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Chapter 1552 - 668 Encountering an Old Acquaintance in a Foreign Land

Chapter 1552: Chapter 668 Encountering an Old Acquaintance in a Foreign Land

[The raindrops continued to fall, drumming on every inch of the jungle as if the god of life were using gentle fingers to awaken the slumbering life. Countless burrow-dwelling animals popped up from their underground hiding places, pushing their newborns, larvae, and unhatched eggs into the rain... ]

[With the continued nourishment of the rain, larvae began to hatch, and young birds struggled to emerge from their shells, curiously exploring this new world. Countless shoots sprouted from the soil and treetops, and on the earth, every creature rejoiced, celebrating this grand feast of life... ]

At this moment, Mu You was drenched, but it didn’t hinder his appreciation of the flourishing scenery around him.

One had to admit that this jungle, seemingly monotonous in color and rare in environmental changes, had its unique aesthetic appeal.

[You suddenly hear a rumble ahead, as if something heavy had fallen to the ground.]

[You hurriedly braved the rain to check and found that the noise came from the wilted tree where you had previously taken shelter.]

[At this moment, the trunk of this dead tree was filled with dense Blade Wind Crystal Thorns, thousands of Crystal Stones piercing and remaining in the dead tree, the enormous weight causing the decaying wood to collapse.]

[And at the base of this wilted tree’s broken roots, beneath the hollow stump, you saw a white seedling of the Forbidden Wood, stubbornly squeezing through the decayed wood, emerging from the soil, desperately drawing sunlight and rain, watching as the branches and leaves rapidly grew before your eyes, sure to soon grow into a towering Forbidden Wood once more... ]

Watching this text describing the revival of decayed wood, Mu You suddenly had an epiphany.

Blade Wind and Time Rain were not meaningless weather disasters. Time Rain, needless to say, allowed countless new lives to be born and grow in Jie Lin, while also liberating those old and rigid beings, completing the life cycle transition.

Carrying Ore Crystals, the Blade Wind was certainly deadly to organisms but was a transition phase for the Forbidden Wood. The normal Forbidden Wood with high hardness wouldn’t be affected by the Blade Wind, only the decayed, wilted ones would be. Destroying these aging woods with the Blade Wind made space for new Forbidden Woods.

At the same time, this storm balanced the materials across Jie Lin, spreading the pure Ore Crystals from the depths of Jie Lin to the outskirts, reducing the concentration of Divinity on the outskirts as much as possible, maintaining the purity of Jie Lin.

Otherwise, without the fierce wind as resistance, Jie Lin would eventually be eroded and penetrated by the increasing Divinity gradient from the outskirts until it was completely replaced by the Divinity system.

In conclusion, these two natural disasters were undoubtedly calamities for humans, but for native species, they were necessary processes to maintain ecological balance and allow Jie Lin to continue existing.

The entire Time Rain lasted about five hours and finally stopped.

[After the rain, countless snail larvae crawled over the ground, leaving trails of mucus, picked up by their respective animals and taken deeper into the forest... ]

[You also picked up the snail larvae on you, placing them on nearby plant leaves. The snail larvae raised their antennae to thank you for your help, then crawled deeper into the branches... ]

With the end of the Time Rain, Mu You checked the panel.

What he regretted somewhat was that, an hour ago, his Seed of Time had stopped growing, finally halting at 10.3%. No matter how much more rain it got, it did not grow further.

"It seems the Time Rain alone, can only raise it to this extent..."

Mu You was unsure if this limit was due to the limit imposed by the access of the Pocket Watch’s Divine Power or the time growth limit possessed by Jie Lin.

If it were the latter, it indicated that Jie Lin was clearly at a disadvantage in the tug-of-war over time access between the two world systems. As the common rule of both worlds, time access had already been occupied by the Divine World at 90%, leaving the original world only the last 10%...

In short, with the rain over and the skies clearing, the mental state of the game character seemed to have been uplifted and cleansed along with the storm, with all injuries healed and strength restored.

Mu You wasted no more time, maneuvering Black Angel on the wet and muddy roads, continuing on his journey.

He spent the next three days and nights before he finally walked out of the third layer smoothly.

Including the day when the Blade Wind and Time Rain erupted, it meant he lingered in the third layer of Jie Lin for a total of four days.

Spending extra time wasn’t an issue; what Mu You truly regretted was that he hadn’t been able to find the Moon Well or the Relic left by the Mechanic in the third layer.

He had tried to expand his walking range, and Ava had tried to detect all the way, but to no avail. Jie Lin was simply too vast, and without the locator beacons, finding a specific place was like searching for a needle in a haystack.

[Beyond the shrubbery ahead, you discover the colors of the jungle ahead shift, becoming more monotonous, leaving only black, white, gray, red, and blue...]

[You have arrived in the fourth layer of Jie Lin.]

Seeing this prompt, Mu You finally recognized the sense of discord he had felt in the third layer—it was the colors!

In the third layer, the two important basic colors, yellow and green, had completely disappeared, mentioned nowhere in the text.

In the fourth layer, other colors such as purple were also gone, leaving only five colors in the world; apart from the three primary tones of Jie Lin—black, white, and gray—only red and blue remained.