Chapter 765: Time-Space Shop

After condensing his Past Self, Lin Yuan had slightly attempted to explore the past time-space.

But it was merely a tentative dabble without going deep; with only his present self as an anchor, it was very easy to fall into confusion.

Many Time Lords disappeared without a sound, basically all becoming lost in the past time-space.

Otherwise, for the other two transcendence paths, even if the 'Infinite Tribulation' failed its Undergoing Tribulation, before the consciousness of the supreme rule great dao descended to obliterate them, they still had the surplus energy to arrange some posthumous matters.

As for the Perfect Time Life? The commotion of stepping into the Fourteenth Order was immense, and that anomaly of a Time Lifeform transforming toward a Perfect Time Life, even if the final result failed, would leave a profound impact or even ruins.

Only Infinite Origin seemed much safer than the other two transcendence paths, but its true perils were not much lower.

But now? His Future Self was already formed, and the past, future, and present were as if integrated into one.

Even if Lin Yuan was not a Time Lord, it was easier for him to resist the calamity of being lost than ordinary Time Lords.

Moreover, the calamity of being lost could only possibly be encountered when reaching extremely ancient past timeline nodes.

Lin Yuan was only exploring slightly, so no problems would arise.

As the timeline continuously flowed upstream, Lin Yuan became even more cautious.

"Other than me, all things are illusory?"

Lin Yuan looked around; at this moment, he was in a past time period two Great Annihilation Cycles away from the present.

"I must absolutely not leave any traces."

Lin Yuan thought to himself. Leaving traces or impacts in the past time-space could be big or small.

If small, it wouldn't cause changes to the future, hence nothing would happen.

But if it were big, such as affecting the occurrence of a major event, the backlash force originating from the timeline would give even Time Lords a headache.

"Qingya Mountain."

Very soon, Lin Yuan arrived at the past time-space twelve Great Annihilation Cycles away from the present time period, looking toward a cyan Mountain Peak that was out of tune with the illusory all things around it.

In the eyes of lifeforms not of this time-space, this cyan Mountain Peak was very obvious, and basically every Time Lord who explored this time period could discover it.

Reaching the Third Realm Time Lord level, using means to affect the past and establishing a 'communication' location in the past time-space that only Time Lords could discover and enter was not a difficult task.

"Enter."

Lin Yuan's thoughts stirred slightly.

He stepped directly into it in one stride.

Establishing the 'communication' location in the past time-space, besides being sufficiently secretive, was even more because of safety.

After all, into such 'communication' locations came Time Lords from non-this time periods, who simply did not dare to easily strike.

Unless two Time Lord-level existences were insane, they would absolutely not dare to fight in the past time-space, given the aftershocks generated by such combat, the subsequent impacts, and the monstrous backlash that would ultimately converge.

Inside Qingya Mountain, there was a vast universe and earth, where strands of terrifying aura gathered in twos and threes—they were all Time Lords.

Basically, every Time Lord would leave a mental Incarnation inside Qingya Mountain so as to communicate with other Time Lords at any time.

After Lin Yuan came in, he did not attract the attention of the various Time Lords.

In the outside world, Time Lords were incomparably rare, and it was difficult for even one to appear across vast dimensional gap regions.

But here, those able to enter this place were all Time Lords; Time Lifeforms below the Time Lord level couldn't discover them at all.

Of course, Lin Yuan was a special case; although he wasn't a Time Lord, there was no difference between him and a Time Lord.

"Time-Space Shop?"

Lin Yuan came before a building, upon which the four characters 'Time-Space Shop' were inscribed.

Since Qingya Mountain was a place for Time Lords to 'communicate', naturally there were also places for transactions.

Lin Yuan walked inside, and very quickly, a Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast enthusiastically came forward to greet him.

"I wonder what Your Excellency desires?"

The Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast said gently.

"Such a strong sense of oppression?" Lin Yuan was startled. This Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast was merely a mental Incarnation, yet it gave Lin Yuan a certain oppression—an oppression even stronger than Three Lifetimes Immortal Emperor.

"I want some Third Realm Materials." Lin Yuan did not forget his purpose.

To transform the Origin Bell into a Time Lord-grade weapon, a massive amount of Third Realm Materials would have to be consumed.

"Please take a look."

The Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast didn't say much more, flipping its hand to condense layers of light screens.

Recorded upon them were various Time Lord-grade Materials.

The prices ranged from low to high: the lowest was one hundred thousand time sand, while high ones reached billions of time sand, and some couldn't even be exchanged with time sand, requiring bartering.

"Too expensive." Lin Yuan suddenly discovered that he was very poor.

Although he possessed Time Lord-grade combat power, his accumulation time was too short after all; his entire net worth couldn't even compare to a normal Second Stage Time Lifeform.

Normal Time Lords had all experienced long years of Cultivation, accumulating bit by bit until finally becoming Time Lords, so basically none of them were as poor as Lin Yuan.

