Chapter 127: Awakening in the Pagoda

The billions of crystalline shards of the fabricated reality exploded outward, a magnificent, but silent detonation that wiped away the muddy streets of Qingshui Town, the biting winter wind, and the tear-stained face of a son saying goodbye.

In the wake of the shattering, a profound, heavy silence rushed in to fill the void.

Gasppp!

Lin Yuan's eyes snapped open.

He inhaled violently, his chest heaving as if he had just breached the surface of a suffocating, deep ocean. But the air that filled his lungs was not the sharp, freezing winter chill. It was the thick, and unfathomably pure spiritual Qi that filled the River of Years Pagoda.

He was sitting cross-legged in the exact center of the temporal artifact's second floor. The endless void of shimmering twilight surrounded him, and the massive temporal runes drifted lazily through the air, completely undisturbed by the shift that had just occurred within his soul.