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Chapter 728: A Good Night's Sleep
Chapter 728: A Good Night’s Sleep
Luohou looked at Lin Yuan, his expression somewhat dazed.
Before becoming a Time Life, when he saw Lin Yuan take action, he felt an irresistible force.
Now, as a Time Life, facing the Great Sage of the Milky Way, he still felt an overwhelming sense of inferiority.
"Please, have a seat."
Lin Yuan waved his hand, and the surroundings changed.
He brought Luohou to a beautiful estate with picturesque scenery.
"Alright."
Luohou couldn't help but feel uneasy.
At this moment, he wasn't sure whether it was he or the Great Sage of the Milky Way who had ascended to the 13th Rank.
"How does it feel to be a Time Life?"
Lin Yuan smiled at Luohou.
He was quite friendly to this newly ascended 13th Rank.
Mainly because, by observing future timelines, Lin Yuan saw that Luohou had no ill intentions toward him.
This time, Luohou came not to seek revenge, but simply to meet him.
If Lin Yuan chose to hide his true strength and pretend to be a normal invincible Great Sage, Luohou might even bestow some opportunities as a token of gratitude.
This was one of the conclusions Lin Yuan drew from observing many timelines.
However, at his current level, the gifts from a newly ascended Time Life were of little interest to him.
Luohou, newly ascended to the 13th Rank, was penniless and far less wealthy than Lin Yuan.
Hearing Lin Yuan’s question, Luohou initially wanted to say "extremely good."
Indeed, it was extremely good.
After ascending to the 13th Rank, Luohou felt everything had changed.
It was as if he had moved from a two-dimensional world to a three-dimensional one, and all life below the 12th Rank seemed as thin as paper before him.
But thinking of the unfathomable depth of the Great Sage of the Milky Way, the "extremely good" on the tip of his tongue turned into "alright."
"Your life essence has just transformed to the 13th Rank level, and you need to adapt. It's best not to fully attempt to observe future timelines," Lin Yuan said with a half-smile, half-serious look at Luohou.
At this moment, Luohou was trying to observe Lin Yuan’s future timeline as much as possible.
This was the boldness of a novice. A more experienced Time Life would realize that if a being’s timeline is blurry and unobservable, it means something significant.
How could he dare to continue peering?
"Yes."
Luohou was startled and realized he had been a bit impulsive.
He quickly stopped observing Lin Yuan’s timeline.
"What time loop did you fall into?"
Lin Yuan asked casually, looking at Luohou.
The formation of a time loop comes from the supreme rules of the infinite dimensions and planes.
It is not within the scope of timeline observation, and even 13th Rank Time Lives or Time Lords cannot perceive it.
Only the one who experiences it can know.
In previous conversations with the seven Time Lives from the Chaotic Void, Lin Yuan learned about the specific trials they underwent in their time loops.
Now, having just broken through his time loop, Lin Yuan was curious about what Luohou had experienced and the nature of the time loop’s test.
Each 12th Rank Perfectionist faces a different time loop, tailored to their individual weaknesses.
"My time loop..."
Luohou’s thoughts wandered, and he spoke with a slightly solemn tone: "In the time loop, I became a beggar in a chaotic era, unable to use any extraordinary powers. Even my thought processes were limited to the mundane level. Apart from having complete memories, I was no different from an ordinary person."
Luohou’s expression showed a lingering fear.
This was different from reincarnation. After reincarnation, one loses all powers but retains the rules, allowing even a mortal body to use these rules to achieve extraordinary feats.
In the time loop, being unable to use any extraordinary powers meant truly being unable to use any such powers, and even the fluctuations of the rules and the Dao were imperceptible.
Additionally, there was a hidden condition: lifespan.
Without the support of extraordinary powers, a mortal’s lifespan was only a few decades.
In a chaotic era, living past thirty was considered a long life.
"What was the test?"
Lin Yuan asked.
"To end the chaos and establish a unified dynasty," Luohou said. "I was just a beggar, with no support, unable to use any strength, and almost dying of hunger. Yet, I was supposed to end the chaos and establish a unified dynasty?"
"Indeed, it’s very difficult and highly targeted."
Lin Yuan nodded.
He had seen Luohou’s past timeline and knew that this newly ascended Time Life had spent most of his long life immersed in cultivation, disinterested in external matters. Recruiting soldiers and building a following were things he had never done or even considered.
