Chapter 781: 2013th Cycle's First Day.
After time is turned back by Seo Eun-hyun, the Heavenly Venerable of Time, and the Heavenly Venerable of the Underworld.
Inside a gray space.
A silver sphere starts to tremble faintly.
[...I can no longer read his future. Until now, the list of such beings included only the Underworld, Salt Sea, and the Fate Supreme Deity...]
For some reason, the silver sphere shows a confused hue.
The being once called Silver Basket speaks with a trembling voice.
[Even the 4 pun possibility of victory I read now no longer stays fixed. Has the victory probability indeed gone up...or...?]
For some reason in an uneasy voice, Silver Basket speaks in self-mockery.
[Even this...]
From deep within the gray space, Silver Basket's worries resound bitterly.
Kududududu!!!
By my decree, the myriad stars calculate the debts of all the world and offer them to me.
Tiiing—
As I look down upon the world from above Indra's Net, the countless principles entangled with the world are coiled in my hands.
If I only pull these strings of principle, I can exact recompense from all beings who have been indebted to the stars until now.
Kwarurung!
And as if noticing this, from the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain, the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord throws the God-Killing Spear.
Kugugugu!!
Watching the God-Killing Spear fall from the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain, I very naturally stretch out my hand.
Hwoong—
A gentle energy seems to bloom from my hand, and the power of the Heavenly Domain that belongs to me gently diverts the God-Killing Spear.
Tuwung!
The God-Killing Spear flies straight out beyond Mount Sumeru, and I shake the Seven Stars Harnessing God Banner.
Kiriririk!
Spacetime melts.
At the same time, my Heavenly Domain that is adjacent with the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain seems to fuse together by the Seven Stars Harnessing God Banner that manipulates spacetime.
: : You... : :
As if angered, the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord begins to draw power from the Origin Essence of Radiance.
However, they were beings who were originally ten.
At least eight Immortal Lords are needed to properly draw out the Origin Essence of Light, and with the mere power of a single Heavenly Lord, it is obviously impossible to draw out all that power.
Because they are stronger than ordinary Immortal Lords, and was originally in the upper ranks among the Radiance Eight Immortals, the authority they wield as a Heavenly Lord is still comparable to a Supreme Deity...
But it is only that much.
At best, merely the level of an ordinary Supreme Deity.
Urung, ururururung!!!
I quietly begin to raise my authority.
My Heavenly Domain, fused with the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain, moves actively and begins to encroach upon the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain.
The stars and the Milky Ways that belong to the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain begin to revolve according to my will.
: : I ask my myriad stars. O stars, what realms of the Immortal Cultivation system receive your aid? : :
—We report to the Lord, we are used by Immortals as the stars of prophecy, and all this time, have acted as the symbol of the heavens, bearing countless prophecies.
—Please harvest all the authorities of the Heaven Immortals that prophesied through the stars.
—We report to the Lord, not only the realms of Yang Pitch and Yin Pitch through prophecy, but even the cultivation of Great Net is all passed through us.
—Please harvest the realms of Upper Immortal and Great Net Immortal.
: : Hearing those words, they are indeed correct. I, in the name of the Star Genesis Supreme Deity, speak thus. The realms of the great Immortal Cultivation system Great Net and Upper Immortal shall in my name be harvested, and in my name be proven. : :
Ururung!
By my proclamation, I come to preside over the Great Net Immortal and Upper Immortal realms of the Immortal Cultivation system.
—We trouble the Lord once again to report. As we quietly observe, it is clear that the realm of Vestige Liberation is proven by our friends, the fixed stars.
—Therefore, O Lord, please also harvest the realm of Vestige Liberation Immortal...!
: : Indeed, those words are also right. This Emperor is truly like the guide of the myriad stars, thus cultivation that receives the aid of the fixed stars is rightly proven by this Emperor. I, in the name of the Star Genesis Supreme Deity, speak thus: the realm of the great Immortal Cultivation system Vestige Liberation shall in my name be harvested, and in my name be proven. : :
—We once more trouble the Lord to report. Clearly, as we feel, the Quasi-Immortals, who are members of the Immortal Family, always weave formations and display divine power using the light of the stars and the dragon vein of stars that are the star veins, and through them they cultivate.
