Final Day
Chwarararak—
I restore the Mount Sumeru that is shaken through the power of Omnipotence.
Immediately afterward, I reach out my hand toward the countless otherworlds of the Creator Gods near the Gestation World.
The power of Omnipotence is consumed.
If there were an Origin Essence of Omnipotence, no consumption would occur, but such a thing does not particularly interest me.
The separate Heavens and Earths and the otherworlds that collapsed, turned to powder, and scattered, gradually clump together as the power of Omnipotence dwells in them.
First, after I quickly restore the worlds of the impersonal gods that do not have a Creator God, I turn back the time of their worlds and make it so that any beings that might have been harmed 'do not exist'.
Woong— Woong—
Afterward, I again consume Omnipotence and restore the worlds of the personal gods, the Creator Gods, for them.
Of course, it is impossible to restore the main bodies of the Creator Gods in one go.
To restore their true bodies at once, I would have to consume all the Omnipotence that exists now.
All we can do is merely follow after the green deer and reduce, as much as we are able, the damage they suffered.
Woong woong—
However, since they do not have the concept of death anyway, they do not care about their own deaths and seem greatly delighted just that I restore much of their worlds.
A deep sense of gratitude is conveyed from their worlds.
At the same time, cheers and praises and such toward me, who untied the knot of the being called the Future King, pour out wildly.
There are also those who say we may enjoy as much amusement as we like in their worlds before we go, but I don't really understand what that means, so I don't pay any more attention to them.
Thus, after we restore the Creator Gods of the otherworlds and their worlds to some extent in this urgent way, the power of omnipotence is fairly depleted.
There is something regretful about it, but in the end, it would be a headache if those divinities later bear a grudge and invade the Gestation World all at once.
Of course, from the standpoint of one who has for a moment become an omnipotent one, since they are the ones who already possess everything, it doesn't seem like they would do that, but...
Since one never knows, it is necessary to show goodwill.
And more than anything,
Kugugung!
Our homeland.
Restoring Earth is also an important matter.
Since the dimension where Earth is located collapsed in its entirety, it is quite troublesome, but in the end, restoration fortunately seems possible.
"Is that your homeland?"
Bong Hwa looks at the dimension we came from with an interested expression.
"I do not feel any qi, any mystery, or any miracle. To display divine power in that world, something that overturns principle with willpower alone, like the Immortal Cultivation of Primordial Origin, will be necessary."
"That is so, Master."
Kang Min-hee is about to briefly explain to the Underworld the dimension we came from, then flinches and looks at the dimension.
"Wait, Seo Eun-hyun. Look over there..."
"Ah..."
Yes.
Is it because the time of my regression applies only in Mount Sumeru and does not particularly apply in the dimension where Earth is?
Since I have spent such an unimaginably long time continuing regression...
In the world we came from, the Earth where we were...
It has already been swallowed and annihilated by the Sun that has become a red giant.
Moreover, even the Sun has exhausted its lifespan and has become a white dwarf.
Yes...
The homeland we know is gone.
"What is there to worry about?"
Just when we stare blankly at that sight for a moment.
Bong Hwa presents a simple solution.
"Fly at the speed of Nirvana Tranquility. If you do so, you can settle in the time period of that world that you desire and live in that time period."
“Th-That...but the First King..."
"Just call me Underworld, Imperial Venerable, Heavenly Venerable, or so on. Now that he too has gone to sleep, you may freely use even the name of Heaven. The title is still awkward, so it will not be accepted."
"Understood, Underworld."
I decide to keep using the title of Underworld as I have been doing and ask.
"How does the Underworld know such a thing?"
"How do I know, you ask? What else do you think it means to have seized Omniscience?"
She smiles gently and tells us.
"Even if the hold on the Absolute is undone...that power has not completely disappeared, so among the countless secrets, there is nothing I do not know."
That is so.
The ghost of the previous generation.
The Absolutes have been flung to another world by me.
Of course, in that process, the Underworld, whose personality was merged with mine, also agreed to it to a considerable extent, so it was not purely my arbitrary decision.
In any case.
"The laws of the Three Daos still remain."
Even though the Absolutes have been flung away, not only the Three Planes but also the laws of the Three Daos still remain as if it is only natural.
No, in the case of the Plane of Soul, in some ways it seems to have revived far more vibrantly than before.
'Ah...I see.'
Looking closely, I can immediately understand.
During that time Hong Fan tore out the Absolute of Miracle and split it into seven pieces, the domain of purity came to take the place of the original Absolute.
