Instantly, the divine chains emitted a brilliant golden light, instantly enveloping the small underworld. Then, the divine chains and the small underworld simply vanished.
The miniature underworld vanished, yet there was not a trace of movement in the desolate region.
Seeing that he had succeeded, Lin Qing immediately left the area where the desolate region was located and came to a void.
With a gentle squeeze of both hands, the golden chains of law shattered and vanished. And the instant the chains disappeared...
A black continent immediately appeared in front of them; it was a small underworld.
The moment it appeared, the spirit of the realm smashed through the void without saying a word and tried to escape.
"Still trying to escape? I'll refine you right now!" Lin Qing instantly imprisoned the surrounding void.
Then, with a flash, he appeared above the small underworld.
Lin Qing slowly stretched out his hand, and a golden light immediately enveloped the entire continent. Then, the refining process began.
"No, don't refine me! I'll acknowledge you as my master. You can do whatever you want, just please don't refine me!" The spirit was now terrified and began to beg for mercy.
After recognizing its master, it can still have its own consciousness, but when Lin Qing refines it, it will cease to exist.
Although it had only recently developed intelligence, it was precisely because of this that it was even more reluctant to perish.
The spirit's voice gradually faded away, uttering "No, no."
"Boom!"
The miniature underworld returned to its original size, spanning hundreds of thousands of miles, resembling a continent in the void.
Suddenly, the entire miniature underworld was enveloped in golden flames, which began to burn and refine it.
As time went by, the small underworld was refined from hundreds of thousands of miles to 100,000 miles, then 80,000 miles, 50,000 miles, 10,000 miles, and finally turned into a round bead the size of a thumb.
Lin Qing held the small round bead in his hand, playing with it, his face serious: "Whether it succeeds or not depends on this one."
Picking up the round bead, Lin Qing directly slapped it into his sea of consciousness. Then, Lin Qing closed his eyes and entered his sea of consciousness as well.
Let's begin!
Rumble! A huge commotion began to appear in Lin Qing's sea of consciousness.
What was once a calm, boundless sea is now turbulent, with towering waves.
This vast ocean was formed from Lin Qing's sea of consciousness.
In the sea, a huge wave tens of thousands of feet high was raised, and then the wave actually transformed into a golden dragon.
The dragon opened its blood-red maw and swallowed the tiny round bead, which was only the size of a thumbnail at that moment. Afterward, the dragon fell into the sea.
Then, the entire ocean calmed down.
A small divine dragon formed from Lin Qing's divine sense immediately flew from the sky into the sea and dived downwards.
After venturing hundreds of thousands of feet deep to the seabed, Lin Qing finally found the small round bead. Without hesitation, Lin Qing's body gradually shrank, and then he directly disappeared into the small round bead.
"What a strange feeling, I've actually become this little bead." Lin Qing manipulated the little bead to travel through the sea.
"Tsk tsk tsk, I never thought I would one day become a continent." Lin Qing sighed.
After a while, Lin Qing put aside his distracting thoughts and focused his gaze ahead.
Suddenly, a tiny crack appeared on the small bead, not large, only about one-tenth of the bead, and it looked like its mouth.
A large amount of seawater began to rush into the small crack. Although the small bead was very small and its 'mouth' was also very small, it was not slow at all in swallowing seawater.
A small vortex began to form, and at the center of the vortex was the small round bead.
Hundreds of thousands of feet above the sea began to spin, faster and faster, as a colossal whirlpool stirred up the seemingly endless ocean.
The whirlpool grew faster and faster, and gradually, the sea level dropped slightly. If this hadn't been Lin Qing's own sea of consciousness, he probably wouldn't have noticed.
Time passed slowly, and no one knew how much time had gone by. The entire sea of consciousness was now completely devoid of seawater, having been absorbed by the small round bead.
"Crack..." A crack appeared on the small bead.
"Bang!"
With a soft sound, the small bead shattered into countless tiny fragments, which emitted a faint, shimmering light before flying in all directions.
The entire sea of consciousness was infinitely large, but now it seemed to be filled with these small fragments, and the entire sea of consciousness began to emit a faint black light.
The black light grew thicker and thicker until it became an absolutely pitch-black space, as if all five senses had been shut off, and nothing could be perceived.
I don't know how much time passed, but something seemed to have appeared in the pitch-black space, but it was too dark to see.
"I said, 'Let there be light!'"
This voice contained the Great Dao and profound truths, as if it were the creator god. However, it was actually Lin Qing's voice.
"Pop!" A small cluster of firelight flashed, and then a dazzling light filled the entire dark space, turning the whole space into gold.
A black continent, hundreds of thousands of miles in size, floated in the void.
On the Black Continent, there was nothing but pitch-black soil, sand, and giant rocks.
"It's a success." Lin Qing's voice seemed to carry a hint of joy.
"I never expected it to actually succeed."
Lin Qing's sea of consciousness successfully transformed into a newly formed universe, but it has only just been formed, except for the black continent that forms the spatial pillar.
