276: The unique crisis of the era's monsters

The addition of two new members to the Old Deng Alliance was just an interesting interlude in Lin Chen's life, without much impact.

After all, when he first joined the Old Deng Alliance, before he rose to prominence, it didn't have much impact on those Old Dengs either. It was only after he grew stronger that he began to influence the Old Deng Alliance, and that influence grew, changing the destinies of many.

At this stage, there are very few things in This Universe that can affect Lin Chen.

Although his cultivation is still at God Rank, and his combat power is not invincible at God Rank, nor is he a match for any Foundation Level opponent.

He has long since come into contact with the Foundation Level, and the path of the Foundation Level has already been traversed; now, all he lacks is some time.

Putting away old dengs book, Lin Chen felt a wave of emotion.

He had unknowingly become a senior, a true century-old Old Deng.

Since Lin Chen became a God, he has actually been free from physiological lifespan limitations, but at a hundred years old, he had truly lived through a century of time.

This is what it means to be a long-lived species; lifespan no longer leaves a deep mark. The feeling of time passing no longer brings melancholy, and time is merely time.

His hundredth birthday had just passed, and with two new members joining the Old Deng Alliance, Lin Chen felt as if he had crossed a threshold. He understood his own form of existence; he had already achieved eternal life.

"A hundred years of cultivation, I have transformed from a mortal into a true long-lived species. No, I should be an eternally living species. Unless an external force causes death, as long as I wish to live, I can live forever."

"That's good, but it's not enough."

With an almost infinite lifespan, most long-lived species would slow down or become complacent if there wasn't a particularly strong sense of crisis urging them forward.

However, Lin Chen couldn't slow down.

Many crises had already manifested, forcing Lin Chen not to slack off, but to work even harder.

Distant crises include the calamity of observation brought by the origin of the Human Race here, which is a crisis of transcendent level.

Currently, it seems only Lin Chen has the opportunity to resolve this crisis and lead the Human Race here through the crisis brought by their origin, so Lin Chen dares not slack off.

He doesn't believe that he can escape the crisis by simply avoiding it; that would merely be a slow death. Only by destroying the crisis can he truly survive.

Closer crises include the process of super great clans in This Universe contending for and unifying the universe, and the Human Race does not hold a particularly great advantage.

Only when Lin Chen grows up will the Human Race gain an absolute advantage. Currently, Lin Chen has not yet grown up and does not possess invincible strength.

Not only that, but the supreme experts who have left various super great clans are still competing for opportunities for transcendence in unknown lands, which is another hidden danger.

Once a non-Human Race supreme expert achieves the opportunity for transcendence, the Human Race in This Universe will be in danger. Lin Chen, as a member of the Human Race and the most hopeful existence to transcend, will inevitably be targeted.

Under various crises, Lin Chen dared not slack off.

"Phew, life is hard."

What could Lin Chen do? He could only cultivate harder and break through to the Foundation Level faster.

Breaking through to the Foundation Level, for Lin Chen, was merely a new starting point on his cultivation path.

He needed to complete the cultivation path of the Foundation Level faster, leaving himself more time to pursue the path of transcendence, and achieve transcendence before all other beings.

In This Universe, in this void, Lin Chen's progress has fallen too far behind. There are too many half-step transcendent level experts, numbering in the double digits in This Universe alone. Even if other universes don't have as many, the overall number won't be small.

Lin Chen doesn't dare to bet whether those beings who achieve transcendence are good people, or if they will block the path to transcendence. Even more, he doesn't dare to bet if there's a limit to the number of transcendence slots.

Therefore, Lin Chen wants to achieve transcendence later but reach it first, becoming the first being of this era to achieve transcendence.

At least after he, Lin Chen, achieves transcendence, even if he has the ability to block the path forward, he would not do such a thing.

After all, how to achieve transcendence, apart from those half-step transcendents who have a little understanding, no one else knows.

