The Savior

Above City No. 1.

When Lin Zichen returned, the previous battle to defend the city had already ended.

The once vast and glorious city is now nothing but a desolate ruin.

At a glance, all that could be seen were ruins and corpses strewn across the landscape.

Many familiar faces from the city are now cold corpses, forever left on the battlefield.

In even worse cases, no remains were found, not even a trace.

The entire dilapidated ruins were shrouded in a deathly desolation, exuding despair everywhere.

"This is war..."

Lin Zichen murmured to himself, feeling somewhat uneasy.

He participated in many major battles.

But he had never seen a battle with such heavy casualties as the one before.

It has a very strong visual impact.

After calming himself down a bit, Lin Zichen spread his Mental Power across the entire battlefield, searching for Shen Qinghan's figure.

Soon, he spotted Shen Qinghan in a spot below.

Without a moment's hesitation, he instantly transformed into a streak of crimson light and flashed down, landing precisely in front of Shen Qinghan.

Shen Qinghan was helping the wounded recover their blood when she saw Lin Zichen suddenly appear in front of her. A smile immediately appeared on her delicate face.

"Lin Zi, you're finally back safe and sound. I was so worried about you."

"I don't have to worry anymore, all the troubles are solved."

As Lin Zichen spoke, he reached out and gently wiped the dust off Shen Qinghan's face.

He could easily project his qi and blood, or even his spirit, to clean the dust off Shen Qinghan's face from a distance.

While it's convenient, it lacks a sense of intimacy.

Rather than convenience, he preferred to touch Shen Qinghan's pretty face with his hands and feel the warmth emanating from her skin.

And feel the silky coolness emanating from her pretty face.

"What happened to that Human Traitor the Vice Provincial Governor?"

Why did you come back alone?

"What about the others?"

Shen Qinghan asked three questions in a row, her pretty face full of curiosity.

She's always been like this since she was little. She loves asking Lin Zichen questions whenever she doesn't understand something, treating him like a search engine on her phone.

Lin Zichen answered these three questions patiently and gently:

"The Human Traitor Vice Provincial Governor is dead."

"However, I didn't kill him. He was possessed by a Mythical Tier powerhouse called the Night King."

"Those city leaders who fought alongside me against the Human Traitor Vice Provincial Governor, unfortunately all perished at the hands of the Human Traitor Vice Provincial Governor before he was possessed."

As he answered these questions, Lin Zichen's voice was calm, so calm that it didn't sound like that of a participant.

He gives the impression of being an indifferent bystander, completely unmoved.

Lin Zichen deliberately made his recent experience sound ordinary in order not to worry Shen Qinghan.

However, Shen Qinghan is not naive or innocent.

At this moment, she was fully aware of how dangerous what Lin Zichen was talking about was.

It's important to know that the city leaders who went to besiege Ye Yongsheng were at least of Legendary Tier in terms of Biological Rank.

Yet, none of the city leaders, despite their high Biological Rank, survived; they all perished.

This alone shows just how dangerous Lin Zichen's past experiences were.

Not to mention, that Human Traitor Vice Provincial Governor was even possessed by Mythical Tier powerhouse.

Even Mythical Tier powerhouses showed up, which shows how desperate the situation must have been.

Although she understood the situation clearly, Shen Qinghan did not delve into the details of these matters.

Instead, she sensibly skipped the topic and asked Lin Zichen:

"Lin Zi, after we've cleaned up the battlefield, what's next?"

Now, with major battles erupting everywhere in the Origin Land, there is no peace anywhere, and Shen Qinghan is somewhat at a loss.

I don't know where to go or what to do after cleaning up the battlefield.

Lin Zichen didn't rush to answer.

He silently surveyed his surroundings, and after a moment of silence, said to Shen Qinghan:

"Let's go to other cities and help clear out the Alien Race."

The Alien Race in City No. 1 have been almost completely wiped out, leaving little resource for them to devour.

If you want to continue evolving at a rapid pace, it's time to change your battlefield.

Upon hearing Lin Zichen say that he was going to other cities to help clear out the Alien Race, many people around him were filled with respect and looked at Lin Zichen with admiration.

These people were unaware that Lin Zichen's reason for helping other cities eliminate Alien Race was primarily to devour Alien Race Life Origin and Source Power.

I thought Lin Zichen couldn't bear to see his people suffer and wanted to dedicate himself to Shine and Contribute.

However, a wise person judges actions, not intentions.

Regardless of their purpose or true intentions, as long as they do something beneficial to their people, they are the saviors of their tribe.

