Chapter 728: Sleep Well

Luohou looked at Lin Yuan, his expression actually somewhat dazed.

Before becoming a Time Lifeform, when he saw the scene of Lin Yuan making a move, an irresistible urge arose in his heart.

Now that he had become a Time Lifeform, facing the Galactic Great Saint, he still had a sense of being unmatched.

"Please sit."

With a wave of Lin Yuan's hand, the surrounding scenery shifted.

Bringing Luohou to a scenic manor.

"Good."

Luohou's expression was inevitably nervous.

At this moment, he didn't even know whether it was himself or the Galactic Great Saint before him who had stepped into the Thirteenth Order.

"How does it feel to be a Time Lifeform?"

Lin Yuan smiled as he looked at Luohou.

Toward this newly advanced Thirteenth Order, Lin Yuan was quite friendly.

Mainly because through observing the future timeline, Lin Yuan saw that the other party harbored no hostility toward him.

This time Luohou came over, not wanting to take revenge or anything.

But simply wanted to see him.

If Lin Yuan chose to conceal his own strength and disguise himself as a normal Invincible Great Saint.

Luohou might even bestow some opportunities to thank him.

This was also the conclusion obtained from the many timelines observed by Lin Yuan.

However, given the height Lin Yuan was currently at, the bestowals of a newly advanced Time Lifeform simply couldn't catch his eye.

Luohou had just entered the Thirteenth Order, being penniless, and his net worth was far inferior to even Lin Yuan's.

Hearing Lin Yuan's inquiry, Luohou originally wanted to answer 'extremely good'.

It was indeed extremely good.

After stepping into the Thirteenth Order, Luohou felt everything had changed.

It was as if he had ascended from two dimensions to three dimensions; lifeforms of the Twelfth Order and below were as thin as paper before him.

But thinking of the unfathomable nature of the Galactic Great Saint before him, the 'extremely good' on the tip of his tongue turned into 'fairly decent'.

"The essence of life has just transformed to the Thirteenth Order level, requiring seclusion to adapt. It is best not to try observing future timelines with full effort." Lin Yuan looked at Luohou with a half-smile.

At this moment, Luohou was trying his best to observe Lin Yuan's future timeline.

This was also a case of a newborn calf not fearing tigers; a slightly more senior Time Lifeform would realize what it meant when a certain lifeform's timeline was blurry and unobservable.

How would they still dare to continue prying?

"Yes."

Luohou was startled in his heart, feeling that he had been slightly impulsive.

He quickly stopped observing Lin Yuan's timeline.

"What was the time loop you fell into?"

Lin Yuan looked at Luohou and asked casually.

The formation of the time loop originated from the supreme rules of the endless dimensions and Realms.

Being outside of timeline observation, Thirteenth Order Time Lifeforms and even Time Lords could not pry into it.

Aside from the experiencer, outsiders would not know.

In previous conversations with the seven Time Lifeforms of the Chaos Void, Lin Yuan learned the specific trials of the time loop the latter had experienced.

Now that Luohou had just broken through the time loop not long ago, Lin Yuan was also somewhat curious about what the other party had experienced within the time loop, and what the time loop's trial for Luohou was.

The time loop faced by each Twelfth Order Perfection was different, entirely targeting their respective weaknesses.

"The time loop I fell into."

Luohou's thoughts drifted, and he said with a slightly solemn tone: "In the time loop, I became a beggar. The era I was in was also troubled times, unable to mobilize any extraordinary power, and even the speed of my thought operation was restricted to a mortal level. Apart from having complete memories, there was no difference from a mortal."

A look of lingering fear appeared on Luohou's expression.

This was different from Reincarnation. After Reincarnation, although one would also lose all power, the mastered rules were still there. Even if one remained a mortal of Physical Body, they could still borrow the operation of rules to display unimaginable strength.

Falling into a time loop and being unable to use any extraordinary power meant being truly unable to use any extraordinary power in the real sense, unable to even feel any fluctuations of the rules and Dao.

In addition, there was a hidden prerequisite.

That was Lifespan.

Losing the blessing of extraordinary power, a mortal's Lifespan was only a few decades.

Being in troubled times, living past thirty could already be considered longevity.

"What was the trial?"

Lin Yuan asked.

"Make me end the troubled times and pioneer a unified Dynasty," Luohou said. "I was just a beggar with no backing, unable to use the slightest bit of strength, and was even about to starve to death at the time. Yet it wanted me to end the troubled times and pioneer a unified Dynasty?"

"It is indeed very difficult, and also very targeted."

Lin Yuan nodded.

He had seen Luohou's past timeline and knew that this newly advanced Time Lifeform had basically immersed himself in Cultivation for long years, having no interest in external objects. As for recruiting soldiers and buying horses? Rallying subordinates? These were things he had never done nor even thought about.

