Chapter 1000: Even Bigger (1/2)

Abnormally loud breathing and irresistible force radiated from the Bridge of Forgetfulness, inducing grave discomfort in Lu Yun and Qing Yu. The bridge now appeared to be a divine dragon above the nine heavens in their eyes. So lofty, so majestic, and they as two ants scrabbling around in the dirt.

How big was the bridge?

Lu Yun couldn’t tell. It was big… very big… The corpseflies on it were as big as the world of immortals, and the bridge itself was no bigger than their realm.

“I was wrong…” Qing Yu suddenly said. “It’s not that its spirit isn’t strong enough, but that its body is too strong. No spirit could be strong enough to perfectly propel such a massive body.”

A wave of overwhelming despair pressed down upon the couple.

It wasn’t despair from the prodigious force that their opponent wielded, but of psychological pressure. It didn’t come from the Bridge of Forgetfulness either, but from their own hearts. It was the mental tension of an ant gazing upon a divine dragon, something that not even the Book of Life and Death could dispel.

“What in the world?!” Lu Yun was the first to snap out of it. He placed a hand on his beloved’s back and broke down a karmic fruit from a stash he always carried with him, infusing its strength into her body.

Qing Yu took in a deep breath and turned an expression of shock toward the stone bridge.

“It’s… it’s a being that’s infinite times more advanced than us. Not advanced in terms of strength, but the metamorphosis of what it means to be a life form!” Incredulity tinged her voice.

In her eyes, all of the known beings in the universe that could cultivate, including the chaos creatures, were on the same level. Strength and cultivation level might differ from individual to individual, but there was no difference in their fundamental form of existence. They were all the same on that underlying level.

That notion was overturned after seeing the Bridge of Forgetfulness.

It wasn’t alive to begin with, but had become a life form in this fourth realm, one that was more sophisticated than all current known forms of life.

Or in Lu Yun’s words, the difference between them and the bridge in front of them was the difference between a single cell organism and a human being. The two were on a completely different level.

“Life is constantly evolving and we are not its terminal point. Perhaps… this bridge is.” Lu Yun stared fixedly at the bridge when he recovered his calm.

A single eye slowly opened on the Bridge of Forgetfulness as well, locked in scrutiny of the Tome of Life and Death over Lu Yun’s head. No emotions colored the eye, as if the couple was no different from the void that surrounded them.

Only the book over Lu Yun’s head drew its attention.

However, just because it didn’t care about the two humans didn’t mean other things didn’t. The gigantic corpseflies suddenly awoke and buzzed off the bridge, pouncing on Lu Yun and Qing Yu.

The corpseflies were now more massive than the world of immortals, which made the couple nothing more than a particle of dust to their eyes. However, they could clearly identify where the humans were and head unerringly in their direction.

Innumerable corpseflies buzzed over at the same time in a dense cloud, but didn’t have to jockey for space among each other. They presented an extremely harmonious scene that made perfect sense.

The light curtain created by the Tome of Life and Death began to shake from the combined momentum of the corpseflies.