Shen Qinghan knew that Lin Zichen wanted to kill the Alien Race and devour them for evolution, so she very sensibly said:

"Okay, I understand. I'll speed up the cleanup and try to get to other cities as soon as possible to help clear out the Alien Race."

After saying that, she quickly went to collect blood from the wounded.

With nothing else to do, Lin Zichen joined the effort to treat the wounded, spreading his Mental Power across the entire battlefield to search for any undiscovered wounded in the ruins.

With his and Shen Qinghan's help, the wounded on the battlefield quickly received basic medical treatment and their lives were saved.

After treating the wounded, Shen Qinghan remembered something.

She quickly walked to Lin Zichen, reached out her slender hand and grasped his, transmitting her thoughts through her blood and qi:

"By the way, Lin Zi, just a short while ago, I encountered something very strange."

"What's up?"

Lin Zichen was curious, so he used his internal energy to transmit his voice back and ask.

Shen Qinghan, her eyes brimming with tears, said in a soft, sweet voice:

"Just a short while ago, I saw you in my Consciousness Sea. I saw you constantly descending into my Consciousness Sea, and then being chased and killed by that Human Traitor Vice Provincial Governor."

What?

Upon hearing this, Lin Zichen's pupils contracted, his eyes widened, and his face was filled with surprise.

What does Hanhan mean by that?

Could it be that the seabed I dived into earlier was actually Hanhan's Consciousness Sea?

That's why I encountered the Water God Palace there?

The entire boundless ocean is Hanhan's Consciousness Sea...

Am I dreaming?

Lin Zichen felt this was too exaggerated, and the surprise on his face gradually turned into disbelief.

Shen Qinghan, sitting opposite Lin Zichen, saw all the changes in Lin Zichen's expression.

Then, a look of surprise gradually appeared on her delicate and pretty face.

The change in Lin Zichen's expression made her realize something:

The scene I just saw in my Consciousness Sea was not a projection, nor a false illusion, but a real scene!

But how is that possible?

How did Lin Zi end up in my Consciousness Sea?

Isn't the Consciousness Sea an abstract concept?

Isn't this a reflection of the strength or weakness of one's will?

Where does the physical entity come from?

At this moment, Shen Qinghan felt her brain wasn't working properly; she couldn't understand this at all.

Lin Zichen, sitting opposite her, was just as bewildered.

This is outrageous, far beyond what the two of them could comprehend.

After calming himself down a bit, Lin Zichen looked at Shen Qinghan and asked her earnestly:

"Did you see later that the Human Traitor Vice Provincial Governor and I were both sucked into the Water God Palace, and then the Human Traitor Vice Provincial Governor was sucked into a vortex and perished, his body even being refined into a scarlet bead?"

"Yes, yes, that's it!"

Shen Qinghan nodded repeatedly like a chick pecking at rice, her expression growing increasingly shocked.

If she wasn't entirely sure before that the images she had seen in her mind were real, now she was 100% certain they were.

What Lin Zichen said was exactly the same as what she saw in her Consciousness Sea, without any difference.

Seeing her nod repeatedly in agreement, Lin Zichen's heart was filled with a storm of emotions.

It's actually true!

The ocean I dived into before was actually Hanhan's Consciousness Sea!

Etc!

Wrong!

If that ocean is indeed Hanhan's Consciousness Sea of consciousness, then logically, Hanhan should be able to see the creatures living in the sea within her Consciousness Sea.

Could it be that... Hanhan's Consciousness Sea isn't a single, vast ocean, but rather that Consciousness Sea's partially connected to that boundless sea?

The reason I suddenly appeared in her Consciousness Sea earlier was simply because, during my descent into that ocean, I passed through a hidden connection point and happened to enter Hanhan's Consciousness Sea.

That's still not right.

So many creatures live in that ocean; if there really were some special connection point, then many creatures should have entered Hanhan's Consciousness Sea long ago.

It seems I'll have to go back to that stretch of sea later, spread my Mental Power over it, and see if I can find the so-called connection point...

These were the thoughts in Lin Zichen's mind.

Shen Qinghan, standing to the side, asked with a mixture of curiosity and confusion, "Lin Zi, why did you suddenly appear in my Consciousness Sea? This is so magical..."

This is a question that Lin Zichen finds difficult to answer.

The only answer he could give was to tell Shen Qinghan his earlier guess.

After listening, Shen Qinghan thought for a moment and quickly offered this guess, "Lin Zi, do you think it might be the Water God who made the move?"

