Li Chen sank into a dream once again, forgetting many memories in his stupor.
These memories were precisely the knowledge Great Elder Hong, Lin Xi, Pei Bairen, and the others had lost. It seemed that as he forgot, the entire world also forgot the momentous changes of the past century.
However, Li Chen had long since pierced the Mystery of the Womb. He always clearly remembered his existence as a visitor from the Outer Domain, and many things remained engraved within his True Spirit.
Those profoundly complex bodies of knowledge, techniques, and True Intent had slipped away for the moment. It was as though he had undergone another cycle of reincarnation and had to cultivate anew, yet the parts connected to his true self had instead grown ever more deeply rooted.
As his memories were repeatedly lost and recovered, they became ever more closely bound to his True Spirit. The nature of his True Spirit and the form of its existence also gradually underwent subtle changes.
His Divine Soul gradually disappeared, and his skeleton decayed and dissolved until only a skull remained.
When Li Chen woke again, he discovered that the form he manifested during Primordial Spirit Projection was no longer his former humanoid skeleton, but the skull he had seen.
Afterward, he continued entering dreams one after another, refining even the remaining skull until he finally became a skullcap amid a silent wasteland.
Only then did Li Chen suddenly realize that the Skull he had seen earlier was not someone else, but himself.
He was the skullcap that had existed in that wasteland for untold years.
Nor was this wasteland an ordinary scene in the outside world. It lay between illusion and reality, the true manifestation of his Law Domain-the Mindscape Wasteland!
"So that was it. I finally understand