This night, Li Lian fell asleep.

Although sleep is no longer needed, the spirit does.

So, he had a dream.

He dreamed that he was ascending a long path, and that his soul and body were sublimated in the process of ascending, and finally became some form that he could not understand.

He looked back at the place where he had come, where a magnificent rose was quietly blooming.

The rose had countless petals, and it was intricate and exquisite.

Time flies, I don't know if thousands of years have passed, or just a snap of a finger, the beautiful flower begins to wither.

Many tiny bugs live in the crevices of the petals, and as the flowers wither, the bugs die.

No matter how much those insects struggle, it doesn't make sense, the flowers are the world that carries them, and the skin will be attached without hair?

The four seasons are reincarnated, the withered roses bloom again, and the insects that were originally dead come back to life again.

Repeatedly, endlessly.

That's reincarnation, a never-ending reincarnation.

Li Lian set his eyes into the distance, and saw innumerable, countless beautiful flowers, spreading all over the land and spreading to infinitely distant places.

In this infinite field of flowers, there are several detached people like Li Lian, who are cruising in the flower fields, like gardeners.

Suddenly, they seemed to discover Li Lian's existence and cast a gaze that seemed to have a deep meaning.

——

"Whew......" Li Lian woke up.

He felt like he had suddenly become very tired, as if he had just gone through a big battle.

This strange dream was completely beyond the scope of Li Lian's cognition, and for him with the Soul Principle, there should be nothing unexplained in the spiritual realm.

But the cause of this dream cannot be found at all, it is neither a subconscious projection nor some kind of phantom on a whim.

Is that...... A deeper interference, the projection of a certain "truth" in Li Lian's life.

"What's wrong?" Tsuiko got up and asked with some concern.

"I seem to ...... Something I realized. Li Lian stared at his hands, recalling the pleasure of rising infinitely along the road. That feeling of mortals being sublimated into gods, and "bugs" being sublimated into "gardeners".

"Rest and I'll go for a walk." Li Lian stood up and slowly left the room.

Before closing. He could clearly see a strand of silver hair squirming in the bed, and someone seemed to be still in a state of smilishness because of some unashamed thing that happened last night......

Li Lian stepped out of the hatch and walked through the metal corridor, repulsing the mechanical servants who wanted to come over to serve, and marching aimlessly. Trying to remember the feeling in the dream just now.

The Storm Fortress was larger than a star, and at this moment, he was silently moving forward, the size of the ship making mortals feel incomparably small.

However, even such a huge creation is still a drop in the ocean in the face of the scale of the universe.

Perhaps, this seemingly infinite universe is also small in the face of something even grander.

It is like a flower in an infinite garden, blooming and withering, and the cycle is endless.

Outside of reincarnation. And reincarnation......

Li Lian opened the battleship's airtight door, leaving himself defenseless in the cosmic void. He walked along the hull of the battleship as if a mortal were climbing a mountain of metal.

At the far end, a figure caught his attention.

She sat at the top of the tower, half of her body hanging out, her bare feet dangling in the air, worrying if a gust of wind would blow her out.

Of course, there is no wind in a vacuum. Hind just sat there, staring at the sea of stars in a daze, as usual.

"Yo. Hind. Li Lian greeted her, and then sat down beside her.

Hind glanced back, then continued to stark at the sea of stars.

"What are you thinking?" Li Lian was a little curious.

"I didn't think about it, I just remembered."

"Young people like to plan for the future. Older people like to reminisce about the past. ”

"I've lived for more than eight hundred years, and I'm not an old man, am I?" Cinder blinked.

"It's really old compared to ordinary mortals. But time has different meanings for different lives, for mortals a hundred years is everything, but for us I am afraid it is only a snap of a finger. ”

Li Lian remembered the scene he had seen in his dream just now.

The flower of the universe, life and death.

All things will die. After death, there will be a time for rebirth.

Is there anyone who can jump out of the Three Realms, let trillions of years wash away, and remain unmoved?

It is like a Buddha and a sage, sitting and watching the reincarnation of life and death in the hundreds of millions of universes, and admiring the living beings who suffer from reincarnation.

For no reason, Li Lian told the girl in front of him about his dream.

Cinder blinked his inorganic eyes like a delicate doll.

"Li Lian." She asked, "What are you after?" ”

"Pursue what? What else can be pursued in this reincarnation world? It's nothing more than detachment, detachment from this cycle. ”

"It's not just this reincarnated world, it's everything." Cinder said categorically.

Li Lian seemed to hear a drum-like heartbeat in his chest.

Transcendence!

Whether it's reincarnation, or reincarnation outside of reincarnation.

"That's fine." Hind's eyes closed slightly, and he said as if to himself, "I'll give you the grid." ”

"No, I think, it may not be so necessary anymore." Li Lian smiled mysteriously.

"Why?" Hind tilted his head and asked in confusion.

"I seem to ...... I vaguely understand the essence of 'lattice'. ”

Why are there eighteen squares? Why does gaining a grid increase in strength?

Li Lian will never forget the "gardener's" gaze in his dream.

——

The next day, the Storm Fortress broke into the territory of the Dragon Yuan Pavilion Lord.

A group of familiar and unfamiliar people gathered in Cambridge, and Li Lian saw the alchemist of the blade, commonly known as "Little Beanding", who originally belonged to the Elemental Oath, and the "Soul Ring" sword he used before was forged by this guy.

Next to Xiao Douding, a young man with a grim face and a rusty sword on his back. Li Lian remembered that his name was Feixue, and he was good at a stunt called "Invisible Sword Field", and the sword that was not good-looking was also S+ level.

There was also a red-haired little girl, Li Lian remembered her name as "gluttony", and she had the ability to devour the energy around her.

There are also some reincarnators who originally did not belong to the Elemental Oath, such as the Eagles of the Clock Tower, and the little evil who used to be related to each other.

In the western corner, Aurora was talking to a girl, and when she saw Li Lian coming in, Aurora beckoned.

"Her name is 'Wind Slash Chisaki,' you've seen it before, and she's beaten it." Aurora said with a smile as she pointed to the girl next to her. (To be continued.) )

PS: Two extra days of work on weekends (┬_┬)