"The Water God knows you are important to me, so he specially helped me save you?"

"Think about it, when we encountered danger in the Coastal Forest before, a mysterious and unknown force came to our rescue. I feel it was the Water God who intervened."

Shen Qinghan's guess sounds reasonable and well-founded.

Lin Zichen fell into deep thought after hearing this.

Water God?

Perhaps...

Thinking about it, Lin Zichen had an idea and took out a scarlet bead from his Storage Space.

This bead is the same one that was spat out from the vortex of the Water God Palace. It was forged from Ye Yongsheng's corpse and the Night King's will.

Simply by holding it in your hand, you can clearly feel the powerful vitality emanating from the bead.

This is Mythical Tier level of vitality, originating from the will of the Night King.

"This is the bead forged from the corpse of the Human Traitor Vice Provincial Governor and the will of the Night King. It contains a great deal of life force, which is very helpful for evolution. See if you can absorb it."

As Lin Zichen spoke, he handed the scarlet bead in his hand to Shen Qinghan.

Shen Qinghan looked at the bead handed to her, her clear, bright eyes asking, "Aren't you going to absorb it?"

"This bead was taken from the Water God Palace; it belongs to you."

"Then let's split it in half."

"No, you can absorb it yourself. This is an evolutionary resource that belongs to you alone."

Lin Zichen does indeed need evolution resources and is eager to become stronger, but no matter how much he needs them, he wouldn't covet Shen Qinghan's evolution resources.

Shen Qinghan understands Lin Zichen's personality.

Seeing that Lin Zichen had already said he didn't want it anymore, she didn't try to persuade him any further and chose to absorb the bead by herself.

She didn't know how to absorb the beads, and when she took them from Lin Zichen, she was thinking about figuring out how to absorb them.

However, before she could even begin to study it, the scarlet bead in her hand suddenly transformed into a stream of red and blue light, instantly surging into her Heavenly Gate.

Upon entering the Heavenly Gate, the red and blue streak of light automatically transformed into two blazing warm currents.

A warm, red current flowed through Shen Qinghan's entire body, nourishing every cell within her.

A warm blue current flowed into the depths of Shen Qinghan's mind, making her already seemingly boundless Consciousness Sea even more boundless at an extremely rapid pace.

The moment the two warm currents subsided, the strength of Shen Qinghan's blood and spirit began to rise rapidly, increasing at an unbelievable and astonishing speed.

In the blink of an eye, her Biological Rank evolved to Legendary Tier 1, causing a strange phenomenon in the heavens and earth.

The once clear sky suddenly turned into a torrential downpour under the scorching sun.

At the same time, countless underground waters burst forth from the calm earth, soaring into the sky and merging with the rain falling from the sky, transforming into various forms of aquatic creatures that spread across the entire sky.

At that moment, everyone present looked up at the sky in unison, stunned by the strange phenomenon that suddenly appeared there.

A water dragon soars through the clouds and rides the mist.

The water phoenix soars through the nine heavens.

The Kunpeng emerged in unison, blotting out the sky and the sun...

The once empty sky was suddenly filled with all sorts of creatures that appeared to be of extremely high status.

They had lived so long and had never seen such a spectacular phenomenon.

Like everyone else, Lin Zichen was looking up at the strange phenomenon in the sky, feeling a sense of awe.

The phenomena caused by Shen Qinghan's evolution into Legendary Tier creature were far more spectacular than those caused when he evolved into Legendary Tier creature; they were on completely different levels of spectacle.

Lin Zichen carefully observed the various aquatic creatures that appeared from the rain in the sky, and found that they all looked very familiar, as if he had seen them in the murals in the Undersea Ruins.

During this time, they also unexpectedly saw the figure of the Sea God.

The Sea God, who was transformed from rainwater in the sky, still looked the same as in the murals—a gatekeeper with no presence whatsoever.

The gesture remained one of respectful kneeling and worshipping a mysterious woman lying on her side inside a seashell.

"Perhaps, Hanhan isn't a vessel for the resurrection of the Water God, but rather, she herself is the Water God..."

Lin Zichen quietly watched the strange phenomenon in the sky, his gaze falling on the mysterious woman who was being worshipped by all the aquatic creatures, and a thought arose in his mind.

Judging from his past experiences, he increasingly felt that Shen Qinghan, with whom he had spent many years, was not the lucky one who had obtained the inheritance of the Water God.

Rather, it seems more like the reincarnation of the Water God himself...

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