Chapter 498: Another Timeline
Tianyi sat in his allotted chamber. As an “injured” patient, he should spend all his time in his room healing. However, he didn’t look like he was focused on healing at all. Rather, he was resting his cheeks between his palms with a bored expression.
Strictly speaking, he wasn’t exactly injured. He just needed to strengthen the conduit. A conduit was a vessel. The larger the vessel, the more power of the Nine Heavens Universe it could accommodate.
Although Tianyi appeared to be doing nothing, he was actually expanding the vessel. Spacetime fluctuations flitted across his skin and clothes. If an unlucky person touched him, they might be sucked into his skin. They would shrink until they were smaller than microscopic, and all they would see was not skin, but a vast continent with no end.
If they survived the process.
Even if they did, the danger was not over yet. Time flowed differently near Tianyi. Sometimes it quickened to an absurd degree. Other times, it would flow in reverse. Age, memories, injuries, all would disappear as if they hadn’t existed.
Part of the reason he sealed himself in his room was to prevent prying eyes and affecting others during his upgrade process. He could go out with another conduit, but it would only attract disapproving eyes. His current mission was to heal himself for the next inevitable confrontation with the Demon Clan, and he didn’t want to reveal news about his conduit.
After a while, Tianyi sat atop a jade seat in a lotus position. He had finished scrolling through his Xiyi talisman. Logically speaking, he should have an endless amount of entertainment from the Xiyinet. However, his interests changed often.
When the mood struck him, he would consume one form or genre of entertainment voraciously, but he would also grow tired of it after a while. All forms of entertainment in a genre had many similarities. Once you consumed a certain amount, it would feel the same. Instead of forcing himself to consume it, it would be better to stop.
Still, Tianyi couldn’t find a new interest for a short while. He scrolled through many new shows on the Xiyinet or forums, but they couldn’t arouse his interest at all.