Chapter 4802: Lin Moyu's Speculation
"It really is different now!"
The speck of soul merged into the rules, and no one discovered its existence.
By this means, Lin Moyu clearly saw the core of the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth.
The pagoda was still there, but it was no longer only nine stories; it now had nineteen.
Moreover, beside the pagoda, a palace had appeared.
The palace was resplendent in gold and jade, radiating an astonishing aura.
The palace and the pagoda were joined as one, forming the core of this Hongmeng Heaven and Earth.
As Lin Moyu observed the pagoda, he faintly sensed that something was off.
"This pagoda should not have only nineteen levels.
"It once collapsed."
"And not just the pagoda the palace as well.
"This palace should have been larger in the past, but it too collapsed.
"The traces are still here.
"Other things can deceive people, but the imprints of time and space cannot."
"As the core of heaven and earth, the pagoda's floors correspond to the number of cycles the heaven and earth have undergone.
"However many great cycles of heaven and earth there have been, that is how many levels the pagoda should have."
"After surpassing nine cycles, the pagoda will also exceed nine levels, and at the same time, a palace will appear."
"No matter how the core of heaven and earth changes, it always reflects the strength of that heaven and earth.
"After breaking through to the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth level, the strengthening of heaven and earth is no longer restricted.
"The more levels the pagoda possesses and the larger the palace, the stronger the heaven and earth."
"In the past, this heaven and earth should have been even stronger.
"But because of the Great Annihilation, it was wounded, and both the pagoda and the palace collapsed."
Lin Moyu saw this clearly through the rules.
The secrets of heaven and earth are countless, and all of them are hidden within the rules.
They are recorded and left within time and space.
As long as one can comprehend the ultimate principles within, one can use the rules to see a great many secrets.
For that reason, to the strongest beings, there are very few true secrets left in heaven and earth.
Lin Moyu might not be the absolute strongest of this Hongmeng Heaven and Earth, but he was able to see through the rules and glimpse the hidden truths within.
From the information obtained, he could analyze the various possibilities and arrive at the final answer.
The strongest beings are all intelligent, but there are still differences in how keen that intelligence is.
Someone like Lin Moyu, even if placed in another heaven and earth, would still be able to see the situation at a glance.
Within the rules, he had glimpsed the greatest secret of this Hongmeng Heaven and Earth: this heaven and earth had once been extremely powerful.
Its strength was represented by its core a pagoda that should once have had thirty nine levels, while the palace had been even more magnificent and vast than it was now.
But under the impact of the Great Annihilation, the pagoda collapsed from thirty nine levels down to nineteen, more than half destroyed.
The same thing happened to the palace, whose scale was drastically reduced.
Furthermore, this collapse was still ongoing.
If it continued, the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth would fall into complete ruin.
"The grand array that spans the entire heaven and earth, and those sky supporting pillars, it turns out they were meant to replace the core of heaven and earth, propping up this world."
"But even if they do this, it only slows the collapse of heaven and earth.
"If there is no further advance, then retreat is inevitable.
"If this heaven and earth cannot progress any further, it will collapse sooner or later."
"From this, the other party's goal is already clear.
"He does not simply want to refine the Yushen Heaven and Earth.
"Rather, it is because the Yushen Heaven and Earth is qualified to advance to Hongmeng Heaven and Earth that he wants to obtain it."
"After obtaining the Yushen Heaven and Earth, he will raise it to the Hongmeng level and then carry out a replacement…"
Lin Moyu could see that this Hongmeng Heaven and Earth had already been damaged at its very foundation.
If it were to fully recover or even advance further, the difficulty would be unimaginably great, almost impossible.
In that case, it would be better to change to another heaven and earth, to seek out another Hongmeng Heaven and Earth, or a nine cycle heaven and earth like Yushen that is qualified to advance.
He could pack up everything of his own and carry it over into a new heaven and earth, and could even use this Hongmeng Heaven and Earth to nurture the new one.
He had finally analyzed the other party's objective, and this also explained why the other party had allowed him to grow.
