After two thousand years of slumber, Lin Yuan's Heart and Will had relaxed like never before, spreading out without restraint.
Lin Yuan did not suppress or control it at all, letting that diffusion continue.
One wisp of Heart and Will drifted for no one knew how long, seeming to enter some layer of a dream realm.
It arrived inside an incomparably towering, majestic palace.
The palace was boundlessly vast and high, its layers upon layers of steps leading to some unknown place.
"Here."
This wisp of Lin Yuan's Heart and Will held neither thought nor notion, producing no questions or doubts.
It merely followed its instincts along the Endless Steps, climbing upward one step at a time.
No one knew how much time passed.
At last, it reached the end of the steps.
There stood a towering, majestic gate of light. The existence of this gate of light seemed like the source of everything. Silently and soundlessly, it influenced one timeline after another, one dimensional world after another, one living being after another.
And on the threshold of the gate of light, a blurry figure was leaning askew.
The blurry figure's face could not be seen clearly. Lin Yuan could only faintly make out that the other party's right hand was propping up their chin, their eyes closed, as if asleep.
They appeared to be leaning askew beneath that incomparably towering, majestic gate of light, yet the aura they faintly emitted surpassed the gate of light itself. The ripples of their gentle breathing swept across countless timelines, and all things in the universe, the Endless Dimension, were born with each breath.
Boom! The next moment.
Lin Yuan woke up.
"Mm?"
Lin Yuan's expression shifted slightly in surprise.
"That dream?"
During his two thousand years of slumber, Lin Yuan's Heart and