Beast Taming Patrol Chapter 1607 449: Inspector’s Token (Double-Length Chapter, Finale Countdown: 1)_2

Suddenly, a memory he had never accessed flooded into his mind.

The recollection opened with the wail of a newborn infant.

Lin Su's face shifted from bewilderment to a tangled mix of emotions upon spotting the figure who had lifted his infant form from the memory.

It was a youthful Lin Zhen Nan.

This recollection hailed from Lin Su's early days as the Martial God.

Right after transmigrating, he attempted to summon this memory for smoother fusion with his new self, yet not a shred surfaced.

Just when Lin Su slowly released his hold on the issue, fully accepting his role as Martial God Lin Su, the memory crashed into his consciousness without warning.

He witnessed Lin Zhen Nan yearning for him to rise as a martial arts titan like the Lin Family ancestor of a thousand years prior, potentially even attaining the Martial Domain Realm, hence bestowing the name Su, signifying "upstream retracing."

He watched Yun Zhenzhen teasing him and Lin Ye in their childhood, often bringing him to tears, only to offer the finest sugar figurines from Yongnan City to console them, urging silence to their families.

He observed his teenage self dodging drills, chasing amusements and shunning martial arts practice, filling Lin Zhen Nan with worry; the man would hike up sleeves to thrash him, but his doting mother Chen Yu always intervened.

He saw his devoted second uncle Lin Zhantian succumbing to his pleas, escorting him to the bazaar where he unexpectedly forged a bond with the beast taming path, beholding his uncle's profoundly intricate and powerless look.

He viewed Lin Zhen Nan erupting in fury over his beast taming choice, with his uncle bearing full responsibility, kneeling before Lin Zhen Nan amid his own pleas for understanding, yet met with the command to slay every exotic beast in the backyard and the damning label of "a rotten wood that cannot be carved."

He saw his psyche crumbling under relentless setbacks, resulting in an accidental drowning.

Certain events from these recollections had been relayed by the Lin Family to jog his memory, while others stood as complete shocks to Lin Su.

They covered Lin Su's journey from birth through age eighteen, sealing the final gap in his past.

Concluding these recollections lay a shadowy exchange.

...

"Where am I?"

"You want to live."

"Who?"

"You don't need to know who I am, you just need to know that I can make you live."

"But there are some conditions."

"What conditions?"

"You will obscure past memories, casting yourself into another world, experiencing a new life there."

"What kind of life is that? I want my parents, I want my current life!"

"Alright."

"Now you are eighteen."

"After reaching eighteen in another world, you will return."

"Then, I shall grant you the power to traverse between worlds."

"As for your memories, when we meet again, you will remember them."

"Go!"

"Who are you?"

"Me?"

"My name is Shou."

...

Lin Su's eyes flew wide open involuntarily as the exchange resurfaced in his thoughts.

He locked eyes on the entity ahead, breaths growing harsh and erratic.

Boundless lightning seemed to ravage his mind, thundering endlessly.

The exchange etched in his mind involved him and the being called Shou right there.

This talk resolved countless lingering questions, demolishing his former grasp of his own existence.

He uncovered the roots of his world-crossing prowess, grasping why Shou uttered "we meet again."

Yet until this instant, Lin Su never fathomed he originated beyond Blue Star.

He wasn't some intruder hijacking a vessel in the Martial God world.

After eighteen years on Blue Star with reborn memories, he had simply returned to his true origin.

After extended quiet, Lin Su steadied his turbulent feelings from the jolt.

He eyed Shou once more, voicing deliberately the burning query of the moment.

"Where am I? Where are Blue Star and the Martial God world?"

"This place is called Chaos." Shou's eyes swept the environs, replying steadily, "As you see, Chaos nurtures countless realms, each realm containing innumerable creatures, with different rules and power systems."

"For Chaos, the birth and demise of realms is as ordinary as breathing."

"And the time within realms does not correspond with that in Chaos, whereby a moment in Chaos may equate to billions of years for beings inside a realm."

"For beings within realms, a realm isn't confinement, but protection." Shou casually pointed to a staggering creature emerging from a realm and then getting lost in Chaos, "Ordinary beings stepping out would be lost in Chaos."

"Because Chaos contains infinite paths."

"These paths are varied in strength, some masterless, some mastered."

"They are chaotically tangled here, causing cognitive and conscious disorder in ordinary beings."

"Only when one's power reaches a certain level, clarifying one's path and mastering one's law, does one qualify to walk in Chaos, instead of getting lost like that poor soul."

"This level is referred to as the Mythical Rank and Martial God Realm on Blue Star and in the Martial God world."

"In Chaos, it is known as the Dao Source Realm."

Dao Source Realm...

Lin Su mulled it over.

Thus, attaining Mythical Rank as a Beast Tamer had elevated him to this stage, shielding him from Chaos's disarray?

Unavoidably, he directed his gaze back toward Shou.