"I'll consider it further."

Lin Yuan said.

"No problem."

The Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast didn't have any objections.

Time Lord-grade Materials were all extremely valuable, so naturally one had to shop around.

"I see Your Excellency should be coming to Qingya Mountain for the first time, presumably having just stepped into the Third Realm?"

The Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast looked at Lin Yuan and asked with a smile.

"Mm."

Lin Yuan nodded.

Basically, those senior Time Lords all left a mental Incarnation inside Qingya Mountain for the long term.

Lin Yuan had never appeared before, which clearly meant it was his first time coming, and such a thing generally happened to newly advanced Time Lords.

"We Time Lifeforms, after experiencing myriad tribulations and finally Cultivating to the Third Realm with great difficulty, only to discover that the path of transcendence is so arduous." The Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

In the eyes of First Realm and Second Stage Time Lifeforms, Time Lords were high above, roaming the past time-space with methods that were unimaginably bizarre to the extreme.

But in reality, the paths faced by Time Lords were far more desperate than those of First Realm and Second Stage Time Lifeforms.

The three paths of transcendence—with the slightest carelessness, one would completely perish and be obliterated.

"Indeed."

Lin Yuan nodded.

Actually, as long as a Time Lord chose to 'lie flat', they could still live very comfortably.

But the three transcendence paths were right there; aside from the Perfect Time Life path, which Time Lord could resist not trying the other two?

Yet once they tried, problems easily arose.

For instance, with Infinite Origin, exploring to some ancient time period where perhaps taking another step forward would mean transcendence, who could resist not continuing to explore?

And continuing to explore meant there was a possibility of falling into the calamity of being lost.

Then there was Infinite Tribulation; perhaps you felt the next tribulation wouldn't be a big problem, but what if the difficulty skyrocketed and Undergoing Tribulation failed? The end result would be obliteration by the consciousness of the supreme rule great dao.

Moreover, Time Lords who Cultivated to the Third Realm possessed an extreme craving for transcendence. The higher their Realm, the higher their vision, and the more they wanted to break their own grand destiny; ultimately, they would continuously try the transcendence paths and end up dying on the path of transcendence.

From a certain perspective, as long as they didn't transcend, the ending of a Time Lord was extinction—it was merely a matter of sooner or later.

Lifeforms below the Thirteenth Order could live on in a daze, but Time Lords could not; they had already seen through a portion of the essence of the myriads of dimensional dimensions.

"Having just stepped into the Third Realm, presumably Your Excellency doesn't have much time sand. Is Your Excellency interested in earning some time sand?" After sighing with emotion, the Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast changed its tone and suddenly said.

"Earn some time sand?"

Lin Yuan became interested. "How to earn it?"

"Not long from now, Myriad Dimensions Time-Space is about to open, and many Time Lords are preparing to join forces to enter and explore. I happen to know a few Time Lords who want to find a Third Realm companion to go in and explore. Is Your Excellency interested?"

"Myriad Dimensions Time-Space?"

Lin Yuan's heart stirred.

"Myriad Dimensions Time-Space is a special time-space formed when the Myriad Dimensions Lord failed to charge toward Perfect Time Life and condensed everything of themselves before perishing."

The Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast paused for a moment and continued explaining: "It is said that the Myriad Dimensions Lord had already walked to the third level on the transcendence path of 'Infinite Tribulation', and had survived the two-hundred-millionth tribulation of the third level. It's just unknown what influence they suffered in the end, causing them to abandon the transcendence path of 'Infinite Tribulation' and instead choose to charge toward Perfect Time Life."

The expression of the Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast was quite complicated.

The transcendence path of Infinite Tribulation was divided into three levels in total.

The third level was the final stage, with a total of three hundred and thirty million tribulations. The Myriad Dimensions Lord had survived the preceding two hundred million tribulations, which could be considered reaching the Late Stage of finishing walking this transcendence path.

Yet in the end, they didn't choose to continue walking this transcendence path to the end, instead choosing the fate-dependent Perfect Time Life?

In fact, if there was no certainty, no Time Lord was willing to charge toward Perfect Time Life; this transcendence path didn't rely on effort, which left many Time Lords feeling insecure.

"The Myriad Dimensions Lord."

Lin Yuan was secretly startled.

Every time a tribulation of Infinite Tribulation was survived, one's strength increased by a fraction. Having survived the tribulations of the third level, and having survived two hundred million tribulations within this level…

Just how strong was the strength of this Myriad Dimensions Lord?

Due to the special nature of the transcendence path of Infinite Tribulation, the division of strength among Time Lords was basically based on this transcendence path.

The more tribulations of Infinite Tribulation one survived, naturally the stronger one's strength would be.

Time Lords who normally passed the first stage of Infinite Tribulation were already considered senior Time Lords.

