This was also the most important reason why those powerful mages frequently came here after discovering the Nightmare Kingdom. Here, they could experiment with anything they wanted, even if it was a level-11 spell. After all, everything was just a dream.
Many dangerous experiments could be done here at crucial moments, and they could reduce the loss of precious materials and increase their experience.
There were even some mages who wanted to recall their memories from a long time ago, so coming here was the best choice.
As the days of flipping through books slowly passed, fewer and fewer people were still living in Heiss City, and fewer and fewer children were being born. Most people were muddle-headed as they waited for the final destruction to descend.
Lin Yun stayed in the decaying library without rest, calmly flipping through the books here. Even a book that could be used as a leisurely reading material could cause a huge uproar in Lin Yun's era and cause two major forces to fight over it.
Those books that recorded magic knowledge, even the lowest level ones, could topple the understanding of mages. But this place didn't lack these things.
Terrifying incantations that could make the lifeforms of the endless planes shiver were just a pile of obscure trash here.
But now, these trash that he had only glanced at had become the most important things, the things in the deepest parts of his memories. It wasn't easy to dig them out. If he deliberately dug them out, his soul might be damaged.
The stronger a mage was, the longer their lifespan would be. Once a mage reached the level of a God or Demon, they would basically be immortal. With an endless lifespan, it was impossible for them to remember everything clearly. Their souls would be destroyed by the impurities.
Most of the memories were buried in the deepest parts. This was the best method. Some powerful mages would even erase the memories that were useless to them.
Although it wasn't easy to find the most important part of the book from the middle and it would take a long time, it wasn't without its benefits.
Lin Yun stayed in the decaying library and followed the order of the bookshelves, flipping through them one by one before falling asleep. This time, he couldn't just casually flip through them. He had to take advantage of this opportunity to thoroughly comprehend the knowledge within the books.
Moreover, he might be able to find some clues about Noscent's end in those books that recorded strange rumors or secrets.
Time quickly passed. As Lin Yun carefully read the books, the little fatty could only sleep. He slept for a year before discovering that Lin Yun was still reading. When he woke up, he found that Lin Yun was also reading.
The little fatty slept ten times and woke up ten times before discovering that Lin Yun had walked from one end of the decaying library to the other.
After discovering that Lin Yun was about to finish reading the books, the little fatty didn't dare to continue sleeping, fearing that Lin Yun would have already left by the time he fell asleep.
After ten days, Lin Yun took out the last dust-covered book from the bookshelf and calmly flipped through it. This was the last unread book in the decaying library.
After ten years, Lin Yun felt that sweeping through the bookshelves one by one was too inefficient. What if the crucial part was at the very end? But after looking at the books on the other bookshelves, Lin Yun knew that trying to find the crucial part by luck was impossible. He could only look through the books one by one.
Now that he was holding the last book, Lin Yun didn't hesitate and slowly flipped through it.
In this Soul Image, no matter how long it took, it would only be a dream. His real body would come here, and when he left, he would wake up from the dream. Ten years in this place might only be half a day outside.
But after ten years, looking at these books with the eyes of a Heaven Rank powerhouse and a Saint Alchemist, the results were completely different. The things he didn't understand before had become vivid, and the things he had once forgotten were now recalled.
To a mage, knowledge was power, the truth was everything. Boundless knowledge made Lin Yun's eyes look like bottomless pools, calm and unfathomable.
Although it was the last book, Lin Yun didn't hesitate. It didn't matter if there was a crucial part in this book.
He opened the book and found that the contents were about space and time. They were very cryptic, and the description wasn't very complete. It was simply impossible to use prophecies to describe these two things.
This book was originally a magic book. It used the power of magic to pour the writer's comprehension into these words, and they could even clearly sense the power of Laws.
But now, only words remained of this book. The mana had completely dissipated, and the magic book had been thoroughly destroyed.
Lin Yun carefully looked at this book, carefully savoring it. By the time he was halfway through the book, something different appeared at the end.
Lin Yun's expression suddenly became strange. One of the pages of the half-meter-long book had the content of the theory of relativity.