There was nothing else. Even that little flame was a wisp of the Three Flavors Divine Flame that Lin Qing had separated from his body and sent into his sea of consciousness.
"The light is too strong," Lin Qing murmured.
Then, the light dimmed instantly, and only shone on the black continent and some nearby areas.
Chapter 582 Returning to Stone Village (Seeking recommendations and monthly votes)
"The sea of consciousness has truly transformed into the universe. What needs to be done now is to transform it." Lin Qing is now the universe, and the universe is Lin Qing's sea of consciousness.
Previously, when Lin Qing discovered the Western Mausoleum Realm, he did not have this idea. But when the Western Mausoleum Realm and his Sleeve Universe Technique space began to devour each other.
He comprehended time and space, devoured it, and then this idea came to him.
Now he has succeeded. His sea of consciousness has successfully evolved into a universe, and his divine sense has also increased dramatically, becoming twice as powerful.
Moreover, this universe is a real universe, where life can exist.
This universe will gradually form stars, the sun, the moon, planets, or continents similar to the central continent.
Eventually, a planet suitable for life will appear, and after a long period of change, life will eventually emerge.
Of course, one day, the first place to give birth to life will be the central continent, because it is the center and pillar of the entire universe.
The beings born from this universe were designed by Lin Qing to be capable of cultivation. Therefore, this black continent will eventually become something like a certain continent in a novel.
He can fly and disappear into the earth, and he is capable of anything. Lin Qing will be the creator god that these creatures speak of.
This universe is only in its infancy now; it will evolve on its own, and as the universe evolves, Lin Qing's divine sense will also be strengthened.
Furthermore, as the universe evolves, the limits of the realms of these newly born beings will become increasingly higher.
For example, if living beings were to be born inside now, their highest cultivation level would only be the Qi Refining stage, while after the universe evolves once, they would reach the Foundation Establishment stage.
In this universe, everything except living beings can enter, which is equivalent to Lin Qing having an infinitely large storage space. Of course, time will pass within it.
Although living beings in the real world cannot enter, Lin Qing knows that when the universe evolves to a certain extent, it will allow living beings from the outside world to enter this universe.
"It seems I still need to modify the Black Continent." Lin Qing didn't want the first batch of beings born to be soul races without physical bodies.
Since it is based on a small underworld and is only suitable for the Soul Clan, Lin Qing's priority now is to find a continent in the outside world to merge with it.
"No rush, take your time." Lin Qing was now very much looking forward to seeing how far his universe would develop.
"Let's change the time ratio to the maximum value, one to one hundred million!"
This ratio represents the highest flow rate Lin Qing can currently achieve; one year in the outside world is equivalent to one hundred million years in the universe of his consciousness.
As the universe evolves, the proportion of time will become weaker, because as the universe becomes more powerful, it will become connected with the spacetime of the outside world.
According to Lin Qing's calculations, this universe is different from ordinary universes and is more likely to give rise to life. He estimates that the first generation of life will be born in about a billion years of natural evolution.
A billion years is equivalent to ten years in the outside world. With Lin Qing's deliberate actions, the speed might even be faster.
"Let my little universe slowly evolve!" Lin Qing felt a surge of excitement.
When the entire universe is filled with endless living beings, they are all created by Lin Qing. Just imagine that scene; it gives Lin Qing an overwhelming sense of accomplishment.
What an immense force these endless living beings represent!
In the void.
Lin Qing sat cross-legged with his eyes closed.
Suddenly, Lin Qing opened her eyes, sensed for a moment, and said softly, "It's alright, only five years have passed."
It took Lin Qing five years to transform his sea of consciousness into a universe, which wasn't a long time. You have to understand that Lin Qing was still a little worried because decades or even hundreds of years had passed.
"Shi Hao has already gone to the Upper Realm. Let's go back to Stone Village first!" Lin Qing slowly stood up.
He stretched out his right hand and drew a crack, through which sunlight streamed into the void. Looking inside, he saw a beautiful place with lush mountains and clear waters on the other side of the crack.
Lin Qing stepped in and appeared on a grassland.
In the distance, there was a lake with rippling water, seemingly teeming with plump fish or perhaps succulent monsters.
In the distance, there was a group of unicorns, one of which was particularly tall and had a pair of snow-white wings.
"Shicun, I'm back." Lin Qing slowly walked to the entrance of Shicun.
"Huh? How did the villa end up in the village?"
Lin Qing saw that the villa, which was originally outside the village, had been moved into the village, leaving only a deep pit.
The village is now shrouded in a powerful divine array. Some children are still playing in the village, but the Willow God who used to be on the right side of the village entrance has disappeared.
"It seems that Liu Shen has entered the Primal Gate. It looks like Liu Shen was the one who got this villa in."
Lin Qing completely ignored the divine array set up by Liu Shen and stepped into Stone Village without causing a ripple.
"Tsk tsk tsk, those mischievous guys are all fathers now."
Lin Qing thought about how those little guys from before were now fathers themselves, and how time really flies.