Ten thousand I am across the heavens

The perspective shifts back to the future, a hundred years from now. At this point in time, the Ghostly Demon Lord has already decided on the time and location for testing the dream-traveling experience.

According to the patterns of historical development, once he decides on the time and place for the dream test, the time capsule will immediately appear at the corresponding location. All he needs to do is find the time capsule and open it. Of course, there's a chance the time capsule won't be found; various unexpected events can occur over time, and the time capsule might be encountered by some lucky individuals or specifically searched for by someone with ulterior motives. However, this possibility is actually quite small, as the locations where these time capsules are hidden are extremely elusive, and only the person who devised the plan knows their exact location; no one else could possibly know what they are thinking at that moment through mind-reading.

Fang Yuan was the first to send out a dream capsule, and also the first to receive it at the designated location. The world is so vast; randomly choosing a location to send out a time capsule carries a negligible chance of being discovered by others. And he was lucky; the first time capsule he sent out successfully traversed a long period of time and arrived in the future.

Compared to the subsequent success rate, this was actually quite fortunate. In later timelines, the Invisible Guardians would conduct extensive searches of the time capsules, even though they were designed and manufactured with excellent counter-surveillance capabilities. However, due to the massive, thorough searches by the Invisible Guardians, many were discovered before they could be found. Therefore, these capsules wouldn't cross the vast historical timeline into the future.

After obtaining the time capsule, Fang Yuan first observed its color. The time capsule itself was green, meaning it was undamaged and the personality implanted inside was still alive.

If some accident had caused the personality inside to die, the time capsule itself should have turned red. At least being alive is a relatively good thing. But that doesn't mean no accident occurred.

Fang Yuan carefully opened the time capsule. As the capsule was opened, the entire dream world vanished. Only the history recorded by the personality he had projected was revealed. This also meant that the personality he had projected would also disappear in that instant. Regardless of whether it struggled to survive, Fang Yuan wouldn't feel at ease with the existence of this personality, so similar to himself yet experiencing vastly different events for a considerable period. In his eyes, that personality would be a more dangerous enemy than anyone else.

As the time capsule's outer packaging was opened, the information recorded inside was read into his mind, and his face immediately turned pale.

The information his memories fed back to him indicated that in the dream world, he suffered a crushing defeat as a novice. While attempting to improve his aptitude using the Blood Skull Gu, he unexpectedly encountered a sixth-level immortal who possessed terrifying future technology. This being was possibly a guardian of time and space. He was nearly obliterated in an instant, without even having the ability to use the Spring and Autumn Cicada to rewind time; he was simply annihilated.

"This is troublesome. Someone actually staked out me. But it's not surprising. My possession of the Spring and Autumn Cicada might be a secret to most people, but it's probably not hard for the people of the Mountain and River Republic to guess. In history, staking out someone is perfectly normal."

In that case, when I go back to the past, I can't grow up as quickly as originally planned. I'll have to leave my original living area as soon as possible. Although this will mean losing many familiar opportunities, it's okay. With my current abilities, even without those familiar opportunities to help me grow, my growth rate will definitely not be slow. It will definitely be much safer.”

With this in mind, he deployed the time capsule once more, sending himself to the past. This time, within the capsule, his own personality chose a different growth strategy. This way, he could avoid the time-traveling immortal who was lurking around him.

Based on past experiences, it seems the other party didn't even know who he was. At least, they didn't act before he caused a big commotion. Instead, they only acted after he had already made a big fuss, realizing he was different.

He thought this should be a good thing, since his relocation would take time. And now it seems that he moved ahead of time, leaving the troublesome Green Hair Mountain before he even discovered him. Therefore, he won't suffer any more undeserved misfortune.

As he wove new ideas into a new personality and projected it into the past, he did not immediately find the time capsule in the place he had envisioned.

However, this situation is normal. While a century isn't an exceptionally long time, it's still quite a period. Especially considering the rapid pace of historical development during this time, humanity's transformation of the world has been unprecedented. This has led to an extremely fast pace of global development.

It's possible that the time capsule Fang Yuan sent to the past could be destroyed or picked up by someone due to some accident. That's precisely why he had the patience to create several more, since the first one was successful. There's no reason why the subsequent ones wouldn't succeed.

However, the success rate was lower than he had imagined. After sending out five more time capsules, one finally succeeded, landing in his hands like a message in a bottle adrift at sea.

He opened the time capsule. Inside was the information recorded on it. This personality hadn't died either, but having experienced the interrogation and intelligence gathering after his previous capture, he knew very well that not being dead wasn't necessarily a good thing.

The contents of the time capsule proved this point. This time, he chose to leave his family at a young age by joining a caravan, avoiding internal competition. With his current perspective, he looked down on the meager resources of the Gu Yue family. Even with no initial capital and only a C-grade aptitude in the early stages—a somewhat disastrous start—it wasn't a major problem for him. Now, he wanted to improve his cultivation aptitude. He didn't necessarily need to rely on the Blood Skull Gu; there were many ways to raise himself to A-grade, or even higher. Traveling with the caravan, aside from anything else, just the small tricks he had researched over the years for gambling on stones were enough to make him incredibly wealthy.

And indeed, it didn't take him long at all; he had collected a large amount of supplies along the caravan's route, rapidly accelerating his cultivation. In just a few months, he had reached the peak of the third stage.

This time, he chose to use a massive number of mortal sacrifices to enhance his abilities. And it was at this moment that the unexpected happened.

[To be continued]

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