This dream was very deep, so deep that it was hard to tell the difference between reality and illusion. Before Wang Lin was a fog, and inside the fog, there were long glowing objects that moved between each other and flashed by one by one.
Here, Wang Lin's soul was the only thing left. He walked slowly through this world of fog, slowly dissipating until the day when his soul would completely disappear.
He was very cold, and the coldness grew stronger and stronger until it filled his entire soul.
He didn't know how long he walked. There was no sun or moon here, and even time seemed to be frozen. As he moved forward, Wang Lin gradually discovered that the glowing objects that moved through the fog contained the five elements of heaven and earth: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.
It gave him a very familiar feeling, as if the five elements here were all very familiar to him.
"This is … the world of the heaven defying bead …" One month, two months, three months, or maybe one year, two years, three years …. He didn't know how much time had passed, but Wang Lin's soul hadn't dissipated …. Throughout these countless years, within the world of the heaven defying bead, there was a warm, bloody light that came from all directions, dispelling the coldness in Wang Lin. Gradually, it nourished his soul, causing it to become translucent.
The confusion that filled Wang Lin's body gradually dissipated as the bloody light nourished him. He stared around in a daze as he slowly remembered many things, including the world he had seen nearly two thousand years ago.
"The five elements here were collected by me …." Wang Lin's confusion dissipated, and what replaced it was like waking up from a dream. However, after waking up, he found that he was still in a dream.
Silently sensing his surroundings, Wang Lin looked back. He didn't know how many years had passed, but he had walked deep into the world of the heaven defying bead, and he couldn't find a way back.
Even if he found a way back, there was no way out. It was as if he was trapped here, waiting for eternity.
"Wan Er is also here …." Wang Lin was used to being alone. He was used to being alone in this world, so he didn't feel uncomfortable here.
"But I remember that everything has collapsed. Why am I here …." Wang Lin frowned as he looked at his body, and his face revealed a bitter expression.
He saw his body in a translucent state, completely formed by his soul.
He also saw the warm bloody light around him, constantly entering his body, nourishing his soul, helping him get rid of his confusion, and condensing his soul.
"This bloody light is …." Wang Lin looked at the bloody light that kept entering his body, giving him a warm feeling. This feeling made him very comfortable, but he couldn't figure out what this bloody light was …. "Could it be that the heaven defying bead has a strange power that can nourish the soul?" Wang Lin pondered for a while, as if this was the only answer that could explain everything.
However, he still felt that something was wrong. Just as he was about to ponder, suddenly, in the world of the heaven defying bead, in Wang Lin's dream, a soft murmur came from afar.
"Here … here …."
Wang Lin's eyes narrowed. The murmur fell into his ears and immediately turned into a wave that echoed in his soul. Staring ahead, Wang Lin's eyes lit up.
"This sound can shake the soul, it is very strange. I am the owner of the heaven defying bead, but I want to see what this sound is!"
After pondering for a while, Wang Lin slowly moved forward.
His speed wasn't fast, but because he was a soul, his body was like the wind as he floated forward and disappeared into the fog.
Wang Lin's speed became faster and faster. As he moved forward, he once again clearly felt the bloody light. This bloody light seemed to be chasing after Wang Lin and constantly entering his soul, making the warm feeling in Wang Lin become stronger and stronger.
"What is this bloody light …." Wang Lin frowned as he moved forward, but he couldn't figure out where this bloody light came from.
As he moved forward, his speed surpassed that of lightning. As the rumbling sounds echoed, he broke through all the fog, and he was many times faster than when he was in a state of confusion.
The fog was pushed back and immediately collapsed due to Wang Lin's speed. This allowed Wang Lin to move forward like a hot knife through butter. Time passed, one year, two years, three years …. Wang Lin continued to fly. He was a soul, so he didn't consume origin energy. This was the heaven defying bead, and he was the owner of the heaven defying bead, so he was like a fish in water. As he moved forward, the fog was no longer dense, but thinner.
During these years, the bloody light didn't break for even a second. It continued to nourish Wang Lin's soul, causing it to become more and more corporeal.
However, Wang Lin could feel that although the warmth from the bloody light was the same as before, it was becoming weaker and colder …. After an unknown amount of time, as Wang Lin moved forward, the murmur became more and more clear.
"This place … This place …"
Wang Lin moved faster and faster. On this day, he suddenly stopped and stared ahead. In the thin fog before him, a door to the heavens suddenly appeared!
Wang Lin was no stranger to this door; he had seen it several times before!
The giant door stood in the world of the heaven defying bead. It was boundless, and anyone who stood before it would feel like they were an ant.
