After leaving the Hongmeng Space, Lin Zhongtian stayed in the second void space gap and continued to swallow the gray fog with anticipation.

Originally thought that the waiting time would be very long, unexpectedly, just one year later, Lin Zhongtian saw Hongmeng again.

But Hong Meng at this time is very different from what he was a year ago.

Lin Zhongtian could clearly sense the ancient and simple Taoist charm of the other party, which seemed like the universe itself...

Looking at the body that was forming in the gray fog, Hong Meng chuckled and said, "Daoyou, the time has come, you can enter the calamity!"

Lin Zhongtian seemed to realize something, and immediately frowned and asked: "You closed the Hongmeng space and adjusted the flow of time?"

Hong Meng nodded and smiled: "That's right."

Lin Zhongtian asked in astonishment: "How long has it been since the Hongmeng Space?"

Hong Meng thought about it and said calmly: "About a thousand epochs."

Lin Zhongtian asked doubtfully: "Yan Ji?"

Hong Meng smiled and said, "Oh, this is a unit of time measurement that I created based on the period of the four subsidiary universes orbiting the main universe. If converted into Earth time, one era is about 600 trillion years!"

Lin Zhongtian: “…”

In other words, he hadn't seen Hongmeng for a year, and Hongmeng hadn't seen him for countless billions of years.

Lin Zhongtian didn’t even dare to think about such a long time, but Hong Meng not only dared to think about it, but even dared to do it. Not only that, he even remembered the agreement between the two of them...

This may be the difference between innate holiness and acquired holiness!

Lin Zhongtian sighed in his heart as he followed Hongmeng into the Hongmeng space.

The Hongmeng Space today is not much different from that of more than a thousand epochs ago.

In the nearly infinite space, there is still only a floating island of land, on which there is a dilapidated thatched cottage and a sturdy and short osmanthus tree. Under the osmanthus tree there is a stone table and two stone benches.

Everything was no different from what Lin Zhongtian had seen at the beginning.

Compared with the unchanging Hongmeng space, the situations in the five universes are very different!

The originally empty universe is now filled with countless life forms.

Among them are the lives and races created by Hong Meng in these endless years, as well as many results of natural evolution.

Countless lives and races thrive in the five universes, developing one prosperous and splendid civilization after another.

But no matter how wonderful the development history of these civilizations was, they could not bring him such a strong surprise and shock like the Chinese civilization that Lin Zhongtian told him about that year.

This is not because Chinese civilization is so excellent, but because Chinese civilization was not within Hongmeng's expectations.

In contrast, there are billions of civilizations that have been born in the five universes in the past thousand epochs. The fate of each civilization can be seen clearly in front of Hongmeng like a picture scroll.

He could see the destruction of civilization thousands of years later when civilization was just emerging.

When a civilization destroys itself due to excessive prosperity, we can see the birth of new life hundreds of thousands of years later...

This sense of fate that everything is under control naturally cannot surprise Hongmeng at all.

Fortunately, there are still miracles in this world.

"There are fifty great ways, forty-nine of which are derived from the heavens, and one is lost."

"In the past one thousand epochs, many people with uncertain destinies were born, and my greatest pleasure during this period of time was to observe the lives of those people with uncertain destinies."

"Every time I see them making a choice different from their destiny at a critical juncture, I am always very surprised!"

Looking at the nostalgia and smile on Hong Meng's face, Lin Zhongtian couldn't help but ask, "People with such uncertain fates should be rare, right?"

Hong Meng nodded and said, "It is indeed rare, but not extremely rare. According to my estimation, there are about ten thousand people in each epoch. Over a thousand epochs, there are tens of millions of them."

...Listen, is this human language?

There are no more than 10,000 people in a Yanji era. Isn't that rare?

Converted into Earth time, that would only appear once every 600 million years!

Lin Zhongtian couldn't help but complain in his heart. Although he didn't know how long he had been sleeping after becoming the master of the void gap, but just looking at his own physical perception of time, he still had some awe for such a long time.

Compared with him, Hong Meng has obviously transformed into the mentality of a creator.

The smile on His face gradually faded, and He said with regret: "It's a pity that among the tens of millions of people whose fates I have observed, not a single one could break free from the constraints of the universe..."

"I hope that the person with an uncertain fate predicted by fellow Taoist will be an exception."

Lin Zhongtian smiled slightly: "Don't worry, he won't let you down."

That’s right. Before leaving Hongmeng Space, Lin Zhongtian once predicted a person with an uncertain fate, saying that he would most likely become the first being to break through the constraints of the universe.