To replace it, Hong Fan laid down the Interdimensional Void and his own Plane of Soul that arose from there, and that is the Plane of Soul we have known up to now.
However, from the moment the Absolute of Miracle returned into one, the Plane of Soul fully returned as well.
And it continues to remain even though the Absolute of Miracles has gone outside.
"How can such a thing be possible? Among the memories I obtained as I became an absolute being, there was nothing like that."
"Of course. You possess only the memories specialized toward Miracle, and I possess only the memories specialized toward Omniscience. Therefore, I will know these kinds of secrets better."
At her continuing explanation, we nod.
If we call Origin Essence the land deed, and call the attribute corresponding to Origin Essence the land,
The Absolute is a kind of imperial seal.
And beneath the Absolute, there is the nation and the authority.
"Even if the Absolute disappears, great chaos does not come to the world. For there are already us who have seized the Absolute and, through it, have been acknowledged as rulers of the nation. Once the king has already ascended the throne, there is no way the imperial seal is more important than the king's authority."
That is right.
The Absolutes have already flown to another world, but the darkness throne that Hong Fan left,
The flame throne of the Underworld,
And my crystal throne still remain.
"Of course...the very act of blowing the Absolutes away to another world is no different from symbolizing a king voluntarily laying down their authority, so from now on we will not be able to handle the Absolute as freely as before. We have completely lost the authority of a True Emperor."
According to her explanation and Kang Min-hee's interpretation that follows in between, the current situation is roughly similar to a case where a king transfers their authority to a parliament.
By analogy, it is as if, in the place of a king who holds all the powers of legislation, judiciary, and administration, a successor obtained the jade seal, became king, gained the king's authority, and then smashed the jade seal and transferred the power to a trustworthy organ of authority.
"The thrones you and Master created...the very proof that an Owner of the Absolute has once ascended is itself the newly created organ of authority."
From now on, Supreme Deities will draw power not from the Absolute but from those thrones and will reach Heavenly Venerable.
It is a kind of entry into parliament.
And I, currently the owner of the crystal jade throne, am in effect the parliament's sole member and its speaker.
"In a place like an upper and lower house, Master and you are now the only members and speakers, so...unless a new Heavenly Venerable appears, there will be no rival on this Mount Sumeru for a while...no, perhaps there never was from the start."
According to the explanation, if those thrones had not been created and, after we became an absolute being, we had blown the Absolutes away, then on any path where a throne had not been created, great chaos would have occurred, and perhaps in the worst case the authority of that path could have completely vanished.
If Origin Essence and its attribute are the land deed and the land,
Then the Absolute and its path are the nation's imperial seal and authority.
The land does not disappear even if the document disappears; it merely loses the person managing it.
But authority, that power, can overturn the land as much as it likes, and if it cannot be controlled, it would not be strange if one day it suddenly shatters the land into ruin.
If, without becoming a True Emperor, someone had suddenly gathered the Absolutes, advanced, and thrown them to another world, it would have been a situation where, because the transfer of authority did not take place, the authority could have evaporated entirely.
"The predecessor probably knew that such a thing could happen and took measures so that if one advances to True Emperor, a throne would appear no matter when, even if the Absolutes disappear, making a device by which those powers are transferred even if the Absolutes disappear..."
Indeed, Creator Gods or absolute beings and omnipotent ones truly seem to be incredible.
In any case...
"Even now, your power of Omniscience is not at the level of a Life Supreme Deity, but it is quite usable, it seems."
"That is so. It falls a little short of the Life Supreme Deity's level, and it far surpasses the level of the Heavenly Venerable of History."
"It is ambiguous even to call you a Heavenly Venerable. Should we not call you by a completely different classification?"
A Heavenly Venerable originally receives power through divine descent from an Absolute...
From now on, by reaching the darkness, flame, and crystal thrones that I, Bong Hwa, and Hong Fan have created and obtaining their own seat there, they will come to wield the power of the Three Daos.
"Well, we can try making that kind of classification ourselves later."
Yes, later...
At some point, we come to have the leisure to talk about 'later'.
I feel a strange emotion at that fact.
Obtaining a seat on a throne is now the realm of a Heavenly Venerable.
And as for me and Underworld, who have made the thrones, perhaps we receive special treatment as it still does not look like the expanded Origin Essences will return to their original state.
The Origin Essence of Myriad Stars and Rotation that the Underworld and I seized is in an incomprehensibly enlarged state, and with half of this Origin Essence under our control, the remaining half is in a state where we can appoint at least ten or more Heavenly Lords or True Lords, like the Radiance Ten Heavenly Lord.
