My gorgeous wife Chapter 2288 - 2256: Searching

In the Starry Universe, the quickest method to travel from one place to another is, of course, teleportation.

However, even teleportation requires two location points. Otherwise, no matter how short the distance, one can only rely on oneself.

Although Li Chen’s speed doesn’t claim dominance over the universe, it is certainly exceptional. Yet, searching for someone who left decades ago by tracing faint causality marks left behind is not an easy task.

It has nothing to do with speed. After traveling a certain distance, Li Chen has to stop and carefully search for traces again to confirm that he hasn’t deviated from his path.

After all, the Starry Universe is so vast that even a slight deviation from the intended route could lead to being completely off track.

It’s like a person in the desert walking along a straight line with blindfolds, initially just a little off, but as the deviation grows, the direction soon becomes entirely skewed.

This is the state Li Chen finds himself in now.

If his speed were too fast, even a slight deviation would quickly make him lose the causal trace, requiring him to backtrack and start again.

Therefore, he can only move slowly and search meticulously.

Li Changcun left for decades, and the time Li Chen needs to follow the trace to find him is feared to be no less.

Of course, many times, although Li Chen still has a concept of time, the idea of ’years’ has long blurred for him.

This is a common issue for any strong person who lives long.

In childhood, there is a full moon and first birthday celebration.

Growing up, there is an adulthood celebration.

When one’s age surpasses several decades, it becomes a decade celebration.

But what if you have lived for hundreds or thousands of years?

Many cultivators may have long forgotten their age. Even if remembered due to profound cultivation, they no longer care.

Thus, in walking, stopping, and searching for traces, Li Chen spent another century.

A hundred years, for Li Chen in the Heaven and Earth Realm, pass like a careless second in an ordinary human’s century-long life, perhaps even less significant.

However, during this century of searching, Li Chen discovered that his cultivation, which had surged from devouring nine fruits, finally stabilized.

He is now truly a Late-Stage Expert of the Heaven and Earth Realm.

In the Minor Universe, the Eternal World Tree also, through this century of absorption, regained some Yuan Qi.

In the Minor Universe, some primitive low-level beings have appeared. Though insignificant and tiny, they brought vitality to his Minor Universe.

Speaking of the late stage of the Heaven and Earth Realm, Li Chen does not know how to define his current realm.

Heaven and Earth Realm can have a Minor Universe?

Good news came from his alter ego as well.

Haoheng and Yinlin have grown up, gradually taking on the responsibility as his son and daughter, starting to cultivate diligently. In the current era of the Four Great Realms, geniuses continuously emerge, with new talents joining the Borderlands frequently, making the entire Starry Universe full of positive prospects.

Li Chen believes that, despite the difficulty of achieving the Palm Realm, among these new Soul Realm experts, a few will surely emerge.

Every new Palm Realm powerhouse lends more confidence to civilization when facing the Era-Ancient civilization and the true starry universe catastrophe.

Everything seems to be moving in a positive direction.

And Li Chen hasn’t just been searching for traces over the years. Along the way, he casually discovered a few Doomsday Beast Soul hideouts, rooting out some threats.

In destroying these threats to the Starry Universe, Li Chen also gathered much information about the Doomsday Beast Souls.

It is precisely these exterminated individuals that gradually revealed to Li Chen the societal dynamics of the current Doomsday Beast Souls.

Contrary to many people’s conjecture of a monolithic entity, the Doomsday Beast Souls are divided into many factions.

There are Low-Rank ones banding together, and powerful ones who disdain collective actions, wandering freely.

There are also small groups formed by several powerful Doomsday Beast Souls working together, like the ones Li Chen encountered earlier.

Perhaps, due to the different hosts chosen by the Doomsday Beast Souls and the more or less varied influences, the originally unified Doomsday Beast Souls have fragmented into these competing factions.

Of course, no matter the situation, most of them exist with the purpose of destruction.

Zhang Lu and Zhang Shutong remain anomalies among the Doomsday Beast Souls.

However, this situation brings Li Chen a sigh of relief.

As long as it’s not a monolith, this competitive landscape is much easier to manage than a united Doomsday Beast Soul.

"The inherent flaws of sentient beings, even the Doomsday Beast Souls cannot escape it." Li Chen smiled wryly yet with relief in his heart.

Just as Li Chen suspected, these years, there has been no movement from the Era-Ancient civilization, as if they have completely quieted down.

Evidently, not just the Starry Universe and Doomsday Beast Souls have been gathering strength, the Era-Ancient civilization is accumulating power too.

This may be a splendid era of blossoming brilliance, yet it is also a time where various forces are gathering strength, waiting for the final confrontation.

Following the trace, Li Chen searched for several more decades, feeling that he was getting closer to Li Changcun. The causality traces were becoming thicker.

He is about to find him.

Additionally, an unknown excitement stirred within Li Chen’s heart.

Since becoming aware, he had never seen his parents.

After all these years, after struggling to establish a place in the Heaven Realm, he finally met Li Changcun, but regarding his mother, Li Changcun remained tight-lipped.

Yet this time, Li Changcun’s actions made him vaguely sense something.

Perhaps... this time he can meet the mother he’s never seen?

...

Holy Realm.

Suan Tian sat a bit nervously beside the two supreme leaders, not daring to say a word.

After arriving, he learned that Guangming Saint of the Way had forcibly detained Lord Holy Primordial Demon when the latter visited with questions.

He didn’t dare speak a word about the affairs between these Lords Dao Saints.

Even this time, he only came because Guangming Saint of the Way transmitted a message for him to come.

"Suan Tian, lad, they say your calculation skills are unrivaled in the Starry Universe, so what do you think? When I let that lad step onto the Three Lives Bridge, giving him another chance to choose, ultimately, what choice will he make?" Guangming asked gently, looking at Suan Tian.

Suan Tian scratched his head with a wry smile: "Lord Dao Saint, this has nothing to do with calculation skills. That kid is just stubborn. I think, once he decides on something, even if he has a thousand choices, it will all be the same result."

"Hmm." Guangming nodded, responding softly.

"What a pity."