Under the condition of a few decades of mortal life, if Luohou failed the test before his lifespan ran out, the memory of this cycle would be erased, and he would start over.
Normally, if one fails the test on the first loop, subsequent loops will also end in failure.
Luohou was most skilled in cultivation, willing to endure countless tortures to practice the 13th Rank inheritance.
However, in the time loop, he was not tested on his cultivation but on an aspect he had never encountered before.
"Finally, how did you pass the test?"
Lin Yuan continued to ask.
"I spent fifty years, enduring countless hardships and surviving one life-threatening situation after another. I finally unified half of the realm and was about to engage in a decisive battle with my great enemy. If I won, I would pass the test and establish a unified dynasty."
Luohou said.
"Did you win?" Lin Yuan looked at Luohou.
"No." Luohou shook his head. "In the final decisive battle, I lost, and I lost badly. All my important followers died, and I was captured alive."
"At that time, I was already sixty years old and could only live for another twenty years. Losing that decisive battle meant that even if I started over, I could never return to my peak, especially since I had been captured."
Luohou's tone was somewhat melancholic.
Lin Yuan listened quietly.
"My great enemy, perhaps not wanting me to die so easily, did not kill me but imprisoned me and tormented me every day."
"In reality, this was no different from killing me directly. At that time, I was utterly despondent. I was just an ordinary mortal, a sixty-year-old man, with my vitality waning and imprisoned. To be honest, I had already planned to end my life and start a new cycle to avoid the final humiliation."
Luohou looked at Lin Yuan and said, "But just before I took my own life, I suddenly thought that for someone like me, what is a little humiliation? As long as I could live and the test was not over, there was still hope."
"My great enemy would come to torment me every day. I endured it, and thus ten years passed. At that time, my body could only last another five years."
"Then, a turning point came."
"During that decisive battle, although the forces I had established were scattered, some remnants survived. These remnants risked everything to infiltrate the palace and finally made contact with me, wanting to rescue me."
"But in my condition, even if I were rescued, I would not live much longer. On the contrary, staying in the palace offered the last glimmer of hope."
"So, I planned an assassination. In the end, I successfully killed my great enemy and established my own dynasty on the ruins of the enemy's dynasty."
"This dynasty was established in the last month of my life, and then I smoothly broke through the time loop."
Luohou said.
"It wasn't easy."
Lin Yuan nodded.
Indeed, it was more than just not easy.
Since Luohou entered the time loop, he faced life-threatening situations every moment. In a chaotic era, a beggar surviving was a miracle, let alone establishing a dynasty. The final decisive battle's failure was also a cruel blow, and even if he saw a turning point, he might not have seized it. Even if he did, how could he ensure that his followers had no ulterior motives?
"The failure of the final decisive battle and being tormented by my great enemy for ten years, I was able to endure it because I realized that so-called honor and humiliation were fleeting and insignificant."
Luohou looked at Lin Yuan with gratitude.
Abandoning his obsession and the pursuit of the title of 'Invincible Great Sage' was the key to persisting through the time loop.
"Time loop."
Lin Yuan again felt the difficulty of the time loop.
No wonder, over the long ages of the Chaotic Void, only seven Time Lives managed to break through the time loop, while countless Chaotic Realm Perfectionists remained trapped.
"Galaxy, you—"
Luohou looked at Lin Yuan, hesitating.
"I am also preparing to advance to the 13th Rank."
Lin Yuan gently shook his head. "I just don't know what time loop will trap me."
Indeed, Luohou received the answer he wanted. This unfathomable Great Sage of the Milky Way was indeed not yet at the 13th Rank.
"With your foundation, the possibility of breaking through the time loop is definitely much greater than mine." Luohou immediately said.
For him, breaking the time loop was still a faint hope, but someone like Lin Yuan, who was not yet a Time Life, brought immense pressure even to a Time Life like him. Luohou did not dared to even think about it.
Next, Lin Yuan chatted with the newly ascended Time Life, Luohou, offering a few casual pointers.
Although Luohou was now a Time Life, he had just entered the realm, and with Lin Yuan's current level, he was fully qualified to offer guidance.
Half a day later, Luohou left Lin Yuan's side, somewhat dispirited.
