Chapter 98: Peak of the Nascent Soul Realm

The second floor of the River of Years Pagoda was a realm fundamentally divorced from the constraints of the Nine Provinces. There was no sky here, nor was there any solid earth beneath his feet. Instead, it was an endless, suspended void of shimmering twilight, where enormous temporal runes drifted through the air like lazy fireflies, tracing the visible currents of time itself.

Within this isolated pocket of eternity, the frantic and desperate passage of the outside world was reduced to absolute stillness.

At the exact epicenter of this temporal void sat Lin Yuan.

He was completely stripped to the waist, his robe folded neatly beside him. His physical body sat in a perfect lotus position, completely motionless. He did not breathe in the mortal sense. Instead, his entire being was sustained by the sheer, overwhelming influx of spiritual energy.

Hovering exactly three inches above his head was his Nascent Soul.