—Clearly this also is within the Lord's domain, therefore it should be rightfully harvested.
: : Such words...! Indeed, I shall also heed your opinion. However, as this is not a full privilege of the realm, I shall harvest only their divine powers, not the entirety of the realm. I, in the name of the Star Genesis Supreme Deity, speak thus. The formation of the star veins, the privilege of the Quasi-Immortals of Entering Nirvana, from this day forth shall in my name be harvested, and in my name be proven. : :
The star vein formation, the divine power of the Entering Nirvana stage.
The divine power of the Quasi-Immortal realm from now on comes to be presided over by me.
—O Lord, we beg forgiveness. We still have many matters we must report, so be not angered and please listen.
: : I differ from my senior brother. I do not destroy the world merely out of anger. Speak at ease. : :
—We offer praise to the Great Mercy and Great Compassion. We report to the Lord, in our eyes the realm of the Sacred Vessel stage clearly becomes a being like the fixed stars and begins cultivation by wielding the power of the myriad stars.
—Surely this too is within the Lord's domain, therefore it should be rightfully taken.
: : Indeed, all your words are right. : :
—Lord! This is not the end. The Star Shattering stage clearly receives the authority of the Star Tribulation connected to us and is reborn. At the same time, those who reach the Star Shattering stage are all connected with us, begin to borrow strength from us, and it is the first step in beginning to become like us, so they too have the qualification to receive Lord's grace!
: : That too is right! The realms of Sacred Vessel and Star Shattering shall be harvested by me. I, in the name of the Star Genesis Supreme Deity, speak thus. Those two realms shall also belong to me. : :
The entirety of the Sacred Vessel stage.
The advancement process of the Star Shattering stage, and the entirety of the Star Shattering stage, begin to be presided over by me.
—Lord, now again we report...!
The memorials of the myriad stars continue to pour down like rain.
The Earth Axis stage that grows to resemble the stars.
The Core Formation stage that engraves the Heavenly Sphere Diagram upon the Golden Core.
The Qi Building stage that creates a star of spirit energy within the body—all come to belong to me.
Urururung!!!
My presence is engraved upon the numerous realms of the Immortal Cultivation system.
And at last, I truly reach the end of a very long journey.
I arrive at the realm I began to gaze upon the stars.
Qi Refining 7th Star.
Seven Stars Ritual.
Woo-woooooong!
The Seven Stars Harnessing God Banner begins to circle around me.
: : I, in the name of the Lord of Myriad Stars, speak thus. : :
Kugugugugu!
The former appearance of the Seven Stars Harnessing God Banner.
The domain upon which the Northern Dipper Seven Heavenly Lords laid their hands to some extent is transferred to my ownership.
: : From this very moment, all the stars of the Seven Stars Ritual... : :
Uduk, udududuk...!
By my authority, the fundamental principles of the world begin to be torn up and rearranged.
This is also a kind of arrangement for later generations.
: : ...shall forbid the phenomenon called Heavenly Rejection! From henceforth, Heavenly Rejected shall not exist under my name! : :
Jjeoeoeoeong!!
As the principles are torn away, from now on there will no longer be any chance for the phenomenon of Heavenly Rejection to fall upon an Ender.
Later students shall no longer need to cry "Heavens Above" while blocked at the 7th Star of Qi Refining.
7th Star of Qi Refining comes to belong to me.
Kwachijijijik...!
Moreover, the Qi Refining stage 2nd Star, Qi Refining 1st Star.
The formulas of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits and the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends likewise come to belong to me.
I now concurrently hold more realms than any Supreme Deity in history, and I look to the guardian of the Immortal Cultivation system, the Radiance Eight Immortals...
No.
I now look up to Rain Dew, who has become the Radiance Single Heavenly Lord.
Kung, kung, kung! Kung! Kung!
As I tread across galaxy clusters and approach them, I see despair take root in Rain Dew's heart.
