Chapter 726: There Will Naturally Be Successors

According to Lin Yuan's current understanding of Thirteen Step Time Life, this tier is divided into the First Realm, Second Stage, and Third Realm.

Among them, the Third Realm is the Peak Perfection of the Thirteenth Order, also known as the Time Lord.

Lin Yuan's current strength should be considered a relatively strong Time Lifeform within the First Realm of the Thirteenth Order.

Of course, the 'relatively strong' here solely refers to combat power and offense.

In fact, the strongest method of a Time Lifeform is still observing future timelines.

The more powerful a Time Lifeform is, the greater the number of timelines it can observe, grasping more future possibilities.

At the same time, the future timelines it can view are also further away, allowing it to layout plans in advance.

In terms of observing future timelines, Lin Yuan should currently only be considered an ordinary Time Lifeform.

After all, his life essence has not reached the level of Thirteen Step Time Life; being able to observe future timelines still relies on the Legacy left behind by the Lord of Heavenly Light.

as well as the blessing of the Lords Authority.

Especially the latter.

Once Lin Yuan fully steps into the Thirteenth Order and becomes a Time Lifeform,

the true role of the Lords Authority will be revealed.

Lords Authority does not directly enhance strength.

It mainly blesses the mastery over timelines.

With the blessing of the Third Realm Lords Authority, as long as Lin Yuan becomes a Time Lifeform,

in terms of observing and prying into future timelines, not to mention directly stepping into the Lord level, he will at least reach the height of the Second Stage.

As for the Thirteenth Order Second Stage, it is particularly difficult for Time Lifeforms to improve their strength and Realm. From the birth to the great destruction of a dimensional space, the strongest Time Lifeforms basically stop at the First Realm.

Time Lords of the Second Stage or even the Third Realm have basically entered the dimensional gaps for long, long years, and their hometown dimensions have long survived countless great destructions.

As a Time Lord, the Lord of Heavenly Light was not born from the great destruction of this Origin World, but belonged to an outsider who wanted to utilize the unique aura of Perfection of the Origin World to break through to the Fourteenth Order.

"A relatively strong Time Lifeform in the Thirteenth Order First Realm?"

Lin Yuan felt quite satisfied in his heart. Other Time Lifeforms often needed an entire great destruction cycle to even hope of reaching this level.

But how long had Lin Yuan been cultivating?

And most crucially,

Lin Yuan has not yet stepped into the Thirteenth Order,

and is not yet a Time Lifeform.

"In the Chaos Void, the Time Lifeforms that can compare with me are probably only Mo Xu Lord and three or four others. The First Source World only has Great Fush Ancestor and Daling Ancestor, and as for this Origin World? It won't exceed six."

Lin Yuan had a precise positioning of his own strength.

If he smoothly steps into the Thirteenth Order, his strength will still soar by a large margin.

"With my current strength, I am fully capable of ending the Demon Disaster in advance."

Lin Yuan looked at the boundless Devilish Qi pervading the surrounding world and shook his head slightly. "But there is no need for that."

Even with Lin Yuan's current strength, wanting to clear out the Demon Disaster would still consume a massive amount of time. Ten million years? A hundred million years would be far from enough.

In fact, ten million or a hundred million years is not considered long for a Time Lifeform, but in Lin Yuan's heart, it was incomparably long.

Rather than doing that, it would be better to wait until he steps into the Thirteenth Order, becomes a Time Lifeform, and his strength undergoes another massive qualitative improvement before going to end it.

At that time, with Lin Yuan's strength, the time to clear out the Demon Disaster would be even shorter; perhaps a few decades would be enough.

Although the Demon God was the true physical body of a Third Realm Lord, the true Lord had fallen after all. Relying merely on the instincts of the true body, it could only trouble some First Realm Time Lifeforms.

Outside the Origin World,

thirteen Eternal Lords watched with complex expressions at the scenes flashing across the screen.

As powerful as the Demon God was, facing 'Galaxy', who was not yet a Time Lifeform, it actually took the initiative to disperse its demonic body, merging into the heaven and earth Devilish Qi to evade.

As the Black Demon Body of the Lord of Heavenly Light, the Demon God lacked mental will and could not urge truly powerful secret techniques, and most of the Devilish Qi was scattered across the four directions of heaven and earth.

Even so, it was comparable to a normal First Realm Time Lifeform, yet in front of Lin Yuan, it was suppressed and beaten.

"Galaxy."

The Limitless Lord wore a trance-like expression; vaguely, it felt as if it had returned to the long, long years ago, when the Demon Disaster had not yet appeared and the Lord of Heavenly Light, which it revered the most, was still around.

On that day, the Lord of Heavenly Light actively summoned its thirteen Eternal Lords.

Under the shroud of infinite light, the thirteen Eternal Lords felt as if they were soaking in a hot spring, incomparably comfortable. Looking at the towering figure before them, their expressions showed doubt.

Why had the Lord of Heavenly Light actively called them over?

