Chapter 567 - 264: Call, Harvest, the Truth of the Land of the End

Chapter 567: Chapter 264: Call, Harvest, the Truth of the Land of the End

"Lin Feng!"

A low, deep call came from behind Lin Feng.

It made him freeze instantly at the entrance of the Spiritual Passage.

He watched Ling Yi, who was fully focused on maintaining the Spiritual Passage, grow more and more distant...

Lin Feng felt a surreal sense of displacement, as if a lifetime had passed.

After her warnings and reminders, Lin Feng had considered everything that might happen.

This included seeing the Eye of the Spine God again, meeting its gaze a second time, or even, like Shen Jie, coming face to face with the sealed Tier Four Spine King within the Land of the End.

He had considered countless possibilities...

But not this one.

Watching Ling Yi’s unwavering steps, Lin Feng knew that he was the only one who could hear that call.

And he had heard it with perfect clarity.

The last time in the Spirit World, it had been his mother, He Yiwen, who had called his name while his consciousness was fading.

But this time, the person calling him,

was an all-too-familiar male voice...

A slightly coarse and resonant male voice,

belonging to the middle-aged man Lin Feng knew best.

His father...

Lin Yu, who had vanished while searching for He Yiwen.

This forced Lin Feng to halt his steps. He wanted to turn and look back at the collapsing Trial World, to find the source of that call...

Ever since confirming He Yiwen’s death by answering the Spine God’s three questions through its temporal regression, the only lingering attachment left in Lin Feng’s heart,

was his missing father.

Now, with the opportunity before him, Lin Feng had to make a choice, and quickly.

Because the Trial World behind him was continuously collapsing, and as Ling Yi moved farther away, the Spiritual Passage was also gradually fading...

Time was running out for Lin Feng.

In the end, he still turned his head, unable to resist looking back in the direction of the voice...

What met his eyes behind him was the apocalyptic sight of the entire Trial World collapsing, its seventy extinguished volcanoes crumbling.

And beneath this world, amidst the scorching magma, the Land of the End that had previously invaded the Trial World was now fully revealed.

It was a vast expanse, thousands of miles wide, formed by an aggregation of light sources of different colors. Within it stood numerous Mental Realm Volcanoes, each thousands of meters tall.

The crimson Slaughter that had eroded the Trial World was the most conspicuous patch of blood-red within this conglomeration of light, which contained various Mental Realms.

As the Trial World collapsed and Lin Feng departed, the entire Land of the End connected to it began to shrink in his field of view.

The Land of the End, once a land so vast he couldn’t see its end, gradually shrank until it looked like a landscape in a painting.

Only now could he see that the entire Land of the End, in the sea of endlessly scorching magma below, rested upon a colossal corpse!

And the owner of this corpse was none other than the Tier Four Spine King that Ling Yi had mentioned, the one sealed deep beneath Blue Star!

The Slaughter Realm that had previously eroded and destroyed the Trial World was merely a corner of the Land of the End, condensed from one of its eyes.

Its massive Tier Four Body stretched for dozens of kilometers.

Compared to it, the Zerg Race Realm King, also Tier Four, seemed like an inferior Early Stage being that had just broken through.

Even though it had been stripped of its consciousness, the Tier Four Spine King still emitted intense Energy fluctuations.

As the Spiritual Passage moved farther away, Lin Feng watched the Land of the End, floating above the Tier Four Body, throb rhythmically—expanding and contracting, scattering countless streams of Realm Power.

Like the breath of a hibernating creature, it absorbed the roiling magma beneath it, still possessing a vigorous Life Force!

The panoramic view of the Land of the End deeply shocked Lin Feng, but despite his face glowing red, his brow furrowed.

Because the voice that had drawn him to look back...

was now nowhere to be found.

Lin Feng’s eyes widened as he desperately searched for any possible source of the voice.

However, aside from the incomparably massive corpse of the Spine King lying in the sea of magma, there was no other trace of anything.

’Where did my father’s voice come from?!’

Before Lin Feng could take another look, a pulling force tugged at his dangling hand.

It was Ling Yi at the end of the Spiritual Passage, who had turned and yanked him out of the void, sending them both back to their respective bodies.

"Wait..."

Before he could finish, Lin Feng’s vision went black,

and he lost consciousness instantly.

...

When Lin Feng’s consciousness awakened again, he found himself in an ocean of scorching hot magma, yet he felt no searing heat conducted into his body.

After a moment’s hesitation, Lin Feng understood that this was his own Spirit World.

Or rather, it was a bootleg Trial World, condensed from the residual Spinal Zerg Realm Energy within his body.

Just like when he was on Ceres after helping Shen Jie pass his trial, this was merely a poor imitation, one that didn’t contain the true Law of the Spinal Zerg Realm.

But this time, what appeared before Lin Feng wasn’t a remnant of the Spine God, but the Spine King’s Body upon which the Land of the End rested.

’It probably has to do with that last scene I saw when I looked back.’

Lin Feng slowly waved his hands, releasing his Particle Control Power to try and manipulate this copied space, which had been manifested from Realm Energy.

The Land of the End floating before him on the Spine King’s corpse...

quickly condensed into two masses of differently colored Energy.

They represented Unyielding and Fearless, respectively.

As for the Slaughter Realm concentrated in the Spine King’s eyes, because they hadn’t dealt with the Slaughter King Spine Zerg and absorbed its Mental Energy Ball, Lin Feng couldn’t re-imprint it now.

After absorbing the two copied Energy Balls into his body, Lin Feng looked up again, his gaze fixed on the Spine King’s corpse floating in the sea of magma below.

He carefully searched for any clue as to the source of the voice.

However, once Lin Feng had fully absorbed the Realm boons from this trial, the bootleg copy of the Land of the End also began to collapse and disappear, having lost the core from which it was formed.