# 936
Chapter 937: The Undying Road to Godhood
"…She's not my wife."
"When I saw you two appear on the deck, your hands were tightly clasped together. I spent a long time pulling you apart. Is that not a wife?" Jinian gave Lin Qiye a suspicious look. "You wouldn't happen to be a player, would you?"
Lin Qiye: …
"How is she?" Jinian asked.
"Her vitals are all normal, but she's been in a coma. The specific cause is still unclear."
"A mysterious coma?"
Jinian walked to Jialan's side, reached out, and gently placed her hand on Jialan's forehead.
She slowly closed her eyes, as if sensing something.
"What are you doing?" Lin Qiye asked, confused.
"Examining her." Jinian said calmly. "Relying solely on these medical devices, there's only so much you can see."
"By touching her forehead, you can examine her body? Is that also one of your abilities?"
"…Yes."
A moment later, Jinian withdrew her hand, her brow slightly furrowed.
"What's wrong?"
"Something's a bit strange." Jinian thought for a moment before speaking. "There's a mysterious energy within her. The nature of this energy borders on eternity, capable of shielding herself from external influences…"
"【Immortality】?" Lin Qiye blurted out.
"That should be it, but right now, this energy is shattered." Jinian turned to look at Lin Qiye. "Did she suffer some kind of trauma before this?"
In Lin Qiye's mind, he quickly recalled the 【Immortality】 carriage being slashed open by Ame-no-Murakumo at Takamagahara, and the second time when the 【Immortality】 shield on his own body was cut open…
Jialan's 【Immortality】 had shattered twice in an extremely short period.
"Yes."
"That makes sense then." Jinian nodded. "What you call 【Immortality】 should be an另类 form of 'time suspension,' but from a legal perspective, this stagnation has transcended the concept of 'time,' approaching 'eternity.'
And the energy within her body originally already showed a faint tendency to crystallize into its own law."
"Crystallize into its own law?"
Hearing this description, Lin Qiye froze in place. In his mind, the scene from years ago when Zhou Ping created his own sword law and ascended to godhood flashed once more.
It was as if he had thought of something. He opened his mouth in shock, his eyes filled with disbelief:
"You mean…"
"She's about to become a god."
Jinian's palm rested on Jialan's forehead as she couldn't help but exclaim, "The total amount of spiritual power in her mind is even vaster than mine… She should have reached the Human Apex境界 a very, very long time ago, but she's been stuck at the step of crystallizing her law and ascending to the divine realm."
Jialan was a Human Apex?!
Lightning flashed through Lin Qiye's mind.
In his mind, the scenes from when he first released Jialan from the coffin to how they had walked to today rapidly replayed… Upon careful consideration, he had never seen Jialan break through a realm, nor had he ever felt her imposing aura of a realm. He had no concept whatsoever of the total magnitude of her spiritual power.
Jialan had always been strong against the strong, and weak against the weak.
Her punch might not be able to kill even a "Sea" realm cultivator, but her body could withstand attacks from gods.
Since 【Immortality】 was not absolute defense, then the upper limit of what it could defend against was determined by Jialan's own realm. For her to be able to withstand attacks from gods meant her realm had already reached an extremely high level.
And the fact that Ame-no-Murakumo could slash open 【Immortality】 also meant that Jialan had inevitably not yet reached the level of gods.
She was at the peak Human Apex realm.
"Then why is she unconscious now?" Lin Qiye returned to the original question.
"Because the 【Immortality】 power within her is restructuring."
"What's the connection between that and the coma?"
"As I just said, her 【Immortality】 is essentially a 'time suspension' derived from temporal laws, and the process of 【Immortality】 restructuring is the process of solidifying the flowing time around her into her own time."
Seeing that Lin Qiye was still confused, Jinian thought for a moment and added:
"Do you know how hydroelectric power works?"
"I know."
"The principle of hydroelectric power is to convert the kinetic energy contained in flowing water into electrical energy. She is in a similar situation right now.
If she wants to restructure her 【Immortality】 and crystallize a law belonging to herself, she must draw time power from the flowing river of time around her, then convert it into her own solidified time—that is, 【Immortality】.
In other words, she is 'eating' time.
And this is the only path for her to crystallize her own law.
During this process, her own consciousness will also fall into oblivion, so naturally it is impossible for her to awaken.
I believe that for her to cultivate her 【Immortality】 to this level, she must have spent an extremely long time… By the way, I haven't asked you yet. How old is she?"
Lin Qiye was silent for a moment. "Just over two thousand years."
Jinian: …
At this moment, Lin Qiye's mind once again conjured up the scene of Jialan lying in the coffin.
So, the two thousand years Jialan spent in the coffin were for absorbing time power and condensing the embryo of a law within her body?
Two thousand years spent, and still unable to crystallize the law for ascension… The road to godhood through 【Immortality】 was actually this difficult?
"In other words, she can only wake up after the 【Immortality】 within her has completed its restructuring?"
"That's right."
"How long will that take?"
"I don't know." Jinian shook her head. "Using her previous two thousand years of slumber as a reference, the time for her awakening will probably be measured in centuries.
However, when she wakes again, the law within her body should also be nearly crystallized…
She, too, should become a god."
Centuries?
Lin Qiye's body trembled.
In a few hundred years, he would probably already be a handful of dust. By then, Jialan might have just awakened?
Through all the changes in the world, through the shifting of constellations, by then, not to mention him, whether Night Watch would even still exist, whether the world would remain as it was, was uncertain… When she opened her eyes once more, the world might already be an entirely different scene.
If a few hundred years was like this, how infinitely long would two thousand years be?
The cycle of all living beings, the succession of dynasties… For the first time, Lin Qiye directly felt that before 【Immortality】, time was so pallid and powerless.
In other words, he would never see Jialan again in this lifetime?
In a daze, Jialan's last words to him continuously rolled through his mind:
"Next time, I want to hear you say it to me personally… that you like me."
Did he like her?
After knowing the truth about Cupid's Arrow, Lin Qiye's heart held not the slightest trace of confusion. His answer was only one:
Yes!
He liked Jialan.
But until the very last moment, he had never been able to personally say those words to Jialan. He had thought he still had a chance to make it up, but only now did he discover…
He had even lost the chance to say those words.