Age of Evolution#

Chapter 1402: Chapter 1404: 60,000 Years at the Bottom of the Lake – Part 1 Chapter 1402: Chapter 1404: 60,000 Years at the Bottom of the Lake – Part 1 According to the secret teachings passed on by the Falling Star Sovereign, Lin Zhen began to practice the Beast Commanding Decision.

But it didn’t take him long, just a mere half a year.

Six months was a significant amount of time for Lin Zhen, because a half year for him was equivalent to fifty thousand years for others!

Fifty thousand years to practice a single secret manual indicated its complexity.

But half a year later, Lin Zhen thoroughly understood the manual, demonstrating his mastery of it.

Now, the only thing that Lin Zhen lacked was practice.

In order to acquire the necessary experience, Lin Zhen had to personally go to Beast King Prison.

…

There, he could use the Nine Palaces Purple Gold Bell in conjunction with the Beast Commanding Decision to tame the fierce beasts.

But Lin Zhen didn’t have time to go to Beast King Prison.

His own cultivation was not yet complete.

Accepting the inheritance of the Falling Star Sovereign entailed shouldering a certain responsibility.

Avenging the Falling Star Sovereign was a task that Lin Zhen had to take upon himself.

Although Jin Nuo had gone to the Beast King Prison, even the Falling Star Sovereign had perished there, making revenge a difficult proposition with his abilities.

Before he realized it, Lin Zhen had become a significant force in the universe.

For a long stretch of time afterward, Lin Zhen spent countless hours counting stars.

To do so for the entire scope of the Original World’s space, including all of the Endless Star Sea, took Lin Zhen a full seven cosmic years!

One cosmic year equals three thousand six hundred Earth years, so seven cosmic years equates to twenty-five thousand two hundred years!

Given that one year for Lin Zhen equals ten for others, that’s a total of two billion, five hundred and twenty million years!

This span of time was almost as long as the history of a planet, starting from prehistoric times.

But the terrifying thing was, this wasn’t the end of it.

It was just the process of Lin Zhen counting stars.

Next, he had the even more difficult task of painstakingly counting the New World Star Space.

The New World was different from the Original World.

Although their size was about the same, the issue was that the New World constantly expanded, with new galaxies constantly emerging.

During that time, Lin Zhen thought of a solution.

He would set a boundary of the existing Star Space, count the stars within that boundary, and ignore anything beyond it for the time being.

This process took another seven cosmic years!

Within seven cosmic years, Lin Zhen counted all the stars within the boundary of the New World.

With the remaining Star Space, he set yet another boundary.

Yet another cosmic year passed.

Then he set another boundary.

Each time Lin Zhen drew a line, there were fewer stars left outside of it.

By the tenth time, Lin Zhen felt that he didn’t need to draw lines anymore.

As long as his divine sense swept over it, he could immediately take in every detail of the tiny patch of Star Space that had just expanded in the New World.

By the seventeenth cosmic year of Lin Zhen’s star counting, he had finally counted all the stars in the Cosmic Star Space!

He committed this number to memory and remembered the details of each galaxy and each Star Nebula.

This was the level of Lin Zhen’s capabilities at this point — he had the entire universe memorized with a human brain!

This was also thanks to Lin Zhen’s spiritual power.

After counting stars for so many years, his spiritual power skyrocketed, finally reaching the Crystallization Perfection!

During the Crystallization Period, even the sovereigns don’t achieve perfection, but Lin Zhen did.

When he reached Crystallization Perfection, the Star Map on the thirty-fourth level of the Heavenly Platform disappeared!

With the disappearance of the Star Map, the Heavenly Platform was bathed in bright light, and a golden bridge appeared.

Lin Zhen’s consciousness spread upward, as if he were walking on this golden bridge, witnessing the road to the heavens.

At the end of the golden bridge, there was a golden throne.

When Lin Zhen arrived before the throne, he tried to sit down but couldn’t.

He didn’t know why.

A voice resounded across the ether, “Lin Zhen, you’re here!”

“It’s you…!”

Lin Zhen grinned as the voice filled him with a strange familiarity.

Throughout his cultivation journey to this point, this voice had guided him through countless trials and tribulations, leading to his current achievements.

If it hadn’t been for this voice, Lin Zhen might have turned into dust long ago.

“Indeed, it’s me.

I’ve been waiting for you here for a long time.”

“Who exactly are you?

Where are you?

What place is this?

Can you show yourself?” Lin Zhen has a belly full of questions for him.

“This is the Chaos Intersection, and I’m right in front of you.

It’s just that you can’t see me yet,” the voice said.

At the answer, Lin Zhen couldn’t help but feel anxious.

“Why can’t I see you?” he said.

“Simply put, only your consciousness has reached the Chaos Intersection.

The fact that you comprehended the Cosmic Star Map on the thirty-fourth level of the Heavenly Platform shows that your soul strength has reached this level.

However, your body is not yet capable of coming here,” he explained.

The voice’s explanation made Lin Zhen realize the reality of his situation.

He had seen the items at the end of the Heavenly Platform through his soul, but his body was still insufficient.

“What exactly is the Chaos Intersection?

And who are you?” he asked again.

“The Chaos Intersection is the point where all universe worlds intersect.

It’s a passageway between worlds.

And who am I…

once your body arrives here, you will naturally understand,” the voice said.

“I’ll definitely keep trying, so I can come here as soon as possible and meet the real you,” Lin Zhen said.

“Hehe, don’t speak too soon.

In this universe world, your consciousness is not the first to arrive here,” the voice pointed out.

Lin Zhen was stunned.

He hadn’t expected anyone else in the universe to reach the level he had.

He clearly understood how difficult it had been to reach the thirty-fourth floor of the Heavenly Platform.

Unless he experienced a Nine Revolution Nirvana, he wouldn’t have been able to decipher the Cosmic Star Map.

Yet, someone else had managed to do so, which was beyond his imagination.

“Nevertheless, Lin Zhen…

I still believe you will have the day when you arrive here, although it will be extremely difficult,” the voice added.

Then, the voice turned to another subject.

“Lin Zhen, go on.

Your universe world is not stable.

There are several people with even stronger abilities than you here, and…

never mind.

This is your journey, and you have to complete it on your own.”

Lin Zhen wanted to say something, but he found his consciousness uncontrollably leaving the Heavenly Platform.

“Goodbye…

I hope you can come back…”

As his vision faded, Lin Zhen found his consciousness returning to him in the next moment.

His body was still at the bottom of Falling Star Lake.

The dark waters in front of him were a shock to his senses.

It had been so long!

Many cosmic years had passed.

In the real world, more than sixty thousand years had passed!

Lin Zhen’s journey from cultivating to becoming a quasi-sovereign had taken him less than ten thousand years.

This time, however, he had spent over sixty thousand years in his practice!

Although the water outside was still rippling, Lin Zhen knew that many changes must have happened during these sixty thousand years.