167: Void world, gray nebula

Another month passed.

Lin Chen had already stabilized his cultivation.

His breakthrough to God Ascension First Order did not significantly affect his various clones; it primarily meant his own cultivation had advanced further, taking him one step closer to becoming a God.

After all, each clone now had its own opportunities, allowing them to increase their strength without needing him to share his cultivation. They possessed unique cultivation methods, and their cultivation levels no longer synchronized with his.

However, this was also good. The clones were not limited by the main body's cultivation and could progress independently, becoming Gods first on their respective chosen paths, which greatly benefited his main body.

During his closed-door breakthrough and cultivation stabilization, no major events occurred that affected him. He could still cultivate peacefully in the Lin Chen Dao Domain.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, he would almost never leave the Lin Chen Dao Domain. Before achieving godhood, it was better to lie low; he could let his clones go out and explore.

At the same time, in the Void.

God Lin Chen, after a long journey, was nearing the area where the Dao Oblivion Seed had rooted.

The closer he got to the area of the Dao Oblivion Seed, the denser the surrounding Void Power became, and Void Creatures would appear from time to time.

These Void Creatures did not move in groups; they appeared randomly, unlike the previous two times when large numbers of Void Creatures he encountered had a common destination.

Another two hours passed, and the destination was close at hand.

“A world, and its world barrier is still very complete. Could this also be a world similar to the Five Regions Great World, containing a Land of Fallen Dao within, which is why it could attract the Dao Oblivion Seed to take root?”

Lin Chen speculated, but the specific situation could only be determined after entering the world.

He then quickly approached the world barrier. Upon nearing it, he discovered that the complete world barrier was just an illusion; in reality, the entire world barrier was already riddled with holes, only maintaining its integrity on the surface.

The riddled world barrier no longer allowed energy to escape into the Void from within, nor did Void Power surge into the world's interior. Clearly, this world had been eroded by Void Power, and the concentration of Void Power inside and outside was already similar.

Lin Chen was cautious. He investigated the causality lines to see if he would encounter a fatal crisis after entering this world.

After confirming there would be no fatal crisis, he no longer worried. He directly broke through the world barrier, entered Spiritual Stealth, and swiftly entered the world's interior.

Upon entering the world, Lin Chen immediately discovered the problem.

The world's interior was almost indistinguishable from the Void he had been in before. The only difference might be that a world barrier enclosed this section of the Void.

Lin Chen followed the sensation of the Dao Oblivion Seed, moving cautiously.

The more abnormal a phenomenon, the more carefully it needed to be handled.

Causality Power was not omnipotent. The absence of a fatal crisis on the causality line did not mean that entering it would not lead to death.

He needed to approach all investigative results with a skeptical attitude and handle everything with caution and prudence to go further and more steadily. The more he gained, the less he could be greedy.

Moving within the world was no different from moving in the Void. This environment was like a fish in water for Lin Chen.

In a true great world, he would not be able to move so smoothly and perfectly hide his figure from any living beings.

During his journey, many weak Void Creatures roamed this section of the Void; one could almost say it was a Void Creature nest.

In just ten minutes of travel, the number of Void Creatures Lin Chen sensed was several times more than all the Void Creatures he had encountered in his entire life.

“Could there be some Void treasure here that can breed a large number of Void Creatures?”

Lin Chen thought, his heart burning with anticipation.

Tangible Void-type treasures were synonymous with scarcity, something one could only hope to encounter.

If there truly was a Void treasure here, its effect on him would be immeasurable, definitely greatly reducing the time it would take for him to undergo complete Void Incarnation.

Under good luck, opportunities falling into one's lap were all too common.

The further Lin Chen went, the more Void Creatures he encountered, but they were all very weak. The strongest were only Tenth Order, and the weakest were only Sixth Order. These Void Creatures were quite harmonious with each other; there was no situation of big fish eating small fish.

“I've arrived. The place where the Dao Oblivion Seed is rooted overlaps with the source of so many Void Creatures. Let me see what good treasure is here.”

