"Three shichen—if I had to be precise, about two and a half shichen. Is there a problem?"
Lin Jun explained with a calm expression.
"You're saying that in just three shichen, you digested my summary of trillions of years, including all the things Yu Zhong added, and fully understood and absorbed it?"
Xie Yun looked utterly unconvinced.
"Even if we're fellow townsmen, it would be better not to joke at a time like this. Your ill-timed sense of ease is troubling me."
Clearly, Xie Yun did not believe him.
If Lin Jun had said he had forcibly memorized all that content, Xie Yun could barely have understood it. But Lin Jun was claiming that he had already mastered it all.
And in only three shichen. It was so unbelievable that Xie Yun nearly laughed out loud.
"I'm not lying to you. I just suspected there was something wrong with that thing, so I stopped halfway through cultivating it."
As he spoke, Lin Jun held out his hand before Xie Yun's eyes.
Under Xie Yun's gaze, an aura that did not exist in this world slowly emerged from Lin Jun's hand.
It was as though it had appeared out of thin air. It did not belong to this world, yet traces of it could be found within this world.
Without a doubt, this was the Origin Aura of this world, the prerequisite for merging oneself with the Dao.
Lin Jun already possessed the qualifications to become Heavenly Will.
As Lin Jun was now, if he wished, his next step could be to become this world's sole will cultivator.
To become the next Xie Yun.
"You... That's impossible. How did you do it?"
Xie Yun checked again and again before finally confirming that the thing before him was the very sign he