On Mount Sumeru at the present moment, we are the existences who, from now on, are going to reform and set all the laws of this world.
I look at the empty throne of darkness.
The Seat of Attraction Force and Fate.
The one Hong Fan has made...
"There ought to be at least one seat who governs the Seat of Fate..."
"Hmm...it would be good if the Heavenly Venerable of Time returns, but..."
Underworld gazes beyond the distant otherworlds.
Certainly, if it is the Heavenly Venerable of Time, they can create a seat at the Seat of Fate and skillfully handle the system of fate that needs adjustment in many ways.
Underworld lets out a faint sigh.
"Time has probably already run away to a place our contact cannot reach. Since he does not know when the Future King may come chasing after him, he must be too busy running away. Someone will also have to go bring him back."
From restoring the worlds of the Creator Gods,
To restoring the messed-up Mount Sumeru, ruling Mount Sumeru where the aftershock of the disappearance of the Absolutes is about to arrive, and minimizing those aftershocks are tasks we must do.
"And the Enders as well...what should we do about them?"
Tsuaaaaat!
I look at the souls floating before my eyes.
Silver Basket, who, after being captured by the Future King, was compressed by too powerful an attraction force, briefly lost consciousness and still has not come to their senses.
Vast Cold and Yang Su-jin, who went to Earth but were captured and brought back again.
And lastly, Obsidian.
Unexpectedly...
Many Enders, including Obsidian, say they want to sleep here on Mount Sumeru, without us having to worry about where they will stay.
They say they want to fall asleep here, reincarnate, and reflect once more on the connections they have here.
Underworld accepts them.
And Vast Cold shows the will to return together with us.
However, for some reason, they say they will not take even a single bit of the power they gained in this world, and they return all their powers to this world.
From the authorities they gained through the Immortal Cultivation system, to the body they gained, and so on.
They seem to have no interest in anything except their own soul.
The Enders who are with me and I decide to accept them, and we also take Vast Cold into our embrace and decide to return together.
Lastly, Yang Su-jin...
He comes up to Jeon Myeong-hoon and exchanges a few words with him through voice transmission.
And Jeon Myeong-hoon, hearing Yang Su-jin's words, is startled.
"R-Redemption...!?"
Yang Su-jin nods.
It seems he wants to atone for the evil deeds he has committed here and there during the short span of three thousand years.
Those too were merely things he did, driven by circumstance.
It seems that not everything he did is because of his contempt for non-humans.
And...
"Now, non-humans will not exist either."
Yang Su-jin reaches out a hand to Jeon Myeong-hoon.
"Can you give her to me?"
"..."
Jeon Myeong-hoon hesitates for a moment, then takes Zhengli out from his arms and hands her to Yang Su-jin.
"I will take over your karma. I will be the one chased by the Jade Pivot Forty-Eight Lightning Heavenly Great Immortals, and with her...I will finish the unfinished conversation..."
Yang Su-jin decides to remain in this world.
And...what is concerning is not them.
"The other Enders...what should we do about the Enders who have gone back to their homelands with the immense power they accumulated in Mount Sumeru?"
"Well..."
Thinking of them, Underworld lets out a somewhat complicated sigh.
"For now...there is nothing we can do about them immediately. First, as for them, once the Creator Gods of the otherworlds we have restored awaken and recover, we can try to discuss with them what to do. So...let us talk about them a little more slowly later. For now, what is important is to find Time..."
Then, Oh Hye-seo makes a request of the Underworld.
"O Imperial Venerable. The Heavenly Venerable of Time...I will go to find him."
"Hmm?"
"I will find the Heavenly Venerable of Time, inform him of the current situation of Mount Sumeru, and bring him back."
Underworld, as if reading her inner thoughts, looks at her and speaks.
"You want to lessen the sentence of the one you love and have him be reborn again, is it?"
"..."
"But the policy of the Underworld is that, no matter what happens, merit is merit, and fault is fault. Merit and fault do not cancel each other out. That is the policy... So even if you do that task, you cannot lessen his sentence."
At those words, Oh Hye-seo shrinks a little.
However, looking at her like that, the Underworld makes another proposal.
"I will entrust the task of finding Time to someone else. But instead, you help me. If you do...it may not reduce your lover's sentence, but I will grant you a position where you can oversee how your beloved serves his sentence."
"...!"
"Of course, the inspection will be strict, so it is absolutely impossible to weaken his punishment as if it does not exist. But by doing so...at least you can be together, even if it is in hell. Is that not so?"
