My skills have mutated again!

Chapter 400, Second Level: Bottomless Abyss
Weightlessness, rotation.

This is Xia Lin's feeling as she falls from the first layer of the dream world, recreating the past, into the second layer.

At first, he thought it was a teleportation, but as he fell deeper and deeper, the weightlessness became uncontrollable and never stopped. Xia Lin quickly realized what was happening.

This isn't teleportation; it's just a simple fall.

He is falling into an abyss...

A faint light filled his eyes as Xia Lin looked around.

The abyss was almost entirely black, with a shrinking two-tiered void overhead and nothingness nearby, almost devoid of matter.

But soon, a few scattered rays of light entered their eyes.

The source of the light was located below Xia Lin and attracted her attention the moment it appeared.

He slightly adjusted his posture and looked down, and saw that the light source was getting closer and bigger. Soon its true form was revealed, and it turned out to be a seven-colored luminous object with a diameter of several kilometers.

The appearance of this luminous object served as a catalyst.

More luminous objects of varying sizes shimmered deeper into the abyss.

An idea arose in Xia Lin's mind. Without further hesitation, he charged toward the first luminous object with a burst of energy and finally plunged into it.

This time, however, there was no feeling of weightlessness.

As if penetrating a film of water, the dizziness vanished in an instant.

The next second, Xia Lin found himself on solid ground, on a blue planet.

The air was filled with the salty smell of the sea, and tourists were playing and splashing in the waves ahead.

He was standing by the sea when the sudden change of scenery gave Xia Lin a strange sense of disorientation.

Just then, footsteps sounded behind me.

Someone suddenly patted Xia Lin on the shoulder, causing Xia Lin to turn around and look behind her.

Then a man wearing a life jacket asked him curiously, "Sir, do you need help?"

Xia Lin shook his head, and then the lifeguard nodded and smiled, saying, "Then I hope you have a good time, sir."

Then they walked away.

Xia Lin turned to look at the bustling coastline again, and then had a clear guess about the nature of this place.

"Fragments of the subconscious from the primordial dark side..."

……

Xia Lin has now vaguely sensed the nature of the Dark Realm and what he is currently experiencing.

The essence of the Dark Realm, to put it simply, is a subconscious reflection of the primordial dark side.

The first layer, "The Past Reappears," is the most profound image of the original dark side—the image of the end of the past.

Therefore, the rules in the reappearance of the past are almost real, and the whole scene is no different from reality—it is only natural that the consciousness projection of the Six Pillars has such power.

At the moment the two pillars clashed, the stress on the primordial dark side caused a cosmic bug to appear, the first layer of the dream collapsed, and a passage to the second layer was opened.

The so-called second layer is the bottomless abyss where Xia Lin is currently located, filled with a large number of luminous objects.

"The essence here is actually just the deeper part of the original dark side of consciousness..."

Xia Lin could describe her current situation using a movie she watched before her time travel: Inception.

The reappearance of the past is the first layer of the dream.

And this bottomless abyss is the second layer of the dream.

Of course, unlike in the movies, different levels of dreams here have different rules.

"The second layer, the bottomless abyss dream layer, does not have a complete scene. Instead, it consists of scattered and different fragments of the subconscious."

“Each sphere of light is a fragment of the subconscious, corresponding to a different scene from the past.”

Scattered and fragmented are the true characteristics of this place.

However, the fragmentation and disarray brought about disorder and chaos.

"But this feels more like a real dream..."

The very next second after Xia Lin understood this logic, he suddenly felt his body float up, as if his soul had left his body.

The camera zoomed out quickly, but the person in the dream below did not notice Xia Lin's strange behavior and continued to act as before.

Soon, Xia Lin was in a daze, and when he opened his eyes again, he had already broken free from this fragment of subconsciousness and reappeared in the bottomless abyss.

The energy eruption resisted the pull of gravity, and Xia Lin stood in front of this fragment of subconsciousness, once again examining the environment of the second layer of the bottomless abyss.

