Consciousness seems to be free from the confines of the body, wandering in endless clouds.

The Spirit Clansmen who were operating the magic circle around the star mark were not aware of the intrusion of the uninvited guest.

Only a foreign cultivator with a numb expression sat in the formation, letting the spiritual power of his body continue to flow, his eyes stared at the star mark of the barrier blankly, and he vaguely seemed to see something passing by, which made his eyes widen in shock.

"Hum—"

At the moment when Yu Ling passed through the star mark of the barrier, the light of the magic circle flickered uncertainly, and a Dao Spirit Clan cultivator couldn't help but look left and right in confusion, and said strangely: "What's the matter?

"Who else but us?" said his companion without looking up.

"But just now it was clear that ......"

"It is estimated that the energy supply of a certain formation is insufficient, so fill in the star traces of spare personnel, otherwise someone will rush outside to find death by themselves?"

“...... Also. ”

These words could no longer reach Yu Ling's ears, because he lost consciousness for a moment, and he could no longer sense the existence of his body in a trance.

Overlapping time and space, grotesque scenes, indescribable worlds......

Distorted information poured into his mind, and the picture that appeared in front of him was completely beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, making him feel a splitting headache.

Yuling tried to close his eyes, but he no longer had "eyes", because he didn't rely on his vision to see the world beyond the star mark.

The intricate fragments flickered, and he seemed to see a lot of people and things that shouldn't exist, and heard some vague and illusory sounds, they were like ghosts, somewhere in between.

"The End of the World...... I see it. ”

"How can this be, how can I age so fast, how can I go back......"

"Lies! are all lies......!

"It's—it's been the first millennium, and I can't tell the ......."

"The Xuanling Spirit Emperor is dead, but can we still go back?"

"Ling'er, Ran'er, Meng'er...... Are you all right, I miss you so much......"

What the?

In the massive amount of information and sounds, Yu Ling suddenly captured something crucial, which reawakened his blank thoughts.

The intense pain still pounded wildly at his nerve endings, but he had regained his sanity and ability to think.

He looked down, and it turned out that he had not been dissolved into the dust of the universe, and there was not even a trace of scars on his body.

As for why I couldn't feel my body just now, I'm afraid it's because my consciousness has fallen into confusion.

He froze, raised his head and looked around, and what greeted him was not pure darkness, but even a little colorful.

It's just that this bright color is like a deadly poisonous snake, and staring at it for a long time will make him a little dizzy.

Because this is a disordered world, any creature that grows in an ordered world will feel genuinely strange and confused.

Time and space were completely disrupted, and what appeared in front of me was all kinds of strange patchwork stitches, such as stones with only one plane when viewed horizontally and vertically, or the corpses of cultivators whose limbs and faces were extremely distorted.

It looks like Picasso's abstract paintings, where the boundary between the flat and the three-dimensional is lost, as if all the rules and rules are a joke.

Many ancient things floated past Yu Ling, such as a blood-stained ring-shaped jade pendant, he stretched out his hand, he could touch the cold and warm feeling, but he couldn't grasp it.

However, he didn't have the heart to explore these magical phenomena now, because he clearly remembered that he heard Yu Qingxuan's voice.

It's just that Yu Ling has faintly realized that outside the barrier star mark, time and space are overlapping, and the people he sees and hears may not exist in the present, and it is likely to be the echo of the past time and space.

But whatever...... As long as there is a glimmer of hope, he is willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it.

Because, this was originally the purpose of his stepping into the barrier star mark.

Yu Ling turned his head and looked at the location of the star mark in his memory, and as expected, he didn't see anything.

The overlapping illusions of unknown time and space blocked his vision, hiding the real barrier star marks in unknown corners, and he wanted to go back unless he was lucky.

It doesn't matter, if you can't go back, you can't go back, he just wants to know whether Yu Qingxuan is alive or dead.

So, I embarked on a journey with no end.

Without the concept of time, nor of space, Yu Ling didn't know if he was moving forward, but his footsteps never stopped.

It's lively and it's quiet.

He was like a lonely traveler who had seen many landscapes, and even he himself became a landscape.

If anyone else comes here in the future, I'm afraid they will also see the phantom of him walking alone.

One day, two days?

January?Two months?

One year ...... Or 10 years, 100 years, 100 years?

I don't know, and I can't know.

Feel...... It's been a long, long time.

So long that he almost forgot who he was.

He's starting to get old.

Yu Ling looked down at his hands, his skin was slightly slack, and since there was no mirror, he could only examine his face through his soul thoughts.

Look...... He has entered the age of not being confused, and even a few gray hairs have appeared.

Based on his current longevity, thousands of years should have passed.

But why does it feel...... It doesn't seem that long?

So, will he die of old age here?

After a brief pause, Yu Ling walked forward again.

If you don't know where to go, you can't stay where you are.

......

It's a long time again.

There are fewer and fewer colors around, more and more of an empty darkness.

Darkness is the original appearance of this world, and all people and things with color are unauthorized intruders.

Yuling began to feel tired.

He sat on a palpable meteorite and looked out at the never-ending darkness.

In the darkness, there seemed to be a voice whispering, but it was not really audible.

Beyond the star mark was not as dangerous as he imagined, but loneliness and emptiness were the natural enemies of all life.

He squinted, wavering and hesitant for the first time.

He had already walked more than half of Shouyuan, but he had not found any clues related to Yu Qingxuan.

The most terrifying thing is that he does not age gradually, but increases geometrically, and it seems that in one day, he will go through a year's life.

Perhaps, he went in the wrong direction. Because of Yu Qingxuan's state at that time, it was almost impossible to go so far.

But what if, if he turns back now, he happens to miss ......

The scattered soul thoughts were still nothing, to be precise, Yu Ling didn't know how many meters his soul thoughts had spread out, and many times it seemed that he could not see as far as his eyes.

He lay on the cold stones, and the dead silence and confusion flooded in like a tidal wave, making him feel extremely sleepy.

He seemed to be asleep, and he seemed to be awake.

In this dream-like state, he saw a zero, in a very distant place.

No, it was an oval sphere with white light shimmering and circling within it.

It stands alone, the only source of light in the darkness, ready to be swallowed up at any moment.

Countless spatial turbulences envelop it, and it struggles to maintain its own roundness, like a weak eggshell, protecting the life within, to fight against the tide of disorder and chaos.

But one day, a crack suddenly appeared, as if a shocking scar had been drawn on its face.

So the endless turbulence rushed madly along the gap, impacting the world inside the shell.

It's just that the orderly Tao faithfully guards this heaven and earth, and these turbulent currents and turbulent bands can only wander away from the inner and outer edges of the eggshell, and occasionally can invade the interior, but they are not the climate after all.

It silently licked its scars, but for more than 10,000 years, the rift had not healed.

It watched as one small person after another emerged from its wounds, towards the end of the world, and then turned to dust.

It doesn't understand what these people are chasing, what they're seeking, and it's not going to stop it.

It has existed in solitude and silence since its birth, and it has been so ever since.

As it grew farther and farther away until it disappeared from sight, Yuling finally woke up.

So he finally realized that everything about the Fortress Star Scar was nothing more than a lie.

From the very beginning, there was no fourth galaxy at all, and there were just chaotic dark deserts.