"...Thank...you."
Oh Hye-seo, shedding tears at the Underworld's decision, bows before her.
"Then you will come with me. Come with me down to the very bottom of hell...and let us resurrect the Sal Tree Heavenly Venerable. You will have to create an altar with your own power to resurrect him. This is both the weight of the sin you must pay, and also for the great cause of this Mount Sumeru, so lend your strength."
At those words, Oh Hye-seo nods her head and goes down beneath the Underworld.
Underworld looks at Kang Min-hee.
"Hee-ah. Are you going to go."
"...Yes, Master."
"I see. I will not hold you back. But remember this. The Underworld is always open to you."
"Thank you."
Kugugugugu!
At the moment we are talking,
Before we know it, we see astonishing things from behind the green deer.
Wiiiiiing—
The green deer begins to accelerate at the speed of Nirvana Tranquility.
We feel as if we momentarily transcend all worlds of spacetime and causality, and we begin to cast off all bridles.
The Underworld, taking along the souls of the Enders who say they will remain in this world, including Oh Hye-seo, turns her back to us.
"Then, go and come back safely."
"We will be back soon."
The Underworld does not ride along with the speed of Nirvana Tranquility and descends back into reality.
And...
I speak toward the green deer.
"Run, Requiem Filling the Heavens."
The green deer in earnest begins to run toward the beyond of countless spacetime and causality.
We follow the green deer from behind.
I look back.
Shuuuuuu—
In the far distance, I see Hong Fan's corpse, which seems to grow smaller and smaller.
His body is gradually transforming into an attraction force of darkness and changing into something enormous.
Perhaps...
As time passes, Hong Fan's body will transform into another vast world beside Mount Sumeru.
We will have to look after and govern that world too.
"Set the coordinates...and let us depart."
Wooong!
Bound by the attraction force of the green deer...
Thus, we begin to prepare to return home.
The green deer runs swiftly and escapes reality.
Kiiiiiiiing!
By the Omnipotence dwelling in the deer, we head toward a time period in the past.
It is not simply something like the Radiance Mantra.
It is, quite literally, a regression in the true sense that transcends all spacetime.
Therefore, in accordance with that regression, the recovery speed of the Creator Gods of otherworlds speed up as well.
And...
I look around me.
'Ah...this is...'
Through the green deer,
Through Requiem Filling the Heavens, as I head toward the timelines I have passed through, I smile bitterly.
'These are...my pasts.'
Tsuaaaaat!
I accept Omnipotence with my whole body and, on my own feet, walk right beside the green deer.
And, in order to do what I resolved when I became an omnipotent one, I begin to use the power of Omnipotence.
Woo-wooong!
The power of Omnipotence changes the world.
And then...
Tsuaaaaaaaat!
The timelines we pass through, the closed-off histories of those timelines, start to flow smoothly once again.
From now on...
These three thousand timelines will become three thousand parallel worlds.
'So that all the figures of every history...can all be saved.'
From now on, the three thousand parallel worlds will split into innumerably many directions.
And thus, befitting the name of the true Three Thousand World, each one will develop and form its own culture.
Hwioooooo—
The green deer, by my hand, scatters halos of green light.
It is the heart of consolation I placed into Hong Fan.
Scattering that heart and intent across all of Heaven and Earth, I pray that from now on such painful things will not occur in any parallel world.
: : I, in the name of the Omnipotent One, command... : :
For as long as I consume Omnipotence, I too am an absolute being and an omnipotent one.
: : The histories of closed time shall all flow again, and all who have suffered within them...shall without fail be consoled. : :
The green light flows into every corner of the world and, by the power of Omnipotence, becomes inevitability.
The Absolute called the heavens has disappeared.
All beings become incomplete beings, and a truly nearly perfect being like a True Emperor can no longer ever be born.
This world now becomes 'just normal'.
However...
I also know Hong Fan's pain.
: : Those who have simply suffered, will someday. Yet without fail... : :
The clusters of green light become my prophecy and my revision, my rewrite, and flow into each worldline.
: : They simply shall all simply be consoled. : :
I cross over countless spacetime.
And...
I look at the previous 'me's who are dying away within those spacetime.
In the midst of it, I can feel one gaze.
There, Hong Fan is looking at me.
—So you are the Omnipotent One.
What is he thinking as he looks at me?
The past Future King asks me a question.
Only then can I realize that the question Hong Fan suddenly threw out was not something he simply directed at the Underworld.
—What do I look like?
'Ah...'