Right above their heads, the connecting passage between the first and second floors was completely shut down.

Xia Lin shrugged slightly: "I should be the last person to pass through the passage, so right now, I'm the slowest. Everyone else is probably right under my feet."

This includes Wuxin and the clones of Shuangzhu.

Xia Lin then looked down at her feet.

"The cosmic bug has fallen into the deeper abyss. To achieve level twelve in the cosmic bug achievement, you must delve deeper."

"Based on my assessment just now, the deeper we go into the bottomless abyss, the closer we get to the primordial dark side... Who knows what trouble we'll encounter as we go deeper?"

“But if we go deeper…” Xia Lin looked up at the sky, then shook his head and said, “There’s no way back, and staying here isn’t going to make a difference.”

Xia Lin had finally figured out the strategy for the second level—just keep going down, since there was only one way...

With a thought, Xia Lin reduced the power output of his energy, and the pulling sensation surged again, dragging Xia Lin deeper into the depths.

The pace wasn't fast, which gave Xia Lin more time to think.

"The universe bug has fallen to an unknown depth... Fortunately, I didn't come for the universe bug this time, I came for Wuxin."

"But now, compared to being heartless, there is another thing that is also quite important... to extract skills from the former Immortal Emperor and Demon Emperor."

Just on the first level, Xia Lin took a great risk and completed his first witness to the skill set of the Immortal Emperor and Demon Emperor.

However, according to the rules of eternal engraving, witnessing it once is not enough to acquire the skill... He must personally endure the other party's skill three times in order to engrave the relevant skill and transform it into his own.

This was something that shouldn't even be considered; it was absolutely impossible.

—Those two guys are so powerful, if you dare to use their skills, you'll die.

So even though Xia Lin was aware of this problem early on, he didn't have the guts to touch the energy tide generated when the two clashed, which would be tantamount to suicide.

However, their subsequent actions gave Xia Lin an opportunity.

—The Demon Emperor and the Immortal Emperor both condensed avatars and threw them into the bottomless abyss, which is now right beneath their feet.

Yes, Xia Lin knew that the Six Pillars level was very strong. He knew it before, and now he was even more certain of the strength of the Six Pillars level.

However, the two pillars in the reappearance of the past are merely remnants of the past and have not yet achieved the status of six pillars. Their strength is inevitably far inferior to that of the Heavenly Dao Creator and the Soul-Controlling Demon Emperor at this moment. Xia Lin even felt that this was not just a matter of the six-pillar status. In real history, the strength of the Immortal Emperor and Demon Emperor at this time should have far exceeded their performance in the previous battle of the two pillars.

Because this is just a fake created by the original dark side of the subconscious... Xia Lin doesn't believe that this fake can be the same as the real one.

This is the first weakness.

Then, the Demon Emperor used his little finger, and the Immortal Emperor used his tongue, blood, and teeth to create clones.

The clone's strength must be much weaker than the main body's.

This is the second weakest.

I've already stacked enough buffs... I can't touch the real Six Pillars, and I can't touch the fake Remnants of the Past, but surely I, Xia Lin, can't touch the clones that the Remnants of the Past have created?
If the plan succeeds, and Xia Lin can indeed obtain one of the absolute balance formulas or the Heavenly Dao equations from the remnants of the past...

The plan is beautiful, and the difficulty... doesn't seem too great.

"Three times, you only need to experience it yourself three times..."

This is totally worth the gamble!
Just as Xia Lin was lost in thought, a strange movement above his head suddenly caught his attention.

He frowned and looked up, only to see that as the passage between the first and second levels was completely sealed off, a massive number of shadows suddenly appeared out of thin air at the top of the bottomless abyss!

An overwhelming malice poured forth from the shadows, and then all sorts of indescribable monsters began to wriggle and crawl.

Within his personal space, the Spirit World Book suddenly emitted a bright light, the intense light and heat forcing Xia Lin to take it out and hold it in his hand.

Thus, the malevolent aura began to slowly flow into the Spirit World Book, where it was absorbed and transformed.

