Chapter 400: Second Floor: Bottomless Abyss

Weightlessness, rotation.

This is how Xia Lin felt when he fell from the first level of the dream in which the old days reappeared into the second level.

At first, he thought it was a kind of teleportation, but as he fell deeper and deeper, the feeling of weightlessness became unstoppable and never stopped. Xia Lin quickly reacted.

——This is not teleportation, this is simply a fall.

He is falling into the abyss...

A faint light filled his eyes, and Xia Lin looked around.

The scene of this abyss is almost completely dark. Above the head is the shrinking second-floor hole, and nearby is nothingness with almost no matter.

But soon, sporadic rays of light fell into my eyes.

The source of the light was located below Xia Lin and attracted Xia Lin's attention the moment it appeared.

He slightly adjusted his posture and looked down, and saw that the light source was getting closer and bigger. Soon its true appearance was revealed. It turned out to be a colorful luminous body with a diameter of several kilometers.

The appearance of this luminous body is like a trigger.

More luminous bodies of varying sizes flickered deeper into the abyss.

An idea arose in Xia Lin's mind. He no longer hesitated, and with a burst of energy, he advanced towards the first luminous body and finally dived into it.

But this time, there is no feeling of weightlessness.

It was like penetrating a layer of water film, and the dizziness disappeared in a flash.

The next second, Xia Lin was already standing on solid ground, appearing on a blue planet.

The air was filled with the smell of the sea, and tourists were playing in the waves ahead.

He was standing on the beach, and the sudden change of scene made Xia Lin feel a strange sense of confusion.

Just then, footsteps were heard behind me.

Someone suddenly patted Xia Lin on the shoulder, causing Xia Lin to turn around and look behind him.

Then he saw a man in a life jacket, who curiously asked him, "Sir, do you need help?"

Xia Lin shook his head, and the lifeguard nodded and smiled, "Have fun, sir."

Then walk away.

Xia Lin turned his head and looked at the bustling coastline again, and he had a clear guess about the nature of this place.

"A subconscious fragment of the original dark side..."

…

At this moment, Xia Lin has already vaguely realized the nature of the dark world and what he is experiencing.

The essence of the dark world, to put it bluntly, is the subconscious reflection of the original dark side.

And the first layer: the reappearance of the old days, is the most impressive scene of the original dark side - that is the scene when the old days ended.

Therefore, the rules in the re-enactment of the past are almost real, and the entire scene is no different from reality - it is natural that the consciousness projection of the six pillars has such power.

At the moment when the two pillars fought, due to the stress of the original dark side, a cosmic bug appeared, the first layer of dreams collapsed, and the passage to the second layer opened.

The so-called second layer, where Xia Lin is now, is the bottomless abyss with a large number of luminous bodies.

"The essence of this place is actually the deeper consciousness of the original dark side..."

Xia Lin can describe the current situation with a movie he watched before traveling through time: Inception.

The reappearance of the past is the first level of dream.

And this bottomless abyss in front of us is the second level of dream.

Of course, unlike in the movies, different levels of dreams here have different rules.

"The second layer, the Abyss Dream Layer, does not have a complete scene. Instead, it is filled with scattered, different subconscious fragments."

"Each ball of light is a fragment of the subconscious, corresponding to a different scene from the past."

Scattered and broken is the true portrayal of this place.

And fragmentation and fragmentation bring disorder and chaos.

“But this is like a real dream…”

The next second after Xia Lin understood this logic, he suddenly felt his body floating, as if his soul had left his body.

The perspective quickly rose, but the person in the dream below did not notice Xia Lin's abnormality and still maintained his original behavior.

Soon, Xia Lin fell into a trance, and when he opened his eyes again, he had already escaped from this subconscious fragment and reappeared in the bottomless abyss.

The energy eruption resisted the pull similar to that of gravity. Xia Lin stood in front of this fragment of subconsciousness and looked at the environment of the second layer of the bottomless abyss again.

