Chapter 2035: Dim Lights, Two Dots

"Fake, no one can open the Immortal Cave Realm and the Immortal Astral Continent out of thin air, forming such a Vortex to draw in a Great Heavenly Venerate's Divine Sense. This is fake! You can't deceive this old man!!!!" Chi Hunzi's eyes were bloodshot as he let out a hysterical roar.

His expression was twisted, his veins bulging, as if he had forgotten fear at this moment, his mind collapsing from this unbelievable scene.

"Fake, all of this is fake, haha, it must be fake. Wang Lin, this old man was once friends with Luo Ming, the Immortal Emperor's guard. I once saved his life! He is a trusted subordinate of the Immortal Emperor… he…" Chi Hunzi, disheveled, laughed wildly, as if these words were the last straw in his current life.

"Oh? Is it fake? However, I indeed cannot draw the Immortal Emperor's Divine Sense here, but I can let you see his shattered remnant soul with your own eyes." Wang Lin waved his right hand, and immediately the Vortex in the sky vanished, and Dao Yi's aura also dissipated. Only Dao Yi, whose body trembled within the Dao Yi Sect on the Immortal Astral Continent, clearly felt his own fragility and Wang Lin's power in that instant.

"Look, is this fake too?" Wang Lin's expression was calm. As he spoke, three colors of light—black, white, and gold—suddenly appeared in the sky behind him!

These three colors of light instantly condensed, forming a giant sun. A Great Heavenly Venerate's pressure surged from Wang Lin, completely descending upon Chi Hunzi's body.

At the same time, within Wang Lin's three-colored Great Heavenly Venerate form, the face of Immortal Emperor Lian Daozhen clearly appeared. That face showed pain, and though distorted, it was recognizable at a glance by anyone who had seen Lian Daozhen!

"Fake… all fake… all of it is fake… You are also a Great Heavenly Venerate, haha, this is all fake, don't try to deceive me." Chi Hunzi muttered, his eyes already unfocused.

After unleashing the Great Heavenly Venerate's pressure, Wang Lin's cultivation continued to climb until he was half a step into the Heaven-Treading Realm. His pressure was enough to collapse a Star Domain and obliterate all living beings.

This pressure, without the slightest excess, converged entirely around Chi Hunzi's body, causing Chi Hunzi's entire being to rumble, leaving him stunned and foolishly giggling. In an instant of madness, his Physical Body suddenly disintegrated.

At the same time his body collapsed, Chi Hunzi went mad.

He couldn't accept this reality. He dared not imagine that he had actually plotted against someone who terrified Dao Yi, who had refined the Immortal Emperor's soul, and was even a Great Heavenly Venerate himself. And he had even wanted to 'discipline' a Great Heavenly Venerate's confidante and take a Great Heavenly Venerate's descendant as a Disciple.

He even made this Great Heavenly Venerate's descendant resist the Great Heavenly Venerate.

Absurd, utterly preposterous!

He went mad. His Physical Body collapsed, and his Primordial Spirit perished. But this pain was incomparable to the madness in his heart, like a firefly next to a bright moon.

This method of death was countless times more cruel than directly destroying his Physical Body. What Wang Lin destroyed, besides his Physical Body, was his sanity and mind, utterly annihilating him from the inside out.

The day after this battle, Wang Lin left with Mu Bingmei, Shi San, and Xu Ligou. Before leaving, Wang Lin re-arranged a Formation for the Immortal Realm. The strength of this Formation was such that no one on the entire Immortal Astral Continent could break it, unless the Immortal Ancestor or Ancient Ancestor were to undergo Rebirth.

Not even Ancient Dao could.

As he left, Wang Lin left behind a portion of his Dao and Divine Abilities in the Immortal Realm. He also condensed the power of heaven and earth into mountain-like Medicinal Pills. He left behind powerful seeds for the Immortal Realm's future; perhaps after the passage of time, there would come a day when experts in the Immortal Realm would be as numerous as clouds, and even those who inherited Wang Lin's Dao would appear.

