Chapter 721 721: Land of the End
Chapter 721 721: Land of the End
Herag had known for a long time that many people wanted to transcend the Mother River, only that no one had ever succeeded as far as he knew.
Since he himself could reach the surface of the river, surely someone else in the Endless Plane would reach this point too.
Although the process was arduous and the probability extremely low, it was not impossible.
The real difficulty lay in the final step, which required one to have immense strength in order to break through the membrane's constraint and truly transcend the Mother River.
Herag glanced to both sides; although the river appeared quite wide, it seemed to be only about one kilometer.
He was close to the left bank, so he began to swim towards it.
Herag found that in this place, he seemed to have become an ordinary person, only able to swim slowly towards the shore.
He could feel that his power and means were still there, but in the Mother River, he could only swim across.
This process was much quicker than Herag had imagined, taking only ten minutes to reach the shore.
Herag initially thought that, like when he was in the river, moving would expend a lot of energy, but that was not the case.
After reaching the shore, Herag climbed up to find himself naked, wearing nothing at all.
He tried communicating with his Small Plane and found that he could, so he retrieved a set of clothes from it to wear.
Herag also experimented and found that he couldn't take out any life forms from the Small Plane.
Whether animal or plant, trying to take them out met some kind of obstruction, making it impossible to remove them.
The sensation was strange; it wasn't that he couldn't take them out, but rather that he couldn't place what he wanted to remove in this place.
Herag looked into the distance and discovered that the river might be longer than just one kilometer.
The sense of distance here was as inaccurate as in the river water, unable to yield a truly accurate result.
Looking at the ground, Herag found that it appeared to be ordinary soil, only there were no weeds growing.
Behind him was endless soil, stretching beyond sight.
A barren wasteland, nothing at all.
Herag took a walk around the place, finding nothing except a few footprints.
These footprints seemed to have been left a long time ago but, because of the absence of wind and rain, they retained their original appearance.
Turning his head, Herag saw that he too had left many footprints here.
Years later, who knows how long, others would likely see them too.
At this moment, Herag felt something mystical; he sensed a vast amount of knowledge pressing in from the surrounding environment, eager to be absorbed by him.
Herag attempted to absorb some information and quickly understood what was happening.
This was the End Horizon, the place that transcended the existence of the Mother River, also a dimension higher than the Endless Plane.
With the step Herag took out of the Mother River, he had completed that dimensional transcendence, becoming an existence beyond the dimensional plane of the Endless Plane.
At this moment, Herag sensed numerous planes within him undergoing changes.
The countless planes within him originally existed independently within his cells, but at that moment, they began developing connections.
The planes didn't merge, and they didn't touch.
Yet, a peculiar power filled these planes, connecting all the cells within, making it seem as if all planes were soaked within this power.
Herag suddenly understood that this strange power was Dimension.
All planes within him at that moment became planes of a single dimension, the innumerable planes within him connecting into a unified whole—a new Endless Plane.
At this moment, Herag also became the master of this new Endless Plane.
Once this step was completed, Herag could feel a sensation akin to ascension, as if strength had become just a concept.
Before him, any Legendary, Dominator, or Ancestor was no longer significant, all becoming existences similar to a concept.
Should Herag will it, he could instantly kill any Ancestor.
The method used would be simple; directly removing the Ancestor from the Mother River from a higher dimension.
Ancestors were linked to the Mother River; theoretically, as long as the Mother River existed, Ancestors wouldn't die.
But Herag had transcended the Mother River, standing outside of it, capable of removing Ancestors from it, eradicating them completely.
Herag approached the riverbank, looking at the Mother River.
At this moment, in his eyes, the Mother River was completely different—not the previously bottomless deep blue water, but a flow of information containing massive data.
Soul, bloodline, power, and such were merely flows of data passing through the Mother River.
This information was completely comprehensive, including all past information that had ever passed through.
Herag could see the past but not the future.
At this moment, he also understood that the past had already occurred, so it was recorded.
However, the future had yet to happen, so even the Mother River had no record.
This indirectly proved that the future wasn't predetermined, not everything set in stone.
Herag stood by the riverbank, moving upstream, witnessing the myriad epochs of information that had flowed through the Mother River.
He saw the birth of the Wizard Plane and the birth of the Abyss Plane.
Herag was taken aback; he saw himself.
He saw his own soul flowing from the previous life's plane, passing through the Mother River before entering the Wizard Plane.
The entire process was exactly as he had speculated; it was Shenlan within the Mother River that preserved his past life memory, though Shenlan was thus damaged.
Herag continued forward, seeing information about his past life's plane, and soon found the coordinates of that plane.
At this moment, Herag realized he could return home.
Although many years had passed, and those he once knew had long vanished into history's river, he could indeed go back and have a look.
That was a Middle-tier World.
This was quite unexpected for Herag; the place held no Extraordinary Power, only a technological civilization, yet it was a Middle-tier World.
Herag's thoughts shifted, and he disappeared from the riverbank, returning to the Northern Castle.
First, he needed to experiment whether he could still come back.
Because his current power, accurately speaking, could be considered Level 10 life, surpassing the existence of Level 9 Ancestors.
If power too great prevented him from returning to the Wizard Plane, that would be a considerable loss.
Herag didn't want to meet his family through mere projections every day; such ascension would be far too boring.
Looking at it now, the Endless Plane had no such rule, or perhaps its rules only applied to lives of Level 9 and below, not considering existences above Level 9.
Herag could feel he had become unbelievably powerful, able to easily destroy innumerable planes with a mere gesture.
But power was not for destruction, Herag deeply understood this.
He had now completed his original goal, which was to pursue his own eternal existence.
With this achievement, Herag desired nothing else, and indeed there was nothing worth pursuing further.
In the endless years to come, Herag only wished to spend quality time with his family and friends, helping them ascend to higher realms.
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The end of the book.
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