The problem is that the quantity is too small to generate new entries.

"Evil God..."

Xia Lin sighed softly, not intending to confront the evil gods directly. Instead, he increased his descent speed to distance himself from them.

From Qin Tai's cold words, Xia Lin already knew that the evil gods had actually entered the Dark Realm first, but no one saw any trace of the evil gods in the first layer of the Old Days Reappearance.

The sudden appearance of the evil gods made Xia Lin realize that these evil gods had not disappeared, but were simply in a special state and deeply tainted by the original dark side, which gave them certain special characteristics in the dark realm.

This unique characteristic allows the evil god to appear naturally in the second layer, the bottomless abyss, without having to go through the first layer of the rebirth of the past.

Right now, evil gods are gathering in large numbers... Even though Xia Lin has the Book of the Spirit Realm, he dares not offend them.

Fortunately, the evil gods didn't care about Xia Lin.

The malevolent influence of the Spirit World Book imbued Xia Lin with the aura of an evil god, making him appear similar to others of the same kind in the eyes of the evil god.

Under normal circumstances, this effect might bring Xia Lin some benefits or troubles, but given the current situation where evil gods are gathered in large numbers, his own kind is clearly not worth paying attention to.

The evil gods have a more specific goal!

Xia Lin, who was diving deeper, suddenly stopped.

He saw the evil gods arrive at the first fragment of the subconscious and then immediately crawl inside.

The subconscious fragment, which was originally radiating a seven-colored light, gradually dimmed, and a black light emerged from the depths of this subconscious fragment.

This is a form of pollution...

The evil gods are corrupting the subconscious fragments of the primordial dark side.

In less than a minute, the fragment of subconsciousness turned completely black.

Then, evil gods of various shapes emerged from the fragments of the subconscious, tearing and devouring with all sorts of mouthparts and in different ways.

Ultimately, the fragments of the subconscious were completely devoured by the evil gods… This group of wandering evil gods continued to venture deeper, searching for their next prey. —The relationship between the evil gods and the fragments of the subconscious is that of hunter and prey.

Xia Lin didn't understand yet what benefits the evil god would gain from consuming the subconscious fragments of the primordial dark side, and what impact it would have on the primordial dark side.

As the evil gods drew closer once more, Xia Lin accelerated his descent.

This reminded Xia Lin of a game from her previous life—Temple Run…

These monsters, known as evil gods, are forcing everyone who enters the second level of the bottomless abyss to go even deeper into the abyss.

At this point, Xia Lin no longer hesitated or delayed.

With the goal set and the general rules for this level understood,

The threads of cause and effect spread out from within her body, and at the same time, Xia Lin used the tracking card again to track Wu Xin's location.

Everything went smoothly at first.

The causal entanglement pinpointed the location of Donald and others, while the tracking card located Wuxin's position.

But just seconds later, the thread of cause and effect suddenly broke, and a strange force even followed the thread of cause and effect and entered Xia Lin's body, causing Xia Lin's face to turn pale, vomit blood on the spot, his soul to collapse and his body to be torn to pieces, but he was saved by the power of fair trade.

Xia Lin, who was almost killed by the backlash of cause and effect, had a smile on his face.

The notification sound from the Ash Zone that rang in his ears made Xia Lin's smile even brighter.

[Eternal Inscription in effect!]

[You have inscribed the skills: Soul Strike, Dark Divine Light... Heavenly Equation!]

[Current number of inscriptions: 2!]

Thus, it became clear who attacked Xia Lin across the line of cause and effect—it was the avatar of the Immortal Emperor and the Demon Emperor!
Xia Lin's attempt to track these two using causal entanglement proved fruitless; instead, they launched a counterattack along the lines of cause and effect… If it weren't for the powerful Fair Trade, Xia Lin's overwhelming bargaining chips, and the fact that the Eternal Inscription weakened the power of these skills by half after the first witness, this attack would have been enough to force out Xia Lin's resurrection abilities… and even those resurrection abilities might have been useless against these two clones of the six-pillar afterimages.

