Dimensional Reduction and Transmigration

Ah!

Even with Lin Chen's strength of mind, he felt an indescribable agony, as though his head were being ripped apart by a sharp weapon!

At that moment, deep within Lin Chen's brow, in the boundless darkness of memory, a point of Three-colored Spiritual Light suddenly blazed brilliantly. It continuously transformed into Palaces and Pavilions, Spirit Gardens and Immortal Families, Grotto-heaven Blessed Lands, before finally becoming the place Lin Chen knew best—his home from his previous life!

"This..." Lin Chen endured the searing pain in his head as he observed everything before him.

He saw his figure appear in his former home. Above it flickered red, yellow, and blue spiritual lights, emitting three-colored radiance that shrouded the scene from his memories.

The Scene Before Him shifted constantly. Birth, growth, school, work—an entire long life shrank into a fleeting instant!

"This is... my memory?" Lin Chen Instantly understood.

"The three-colored spiritual light above my head in those memories should be... the water, fire, and earth Three Spiritual Roots I obtained after reincarnating?"

"Spiritual roots, memories, pain... am I undergoing the soul transformation of the Foundation Establishment Realm?! But I clearly haven't advanced!"

What was happening lay beyond Lin Chen's expectations. Naturally, he had no countermeasures and could only grit his teeth and endure.

But what happened next left him frozen in the Original Place.

Logically speaking, after his death, there should have been no more memories. Yet the scene before him continued!

Not only that, but his perspective shifted to another one. He saw his own corpse with his own eyes!

"Wh-what's going on?!" Lin Chen moved instinctively—and actually raised a hand.

But his body was clearly lying on the ground. Then what was this current self of his?

A s-soul?

But before he could figure it out, the scene before him abruptly changed. The entire room, along with every object inside it, began to flatten from one point outward. From Lin Chen's perspective, he could see only one side of everything.

The rectangular wooden cabinet, cubic parcels, basketballs, and similar objects slowly turned into flat shapes. The three-dimensional room seemed to have fallen into a painting with no thickness at all!

Wh-what's going on? Could this be dimensional reduction?

Lin Chen's expression changed. The scene before him had completely Exceeded his understanding.

Could it be that his transmigration had triggered the dimensional reduction of the world?!

No, that wasn't right. It wasn't the world undergoing dimensional reduction!

Lin Chen wanted to turn around and observe the scene behind him, only to find that he could not perform such an action at all. He seemed to have become an image on a flat surface, able to move left and right but unable to turn around!

And so, he instantly understood.

It was not the world undergoing dimensional reduction—it was he himself. That was why he could see only one side of the world, as though he were inside a painting!

Just as Lin Chen had figured it all out, before he could react, the image before him suddenly changed again, vanishing from both sides!

It was as though two black lines, running from top to bottom through the entire image, were erasing everything before his eyes!

Then, the clear image disappeared completely. In its place was a view stretching infinitely high upward and infinitely far downward, with nothingness to the left and right—or rather, a sight that simply could not be observed!

In the end, countless scenes seemed to condense into a single point, becoming utter chaos. Before long, they vanished completely, followed by boundless darkness!

W-what's going on... ngh!

Before he had time to think, pain came crashing down like waves, layer upon layer, utterly cutting off his train of thought.

At that moment, Lin Chen only felt as though someone were taking turns working on the crown of his head with nails, wooden clubs, and electric saws!

Yet Lin Chen held on with all his might.

Compared To the loneliness of falling into that boundless darkness when he transmigrated, and the terror of having even his five senses stripped away, this pain was nothing!

Who knew how much time passed before light finally returned before his eyes. The scene was three-dimensional and clear once more.

It was a Sea of Chaos, where countless worlds flickered within it like lanterns upon the sea!

Lin Chen's figure became a speck of faint light, ceaselessly darting through the chaos before finally descending into a world that radiated endless light.

What followed was his reincarnated birth, the awakening of his past-life wisdom, ten years of cultivation, and finally, the scene froze at the instant before Lin Chen lost consciousness.

Boom!

Lin Chen suddenly felt the tightness in his head release. The boundless agony vanished in an instant, replaced by countless memories from his childhood to adulthood, from his previous life to This Life.

Those memories were so clear that every last detail stood out in the scenes of recollection, as though they had happened only yesterday!

"This..." By the time Lin Chen came to his senses, all the memories had already faded away, returning to calm.

"What exactly was..." The sudden upheaval had finally passed. Lin Chen let out a long breath and collapsed limply onto the ground.

That was the scene from when I transmigrated? And that part... was dimensional reduction?!

Could it be that I underwent dimensional reduction rather than transmigration? Does This Side World exist within a two-dimensional universe? No, that can't be right. In This Side World, I can see the full three-dimensional forms of objects. It shouldn't be a two-dimensional plane!

Or is it that This Universe is lower-dimensional than my previous world in some respect, and I transmigrated here during the process of dimensional reduction?

But at the end of that scene, what did that straight line and that chaotic point mean? Did I continue undergoing dimensional reduction, descending into one and zero dimensions? But if I was reduced to that extent, why am I still a three-dimensional being after transmigrating?

Countless thoughts Flashed through Lin Chen's mind, but without any information to support them, he could not possibly find an answer.

The scene of his memory review had unexpectedly allowed Lin Chen to witness the scene of his transmigration within his recollections, letting him learn a portion of the truth.

But matters such as dimensions and spacetime were far too mysterious. Even Though he was filled with doubts, Lin Chen had no way to comprehend the full course of events.

But beyond dimensional reduction, there was something else that greatly concerned Lin Chen.

After his death in his previous life, the scenes of his memories had not vanished. Instead, the perspective had shifted. Could that mean the Materialist Universe of his previous life possessed souls?

If so, why had he been able to travel here in the form of a soul?

And if I truly am a higher-dimensional being, then what is so special about my soul compared to the living beings of This Side World?

Amid the chaos of his consciousness, one thought after another flashed in Lin Chen's mind, but in the end, they slowly sank into silence.

Without enough information, all of this was mere speculation—impossible to verify, impossible to understand.

Yet Lin Chen vaguely felt that his transmigration might not have been an accident. Behind It, some great secret might still be hidden.

But as he was now, he neither had the qualifications nor enough information to investigate the truth of the matter. He could only keep his doubts in his heart and wait for the day they could be answered.

So for now, taking care of what lay before him was the most important thing.

After lying there for an unknown length of time, Lin Chen finally recovered somewhat. He forced himself upright and slowly opened his eyes, only to freeze in shock.

Because the world before him seemed, in his eyes, to have lifted a thin veil, becoming vastly different from before!