Lin Jun calmed his restless heart. Even he could not help but feel an impulse just now, wishing he could begin studying it the very next moment.
The knowledge in this booklet was real, without the slightest falsehood. The only difficulty was that its contents were simply too terrifying—so vast there seemed to be no end in sight.
If he truly delved into it, the time required would have to be measured in tens of thousands of years at the very least.
Did he have ten thousand years now? Without question, no. But then again, one could say that he did.
Yes. From Yu Zhong's words, it was not hard to see that this space had existed for far too long. At every moment, it absorbed those remnant worlds, gathering together tiny fragments of their leftover domains, kneading them into this region—and into Yu Zhong as well.
The Lower Realm outside had scattered outward, becoming part of the world, while this place had become an independent space.
Humanity's destruction would not cause these spaces to perish. This place could continue existing forever.
The destruction Yu Zhong spoke of was destruction visible in the future. As for how far away that future truly was... heh, for an existence like this, even an instant could be measured in hundreds of millions of years.
Yu Zhong merely feared that one day in the future, he would vanish.
Therefore, if Lin Jun remained here forever, then in theory, he could continue existing alongside Yu Zhong until the consciousness of the world was truly born outside. Only then would Yu Zhong disappear, and he himself would perish as well.
But what was the price?
If Lin Jun truly waited here, comprehending and cultivating, the humans outside would perish in the Heavenly Tribulation.
Lin Jun considered