The sun rose in the east and set in the west, but there was no sun in the wine-red nebula of the Sagittarius Constellation.
Flowers bloomed and withered, but in this void, people had forgotten what year it was.
Ever since the incident with Lin Zhen, the Heavenly Gate had become much calmer.
The first place of the Black Hole Stage was still Ke Xiangnan. He even failed twice after that, but he finally succeeded in passing the Heavenly Gate, becoming the first Black Hole Stage cultivator in the New Territories to pass the Heavenly Gate.
After Ke Xiangnan, the Heavenly Gate was in a state of full bloom.
Many martial artists made breakthroughs and began to pass the Heavenly Gate.
There were almost no World King powerhouses left, and there were not many Domain Kings left. Even the Nebula Stage cultivators began to pass the Heavenly Gate in large numbers.
After the Black Hole Stage, there was a second, a third …
Time passed by one hundred years after another …
The popularity of the Heavenly Gate gradually decreased. Although there were still martial artists rushing over, they were far slower than those who left.
Pass the Heavenly Gate or return home. More and more martial artists made their choice.
The line that once stretched for hundreds of thousands of kilometers was now only a few kilometers long.
From afar, the once glorious Heavenly Gate had become empty, as if there would be no more miracles.
Lin Zhen, who once competed with Ke Xiangnan for the first place of the Black Hole Stage, had been completely forgotten in the past few hundred years.
Almost no one even remembered Ke Xianglong, who was sealed by the Great Moon Chaser God.
Some of the latecomers didn't even know about this at all. They could only occasionally hear from some old people who were still unwilling to stay here in the Elysium. It seemed that there was once a powerful black hole period sealed in a space somewhere, and it was impossible for him to come out.
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Silence!
Boundless and endless, with no end in sight. It was deathly silent!
Only Lin Zhen's body was floating, as if he wanted to stay here forever.
He did not know how long had passed. Perhaps it was a day, perhaps it was a hundred years.
He felt that he might have already died, or he might still be alive, drifting through the endless years. It was already a miracle that he was able to persevere without collapsing.
He hoped that there was something that he could feel, something that he could do to let him know if he was still alive.
Until one day …
"Haha!"
A clear and melodious laughter rang out.
Lin Zhen abruptly opened his eyes, revealing a look of ecstasy.
To Lin Zhen, the laughter of this little girl was no different from the sound of nature.
"Who is it?"
Lin Zhen's gaze followed the source of the laughter. He saw a little girl in colorful clothes sitting on a lattice of light far away.
The little girl was only four or five years old. She had two pigtails and looked very cute.
She had big eyes and a round face. She was fair and clean. It was obvious that she was a beauty.
Lin Zhen raised his hand and waved at the little girl. "Little friend, who are you? Come over to me. "
Ever since he had seen Yaya on White Magnolia Star, Lin Zhen had developed an inexplicable fondness for the little girl. Unfortunately, Yaya was no longer with him.
This little girl was very likable.
When the little girl heard Lin Zhen's question, she suddenly pouted. "Master, don't you recognize me?"
"You are? You're Chris? "
"Yes, yes, it's me. Master, we haven't seen each other for a long time."
"Yes, it's been a long time. It's been so long that I almost forgot about you."
"Master, it's not that Chris doesn't want to accompany you. It's just that you're in a different dimension and the Dimensional Universe System can't communicate with you. I can't make any contact with you either. So for so many years, I've been working hard to communicate with you. I finally succeeded today."
Lin Zhen woke up from his trance. "You can communicate with me? How did you do it? "
"Master, that's an upgrade. I don't know when it started, but I was able to think on my own. This is called awakening for intelligent life forms like us. Only after awakening can an intelligent life form be a true independent life form. Otherwise, I was at most a program before."
"You're saying that you can think independently."
"Yes, I know a lot of things now. It's also because I know a lot of things that I can communicate with you. Master, if there's anything you don't know, you can ask me."
Looking at the brand-new Chris, who was like a little girl, Lin Zhen was excited. "That's great. Do you know any way to get me out of this space?"
"I'm sorry, Master. I can chat with you to relieve your boredom, but the treasure that sealed you came from the Primordial Realm and was sealed by the Realm King. Unless your strength can surpass the Realm King, you can't break out of this space."
"But I can't cultivate at all now. How can I break out of this space?"
"Master, I really don't know what to do. Although I have my own thoughts, I still exist in an intelligent system. I can't provide you with any practical help."
Lin Zhen nodded helplessly. "Alright then. Let me ask you again. How long have I been sealed?"
"Master, I can answer your question. It has been seven hundred years since you entered this space to your current position."
"Seven hundred years!"
Lin Zhen was shocked. Because he was fighting the urge to sleep, he had almost forgotten the passage of time. He had no idea how long he had been here.
