appeared. Not only would this allow him to unleash even more physical strength, but it would also absorb the damage his body was suffering from surpa.s.sing his limits and allow him launch even more powerful attacks.
Suddenly, Infinity vanished as Lu Yin punched at the sky, releasing all of the pent-up energy.
He then doubled over, breathing heavily. He lifted his hand to look at it, exhilarated by his success. The seemingly simple punch he had just thrown had actually carried two destructive powers: his own acc.u.mulated strength and the force produced by absorbing damage with Extremes Must Be Reversed.
With Extremes Must Be Reversed, Lu Yin could endure a tremendous amount of damage. SInce even that miraculous ability had struggled to endure the overexertion caused by Infinity, it was hard to imagine how much pressure the inner world had placed on Lu Yin’s body when it improved his physical strength. That punch had released the full power that Lu Yin could absorb with Extremes Must Be Reversed, and it was a level of strength that most sequence powerhouses could not touch.
By combining the two forces, Lu Yin’s punch had reached a shocking level of power.
There was no need for any visualization method. Lu Yin’s physical might had already undergone a complete transformation. He had fully transformed Infinity, and he had no doubt that the inner world would eventually become one of the most formidable forces in existence.
Lu Yin could release a punch that could crush most sequence powerhouses. Even someone like Corpse G.o.d would struggle to endure that level of power. In the future, Lu Yin’s punch would become a nightmare for countless enemies.
No, it already was.
That punch had far surpa.s.sed the power of any attack that Lu Yin had ever released before.
Additionally, if he could use the power of time to confine a hundred of those punches, Lu Yin could not even guess how powerful his attack might become.
However, it might be a bit too excessive to try to confine a hundred of those punches. After all, Extremes Must Be Reversed could not be used continuously.
It was necessary to continue experimenting.
Lu Yin felt quite satisfied with the fact that he had successfully transformed his first inner world, Infinity. He was confident that this new level of power could allow him to break through and reach the Progenitor realm. Next, he needed to transform his other three inner worlds.
Each of his inner worlds was more unique than the last. Infinity was the most conventional of the four.
He decided to move on to Lightstream.
Unfortunately, Lu Yin was not even certain how Dustworld or the Wordless Heavenly Book could be used. He knew that he could write names in the Wordless Heavenly book to shun people from the Fifth Mainland, but the inner world’s other uses remained unknown.
Ancestor Lu Yuan had also specifically warned Lu Yin not to reveal the Wordless Heavenly Book to anyone.
Transforming Lightstream seemed to be the most practical next step, especially since the River of Time seemed like the perfect place to do so.
Lu Yin had an idea of how to transform Lightstream for a long time, and for that reason, he had sought out multiple parallel universes where time flowed more quickly. However, transforming the inner world in that manner remained nothing more than a theory. On top of that, it took him a tremendous amount of time to find such universes, and Lu Yin lacked the luxury to search endlessly.
The River of Time held the potential to transform Lightstream.
Using his body as his fishing rod, Lu Yin was surrounded by the glow of Lightstream as he directed his inner world towards the River of Time. He watched anxiously as it slowly touched the river.
Lightstream was his inner world that had formed by chasing after time with the power of s.p.a.ce. Now, Lu Yin was going to touch the River of Time, which was the embodiment of time itself. Doing this was clearly risky, but he saw no other option. Without attempting this, Lu Yin could not even guess at how long it would take Lightstream to transform.
Cultivation was inherently risky.
As soon as Lightstream touched the River of Time, Lu Yin was nearly swept away.
He felt like he had stepped under a waterfall, and the River of Time nearly pulled him in.
He hastily pulled back on Lightstream, instantly drenched in a cold sweat.
He looked up and noticed that a droplet had splashed out.
Lightstream had pulled out a droplet of water, which represented a moment in the past. Lu Yin had already seen many of these droplets.
This droplet also revealed the past, and when Lu Yin looked in, he saw a universe that was constantly shifting, though it was devoid of life or any other details. All he could see were stars moving through outer s.p.a.ce.
What did this mean? Was this a scene of the power of time?
The image quickly faded, and Lu Yin waited for the droplet to fall back into the River of Time, as had happened every time he had pulled out a droplet with Infinity.
However, this time, the droplet did not fall back in. Instead, Lightstream swallowed it.
Lu Yin was startled, and he stared at Lightstream. The droplet, or rather, the fragment of time, had disappeared.
Could time really disappear? Lu Yin quickly pulled Lightstream back from the river.
Before this, he had been able to see 600 seconds into the past with Lightstream, but at this moment, Lu Yin realized that he had gained another five seconds. These five seconds were precisely how long the scene of the universe that Lu Yin had just seen had lasted for.
After Lu Yin had seen five seconds of that unknown universe, Lightstream had absorbed the droplet of the River of Time, and that had improved the inner world by five seconds.
Could this really work?
Lu Yin grew ecstatic. He had spent a great deal of effort in seeking out parallel universes where time pa.s.sed faster in order to strengthen and improve Lightstream’s power. But in the Mirari Realm, was it really possible to improve Lightstream just by fishing in the River of Time?
The thought was exhilarating.
His breath quickened. He had to try again and confirm his suspicions.
Still, he needed to take care, as he had nearly been dragged into the River of Time just now.
This issue had not appeared when Lu Yin had been fishing with Infinity, which indicated that Lightstream’s close connection to time was what had caused it.