Chapter 2085: The Missing One
What is the ancient realm of the gods!
This is a question that almost every cultivator on the Xiangang Continent has had for generations. Even the Great Celestial Emperor has no answers to the many questions about what the ancient realm is, where it comes from, and so on.
Although many people have entered the ancient realm of the gods, they can’t explain what it is when they return.
Wang Lin looked around. The sky was red, with no stars, no sun, and no moon, but there was a soft light. The earth was round.
Here, his spiritual consciousness was restricted and could not spread throughout the entire continent. He could only see the mountains nearby, crisscrossing in all directions, and a long, long series of cracks and ravines.
Walking on this land, Wang Lin was silent, his eyes showing a mixture of confusion and familiarity, as he walked forward in silence.
In front of him, outside a ravine and crack, Wang Lin stopped. He looked down at the crack in the earth, which was straight and not the slightest bit curved, as if it had been cleaved open by a sword.
A faint black mist came out of the crack, rose into the air and then disappeared. Looking into the depths of the crack from here, it was pitch black, as if there was nothing there.
Wang Lin was silent for a moment, then took a step forward, crossed the huge crack, and walked further away. Time passed slowly, and he didn’t know how long it had been. Wang Lin saw more cracks and more mountains.
Most of the cracks looked similar, all straight and open like the edge of a sword.
“The round earth…” Wang Lin muttered, his eyes flashing, his body slowly rising into the air, slowly flying towards the sky above this place. As he flew higher and higher, gradually, the outline of the earth beneath his feet seemed to shrink. When Wang Lin stood at the top of the sky, he looked down at the earth below, and the familiarity in his eyes grew stronger.
The round earth, with its deep ravines and fissures, was arranged in a very regular pattern. When they were combined, the round earth looked like a compass.
A huge compass, the cracks are the scale, and the crisscrossing mountain ranges naturally form runic symbols that reveal the chaos.
“A compass… a wheel without a needle… or perhaps, this compass of the earth is not complete, it is missing half of it.” Wang Lin’s eyes were filled with a strange light as he looked at the earth, gradually seeing that half of this round continent seemed illusory, faintly giving off a feeling of unreality.
In silence, his gaze swept over the land, eventually focusing on the exact center of the place, where there was a mountain, a mountain that towered into the clouds, but was floating with colorful snowflakes.
Looking at the mountain, Wang Lin’s eyes revealed a complex look. This mountain, he had seen in the misty air when he was in the ancient ancestral temple, when the three gods of the ancient road were divided.
In the ancient ancestral temple, in the void, he saw a figure on the mountain holding a corpse and crying out to the sky, questioning the world. But now, on the mountain with the colorful snowflakes in his eyes, there was no figure holding a corpse, but rather a familiar person sitting cross-legged there, looking at him.
He looked old but not old, his body was filled with colorful light, and his eyes were filled with excitement and excitement. He was just like Tianyunzi, like the colorful immortal, like the ancient master of Taoism!
Behind this figure, behind this mountain, there is a bridge. One end of the bridge connects to the earth, and the other end merges into the sky, forming a huge arc.
The bridge looked almost exactly like the bridge to the heavens. Where it connected to the sky, Wang Lin vaguely saw a vague illusion behind the blood-red sky.
In that illusion, there seemed to be two figures, indistinct and unclear, making it impossible to see through.
This scene is the same as the illusion he saw behind the ninth bridge on the Sky-Walking Bridge.
“You’ve finally come!” Tianyunzi looked at Wang Lin and laughed.
Wang Lin’s gaze returned from the bridge and looked at Tianyunzi. Without saying a word, he walked step by step. After a moment, he stood on the mountain where colorful snowflakes were floating, watching the colorful snowflakes fall around him and on the ground.
“I have been waiting for this day for a long time. Wang Lin, all of this is just a dream of yours, but when you come here, your dream will be distorted!” Tianyunzi laughed, and his hands lifted up and outward, slashing with a mighty swing.
With this swing, the circular continent immediately began to rumble. Amidst the rumble, the many cracks in the ground erupted with a thick black mist, which rose into the air and headed straight for the mountain.
In an instant, the black mist covered the blood-red sky. In front of Wang Lin and behind Tianyunzi, the black mist coalesced into a huge figure.
The figure was extremely tall, as if it was holding up the world. From a distance, it looked like it was wearing a loose black robe that covered its face, but Wang Lin could still recognize that the figure looked the same as the one in front of him.
“Wang Lin, even if you were a powerful being in the past, in this realm, I am the supreme being. The entire Xiangang continent, this place, is the only place where I can devour and absorb you!