However, he didn't expect that seven hundred years had passed.
"Isn't the Heavenly Gate about to close?"
"Yes, the Heavenly Gate is about to close. There are less than twenty years left. To be precise, there are still eighteen years and sixteen days left."
Hearing this number, Lin Zhen's heart skipped a beat.
He had stayed in the Heavenly Gate for more than two hundred years. After careful calculation, it had been almost a thousand years since he was reborn.
There were less than twenty years left before the Heavenly Gate closed. If he couldn't pass through the Heavenly Gate in twenty years, Lin Zhen would have to stay in the New Territories forever.
Staying in the New Territories meant that he couldn't enter the immortal-level. Even if Lin Zhen could break out of the extradimensional space and leave, he could only cultivate to the peak of World King in the New Territories.
So what if he had ten thousand years of life? He couldn't go to the Primordial Realm and would eventually die.
Moreover, his life wasn't his own. He still had his family, his parents, his wife, and his children. Their hopes were all on him.
Moreover, he still had his wife in the Primordial Realm. Little Phoenix was still waiting for him there.
The thousand-year agreement with Little Phoenix was almost up. There were less than thirty years left.
Lin Zhen couldn't stay here no matter what. He had to find a way to leave.
"Besides my own breakthrough, is there any other way to leave?"
"Master, I'm not sure. However, even if it's a treasure from the Primordial Realm, it has a limit. If there's a strong enough force outside that hits this treasure, it's theoretically possible to break it."
"Outside force …"
Lin Zhen pondered for a moment and suddenly shouted, "I remember now! My doppelganger is still roaming outside! My doppelganger is still in the Chaotic Star River! He has already reached the peak of the infant stage!"
Lin Zhen urgently said to Kris, "Kris, remember to keep me awake at all times. Don't let me fall asleep."
"Don't worry, Master. I've learned a lot of new jokes recently. I can tell you jokes. I guarantee you'll be full of energy."
With that, Kris began to tell Lin Zhen a story.
"It's said that in the Primordial Realm, there used to be a mountain. There was a temple on the mountain, and an immortal lived in the temple. Since there was a mountain, a god, and a temple, the temple was called the Mountain God Temple."
Lin Zhen glanced at the seemingly innocent and cute little girl. He felt that her intelligence didn't seem to be a good thing.
His thoughts turned, and his mind power went to the clone.
Lin Zhen's battleship crashed into a meteorite and was damaged. The clone fell into a deep sleep, and no one was controlling the battleship. In the end, it was hit by a meteorite and couldn't reach the dark corridor.
The clone woke up from its deep sleep. He didn't even have time to check on the battleship. He directly used Planet Teleportation to leave the ship.
He still wanted to go back through the Light Corridor. At this time, it was impossible for anyone to stop him outside the Light Corridor.
His target was very clear. It was the Fire Qilin Empire's Qilin Transformation Pool.
To break the Primordial Realm's treasure, he needed a lot of power. With Lin Zhen's current strength, the clone's strength was probably not enough. He needed even more power.
That power was the Domain Monarch level power that the clone possessed after transforming into a Qilin.
This was also the only thing that Lin Zhen could count on.
He didn't dare to look for his family. Before he had enough power to protect them, he didn't want them to walk in front of him. This was a risk that he couldn't take.
As expected, there was no one guarding the Light Corridor. From the Light Corridor to the Fire Qilin Empire, Lin Zhen's clone desperately teleported and arrived in a month.
After arriving, Lin Zhen directly teleported into the Qilin Sacred Planet and teleported to the palace's entrance again.
"Stop! Who dares to trespass into the palace? "
Two guards stopped Lin Zhen.
Lin Zhen flicked his hand and threw a token to the two guards. Then, he teleported again and was already in front of the Qilin Transformation Pool.
That token was the pass that Tian Haoyu gave him back then. Tian Haoyu had already gone to the Primordial Realm, and the Fire Qilin's successor was his grandson.
Seeing that it was a token left behind by the ancestor emperor, the guards didn't dare to delay and hurriedly reported it.
Lin Zhen, on the other hand, stood by the pond.
The pool was overflowing with spirit energy and contained a mysterious substance that could allow his Fire Qilin's body to evolve into a real galactic beast.
"I'm finally back. Now is the time to possess the power of a Domain Monarch!"
Lin Zhen couldn't care about anything else. He immediately revealed his Fire Qilin form and jumped into the Qilin Transformation Pool!
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I stayed up all night to write this chapter in the internet cafe. Hei Tu was traveling in Zhangjiajie and was so tired that he had to spend the entire night writing. Today is the 18th. I flew home on the 21st and will reach home at night. I'll try to write a chapter every day for the next few days because I'll enter Zhangjiajie at dawn.
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