I understand the causality.
The Future King truly has seen the future me.
He witnessed the Omnipotent One who flew from the future to the past.
He, looking at me, the newly born Omnipotent One, wondered about the answer.
I ponder.
Should I tell him everything, or do I not let him know?
I hesitate for a moment, then speak one line.
: : You...closed your eyes with a smile. : :
That is the ending Hong Fan meets.
And it is the punishment handed down to him.
When he hears that fact, the Hong Fan of the past smiles.
—...Is that so? That is fine.
He rises from the jade throne.
And, as he faces off against the past us, he turns his back.
—This is really farewell.
'Ah...'
What does he mean?
Could it be the meaning I am thinking of?
If I consume Omnipotence, I can find out, but I don't particularly want to consume Omnipotence on something like this.
As it is, by the time we return to Earth, this Omnipotence will restore the Creator Gods of the otherworlds and then scatter.
I simply, instead of finding out the answer, smile and reply.
: : ...Yeah. This is really farewell. : :
Yeah.
Now, truly...
It is the end of everything.
Tsuaaaat!
Together with my comrades, I arrive at the cycle before we entered the Audience Chamber.
The last day of 2,012th cycle.
—The Star Genesis Supreme Deity is arriving!
—The Star Genesis Supreme Deity is arriving!
—The Star Genesis Supreme Deity is arriving!
Watching that sight, I undo the closed loop of time hanging over that worldline and turn it into a parallel world.
My comrades each look at those scenes, each of them seeing something different, and, seeing different things, they quietly chat among themselves.
Woo-wooong—
Gradually, Ji Hwa, who has become the Sword Extreme Imperial Sword, begins to ring.
Faintly...
Her figure naturally appears by my side.
It seems she is resonating with something.
After I look at her, I continue crossing over to earlier timelines.
The last day of the 2,011th cycle.
There, I see the past Oh Hyun-seok, who is melting away because of Hyeon Rang.
And I see myself, who sacrifices my life for Oh Hyun-seok.
I bestow blessings upon them...
And set the worldline flowing again and make it independent as a parallel dimension.
Now Hyeon Rang of that time will no longer awaken as something like the Zero King.
I cross over to before the Audience Chamber.
In the worldline that contains the Audience Chamber, the record of the Future King exists, but before that, the record of the being called the Future King is pulled out.
As Hong Fan after the Audience Chamber is a complete body, he maintains his form even in the records of the past, but...
Because Hong Fan before the Audience Chamber is incomplete, now that the Absolute of Fate has disappeared,
He cannot exist.
Continuously, I cross timelines.
2,010th cycle.
I see myself dying to the Sal Tree Heavenly Venerable.
When I separate that worldline as a parallel world, Sal Tree collapses.
Since he is a being related to the Future King, now that the Future King is annihilated, that existence of his can only be in a single worldline.
Only in the worldline that the Underworld, the Owner of History, designates.
The timelines continue to pass by without end.
2,009th cycle.
I...
It is the time when I attain Sword God Dance.
At the same time, Ji Hwa's figure becomes ever clearer, and then at last resonates with the Ji Hwa of that time.
'I see.'
In truth, at that time Ji Hwa's connection with me deepened more than with Radiance Hall.
To the point she could betray the Radiance Hall.
So, only upon reaching this timeline can Ji Hwa finally retrieve her form again.
Kim Yeon looks at her and smiles, and we burst into laughter.
My comrades, together with Ji Hwa who has regained her appearance, exchange all sorts of stories with one another.
Ji Hwa...
...is curious about Earth.
For the most ideal world in the eyes of her, who believed in the ideals of Radiance Hall, is precisely our home.
After I glance once at Ji Hwa and my comrades, who are chattering eagerly about the world without mysteries, I look at someone in the 2,009th cycle.
That someone is...
Me, who, after thoroughly torturing the traces of Yuan Li recorded inside the Radiance Mantra, is agonizing.
'Right.'
I recall what I was worrying about back then and smile.
I hear the thoughts my past self is having.
'Is it really true...that a cycle that has passed...a story that has ended cannot be reversed...? That a story already in progress truly cannot be revised...?'
Time that has passed cannot be turned back.
"Let the story that has passed stay as it has passed. Look forward and go. Do not be trapped in the past."
I speak to my past self, and my past self flinches in surprise and looks at me.
I leave my past self behind and cross the timeline again.
"From now on, you will be able to do anything."
The timelines after that were those where I keep on dying to Gwak Am.
