Published at 11th of February 2026 6:43 am

Chapter 4085: No Longer Exists

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Beside Lu Yin, the Great Master looked at him in confusion. Was that just an illusion? It seemed like, for a moment, the sorrow induced by this gate actually vanished.

In Zhan Mings eyes, Lu Yins silhouette suddenly seemed to grow. It was as if the man was overshadowing the gate itself.

Soon, Lu Yin and the Great Master left the Arcanum Domain. Zhan Ming led the Zhan family to offer them a respectful send-off.

Only after the two were gone did the Zhan family breathe a true sigh of relief. The pressure that they had been under had been immense.

Almost all of the Spirit Niduss top experts had left, which placed the Zhan family at the peak of the megaverse for the moment, which put enormous pressure on Zhan Ming.

He very much wanted to use the Terminus Cycle to seal the Arcanum Domain again.

Elsewhere, Lu Yin and the Great Master strolled through outer space.

Thanks for your help during that last battle, the Great Master said.

Lu Yin offered a small smile. Theres no need for such formalities between us.

The Great Master glanced sideways at him. Do you talk this casually with every woman?

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No wonder that girl said what she did, the Great Master remarked.

Who? What do you mean?

Xiang Siyu. She said that you speak oddly.

Lu Yin was left speechless. She was the one who spoke oddly! Half of the time, Lu Yin had not even known how to reply to the woman.

By the way, what do you think of Honger?

What does she have to do with me?

Dont forget, you still have one more task, which is for Honger to decide.

Lu Yin then remembered that he had only fulfilled six of the Seven Fairies tasks, and there was still one last one. If he completed them all, he could request one thing from Greater Sancte Green Lotus.

In the past, he had wanted to ask the Greater Sancte to protect the Tianyuan from being reset, but Lu Yin had since obtained the strength to protect his home on his own. At least, unless Greater Sancte Green Lotus and the Greater Sancti became his enemies.

Still, fulfilling the Seven Fairies tasks and receiving a favor from Greater Sancte Green Lotus was quite tempting.

Lu Yin already enjoyed a good relationship with Greater Sancte Green Lotus, but there were certain things that could not be casually requested.

Having a legitimate reason for those things was better.

What does she want me to do? Lu Yin asked.

The Great Master shook her head. I dont know. Youll have to ask her yourself, or have Seventh Sister ask.

Before, Honger and I kept Seventh Sister and the others from being in contact with us in order to hide our identities, but thats no longer necessary.

Lu Yin nodded thoughtfully.

One more thing. The Great Master looked pointedly at Lu Yin. Back then, the one you touched it wasnt me.

Lu Yin blankly stared at the woman, uncertain of how he should respond. Is that still not over?

She chuckled. Believe it or not, but I know who you touched. Im not on the same level as Seventh Sister and the others.

Lu Yin looked away without saying anything.

Dont you want to know?

Its in the past.

For a woman, such a thing will never be in the past, unless she belongs to you.

Lu Yin sighed. Where did Senior Blood Tower go?

The Great Master then looked away. If you dont want to know, then just forget it. Youll find out eventually. As for Blood Tower, I dont know.

I have a question, Lu Yin said.

Ask.

Since youre a Ferryman of the River of Aeons, you shouldnt belong to just human civilization, right?

Of course. I came from another megaverse. Blood Tower brought me here after passing by.

How did you get free of the River of Aeons?

She looked at him. What? Does your civilizations ferryman want to quit?

Lu Yin did not deny that. Wei Nu had certainly wanted to break free, though he did not know if Zhao Ran wished to continue on in her role.

The Great Master stared straight ahead. A ferrymans duty is to prevent anyone from meddling with time. Without a ferryman, a megaverses timeline will fall into complete chaos.

However, safeguarding a megaverses time is pure torment for the ferryman.

A ferryman needs to remain on the River of Aeons for ages upon ages, living lives comparable to those of Immortals. However, while Immortals are free to leave, a ferryman cannot.

I once thought to leave, but doing so caused the megaverse to fall into turmoil. The past and present inverted, history was reversed, and everything became chaotic. Its not something that you would ever want to see.

Lu Yin was reminded of Wei Nus contest with Destiny. Destiny was not a ferryman of the River of Aeons, and yet she had still manipulated Wei Nu through the river and made it possible to reverse time just once.

That single reversal had changed countless peoples fates and even altered the destiny of humanity as a whole.

Without that temporal reversal, things might not have developed as they had. Lu Yins relationship with both the Spirit Nidus and the Nine Odysseys Megaverse would be very different.

And yet, that had only been one temporal reversal.

If several had taken place, what would have become of human civilization?

And yet Greater Sancte Green Lotus and the other Immortals had allowed that temporal reversion to take place.

I was able to leave my River of Aeons because that river no longer exists, the Great Master murmured softly. Her comment was something that Lu Yin failed to immediately understand.

Lu Yin was at a loss. What do you mean, no longer exists?

Her eyes grew wistful. A River of Aeons exists for a megaverses civilization. If that megaverse is gone, then its time is also gone. You could say that it returns to the main stream.

How could a megaverse be gone? Lu Yin asked, bewildered.

She looked over and smiled. If a megaverse can appear, then it can also disappear. Whats so strange about that?

Cant they only be reset?

They can also vanish entirely.

How?

How would I know? Ask Greater Sancte Green Lotus or one of the others. Im not an Immortal.

