196: Parallel world, power from the future

Demon Realm East.

Essence Lin Chen continued his journey, estimated to take half a year to reach the location of the opportunity.

The Federation only had a rough map of the Demon Realm, which only allowed Lin Chen to determine his own position, but no other information.

The Demon Race was also a super race. Before the war with the Human Race broke out, although the Human Race tried its best to gather intelligence, it was ultimately unable to obtain too much information in the Demon Realm, which was full of Demon Race members.

Therefore, Lin Chen could only rely on himself, gradually traversing the Demon Realm starry sky, approaching the location of the opportunity.

Currently, he was almost completely blind, only able to proceed cautiously. Fortunately, his good luck status was excellent, allowing him to reach the location of the opportunity unimpeded.

The price was that too much good luck was consumed, and he might be immediately enveloped by bad luck after obtaining the opportunity, with a high probability of being discovered by the Demon Luck.

Being discovered by the Demon Luck was no different from being discovered by a Foundation Level Demon Race member.

At this point, all the Five Elements Clones had to be activated, using repeated unfortunate deaths to counteract the bad luck, keeping Lin Chen's good luck status continuously on him.

Demon Realm West.

God Lin Chen was even further from the location of the opportunity and still had to cross a complex area of 100 million light-years, estimated to take a year and a half to reach the location of the opportunity.

Traveling was always the longest part of acquiring an opportunity, especially for Lin Chen.

Acquiring opportunities was simple for him, but the various preparations beforehand were very tormenting.

Time was always passing.

In the blink of an eye, five months passed.

At this point, Lin Chen was 29 years old, less than a year away from his talent taking effect.

Therefore, within this year, Essence Lin Chen and God Lin Chen must obtain their opportunities. At that time, they would be able to leverage the talent amplification of Great Accomplishment Late Bloomer, greatly accelerating the speed of digesting the opportunities and significantly saving the time required to cultivate to the God rank.

The two of them had already roughly determined what their opportunities were.

Essence Lin Chen could obtain a large amount of ownerless malice, which could greatly increase the quantity of malice he controlled, steadily progressing towards the God rank.

God Lin Chen would also obtain a large amount of Void Power, which, combined with the Void Annihilation Spear, would greatly accelerate his Void Incarnation process and shorten the time to achieve Godhood.

This was merely the surface of the opportunities; the core of the opportunities was not yet fully perceived by the two, but it certainly wouldn't be anything inferior. After obtaining them, even if they were useless now, they would definitely be useful in the future.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth the two of them venturing deep into the Demon Realm, taking huge risks to snatch food from the tiger's mouth of the Demon Race.

Another month passed.

Essence Lin Chen successfully arrived at the location of the opportunity as perceived.

This was a desolate starfield, roughly 350,000 light-years in scope, where the Demon Realm Qi was sparse, malice was almost imperceptible, and various heaven and earth energies were invisible. It was very close to the Void, but not the Void.

Such a place was barren for the Demon Race, unable to give birth to any resources beneficial to them, and even having very little malice.

Compared to the Human Race, it was like a desert area, uninhabitable, unsuitable for farming, without water or spiritual energy, and even lacking common malice, thus having no development value.

Such places might hide some treasures.

However, after being occupied by the Demon Race for so many years, this area must have been explored. Since it remained in this state, either the treasures had been plundered, or it was simply a desolate land with no value whatsoever.

Essence Lin Chen had no particular thoughts at the moment; he merely followed the summons, entered the starfield, and gradually approached the opportunity through the karmic connection.

There was an opportunity belonging to him here; this was an unquestionable fact, so no matter how dilapidated this starfield was, it could not affect his determination to seek the opportunity.

Lin Chen had already approached the perceived opportunity, but no matter how he investigated, he could not obtain the opportunity in the current space; there wasn't even a shadow of it.

Yet, the opportunity was indeed right beside him; the power that summoned him, though faint, was very persistent.

“Is the opportunity not in the current space, but in an independent Parallel World?”

Lin Chen speculated.

This Universe can be seen as a main body, and around the main body, there will be many smaller main bodies attached. The smaller main bodies are the Great Worlds with a round heaven and square earth; although these Great Worlds are independent, they are still attached to the Main Universe and are located in the same layer of space as the Main Universe.

And there is another kind of world that overlaps the Main Universe, which people often call Parallel Worlds.

Parallel Worlds can be large or small; they have intricate connections with the Main Universe, but they are not on the same layer. Even if the Main Universe is destroyed, the Parallel Worlds will not be affected, and vice versa.

Generally speaking, Parallel Worlds are projections of the Main Universe, ninety-nine percent of which are false worlds. Everything obtained from them will turn into ashes upon returning to the Main Universe.

But there are no absolutes in life; there are always some Parallel Worlds that truly exist.

Clearly, the opportunity Lin Chen perceived was located in a real Parallel World.

Now there was a difficulty: how to enter the Parallel World.

Although Parallel Worlds and the current Main Universe have intricate connections, these connections cannot serve as a medium for Lin Chen to enter the Parallel World.

Whether it was time lines, fate lines, or causality lines, these strongly correlated connections were useless in the face of the Parallel World, given Lin Chen's cultivation and mastery. His power could not penetrate that invisible barrier.

“No wonder the Demon Race couldn’t discover this opportunity. Without precise information, even a Foundation Level would be at a loss. Entering a real Parallel World is even more difficult than entering a Foundation Level's spiritual world.”

“Let me think, how can I enter that real Parallel World?”

Lin Chen also became troubled. With his current accumulated knowledge and methods, he truly had no way to enter a real world.

It was like he was an ordinary person on Earth wanting to enter a two-dimensional world; without external intervention, he could only fantasize about it his entire life, unable to turn his thoughts into reality.

Because this kind of power, for an ordinary person, was too high-end and uncontrollable.

The Main Universe and Parallel Worlds are like the real world and a virtual world; there is a barrier in between, and ordinary power cannot break through this barrier, which is even unknowable and invisible.

The current Lin Chen was helpless, so the future Lin Chen exerted his power.

He had already embarked on the path of One Proof Eternal Proof, All Heavens Eternal.

His future self had already reached this level, so the future could influence the present.

Entering the Parallel World and obtaining the opportunity was an important node in Essence Lin Chen's cultivation career, a milestone on the path to becoming a source of malice.

Therefore, Aura, who in the future mastered Dao Fall Power and could cause the Dao Fall of all tangible and intangible concepts, projected a wisp of power from a future time node, flowing against the river of time, to appear before Essence Lin Chen.

The current Essence Lin Chen needed the power of the future Aura to obtain the opportunity. Similarly, the current Aura also needed the future God Lin Chen to save him.

Some futures are already destined; some presents are merely predetermined futures.

When Lin Chen's main body entered the Five Regions Great World and began to bind with the Five Regions Great World, the wonderful future was no longer a mystery; the future Lin Chen was destined to stand at the pinnacle.

Lin Chen at the pinnacle was active across countless timelines, meticulously reviewing the path he had traveled, using the future to rewrite the present.