Chapter 498: Another Timeline

Tianyi sat in his allotted chamber. As an “injured” patient, he should spend all his time in his room healing. However, he didn’t look like he was focused on healing at all. Rather, he was resting his cheeks between his palms with a bored expression.

Strictly speaking, he wasn’t exactly injured. He just needed to strengthen the conduit. A conduit was a vessel. The larger the vessel, the more power of the Nine Heavens Universe it could accommodate.

Although Tianyi appeared to be doing nothing, he was actually expanding the vessel. Spacetime fluctuations flitted across his skin and clothes. If an unlucky person touched him, they might be sucked into his skin. They would shrink until they were smaller than microscopic, and all they would see was not skin, but a vast continent with no end.

If they survived the process.

Even if they did, the danger was not over yet. Time flowed differently near Tianyi. Sometimes it quickened to an absurd degree. Other times, it would flow in reverse. Age, memories, injuries, all would disappear as if they hadn’t existed.

Part of the reason he sealed himself in his room was to prevent prying eyes and affecting others during his upgrade process. He could go out with another conduit, but it would only attract disapproving eyes. His current mission was to heal himself for the next inevitable confrontation with the Demon Clan, and he didn’t want to reveal news about his conduit.

After a while, Tianyi sat atop a jade seat in a lotus position. He had finished scrolling through his Xiyi talisman. Logically speaking, he should have an endless amount of entertainment from the Xiyinet. However, his interests changed often.

When the mood struck him, he would consume one form or genre of entertainment voraciously, but he would also grow tired of it after a while. All forms of entertainment in a genre had many similarities. Once you consumed a certain amount, it would feel the same. Instead of forcing himself to consume it, it would be better to stop.

Still, Tianyi couldn’t find a new interest for a short while. He scrolled through many new shows on the Xiyinet or forums, but they couldn’t arouse his interest at all.

Since that was the case, he started comprehending the laws again. Ever since he entered the Immortal Realm by using the Law of Spacetime, he had not put much focus on it. Instead, he focused on comprehending the other myriad laws in order to strengthen his control over his inner universe.

He thought his current mastery over spacetime would be enough until he attempted to reach the Divine Realm, but the appearance of the realm beast changed that. Tianyi didn’t think his control over spacetime exceeded the Spacetime Chessboard by that much. Meaning that he would not be able to use his second-best ability in front of the realm beast.

In case he could not lure the realm beast into his inner universe, he needed to increase his mastery over spacetime. In addition, deepening his comprehension of the Law of Spacetime would also raise the limit of his conduit and the amount of power he could exhibit from his inner universe.

The fluctuations of spacetime cloaking Tianyi’s body expanded. It soon filled the center of the cultivation chamber.

The furniture within the sphere of influence became dilapidated instantly. Some parts even directly turned to dust. The next moment, the furniture returned to its original appearance, but it did not last long. Not a moment later, the furniture became a towering tree if it was made of wood or a slab of stone.

This wasn’t the strangest part. The strangest part was when the furniture existed in its normal state, its original material, and dust at the same time. If a mortal saw this scene, they would go mad instantly. Even cultivators had to be careful or they might form alternate personalities.

Time became meaningless within the cultivation chamber. A second could have passed, or it might have been a decade.

However, none of them stepped out to stop it. They didn’t know who was attempting to swim up the Six Paths of Samsara, but brashly entering will only cause them to injure themselves. Besides, it was not that easy to swim up the Six Paths of Samsara. Even if the culprit survived, they would be severely injured, if not dead.

Tianyi, who had hidden his identity, had no time to comprehend the Law of Spacetime in the Six Paths of Samsara. Because of the turbulent and corrosive nature of the silver river, he had to direct all his focus on swimming through it.

His skin, the boundary separating the outer world from his inner universe, started to collapse. To preserve the integrity of this boundary and prevent himself from popping like a bubble, Tianyi had no choice but to shrink.

While combating the effects of the Six Paths of Samsara, he did not stop swimming. He used the Heaven-Bearing Seal inside the Nine Heavens Universe to detect the existence of the other Heaven-Bearing Seals in the other timelines.

Tianyi did not have many demands. He just wanted to find the nearest timeline. Once he spotted the aura of the Heaven-Bearing Seal, he immediately moved towards it. He had the power to change the perception of time of others, but now it was his turn to feel the experience.

It was not as torturous as his first dip into the Six Paths of Samsara, but he still felt like a long time had passed.

In the Vast Void, a silver ripple appeared. Less than a second later, something shot out of the ripple. The ripple disappeared, but the object that was shot out did not slow down and continued on its trajectory. Finally, it flew into an unranked realm. Still, the object’s velocity did not stop and impacted against the ground.

The continent fractured into tens of smaller pieces. The water surged and covered the ground. Some land resurfaced, others were buried permanently. Luckily, this was a realm inhospitable to life or else ninety-nine percent of the lives would have perished. This included birds, as they could not fly forever and needed to roost.

Before the unranked realm could recover from the catastrophe it experienced, a vortex appeared at the impact point. A humanoid figure flew out of the vortex.

Who else could it be but Tianyi?

However, compared to his usual look, he had obviously shrunk. If he appeared like a man in his early to mid twenties before entering the Six Paths of Samsara, now he appeared to be in his preteens. It wasn’t just his physical features that changed.

Tianyi clenched and unclenched his hands, feeling the power in his arm. Of course, this was just a symbolic gesture. He didn’t need to do such a meaningless action to ascertain his current combat potential.

“In this state, I don’t think I can defeat a monarch. Of course, outlasting a monarch and even an emperor is no problem,” Tianyi said.

He did not pay too much on recovering to his peak state, at least not now. With his mastery over spacetime, even emperors could not harm him. He had a more important thing to do now.

Tianyi looked up. “Now, I wonder how this timeline developed.”

Hey, which timeline do you guys want this to be? As in, which of the protagonists do you want to be the MC of the timeline?