A handsome young man in white gazed into the distance.
Over 130 million eras, time had brought tremendous changes to Primordial Ancestor, Giant Axe, and the others, while also leaving indelible traces upon Lin Yan.
His eyes, black as secluded springs, reflected boundless space and time. The cosmic heavens, the universe itself, seemed compressed within his pupils.
Every strand of his hair resembled the finest black jade, bearing a deep and elegant sheen. His flawless skin glimmered with the crystalline radiance of the sun, moon, and stars, carrying an innate air of Endless Vitality.
That lively vitality seemed to declare... that no matter how terrifying the tribulation he faced, he could rise anew from destruction.
The surging power contained within his body was as vast and majestic as a universe. A mere movement could shatter the void, disorder space-time, and annihilate worlds.
Yet faintly, he seemed fused with the void itself.
The aura of his life had merged with heaven and earth, as though he no longer existed separately, having become an inseparable whole with the heavens and void.
The void was him.
He was the void.
"Whew—"
Standing beneath the Turquoise Tree, Lin Yan drew vast divine power into his divine body with every breath, making his aura ever more imposing and terrifying.
After more than a hundred million eras, the Turquoise Tree had now grown to 640 billion kilometers in height, constantly surging with boundless law fluctuations.
"It truly has been a very long time."
Lin Yan sighed softly.
Over these years, he had studied all kinds of inherited knowledge. Some served as references for his insights, while others demanded immense effort to cultivate. He had spent a long time sorting through and integrating himself, reconstructing both his soul and flesh according to those inheritances and his own