After breaking through the time loop and becoming a Time Life, Luohou immediately went to seek Lin Yuan, originally intending to offer some guidance to the Invincible Great Sage who had indirectly helped him.
However, it turned out that he, the Time Life, was the one who received the guidance.
"Monster."
Luohou thought about the moments he faced Lin Yuan, the overwhelming pressure that left him trembling even now.
"How did a 12th Rank Life become so strong?"
Luohou couldn't understand, nor could he comprehend it.
He was all too aware of the gap between his current strength and what it was before his breakthrough.
This gap was only bridged by his ascension to the 13th Rank, the unprecedented transformation of his life essence, and the infusion of the Chaotic Void’s essence.
How did Lin Yuan bridge this gap?
And not only bridge it, but also subtly surpass him.
Just as Luohou was rapidly pondering this, a hum resonated, and seven towering figures descended. They were the seven Time Lives of the Chaotic Void.
"Luohou, congratulations on advancing to the 13th Rank," the leading figure, 'Mo Xu Jun,' said with a smile.
"Thank you, everyone," Luohou quickly replied, bowing in respect.
Though they were all Time Lives, he was merely a newly ascended one, and he naturally didn't dare to be presumptuous in front of these seven veteran Time Lives.
"Did you just visit the Milky Way?"
Mo Xu Jun glanced at the direction Luohou had come from and asked.
"Yes."
Luohou was taken aback.
He suddenly realized that while he couldn't understand Lin Yuan's strength, these seven ancient Time Lives surely knew more.
"Milky Way Great Sage's strength?"
Luohou immediately voiced his doubt.
Although Lin Yuan had told him from the start that there was no need for comparison, Luohou couldn't help but be curious.
"Milky Way's strength?"
Mo Xu Jun fell silent.
The other six Time Lives behind him were also silent, not because they were unsure, but because they didn't know how to explain.
"Milky Way cannot be measured by ordinary standards. He is destined to become a Time Life, and even a Time Lord."
Mo Xu Jun said.
"Destined to become a Time Life?"
"Even a Time Lord?"
Luohou was stunned.
He understood what it meant to be destined to become a Time Life.
It meant he would definitely break through the time loop.
Though this was extremely hard to believe, considering the pressure Lin Yuan had exerted on him, Luo Hou could barely accept it.
But a Time Lord?
A Time Lord was a 13th Rank, Third Stage existence, a being who had already begun to converge their own timeline. How could this be certain?
"Did you not offend the Milky Way just now?"
Mo Xu Jun asked.
"No."
Luohou immediately answered.
He had no intention of doing so.
Moreover, after feeling the pressure from Lin Yuan, Luohou chose to submit and didn't dare to offend him.
"That's good."
Mo Xu Jun nodded. "You will understand more about the Milky Way in the future."
"Stabilize your realm and strength as soon as possible. The Milky Way dimension needs you."
"Understood."
Luohou nodded in response.
After meeting with the newly ascended Time Life, Luohou, Lin Yuan's figure disappeared, and he returned to the Milky Way Chaotic Continent.
"Before advancing to the 13th Rank, I need a good night's sleep."
Lin Yuan thought to himself. How long would he sleep?
Two thousand years.
Since embarking on the path of cultivation and becoming an Evolved, Lin Yuan had never had a proper rest.
Before reaching the 12th Rank, the human civilization faced pressure from alien races and the Chaotic Void. Lin Yuan couldn't afford to stop.
Even after reaching the 12th Rank, he was either practicing or comprehending the Dao.
Although with Lin Yuan's strength, both his physical body and mental will were in excellent condition, he never felt fatigued.
But before advancing to the 13th Rank, Lin Yuan simply wanted to sleep.
He had done all the necessary preparations and accumulated the required foundation.
"Sleep, sleep."
Lin Yuan slowly closed his eyes, and all his avatars, along with the true bodies in the first and second Origin Worlds, fell into a deep slumber.
This deep sleep was such that unless threatened by external forces, all his mental wills were in a state of immersion and detachment.
Lin Yuan's sleep did not significantly impact the Chaotic Void, as he rarely intervened in its affairs even when awake.
As time slowly passed, two thousand years finally came to an end, the day Lin Yuan would end his sleep and prepare to advance to the 13th Rank.
(End of Chapter)
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