He had no idea how much time had passed.
Li Yun suddenly woke with a start. No, that was not quite right. A wisp of his Divine Consciousness had awakened on its own while he slept.
That was not right at all.
At his level of cultivation, once he fell into a deep sleep, he could sleep until seas turned to mulberry fields and oceans ran dry, unless he chose to wake. A wisp of Divine Consciousness could not simply awaken on its own.
Unless something unusual outside had affected him.
But what could possibly affect him from outside?
He was inside the cave. The Strange Flower shielded him from all ill omens and Calamity. Nothing unexpected should have happened. If anything had, it could only have come from the Strange Flower itself.
Li Yun stirred that wisp of Divine Consciousness, intending to see what was going on.
But just then, a strange suction appeared. It drew the awakened wisp straight out of his body, and in an instant, he seemed to plunge through layer upon layer of space-time.
In that instant, he seemed to cross millions of worlds and live through millions of reincarnations. When he finally stopped, he found himself in an abstract world of dazzling, kaleidoscopic colors, where nebulae overlapped and interwove like a dream.
An eternal aura, countless times richer than the Eternal Qi within him, rushed toward him and surrounded that wisp of Divine Consciousness.
At that moment,
countless supreme mysteries of eternity seemed to pour into it.
"Holy shit—"
Li Yun cried out instinctively.
That wisp of Divine Consciousness exploded.
It was annihilated.
Not by some malign force, though. The wisp was simply too weak to bear such a vast flood of eternity's supreme mysteries.
It had naturally dissolved beneath the weight.
But its