The Innkeeper Chapter 974 Straight out of legends

Under Lex's current circumstances, ti was difficult to asure. He personally felt like only seconds were passing, but on the ground below him thousands of years were going by. The great expanse that Lex had seen as one single landform eventually broke into three.

Between the three landforms was a sea, but the liquid that filled the sea was not water. The unknown liquid changed colors according to its movent, from silver when it was calm to dark blue when it rose into waves. In between, those two states a myriad of other colors filled it, always moving and changing like a perpetually evolving canvas.

If Lex would have observed the sea, he would have been amazed at how the changing colors seed to replicate pictures of galaxies he had seen back on Earth. The movent of the water, the change in the colors, all seed to coincide with the movent of multiple galaxies as they moved through space.

Countless years passed and the realms began to slowly stabilize, and the perpetual changes seed to be reducing as well. The three land masses also stopped moving apart from one another, as if they had reached so kind of equilibrium.

Trillions of tiny islands ford around the three landmasses, but never too far from the safety of its shores as the cosmic waters were too perilous, with storms and currents too strong, to allow small islands to exist on their own.

Cassandra, who too was forced to enter a ditative state due to the purity of the energy she absorbed, sensed sothing. She could not help but open her eyes, and when she looked down at the three land masses her body trembled.

"The three realms! The Heaven, Nether and Mortal realms!"

Suddenly she closed her eyes, not daring to look further. She sensed that she had seen sothing she absolutely should not have. Perhaps that was why the Innkeeper allowed her to access so of the realm energy. It was a subtle way to inform her she needed to stop observing. She could only hope she was not punished for prying.

But the noble and esteed 'Innkeeper' was right beside her, and had no idea at all what was happening. As the seasons changed, years passed, and the realm took shape, he was busy cultivating.

After, quite possibly, millions of years had passed underneath him, Lex's entire body had finally been nourished by energy, initiating the change. Initiating the change was the fast part. Now, for his entire being to evolve, it would take a long ti. Even if the flow of ti were not absolutely absurd, during this breakthrough, Lex would have had his first experience in the long durations of closed door cultivation that higher ranked cultivators experience.

To Lex, nothing else happened. The Nascent soul realm was the realm that prepared the soul of the cultivator to get in touch with laws at higher realms. Although Lex technically skipped that step, strengthening his soul was a very important step. That is exactly why this realm involved nothing else other than strengthening the soul.

Any ti Lex would absorb cultivation energy in the future, it would be aid at strengthening his soul, not his body. After all, his Golden core, which was his energy reserve, had already reached a sufficiently high enough level.

But having a stronger soul had imnse benefits, which is why Nascent soul cultivators were so much stronger than the Golden core cultivators, despite theoretically having similar levels of spiritual energy in their bodies.

After a long ti, another change finally happened. Cassandra hesitantly opened her eyes, and saw that the three land masses had evolved further. Each of them had a slight hue in their aura, despite the fact that the developnts of the lands seed more or less the sa.

The largest land mass, or continent, had a gray colored aura, the middle one had a colorless one and the smallest was golden.

But those colors had no other effect on the developnt of the continents, at least for now. The first signs of life were beginning to beco actually visible. Each of the continents was growing so kind of plant life. So of it looked the sa on all continents, while so was more distinct. But that could be attributed to the unique geography of each continent, as well as their climates.

Massive lakes of lava covered one area of one continent, while massive glaciers that rose into the sky could cover the other side. Mountains of pure spirit crystals rose into the skies, and vitality rich elixirs rained from clouds filled with a platinum glow.

Yet sohow, in this chaos, life was finding a way to survive, but only in the form of extrely resilient plants, for now.

More ti passed, and eventually there ca a ti when Cassandra noticed sothing. The rate of ti flow in the continents below them had, for the very first ti, slowed down just a bit. If previously a second was one thousand years, then now it was nine hundred and ninety nine years.

The isolation barrier around everyone thinned once more, and another stream of energy ca flooding in. This ti, Cassandra did not dare to peek.

As it happened, the mont she closed her eyes, for the first ti. A snake was born on the middle continent, its massive size dwarfing the crystal mountains. As if testing itself, the snake slithered the continent for a ti, its body sprawling across the entire continent itself, before finding a spot to settle down, and enter hibernation.

Its body ford artificial features across the continent, influencing the climate and altering the developnt of content itself. Eventually, its body was covered in dust and dirt and earth, forming a series of hills that traveled the entire continent in a andering path.

Monts later, on the smallest continent, a tree was born. This was the first actual tree in the entire realm, and as the days went by it grew and grew without pause, as if it did not know when to stop. Eventually, its canopy covered nearly half the continent, giving it perpetual shade, and forming a mini-climate underneath it, separated from that of the rest of the continent.

Then, on the third and largest continent, an eight legged horse opened its eyes.