Chapter 562. A Trial? Walking to the End of Life

This was a foundation that Jiang Taiyu, and even the entire Jiang Clan, regarded with incomparable importance. It had also been left behind by the Human Sovereign Celestial Emperor.

If he gave up so easily, there would probably be no chance to try again.

Lu Yuan stood within this vast white space, and the anxiety that had first risen in his heart gradually settled.

All along, how many challenges had he encountered?

He had faced stronger and stronger enemies, yet in the end, he had resolved them all.

Had he relied only on his power and cultivation? Definitely not. His will mattered too.

The Jiang Clan had helped him enter this place and held great expectations of him. According to them, this place contained a powerful ability capable of changing the tide. With that being the case, Lu Yuan had even less reason to give up.

He did not dwell on it any longer and began moving forward slowly, sensing his surroundings with full attention.

His divine sense was still the same as before and could not detect anything. The scenery around him also remained unchanged.

Everything was a vast expanse of white. Even the passage of time seemed impossible to sense.

That was right. Even someone as powerful as Lu Yuan could not estimate how long he had been in this place.

When he opened his eyes again, he suddenly felt that perhaps he had been here for a year.

Soon, Lu Yuan thought that since his divine sense could not sense anything, he might as well silently count his steps.

So he stood up, his expression calm, and stepped forward one step at a time. He prepared to use this most foolproof method to estimate time while exploring the various secrets of this place.

But soon enough, Lu Yuan abruptly discovered that he had forgotten time again.

That was right. He had suddenly forgotten it. When he came back to himself again, he felt that perhaps several years had already passed.

In this place, where he had no concept of time at all, restlessness stirred in Lu Yuan's heart once more.

It could not be helped. His will was not the problem. Rather, this place was simply too strange.

There was only a vast whiteness here. Essentially nothing existed.

He could not sense the passage of time at all.

Lu Yuan clearly had power, but no matter how he used it, it had no effect on anything around him. He only knew that with a single thought, he could leave.

As time passed, that thought grew stronger and stronger.

"No. My thoughts are being influenced."

At this moment, Lu Yuan discovered where the problem lay. The vast white space before him seemed able to amplify certain thoughts, which was why he could not completely steady himself.

He took a deep breath and worked hard to compose himself.

He also thought that since this place had been left behind by the Human Sovereign Celestial Emperor, perhaps things connected to that existence might have some effect.

At once, Lu Yuan reached out to the Celestial Emperor's Ancient Token within him. This object had helped him many times, especially at critical moments.

So he wanted to give it a try.

Very quickly, wisps of purple light appeared around him. But unexpectedly, apart from this, nothing else changed.

The surroundings were still a vast expanse of white.

Where exactly was the problem?

Or could it be that even he could not open the foundation left behind by the Human Sovereign Celestial Emperor?

For a moment, Lu Yuan was somewhat at a loss. Usually, even if something was very difficult, as long as he could see progress, he would definitely persevere. The key was that right now, he could not see any progress at all.

That was what made it hardest to endure.

For a moment, he was at a loss for words. He did not know what he should do next either, because he had basically used every method available to him.

But what was the final result? Nothing had changed at all.

What should he do?

Anxiety began rising in Lu Yuan's heart again. From the start until now, he no longer knew how many times this had happened.

Especially now, he was almost unable to completely suppress these feelings.

If this foundation was an opportunity, then perhaps it did not belong to him.

The thought suddenly surfaced in Lu Yuan's mind. Once this thought emerged, he felt that he should leave.

He felt like he had stayed here for almost ten years now.

With all these thoughts pressing on him, Lu Yuan wanted to turn back. But at that very moment, he still pressed the impulse down.

He chose to sit cross-legged and exhaled a breath of turbid air. Then he drew upon the ancient Bodhi Tree in his mind, allowing himself to completely merge with his Innate Spirit.

Since thoughts of giving up and ending things here kept surfacing, he would do the opposite and persist.

So what if he could not stop those thoughts?

Lu Yuan used the ancient Bodhi Tree, relying on this tree of wisdom to calm himself completely. In short, he would endure this place to the very end.

Sure enough, after activating the ancient Bodhi Tree, the distracting thoughts in his heart began to clear away. He also became completely calm, approaching a true state of single-minded focus.

Most people, after entering such a state, would surely assume that this vast white space would finally change.

But it did not. It remained the same as before.

Lu Yuan seemed to understand this, but he paid it no mind. He continued maintaining single-minded focus and simply cultivated his Innate Spirit, regardless of how the outside world changed.

Just like that, time began flowing forward, and Lu Yuan did not even know how long had passed.

In this space, the years could not be sensed at all. Even deliberate calculation changed nothing.

If this had been before, he would definitely have grown anxious and thought of other methods.

But now, Lu Yuan remained very calm. Only later did a strand of white hair begin to appear at his temples.

Lu Yuan was currently a Celestial Seat Immortal. Living for thousands or tens of thousands of years was no longer difficult at all. For white hair to appear on him, at least several thousand years must have passed.

After that, the white hair only increased. Then came the wrinkles on his face. Even the blood qi within him seemed to begin declining.

If white hair and wrinkles could be illusions, then what about the decline of his blood qi?

His lifespan was already nearing its end.

Lu Yuan could naturally sense this but his Innate Spirit still sat beneath the ancient Bodhi Tree.

He knew that if he let any other thought arise, then perhaps in the next instant, he would choose to leave. Even his lifespan had reached its end. Who could withstand that?

Thus, Lu Yuan ignored all of it completely. Under the ancient Bodhi Tree's single-minded focus, only one thought remained in his heart.

Even if he died, he would die in this place. He did not think too much about anything else.

With that thought fixed in place, finally, after an unknown amount of time, Lu Yuan discovered that his life seemed to have truly reached its end.