Time Lords who reached the final eight thousand tribulations of the Second Stage were already considered extremely terrifying existences. Not to mention the Time Lord's own strength, just the increase in strength brought by surviving the previous billions of tribulations was enough to pull away a gap from other Time Lords.

As for Time Lords who entered the third level of Infinite Tribulation? They were already considered legends. Time Lords at this level basically had already seen the hope of transcendence, and their strength also underwent a qualitative change compared to Time Lords of the first two levels.

"Before perishing, the Myriad Dimensions Lord condensed the Myriad Dimensions Time-Space with everything of themselves, which contains many secrets of the Myriad Dimensions Lord, including the reason why they ultimately chose to charge toward Perfect Time Life."

The Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast said: "Secondly, within Myriad Dimensions Time-Space, there are also all the treasures of the Myriad Dimensions Lord. The Myriad Dimensions Lord is too ancient, and any random few pieces of the treasures collected by Him would be enough to drive ordinary Time Lords crazy."

"Therefore, every time Myriad Dimensions Time-Space opens, it attracts many Time Lords to enter and explore."

The Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast looked at Lin Yuan.

"I see."

Lin Yuan nodded.

"I wonder what requirements there are?"

Lin Yuan asked.

"Wait a moment, I will have Them come and speak with you."

The Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast immediately made contact.

Before long.

A figure composed entirely of white mist walked in.

"night mist, I have found a Time Lord for you." The Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast greeted him.

"Mm."

The white mist figure looked at Lin Yuan and said: "You can address me as 'night mist'. Regarding the matter of exploring Myriad Dimensions Time-Space, the shopkeeper must have already told you."

"He did mention some."

Lin Yuan nodded.

"If you join us, you don't need to do too much; you only need to make a move at critical moments. If the main combat Physical Body perishes as a result, we will provide additional compensation." Lord Night Mist said.

It was equivalent to finding a 'hired thug'. Lin Yuan immediately understood his position.

"During this period, you must obey our commands in acting. If any losses occur, they can all be compensated by us." Lord Night Mist emphatically stressed it once.

"Mm."

Lin Yuan nodded.

It sounded like the requirements weren't high.

"Once the matter is accomplished, I will give you ten thousand catties of time sand as remuneration." Lord Night Mist said.

"Ten thousand catties of time sand?" Lin Yuan was quite satisfied in his heart.

His current entire net worth was only two to three thousand catties of time sand. Ten thousand catties of time sand was the amount accumulated by many Second Stage existences over infinite years.

And this was just the remuneration for a Time Lord making a move once.

"How long does exploring Myriad Dimensions Time-Space roughly take?" Lin Yuan pondered for a moment and asked.

"From one million to ten million years, I suppose." Lord Night Mist said.

"From one million to ten million years?" Lin Yuan frowned slightly: "I must listen to your commands throughout this entire period?"

"Correct."

Lord Night Mist nodded.

"The time is too long."

Lin Yuan said directly.

According to his current Cultivation speed, at most one hundred thousand years would suffice for him to become a Time Lord.

And with Lin Yuan's accumulation, once he became a Time Lord, he would inevitably be at an extremely strong tier among Time Lords.

Expending ten thousand catties of time sand to hire a newly advanced Time Lord for one million to ten million years wasn't a problem.

But to hire an extremely strong-tier Time Lord for one million to ten million years? That would far exceed this price.

"Then how long do you want?" Lord Night Mist said.

"No more than fifty thousand years." Lin Yuan said: "If it exceeds fifty thousand years, you'll have to add time sand."

"Then forget it."

Lord Night Mist immediately shook his head.

To a Time Lord, one million to ten million years was as fleeting as a snap of the fingers.

"Shopkeeper, I'll take my leave first."

Lord Night Mist turned around and left the Time-Space Shop.

Since both parties could not accept the demands proposed by the other, naturally there was no need to chat further.

Outside the Time-Space Shop.

In front of Lord Night Mist, a Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast condensed out.

It was precisely the shopkeeper of the Time-Space Shop.

"night mist, you should have added a bit more." The Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast looked at Lord Night Mist, "The demands you made could only deceive these newly advanced Time Lords. You compensate for losses within the exploration of Myriad Dimensions Time-Space? If they truly encounter irrecoverable losses, what will you use to compensate?"

"Myriad Dimensions Time-Space opening will attract some terrifying Time Lords to go in, and you want a Time Lord to completely obey your commands in acting, yet you only give ten thousand catties of time sand?"

The Twelve-Eyed Exotic Beast shook its head.

"Wanting to earn ten thousand catties of time sand in one to ten million years, how could one take no risks at all?" Lord Night Mist said indifferently, "If I were to add more time sand, why wouldn't I just look for a senior Time Lord?"

"Shopkeeper, you are too merciful. Because he said to add a bit, you wanted me to add a bit?" Lord Night Mist smiled, "In my view, that newly advanced Time Lord is only worth this price."