Sleep

You wandered across the continent together, occasionally dealing with a few assassins who didn't know when to quit. Life wasn't particularly good or bad.

Over the years, spending time with you and Ye Lingling helped Dugu Yan regain some clarity. But she was already so old that Ye Lingling doubted she would live to recover fully.

As Ye Lingling spent time with you, she occasionally brought up things that had happened long ago. Some sounded familiar, but most left you lost and bewildered.

Seeing this, Ye Lingling chose a fine day to ask what had happened to you in the years since you left.

You didn't know how to answer. You gave her a rough account of your current condition, and Ye Lingling took on another task: each day, she told you stories from the past, hoping to help you recover your lost memories. Unfortunately, it did little good.

In the 120th year of the Simulation, the various factions gradually made fewer attempts on your life, leaving you with even more time to spare.

Under Ye Lingling's care, Dugu Yan had regained some clarity. Now and then, she could exchange a few words with you and Ye Lingling.

As time passed, the concentration of Soul Power on Douluo Star began rising again, though slowly. You estimated that it would take at least a thousand years to return to the golden age Ye Lingling had described.

While the three of you were traveling, you happened upon a seed. You didn't know what kind of seed it was, but you felt some connection to it, so you kept it.

In the 125th year of the Simulation, time passed quickly for you—about as quickly as a nap.

During that time, the seed you had planted sprouted. You couldn't tell what kind of plant it was until Ye Lingling identified it as Blue Silver Grass.

You didn't mind that the seed had grown into nothing more than an ordinary blade of Blue Silver Grass. You kept it close and tended to it carefully, as though that was only natural.

In the 126th year of the Simulation, Dugu Yan took your hand as she lay dying. With one last burst of strength, she said, "Su Ming, I'm so happy I got to see you. I really, really wish I could go back to when you and Grandpa were both there..." She never finished. She died with a smile.

A hundred years later, nearly all the older members of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan were dead. The only ones left who could hold the clan together were Liu Erlong, who was nearly two hundred, and Yu Tianxin, who was around a hundred and fifty.

You wasted no words on them. Against your overwhelming strength, two mere Super Douluo were no harder to kill than chickens.

With the base attributes of a Pseudo-God, you wiped out the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan with a single slap.

Seeing the clan they had spent so many years rebuilding destroyed just as it had begun to prosper, Liu Erlong and Yu Tianxin flew into a rage and tried to kill you.

But their strongest attack barely tickled you. You flicked your sleeve, sending out a wind blade at least a kilometer across. In less than a tenth of a second, Liu Erlong and Yu Tianxin were beheaded.

Only after absorbing the energy of every Soul Master and ordinary person in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan did you barely break through to level ten and become a Soul Scholar. You also formed your first Soul Core, the Dark Soul Core.

Once you had formed your Soul Core, cultivating became harder by an unimaginable degree.

You now produced more Soul Power on your own each day than Douluo Star did in total. Calling you a walking planet would not have been an exaggeration.

In the 130th year of the Simulation, unbeknownst to you, the Divine Realm suddenly lost contact with every world under its jurisdiction and was swept into an unknown place.

In the 133rd year of the Simulation, Ye Lingling confessed the feelings she had kept buried in her heart. She wrapped her arms around your neck and said, one word at a time, "Senior Su, I like you so much. I don't know when it happened, but I realized I'd fallen hopelessly in love with you. I know it's wrong. This love goes against every moral boundary. If there's another life, could we be together?" Ye Lingling, who had stayed by your side longer than anyone, died as you kissed her.

You buried Ye Lingling beside Dugu Yan. After all those years, the only one still with you was Ah Yin, who continued to grow strong.

Perhaps it was fate, or perhaps it was something else. After hundreds of years apart, the two of you finally met again.

Unfortunately, when you met again, you no longer remembered her, and she no longer remembered you.

Your life grew ever more quiet and uneventful. You settled into it without showing any resistance or distaste.

In the 137th year of the Simulation, you felt the concentration of Soul Power rising day by day. By your estimate, breaking through naturally would most likely take another thirty to fifty years.

The constant assassination attempts finally began to wear on your patience.

After giving everyone who refused to accept you a loving little beating, your world finally fell quiet. You could get a proper night's sleep.

Nearly forty years had passed. Your head felt a little hazy, and you decided to find somewhere to sleep.

You took Ah Yin with you as you wandered about, eventually finding a valley shrouded in poisonous mist. Around it lay a poison formation made of Jade Spirit Seven-Extermination Flowers.

You could walk through it unaffected, but Ah Yin could not withstand the poison. Fortunately, you noticed in time and saved her.

You entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Someone had arranged the place with great care, and the moment you stepped inside, a disturbance stirred around you.

A fire dragon suddenly soared out of the hot spring, then dissolved into specks of energy that rained down.

The Immortal Herbs absorbed those specks, and their cultivation age grew before your eyes.

Ah Yin, still growing in the pot you carried, went from a hundred years of cultivation to a thousand in a short time.

Seeing this, you placed Ah Yin beside the spring. Then you found a suitable patch of open ground, lay down, and closed your eyes to rest.

After you fell asleep, silence settled over the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, as though the strange sight just now had been a trick of the eye.

With her cultivation restored to a thousand years, Ah Yin had gained a little intelligence. She looked around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with curiosity.