And under the premise that mortals only had a few decades of Lifespan, once Luohou failed to pass the trial before reaching the limit of his Lifespan, his memories of this loop would be erased, and he would start over.

Normally speaking, if the trial could not be passed in the first loop, no amount of subsequent loops could pass it either.

What Luohou was best at was Cultivation. In order to Cultivate that Thirteenth Order Legacy, he was willing to endure countless tortures.

But in the time loop, it didn't test your Cultivation at all; instead, it tested an aspect you had never touched before.

"How did you finally pass the trial?"

Lin Yuan continued to ask.

"I spent fifty years, going through all kinds of hardships, surviving life-and-death dangers time and time again, and finally unified half the country. I was going to have a decisive battle with a major enemy. As long as I won, I could pass the trial and establish a unified Dynasty."

Luohou said.

"Did you win?" Lin Yuan looked at Luohou.

"No, I didn't win," Luohou shook his head. "In that final decisive battle, I lost. I lost miserably; important subordinates all died, and even I was captured alive."

"I was already sixty years old at the time, and could live at most another twenty years. Having lost that decisive battle, even if I were allowed to start over from the beginning, it would be impossible to return to the Peak, let alone the fact that I had already been captured alive."

Luohou's tone carried a hint of wistfulness.

Lin Yuan listened quietly.

"It's just that my major enemy, perhaps not wanting me to die so comfortably, actually didn't kill me, but instead imprisoned me and tortured me day after day."

"Actually, this was no different from directly killing me. At that time, I was completely disheartened. I was just a mortal, a sixty-year-old old man whose essence, Qi, and spirit were declining, and I was imprisoned. To tell the truth, at that time I even intended to die once and for all, restarting a new loop so as not to suffer the final humiliation."

Luohou looked at Lin Yuan and said: "It was just that right before I took my own life, I suddenly thought: for beings like us, what does mere humiliation amount to? As long as we can live, as long as the trial has not ended, there is still hope."

"My major enemy would come to torture me every day, and I endured it. Ten years passed just like that. Given my physical state at the time, I could live at most five years."

"At this time, a turning point came."

"During that initial decisive battle, although the forces I established were all scattered, remnants still survived. These remaining subordinates spared no cost to sneak into the imperial palace and finally contacted me, wanting to rescue me out."

"Only, given my condition at that time, even if I were rescued, I wouldn't live long. On the contrary, in this imperial palace, there was still a last glimmer of hope."

"Thus, I plotted an assassination operation, and finally successfully killed that major enemy, opening up my own Dynasty anew on the corpse of the Dynasty established by my major enemy."

"This Dynasty was established in the last month of my Lifespan expiring, after which I successfully broke through the time loop."

Luohou said.

"It wasn't easy."

Lin Yuan nodded.

In fact, how could it be just not easy.

Ever since Luohou fell into the time loop, he had been experiencing life-and-death dangers every moment. In troubled times, for a beggar to survive was already a miracle, let alone pioneering a Dynasty?

Moreover, failing the final decisive battle was also a cruel blow. In the end, even if a turning point was seen, one might not necessarily be able to grasp it, and even if it was grasped, could it be guaranteed that Luohou's subordinates at the time had no disloyal thoughts?

"Failing the final decisive battle and being tortured by my major enemy for ten years, the reason I was able to endure it was also because I came to understand that so-called reputation and so-called honor and disgrace were all fleeting clouds and amounted to nothing."

Luohou looked at Lin Yuan with considerable gratitude.

His active abandonment of obsession and giving up certifying the name of Invincible Great Saint was also the key to persisting within the time loop.

"The time loop."

Lin Yuan once again felt the difficulty of the time loop.

No wonder that throughout the long years of the Chaos Void, only seven Time Lifeforms had ultimately been able to break through the time loop, while countless Chaos Realm Perfections were deeply trapped within and unable to break free.

"Galactic, you—"

Luohou looked at Lin Yuan, words failing him at the tip of his tongue.

"I am also preparing to assault the Thirteenth Order."

Lin Yuan shook his head gently: "It's just that I don't know what the time loop trapping me will be."

Indeed, Luohou obtained the answer he wanted in his heart. This unfathomable Galactic Great Saint was indeed still not at the Thirteenth Order.

"With Galactic, your foundation, the possibility of breaking through the time loop is definitely much greater than mine," Luohou immediately said.

For him, breaking through the time loop still held a slim hope, but someone like Lin Yuan, who wasn't even a Time Lifeform yet, brought such immense oppression to a Time Lifeform like him; Luohou didn't even dare to think about it.

Next.

Lin Yuan chatted casually with the newly advanced Time Lifeform Luohou for a few more sentences, and casually gave him a few pointers.

Although Luohou was already a Time Lifeform, he had only just stepped in. With Lin Yuan's Realm level, he was fully qualified to give pointers.

Half a day later.

