352: Going against the current

"This... is this the Lingxiao Heaven welcoming a new Immortal King!?"

When the news spread, everyone was utterly shocked.

Because, for the vast majority of people, Immortal Kings were figures utterly beyond reach.

And witnessing the birth of an Immortal King was a rare opportunity most people might never encounter in their lifetime... While the outside world buzzed with excitement over the new King's emergence, Lin Yang arrived at a quiet and peaceful place to sit and discuss the Dao with Li Sanxuan and the other Immortal Kings.

The Immortal King Realm was marvelous beyond description; its power was incomparable, and the execution of Dao techniques differed vastly from previous Realms.

Lin Yang had just entered this Realm and still had many points he didn't fully grasp, so he was seeking guidance from three Seniors who had trod this path for a long time.

This consultation lasted for several days.

His many confusions were resolved, and he became somewhat more familiar with the application of an Immortal King's power.

The reason he sought instruction on the myriad profound methods of the Immortal King Realm was that the task he was about to undertake required him to master the power of an Immortal King proficiently... Several days later.

Lin Yang had completely mastered the power of the Immortal King level.

He went alone to a tranquil location.

"Junior Sister, without you, let alone becoming an Immortal King, I wouldn't even feel happy becoming an Immortal Emperor."

Lin Yang murmured to himself, then began setting up a Formation to prevent external interference mid-process... "Hello, Senior Brother Lin Yang, my name is Shen Youchu, I am one of the newly initiated Disciples this term..."

"...Senior Brother Lin Yang, are you going to the Central Continent Holy Emperor Sect? You are so amazing, can you wait for me... ah no, I mean, I want to find you there in the future too..."

"...Senior Brother, you're here!"

"Senior Brother, I'm sorry, I'm too slow, I can never keep up with your pace... From now on, let Junior Sister accompany you forever in a different way..."

...Past scenes flashed through his mind, and ripples stirred in Lin Yang's heart.

"Junior Sister, I must help you achieve a perfect revival. From this day forward, I will not allow you to mistreat yourself like this again!"

Taking a deep breath, Lin Yang shook off the superfluous expression in his eyes, leaving only determination, and then took out a strange stone glowing on three sides from his embrace.

It was a jade stone, exquisite and translucent like the bone of an immortal maiden, its surface smooth as a mirror.

The three sides depicted paintings, each reflecting a different scene of time and space, wondrous and extraordinary.

The three lives stone!

A divine object in legend capable of reversing time and space, altering Karma, and guiding the Souls of the departed back from the void of annihilation.

This was not a simple pseudo-resurrection that reshaped someone with identical memories and a Physical Body.

Even if such a pseudo-resurrection succeeded, the person brought back could never be sure if they were truly the original person.

What Lin Yang intended to achieve with the three lives stone was the Heaven-Defying feat of migrating all the Soul fragments of a person, from their birth to their death, across the timeline and into the current time-space!

Simply put, Shen Youchu's life line was severed at a certain point in the past, and there has been no trace of her in the time-space up to now.

To truly and completely resurrect her, one needed to link the current time-space with the instant before her life line was broken, skipping the intervening time-space where she was absent!

This was akin to performing a long jump on a timeline; it was incredibly perilous. Being too short or too long would cause temporal chaos. One had to strike the exact, precise distance on the timeline for it to possibly succeed.

Otherwise, if temporal chaos truly occurred, the consequences would be unimaginable.

At best, Lin Yang might not receive a complete Shen Youchu.

At worst, Shen Youchu might be directly erased by the Law of Time, losing any possibility of future revival.

Of course, neither outcome was acceptable to Lin Yang.

For this, he had to be extremely cautious!

Fortunately, with the help of the three lives stone, it acted like a temporal distance measuring instrument, allowing him to accurately gauge the length of time, thus greatly reducing the chance of temporal chaos.

Boom—!

The Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art, under Lin Yang's activation, unleashed itself to an unprecedented degree. Energy visible across billions of miles was absorbed, forming a massive energy storm spanning heaven and earth.

The colossal energy converged in Lin Yang's palm and then poured entirely into the three lives stone.

"Buzz!"

The three lives stone vibrated violently. The three smooth mirror surfaces emitted dazzling, brilliant light in sequence, piercing the Void and shooting into unknown cracks.

Immediately following, a sound like surging tides echoed from the Void.

Not long after, with a 'bang,' a majestic, crystalline great river extended from the end of the Void, spanning across the firmament, stretching for who knows how many tens of thousands of miles.

It had no source and no end.

"What is this..."

Countless people looked up, gazing at the strange long river that suddenly appeared in the sky with expressions of surprise. That river in the firmament exuded an incomparably ancient and profound aura.

It seemed to come from the past, yet also from the future.

"The River of Time!"

An ancient living being focused its gaze, and after a long while, muttered in disbelief.

Dong! Dong! Dong!

At the same time, Immortal Kings such as Li Sanxuan, Ouyang Quan, and Liu Xue were alerted.

The sudden appearance of a river of time within the Lingxiao Heaven was something they certainly could not ignore.

Following the direction from which the aura emanated, the three soon arrived above the River of Time, only to be astonished to find.

In the River of Time, a figure was swimming upstream!

"Is that... Lin Yang?"

"What is he trying to do!?"

Li Sanxuan and the others were surprised and wanted to step forward, but they hesitated, holding reservations.

Because anything in this world that involved the power of time and space was extremely dangerous.

Even they, as Immortal Kings, dared not easily venture into it.

Because it was truly too dangerous.

Historically, there were Immortal Kings who were highly skilled and bold, who went into seclusion to painstakingly study the mysteries of time, hoping to achieve transcendence through it, only to end up researching themselves into oblivion.

For Lin Yang to directly step into the River of Time and swim upstream was an act that courted death.

Li Sanxuan and the others broke out in a cold sweat for him.

But at this moment, Lin Yang's gaze was firm. The Indestructible Scripture operated at its peak, his Physical Body shone brilliantly, resisting the scouring of time's power as he moved upstream against the current.

Along the way, he saw many people and things from the past.

He even saw those Immortal Kings recorded in the ancient texts of Lingxiao Heaven, who had researched the power of time and vanished because of it.

Judging by the faint auras they emitted, those Immortal Kings had reached the terrifying level of peak Giant.

They researched the power of time solely to advance further and step into the Emperor Realm.

Yet, even beings of that caliber were counter-killed by time. One could imagine how terrifying the consequences of violating the taboo of time were.

Splash!

Just then, a wave suddenly rushed toward him from ahead. It appeared light, but when it struck Lin Yang, it felt like a great world crashing down upon him.