âHow many Lu Yuns is this?â an empty voice echoed in the desolate world.
âFifty-six,â answered an equally empty voice devoid of emotion.
âBut this is the strongest Lu Yun yet, heâs much stronger than the fifty-five that came before him.â A hint of hope slowly grew in the first voice.
âYou said the same thing when the fifty-fifth one came. He died a grisly death in the tomb all the same and was buried in it.â
The tomb that buried Lu Yun.
âThere is no space or time in the nothing. Perhaps the first fifty-five were all the same one,â sounded a third voice.
Time was a measurement. If the power of time existed, then experts could utilize it to accelerate or reverse time. But if there was no power of time and only measurement, then nothing would exist.
The same person could set out from the same place in time, but arrive at the tomb at different times. There was no power of time here, just the measurement of time. Thus, the Lu Yuns that arrived at different moments could only come one by one.
The next one would not come if the previous one didnât die. They were all the same Lu Yun from the same starting point. They simply arrived at different times when they traveled to a place without time.
âBut why were there differences in strength in the Lu Yuns that came?â
âI donât know. If he dies, there will be a fifty-seventh Lu Yun to come who is even stronger.â
âAi, weâre all dead people. What do we care about this for?â
âLetâs keep waiting. Our chance to come back to life will arrive only after Lu Yun fills in the tomb.â
âWhy do I feel like Iâve come here before?â Lu Yun didnât dive into exploring the tomb after entering. He stood in place and thought quietly to himself. âHave I been here before?â
He looked around blankly and operated formula dao, coming up empty handed after a round of calculations. Formula dao could analyze certain aspects of the tomb when he was outside it, but it was as if he wandered around in a maze after entering.
âWait, what am I analyzing the tomb for?â He laughed at himself and deployed formula dao again, this time on himself. If he felt that heâd come here before, then the problem lay with him and not the tomb.
âSo indeed I have been by⊠seventeen hundred and eighty-seven times.â Lu Yun slowly wound his deductions to a halt after a long time, his expression grave and solemn. âThis is the seventeen hundred and eighty-eighth time. I died in the tomb on all of my previous trips.
âRather than the temporal difference of the nothing, it has to do with the power of reincarnation. Reincarnation traverses the nothing and reality. In my current form, I am nearly immortal. I wonder what will happen this time.â Lu Yun had come and died in the tomb again and again, but the power of reincarnation had seeped deep into his bones. As long as there was a temporal difference and the power of reincarnation, he would not truly die.
He would resurrect again and again from the origin point and come here again and again, experiencing the same things as before until he entered the tomb. The Fire and Wave Gods from earlier hadnât detected anything amiss. Such was the marvelous effect of reincarnation.
After the Tome of Life and Death transformed into a golden page, it became the apex of the nothing. When Lu Yun was immersed in the power of reincarnation, he was undying. The current him was like the previous Land of Reincarnation. If he died, he would repeat the loop, cycling through his previous affairs.
The core medium of reincarnationâthe Tome of Life and Deathâwas within Lu Yunâs body. He only needed to utilize formula dao to review everything that had taken place before. He just needed to use it on himself.
Dying more than seventeen hundred times was an indication of how dangerous the tomb was. The dead temple masters of the Divine Temple of Nothing had long since grown numb to the young manâs repeated deaths and arrivals.
They were dead and influenced by the tombâs power, which was why they could witness his repeated actions. Those alive were affected by Lu Yunâs power of reincarnation and journeyed the cycle with him.
The Light Deity that heâd killed came back to life because of his death and met him again and again.
âThe previous seventeen hundred and eighty-seven deaths were because I ran into zones of danger, so I just need to evade them. What a pity that the Tome of Life and Death is strong enough, but I am too weak to deploy its entire strengthâŠâ
An eruption of power from the Tome of Life and Death would fill Lu Yunâs body beyond capacity. He would cycle through reincarnation once more after his body exploded. At the same time, he wouldnât have discovered he was undying if he hadnât died a few times.
He had to continue his explorations.
Lu Yun knew that the dangers of the tomb couldnât be plumbed with just a thousand deaths. He avoided the places heâd identified before and headed in a new direction.
âEnough already, damn you!â A massive voice boomed from the depths of the tomb. âDying again and again and coming again and again! Iâm sick of it even if you arenât! Tell me what you want, Iâll give it to you!!â
âUm⊠youâre the one who killed me all those times before, arenât you?â Lu Yun paused and looked warily at the pitch black tomb.
âForget it, Iâll explore some more myself. No wonder I couldnât find the way to break the layouts before, thereâs an incredibly strong tomb owner here,â Lu Yun chuckled and started forward again. He wouldnât dieâheâd at most return to the starting point and come in again.
âOut with it, what do you want?â The infuriated voice came again when he stepped forward.
âThe way to end the great destruction,â he said.
âIt doesnât exist. It is an objective rhythm that cannot be changed unless you are strong enough to affect the objective with the subjective, making the objective your subjective. Otherwise, the barrier of nothing will destroy everything within the nothing again and again.â
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âMmhmm.â Lu Yun nodded and walked forward.
âAre you listening to me??â The tomb ownerâs voice grew exasperated.
âI am,â Lu Yun responded as he walked forward. Having died more than seventeen hundred times, Lu Yun had summarized his experiencesâthere was no solution to this tomb.
The only way to break it was to fill it in with livesâhis livesâand explore it. Every death resulted in a lesson, a mistake that he would not repeat.
âI can send you to the real existence. It may contain the answer you want,â the tomb owner said.
âNo need, I can find my way there myself.â Lu Yun curled his lip, not believing a single word that the tomb owner said. Heâd already seen the words âLu Yunâs Tombâ on the tombstone.