Perfect World: I Am Eternal

Chapter 620 Time is Ruthless
"boom!"

A dazzling light shone, runes flashed across the sky, and array patterns enveloped nearly a thousand people as they departed for the world of Tiba.

This time, Lin Fan was exceptionally cautious. He wasn't the only one who came; many of them were below the Supreme Realm and needed his protection.

Soon after, a large group of people emerged from the passage, all of them prodigies from the Holy Emperor's Palace and the Heavenly Court.

"That's... raising the dam?!" someone exclaimed, their curiosity as childlike as they were, despite being quite old themselves.

No wonder, there was a dam in front of us, so big it seemed to stretch endlessly, and it looked absolutely magnificent.

In addition, some corpses were hanging on the dam, exuding an aura of immortality, which immediately horrified everyone.

Those were the remains of a true immortal, and yet they were just hanging there. How could a group of human cultivators, apart from Lin Fan, not be shocked?
"The Thunder Abyss, that's where you'll hone your skills," Lin Fan said, not wanting them to linger near the dam.

Because only three hundred years have passed, and there is now one more skeleton hanging above, which is obviously the one that recently crawled over from the other side.

He was very worried that if living creatures were to emerge from the border sea, land on land, and return, it would be very troublesome.

True Immortals and Quasi-Immortal Kings are no problem; he can still handle them. But if an Immortal King were to climb over, it would be a catastrophe.

A chill ran through the group as they realized just how terrifying this place was, the path through which the strongest warriors of the past had returned—it was truly perilous.

"Did the Willow God go to the Boundary Sea?" Shi Hao pondered, a crystal-clear willow branch appearing in his hand.

Lin Fan glanced at it and nodded, saying, "Throughout history, countless powerful figures have followed a faint line of footprints to this place. Some did it to quell the source of turmoil, while others sought to break through the ranks of kings and become emperors!"

Everyone was surprised and wanted to know more, but Lin Fan said no more. Knowing some things in advance was useless and would only cause more trouble.

Then, as they approached the Thunder Abyss, the heavenly soldiers and generals were once again shocked, as pools of lightning rose and fell one after another.

This place is like the source of a celestial calamity, where all kinds of lightning can be found, making it eerie and terrifying!
"Go ahead, but do what you can!" Lin Fan didn't leave. He sat down cross-legged to protect them, in case something went wrong.

At the same time, he was guiding cultivation, and many people have switched to his Qi cultivation method, but they have also hit a bottleneck.

The same was true for Yuechan and Qingyi, who were among the first to switch to cultivation; they never showed any signs of breaking through to the point of attaining the Dao.

A hundred years may be a lifetime for mortals, but it is nothing for cultivators.

However, some people are strong-willed and eager to soar to the sky, but in the end they cannot persevere and die in the abyss of lightning.

Moreover, there were quite a few such people. After more than a dozen people fell, Lin Fan was alarmed and immediately took action to stop them.

"Cultivation of the Tao requires things to happen naturally. A moment of enlightenment is better than anything else. Rushing headlong into things is not suitable for everyone."

"The key is to find the path that suits you!"

Lin Fan sternly warned them that there would be plenty of opportunities in the future and that there was plenty of time. There was no need to be so anxious, as haste makes waste.

He also gave an example of a person who only managed to break through to the limit when his lifespan was about to end, and in the end still managed to climb to the pinnacle of the ultimate path.

"Is there really such a genius?" someone asked in surprise. They wanted to say "weird," but felt it was disrespectful, so they changed their words.

“Of course there are. Cultivating the Tao begins with cultivating the mind. If the mind is not calm, it is easy to go astray and become possessed by demons.” Lin Fan nodded and gave a series of examples.

Upon hearing this, many people sat cross-legged on the edge of the lightning abyss and stopped insisting.

A hundred years passed quickly. Shi Hao returned from Tiba. Unlike the others, he had gone there to hone his skills.