Taking a step, Lin Chen arrived at the source.

He saw a gray nebula slowly rotating.

The power that made up this gray nebula was somewhat similar to Dao Fall Power, and somewhat similar to materialized Void Power, but it did not look like either of them. The power characteristics were very strange.

At the edge of the gray nebula, Void Creatures were constantly being born, initially at Sixth Order.

These newly born Void Creatures quickly moved away from the gray nebula and merged into the swarm of Void Creatures moving around it.

During this process, the newborn Void Creatures continuously absorbed Void Power to grow. With the passage of time, they would also grow to Tenth Order, but reaching the Demigod Order was not something this section of the Void could support.

Facing the gray nebula, Lin Chen was relatively cautious.

He did not rush into it. Instead, he came to the edge of the gray nebula, extracted a wisp of the power that composed it, and conducted various tests to determine its power characteristics and whether they would have a significant impact on him.

Finally, he determined that this power somewhat restrained Void Power, having a certain suppressive effect on it, and also contained some Dao Oblivion characteristics.

However, this power could also breed pure Void Creatures, which was quite contradictory. Furthermore, the quality of this power was very high, reaching the level of a Lower God, and in terms of quantity, it was also very vast.

Although this power restrained Void Power, its impact on Lin Chen was not particularly great. He could still move freely within it, only needing to maintain his defenses.

In his perception, the Dao Oblivion Seed was rooted at the center of the gray nebula, and the Dao Oblivion fluctuations it emitted were continuously increasing, clearly absorbing the gray nebula's power and growing stronger.

Without hesitation, Lin Chen used the various powers he possessed to set up multiple layers of energy shields, entered the gray nebula, and advanced towards its core.

Within the gray nebula, the concept of time was very vague.

Lin Chen did not know how long he had advanced, but he finally broke through the gray nebula's obstruction and reached the area where the Dao Oblivion Seed was rooted.

“A corpse?”

At the core of the gray nebula was a corpse. The gray power was precisely emanating from the corpse, gradually converging to form the gray nebula's landscape.

Lin Chen became even more wary of the unknown corpse.

He only observed from a distance, investigating the corpse's condition.

The corpse was not enormous; it was humanoid, essentially a large human.

After an unknown number of years of time's erosion, the corpse's appearance was no longer discernible. Its outer surface was already decayed beyond recognition, but the flesh and bones beneath the Decay were still vibrant, as if it had not truly died.

However, there were no soul fluctuations, true spirit fluctuations, or consciousness fluctuations manifesting from the corpse, indicating that it was truly dead.

The cause of this being's death lay in a long spear of unknown material and quality embedded in its chest.

The long spear did not emit any treasure aura; upon careful sensing, it felt like a stone spear. This should be a divine artifact concealing its true nature.

And the Dao Oblivion Seed was rooted in the corpse's chest, continuously drawing the gray energy contained within the corpse through the spear and corpse's gap, growing robustly.

Lin Chen still did not approach the corpse. He did not lose his composure due to a divine spear concealing its true nature or the corpse of an unknown existence.

Though opportunities were good, one needed to be alive to seize them.

He released his own soul fluctuations, forcefully awakening the hidden soul imprint within the Dao Oblivion Seed, and controlled the Dao Oblivion Seed with the soul imprint.

This process was very smooth. The Dao Oblivion Seed was under Lin Chen's control, allowing him to inject more soul power into it, deriving a mindless Lin Chen soul puppet to carry the Dao Oblivion Seed.

Before that, Lin Chen retrieved the Dao Oblivion Seed from the corpse to himself, wanting to see if the corpse and the long spear would react after he took back the Dao Oblivion Seed.

However, when the Dao Oblivion Seed was retrieved, neither the corpse nor the long spear showed any changes, remaining as ancient and unchanging as before.

The corpse continued to emanate gray power, and the long spear still held it firmly pinned in the Void.

“Could this being not be dead yet? If I pull out that long spear, will it come back to life?”

Lin Chen did not know how likely his guess was, so he was somewhat hesitant to act.