At this moment, Lin Xintong seemed to have turned into a lifeless ice sculpture. Beneath her, the lush green grass was also affected by the cold, turning into crystalline ice flowers as they withered and shattered.
With her last bit of strength, she slowly moved her numb hand with great difficulty. Her slender fingertips were covered in ice crystals as she gently picked up an ice flower.
Such an ordinary but beautiful unknown flower had also been implicated by him, and she had perished …
A teardrop rolled down from the corner of her eye and quickly froze into ice crystals. It was like a round teardrop falling onto the grass.
The voice became further and further away, and the scene also seemed to blur.
She knew that she had finally reached the end of her life …
At the moment of her death, countless scenes flashed past her mind, and finally fixed on that youth's determined and slightly immature face.
Thinking back to her life, for 500 years, she had been running around to survive, and all she had gained was failure …
Perhaps, only the scene of her holding hands with him as he roamed the world could be considered as the best memory of her life.
For the best memory to be in a dream, this was probably a form of sorrow.
But, so what?
Beauty, most of the time, did not need to be investigated if it was real or illusory.
This was because, if one were to really explore it, many seemingly beautiful things would burst like bubbles.
She smiled. The smile that bloomed in the last moments of her life, might be frozen, frozen into eternity …
In the haze, her ears resounded with some sounds. She tried her best to open her eyes, but everything around her was a blur. However, far away, under a green tree, there was a white figure.
Sunlight shone through the gaps of the leaves, like gold fragments covering the grass, and the tree's shadow swayed …
That figure looked like a woman. She was strolling in the forest, as if she was strolling in the river of time. Although it did not look far from her, it seemed to belong to a different time and space.
She looked at her, but no matter how wide she opened her eyes, that person's face was a blur. Only that person's tall and outstanding figure was left in her irises, incomparably clear.
"You are …"
When she saw this person, her frozen heart began to beat again, and the blood in her body began to flow again.
She had a feeling that she seemed to have a blood connection with the figure in front of her, as if she knew her in her previous life.
Could she be … the ancient Great Empress?
This thought flashed across Lin Xintong's mind. It was an inexplicable thought, but for some reason, she was extremely certain.
At this moment, the beautiful figure slowly walked towards her. She walked closer and closer until she was right in front of her …
The figure reached out her hand. Her fingertips were like a dragonfly skimming the surface of the water as she gently touched her forehead.
"Obsession is the path to dreams, but it can also be the source of pain."
"Perhaps you can inherit my will and walk on, completing my unfinished mission …"
A cold voice resounded in Lin Xintong's mind. Was this the ancient Great Empress' voice transmission?
Following that, with a shattering sound, like a crystal shattering, the ice crystals on Lin Xintong's body shattered. Her world of consciousness also collapsed as the forest, grass and ice flowers in front of her were all annihilated …
…
Lin Xintong suddenly felt her body tremble as she was jolted awake.
This trembling feeling was like a common experience she had when she was a child. Back then, she had yet to begin martial arts cultivation. As she was born in the Lin family, she had to bear the pressure of having naturally terminated meridians. As a result, she could not sleep well. Often, just as she was about to fall asleep, her body would suddenly tremble and she would wake up.
Was she having a nightmare again?
Lin Xintong opened her eyes as her vision gradually became clear. The first thing she saw was the gray sky above the Great Empress mystic realm.
She reached out her hand to touch the cold and rough black stone beneath her. It had a faint smell of blood, and it felt extremely real to the touch.
Many people gathered around, and they all looked at him with astonished and confused eyes.
Lin Xintong was somewhat familiar with these people. She remembered … They were the cultivators who had entered the Great Empress mystic realm.
This was the Great Empress mystic realm's trial …
Lin Xintong thought of something as she searched the crowd. Finally, she found an azure-clothed youth not far away.
His nose bridge was high and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised. His black and somewhat unkempt hair covered the corners of his eyes, but it could not hide his bright eyes.
His eyes were too clear, but within that clarity, there seemed to be a hint of slyness.
These were the eyes she was familiar with. They were extremely familiar in her dreams.
He was looking at her and smiling. There was a joy that came from the bottom of his heart.
"You have finally come out. Do you know how long you have been in there?" The youth's Yuan Qi transmission rang in Lin Xintong's ears.
Of course, Lin Xintong did not know, but she did not shake her head. She only looked seriously at the youth in front of her. She did not care about the answer to the youth's question.
What she cared about was if this world was real. This was because every time she woke up, the world was extremely real, but in the end, it was all a dream.
This time … it couldn't be a dream again, right?
"A full four hours," Yi Yun said.
Other than Lin Xintong, the longest was Shentu Nantian, who had been in there for an hour. Everyone had been waiting for Lin Xintong for the next three hours, but she did not come out no matter how much they waited. They had been waiting until now. This was also the reason why everyone was shocked when they saw Lin Xintong appear.
However, this time that seemed excessively long to everyone sounded unbelievably short to Lin Xintong.
Just four hours?
In the dream, she had probably experienced more than 20 million years …
Lin Xintong stood up and looked back. The door of light had already closed, and the metallic pillar that was covered in crystal relics was still sparkling.
At this moment, people looked at Lin Xintong with a strange look. They did not know how many Empyrean Marks Lin Xintong had obtained after staying in the trial for such a long time.
Was it time to tell them their results?
As people were thinking, the crystal pillar suddenly emitted a dazzling flash. A golden barrier of light shot out from the crystal pillar. This barrier of light quickly spread out and charged at the crowd.
"Peng Peng Peng!"
With a series of explosions, many cultivators were sent flying by the barrier of light.
However, there were many cultivators who did not react when they were hit by the barrier of light. They felt as if a strong wind had blown at them, causing them to take a few steps back. Following that, the golden barrier of light swept past them.
"What's going on! It hurts! "
A small number of the cultivators on the black stone square were sent flying. They fell to the ground and felt pain all over their bodies. The feeling of being hit by the barrier of light was similar to being hit by a desolate beast.
When they got up, they saw that the barrier of light was like a huge bowl. It had trapped many people inside, and they were blocked outside the barrier of light.
Upon seeing this scene, they were somewhat dumbfounded.
They quickly understood that they had been eliminated …
Only the people inside the barrier of light had passed the trial.
Looking around, most of them were the first batch of cultivators to be ejected out of the door of light. From the looks of it, the longer one lasted in the door of light, the higher the chances of passing.
However, this was not absolute. This was because they saw a dark and thin figure in the barrier of light. He was not tall and looked extremely ordinary. He looked like a mud monkey.
"It's that black kid!"
"He also passed?"
Many people were speechless. The swarthy youth was clearly the second to be ejected out of the door of light. How could he pass? What kind of logic was this?
Many people were unhappy. The swarthy youth seemed to sense the indignation in these people's hearts. He turned his head and looked at these people with a silly smile.
This smile of his made many people even more infuriated.
How could someone like him pass the trial? How could this be!?
A silly fellow like him was actually stronger than them?
People found it unacceptable.
Lin Yu was one of the people who were eliminated.
Being isolated outside the barrier of light, Lin Yu was in a daze. He sat on the black stone square dejectedly and looked at the lucky people inside the barrier in a daze. He was not paying attention to the black kid, but the other youth inside the barrier, Yi Yun.
"He passed …"
Lin Yu did not know what to feel at that moment. It was understandable how depressed he was to return to his family clan as a failure.
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