Return

In a daze.

Lin Yuan opened his eyes again.

Bed, bookshelf, photographs. Lin Yuan looked around, then finally let out a soft breath.

"Am I back?"

Looking at everything familiar around him, Lin Yuan felt as though a lifetime had passed.

A moment ago, he had still been in the Martial Arts World where he had spent twenty years.

Now, he had returned to the Universe Human Alliance that spanned the starry seas.

"Right. Let's see how much time has passed."

After his brief reflection, Lin Yuan immediately checked the time.

Judging from his current surroundings, Lin Yuan suspected that not much time had passed.

Otherwise, given the state of his consciousness leaving his body to descend into another world, his parents would have dragged him to the hospital long ago.

Still, he needed to know exactly how many minutes or hours had passed.

"Only ten minutes?"

After confirming the time, Lin Yuan was slightly dazed.

The twenty years he had spent in the Martial Arts World had amounted to only ten minutes in the Main World.

"Is the flow of time different between the two worlds?"

Before the traversal, the Door of Myriad Worlds had informed Lin Yuan that the world he traveled to would have a different flow of time from his current world.

But Lin Yuan had not expected the difference to be so great.

Ten minutes compared to twenty years.

Since ancient times, there had been the saying, "One day in the Immortal Realm, one year in the mortal world."

The flow of time in higher worlds was far slower than in lower worlds.

Compared with the Main World, the Martial Arts World was clearly a lower world.

The disparity was even greater than that between the Immortal Realm and the mortal world.

This could be seen from the comparison in their flows of time.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Yuan sank his mind into his sea of consciousness.

There, a tall and majestic "door" floated.

Upon closer inspection, the Door of Myriad Worlds was clearly much dimmer now.

Its edges were gradually lighting up bit by bit.

Once the entire Door of Myriad Worlds was fully illuminated, Lin Yuan would be able to make his second traversal.

Just as Lin Yuan focused his mind on the Door of Myriad Worlds, streams of information came through once more.

"Hm?"

Lin Yuan rubbed his brow.

Having experienced his first traversal, more functions of the Door of Myriad Worlds flooded into his mind.

The first was the method of traversal.

Besides traversing through Consciousness Descent,

he could also use the Door of Myriad Worlds for Physical-Body Traversal.

However, this method consumed far more energy from the Door of Myriad Worlds.

It required at least several years to accumulate enough energy.

Normally, Lin Yuan could make a traversal through Consciousness Descent every eight months to a year.

"Physical-Body Traversal."

Lin Yuan shook his head slightly. He did not think much of this method.

Physical-Body Traversal offered many conveniences, such as not needing to cultivate from scratch.

But its drawback was equally obvious: if he died, he would truly die.

With Consciousness Descent, even if he died, his consciousness would merely return to his original body.

He would still have another chance to start over.

Of course, Lin Yuan did not completely dismiss Physical-Body Traversal.

At the very least, it could serve as a means of preserving his life.

For example, if Lin Yuan encountered a life-or-death crisis in the Main World,

he could completely use Physical-Body Traversal to flee to another world.

He could return after the crisis had passed.

Or he could take advantage of the different flows of time between the two worlds, achieve a breakthrough in another world, then return to the Main World and turn the tables.

Besides adding the option of Physical-Body Traversal, the information transmitted by the Door of Myriad Worlds also mentioned that he could pay a certain price to bring items from other worlds back with him.

This did not surprise Lin Yuan.

If even people could traverse worlds, there was no reason other things could not.

"Innate Inner Energy."

After absorbing the information transmitted by the Door of Myriad Worlds, Lin Yuan willed it, and a strand of Innate Inner Energy naturally condensed within the Qi Sea of his dantian.

In the Martial Arts World, Lin Yuan had merely comprehended the superior martial art, the Great Arhat Buddha Fist, and had naturally condensed inner energy while still a child.

How much more so now, when he had already surpassed the Mythic Realm?

Lin Yuan had named the realm beyond the Mythic Realm the Carefree Realm.

Once one entered this realm, the heavens were high and the earth vast; one could roam freely as one wished.

That was the Carefree Realm.

If advancing to Master, Great Grandmaster, and even the Mythic Realm did not require enormous external energy and could not be accomplished overnight,

Lin Yuan estimated that a single thought would be enough for him to reach them.

Once the realm was attained, every improvement would come naturally.

"Does that mean I count as an evolutionary now?"

Lin Yuan controlled the Innate Inner Energy as it circulated through his body, silently wondering to himself.

The Universe Human Alliance had a very clear definition for evolutionaries—those who wielded power ordinary people could not wield.

Power here was a broad term. A Mind Master's "Mind Power,"

a Psychic Warlock's "psychic abilities," and so on

all fell within that scope.

Though the Innate Inner Energy Lin Yuan had condensed was not particularly powerful, ordinary people clearly could not wield it.

Knock, knock, knock.

Someone suddenly knocked on the room's door.

"Big brother, big brother, it's me, it's me."

A young girl's voice came from outside.

Lin Yuan looked up and knew it was his six-year-old younger sister.

After the Mandatory Conscription notice had arrived, his parents had all received proper arrangements, and his young sister was no exception.

Before she had even started elementary school, she had already received a place for further study at a Higher Academy.

Such overwhelming fortune was the envy of countless people.

He stood up.

He opened the door.

Lin Yuan saw his young sister.

"Big brother, you eat the cake."

Holding a cake, his sister spoke in a pitiful voice.

Clearly, giving the cake to Lin Yuan had not been her own idea.

Lin Yuan glanced toward the living room and found that although his parents were each busy with their own things, they were secretly watching this side.

Mandatory Conscription was equivalent to sacrificing Lin Yuan in exchange for the prosperity of the entire family, and his parents did not feel good about it.

After all, Lin Yuan was their son. They had lived together for so many years, and their bond ran deep.

But they could not change anything. This was a decision made by the Human Alliance Government.

Mandatory Conscription, Mandatory Conscription.

Why was the word "mandatory" placed before conscription?

His parents wanted to comfort Lin Yuan, but feared provoking him instead. They could only have his younger sister bring over her beloved little cake for him to eat.

"Mm, not bad."

Lin Yuan took the little cake from his sister's hands and ate it in one bite under her eager gaze.

It had to be said that after condensing Innate Inner Energy, Lin Yuan was hungry. Although this piece of cake was little more than a drop in the bucket, it tasted exceptionally sweet.

"Big brother, is it good?"

His sister looked at Lin Yuan with her large eyes, tears beginning to gather within them.

"Especially good."

Lin Yuan nodded in affirmation.

"Waaah!"

"If the cake is so good, why did big brother eat all of it?"

His sister immediately burst into tears, turned around, and ran toward the living room.

After closing the door, Lin Yuan fell into thought.

Now that he was already an evolutionary, he could be exempted from conscription. Logically speaking, he should tell his parents.

However, it would be safer to first obtain an Evolutionary Certificate.

Only then would he be officially registered and have official proof to apply for an exemption from conscription.

Lin Yuan planned to visit the Evolutionary Association tomorrow. After obtaining his Evolutionary Certificate, he would announce the matter to his parents.

Otherwise, even if he told them, his parents might not believe him. How could their perfectly ordinary son suddenly become an evolutionary?

In any case, there were still nearly half a month before the conscription date.

According to the Universe Human Alliance Charter, as long as one had not boarded a Military District Warship, one could claim exemption from conscription based on being an evolutionary.