: : How...no matter if you are an Ender, how can you have so many realms...? : :
: : By crawling up, I have come to know those realms better than even the heavens. : :
I speak calmly.
: : Unlike you, who received and passed on what is granted from birth by the heavens...I am one who reached all those realms by thrashing about to climb with no talent. : :
A thing impossible for a genius.
Only because I am a dullard, and as a dullard I pierced the meaning and significance of every realm through the way of Understanding before Breakthrough and climbed up to here, am I able to push forward various interpretations and come to preside over many realms.
If I merely have the name value of Owner of Myriad Stars, I absolutely could not push forward interpretations upon this many realms.
Kugugugugu!!
The closer I draw to the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord, the more I see them tremble.
: : Do not...come...! : :
Woooooong!!
God-Killing Spears are summoned above the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord's hands.
It is an authority hard for the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord to produce alone, but it seems the emergency-stockpiled God-Killing Spears still remain.
: : Do not come...! O monster! : :
The Rain Dew Heavenly Lord flings the God-Killing Spears at me as if in a seizure, but I open one hand.
That is the end.
Tukwang!
A hole opens in my hand, and the God-Killing Spears lodge in my hand.
Yes, that is the end of it.
Blocking the God-Killing Spears with the left palm, I open my right hand and extend toward the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord.
The Rain Dew Heavenly Lord spasms and cries out.
: : O Origin Essence of Radiance! In the name of the Radiance Supreme Deity, the debt shall...! : :
Kugugugu!
All the grace I received from light becomes their authority and gets sucked into them, but that is all.
They cannot stop me.
The Rain Dew Heavenly Lord goes into convulsions and summons the True Immortals of Radiance Hall.
: : Th-Thirty-Three Heavenly Resplendent Treasure Immortals, come forth! Qian-Kun Twin Immortals, come forth...! Envoys of the Final Age of Dharma! Come forth!!! : :
However, no one comes.
The reason is simple.
Because the Envoys of the Final Age of Dharma have all fled outside the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain and are shouting like mad.
The far edge of Mount Sumeru.
The boundary of the Outer Sea and Mount Sumeru.
There, countless Envoys of the Final Age of Dharma seize the True Immortals of Radiance Hall and shout like mad.
: : Let all True Immortals hear! This Immortal is a survivor of the Vast Cold Great War! : :
: : We Envoys of the Final Age of Dharma all have experienced the Tridacna Vast Cold Heavenly King! : :
: : We dare testify upon the seat of our Origin Essence! Currently, that one. The one called the Star Genesis Supreme Deity who fell the Great Mountain Supreme Deity at the Great Net Immortal realm...is equal to the Tridacna Vast Cold Heavenly King in their prime!!! : :
: : It is the return of Vast Cold!!! : :
: : It is to say it is the same as the Underworld descending, dragging their Gandhara! As an elder of Radiance Hall, I speak! Immortals of Radiance Hall, do not go there! Do not answer the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord's words!!! : :
: : It will lead to nothing but a dog's death!!! : :
Numerous Immortal Lords, Great Net Immortals.
Or all who have experienced the Vast Cold Heavenly Lord speak with one voice.
That the terrifying Supreme Deity who is devouring the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain right now is equal to the Tridacna Vast Cold Heavenly King in their prime.
Recalling the terrifying authority of the Vast Cold Heavenly Lord, all the Great Immortals go into fits and frantically hold back the young True Immortals.
As if they absolutely do not want to hand them a dog's death.
And...
Sensing their reaction, the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord looks in despair at the gigantic Supreme Deity before their eyes.
They do not know either why an Ender has become a Supreme Deity.
However, with not even a moment to think of such things, seeing the hand of the Star Genesis Supreme Deity's main body, incomparably vast beyond the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord's own main body, they can only resist with all their might.
They draw forth the God-Killing Spears.
They extract the authorities of Enders across the ages.
They extract the power of the Radiance Hall Heavenly Lords they had killed and executed.
They extract the power of the Supreme Deities the Radiance Eight Immortals had annihilated, and with all of it, Rain Dew resists.
However, the hand of Star Genesis Supreme Deity flicks away all those authorities, and responds by merely snatching the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord like a housefly and clenching them tight.