Unfortunately, even at the pinnacle of the Dao, his cultivation still failed to increase, and he couldn't take that half-step to break through and become an immortal!

"Brother Xiao Fan, does becoming an immortal necessarily require the passage of time?" Shi Hao frowned.

"Walk your own path!" Lin Fan said, not wanting to interfere. There's a difference between being told what to do and figuring it out yourself.

Perhaps this is the difference between pioneers and followers; if you say everything, you're just picking up scraps from others.

A hundred years later, the two arrived at the Thunder Abyss to guide their troops. Most of them were excited; they had been tempered, their cultivation had increased dramatically, and they had made progress in one way or another.

However, the leading figures among them were in low spirits, and Ning Fei, Tianjiao Yi, Yuechan, and others still had not become Supreme.

You know, these people are now five hundred years old, yet they still see no hope and cannot break free from their shackles.

"If it doesn't work the first time, we'll try again next time!" Lin Fan said.

"Hey!"

A century later, the void cracked open, and array patterns flowed like molten iron, enveloping them as they returned to the Yin-Yang Cross Forbidden Zone.

The world remains the same, but the end of the Dharma is cruel, killing many older generation cultivators, and even the Holy Emperor Palace has more graves.

Ning Yu, Meng Xu, and other supreme beings, as the earliest followers of Lin Fan, would never step out of the Emperor Star unless there was an urgent matter.

The oldest of them are 170,000 to 180,000 years old, and the youngest are 100,000 years old. If they were placed before the end of the Dharma era, their age would certainly not be considered old.

But now, with a single stroke of fate, lifespan is shortened, and even the Supreme Being can only live for a little over ten thousand years, which seems like a huge sum.

If Lin Fan hadn't been prepared, with the Immortal Laws suppressing the entire Imperial Star and the presence of immortal matter, these people would probably have lost half their lives.

"I'm getting old too..." Qingyao sighed, her eyes filled with tears. She was no longer young; she was older than Ning Yu and the others.

In the past, she and Lin Fan lived the same life. Although she became a supreme being, it did not change the fact that she would grow old.

Lin Fan felt a tremor in her heart. Even though she had seen countless deaths and was once called a demon, she still felt very uncomfortable.

Because Qingyao is different from Yuechan and Qingyi, she is not the pride of this era, and is two hundred thousand years older.

"No, you won't grow old. You'll stay young forever. There are magical flowers in the world that can give you an ageless appearance."

Lin Fan hugged her and comforted her. This woman had waited for him for so many years, which made him feel guilty.

How many women in this world can wait two hundred thousand years, by which time the most beautiful years of their youth will have passed?

Qingyao smiled through her tears and said, "But it's alright, I finally waited for you, even for a moment, I have no regrets."

In fact, she was still afraid. Time is merciless, and she didn't want Lin Fan to see her growing old and at her ugliest.

Because she knew that sooner or later, her beauty would completely fade, leaving her with gray hair and a face full of wrinkles.

At that time, Lin Fan will remain unchanged, standing at the highest peak of his life.

She was terrified and didn't want to lose him!

"Don't overthink it. No matter what you become, I will never leave you. With the elixir in hand, I won't let you die of old age."

Lin Fan kissed her fair forehead and then sent the Palace of Immortality away.

This palace is built from the body of the Tree of Life, containing immortal substances. Living beings within it are impervious to the ravages of time.

Qingyao smiled through her tears. What was there to regret? What she cared about most was leaving her most beautiful self for Lin Fan.

"I want a child!"

Her radiant smile suggested she wanted to continue his bloodline; if there was any other obsession left, it was this.

Lin Fan has never had an heir, which is a great worry for many people in the Holy Emperor Palace, who all hope that he can have a successor.

Unfortunately, his cultivation was profound and his bloodline was domineering, making it too difficult for him to have offspring. Even Yuechan and Qingyi had not been able to conceive.

"Alright, let's start working hard from today!" Lin Fan agreed.

(End of this chapter)