Chapter 370: Doing The Task (1/2)

Lin Mu read the names on the tablets and saw a few with the surname Lin but not the same one as his. His surname meant 'Forest' but the ones here meant other things.

'Seems like none of my ancestors are here… wait, so why did father come here to pray?' Lin Mu wondered.

While the commoners also came here to pray, it was mostly because at least one of their ancestries at some point in time would be venerated here. But from what he could see no one of his could be seen. Still, no matter how much Lin Mu thought he couldn't figure out a reason for his father coming here.

”Did you Father ever see the tablets himself?” Xukong asked Lin Mu.

”No, he didn't… oh wait… I understand now.” Lin Mu replied as he realized.

'He never knew… most of the commoners in the region had a link to the same family line thus would have an ancestor here. But seems like father just went with that idea in mind and came to pray here every year.' Lin Mu thought to himself.

Now that he thought about it, Lin Mu felt a bit sad for his father. He had passed on and yet never knew that there was no one to listen to his prayers. Lin Mu's heart ached for his father and mother again making his hands tremble ever so slightly even though he tried to control.

***

Far beyond the limits of the universe, beyond the void, there existed a wheel.

Carved out of an unknown material, the wheel turned without stopping. The thing that was moving it was actually a river, but if one looked at the water they would find themselves getting lost in it.

From this river countless smaller rivers branched, and from each of those smaller rivers, even more tributaries split. Then on each of the branches and tributaries, smaller water wheels were spinning. They weren't attached to anything yet kept on moving without stopping.

The wheels were made out of various materials. Some of the them were made out of gold, some out of crystals and some out of rotting wood.

In this place, the concept of time did not exist and neither did space. The only things that exited were the River and the water wheel.

The wheels kept on turning, and then suddenly a new tributary sprouted from one of the smaller breaches of the river. This tributary didn't have a wheel yet kept on flowing. But its flow was not smooth like the others, and there were waves in it.

The water in this tributary seemed to be rising and receding periodically, its purpose unknown. Then, an unknown amount of time later, whether right at the creation of the tributary or countless eons later, a voice sounded.

”Oh? Something interesting… finally.”

***

Lin Mu snapped out of his thoughts when he heard someone calling him.