Woo-woooong!
Only after seizing the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord does the Star Genesis Supreme Deity compress the size of their main body.
Yet even after shrinking for quite a while, they still maintain a size that allows them to hold the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord in one hand like a skewer, and the Star Genesis Supreme Deity lowers their head toward the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord.
As if a giant looks down at a tiny bug, the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord trembles all over.
The skin of Star Genesis Supreme Deity is so pale it is nearly transparent, and beyond that pale skin, faint sea of stars and galaxy clusters flow.
Not only their dragon robe, but their whole body is like a strange cosmic life-form made of sea of stars.
Truly overwhelmed by that cosmic terror, unable to come to their senses from the presence alone, the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord only lets out a sigh.
: : Is this...the end of the Radiance Hall...? : :
It is when they think so.
: : I, in the name of Star Genesis Supreme Deity, speak thus. : :
The mouth of Star Genesis Supreme Deity Seo Eun-hyun opens.
His breath is beyond interstellar wind, a cosmic force that pushes aside an entire galaxy cluster.
: : O Radiance Hall, including you, Rain Dew...shall cherish and love your friends and enter the true path for your belief of freedom. This is a decree I make in my name. It will be the only method by which you pay the price for the grace you have received from the myriad stars until now. : :
: : ...What...? : :
The Rain Dew Heavenly Lord looks up at the Star Genesis Supreme Deity, who wields authority similar to Vast Cold in their prime, and asks back.
And a miracle happens.
Flash!
The God-Killing Spears that Rain Dew threw burst out from the Star Genesis Supreme Deity's left hand, and those who supplied energy to those spears are projected in their past forms by the authority of the Immortal Beast King.
And at some moment,
Flash!
The Akashic Records embedded in the Head Realm tremble, and by the authority of the Immortal Beast King, the Great Forest Heavenly Lord, Flower Plant Heavenly Lord, Great Sun Heavenly Lord, Torch Candle Heavenly Lord, Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord, and Great Sea Heavenly Lord, who were absorbed by the Origin Essence of Light and melted into the Head Realm, all revive at once.
: : What on earth...are you doing? : :
The Rain Dew Heavenly Lord cannot understand.
The existence before their eyes is far too abnormal.
Therefore, they even feel horror.
As a survivor of the Vast Cold Great War, the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord knows the identity of that horror.
It is not simply fear of strong authority.
The Underworld also possesses such authority.
The identity of this horror is fear of the unknown.
: : Why in the world...do you save us...!? This, this is as if... : :
Recalling that past Vast Cold Great War in which Vast Cold embraced even the Radiance Eight Immortals with endless benevolence, they go into a fit.
: : Are you...forgiving us...!? : :
: : Yes. : :
At that single word that evokes Vast Cold, the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord truly falls into a panic.
They truly begin to fear the Star Genesis Supreme Deity.
: : ...Do not...forgive...us... : :
The Rain Dew Heavenly Lord begins to beg Seo Eun-hyun.
: : O Ender...hate us...resist us. We have hunted you, we have cleansed you, and we have killed you and made weapons from the remnants of your soul. O Ender...! : :
Already, they have once received incomprehensible, unknown affection from Vast Cold.
As a result, in the chests of the Eight Immortals, including the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord, the heart Vast Cold left behind became a seed, and made them all go mad.
If they receive incomprehensible forgiveness here once more, there is no knowing how much more they will go mad as the price.
Thus Rain Dew, sobbing, begs.
: : Do not forgive us... Do not drive us mad...! Hate us...! : :
: : I do not hate you. : :
And that plea is ignored with ruthless coldness.
Seo Eun-hyun, gripping the entirety of the Radiance Seven Immortals in both hands, now whispers toward the Heavenly Lords that look so very small.
That whisper becomes a storm and embeds something into the chests of the Radiance Seven Immortals.
: : You surely have watched us, have tried to exterminate us, and have tried to kill us. But precisely because of so...only we can forgive you. Only we, who across generations have been massacred by you... : :
Kugugugu!
