Chapter 824: Chapter 824: The Former Self
“Where am I?” Fang Lin looked around in a daze, completely bewildered.
Hadn’t he been below the Abyss Pill Well? How on earth had he suddenly arrived here?
At this moment, Fang Lin found himself in an extremely grand hall, where a figure sat cross-legged with a pill furnace beside him.
When Fang Lin regained his senses and saw the style of the pill furnace, it was as if he had been struck by a heavy blow, and he stood there in a stupor.
“How is this possible?” Fang Lin could hardly believe it; he couldn’t bring himself to trust what he was seeing.
The pill furnace shone with a dazzling treasure light, and on its surface were carved the sun, moon, and stars, as well as mountains and rivers, with countless shadows of exotic beasts moving and emerging around it.
This pill furnace was familiar to Fang Lin, extremely so, because in his past life, after achieving the position of Pill Sovereign, he had always used this very cauldron.
Yet, this treasured cauldron should have been destroyed along with him when his attempt at refining the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill failed—so why was it appearing before his eyes now?
Fang Lin’s expression suddenly changed, becoming shocked, terrified, and disbelieving.
He remembered everything here, as well as why this treasured cauldron would appear in this place.
Because—this was the Pill Saint Palace!
Fang Lin abruptly turned to look at the figure sitting cross-legged; sure enough, that person was none other than Fang Lin himself.
To be precise, it was the Fang Lin from his past life.
Two Fang Lins in the same grand hall—one from a past life and one from the current life—such a scenario was beyond Fang Lin’s imagination.
It was as if he had crossed eons of time or shattered the seals of time, returning to countless years before, seeing the treasured cauldron he had once used, the Pill Saint Palace he had deeply cherished, and his former self.
“Why is this happening?” Fang Lin couldn’t believe it. He closed his eyes, thinking that everything he was seeing was an illusion, a manifestation of his memories caused by some power, and certainly not real.
When he opened his eyes once more, the scene before him was unchanged; he was standing in a pill refining hall of the Pill Saint Palace, gazing upon everything familiar, including a version of himself that was even more familiar.
Fang Lin swayed on his feet; the shock was too great, he had never imagined that he could return to his past life.
“No, wait! If I have truly returned, why are there two of me?” Fang Lin suddenly woke to the realization, cold sweat streaming down his forehead as he looked at his cross-legged self, his eyes filled with confusion and horror.
The cross-legged Fang Lin was dressed in a long robe of black and white, his presence unfathomable, sitting there as if all the stars in heaven orbited around him, as though he was seated at the zenith of the sky, suppressing all creation.
Looking at his former self, Fang Lin couldn’t help feeling sentimental. That was the majesty of the Pill Sovereign; his past self had been so powerful, proud enough to look down on all other heroes between heaven and earth.
Then, looking at his current self, he was so weak it was pitiful. Fang Lin even thought that if this seated version of himself were to strike out at his current self, probably just a breath would be enough to reduce him to dust.
A terrifyingly bizarre fluctuation emanated from within the treasured cauldron, and to the naked eye, the space where the cauldron was seemed to be constantly twisting and changing.
This sight sparked a thought in Fang Lin’s mind, and suddenly, he remembered.
The former self was refining the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill!
That is to say, what Fang Lin was now seeing was in fact his past self during the last moments of his previous life.
There was an impulse in Fang Lin’s heart to walk over, to stop the former Fang Lin from continuing to refine the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill because it was destined to fail, a road of no return.
If his past self stopped refining the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill, then everything would change, and perhaps even the entire era would enter a completely different trajectory.
The moment this thought emerged, Fang Lin felt as if possessed, yearning to take steps to dissuade his former self.
Although it seemed absurd, Fang Lin knew the consequences of continuing to refine the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill. If he could stop it, perhaps many things could be changed.
However, Fang Lin found that he simply couldn’t move; although he felt his feet firmly on the ground, he couldn’t take even half a step, nor could he make a sound, much less catch the attention of that former self.
It was as if Fang Lin were excluded from time and space itself; he was only an outsider, able to see and to hear, yet he did not belong here, could do nothing, could only watch everything unfold before his eyes.
Fang Lin was unwilling, his teeth clenched in a futile attempt to roar with anger, to take a step forward, to reach out.
But in the end, it was all in vain. He could do nothing.
As time trickled away, the fluctuations emanating from the precious cauldron grew increasingly terrifying, and for a few moments, it seemed as if even time itself had stopped.
And that former Fang Lin, he would occasionally open his eyes to check on the situation in the cauldron, never noticing another self, who stood not far away, watching everything.
“Just three more months, and this unprecedented supreme pill will be refined by me,” the former Fang Lin said. Despite being a Pill Sovereign, there was a trace of excitement in his voice at the moment.
The Life and Death Reincarnation Pill did not exist in the world; it was a concept put forth by Fang Lin after he became the Pill Sovereign.
Even at the highest realms, one could not escape the cycle of life and death, and a long lifespan, an enduring life, would slowly diminish in the passage of time.
To break free from all of this, for the real transcendence, Fang Lin, as the Pill Sovereign, came up with the concept of the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill.
With the power of a defy-the-heavens pill, forcefully jump out of the cycle of life and death, shake off the shackles of reincarnation, and achieve true transcendence and eternal life.
It was a mad idea, one that even the most talented and extraordinary individuals would not dare to contemplate.
But Fang Lin indeed harbored such a thought; he was more fanatical than anyone in his era, aspiring to accomplish what neither his predecessors nor successors could.
With the power of pills, reverse life and death, transcend reincarnation, and become an eternally existing life.
Moreover, Fang Lin did not just come up with this concept but also put it into action, investing his all into the refining of the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill.
Now, the creation of the pill was at hand, with various omens already manifesting, proving the extraordinary nature of this pill. The former Fang Lin’s eyes burned with an intense fire; in his predictions, the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill could certainly succeed.
“Perhaps in this life, I can only refine one Life and Death Reincarnation Pill, but that’s entirely enough. My father is a Martial Lord with nearly limitless longevity; this pill will be left for my mother,” the former Fang Lin murmured to himself.
Not far away, the present Fang Lin watched his former self with sorrow.
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