Of course, since Gwak Am is also entangled with me, who was a True Emperor, on the surface it only looks like I am simply struck and killed by Splitting Emperor Splitting Heaven Annihilation Advancement Mu.
I pass by the cycles in which, as I undergo eternal regression and until I reach Martial Pinnacle, I die to Gwak Am countless times.
And...
I pass through thousands of cycles.
At last I arrive at the last day of the 1,004th cycle.
It is the day when Hong Fan and Hyeon Mu first met.
Even now the two of them are not visible, and I of this period die alone.
And in the far distance, a Splitting Heaven Mantra that erupts without an owner explodes.
Because there is no Hong Fan, no Hyeon Mu, and no Gwak Am, only the mantras remain and bring destruction to Mount Sumeru.
Wo-woong—
However, the Splitting Heaven Mantra is stopped by me.
After I block the perishing of Mount Sumeru, I pass by the corpse of me who has died.
The last day of the 1,003rd cycle.
It is the cycle where I was trapped by Bong Myeong together with Maek Jin.
At the end of that cycle, as I look at the existences of the past, I stretch out my hand toward Maek Jin.
Wo-woong—
At that time, there was not a single way to keep the promise with Maek Jin.
When the me of this period dies and time is about to close into a loop.
I, who block the closing of time...
...keep the promise with Maek Jin.
—I have a request. Guarantee my afterlife. At the very least, grant me the potential to aim for the Star Shattering stage in my next life.
Through the authority of Myriad Stars, Maek Jin will have the talent to be loved by the Star Veins.
He will be born with the talent to receive the love of countless constellations and will reach the Star Shattering stage as an Esteemed One.
Thus, as I repay my debt to Maek Jin, I cross the timeline.
The last day of the 1,002nd cycle.
I once again block the Splitting Heaven Mantra that is carried out on that last day.
This time as well, because Gwak Am, Hyeon Mu, and Hong Fan are near my last day, there is no one else nearby.
I am simply dying alone.
After I watch the me of the 1,002nd cycle die,
I meet eyes with Kim Yeon.
She comes to my side.
Kang Min-hee also comes to us, and all of us together use prophecy and revision...
We send our connection into this parallel world.
That is the family of In Yeon.
It is the world of the great In Clan, which, thanks to In Ye's final act, succeeded in bringing down all of the Radiance Ten Heavens.
To that place...
I reach out my hand.
As the Owner of the Absolute of Miracle.
And as a being who, for a single moment, became an omnipotent one, I am able to know.
The soul of my daughter.
That soul with which the children of In and Yeon came to us...
I release it into this parallel world.
This place is now no longer a timeline that has passed and closed into a loop.
It is a parallel world in which a completely different history is to continue.
Our child approaches me, Kim Yeon, and Kang Min-hee as a soul body and gives us a tight hug.
"See you next time."
The child is to open eyes again in the family of In Yeon.
And someday, there will also be a day when the child awakens and becomes a True Immortal.
And so there may also be a day when she recalls all her memories of the past.
But remembering is just remembering.
It has to end with remembering; she cannot remain bound to the past.
Therefore...
The time when we can meet as family and be together like this is only now.
[If there is a connection, let's meet again.]
The child melts into the family of In Yeon and returns as one of their bodies.
Within emotions I cannot put into words, after I look once at the family into which that child has entered, I assign to them a star of prophecy.
Their family is to prosper until the lifespan of this star comes to an end.
"Goodbye, child."
And so...
We, having given our greeting to the connection of the past, once again leave the timeline.
Just as that child said, someday, if there is a connection, we may be able to meet again.
Even if, in that lifetime, we are not family...
We may be able to meet as an even better connection.
The last day of the 1,001st cycle.
Ji Hwa of the past rips apart the Heavenly Domain and rips apart me and the clone of Glass Peacock.
Ji Hwa's face turns bright red, and she covers her face with both hands.
Kang Min-hee pats and comforts her, and I too am about to comfort her when I notice something strange.
'...?'
Then, only now do I realize something and let out a sigh.
'The Origin Essence of Light...no matter where I look in Mount Sumeru, I can't feel it. It is nowhere in the past, the present, or the future.'
I can tell through the Crystal King's insight.
'Heuk Sa. That guy has taken it...'
A fragment of his heart born from the grudges of Hong Fan, Heuk Sa (黑蛇).
Heuk Sa, just as his name says, is the one who carried away the Origin Essence of Radiance.
Because he appeared so abruptly and then flew off to another world just as abruptly, I did not expect that he would take something like that in that brief moment, and I only came to know of it when I arrived at this timeline where I personally died at the hands of the Radiance Eight Immortals.