What if only one transcendent can be achieved in each era, and that position can only be held by one being, just like the Great Emperor position in the 'Shrouding the Heavens' world, where only one can exist in the same era?

Based on this thought, Lin Chen dared not relax at all.

He certainly didn't want to wait until the next era to achieve transcendence; who knows what unexpected things might happen in the long time between two eras.

Lin Chen was troubled by the worries of transcendence in his heart. Although he knew this was just his own conjecture, he was still irritable at the moment and unable to calm down for secluded cultivation.

Since he couldn't cultivate, Lin Chen didn't force himself to practice. Instead, he walked out of his seclusion and found Old Man Anpingshan, who had lived for many tens of thousands of years, asking this senior for answers to his questions.

"Old Deng, before Senior Qin Huang left, did he leave any information about the transcendent realm? Currently, I have some doubts, and these doubts are already interfering with me."

"Tell me specifically."

Lin Chen trusted the Old Deng very much, so he fully disclosed all his unintentional speculations about the transcendent realm.

Lin Chen is a practitioner of Karma Dao, and anything he thought of unintentionally must signify something, very likely some information crucial to him.

After listening to Lin Chen's speculations, the Old Deng instantly vanished and reappeared with a stone tablet in his hand. On the tablet were the two characters "Transcendence" written in the Human Race language.

"Qin Huang did leave some information, but we have studied it for a long time and still can't understand it or extract any information."

"Before Qin Huang left, he warned us that until we have cultivated our current realm to perfection and touched its upper limit, the information he left behind cannot be interpreted. Perhaps you can discern something."

Lin Chen wasn't surprised by this.

If the Old Deng knew information about the transcendent realm, he wouldn't have kept it from Lin Chen, the transcendent seed. After all, Lin Chen's cultivation speed is too fast; knowing the information about the transcendent realm earlier could help Lin Chen adjust his cultivation plan and pave the way for breaking through to transcendence ahead of time.

Taking the stone tablet, Lin Chen didn't receive any information.

It was as if this was just an ordinary stone tablet with the words "Transcendence" written on it. He also wasn't like those characters in web novels who could directly receive information from it.

Lin Chen tried to probe the stone tablet with his divine soul power, but still found nothing.

"It seems that the information Qin Huang left behind, besides requiring one's realm to reach a certain level to decipher, cannot be known in advance even by someone special like you. This indicates that this information is not suitable for premature contact."

Lin Chen held the stone tablet, staring silently at the two characters "Transcendence."

After a long while, Lin Chen had an epiphany.

He handed the stone tablet back to the Old Deng, who understood that Lin Chen had overcome the obstacle he had set for himself.

"You've figured it out."

"I've figured it out. I was too anxious. I was worrying about the transcendent realm before even breaking through to the Foundation Level, which is completely aiming too high."

"Teachable indeed. I once had the same state as you. After all, the talent we possess is destined to lead us to the very end. Unconsciously, we become anxious, treating the future as something that will naturally happen, and projecting ourselves into the future to view things."

"In reality, the present you is the real you. Focus on the present, look forward to the future, rather than focusing on the future and complaining about the present."

"Old Deng, truly, 'having an elder in the family is like having a treasure.'"

"Hehe, study hard. You've only cultivated for so little time. Don't look at your cultivation speed; some things, without the precipitation of time, are still too naive."

Lin Chen wasn't a fool. His previous anxiety, which prevented him from calming down to cultivate, was merely a stimulation from the information itself, causing his mentality to be unstable and his Dao heart to be clouded.

To transcend, one must not be fixated on the act of transcendence itself. The more one focuses on it, the more anxious one becomes, and the further one moves from the transcendent level.

Moreover, what realm and strength did he himself possess? Aiming too high was useless and would instead disrupt his current cultivation rhythm, which would be putting the cart before the horse.

Calmed down, Lin Chen's Dao heart became even more stable.

His cultivation speed increased instead of decreasing, and his Dao path became broader.