After carefully looking through it, Lin Yun was certain that the content of that page was the theory of relativity. It hadn't been changed at all, it was just that the words had become Noscent's language.
"Little fatty, we have to leave this place …"
Lin Yun turned his head to look. The little fatty, who had been waiting with wide eyes, appeared on Lin Yun's shoulder and grabbed Lin Yun's robe with his claws, afraid that Lin Yun would run away.
Looking at that page, Lin Yun shook his head. He finally understood why many people wanted to leave the Soul World after entering the Nightmare Nation, but they could only do it on their own.
It took him ten years to finish reading this book. Apart from Lin Yun, no one else would be able to complete this mission if they wanted to find a page that didn't belong to this library.
Even a Divine Fire Mage wouldn't be able to find anything wrong with the record of the theory of relativity in this book about time and space. During the peak of Noscent, there were countless theories and schools of thought, and every powerful mage had their own research.
Lin Yun wasn't surprised to find the most crucial point in the last book. After all, this was a world formed by his own Soul Projection. Even if he was randomly reading books, he would only find the crucial point in the last book.
At that time, it might not be the theory of relativity, it might be a page of advanced mathematics hidden in an array, or it might be a travel brochure hidden in the diary of a powerful mage.
Holding that book, Lin Yun walked out of the decaying library. Heiss City had become even more desolate. The number of people he could see had decreased by half compared to ten years ago. Everyone was even more numb. Not far from the decaying library, there was a man who had lost a leg leaning against the wall, his eyes lifeless as he waited for his death.
The entire Heiss City was like a dead city.
The light of the Shelter Tower was getting dimmer and dimmer, and the sky was filled with more and more terrible scars. There was even a huge spatial crack that almost spanned the entire sky. A terrifying storm that was visible to the naked eye rushed out of this crack. The whole world was on the verge of complete destruction.
Lin Yun calmly looked at that crack and knew that Noscent's destruction was fast approaching. He turned to look at the Shelter Tower and fiercely slapped the page in his hand.
In an instant, the entire world seemed to have stopped. Lin Yun also felt the book in his hand suddenly dissipate, and the ground under his feet seemed to have disappeared. That feeling of standing on solid ground suddenly dissipated, and the entire world seemed to have turned into a fixed illusion.
After a few seconds, the entire world seemed to have shattered like glass. Fine cracks suddenly appeared, and the scene before his eyes looked like a shattered oil painting. As numerous cracks covered the entire world, the entire world silently shattered into countless fragments before dissipating into the endless void.
The power of the 7th Rank of the Heaven realm once again returned to his body, and nothing seemed to have changed. There was only an endless void in the surroundings, and only spheres emitting gentle light were floating in the void.
After getting close, he could faintly see the blurry scene inside. These were Soul Worlds!
Lin Yun floated outside the spheres and observed them. The blood-colored spheres were filled with darkness, and if he wasn't wrong, they were definitely the Soul Worlds of the Vampire Ancestors.
These guys didn't have souls, so they couldn't resist the power of this world. After all, there was no Nightmare Lord, everything was under the control of the Nightmare Nation's Laws. These guys had the advantage, but they couldn't completely ignore this deep world.
In the periphery, these Vampire Ancestors could freely come and go, but in here, apart from the Nightmare Lord, no one could freely come and go.
Lin Yun didn't pay attention to these Vampire Ancestors' Soul Worlds and kept observing the others' Soul Worlds.
But it wasn't so easy for the other mages to distinguish whose Soul World it was. From the outside, they could only see a blurry color, and the scene inside was like looking through frosted glass. Being able to see a blurry shadow was already pretty good.
But what surprised Lin Yun was that apart from the Vampire Ancestors' Soul Worlds, there were actually six Soul Worlds here.
'Agalon, Alonzo, and the three deans of the Starry Sky College, there are only five people, but there are six here. That means that there is still one more person. Who is the last person?'
Lin Yun frowned as he observed. Six Soul Worlds, he couldn't determine who it was just by observing the blurry shadows, so he could only try his luck.
Lin Yun floated in front of a green Soul World. That Soul World should have a large forest and a huge starry sky. This was most likely the Soul World of Great Astrologer Agalon.
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