From Fanwu to Xinghai

Chapter 26 Dimensional Awakening

Purple light surged like a tide, sweeping across the heavens and earth.

Lin Chen and Qin Mo traversed the dense forest, moving rapidly towards the forbidden area.

Along the way, they encountered many other disciples who were also fleeing. Some were crying out, some were roaring, and many more were running in silence. They were all terrified by the sudden burst of power.

Something from the forbidden area has emerged.

Run!

Oh no, this trial is going to kill people.

Panic spread like a plague through the secret realm.

But Lin Chen did not stop.

He went against the flow of people, heading towards the direction where the purple light was strongest.

Qin Mo followed behind him, her face pale, but her steps firm.

"Are you sure you want to go?" Qin Mo asked.

Confirmed. Lin Chen did not turn around.

There might be someone even more terrifying than Xiao Yan inside.

I know.

Then why did you still go?

Lin Chen remained silent for a while.

"Because that's the answer," he said. "The answer my parents left behind."

Qin Mo stopped speaking.

The entrance to the forbidden area was a massive stone gate.

The stone gate was about ten zhang high and was cast from some kind of deep purple metal. The gate was covered with densely packed runes. The style of those runes was exactly the same as the dimensional pill-condensing array on the alchemy furnace.

At this moment, the stone gate was fully open.

Purple light surged from within the door, illuminating everything around it. Within the light, distorted spatial rifts were faintly visible. These were signs of dimensional instability.

These cracks... Qin Mo gasped. They were spatial rifts. Ordinary cultivators would die upon touching them.

Lin Chen saw it too.

The cracks resembled countless lightning bolts, twisting and spreading in the air, emanating a chilling aura of destruction.

But he did not back down.

He took a deep breath and stepped through the stone gate.

Beyond the stone gate lay a void.

There was no ground, no sky, only endless purple light surging all around.

Lin Chen felt as if he were floating in the universe. He was surrounded by deep darkness, and in the depths of that darkness, countless points of light twinkled, like distant stars.

This is… Qin Mo’s voice trembled slightly. A higher dimension.

No. Lin Chen shook his head. It's a dimensional rift. The boundary between two dimensions.

The mark between his eyebrows was burning intensely.

The river of time roared in his mind, telling him what it meant.

This is the remnant of the power of the dimensional ruler.

Only the master of dimensions can tear apart the barriers of dimensions and create such a space.

"There's someone here," Qin Mo suddenly said.

Lin Chen looked up.

Deep within the purple light, a figure was silently suspended.

That's a woman.

She appeared to be around thirty years old, wearing a long white dress, her long hair cascading down to her ankles. Her beauty was exquisite, yet she possessed an ethereal quality, seemingly otherworldly. Like a meticulously sculpted jade statue, she was utterly devoid of life.

What shocked Lin Chen the most was her brow.

There is a mark there.

Exactly the same as his.

"Mother," Lin Chen murmured.

The woman's eyes were closed, as if she were asleep in an endless dream. Countless purple runes surrounded her body, forming a complex array that firmly bound her here.

Su Wan.

The embodiment of the dimensional ruler.

A woman who has been imprisoned here for sixteen years.

The secret that Lin Chen's father protected with his life.

You finally came.

An old voice came from behind.

Lin Chen turned around abruptly.

An old man appeared behind them without them noticing. He wore a tattered gray robe, his hair was white, and his face was covered in wrinkles. But his eyes shone with an astonishing light, like two burning stars.

"Who are you?" Lin Chen asked warily.

"My name is Shi Ying." The old man smiled slightly. He was a guardian of the river of time.

Lin Chen's pupils suddenly contracted.

Time and Shadow.

That existence that left behind a time compass in the ruins of Liuhe Town.

The guardian who once helped Lin Chen.

"What are you doing here?" Lin Chen asked.

Because I've been waiting. Shi Ying slowly approached. "Wait until you've grown strong enough, then come here to see her."

He glanced at Su Wan, who was floating in the purple light.

That's your mother.

Lin Chen's heart raced.

He knew Su Wan was his mother. He pieced together this fact from Chen Xuanfeng's words and his father's dying words. But standing here, looking at her face, he still felt a sense of suffocation.

"Why is she locked up here?" Lin Chen asked.

"Because she is the embodiment of a dimensional ruler," Shi Ying said. "The ancestors of the Qingyun Sect feared her power, so they sealed her here."

What kind of power?

Dimensional power. Shi Ying's voice deepened. The highest level of power in the universe.

He raised his hand and pointed at the floating figure.

Your mother was once the ruler of the eleventh dimension. She governed countless galaxies and civilizations, traversing endless dimensions.

But she was not satisfied.

She wanted to ascend to a higher dimension. To break through the eleventh dimension and enter the twelfth dimension. That was a realm that only gods could reach, according to legend.