Just above our heads, the connecting passage between the first and second floors was completely closed.

Xia Lin shrugged slightly: "I should be the last person to pass through the passage, so right now, my progress is the slowest, and the others are probably below me."

Including Wuxin and the clones of Shuangzhu.

Xia Lin looked down at his feet again.

"The cosmic bug has fallen deeper into the abyss. If you want to achieve the twelfth level of the cosmic bug, you must drill deeper."

"And according to my previous judgment, the deeper we go into the abyss, the closer we are to the original dark side...Who knows what kind of troubles we will encounter as we go deeper?"

"But if we don't go deeper..." Xia Lin looked up at the sky, then shook his head and said, "There is no way back, and staying here is not a good idea."

Xia Lin had figured out the rules of the second level - just drill down, there was only one way anyway...

As soon as the thought came to him, Xia Lin reduced the energy output power. The pulling feeling emerged again, pulling Xia Lin to fall deeper.

The speed was not fast, which gave Xia Lin more time to think.

"I don't know how deep the universe bug has fallen... Fortunately, this time I am not here for the universe bug, I am here for Wuxin."

"But right now, compared to being careless, there is actually another thing that is quite important... to learn skills from the Immortal Emperor and Demon Emperor of the past."

Just now on the first floor, Xia Lin took a big risk and completed his first witness of the Immortal Emperor and Demon Emperor's skill set.

But according to the rules of eternal engraving, witnessing it once is not enough to obtain the skills... He must personally endure the opponent's skills three times before he can engrave the relevant skills and turn them into his own.

There is no need to even think about it; it is 100% impossible to do.

——The two guys above are so powerful that if you dare to touch their skills, you will die.

So even though he had realized this problem early on, Xia Lin didn't have the courage to touch the energy tide generated by the fight between the two, which was tantamount to suicide.

However, the subsequent actions of the two made Xia Lin see an opportunity.

——The Demon Emperor and the Immortal Emperor both condensed their clones and threw them into the bottomless abyss, which was now right under his feet.

Yes, Xia Lin knew that the Six Pillars were very strong. He knew it before, and now he was even more certain of the strength of the Six Pillars.

However, the two pillars in the reappearance of the past were just the remnants of the past, and they had not achieved the six pillars. Their strength must be far inferior to that of the current Lord of Heaven and the Demon Emperor of Soul Control. Xia Lin even felt that this was not only a problem of the status of the six pillars. In real history, the strength of the Immortal Emperor and the Demon Emperor of this period should have far exceeded their performance in the previous battle of the two pillars.

Because this is just a fake body created by the subconscious of the original dark side... Xia Lin doesn't believe that this fake can be the same as the real one.

This is the first weakness.

Then, the Demon Emperor created a clone with his little finger, and the Immortal Emperor created a clone with the blood from the tip of his tongue and his teeth.

The strength of this clone must be much weaker than the main body.

This is the second weakest.

The buffs are already stacked enough... I can't touch the real six pillars, and I can't touch the fake afterimages of the past, but I, Xia Lin, can't be unable to touch the clones differentiated from the afterimages of the past, right?

And once the plan succeeds, if Xia Lin can really get the absolute balance or one of the equations of heaven from the clone of the old shadow...

The plan is great, and the difficulty... doesn't seem to be that great.

"Three times. You only need to endure it three times in person..."

This is totally worth the gamble!

Just as Xia Lin was daydreaming, the unusual movement above his head suddenly attracted Xia Lin's attention.

He frowned and looked up, and saw that as the passage between the first and second floors was completely closed, a huge number of shadows suddenly appeared out of thin air at the top of the bottomless abyss!

Overwhelming malice swung out from the shadows, and then all kinds of indescribable strange things began to wriggle and crawl.

In the portable space, the book of the spirit world suddenly glowed, and the blazing light and heat forced Xia Lin to take out the book of the spirit world and hold it in his hands.

Then, the malicious aura began to slowly flow towards the Spirit World Book, and was absorbed and transformed by the Spirit World Book.

