Hongmeng?

Hearing these two words, Lin Zhongtian was suddenly shocked.

The beginning of Journey to the West says, "Before the universe was divided into heaven and earth, it was vast and boundless, and no one could see it. Since Pangu broke through the chaos, the world has been clear and turbid."

The so-called Hongmeng refers to the chaotic state of the universe before Pangu created the world. All the heavens and worlds, and everything that can be associated with these two words, are, without exception, extraordinary existences.

And the existence that can be named "Hongmeng" is even more exaggerated!

Lin Zhongtian could sense that this big man who called himself "Hongmeng" was definitely a great existence on the same level as God and Ilúvatar, and even his realm was higher than the former two.

Such a being suddenly saying something like "Fellow Daoist, please stay", would of course make Lin Zhongtian alert.

At this time, the big man who called himself Hongmeng seemed to realize that his words contained some ambiguity that could be easily misunderstood.

Although he didn't understand the reason yet, he was still willing to take the initiative to show some things to Lin Zhongtian to express his goodwill.

So, after a brief self-introduction, an extremely mysterious message that seemed to encompass everything came from Hong Meng.

Lin Zhongtian was slightly startled, and after a little thought, he decisively cut off a part of his main consciousness, allowing that part of his consciousness to receive the message.

In an instant, an incomparably huge amount of information exploded in that part of the consciousness, transforming into countless mysterious and wonderful streams of knowledge, rushing and flowing in that part of the consciousness, like a picture scroll slowly unfolding.

In just a moment, Lin Zhongtian seemed to see the entire process of the birth of the universe from nothing to something.

No, that’s not quite accurate, because the world at that time cannot be called the universe. It should be the chaotic space before the birth of the universe, which is the so-called Hongmeng.

In the Hongmeng space, all matter, energy, and even time and space are meaningless.

The only thing that exists is Hong Meng, or chaos itself.

If there is no external stimulation, the Hongmeng Space will remain in this state for endless years.

But at a certain moment, the Hongmeng Space was accidentally linked to the virtual space gap.

The gray fog from the gap in the void poured in. As an external stimulus, it caused the Hongmeng space to undergo earth-shaking changes.

This upheaval is so abstract that it is difficult to explain in words.

According to Lin Zhongtian's understanding, it was probably that 'nothing' came into contact with 'something'. In order to make 'something' exist, 'nothing' began to accept this concept and stimulation, and gave birth to a naturally great existence from 'nothing'.

There is no doubt that this naturally great being is Hong Meng who is communicating with Lin Zhongtian at this moment.

He was born divine and was the only "existence" in the Hongmeng space, so he controlled the entire Hongmeng the moment he was born.

But at the same time, because He is the only "existence", even if He was born, it would be meaningless.

Therefore, the strong sense of loneliness that belongs only to "existence" made him subconsciously want to do something.

If there were other great beings of the same kind, perhaps they would have a flash of inspiration and choose to create the world.

But Hong Meng was different. He was born in Hong Meng Space due to external stimulation. Therefore, after he had the idea of ​​doing something, his first reaction was a strong desire to explore the outside world...

After reading the message sent by Hongmeng, Lin Zhongtian was silent for a long time before he responded cautiously.

"So, I am the first life you have seen since you were born?"

"……life?"

Hongmeng sent a slightly doubtful message.

Since the communication between the two people is at the level of consciousness, many of the communications that seem to be dialogues are by no means as one-sided as words and language.

Just like the name Hong Meng, when Lin Zhongtian "heard" these two words, he naturally deduced a chaotic space in his consciousness.

Similarly, the word "life" spoken by Lin Zhongtian also made Hong Meng understand the concept of life.

He digested it for a moment, then said thoughtfully, "Life... I see. I have seen those beings you call life before, but at that time I thought they were part of the world. I never expected that they actually had self-awareness?"

...What else do you think?

Lin Zhongtian complained silently in his heart.

He had already seen that this guy must have seen life in the void gap a long time ago, and it was most likely the main god who had been active in this void gap and the reincarnations under his command.

However, because these guys were too insignificant in Hongmeng's eyes, they were directly ignored by Him.

It was not until he met Lin Zhongtian today that Hong Meng became spirited, thinking that he had finally met another being who could be considered as his own in the "silent" universe.

This naturally detached perspective is indeed consistent with His origin and person.

But compared with God, who is also the creator and maker, this big guy is obviously not mature enough.

In other words, He is still in the "infancy" among His kind...

Thinking of this, Lin Zhongtian's heart moved, and he murmured: "Daoyou Hongmeng..."

Lin Zhongtian had intended to impart some basic knowledge about the world and life to this big man, but he did not expect that he had just said the four words "Daoyou Hongmeng" and it caused a violent reaction from the other party.