"But there are no 'what ifs,' what's done is done!"

At great risk, Xia Lin successfully completed the second inscription on the two (witnessing the first).

The progress of four engravings for some skills is already more than halfway complete.

Among them is one of the two skills Xia Lin desires most: the core skill of the Immortal Emperor: Heavenly Dao Equation!
The two clones, each with six afterimages, seemed to know who the attackers were. The Demon Emperor had held back, not using Absolute Balance, as a way of teaching Xia Lin a lesson. The Immortal Emperor's clone, however, was focused on killing, and simply incorporated the power of the Heavenly Dao Equation into its counterattack.

The current result reveals the fact that the power of the Immortal Emperor's afterimage clone is not enough to instantly kill Xia Lin!

This also means that Xia Lin has the confidence and resources to fight against this clone!
Using fair trading without any stakes as a means of recovery, as long as Xia Lin isn't instantly killed, then we can fight!
The power of causal entanglement was unleashed once again, but this time, it was no longer possible to track down the avatars of the Immortal Emperor and the Demon Emperor—they each used their own methods to shield themselves from the power of causal entanglement.

But it's okay.

"The Demon Emperor created the clones to hunt down Wuxin."

"Judging from what happened on the first floor, Wuxin has already established contact with the Immortal Emperor's afterimage and even gained its trust. The purpose of the Immortal Emperor's afterimage creating clones is to counter the Demon Emperor's clones and protect Wuxin."

"The key and focus of the battle between these two clones is the absence of intention!"

Following this logic, as long as Xia Lin finds Wuxin, he can find the Immortal Emperor and the Demon Emperor!
"Therefore, the two main storylines of killing Wuxin and engraving skills have merged again."

The convergence of events brings greater risks and more uncontrollable factors, but it also brings greater benefits and gains.

In the bottomless abyss, Xia Lin no longer suppressed the pulling force emanating from the abyss.

He even actively unleashed his power, using the pulling force to further increase his speed.

Like a burning meteor streaking across a bottomless abyss.

Behind the meteor, one after another indescribable evil god slowly advanced, like a collapsing sky.

Xia Lin left behind all the fragments of subconsciousness, large and small, not even bothering to care what kind of past scenes existed within them.

The past is not important... Xia Lin is not a historian.

I don't know how much time has passed, or how long I've been there.

After Xia Lin used the seventh tracking card, she finally slowed down and stopped in front of a subconscious fragment the size of a star.

Endless light burst forth from these fragments of the subconscious, and the light was not singular, but filled with all sorts of colors.

At the core of this subconscious fragment, Xia Lin vaguely saw a golden light flickering... It seemed to be the cosmic bug that had fallen into the bottomless abyss.

It has fallen into this fragment of subconsciousness... I don't know how to retrieve the cosmic bug from it...

This thought flashed through Xia Lin's mind, and he stopped paying attention to the cosmic bug. Instead, he stopped and squinted at the fragment, marveling at its size.

Its size alone demonstrates the importance of this fragment of the subconscious.

The tracking card information indicates that Wuxin is among them!

Without much thought, Xia Lin plunged headlong into it.

……

The feeling of entering this fragment of the subconscious was the same as the first time.

However, when Xia Lin opened her eyes, the scene she saw was completely different from the last time.

A chilling stillness suddenly appeared on his body, filling the air with the scent of a silent universe, tinged with a faint stench of blood...

Xia Lin opened his eyes and turned to look around, discovering that he was indeed in the cosmos.

Ahead, a pale blue planet came into view.

But what is most eye-catching is not this beautiful planet inhabited by life, but its satellite.

The cratered satellite was not large, and the surrounding space was layered and folded. The witness's superhuman eyesight penetrated through the layered and folded space and clearly saw the existence hidden deep in that space.

"The Demon Palace? It's the Demon Palace again!?"

Yes, it's the Demon Palace again!
A more complete Demon Palace than when the first level was restored to its former glory.