Replacing the price of the debt-relationship imposed upon the Radiance Seven Immortals by instead solely breathing his convictions into them, Seo Eun-hyun releases the Radiance Seven Immortals from his hands.
However, even though they are released from his hands, not a single one can even think to strike back at him.
: : ...can forgive you and sever the ring of grace and resentment... : :
Paaaaatt...!
: : Become our friends. : :
: : Is this the prophecy you placed upon the next Sword Spear candidate...!? It will not work! : :
: : It is not a prophecy. This is... : :
Seo Eun-hyun's gaze touches the foremost among the spiral of spirits circling around him.
It reaches the spirit of Wol Ryeong, dressed in pure white and praying.
: : ...only a request. For, regardless, the prophecy...has already twisted. : :
I can guess to some extent the reason for ascending to Supreme Deity.
'An error must have occurred in the flow of beginning, development, twist, conclusion.'
The fate of an Ender proceeds only if one loses the person one loves.
But after I received Hyang Hwa's heart, not once did I think I lost her.
'We are always together.'
Therefore, at the last moment, I recalled her teaching and did the same for Wol Ryeong.
It is a fate I granted, but I twisted it and produced an error.
I produced an error in the same manner as Hyang Hwa so that I am engraved forever in her heart...
Thus, the fate of the Radiance Eight Immortals becoming the friends of the Enders cannot be realized.
Now it depends solely on their free will.
: : Radiance Hall. I hope you find freedom. Not only freedom within fate, but freedom that can go beyond fate as well... : :
I sincerely bless them with that heart, and as they receive my blessing, they act as if they cannot understand.
They only look at me, fearful and more fearful, and run away.
I do not bother to seize them, and at the lower area of Mount Sumeru.
I look up at a single Heavenly Seat.
There, my imperial throne and the name of Star Genesis Supreme Deity appear.
I now obtained the formal authority to go outside Mount Sumeru, and I also feel I obtained the authority to climb Mount Sumeru and become a Heavenly Venerable.
And...
I look again at [below].
The summit of Mount Sumeru, the apex.
There, I feel the [Gate] that Gwak Am began to open with Penglai Island.
Woo-woooong—
In the distance, I see my comrades faintly drawn to that [Gate].
'Yes...'
Even if the Enders want to avoid it, we cannot avoid the decisive battle with the Future King.
The beginning, development, twist, conclusion is precisely attraction force.
Therefore, that attraction force is bound to draw the Enders somehow.
'...Then why am I not being drawn?'
Perhaps it is because I did not become a Heavenly King.
'And what on earth is my fate...?'
In the 2012th cycle, I defeated the Great Mountain Supreme Deity.
And now, having regressed with only my power and the power of the Imperial Venerables, we are in the 2013th cycle.
On the first day of the 2013th cycle,
I finally reached the apex of Immortal Cultivation, seized the Immortal Cultivation system, and became a Supreme Deity.
At the same time, I at last realize that the memories of the 16th cycle have been unlocked.
No, rather than unlocked, it feels like I obtained 'viewing permission'.
And...at that moment.
Shiver!
Goosebumps begin to rise all over my body.
It is not only me.
The Heavenly Venerable of the Underworld begins to rend Mount Sumeru and descend, with their Gandhara itself.
Beginning with them, Kim Young-hoon, Jeon Myeong-hoon, Kang Min-hee, Oh Hyun-seok, Kim Yeon, Oh Hye-seo gather by my side and glare at one place.
Wooooooo...
The entire universe begins to wail.
Everything in the Sumeru Three Heavens Great Thousand World begins to feel that presence.
: : ...They are calling... : :
With a dark face, the Heavenly Venerable of the Underworld looks to the end of Mount Sumeru.
They look toward the direction of the Head Realm's [Gate].
: : That one...has felt the shattering of an Ender's fate and has awakened. : :
: : ...? : :
Speaking incomprehensible words, the Underworld grows tense, and I also raise my tension for now.
: : All prepare. : :
At the following words of the Heavenly Venerable of the Underworld, we all glare at one place.
: : The Future King Fate Supreme Deity...is calling you. : :
At last, our conclusion is approaching.