Eternal Lords could observe future timelines, but when it involved Third Realm Lords, the information that could be observed was very limited.

"Today, I plan to strike at Perfection."

The gaze of the Lord of Heavenly Light was gentle as it smiled and said to the thirteen Eternal Lords,

"Strike at Perfection?"

The Limitless Lord was startled inwardly; it knew what striking at Perfect Time Life meant.

A Third Realm Lord could choose to strike at Perfection after completely binding its past, present, and future timelines.

Perfection had different names in the understanding of different Time Lifeforms; for example, the Lord of Heavenly Light liked to use 'Omnipotent' to replace Perfection.

The ultimate pursuit of the Lord of Heavenly Light was Omnipotence—realizing 'Omnipotence' through runes and stepping into Perfection through runes.

Only that,

when a Time Lord strikes at Perfection, there are only two possibilities.

First is success, becoming an omnipotent Perfect Time Life.

Second is failure, completely perishing, regardless of how many life-saving trump cards this Time Lord possessed.

Once the attempt to become a Perfect Time Life failed, death was certain, and no one could save it.

And most crucially, whether one could become a Perfect Time Life was actually determined as early as when one embarked on the path of cultivation.

Able was able, unable was unable.

It could not be changed through Acquired effort.

According to this premise, the Lord of Heavenly Light had a high probability of not being able to become a Perfect Time Life.

Unable to become a Perfect Time Life, yet striking at Perfection—that meant death.

As long as a Time Lord did not want to die, it could not die.

Unless it tried to strike at the Fourteenth Order Perfect Time Life.

Clusters of light illuminated all directions.

Including the Limitless Lord, all the Eternal Lords were stunned. Looking at the Lord of Heavenly Light before them, which radiated infinite light and brought hope to this Origin World, they didn't know how to speak for a moment.

Persuade the Lord of Heavenly Light not to strike at Perfection?

How resolute was the will of a Time Lord? Since the Lord of Heavenly Light was saying these things to them at this moment, it meant that its mind had long been made up.

The Lord of Heavenly Light calling over the thirteen Eternal Lords was a notification, not asking for the opinions of the thirteen Eternal Lords.

But what if they didn't persuade it?

The thirteen Eternal Lords had received great grace from the Lord of Heavenly Light and truly were unwilling to watch the other party actively walk onto a path of certain death.

"Teacher."

Finally, the Limitless Lord spoke cautiously.

The address of the thirteen Eternal Lords toward the Lord of Heavenly Light was Teacher.

Of course, the Lord of Heavenly Light had not accepted them as Disciples; the so-called 'Teacher' was merely an address.

"Limitless, say whatever you want to say."

The Lord of Heavenly Light looked gently at the Limitless Lord. Even though it had long known what the Limitless Lord was going to say, it quietly listened until the Limitless Lord finished.

"What should we do if the strike at Perfection fails?"

Hesitating repeatedly, the Limitless Lord still probed and asked.

"Failing the strike at Perfection?"

The Lord of Heavenly Light glanced at the other twelve Eternal Lords, its gaze profound.

It gave a reply that the Limitless Lord did not understand at the time and was completely unrelated to the question—

"There will naturally be successors."

The Limitless Lord's gaze drifted as it looked toward Lin Yuan in the screen, who was sitting cross-legged once more. The Devilish Qi in all directions of heaven and earth retreated by an infinite distance once again. With Lin Yuan as the center, nearly one-fifth of the Origin World's region no longer had Devilish Qi pervading it.

Every Time Lord striking at Fourteenth Order Perfection was prepared to fail and perish. The Lord of Heavenly Light was neither the first Time Lord to strike at Perfection nor the last Time Lord to strike at Perfection.

Even if Time Lords still failed and perished when striking at the Fourteenth Order, after endless years, there would ultimately be a life form that truly transformed toward Perfect Time Life.

The Limitless Lord's robes fluttered as it gazed remotely at Lin Yuan.

Chaos Void.

Lin Yuan continued to drift along with the Chaos Qi through one Barren Void after another.

"The third level of the Chaotic Taiji Path indeed increases my strength greatly."

Through sparring with the 'Demon God', Lin Yuan confirmed the potential of the path he was walking.

In the Second Source World, elevating one's own Chaos evolution path to the third level was the Realm of Heavenly Sovereign.

As for Heavenly Sovereigns, when adding the Heavenly Sovereigns of the Six Ancient Kingdoms together, there were still many. Yet whose Chaos power path could compare to a Thirteen Step Time Life at the third level?

Admittedly, Lin Yuan's current combat power and strength were not solely due to the third level of the Chaotic Taiji Path; there were blessings from many other aspects. However, reaching the third level in the Chaotic Taiji Path increased Lin Yuan's strength significantly.

It far exceeded the amplification from the second level to the third level of normal Chaos power paths.

"Hmm?"

As Lin Yuan drifted along the Chaos Qi, he suddenly discovered that a new Secret Realm was being gestated, nearing its end.