However, the aura was much weaker... It lacked that sharp, ruthless edge, the terror of carrying a deep-seated blood feud and killing everything; instead, its core exuded a sense of decay, decay, and old age.

This made Xia Lin frown slightly, wondering what such a demonic palace represented.

Just then, a faint light flashed before their eyes, and a mysterious figure appeared out of thin air not far from Xia Lin.

The true nature of this figure is undoubtedly a dummy within this fragment of subconsciousness... Its strength is probably not outstanding. Even though the rules of the old and new universes are different, Xia Lin still feels that this person's strength should be below his own.

Therefore, this person did not notice Xia Lin's presence, but silently, like a thief, walked into the space interlayer around the satellite.

"He wants to go to the Demon Palace..."

The sound suddenly rang in Xia Lin's ears, making her jump.

Because he didn't realize in advance who the voice belonged to!
When Xia Lin turned her head, she felt that she could not detect the person's presence, which was only natural.

Because what appeared out of nowhere near Xia Lin was none other than the Demon Emperor's clone that Xia Lin had been searching for.

And it seems he had been there for quite some time, waiting for who knows how long.

At this moment, the bloodlust and bestiality in the eyes of the Demon Emperor's clone had weakened slightly, but they were still present.

Unlike the afterimage of the Demon Emperor seen on the first floor, this clone's face was filled with obvious emotional fluctuations.

It was a remembrance, a curiosity, and a regret.

Without Xia Lin needing to speak, the Demon Emperor's clone had already pointed at the stealthy figure.

"His name is Bai... He was a friend of mine during this period, well, both friend and foe? But that's not important. The key thing is that this guy really gave me a big mess."

The Demon Emperor's clone gritted his teeth as he spoke these words, and the red light in his eyes burned even brighter.

However, the Demon Emperor soon lost heart.

Because the past is past, He seems to have understood the nature of this place and His own mode of existence.

The illusion, including himself, suppressed the Demon Emperor's rage to some extent—perhaps in the Demon Emperor's eyes, the illusory version of Him venting his anger in fragments of the illusory subconscious was both ridiculous and utterly incompetent…

He simply turned to look at Xia Lin.

"Just a quick chat?"

Xia Lin asked cautiously, "What are you talking about?"

"The future. My future, which has not yet materialized before or in the present."

This clone of the Demon Emperor not only understood its own mode of existence, but also seemed to have figured out the logic of existence of Xia Lin, Wu Xin, and others.

The current situation is like you suddenly encountering a reborn person and are eager to get information from them about the future and your own destiny.

Xia Lin sighed slightly: "That's a long story. But more than that, I'm curious about what this fragment of subconsciousness is all about, and what point in time it represents?"

The Demon Emperor suppressed his curiosity, his lips twitched, and he spoke slowly.

"What you are seeing now is the cause of everything... the point in time when that damned Immortal Emperor is about to be resurrected."

……

Within the same subconscious fragment.

On that ancient Earth, before the Celestial Emperor usurped its throne.

Unintentionally, he traversed the battlefield known as the Battlefield Between the Human and Demon Races, a place of mutual slaughter, and ventured deeper into this subconscious fragment.

Right behind Wuxin, the Immortal Emperor's clone clung to him like a shadow.

"I see. So this is how the future will develop. How interesting!"

The Immortal Emperor's voice, far from being somber and hoarse, was instead full of enthusiasm.

Just as Wuxin appeared before a teleportation portal leading to an unknown place, the Immortal Emperor's voice rang out behind him again.

"And the plan you're currently implementing is indeed a scheme I would come up with..."

"Yes, let's do it. Even if it's all fake, it's still a lot of fun to see that old bastard, the Overlord, get his comeuppance."

Wuxin smiled and lifted his leg, walking towards the teleportation portal: "Son, I will definitely not let you down, Father..."

However, no sooner had these words left his mouth than the Immortal Emperor's voice suddenly rang out again.

"Wait... there are signs that this teleportation channel has been used before..."

"It seems someone beat us to it and went to find that old bastard, the Overlord."

(End of this chapter)