'Well...there is probably not that much to be vigilant of.'
The Origin Essence of Radiance that Heuk Sa took had its connection and attraction force with Hong Fan completely severed.
Due to this, the Origin Essence of Radiance cannot borrow the power of the Future King and so it cannot swell or expand. It is not the Origin Essence of Radiance it has been up until now, but just an ordinary Origin Essence whose attribute merely happens to be light.
If I go find him later and see that he has committed too great an evil deed through light, I can just stop him.
Of course...
Since I know that no matter how much the guy uses his power now, he can never reach the level of the Future King Hong Fan Gu Ju, even that does not become a big concern.
Because I am the Owner of Miracles, I know better than anyone the personality, talent, and potential he was born with.
Heuk Sa does not even reach one-thousandth of the potential and talent Hong Fan was born with.
Even compared to me as I am now, he has less talent and less potential.
On top of that, in the case of leftovers, most of the time the main body's memories are not complete, so he also will not inherit all of Hong Fan's memories and thus will not be able to use the Emptiness Sword.
From the very beginning, the guy seems unable to understand Hong Fan's Hope.
I cannot feel in him even the emotion of self-hatred itself.
A fragment born from a talentless Hong Fan who has neither hope nor self-hatred...
...truly does not bother me at all.
'The time will come when we meet someday...'
The reason Hong Fan did not kill him.
It is because he will chase the source of Omnipotence forever, and when the source of Omnipotence comes to Mount Sumeru again, he too will come here.
Yes.
Hong Fan sent out that prophecy because he wants me to save even that guy.
Leaving those facts behind, I continue going back to the previous timelines.
The last day of the 1,000th cycle.
The last day of the 999th cycle comes into view.
From this point on, I am at the level of a mortal being.
In that cycle, the Great Sun Heavenly Lord takes the Vestige I have shed, and far away in Radiance Hall, I see Sword Spear receive that Vestige.
Once again, Ji Hwa's face turns bright red and she looks on the verge of tears.
This time, Kim Yeon is the one who pats her.
As I go back through the 999th cycle, I look at the world.
Seo Hweol.
The figure of that guy catches my eye for the first time in a long while.
Remembering many welcome connections from the past...
I continue to advance like that, jumping across timelines.
The last day of the 998th cycle.
A familiar face comes into view.
It is the Head Realm.
Because the Head Realm itself is already a dead Vestige, it seems that even though Hong Fan died, it did not particularly collapse in other timelines.
And in the Head Realm, I see Seo Hweol who succeeded in his various plans and for a short time brainwashed the Head Realm.
As I go back through time, I scratch Seo Hweol's belly without him noticing.
Because it is the gesture of a transcendent being, he seems unable to notice.
And...
In that way, the me of the 998th cycle becomes an Annihilation Flower, drifts through the void, and dies.
From then on, I begin to interfere in the cycles.
Tok, tok...
I bury the dead me in a heap of earth and use the Earth Escape Technique to make a grave.
Starting from the 999th cycle, when I underwent True Immortal advancement, the corpses either meaningfully became Decaying Corpse Realms or moved about alive, so there was nothing to worry about.
However, from the 998th cycle, when I was still a mortal being...
I decide to bury the countless [me] who have died up until now.
I don't know why I do that.
Maybe, just...
Perhaps I simply want to bury my dead selves from the previous cycles in the earth.
Right.
Because...
I wanted to be buried in the earth.
I didn't want it to be that the cycle turns back and my death disappears beyond the timeline when I die...
I wanted someone to remember me and for me to be buried within this history.
I definitely wished for that.
I head for the 997th cycle.
The 997th cycle.
There, the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord of that time is biting my shoulder with relish.
Everyone's gaze turns toward Ji Hwa, and in the end Ji Hwa faints from shame.
Kugugugugu!
I reveal a portion of my presence to Blood Yin.
From that alone, Blood Yin is terrified and runs away.
Seeing the power of the Origin Essence of Myriad Stars, he mistakes me for the Great Mountain Supreme Deity.
After driving Blood Yin off, I retrieve my own corpse that died in the 997th cycle and bury it in the ground.
The last day of the 997th cycle.
From this point on, it is repeated work.
From the 997th cycle all the way to the last day of the 21st cycle.
I keep on chasing Blood Yin away and repeatedly bury my corpse in the earth in a good area nearby.
'All my previous bodies...'
With the thought that they might at least find rest, I bury them never once feeling bored.