After all, before the Yushen Heaven and Earth passed its first cycle of life and death tribulation, and before its strength as a heaven and earth was fixed, that being could not interfere with his growth.
Now that the great tribulation of Yushen Heaven and Earth had passed and it had become a nine cycle heaven and earth with a deep and solid foundation, it possessed the qualification to advance to Hongmeng Heaven and Earth.
Once the fruit had ripened, the other party wanted to pluck it.
"It should be like this.
"The Chaotic Ancient Desolation should have been created by him through some means.
"He probably wanted to shape a nine cycle heaven and earth so he could then raise it up, but he failed and only managed to create a four cycle heaven and earth."
"And at the same time, he saw my appearance."
…
The riddle had finally been fully unraveled.
Even without seeing the true body of the other party, Lin Moyu had already obtained the correct answer just from observation.
Many things do not require the other side to explain; it is more important to see for oneself.
What the other party says is not necessarily true, but what one personally sees, gains, ponders, and infers is very likely to be true.
Perhaps it was somewhat arbitrary, but sometimes things are exactly like that.
Lin Moyu had always been decisive to the point of arbitrariness.
He had been like this before and would likely remain so in the future.
This was his Dao heart and would not change easily.
Having seen almost all that could be seen outside the core of heaven and earth, Lin Moyu turned his gaze toward its interior.
Within the palace, an aura naturally rose and dispersed; there was someone inside.
There was only one person in all existence who could live within the core of heaven and earth, and no second.
The Undying Eye opened, and a blazing cluster of soul flame suddenly surged up.
In Lin Moyu's sight, that soul flame swept through the void, nearly filling the entire heaven and earth, boundless and without limit.
Everywhere was suffused with his will, his soul, and his power.
The soul flame pulsed rhythmically, its frequency not high.
From Lin Moyu's experience, he judged that the being was sleeping.
Yet the rhythm of the pulses faintly showed a trend of speeding up…
"He is indeed asleep, but it seems he is about to wake up."
"He is the formation eye of the entire grand array, and if he wants to awaken, he will probably need some time yet."
In Lin Moyu's estimation, with the current pace, the other party would be able to awaken in about a hundred years.
For that being, this sleep was extremely long, and fully recovering would also take a very long time.
However, though a hundred years sounded long, to Lin Moyu it felt somewhat short.
"In that case, let you sleep a bit longer."
All the answers he wanted had already been obtained, so there was no longer any meaning in keeping the speck of soul there.
Following Lin Moyu's will, the power contained within the speck of soul slowly rose.
The speck shed its concealment and was immediately detected by the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth.
"Who is it!"
A low shout rang out from the palace as four people in purple robes flew out.
They looked around in all directions but did not discover the speck of soul.
The speck of soul was invisible to the naked eye, completely undetectable by normal means, and even the strongest beings would not necessarily be able to see it.
The four people in purple robes were exactly the same as those who had previously appeared outside the Yushen Heaven and Earth: all of them were clones, and all stronger than ordinary peak powerhouses.
Though he was sleeping, he had still left enough clones behind to guard him.
This way, he could be sure that nothing would go wrong.
Their eyes searched, and at last they saw the speck of soul within the rules but it was already too late.
The speck of soul suddenly exploded.
That tiny speck of soul contained an unimaginably vast power within it.
All that power of heaven and earth it had absorbed had not been for nothing.
A wild gale swept out, darkening the sky and covering the earth.
The four purple robed clones stood motionless within the storm, but they completely lost track of the speck of soul.
After the speck of soul exploded, it did not completely vanish.
The accumulated power turned into several runes, which merged into the rules.
The runes silently altered the formation, slowing the other party's awakening.
The hundred years that had been left were forcibly stretched several times over by a few runes.
For at least five hundred years, the other party would not be able to fully awaken.
As long as that being did not awaken, these few clones would not dare to move recklessly especially now that someone had already entered the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth.
Lin Moyu had calculated his reaction, and the other side would, in all likelihood, wait until he had fully awakened before making a move.
In this way, enough time would be won for himself.