Here, your dreams will be distorted, and from now on, I will be you!” The huge figure let out a low growl, and the sound roared and swirled around.
“Past life…” Wang Lin looked at Tianyunzi and the shadow behind him, his expression calm.
“It seems you haven’t thought of it yet. Never mind, I’ll let you understand all this before you die!” That day, the child of fate stood up and took a step back, merging with the huge black shadow, lifting the black robe that covered his face, revealing his strange face.
“The Xiangang Continent does not exist. You just conjured it up in your dreams. In reality, this is a void, a part of the world of the Anti-Dust Realm.”
“Nothingness…” Wang Lin was silent.
“Don’t believe it? You who don’t remember your past life, in my opinion, are extremely pitiful! Wang Lin, I tell you, there are four realms in the universe, and this realm is the realm of the dust! Each realm has a treasure, and the treasure of the realm of the dust is the compass of the realm, which is also the only treasure of the realm of the dust!
This ancient realm is the compass of the realm of dust! The huge figure that Tianyunzi had turned into had an expression of excitement in his eyes.
As for you, you were the strongest person in the world in your previous life, and you cultivated in the realm of the heavens. You should have been able to defeat the dust, but you borrowed the compass from the guardian in order to resurrect a woman.
You even used your own dream-path technique to personally disperse your true self and reincarnate, trying to make your dream come true and resurrect your wife in the cycle of reincarnation, reversing the changes of heaven and earth!
Even I, the old man, am shocked by your crazy actions and thoughts!” Tianyunzi looked at Wang Lin and his words swirled.
“So that’s what it’s like. Then who are you?” Wang Lin closed his eyes, opened them a moment later, looked at the huge figure, and slowly spoke.
“I am the guardian of the fixed compass. You took this thing from me back then! I have a disciple, whose name is Mo Zhi, you should know him!” Tianyunzi said slowly.
Wang Lin was silent.
Tianyunzi’s eyes flickered imperceptibly, and with a wave of his right hand, a portion of the black qi in his body suddenly dispersed, forming a black vortex in the sky. Gradually, scenes appeared within the black vortex.
“If you still don’t believe it, you can see it for yourself! You can judge for yourself whether these scenes are real or not.”
In the black vortex, Wang Lin saw another version of himself, holding a corpse and crying out to the sky.
He saw that self, in the past, after failing to resurrect Li Muwan, the sad expression, the angry voice, and the crazy eyes.
“If heaven lets you die, I will snatch you back! I will smash heaven and earth, I will sink into reincarnation, and take your bits and pieces out of reincarnation, recreating life after life…
If I still fail, then I, Wang Lin, will never wake up, and I will be immersed in that cycle with you, forever and ever…
Wang Lin looked at the scenes in the whirlpool, and the scenes of the past emerged in his mind, as if these memories had always existed, but he had always forgotten them.
“You told me that you could resurrect Li Muwan here in order to get me here. Is it true or not?” Wang Lin was silent for a moment, looking at Tianyunzi, and said slowly.
“It’s true, but it’s also false! The Boundary Compass is the only treasure of annihilation in this world, and it can change everything. However, you don’t have this opportunity anymore.” Seeing that Wang Lin still looked calm, without the slightest distortion of consciousness, Tianyunzi hesitated in his heart. When he heard Wang Lin’s words at this moment, he hesitated for a moment and did not act rashly. He vaguely felt that something was wrong.
“What is that bridge?” Wang Lin raised his right hand and pointed to the bridge that connected heaven and earth behind the figure of Tianyunzi, which was composed of black gas.
“The bridge that connects the heavens and the earth is also the true form of the bridge that all beings in the world of dust feel after reaching a certain level of cultivation.” Tianyunzi’s feeling of unease became clearer, but he couldn’t figure out what had changed.
“You are hesitating and guessing. Why am I not experiencing a distortion of consciousness, like a person in a dream who is about to wake up and experience a moment of confusion?” Wang Lin smiled and looked at Tianyunzi, calmly opening his mouth.
Tianyunzi’s face suddenly changed, and his huge body suddenly retreated a few steps, staring at Wang Lin, and after a few careful looks, he revealed an expression of disbelief.
“You… No, even if you knew your past life’s memories, as long as you came to this compass, you would wake up from the dream path!
In the past, you have always awakened at this step. This time, it will be no different!
“You are not the guardian, but the one who is missing…” Wang Lin looked at Tianyunzi and slowly opened his mouth.
At the moment his words were spoken, Tianyunzi suddenly felt a thump in his heart.