"Fellow Daoist Hongmeng?!"

“…Fellow Daoist?!”

"road?!"

In just a few moments, Hong Meng's consciousness fluctuated violently.

Soon, His consciousness regained its calm, and He sent several messages with a slight smile.

"I see, I see, I understand!"

"Fellow Daoist, fellow Daoist, it's really an interesting name!"

"In that case, from now on, you and I will call each other fellow Taoists!"

At this point, Hong Meng said with emotion: "Sure enough, contacting the outside world is the right choice. I only communicated with you for a moment, and I gained new knowledge that I had never known for countless years before."

"It seems that in the future, I still need to communicate more with people like you..."

Lin Zhongtian said speechlessly: "Are you serious?"

Hong Meng asked doubtfully: "Isn't it?"

Lin Zhongtian was silent for a moment, and suddenly controlled the gray fog to condense, wrapping the separated part of consciousness, and transforming it into a human body composed purely of gray fog.

The seven orifices, five senses, limbs and bones were all lifelike, exactly the same as the life forms Hong Meng had seen before.

Seeing this scene, Hong Meng couldn't help but send out a signal of doubt.

Lin Zhongtian sighed, and said while controlling his gray mist body: "If you had communicated with a life form like this earlier, you would have obtained this so-called knowledge a long time ago!"

“…”

Hong Meng was silent for a moment, then asked doubtfully: "Can you communicate with them?"

"Of course, don't you..."

Before he finished speaking, Lin Zhongtian suddenly reacted.

I almost forgot that this guy is a creator-level existence!

Not only that, this guy is also a juvenile creator.

To know what he thought communication was like, just look at his previous actions - just for the sake of introducing himself, this guy directly stuffed all the massive knowledge about Hongmeng Space and his own birth into his mind!

The outrageousness of this behavior is no less than two countries sending Morse code to each other using nuclear bombs.

In other words, Lin Zhongtian's status is high enough and his consciousness is strong enough to bear this knowledge that is comparable to the Big Bang of the universe.

If it were an ordinary life, even someone as strong as Bai Lang and Yamu would be blown up by the knowledge in an instant.

Thinking of this, Lin Zhongtian considered his words and said, "There is not only one way of communication between lives. You and I can communicate indirectly through other ways, such as the language I am passing on to you now..."

As he spoke, Lin Zhongtian stuffed the Chinese language, writing, and the five thousand years of history of civilization development into his mind.

Hong Meng received this information without hesitation, and then his consciousness was silent but fluctuated violently for a long time.

After a long time, Hong Meng sighed with a complex tone.

“…It’s so beautiful!”

“Is this life? Is this civilization?”

“I’m feeling an emotion right now that I’ve never felt before.”

“Is that touching?”

"Yes, that must be touching!"

As Hongmeng's consciousness fluctuated, the boundless gray sea of ​​fog was suddenly pushed away by some force.

Mysterious gray spiritual energy emerged from the spatial coordinates where Hongmeng was located, evolving into earth, fire, wind and water in front of Lin Zhongtian's gray fog clone, instantly creating a floating island of land with a radius of tens of meters.

Immediately afterwards, countless gray spiritual energy gathered on the island to form a human figure that was neither tall nor short.

He was about thirty or forty years old, wearing a simple linen gown, with long black hair casually draped behind his head. Although the facial features on his human face were ordinary, he revealed an indescribable extraordinary temperament.

At this moment, the middle-aged man stood on the suspended land. With a slight wave of his sleeves, a stone table and two stone benches appeared beside him.

The steaming hot tea was served in a stone teacup and placed in front of two stone benches, as if waiting for the two to taste it.

"Daoyou, please take a seat."

The middle-aged man smiled and stretched out his hand, motioning Lin Zhongtian to visit the island.

The gentle voice echoed in this medium-sized space. Although it was not very pleasant to hear, it carried an indescribable charm of the Tao. It seemed that just by listening to Him speak, one could understand many profound principles.

Lin Zhongtian looked at the middle-aged man and the floating island in silence.

After a little hesitation, he decided to replace his current gray mist body with the main clone.

In an instant, a pure flesh and blood body appeared on this floating island that was out of tune with the surroundings.

Hong Meng was slightly startled, then smiled and said: "So that's how it is, this is the body of Daoyou walking in the human world!"

Lin Zhongtian stepped onto the floating island, sat in front of the stone table, and nodded, "Almost."

Hong Meng smiled and sat down opposite him, picked up the teacup, and asked, "Oh, by the way, I haven't asked for your name yet..."

Here it comes!

Lin Zhongtian coughed lightly and replied in the same tone as Hong Meng before: "My name is Lin Zhongtian, and I am the master of the void gap!"