It’s just because the volume is too small to give rise to new entries.

“Evil God…”

Xia Lin sighed softly and was not prepared to face the evil gods directly. Instead, he increased his speed of falling to distance himself from the evil gods.

From Qin Tai's cold words, Xia Lin had long known that the evil gods had actually entered the dark world first, but in the first level of the reappearance of the past, no one saw any trace of the evil gods.

The sudden appearance of the evil gods also made Xia Lin realize that these evil gods did not disappear, but because of their special status and being too deeply involved in the original dark side, they have certain special features in the dark world.

This special feature allows the evil god to appear naturally in the second layer, the bottomless abyss, without having to experience the first layer of the past reappearance.

But right now, the evil gods are gathering together, and there are too many of them... Even though Xia Lin has the book of the spiritual world, he dare not offend them.

Fortunately, the evil gods don't care about Xia Lin.

The maliciousness of the book from the spiritual world gave Xia Lin the aura of an evil god. In the eyes of the evil god, Xia Lin was the same as his own kind.

Perhaps under normal circumstances, this effect would bring certain benefits or troubles to Xia Lin, but under the current situation of a large number of evil gods gathering together, their own kind were obviously not worthy of attention.

The evil gods have clearer goals!

Xia Lin, who was diving deep down, suddenly stopped.

He saw that the evil gods had arrived in front of the first subconscious fragment and immediately drilled in.

The subconscious fragment that was originally glowing with colorful light gradually dimmed, and black light emerged from the depths of this subconscious fragment.

This is a form of pollution...

The evil gods are polluting the subconscious fragments of the original dark side.

In just less than a minute, this fragment of subconsciousness completely turned black.

Afterwards, evil gods of various shapes emerged from the fragments of the subconscious, tearing and swallowing with all kinds of mouthparts and in different ways.

Eventually, the subconscious fragments were completely devoured by the evil gods... This group of wandering evil gods continued to move deeper into the layers, searching for their next prey.

——The relationship between evil gods and subconscious fragments is like that between hunter and prey.

But Xia Lin didn’t understand for the time being what benefits the evil god would gain from swallowing the subconscious fragments of the original dark side, and what impact it would have on the original dark side.

Seeing the evil gods approaching again, Xia Lin increased his falling speed again.

This reminded Xia Lin of a game from his previous life - Temple Run...

This group of monsters called evil gods are forcing all those who enter the second level of the abyss to go deeper into the abyss.

At this point, Xia Lin no longer hesitated or delayed.

The goal has been determined, and the general rules of this level have also been learned.

The thread of cause and effect spread out from the body, and at the same time, Xia Lin used the tracking card again to track Wuxin's location.

Everything went well at first.

The causal entanglement located the positions of Donald and others, and the tracking card locked onto Wuxin's position.

But just a few seconds later, the line of cause and effect suddenly broke, and even a strange force followed the line of cause and effect and penetrated into Xia Lin's body, making Xia Lin's face turn pale and vomit blood on the spot. His soul was about to collapse and his body was about to be torn into pieces, but he saved his life under the power of fair trade.

Xia Lin, who was almost killed by the backlash of cause and effect, had a smile on his face.

The reminder sound of the Jhin area ringing in his ears made Xia Lin smile even more.

[Eternal engraving takes effect! ]

[You have engraved skills: Soul Strike, Dark Divine Light...Heavenly Equation! ]

[Current number of engravings: 2 times! ]

Therefore, the person who attacked Xia Lin across the line of cause and effect became clear at a glance - it was the incarnation of the Immortal Emperor and the Demon Emperor!

Xia Lin used the causal entanglement to track the two, but not only was it fruitless, but they launched a counterattack along the line of cause and effect... If it weren't for the fair trade, Xia Lin's bargaining chips were too strong, and the Eternal Inscription weakened the power of these skills by half after the first witness. This wave was enough to hit Xia Lin's resurrection method... Even the resurrection method might be useless in front of these two six-pillar afterimage clones.

