Chapter 937
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Chapter 937 The Immortal Path to Godhood
“…She’s not my wife.”
“When I saw you two appear in the cabin, your hands were tightly clasped together. It took me quite a while to separate you two. How is she not your wife?” Ji Nian looked at Lin Qiye suspiciously, “You’re not a player, are you?”
Lin Qiye: …
“How is her condition?” Ji Nian asked.
“Her vital signs are all normal, but she remains in a coma. The specific reason is still unclear.”
“A mysterious coma?”
Ji Nian walked to Jia Lan’s side and gently placed her hand on Jia Lan’s forehead.
She slowly closed her eyes, as if sensing something.
“What are you doing?” Lin Qiye asked curiously.
“Examining her,” Ji Nian replied calmly. “These medical devices can only show so much.”
“You can examine her body just by placing your hand on her forehead? Is this also your ability?”
“…Yes.”
A moment later, Ji Nian withdrew her hand, her brows slightly furrowed.
“What’s wrong?”
“It’s strange,” Ji Nian spoke thoughtfully. “There’s a mysterious energy in her body. This energy’s properties are approaching eternity, able to protect itself from external influences…”
“[Immortality]?” Lin Qiye blurted out.
“Should be, but now, these energies are shattered.” Ji Nian turned to look at Lin Qiye, “Did she suffer some kind of trauma before?”
Lin Qiye quickly recalled the [Immortality] carriage being slashed by the Ama-no-Murakumo sword in Takamagahara, and the second time when the [Immortality] shield on Lin Qiye was cut…
Jia Lan’s [Immortality] had shattered twice in an extremely short time.
“Yes.”
“That explains it.” Ji Nian nodded. “What you call [Immortality] should be an alternative form of ‘time pause,’ though from a law perspective, this stasis has transcended the concept of ‘time,’ infinitely approaching ‘eternity.’
And this energy in her body was already showing signs of forming its own law.”
“Forming its own law?”
Hearing this description, Lin Qiye froze in place. His mind flashed back to the scene of Zhou Ping creating his sword law and ascending to godhood years ago.
As if realizing something, he opened his mouth in shock, his eyes full of disbelief:
“You mean…”
“She’s about to become a god.”
Ji Nian’s hand rested on Jia Lan’s forehead as she couldn’t help but marvel, “The total amount of spiritual power in her mind is even greater than mine… She must have reached humanity’s ceiling level long, long ago, but has been stuck at the step of forming law and ascending to godhood.”
Jia Lan is at humanity’s ceiling?!
A bolt of lightning flashed through Lin Qiye’s mind.
His mind quickly flashed through the scenes from releasing Jia Lan from the coffin to today… Thinking carefully, he had never seen Jia Lan break through any levels, never seen her release level pressure, and had no concept of how much spiritual power she actually possessed.
Jia Lan had always been as strong as needed against the strong, and as weak as appropriate against the weak.
Her punch might not be able to kill someone at the “Sea” level, but her body could withstand attacks from gods.
Since [Immortality] isn’t absolute defense, it means that its defensive upper limit is determined by Jia Lan’s own level. The fact that she could withstand attacks from gods indicates that her level had reached an extremely high point.
And the fact that the Ama-no-Murakumo sword could cut through [Immortality] means that Jia Lan definitely hadn’t reached the level of gods.
She was at the peak of humanity’s ceiling.
“Then why is she in a coma now?” Lin Qiye returned to the initial question.
“Because the [Immortality] power within her is reorganizing.”
“What does that have to do with the coma?”
“As I just said, her [Immortality] is essentially a ‘time pause’ derived from time law, and the process of reorganizing [Immortality] is the process of solidifying flowing time around her into her own time.”
Seeing Lin Qiye still confused, Ji Nian thought for a moment and added:
“Do you know about hydroelectric power?”
“Yes.”
“The principle of hydroelectric power is converting the kinetic energy contained in flowing water into electrical energy. Her situation is similar.
To reorganize [Immortality] and form her own law, she must draw time force from the flowing river of time around her and convert it into her own solidified time, which is [Immortality].
In other words, she’s ‘eating’ time.
And this is the only path for her to form her own law.
During this process, her consciousness will sink into submergence, so naturally she can’t wake up.
I think she must have spent an extremely long time to cultivate her [Immortality] to this level… By the way, I haven’t asked, how old is she?”
Lin Qiye was silent for a moment, “Just over two thousand years old.”
Ji Nian: …
At this moment, the scene of Jia Lan lying in the coffin once again appeared in Lin Qiye’s mind.
So, during those two thousand years Jia Lan lay in the coffin, she was absorbing time force to form the embryonic form of law within her body?
It took two thousand years and still couldn’t form the law to become a god… Is the path to godhood through [Immortality] really so difficult?
“So she can only wake up after the [Immortality] within her completes reorganization?”
“Correct.”
“How long will that take?”
“Don’t know.” Ji Nian shook her head. “If we use her previous two thousand years of sleep as a reference, the time until she wakes up should be measured in hundreds of years.
However, when she wakes up again, the law within her body should be mostly formed…
She should become a god then.”
Hundreds of years?
Lin Qiye’s body trembled.
After hundreds of years, he would probably be nothing but dust, and only then would Jia Lan wake up?
Seas turn to mulberry fields, stars shift positions, by then not just him, but whether the Night Watchmen would still exist, whether the world would remain the same, was uncertain… When she opens her eyes again, the world might be a completely different place.
If hundreds of years seem so long, how vast must two thousand years be?
All beings reincarnate, dynasties change… For the first time, Lin Qiye directly felt how pale and powerless time was in the face of [Immortality].
Does this mean he’ll never see Jia Lan again in this life?
In his daze, Jia Lan’s last words to him kept rolling in his mind:
“Next time, I want to hear you say it yourself… that you like me.”
Does he like her?
After learning the truth about Cupid’s arrow, there was no more confusion in Lin Qiye’s heart, he had only one answer:
Yes!
He likes Jia Lan.
But until the final moment, he hadn’t been able to say those words to Jia Lan in person. He had thought he would still have a chance to make up for it, but now he realized…
He had lost even the chance to say these words.
