On a vast and boundless land, Shen Lang was making arduous progress.
Here, there is neither day nor night.
There is only endless nothingness.
Ahead lay only deathly darkness.
The places Shen Lang walked through were gradually swallowed up by darkness.
He could only see the space within a ten-meter radius around him.
"Where exactly is this place?"
Why did I come here?
"Could this be the spacetime turbulence the little sprite was talking about?"
Shen Lang had asked himself these three questions countless times.
But he kept moving forward without stopping for a single step.
Even he himself was unclear about the purpose of his journey.
Shen Lang had no idea how long he had been walking on this land.
Perhaps it will be a year, ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years... or even... a million years...
Or perhaps, time doesn't exist in this place.
Finally, a towering mountain appeared in front of Shen Lang.
When Shen Lang reached the foot of the mountain, he saw a steep, naturally formed staircase.
Without any hesitation or pause, he began to climb.
The appearance of the stairs brought a glimmer of light to Shen Lang's otherwise bleak heart.
Because he can count numbers.
One, two, three, four...
Ninety-nine, one hundred, one hundred and one, one hundred and two...
Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine...
Just as Shen Lang was about to climb the ten thousandth step, an invisible wall blocked his way.
Then, an ethereal voice echoed in his mind.
The words spoken by this voice were beyond Shen Lang's comprehension.
Strangely, Shen Lang was able to understand what the other person was saying.
"Mortal, why have you come here?"
Shen Lang touched the invisible wall with both hands and murmured, "Why did I come here?"
"I have heard of an unspeakable place where the river of time exists."
"I want to find that river of time."
After Shen Lang finished speaking, the wall disappeared.
"Mortals, the river of time lies at the end of the Supreme Divine Mountain."
Looking at the seemingly endless mountaintop, Shen Lang murmured, "Supreme Divine Mountain? What is this?"
However, he didn't think much of it and continued climbing upwards with his head down.
When Shen Lang stepped onto the ten-thousandth step, he felt as if he were inside a volcano. The surrounding temperature gradually increased, and the two sides of the mountain suddenly turned into multicolored flames. The intense heat made Shen Lang want to retreat.
When he reached the ten millionth step, the surrounding volcanoes suddenly turned into snow-capped mountains.
Twenty million layers turned into thorns...
Thirty million layers transformed into weapons such as swords, spears, and halberds...
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When you reach the 99,999,999th step, the surrounding scenery changes again, and you return to the state of being at the bottom of the mountain.
When Shen Lang looked back, he found that the steps he had walked on had suddenly disappeared, and the area around him had turned into a bottomless abyss.
He saw countless skeletons lying in the abyss.
Some resemble human figures, while others resemble animal figures.
The smallest skeleton has fingers that can reach hundreds of meters in length.
Some skeletons stretch as far as the eye can see.
Shen Lang was deeply shocked by this scene.
He looked at the skeletons around him and asked in shock, "What...what are all these...?"
Shen Lang hoped that the voice would answer him, but the voice was as silent as if it had never appeared.
Shen Lang's intuition told him that he could only move forward now, with no way to retreat.
Now all he can do is keep climbing.
There is no way out.
When he stepped onto the hundred millionth step, the surrounding scenery instantly disappeared and began to change unpredictably.
Like flowing water, and like flowing light.
It felt like stepping into a time tunnel.
The steps beneath his feet also shortened, from a meter wide to just wide enough for two feet.
Shen Lang's legs trembled, and he almost fell.
"Damn it! What the hell is this thing?"
"This is a temporal turbulence. If you touch it, you will be banished outside of time and disappear from the history that once existed."
The ethereal voice appeared again, then disappeared once more.
"Disappear into history?"
"So, Xian'er and the others won't remember that I exist?"
Shen Lang murmured to himself, then continued climbing.
He now has nowhere to retreat.
I don't know how much time passed, or how many steps I climbed.
The moment he finished climbing all the steps, Shen Lang finally felt a great weight lifted off his shoulders.
In front of a square, Shen Lang lay on the ground, breathing in the air in large gulps.
"Finally... we've finished walking."
Then, that ethereal voice appeared again: "Mortal, your will intrigues me."
"Throughout the endless years, countless geniuses, emperors, immortal kings, and gods have climbed the Supreme Divine Mountain, and without exception, they have all failed."
"And you are just a mortal, yet you have reached the summit of the Supreme Divine Mountain."
Why did you come here?
Shen Lang lay on the ground, grinning, and said, "Of course, it's for the sake of existence."
"exist?"
Shen Lang said, "In your eyes, I am merely a cultivator in the Tribulation Transcending stage, not even as good as an ant."
"But in the world of my wife, my friends, and my family, I am their everything."
"I can't lose them, and they can't live without me."
"Even if it only exists in memory, that's enough."
Upon hearing Shen Lang's explanation, the ethereal voice replied with two emotionless words: "I don't understand."
"How can the gods know the happiness of mortals?"
Then, Shen Lang got up from the ground.
The robe with sun, moon and stars that Yu Xian'er had sewn for him by hand was already tattered, and his hair had been dragging on the ground for hundreds of meters.
He dragged his weary body to a towering, imperceptible black stone gate in front of the square.
"Mortal, the river of time lies behind the stone gate, but to open it, you need a key."
"What key?" Shen Lang asked, puzzled.
"Your system is the key to open the stone gate."
"The so-called Great Dao is fifty, and the Heavenly Evolution is forty-nine. The one that has escaped is the system you possess, and it is also the key to this stone gate."
"This system has evolved and changed countless times over the endless years."
"And you are just one of the ones he chose."
"What I didn't expect was that you arrived at the Supreme Divine Mountain millions of years ahead of schedule, and even miraculously reached the summit."
Shen Lang stared at the stone gate and murmured to himself, "Did I... succeed?"
The moment Shen Lang placed his hands on the stone door, the little elf suddenly appeared in front of him.
Meanwhile, Michelle and Gu Qingqing, the exchange's direct employees, suddenly lost their trading abilities at this moment.
At this point, the little elf was already the same height as Shen Lang.
When the little elf saw the scene around her clearly, she covered her mouth in shock and exclaimed, "Master, you...you actually came to the Supreme Divine Mountain..."
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