At this moment, as Wang Lin closed in, the giant stone door rumbled and the two doors slowly opened. As the rumbling echoed, a giant crack appeared!
"This place … This place …" The voice came from the crack, and it was even clearer. At such a close distance, when the voice entered Wang Lin's ears, it was like a ripple that caused his origin soul to distort!
"It really is it!"
Wang Lin's pupils shrank as he stared at the giant stone door and silently pondered. He had speculated about this for several years, and he naturally thought about the giant stone door that appeared due to the Heaven Defying Bead. Now that he saw it with his own eyes, although he was shocked, it wasn't outside of his expectations.
After being nourished by the blood light for several years, as Wang Lin's soul solidified, he recalled even more memories. He remembered the jade that suddenly appeared during his battle with Daoist Water!
He also remembered what Daoist Water had said. This jade was called the Sealed Realm Jade, and it was something that belonged to its owner!
One of the things that Wang Lin had been puzzled about before finally had an answer!
What he didn't understand was why the white-haired boy wanted to kill him. However, as his memories awakened and he fought Daoist Water, Wang Lin clearly determined that Daoist Water's owner was the Lord of the Sealed Realm, the previous owner of the Heaven Defying Bead!
The white-haired boy had obviously felt the aura of his owner, which was why he had come to kill Wang Lin. That was why he had devoured Wang Lin's blood and said that he wasn't reincarnated!
He had also searched his soul to find the Heaven Defying Bead. His goal was to find its owner and kill its owner!
Wang Lin had already thought through all of this, which was why the white-haired boy had panicked so much when he saw the jade. His expression changed greatly and was filled with endless fear!
And the Lord of the Sealed Realm was obviously not truly dead. Wang Lin's memories awakened and he clearly remembered that after the jade appeared, the golden light turned into a finger. It was this finger that caused the seven-colored nail to pierce into the white-haired boy's forehead, causing him to be seriously injured and escape while screaming!
"Here … Come in … Here …" The murmur became even more clear from the crack in the stone door before Wang Lin. It was like the wind that moved the world inside the Heaven Defying Bead!
Wang Lin's expression was calm as he stared at the stone door and slowly said, "Who are you!?"
"I … am the Lord of the Sealed Realm, the Lord of the Sealed Realm … Come in … I have no ill will … I won't harm you …" After a moment of silence, the murmur was filled with confusion as this sentence gradually came out.
Wang Lin's eyes lit up. He vaguely had a feeling that there was a shocking secret behind the door, a secret related to the Heaven Defying Bead. It was also a way for him to leave this place!
After pondering a bit, Wang Lin no longer hesitated and charged toward the door. In the blink of an eye, he closed in and stepped through the crack in the stone door!
Cloud Sea, in the rank 2 region, there was an extremely remote wild continent hidden in endless fog. Cultivators rarely came to this place, and it was completely desolate.
In a valley on this continent, Li Qianmei was sitting cross-legged on the ground. In front of her was a crystal clear stone statue.
The stone statue was covered in blood and the blood light was gradually dissipating. Li Qianmei's face was extremely pale without a trace of blood. Her blue hair was also devoid of luster. She slowly opened her eyes. There was no spirit in her eyes, only sadness filled them.
She raised her right hand. Her five fingers were cracked and withered. They didn't look like the hand of a young woman at all, but the arm of an old woman.
Li Qianmei took off the blood that hadn't healed yet. Her eyes gradually became bright and determined, and she once more covered the stone statue with blood.
Four years had passed, and during these four years, Li Qianmei didn't leave this place. She silently stayed here and nourished the stone statue with her blood.
Four years ago, she only needed to smear the stone statue once a day, and she had twenty hours to rest. Four years later, as the stone statue became more and more translucent, the amount of blood she needed also increased. She often had to smear the stone statue four times a day, and her rest time was less than eight hours … "I will wake you up …" Li Qianmei looked at the stone statue. There were no tears in the corners of her eyes, only cracks that seemed to be formed from a long period of tears.
In these four years, she had asked herself many times, was all of this … worth it …? She couldn't answer herself the same way she had answered her master back then. She didn't know if all of this was worth it or not. She only knew that there seemed to be a faint voice from her previous life beside her ears. In her hundred years of fighting on the battlefield, that voice was slowly awakening, slowly murmuring, slowly letting her vaguely see herself as a fish under the water, looking up at the surface of the water, a bird flying in the sky, gradually disappearing into the distance … Only 520 votes away from 10,000. Today, I'm going to continue exploding, my ears are really going all out, today, I'm going to reach 10,000!!!