The perfect defensive Formation, a large amount of Medicinal Pills and Divine Ability Dao, and even Wang Lin's insights into the Void Origin—these were enough to make the Immortal Realm rapidly grow strong, preventing incidents like Chi Hunzi's from happening again.

Before leaving, Wang Lin had a long talk with Lan Meng. Besides the two of them, no third person knew what they discussed. After Lan Meng watched Wang Lin depart, she chose to enter secluded cultivation.

Wang Lin left, traversing the vast Star Sea, returning to Vermilion Bird Star. On Vermilion Bird Star, he sat cross-legged before his own statue for several days, then left Vermilion Bird Star alone. He first went to Tian Yun Star, which had become ruins during the great war of yesteryear.

There, Wang Lin spread his Divine Sense and found the entrance to the Demon Spirit Land. He entered the Demon Spirit Land, and in that familiar place, in Immortal Emperor Qing Lin's Immortal Cave, he restored it and found the Scroll he had sealed in the abyss, unsealing the woman within and letting her sink into Reincarnation.

The woman, once so mysterious, no longer held importance in Wang Lin's eyes.

Wang Lin left the Demon Spirit Land. Within the four Star Domains of the Inner Realm, he visited many places, resolving past unresolved matters, not actively seeking answers, but settling them one by one.

Finally, he exited the Inner Realm and arrived at the Outer Realm.

In the Outer Realm, the first place Wang Lin went was the Land of Falling. There, he saw the Old Vermilion Bird, who had shown him kindness.

He saw many old friends.

Several days later, Wang Lin unsealed the Land of Falling, allowing the Old Vermilion Bird and others to no longer be trapped there forever and to freely leave. Wang Lin then took away the most important item from the Land of Falling: a pointer from a compass.

His footsteps in the Outer Realm covered many places. Wang Lin saw Venerable San Ling, seeing this friend who had once moved him.

Similarly, Wang Lin also saw a baby on a Cultivation Planet in the Outer Realm.

The baby's body was immersed in the core of this planet, seemingly in slumber. His appearance was very similar to Tosen. Although Wang Lin didn't know what had happened, he could tell that Tosen, perhaps Tu Si, seemed to be Cultivating a certain Divine Ability.

This Divine Ability required his body to revert to an infant and grow again.

On that planet, Wang Lin watched the infant for several days before choosing to leave. Before departing, he left a Divine Thought for Tosen; when the infant grew up and awakened, he would sense this Divine Thought.

For Wang Lin, the Immortal Cave Realm held no secrets. If there were any, it would be the mysterious Heavenly Fate Child and the mysterious Seven-Colored, but traces of these two had already vanished from the Immortal Cave Realm.

Wang Lin visited many places. A year later, he returned to Vermilion Bird Star, to his homeland.

Here, there was one last secret awaiting Wang Lin's revelation. He lacked the strength to search for it back then, and before leaving the Immortal Cave Realm, he was in a state of confusion and uncertainty about the future, with no time to attend to it.

But now, as he stood on Vermilion Bird Star, Wang Lin came to the Cultivation Devil Sea of yesteryear, to the entrance of the Ancient God Land.

Although the Ancient God Land had collapsed due to Tosen's departure, there was still a long-existing space within it. Wang Lin stepped into it, and in this former Ancient God Land, he found the Jiqiong Beast.

This beast had once swallowed Wang Lin's Divine Sense and grown a head identical to Wang Lin's.

However, when Wang Lin found it, the beast had been dead for unknown years, leaving only a skeleton. Wang Lin stood beside the skeleton, silent for a long time, his gaze fixed on one of the many heads on the skeleton.

It was a human skull, but not of normal size; it was like a fist. Looking at this skull, Wang Lin's expression showed confusion. In his Storage Pouch, there was an identical skull.

