Traveler of the River of Time and Space

Chapter 651 21: Return to the Wasteland

An endless river of void.

Su Ziyu seems like an incredibly tiny speck of dust drifting in this time-space river where the stars flash; at this moment, he isn't under the protection of the Hourglass of Time's power, so he is not a small bubble floating in the boundless star sea, but a shimmering silhouette with faint golden radiant light.

"Star Realm Wander."

Su Ziyu's virtual image floats in the void, lowering his head to observe his energy-transformed body, while his consciousness simultaneously receives information from two worlds.

This is his astral projection, a new body made entirely of energy, shaped by the Ten Rings spiritual ability, drawing energy from the core of the multiverse, the mysterious source sea. The source sea is the original place of all souls, a secret guarded by all Death Gods, which only beings above demigod level in the multiverse are qualified to access the power of the source sea; as for entering the source sea, one must go through the Netherworld of the Crystal Wall Element, or a Divine Kingdom of a Death God. This is also one of the reasons why Lord Stephen brought Su Ziyu to the Bottomless Abyss.

Because the Nether River flows within the Bottomless Abyss, and at its deepest point, there's a direct passage connecting to the source sea.

The first successful attempt at incarnation projection allowed Su Ziyu to feel a trace of discord between the soul and the body, a sensation akin to information delay, where the control of consciousness over the body is interfered with by the mighty forces of time and space, like simultaneously controlling characters from two different games on a computer with delayed internet speed.

Yet, this is undoubtedly a very good start, for Su Ziyu is rapidly adapting to all this, he is familiarizing himself with his new body.

"Coordinate 1 (Earth): Civilization Level 3, Energy Level 1, Modern Civilization."[404 Law Rejection][Cannot Enter]

"Coordinate 2: Civilization Level 4, Energy Level 2, Dinosaur Era, can enter." [Interstellar Colony][Civilization Advancement]

"Coordinate 3: Civilization Level 2, Energy Level 1, Snake-man Civilization, can enter."

"Coordinate 4: Civilization Level 1, Energy Level 2, Medieval Civilization, can enter."

"Coordinate 5: Civilization Level 3, Energy Level 3, Wasteland Apocalypse, cannot enter."[Civilization Advancement][Unstable Mechanical Ascension][Genetic Ascension: Prelude][Spiritual Ascension: Enlightenment][Profane Whisper][Alien Invasion][Ancient Dominator]

"Coordinate 6: Civilization Level 1, Energy Level 4, Dream Plane, can enter." [Elemental Tide]

"Coordinate 7: Civilization Level 1, Energy Level 3, Demon Hunting Plane, can enter." [Space-Time Turbulence]

"Coordinate 8: Civilization Level 3, Energy Level 1, Hundred Ghosts Plane, can enter." [Marked Plane][Civilization Advancement]

"Coordinate 9: Civilization Level 0, Energy Level 3, Black Soul Plane, can enter." [Plane Annihilation]

"Coordinate 10: Civilization Level 4, Energy Level 4, Stars Plane. can enter." [Unstable Mechanical Ascension][Stars Whisper]

Wisps of pale golden sand grains appear in Su Ziyu's palm.

Accompanied by these grains of sand, an outline of an hourglass emerges before his eyes, reopening the Plane Anchor interface of the Space-Time Monitor System. As an incarnation, the body cannot fully mobilize the power of the Space-Time Monitor System, what Su Ziyu currently holds is akin to an advanced version of the personal auxiliary system of a Space-Time Apostle.

It possesses most of the functions of the Space-Time Monitor System, but lacks the most crucial part, which is the nearly unrestricted enhancement ability.

The strength of an incarnation is difficult to improve; the power of an incarnation is determined by his own strength.

To create an extremely powerful Saint incarnation, Su Ziyu must separate his body's divine power and inject it into the incarnation's body. However, as a trade-off, if this Saint incarnation dies in battle, his own strength will drastically drop.

"Name: Su Ziyu[Saint Incarnation]."

"Race: Human[Demigod]."

"Biological Level: Saint Incarnation (Tier Six)"

"Casting Level: Ninth Ring (Spiritual)."

"Challenge Level: 21."

"Authority Level: Space-Time Pioneer."

"Domain: Thunder."

"Divine Immunity: Electricity, Sleep, Disease, Paralysis, Instant Death effects."

"Divine Ability: Lightning Absorption."

"Divine Perception (3 km): Within a three-kilometer range, anything related to oneself, like believers, divine miracles, items, etc., can be sensed and locked; all individuals reciting (whether spoken aloud or silently) the true name can be anchored by Divine Perception."

"Divine Power Aura (30 meters): The current Saint incarnation can open a Divine Power Aura with a 30-meter radius."

Since the Saint incarnation is created using Ten Rings spiritual ability, the casting capability limit of Su Ziyu's body is Ninth Ring spiritual ability. However, because he injected part of the thunder divine power during the incarnation's creation, the incarnation also possesses a portion of divine ability.

The challenge level of an incarnation created by spiritual ability ranges between 16-18, which is his current limit. However, the more divine power injected into the incarnation, the stronger the incarnation's power becomes, and the higher the challenge level.