"But there is no if, it is done!"

Taking great risks, Xia Lin successfully completed the second inscription on the two people (witnessed as the first).

The four engraving progress of some skills has been completed halfway.

Among them, there is one of the two skills that Xia Lin wants most: the core skill of the Immortal Emperor: the Equation of Heaven!

The two clones of the six-pillar afterimage seemed to know who the attacker was. The Demon Emperor held back and did not use absolute balance, as a lesson for Xia Lin. The clone of the Immortal Emperor, however, aimed to kill, and simply mixed the power of the Heavenly Dao Equation into the counterattack.

And the current result shows the fact that the power of the clone of the Immortal Emperor's afterimage is not enough to kill Xia Lin instantly!

This also means that Xia Lin has the confidence and capital to fight against this clone!

Using a fair trade without chips as a means of recovery, as long as Xia Lin is not killed instantly, then we can fight!

The power of cause and effect entanglement was unleashed once again, but this time, the clones of the Immortal Emperor and the Demon Emperor could no longer be traced - they each used their own methods to block the power of cause and effect entanglement.

But it doesn't matter.

"The purpose of the Demon Emperor creating the clone is to hunt down Wuxin."

"From what happened on the first floor just now, Wuxin has established a connection with the Immortal Emperor's afterimage and even gained his trust. The Immortal Emperor's afterimage created a clone in order to counter the Demon Emperor's clone and protect Wuxin."

"Wuxin is the key and focus of the confrontation between these two clones!"

According to this logic, as long as Xia Lin finds Wuxin, he can find the Immortal Emperor and the Demon Emperor!

"So, the two main plots of killing Wuxin and engraving skills have been merged again."

The convergence of events will bring greater risks and more uncontrollable factors, but it will also bring more benefits and gains.

In the bottomless abyss, Xia Lin no longer suppressed the pulling force coming from the abyss.

He even took the initiative to burst out his strength, combining it with the pulling force to speed up again.

Like a burning star across the bottomless abyss.

Behind the meteor, one indescribable evil god after another slowly advanced, like the collapsing sky.

Xia Lin left all the subconscious fragments, big and small, behind him. He was too lazy to even think about what kind of scenes from the past existed in these subconscious fragments.

The past is not important...Xia Lin is not a historian.

I don’t know how much time has passed, and I don’t know how deep I have gone.

After the seventh tracking card was used by Xia Lin, Xia Lin finally slowed down and stopped in front of a subconscious fragment as big as a star.

Endless light burst out from these fragments of the subconscious mind. The light was not single, but filled with various colors.

And at the core of this subconscious fragment, Xia Lin vaguely saw a golden light flickering...that seemed to be the cosmic bug that fell into the bottomless abyss.

It fell into this subconscious fragment... I don't know how to get the cosmic bug out of it...

This thought flashed through his mind, and Xia Lin no longer paid attention to the cosmic bug. He just stopped and squinted his eyes to look at it, marveling at the size of this subconscious fragment.

This size already shows the importance of this subconscious fragment.

And the information on the tracking card shows that Wuxin is among them!

Without much thought, Xia Lin plunged in.

…

The feeling of entering this fragment of the subconscious is the same as the first time.

However, when Xia Lin opened his eyes, the scene he saw was completely different from the last time.

A cold and dead silence suddenly appeared on the surface of the body, filled with the smell of a silent universe, and a faint smell of blood...

Xia Lin opened his eyes and looked around, and found that he was indeed in the starry sky.

Ahead, a pale blue planet came into view.

But the most eye-catching thing is not this beautiful life-bearing planet, but its satellite.

The pitted satellite was not large in size, and the space around it was wrinkled. The witness's super vision penetrated the wrinkled space and clearly saw the existence hidden deep in that space.

"Demon Palace? The Demon Palace again!?"

Yes, it’s the Demon Palace again!

A more complete Demon Palace than when the first level was restored.