Then she failed.

The dimensional ascension experiment went out of control, her civilization was destroyed, and her body split into countless fragments, scattered in countless lower-dimensional universes.

The last part of her consciousness was sealed here by the ancestors of the Qingyun Sect.

Shi Ying turned to Lin Chen, a complex light flashing in her eyes.

You are one of the seeds she sowed in the lower-dimensional universe.

Lin Chen felt his brain buzzing.

Dimensional Dominator.

Eleven-dimensional space.

Dimensional ascension failed.

Civilization destroyed.

These words were like countless hammers, striking his nerves again and again.

"And what about my father?" he asked, his voice a little hoarse. "He was also a spark."

No. Shi Ying shook her head. Your father is the Guardian of Time. The protector of the River of Time.

He discovered the spark that was burning within you, chose to protect her, stay by her side, and eventually fell in love with her.

Their union is a fusion of time and dimension.

And you.

Shi Ying's gaze fell on Lin Chen's brow.

You are a product of the fusion of time and dimension.

You inherited your father's imprint of time and your mother's bloodline of dimensional dominance.

You are the only being in this universe who could possibly control both time and dimensions.

It is also the only being that has the potential to achieve dimensional ascension.

Lin Chen stood there, stunned.

The imprint of time. Dimensions govern bloodlines.

It turns out that his extraordinary abilities were not accidental, but rather an arrangement of fate.

"Dimensional ascension," he murmured. "Is it really possible?"

"It's difficult," Shi Ying said frankly. "Your mother failed because she was too lonely. She bore all the pressure alone, and ultimately, she was consumed by the force of her own actions."

But you are different.

You have companions. You have teachers. You have friends.

the most important is.

Shi Ying's gaze deepened.

You have a mission.

The fifty-year countdown has begun.

If you cannot achieve dimensional ascension within fifty years, the entire universe will fall into a dimensional collapse catastrophe.

You must become stronger.

All the spark fragments must be found.

You must complete the work your mother left unfinished.

then.

Shi Ying's voice was as loud and clear as a great bell.

Dimensional ascent.

"Me." Lin Chen took a deep breath. "Can I save her?"

He looked at the figure floating in the purple light.

Su Wan.

His mother.

For sixteen years, she has been imprisoned here, enduring the pain of dimensional collapse alone.

"Yes," Shi Ying said. "But not now."

You need to become stronger. Break through the Dan Yuan Realm, the Nascent Soul Realm, the Divine Transformation Realm, level by level, until you have enough strength to break the seal.

At that time, you can take her away.

A glint flashed in Lin Chen's eyes.

hope.

This was the first time he had felt real hope since arriving at the Qingyun Sect.

"I will," he said firmly.

I will become stronger.

I will save her.

Just then, a fluctuation came from the depths of the purple light.

Su Wan's figure trembled slightly.

Her eyes. Those eyes that had been tightly closed for sixteen years. Slowly, they opened a crack.

Lin Chen was stunned.

Those were purple eyes.

Deep, mysterious, a purple that seems to contain the entire universe.

Su Wan's gaze pierced through the layers of purple light and landed on Lin Chen.

She did not speak.

But Lin Chen heard her voice. It rang directly in his mind.

child.

You've grown up.

Lin Chen's eyes welled up with tears.

That was my mother's voice.

For sixteen years, he had never heard such a voice.

Mother. His voice choked with emotion.

Come on.

Su Wan's lips moved slightly.

I'm waiting for you.

Then, her eyes closed again, and she fell asleep.

"Let's go," Shi Ying said. "The trial is almost over."

Lin Chen vigorously wiped the corners of his eyes and took a deep breath.

How much longer can she hold on?

"At least a hundred years," Shi Ying said. "The seal's power remains. As long as you don't actively destroy it, she'll be fine."

Lin Chen nodded.

a hundred years.

He has plenty of time.

Remember. The silhouette of time begins to blur. Time is your weapon. Dimension is your goal.

There are two paths, and you must take them both at the same time.

This is a lesson your mother learned at the cost of her life.

It is also the truth that your father guarded with his soul.

His figure vanished completely.

Only Lin Chen and Qin Mo remained, standing in the dimensional rift.

"I heard you," Qin Mo suddenly said.

Lin Chen turned to look at him.

"My master." Qin Mo's voice trembled slightly. He had also studied dimensional power. He said that dimensions were the ultimate mystery of the universe.

He looked at the figure that had fallen asleep again.

Surprisingly, this secret is right beside us.

Lin Chen did not speak.

He glanced at Su Wan one last time, then turned and walked toward the stone gate.

Let's go.

Where to go?

"Go and complete the trial." Lin Chen's voice returned to calm. "I promised Uncle Chen I would make it into the top ten."

Qin Mo was taken aback for a moment, then smiled.