Luohou left Lin Yuan's place somewhat absent-mindedly.

After he broke through the time loop and became a Time Lifeform, the first thing he did was to seek out Lin Yuan, originally intending to give some pointers to this Invincible Great Saint who had indirectly helped him.

As a result, he, a Time Lifeform, ended up being given pointers instead.

"Monster."

Luohou pondered in his heart over every bit that happened when facing Lin Yuan. That boundless, ultimate sense of oppression still made his mind tremble slightly even now.

"How on earth did a Twelfth Order Life become so strong?"

Luohou couldn't understand, and couldn't comprehend it.

He was too clear on the gap between his current strength and before his Breakthrough.

And this gap was achieved only because he stepped into the Thirteenth Order, his life essence underwent an unprecedented transformation and leap, and he endured the infusion of the Chaotic Void Origin.

How did Lin Yuan bridge it?

Moreover, Lin Yuan didn't just bridge it; he was even vaguely transcendent above him.

Just as Luohou was thinking rapidly.

Hum~ Seven towering figures descended, precisely the seven Time Lifeforms of the Chaos Void.

"Luohou, congratulations on stepping into the Thirteenth Order." The leading Mo Xu Lord looked at Luohou with a smile.

"Greetings, everyone." Seeing this, Luohou quickly returned the courtesy.

Although they were all Time Lifeforms, he was only newly advanced. Facing these seven veteran, senior Time Lifeforms, he naturally dared not put on airs.

"You just went to see Galactic?"

Mo Xu Lord glanced at the location Luohou came out from and asked.

"Yes."

Luohou's heart shook.

He suddenly realized that he could not understand Lin Yuan's strength, but the seven ancient Time Lifeforms certainly knew more than he did.

"The strength of the Galactic Great Saint—"

Luohou immediately asked the doubt in his heart.

Although Lin Yuan had told him from the very beginning that there was no need to compare.

Yet Luohou couldn't help but be curious.

"Galactic's strength?"

Mo Xu Lord fell into silence.

The six Time Lifeforms behind him were the same.

Actually, it wasn't silence, but not knowing how to explain it.

"Galactic cannot be judged by conventional theories. He is an existence bound to become a Time Lifeform, and even bound to become a Time Lord."

Mo Xu Lord said.

"Bound to become a Time Lifeform?"

"And bound to become a Time Lord?"

Luohou was shocked in his heart.

He knew what "bound to become a Time Lifeform" meant.

It meant he would definitely be able to break through the time loop.

Although this kind of thing was extremely unimaginable, just associating it with the oppression Lin Yuan caused him.

Luohou could barely accept it.

But bound to become a Time Lord?

A Time Lord was a Thirteenth Order Third Realm existence. Such a lifeform had already begun to draw in their own timeline; how could it be something guaranteed?

"You didn't offend Galactic just now, did you?"

Mo Xu Lord asked.

"No."

Luohou replied immediately.

He had no intention of doing so either.

Furthermore, after sensing the oppression Lin Yuan brought him, Luohou directly chose to bow his head; how would he still dare to offend him.

"That's good."

Mo Xu Lord nodded. "You will gradually understand Galactic's matters in the future."

"Now, stabilize your Realm and strength as soon as possible. That Heavenly River Dimension really needs you."

Mo Xu Lord said.

"Alright."

Luohou nodded in response.

After meeting with the newly advanced Time Lifeform Luohou.

Lin Yuan's figure disappeared, returning once again to the Milky Way Chaos Continent.

"Before assaulting the Thirteenth Order, sleep well."

Lin Yuan thought in his heart, as for how long to sleep?

Two thousand years.

Ever since embarking on the path of Cultivation and becoming an Evolver.

Lin Yuan had never properly rested.

Before stepping into the Twelfth Order, the Human Civilization ethnic group faced pressure from alien races and pressure from the Chaos Void.

Lin Yuan did not dare to stop his footsteps.

After stepping into the Twelfth Order, it was the same; Lin Yuan was either Cultivating or comprehending the Dao.

Although with Lin Yuan's strength, whether it was his Physical Body or his mental will and Soul, his state was excellent and tireless.

But before assaulting the Thirteenth Order, Lin Yuan simply wanted to sleep.

The preparations that could be made, and the accumulation of foundation that should be had, he had already done and possessed.

"Sleep, sleep."

Lin Yuan slowly closed his eyes, and his numerous Clones, along with his true body and primordial selves of the First Source World and Second Source World, all fell into deep sleep.

This kind of sleep was a deep sleep. Unless subjected to external threats, all mental will remained in an immersed and drifting state.

And Lin Yuan's sleep did not cause much impact on the Chaos Void. Even if he didn't sleep, he rarely intervened in the matters of the Chaos Void.

Amidst the slow passage of time, two thousand years finally arrived—the day Lin Yuan ended his sleep and prepared to assault the Thirteenth Order.