However, the aura was much weaker... It didn't have that sharp, sharp smell of a blood feud and the horror of killing everything. Instead, the core of it revealed a smell of decay, corruption and old age.

This made Xia Lin frown slightly, wondering what such a demonic palace represented.

Until a faint light flashed before his eyes, and an inexplicable figure appeared out of nowhere not far from Xia Lin.

The essence of this figure is undoubtedly the fake person in this subconscious fragment... His strength is probably not outstanding. Even though the rules of the new and old universes are different, Xia Lin still feels that this person's strength should be lower than his own.

Therefore, this person did not notice Xia Lin's existence, but walked quietly towards the space layer around the satellite like a thief.

"He wants to go to the Demon Palace..."

The voice suddenly sounded in Xia Lin's ears, causing Xia Lin to shudder.

Because he didn't realize in advance who the owner of the voice was!

But when Xia Lin turned around, he felt that he was not aware of this person's existence, which was natural.

Because the person who appeared out of nowhere near Xia Lin was the Demon Emperor's clone that Xia Lin had been searching for.

And he seemed to have appeared here a long time ago and had been waiting for who knows how long.

At this moment, the blood and animality in the eyes of the Demon Emperor's clone had weakened a bit, but still existed.

And unlike the afterimage of the Demon Emperor seen on the first floor, the face of this clone was filled with obvious emotional fluctuations.

It is remembrance, curiosity, and regret.

Without Xia Lin saying anything, the Demon Emperor's clone had already raised his hand and pointed at the stealthy figure.

"His name is Bai... He was my friend during this period. Well, a friend and an enemy, right? But that's not important. The key is that this guy really gave me a big job."

The Demon Emperor's incarnation gritted his teeth as he spoke these words, and the red light in his eyes became even more intense.

However, soon, the Demon Emperor himself became deflated.

Because the past has passed, He seems to have understood the nature of this place and his own mode of existence.

Everything that was fake, including himself, suppressed the Demon Emperor's anger to some extent. Perhaps in the eyes of the Demon Emperor, the fake "him" venting his anger in fake subconscious fragments was too playful and too incompetent...

He just turned and looked at Xia Lin.

"Just a quick chat?"

Xia Lin asked carefully: "What are you talking about?"

"The future. My future that has not yet appeared before or now."

This clone of the Demon Emperor not only understood his own existence mode, but also seemed to understand the existence logic of Xia Lin Wuxin and others.

The current scene is equivalent to you suddenly meeting a reborn person, and you can't wait to get some news about the future trend and your own destiny from him.

Xia Lin sighed slightly: "This is a long story. Compared to this, I am more curious about this subconscious fragment. What is going on? What time node does it present?"

The Demon Emperor suppressed his curiosity, twitched the corner of his mouth, and spoke slowly.

"What you are seeing now is the cause of everything... the time when that damn Immortal Emperor is about to be resurrected."

…

In the same subconscious fragment.

In the old days, on Earth that had not yet been taken over by the Immortal Emperor.

Wuxin traveled through the battlefield between humans and demons called the Two Worlds Battlefield, and went deeper into this subconscious fragment.

And just behind Wuxin, the Immortal Emperor's clone was like a shadow, sticking closely to Wuxin's back.

"I see. The future will develop in this way. Interesting."

The Immortal Emperor's voice was also not gloomy or hoarse, but rather full of enthusiasm.

Just as Wuxin appeared in front of a transmission passage leading to an unknown place, the voice of the Immortal Emperor sounded again behind him.

"And the plan you are executing right now is indeed a routine that I would come up with..."

"Well, go ahead and do it. Even if all this is fake, it is really fun to see the old master get humiliated."

Wu Xin smiled and raised his leg, heading towards the transmission channel: "Son, I will definitely not let you down..."

However, just as these words came out, the Immortal Emperor's voice suddenly rang out again.

"Wait... this transmission channel has been used before..."

"It seems like someone got ahead of us and went to find that old Lord in advance."

(End of this chapter)