Under extreme circumstances, he can abandon the original body and directly transform the incarnation into a new body.

"Ninth-ring spiritual ability."

"In the Wasteland Plane, it should be sufficient." Su Ziyu continuously adapts to his new body while modifying his appearance a bit, mainly by making his features appear older.

After all, he himself hasn't aged for a long time.

Since he is using a Saint incarnation, all lineage-related enhancements possessed by the body are ineffective, only a portion of the mind-side and soul-side special abilities can be used.

"Lock Plane."

After gradually synchronizing control over his body, Su Ziyu locked onto the Wasteland Plane.

During this time, all the planes have not been static; several planes have undergone some changes, with some experiencing Elemental Tides and others caught in Space-Time Chaos, while the Black Soul Plane has directly entered a state of plane annihilation.

However, the most drastic changes were in the Wasteland Plane.

"Plane anchor locked!"

"Prepare for descent!"

All the scenery around turned into a twisted stream of light, and Su Ziyu's Saint Incarnation transformed into a stream of light, piercing through the void ahead, moving toward the plane anchor point of the Wasteland Plane.

This time he distinctly felt a clear film.

It was the barrier of the Crystal Wall Element, which his true form found difficult to pass through, but his Saint Incarnation could just squeeze through the gap.

Wasteland Plane.

The endless sea surged with waves, oppressive dark clouds brewing a new storm, and amidst the tumbling tides, two colossal creatures were engaged in a fierce battle. One had a bloated and massive oval body, its tentacles and suction cups extending from all sides, tightly wrapping around its prey, a radiation-mutated whale-like creature whose abdomen hosted countless barnacle-like organisms; these acted like its natural armor, deflecting unachievable attacks. However, its belly was already decayed, with things bearing suction cup teeth gnawing and wriggling on it.

Rumble!

A streak of golden lightning suddenly flashed through the sky.

For a moment, the entire sea's clouds violently roiled, immediately followed by a burst of violent lightning, as if some force had shattered the natural balance, bringing forth an early storm.

Golden lightning struck the raging sea surface.

Then a figure lightly stood on the sea, swaying with the waves, his gaze calmly observing everything before him.

"It seems there's a slight deviation in positioning."

Where Su Ziyu's Saint Incarnation descended was not on land; there was no island in sight, likely still quite far from any land. Glancing at the two struggling, battling monsters not far away, he reached out toward the sky and seized, whereupon a storm of electric serpents burst beneath the dark clouds, and over ten bolts of lightning tangled and converged in the sky, forming a golden radiant spear in his hand.

——"Lightning Spear!"

Su Ziyu lightly waved, and the golden spear pierced directly through the bodies of the two giant monsters, scattering them when the lightning converged, desperately trying to dive into the seabed. Yet their speed couldn't possibly outrun lightning, leaving no room for resistance at all, and their gigantic bodies turned into floating charcoal on the sea.

He simply judged the direction.

Su Ziyu's figure transformed into a stream of light, flying northward; his energy-transformed body found it quite easy to fly, and he could even void-spirit himself, feeling almost no resistance.

Of course, in this state, energy weapons posed a greater threat to him.

Compared to the land, the ocean of the Wasteland Plane suffered more severe pollution because many nuclear industry facilities went unattended after the great disaster, with large amounts of nuclear pollutants flowing into the sea following explosions, making the mutated marine life both more numerous and more dangerous than those on land.

"Where is this?"

"Atomic Sea?"

Getting closer to land, Su Ziyu noticed his brows slightly furrowing because he saw many faintly glowing marine-like creatures.

These bizarre luminous fish gathered together, shining with the seabed corals, creating a breathtakingly beautiful and dreamy scene, even making the seawater seem luminous by itself, illuminating the reefs in the surrounding darkness.

"Warning!"

"Entering high radiation pollution zone!"

Glowing Sea.

This was a circular shallow sea area. After entering here, Su Ziyu felt the radiation pollution sharply rise, but since he no longer possessed a flesh-and-blood body, it hardly affected him.

The fish here had undergone severe mutations, their bodies' surface luminescence was alarmingly vivid.

And as he drew nearer the coastline, the number of fish began to dwindle, the glow transforming wholly into the seawater, with the traces of marine animals almost vanishing, leaving only various bizarre algae and corals.

——"Lobster People (Radiation Mutated)!"

As Su Ziyu's figure neared the beach, he finally saw some active life forms, like little settlements scattered across this coastline; these beings possessed tough mutated carapaces, bearing a faint resemblance to lobsters, displaying considerable intelligence, living and hunting in a primitive tribe-like way.

With Su Ziyu landing on the ground, signs of biological activity began to increase.

Most active here were high-radiation-polluted mutated species, with the most numerous being mud crabs and Lobster People. He even saw Death Claws hunting in family units when elsewhere Death Claws would almost always act alone.

He did not linger long here, discerning his direction; he headed toward Polaris.

However, before leaving, he couldn't shake the vague sensation of being watched, his intuition suggesting that deep within the Atomic Sea, some formidable and unknown creature might lie hidden.

Perhaps it could be those legendary Old Ones.

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