All around him was a white aura.
Lin Ran no longer knew how long he had been drifting in this whirling pa*sage; in fact, since he had turned back, time had completely ceased to be relevant to him.
All around him was nothing but a storm, and still a storm! An endless storm that seemed to never see an end.
Although he was following the direction of the pa*sage, the storms around him were still frighteningly numerous at times, and even Lin Ran had to use his own True Qi to fend them off.
At first Pillow Book would help to fend it off, but gradually Lin Ran refused to do so.
In his estimation, he had been drifting in this pa*sage for almost a month.
And Qing Zi finally couldn’t take it anymore two days ago, and she revealed her original body, the Qiankun Purple Qi Vase.
Lin Ran tied her original body to her waist so as not to lose it.
As for Song Nuan and the others, they were all tied behind Lin Ran with chains at this time, and they still hadn’t woken up, even if Wang Yifeng and the others inside the pillow book had.
But what gave Lin Ran comfort was that at least they and they had all breathed.
The Chaos Stone that he had desperately obtained was finally working, and as for when they would wake up, perhaps we could only leave it to time.
Travelling through the pa*sage, Lin Ran was consuming the true qi in his body every moment, which kept his life force depleted.
He refused the Pillow Book’s help because he knew that there was no telling how long the path ahead would take, and he feared that he could only last another year.
If he let Pillow Side Book help him now, once he was gone, how long could Pillow Side Book take care of Song Nuan and the girls for the rest of the way?
After all, Pillow-side Book himself hadn’t recovered much strength.
Instead of letting him consume his strength with himself, it would be better to come in close to himself first, after all, his own life expectancy will come to an end sooner or later anyway.
The last way then let Pillow Book take a shot at protecting Song Nuan and the others for safety, and maybe they can still hold on to the end.
Three months, six months ……
Time seemed to have no end, nor any dare, and no one could stop it from moving forward, not even Lin Ran.
There was still an endless storm around him, and Lin Ran opened his eyes from his drowsiness.
“How long have I slept this time?”
Lin Ran opened his mouth and asked, his voice very weak.
“Ten days!”
The pillow said.
For these ten days, it had been Pillow Book who had been helping to take care of the crowd.
And Lin Ran had in fact reached the point of running out of oil, often falling into a coma, and there was no way the Dantian vortex within his body was nearly thirsty at this point.
If there wasn’t still a trace of true qi left in the chaos qi that was occasionally released, I’m afraid he would have already fallen into a long sleep.
“How much longer will it take to get there?”
Lin Ran asked once again.
“I don’t know!”
The pillow shook its head.
How long the pa*sage was how far away from the Immortal World, no one knew, not even Pillowbook.
They could only hold on and grit their teeth.
“I’ll do it!”
Lin Ran took the defensive layer in Pillow Book’s hand, mobilising the already small amount of True Qi in his body to barely hold on.
Having already spent a full six months floating in the whirlpool pa*sage, Lin Ran had almost reached his limit, both physically and mentally.
Originally, he expected to last a year, but after this journey, he realised how naive his thoughts were.
The whirling storm pa*sage was not very calm, and there were occasional natural breakdowns that Lin Ran had to deal with carefully.
This compressed the year to half, and in just six months Lin Ran was already on the verge of not being able to carry it anymore.
“Rumble!”
The house was leaking, and Lin Ran had just taken over the crowd when another tremor came from ahead.
“Be careful, there might be another gap up ahead!”
Pillow Talk spoke.
“Hm!”
Lin Ran nodded and didn’t say much, just dealt with it carefully.
“Hey!”
Seeing Lin Ran’s brushed white face, so thin it was almost as if he was skin and bones, Pillow-side Book couldn’t help but sigh.
No one knew more about this journey than he did, how much Lin Ran had paid for the sake of all the people.
“Be careful, there’s something up ahead!”
The Pillow Book suddenly said.
Lin Ran steeled himself to look ahead.
Only to see that another turning point had appeared ahead.
The turning points here were all very much so, each one at an angle of over sixty degrees, and some had even reached over a hundred degrees or even two hundred degrees.
Such angular turning points are very dangerous.
It was just like being in a water pipe, Lin Ran and the others could only move forward because of the strong wind in the pa*sage, once they met the turning point they had to mobilise their strength to slow down in order to pa*s the turning safely.
Otherwise, if the wind blew him into the storm wall at the turning point, a stormy storm blade would be waiting for him.
For the past six months, most of Lin Ran’s strength had been spent on resisting these storm blades, so he was well aware of the consequences if he accidentally hit it.
“Luckily, this turning point isn’t broken!”
When he was almost close, the pillow spoke up.
Lin Ran nodded, the turning point ahead was not broken, so that was good for him, at least he didn’t have to worry about falling out.
Several times before, the turning points Lin Ran had encountered had many breakages, one mistake and he would be sucked out, and by then it would be completely impossible to get back in with his own strength.
“I’m afraid I won’t last much longer, if there is a chance in the future that you can find Wang Kun, please bring it to my grave, I just want to know what really happened back then!”
Lin Ran suddenly spoke.
“Shut up!”
The pillow heard his eyes redden as he chided.
“If you want to know, go find out for yourself! And now that you haven’t even reached the Immortal World, you’re going to leave them behind!”
“I don’t want to, but I …… Ahem!”
Lin Ran didn’t finish his sentence before his entire body coughed, his palms opened and what he coughed out was already all blood.
The dantian was shattered, even the medical dao couldn’t save him.
“I …..”
Lin Ran opened his mouth and wanted to say something else, but suddenly his entire body trembled, and in the dark he felt as if something in his body had reacted.
But at this time Lin Ran’s entire spirit was in a trance, not to mention going for something, he couldn’t even remember where the division of the item he was carrying was at this time.
“What is that thing?”
The Pillow Book suddenly exclaimed.
Lin Ran held back the curiosity in his heart and looked up, he found that he had by now led the crowd to the turning point and Pillow Book was stepping in to help them correct their direction.
At this point, Lin Ran was much less stressed and he looked over to the stormy wall where the turn was.
He saw that at this moment, on the wall, there was actually a fiery red object.
The object was long and set into the storm wall, and when he looked at it, it was a red sword.
The long sword had a red light emanating from its body, and although he did not get close to it, Lin Ran could feel an aura of resentment and murder.
It seemed that many people had died under this sword.
And the closer he got to the sword at that moment, the more Lin Ran felt the reaction of something in him.
Lin Ran desperately searched for it, trying to find it, but in the end the thing was not found, but rather his eyes went black with anxious fire and he directly pa*sed out again.