Her eyes then grew cold with bloodlust. In retrospect, it was those hateful scavengers. If I ever get the chance, Ill throw them into the River of Aeons to suffer a fate worse than death.

Lu Yin looked at her. Scavengers?

The womans gaze shifted. Civilizations struggle against each other in the Aevum Inch, but there are also powerful wanderers who travel about. They hunt for civilizations and determine their coordinates, which they then sell for resources or even a path to Immortality.

The coordinates of my original megaverse were sold by such scum, which led to my megaverse disappearing and its time vanishing back into the main stream. Blood Tower happened to arrive at that time, and I came here with him.

Lu Yin understood. So when you say scavengers, are you referring to those who sell other civilizations coordinates?

The Great Master silently nodded.

Have you ever considered Lu Yin hesitated.

That Blood Tower did it? she finished for him.

Lu Yin stayed silent It was a glaring coincidence: a megaverse vanished just before Blood Tower arrived, and the man was also an Immortal.

She met his gaze. It wasnt Blood Tower. He doesnt have such strength.

The strength to completely destroy a megaverse?

She shook her head. The power to erase a megaverse without me even noticing. I was the ferryman of the River of Aeons for that civilization. Hiding such a thing from me couldnt have been easy, even for an Immortal.

Lu Yin thought of Zhao Ran. When the Nest civilization had attacked the Tianyuan, she had been able to stall the Immortal bug for quite some time.

She had managed to stall an Immortal, let alone merely perceive one.

If an Immortal wanted to destroy the Tianyuan, they would not be able to hide their actions from the ferryman of the River of Aeons. The power of time permeated every corner of a megaverse.

Aside from its River of Aeons being taken back, is there some other way for a ferryman to leave, even temporarily? Lu Yin asked.

The Great Master gave him an odd look. Dont tell me that your wife is the ferryman of the Tianyuan.

Of course not! Lu Yin said, surprised by the sudden leap in logic.

She did not appear to be convinced. Listen, a ferrymans form reflects the megaverses current civilization. She might not even actually be a human. Dont give your heart to the wrong creature.

Lu Yin was left speechless. Shes really not. Shes just a friend, or rather, family.

Is that so? Thats good. I just wanted to be kind enough to warn you. Deny it if you like, but just dont fall any further. That said, you refused even us Seven Fairies, so your wife must be truly extraordinary.

Do you actually have a way to allow a ferryman to leave their River of Aeons?

Yes, but I wont tell you.

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This isnt because of you. Every path has rules, and ferrymen also must follow specific rules. Finding a way out on your own is doing so with your own ability. If another ferryman helps, that changes the nature of the task. Dont forgetyou, me, and even Greater Sancte Green Lotusall that we see are branches of the true River of Aeons. Above what we see is the main River of Aeons that flows through the entire cosmos. After a pause, the Great Master continued to say, No ones ever heard of drawing down that river, as that river governs the laws of time for the entire omniverse. It is completely different from its branches.

Lu Yin frowned. Are you saying that the main River of Aeons also has a ferryman?

Ferryman is just a term. They might be the guardian for insects, other creatures, or whatever, but dont ever think of disrupting their system, or else calamity will strike. The Great Master was solemn.

Lu Yins eyes narrowed. Is that your understanding of things?

Its what I suspect.

Just suspect?

Arent suspicions enough? The most unsettling thing in the cosmos is the unknown. If you can make a guess about something, youve already halved your fear.

Lu Yin nodded. That certainly made sense, much like the concept of self-awareness.

To survive in the cosmos, it was necessary to possess awareness of ones own self while forming conjectures about the rest of the cosmos. If one was unable to even make guesses, they would be lost in the abyss.

What was tragic was that most civilizations could not even speculate about what truly existed in the cosmos.

Speculation could not be baseless imaginings. Any real conjecture had to come from some sort of inner sense or anticipation, which indicated that one was already close to the truth. That was the meaning of conjecture.

If one guessed blindly, there was no difference from doing nothing at all.

The Great Master was able to speculate about the main stream of the River of Aeons only because she herself was a ferryman of the River of Aeons. For anyone else, it was nearly impossible to form any conjectures.

Its best to not talk about the ferrymen, unless the day comes when you can form conjectures regarding the main stream, the Great Master said.

Lu Yin stared up at the stars. The more I think I understand the cosmos, the further I realize I am from the truth.

Can an Immortal speculate about the River of Aeons main stream?

How would I know? You should ask one. You humans are the most deceptive species Ive ever seen. Outwardly, you act all refined and polite, paying your respects here and there, but when it comes to a fight, there are none fiercer.

The Great Master subconsciously looked up at the Mother Trees canopy. I truly never expected Greater Sancte Awe Gate to be capable of fighting two Immortals at the same time. I always believed her to be far weaker than Greater Sancte Blood Tower.

I dont find it surprising. After all, Awe Gate once fought against the entire megaverse. If she hadnt stepped into the Immortal realm, she would have been similar to me.

Thats not the same. Victory in battle depends not only on strength, but also on will. Greater Sancte Awe Gates will is exceptionally strong, though she usually keeps it completely hidden. The woman looked back at Lu Yin. You must understand, any creature that manages to become an Immortal will have their natural disposition ground away beneath the restrictions that they endure. No one is exempt from that.

Even so, Greater Sancte Awe Gate was able to release such a blazing explosion of battle intent. She truly wants to fight.

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