In the River of Time.
Liu Di's expression turned strange. "Magic Child, I think I've discovered something terrifying."
"I think I have too."
Liu Di pondered. "That wooden frame just now was nearly a hundred meters tall. With those natives' crude binding techniques, there was no way it could have supported my body."
"And I've only just realized something else."
"Near a Cosmic Singularity, it should be absolutely freezing, with no oxygen."
"When Earth was forming, where I stood should have been filled with extreme heat and toxic gases."
"During the Dinosaur Era, I didn't suffer from oxygen poisoning."
Liu Di's pupils constricted. He suddenly turned around and saw his own face reflected in the blue light of the River of Time.
"The problem was so obvious, but I was drawn in by the bizarre sights and completely overlooked it!"
"The truth is..."
Liu Di said, "I'm a ghost."
"You're a consciousness entity."
"Exactly."
Liu Di looked at his palm in astonishment. "My current state is actually the same as when I'm in the Brain Realm?"
"That explains why you can leap across the River of Time. The speed of consciousness has no limit."
Liu Di was still confused. "Then am I currently physical, or am I consciousness?"
Magic Child considered it. "Time, viewed as a whole, is four-dimensional. The Brain Realm is five-dimensional. So theoretically, you're now a 4.5-dimensional life-form—neither here nor there."
Liu Di looked at his body in bewilderment. To him, it felt completely normal.
But what unsettled him was whether this body of his could touch reality within a point in time.
Thinking back, he truly hadn't touched anything during any of his recent travels.
The only thing he had brought back, the Droplet Pendant, had vanished for no reason.
Liu Di strongly suspected that he