"So this is... Eternity?"

Looking at the two people beside him who were still asleep, Li Chen’s face showed a strange expression.

Vaguely, he felt as if he had dug up something incredible.

The truth of Eternity, in silence, he had already quietly drawn near it.

"The Heavenly Dao... what exactly did it encounter?"

Li Chen lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

He was still drifting in the Mist of the Three Births River, but as for how long it had been since that Eternal Dream, he himself did not know.

"Right."

Shaking his head, Li Chen stood up from the boat and started peering into the Mist.

He remembered why he had come here.

He had come here to look for Yang Xin and Tian Yi, but the moment he entered the Three Births River, he fell into slumber. An Eternal Dream—up to now, he still hadn’t found any trace of the two of them.

"This is drowning. If they also came here, they probably wouldn’t be able to cross the Three Births River. But if it’s Tian Yi..." After thinking for a moment, Li Chen shook his head again.

Though it was common sense that without Floating Mind Sky-Patterned Iron one could not cross the Three Births River, judging from Tian Yi’s existence, she herself belonged to a kind of being that broke common sense.

Maybe others couldn’t do it, but for Tian Yi, there didn’t seem to be anything impossible.

But where exactly were they now?

After gazing for a while, Li Chen realized that even his Eye of the Dao couldn’t see very far in this place, and could only give up somewhat helplessly.

He gently paddled the boat beneath him and began to cross toward the other side of the Three Births River.

And by his side, Zhang Shutong and Christina were still in deep sleep.

Zhang Shutong’s expression was very calm, while Christina’s brows were tightly furrowed, as if she had encountered something very bad in her dream.

Rowing the little boat, Li Chen gradually quieted his heart and let his gains from that Eternal Dream settle.

Bright Dream Dharma Talk, Divine Ability of Space-Time—these were all things he had gained in that one dream, and now he needed to sort them out and thoroughly make them his own.

"An Eternal Dream... but was that really just a dream?" Li Chen lowered his head. "Or was that a story that truly happened?"

Li Chen did not know. To him, he was just a passerby, or you could also call him a witness.

He had witnessed the glory of the Supreme Asura Realm, witnessed the strength of those geniuses, and also witnessed the destruction of the Seven Realms.

"But... why me?" Li Chen fell silent. "Am I really that chosen one who has no right to choose?"

"Must everything, everything, be borne by me?"

Li Chen was not someone who liked to run away, but the truth of Eternity was simply too heavy.

So heavy that even he felt he might not be able to bear it.

"What is it that you pursue?" At this moment, such a voice suddenly sounded beside Li Chen’s ear.

"Who?" Li Chen’s gaze sharpened, his eyes like two fierce blades sweeping around him.

Yet all around him was still a sea of Mist, empty, with no one there.

"You... what do you actually want?" The voice came again, but even when Li Chen pushed the Eye of the Dao to its current limit, he still couldn’t find the source of the sound.

It was as if this voice had appeared from thin air.

"Does the Three Births River also have such weirdness?" Li Chen did not speak, but the Yuan Force in his body quietly stirred.

He even faintly set the Space-time Law in motion, ready to make a move at any time.

The Divine Ability of Space-Time he had just created was indeed powerful, but Li Chen was still not very proficient with it and had been wanting to find an opponent to practice on.

"What do you want?" The voice asked again, relentless, yet in the space around Li Chen there was still only boundless emptiness—nothing at all.

"What I want..." Li Chen said in a low voice, "and what has that got to do with you?"

"It does." The voice replied, and this time, it finally changed its words: "Because I am you."

"You are me?" Li Chen gave a cold laugh. "I am me, I am Li Chen. But you, I’ve no idea what kind of Ghost thing you are."

The voice fell silent for a moment.

"Are you tired?"

"What’s that to you?"

"You should be tired." The voice sounded a little lonely. "Makes sense. I’ve always liked to shoulder everything onto myself, and once I shoulder it, it’s for Yisheng and Yisheng. Days like that are indeed exhausting."

Li Chen did not answer, but in his heart he felt a faint, inexplicable sense of recognition.

"You’re not a Savior. You’re just an ordinary person. What you want most is simply to find a place and live a good life, happily, with your family, isn’t it?"

"You don’t need to answer. I said it already—I am you, so I understand you best." The voice spoke slowly.

"Do I have any other choice?" Li Chen suddenly drew back all his aura, sat back down on the boat, and sighed softly as he spoke.

He vaguely understood what this voice was.

Just like on the Three Lives Bridge, this voice was merely an existence in the nether, and perhaps did not truly exist.

"For other people, yes. But for you, no." The voice carried a sort of hollow blandness.

"Yeah, no." Li Chen shook his head with a bitter smile. "From the moment I was born, maybe I no longer had a choice."

"Since that’s so, why bother talking to me?" Li Chen asked.

The voice spoke slowly: "Nothing much. Just chatting to pass the Time."

"Heh." Li Chen let out a snort of laughter. "That temperament really is quite like mine. Sometimes even I feel I’m a bit full with nothing to do, always liking to find trouble for myself."

The voice was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke: "You saw it, didn’t you?"

"See what?"

"War."

"I saw it. And then?"

"That war, in the future, is very likely to fall upon you. And you—are you ready?"

"Maybe. I don’t know either. It’s also possible that in a war like that, this bit of Power of mine won’t play much of a role at all." Li Chen shrugged. "As for the future, who knows? I’ll just take it one step at a time."

"Mm. Your answer is just as I expected, because that’s exactly my temperament." The voice sounded somewhat pleased.

"Is that so?" Li Chen chuckled lightly.

"Yes."

"Nice to meet you, Li Chen, my later life." The voice said softly.

"So that means you’re my previous life?" Li Chen raised his brows. "That guy on the Three Lives Bridge last time—was that you too?"

"That... perhaps you’ll know in the future. All right, you should wake up. Your friends have been waiting for you for a long Time." The voice said slowly. "Live well. Don’t give up."

Li Chen opened his eyes once more.

This time, he found himself on the shore, and beside him, several people were looking at him with worried eyes.

Seeing Yang Xin and Tian Yi by his side, a smile appeared on Li Chen’s face.