Sixth Ring Wizard

Chapter 710 710: The Mystery of Shenlan (Part 1)

Herag had already felt the difficulty of transcending the Mother River.

Since even the Thunder God Ancestor once released himself due to losing hope, it seems that even an Ancestor finds it hard to achieve this step.

Even beings at the Ancestral Level can only wander within the Mother River and cannot transcend it or leap out to its surface.

Herag then asked, "Have you ever tried?"

The Thousand-Eyed Ancestor thought for a moment and said, "I have tried, but I have never succeeded. Unlike him, I am not so obsessed with it. Because I still have room to grow at this stage, I'm not in a hurry."

"I see..." Herag nodded.

The Thousand-Eyed Ancestor then discussed some matters regarding the Thunder God Ancestor with Herag.

They had known each other for a long time, practically old friends.

The Thousand-Eyed Ancestor had witnessed the Thunder God Ancestor release himself and return to the Mother River.

He waited many epochs to finally see Herag, someone who truly possessed the complete Thunder God Ancestral Bloodline.

Before Herag, there were many who possessed the Thunder God Ancestral Bloodline, but the Thousand-Eyed Ancestor paid little attention to them.

Because he was well aware that these beings only temporarily possessed this bloodline, and they would soon return to the Mother River.

It wasn't until Herag appeared that he genuinely caught the Thousand-Eyed Ancestor's attention.

This was also why the Thousand-Eyed Ancestor initially showed kindness towards Herag, like seeing an old friend's child, who he just wanted to assist with no ill intentions.

Herag discovered that it seemed only after he advanced to Level 8 Dominator did the Thousand-Eyed Ancestor truly begin to tell him many secrets.

Before advancing to Level 8 Dominator, the Thousand-Eyed Ancestor probably hadn't genuinely acknowledged him.

A Level 7 Legendary was indeed not much in the eyes of the Thousand-Eyed Ancestor; no one knew when they might return to the Mother River.

After Herag advanced to Level 8 Dominator, the Thousand-Eyed Ancestor truly saw Herag as the legacy of the Thunder God Ancestor.

What surprised the Thousand-Eyed Ancestor was that the infinite bloodline Herag deduced had already surpassed the Thunder God Ancestral Bloodline and even exceeded his own Thousand-Eyed Race bloodline.

If Herag could advance to the Ancestral Level, he would certainly become an especially powerful one among the Ancestors.

What he needed now was to wait for the Mother River's recognition, unite with the Mother River, and achieve true immortality.

"How far can you reach from the river surface now?" Herag asked.

He was curious about how far a powerful Ancestral Level being like the Thousand-Eyed Ancestor could move within the Mother River.

However, the answer of the Thousand-Eyed Ancestor was unexpected for Herag.

"Distance? I don't know," the Thousand-Eyed Ancestor shook his head.

"You don't know?" Herag was still unclear about the Thousand-Eyed Ancestor's meaning.

The Thousand-Eyed Ancestor said, "When we are immersed in the Mother River, the information is endless. We only know we're within the Mother River but don't know our exact position. Even when moving within the river, we don't know where we're going or how far we've gone."

"We don't know any of this information."

Herag was stunned by this and quickly asked, "Can you not sense the river surface's position?"

The Thousand-Eyed Ancestor looked at Herag strangely and said, "Of course not. As far as I know, inside the Mother River is like a void universe without any sense of up, down, left, or right."

"This is..."

Herag fell into deep thought, realizing that his situation was different from others.

For others, even for Ancestral Level beings, when immersed in the Mother River, they have no sense of their exact position within it.

Even when moving within the Mother River, they do not know if they are moving forward or backward, or if they are ascending or descending.

As for the river surface's position, it is entirely unknown.

To the Thousand-Eyed Ancestor and others, the concept of a river surface simply doesn't exist.

"Why is this..."

Although Herag found it difficult to even turn his neck while immersed in the Mother River, he was sure of one thing.

That was, he could perceive the existence of up, down, left, and right, and could sense the river surface's existence, clearly knowing how far he was from it.

Herag recalled that when immersed in the Mother River, the bottom seemed like a bottomless abyss, but he knew this was the riverbed, and he couldn't go further down.

To leave the Mother River, one could only move upwards, away from the river surface.

To Herag, this was quite normal, and he didn't realize that in this regard, he was different from others.

It was only after conversing with the Thousand-Eyed Ancestor that Herag realized he was indeed somewhat different.

"Is it because of the Infinite Bloodline Power? Or... Shenlan?!" Herag pondered, reflecting on the past, searching for the discrepancies between himself and others.

Herag first thought of the Infinite Bloodline Power, which he relied on to ascend to Level 8 Dominator.

The Infinite Bloodline Power is unlike any other bloodline power, and this is where Herag completely differs from others, possessing a bloodline power that far exceeds all others.

However, Herag still couldn't be certain if the difference was due to the bloodline.

There was something else unique to Herag, and that was Shenlan.

When Shenlan first appeared, Herag didn't understand how Shenlan followed him to this world.

Now, in a different position, Herag has a deeper understanding of the world's essence and more ideas.

Herag speculated that his previous life was probably just a small plane within the Endless Plane.

However, there was no presence of Extraordinary Powers there, at least none that he had discovered.

Shenlan, as a product of technological civilization, followed his soul to the Wizard Plane due to some reasons.

Herag's soul, traveling from his past life to the Wizard Plane, must have passed through the Mother River.

Normally, after souls return to the Mother River, their memories of past lives are washed away, unless they are Ancestor or Dominator level beings who might retain their memories from being cleansed.

Or they possess a power system like a Wizard, capable of condensing True Spirit, preserving its essence.

But Herag was just an ordinary person in his past life, and he was certain he never encountered any Extraordinary Powers.

Under such circumstances, it's peculiar that he could retain complete past life memories after the Mother River's cleansing.

Herag had previously pondered over this and could only conclude that Shenlan, following his soul, automatically protected his soul, preserving those memories.