Because of this, Lin Zhongtian planned to separate his consciousness into the universe created by Hongmeng before this person was born, to experience reincarnation and spiritual practice.

As for this person’s identity, yes, it is the protagonist of the novel “Panlong”, Linley Baruch!

Looking at the world sphere called "Magic Universe" next to the main universe, Hong Meng couldn't help but frowned.

He had seen the father of the doomed man, a mortal named Hog Baruch.

This person’s fate was extremely ordinary in His eyes. It could be said that He could see through it from beginning to end at a glance. Apart from the fact that he would give birth to Lin Lei, a person with an uncertain fate, there was nothing outstanding about his life.

Hong Meng would never pay attention to such a person before Lin Lei was born.

But Lin Zhongtian was able to predict at the beginning of His creation that he would give birth to a person with an uncertain destiny.

Hong Meng has been thinking about this problem for a long time, but has never come to any conclusion. He can only attribute it to Lin Zhongtian's special identity as the master of the void gap.

Thinking of this, Hong Meng turned his head and looked at Lin Zhongtian and said, "Hog Baruch's wife Lina is already pregnant. If you are planning to enter the calamity, now is a good time!"

Lin Zhongtian was slightly startled, and quickly said, “Wait, I don’t plan to replace Lin Lei!”

Hong Meng smiled and said, “Fellow Daoist, you misunderstood. If Lin Lei could really make it onto the list in the future, how could I bear to let him disappear…”

As he spoke, Hong Meng waved his sleeves and said with a smile: "Daoyou, please look!"

In an instant, a water mirror condensed in front of the floating island. In the water mirror was a beautiful pregnant lady, who was currently recuperating quietly in the protagonist's family's mansion.

"who is she?"

Lin Zhongtian asked with a frown.

Hong Meng smiled and said, "She was the mistress that Hogg Baruch's uncle kept outside. Her name was Fran Carson. The child in her belly is Uncle Hogg's posthumous child, Haven Baruch."

"In her original destiny, she and her posthumous son, Haven, died in Fenlai Royal City a month ago. I resurrected her and allowed her to stay in Yulan Continent in exchange for reincarnation into a wealthy family. Fortunately, she gave birth to a reincarnated Taoist friend not long after."

"Don't worry, fellow Taoist. Once you are born into the world, she will return to the underworld without leaving any causal ties behind..."

"Wait!" Lin Zhongtian interrupted Hong Meng and asked in surprise, "You want me to reincarnate as a member of the Baruch family?"

"…Is there any problem?"

“This is a big problem!”

Lin Zhongtian said unhappily, “Aren’t you afraid that my presence will prevent Lin Lei from transcending the universe?”

Hong Meng said calmly: "If he can be affected so easily, it can only prove that he is not worthy of being on the Hong Meng Gold List, let alone entering the Hong Meng Space and walking side by side with you and me!"

“…”

Lin Zhongtian frowned, thought for a moment, and nodded: "Okay, I understand what you mean!"

…

…

Wushan Town, the first mountain range in the Magnolia Continent, the 'Mountain Range of Monsters', is an ordinary town in the western Fenlai Kingdom.

In just two days, in this ordinary town, two babies destined to be different were born in Lord Baruch's family.

One of them is the eldest son of the patriarch Hog Baruch, and the legal heir to the Baruch family in the future.

As for the other one, although he was only the posthumous child of Uncle Hogg and an illegitimate child born to his mistress, he showed his extraordinary qualities in public as soon as he was born -

Because he can't cry.

When Hogg and Lina carried little Lin Lei into the delivery room, the baby who could not cry was opening his big black eyes, looking puzzledly at his cheap mother who passed away after giving birth to him, with a smile on her face.

Seeing this scene, Hogg and his wife Lina looked at each other, and both felt a little sympathy and a sense of responsibility for the child.

On the one hand, this sense of responsibility was due to sympathy for the child who lost his mother at birth. On the other hand, because Fran died with a smile on her face, Hogg and Lina mistakenly believed that the other party entrusted the child to them out of maternal love.

After a midnight discussion, the couple unanimously decided to formally bring the child into the Baruch family.

Although the nobles all attached great importance to orthodoxy, the Baruch family had now declined to the point where only the Hogg lineage remained. There were only two real members of the family, including the newly born eldest son Linley.

In this case, even if the child was just an illegitimate child, he was still an important member that Hogg had to take care of.

Because of this, they spent a lot of money to bribe the bishop of the church in the neighboring city to testify and clear the name of the newborn child.

Since then, the mistress Fran has become the cheap legal wife of Hogg's dead uncle, and the newly born baby boy, Little Haven, has officially taken on the surname Baruch and become the cousin of the clan leader Hogg...