In the Chaos Void, Secret Realms collapsed and new Secret Realms were born every moment. However, newly born Secret Realms tended to be very secretive. Aside from the Secret Realm itself being gestated, a batch of spectacle lifeforms would also be nurtured.

"Among the spectacle lifeforms gestated together with this Secret Realm, an Invincible Great Saint who would sweep across the Chaos Void will be born in the future?"

Wherever Lin Yuan's gaze reached, timelines unfolded. As time passed, this Secret Realm was successfully gestated, and the spectacle lifeforms inside walked out of the Secret Realm to contact cultivators from the outside world.

One of the spectacle lifeforms, due to the energy it absorbed during the gestation process being snatched away by other spectacle lifeforms, was Innate-deficient. Yet in the end, it broke through Realms all the way, ultimately sweeping across the Chaos Void and proving the name of 'Invincible'.

Of course, this was only a timeline with a high probability. There were also many timelines where this spectacle lifeform did not become an Invincible Great Saint, and even perished before completely growing up.

But with Lin Yuan's current grasp and control over future timelines, as long as no major variables or accidents occurred, such as other Time Lifeforms intervening and interfering, it was basically a settled conclusion.

The future seen by Time Lifeforms was full of uncertainties because it involved other Time Lifeforms. Once a Time Lifeform made a move, it became a variable.

But merely prying into the future timelines of lifeforms below the Thirteenth Order did not have so many accidents; almost whatever future was seen would happen.

"Is this the Invincible Great Saint in the eyes of a Time Lifeform?"

Lin Yuan's thoughts turned. Previously, he had thought that an Invincible Great Saint sweeping across the Chaos Void would have a certain status even in the eyes of Time Lifeforms.

Only that, as strong as Your Majesty Xuan Huang and the Moyu Tower Master were, throughout their lives they had been searching for the footprints of Time Lifeforms. Those two Invincible Great Saints had indeed seen the imprint left by a certain Time Lifeform in the Chaos Void.

They had obtained some guidance.

But it was only guidance, and even that was the result of having good enough luck.

Many Invincible Great Saints who overlooked an era didn't even have the opportunity to see a Time Lifeform at all.

Now it seemed that in the eyes of Time Lifeforms, the so-called Invincible Great Saint had no great difference from other Chaos Realm Perfections or even those Chaos Venerables.

The future timelines were too thin and could be seen through at a single glance.

"The future Human Civilization clan?"

Lin Yuan was similarly observing the future Human Civilization clan.

In numerous future timelines, Human Civilization was incomparably prosperous. However, after incomparably long years, internal Chaos and division gradually occurred within Human Civilization, and numerous struggles were staged.

Lin Yuan watched with cold detachment, observing timeline after timeline.

He did not prevent this internal Chaos and division. After long years, what Lin Yuan cared about was only the entirety of Human Civilization; as for how many Evolvers would die or how heavy a blow Human Civilization would suffer, he didn't care too much, as long as the Human Civilization clan was not exterminated.

"This is the mentality of the Six Ancient Kingdoms ancestors."

Lin Yuan's expression was thoughtful.

The Six Ancestors of the First Source World actually did not care much about the rise and fall of the Ancient Kingdoms themselves.

Of course, with the Ancestors present, the Ancient Kingdoms wouldn't weaken to any great extent, but the Ancestors wouldn't intervene in wars between Ancient Kingdoms. The Ancestors likewise wouldn't care how many Experts of their own Ancient Kingdom died in wars.

As long as their own capital city wasn't breached and slaughtered through, that was fine.

The only thing the Six Ancestors valued was wanting to Cultivate a new Time Lifeform.

This was also the reason why the Ancestors left behind many Legacies in their respective Ancient Kingdoms; Great Fush Ancestor even personally descended every once in a while to guide the younger generations.

Lin Yuan only stayed at that gestating Secret Realm for a moment before continuing to drift along the Chaos Qi.

All things in the Chaos Void and the operation of numerous rule Daos were carefully observed by Lin Yuan.

Even the most basic Rule Dao of Gold and Rule Dao of Water,

when observed and comprehended by Lin Yuan once again, still gave him new gains and realizations.

"Hmm?"

Lin Yuan's thoughts suddenly stirred as he looked toward the deepest part of the Chaos Void.

There, patches of time loop regions were distributed, which were almost the ultimate destination of all Chaos Realm Perfection lifeforms.

Right at this moment,

a certain time loop region on the outer periphery suddenly underwent visible shaking. Threads of continuously looping time power began to stagnate, and the originally incomparably perfect grand time loop now unexpectedly showed a trend of being broken open.

Swish swish.

Wisps of time power abruptly began to flow backwards, ceasing to loop, and this time loop region gradually began to collapse.

"The Chaos Void has given birth to the eighth Time Lifeform." Lin Yuan looked at the scene in the deepest part of the Chaos Void and muttered softly to himself.