After weighing his options, Chen Lin decided to complete the peerage mission immediately.
There were three reasons.
First, the Nightmare Realm was crucial to him. It was Luo's sworn enemy, and a plane Luo could not enter. If Luo attacked him in the Reality Realm, hiding in the Nightmare Realm would be his best option. He could not afford to lose that route.
Second was the millennial tribulation. Perhaps there were already fewer than a thousand years left.
He did not know exactly what the calamity would entail, but presumably, the energy causing the Original Origin Domain to undergo Voidification would grow stronger. If he could not leave, he would undergo complete Voidification, losing any chance of turning the void into reality and becoming a "real" existence.
For someone with no ambition to attain longevity, Voidification or being real made little difference.
A person undergoing Voidification did not know they were undergoing it, which effectively made them real. After all, there was no obvious difference between those undergoing Voidification and the real. Both experienced birth, aging, sickness, and death; both possessed the same seven emotions and six desires.
But he refused to settle for that. He wanted to see the world beyond, and he had higher aspirations.
So he had to obtain a peerage rank.
With a peerage rank, his chances of surviving in the Nightmare Realm would improve. He might even be able to enter higher-level Nightmare Realm scenarios and use them to reach higher-level planes.
The last reason was the Gourmet Guardians' promise to intervene once on his behalf.
The peerage mission was bound to be incredibly difficult. If the recent upheaval in the Nightmare Realm caused problems and the Gourmet Guardians could no longer fulfill their promise, his chances of completing the mission would fall considerably.
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