He took out that skull, and when the two skulls were placed together, one of them transformed into a faint green light spot and vanished.

Wang Lin recognized that the one that vanished was the one he had obtained from Dao Yi.

Vaguely, a hint of realization seemed to flicker in Wang Lin's mind, but it was just a fleeting thought, impossible to grasp clearly.

"If there truly is Reincarnation, then when the past and present meet, the past will dissipate, ceasing to exist… what remains is only the present…" Wang Lin murmured, stroking the skull.

Putting away the skull, Wang Lin also breathed a sigh of relief. When he vaguely seemed to have a guess about himself, his heart felt a kind of fear, originating from his mind, towards this object resembling an infant's skull.

He feared not the object itself, but its Origin. He had once hesitated, wondering if, should Reincarnation truly exist, this object belonged to… Wang Ping.

Now, he had the answer.

Putting away this skull, Wang Lin turned and walked out of the space where the Ancient God Land was located.

"The dao ancient Imperial Advisor, similar to Heavenly Fate Child, once said that I had already found the skull and white hair… Now that the skull has changed, does it mean that one day, that wisp of white hair will also be like the skull…?" Wang Lin left here in silence.

Time flowed, and ten years passed in a blink of an eye.

Xu Ligou's Seal had long been broken. After regaining his freedom, he couldn't resist the pride of returning home in glory and left with Liu Jinbiao ten years ago, their whereabouts unknown.

The Sea Dragon accompanied the two of them, ensuring that these two fellows would not suffer any harm in the Immortal Cave Realm; only they would bully others, and no one would bully them.

Before leaving, Liu Jinbiao had earnestly told Xu Ligou that he was going to pursue the ultimate Dao of Deception, but he felt that his collaboration with Xu Ligou was still lacking and needed one more person to join for it to be more perfect.

Xu Ligou deeply agreed with this. After discussing, the two couldn't help but set their sights on Zhong Dahong from back then, looking rather nostalgic.

So they decided their first stop would be to find Zhong Dahong.

Shi San, as always, did not leave Vermilion Bird Star but chose to enter long-term secluded cultivation here, awaiting his Master's awakening and acting as his Master's Protector.

His cultivation had advanced in these ten years. Most importantly, he inherited Wang Lin's complete Dao and almost all of Wang Lin's Divine Abilities.

Aside from his consistently limited gains in understanding the Void Origin, Shi San had already condensed the Five Elements Origin.

Especially the Eight Extremes Dao technique, Shi San seemed to have an astonishing talent for it, comprehending it deeply.

Not only Shi San himself acted as Wang Lin's Protector, but also the Mosquito Beast King. This beast's cultivation was extremely high, almost like a hegemon on Vermilion Bird Star, and every time it ventured out, it would cause a commotion among the Cultivators of this star.

There were also Cultivators who wanted to capture it, but after experiencing hardships and realizing the gap between themselves and the beast, they gradually mostly avoided it, not daring to provoke it.

The Mosquito Beast would not harm people, and it would occasionally leave Vermilion Bird Star to play in the starry sky. Slowly, as time passed, the Cultivators on Vermilion Bird Star grew accustomed to its presence.

As for Wang Lin and Mu Bingmei, ten years ago, they walked together into an Immortal Cave in a mountain peak. Inside, Wang Lin performed the Dream Dao technique, guiding Mu Bingmei to resolve Liu Mei's knot and estrangement.

Perhaps, after resolving Liu Mei's inner knot, things between Wang Lin and Mu Bingmei would be different.

Time flowed, and another ten years passed in a blink of an eye.

The Cultivators of Vermilion Bird Star did not know that the rumored Wang Lin had long returned to his homeland. They only knew that twenty years ago, a mountain was occupied by a cold Cultivator and turned into a Forbidden Land.

No one was allowed to step half a foot there. The first time might be a warning, but the second time meant slaughter!