'Please, rest in this worldline.'
I head for the next timeline.
And from the last day of the 21st cycle, I go against time and look through the entire 21st cycle.
The scene where the Mad Lord unravels the Heart of Love.
I see the scene of him holding a wedding ceremony with [Her] in the ways of the Upper Realm.
Watching that sight...
I feel an ache in my chest.
It is because I too have once experienced a wedding through White-Red Wine.
'So this is a miracle.'
Seeing the soul of Wol Ha-eun, who at last comes out to greet the Mad Lord, I hope that those two...
Even if they burn in the fires of hell, will someday in their next life be happy together.
Now the timelines that remain are around twenty cycles.
It is down to two digits.
The last day of the 20th cycle.
—Descend. All-Heavens.
From that far distant sky, the united Colorless Glass Sword falls toward familiar figures.
Holding Kang Min-hee in my arms, I carry out mutual destruction.
I step forward and bury the two of them.
At that sight, this time Kang Min-hee's complexion looks bad, as if she is embarrassed.
This time Ji Hwa comforts Min-hee.
And then next,
Next is the 19th cycle.
The me of the 19th cycle is being tortured by Yeong Seung.
Then I am saved by the Heavenly Venerable of Time and head for the next cycle.
The Heavenly Venerable of Time is already in a state of having fled, but his voice remains.
—In the far future. I will wait for you all in the Domain of Void.
'...!'
Hearing those words, I understand that he has already, by that point, made a plan to flee outside the Gestation World.
And I realize that that the Domain of Void has a rather ambiguous meaning.
'If it is the Domain of Void...'
Void is also the Future King, so it could be the Future King's territory, the Audience Chamber.
Or the boundary of Cakravāda of nothingness.
Lastly, a separate world that has nothing of this world in it!
It seems that as my realm rises, what I can see changes.
I thus appear before Yeong Seung of this time period.
Yeong Seung seems utterly horrified, but I take out the six-sided club and stroke Yeong Seung's body with it.
Yeong Seung is beside himself with joy and prostrates in front of me, presenting Seo Eun-hyun's body to me.
I bury my body of the 19th cycle.
And...
I cross the 19th cycle.
19th cycle.
In the far distance, I see the sea of the Ancient Force Realm.
On that sea, I can also see my previous self, muttering to himself as he mines ancient force.
I brush pas at an incredibly close distance to the me of the 19th cycle...
I hope that my past self does not get hurt too badly.
"Endure it. From now on, for you of the 19th cycle, one terrible thing will happen. A painful event that you can never accept will occur."
Does he hear my voice?
My past self looks toward me and then tries to chase after me with lightness skill.
But it is useless.
The more he chases me, the farther we begin to grow apart.
I...
Run toward the last day of the 18th cycle.
*
"I have...to bury...him..."
Thud—
My past self can no longer hold out and collapses on the spot.
18th cycle.
It is the cycle in which I died to the Ghost Guiding Holy Mother Kang Min-hee.
Kang Min-hee cannot raise her face, and Ji Hwa and Kim Yeon comfort her.
The me of the 18th cycle, dressed in white, and Seo Li's corpse, covered with fragments of black robes, lie facing each other under the falling raindrops.
Seo Li.
My incarnation, and another me.
The other possibility of myself that I have wished for the most.
Woo-woooong—
Is it the will that Seo Li left behind?
Gang Spheres that Seo Li has left hidden in various places enter into the body of the me of the 18th cycle.
Gang Spheres containing the spiritual power of the Ghost Path Method.
Of course, because they are masses of power filled with the energy of death, they do not help my past self recover.
However, that power settles within me and adjusts the harmony of the Three Great Ultimates.
My past self finally closes his eyes.
And then...
I enter the reality of that cycle.
This time as well, I make their graves for them.
To me, Seo Li is the Mountain-Destroying Demon Ape of Great Mountain, the Blood Yin of Yu Hao Te.
And...the Heuk Sa of Hong Fan.
Originating from me, yet a me that is not me.
However, he grew up properly.
"Please be happy in this worldline, Seo Li."
I bestow a blessing on Seo Li's next life so that he can reach a high realm.
And, by my gesture, at some moment the rain stops, and on top of their graves a quince tree and a lily tree grow.
I step up before the two trees.
"Farewell, Seo Li."
Finishing those words, I become a single stream of wind and leave the 18th cycle.
The petals of the lily tree that grows from Seo Li's grave cling firmly to the branches and do not scatter, but from the quince tree that grows from my grave I pluck a few petals, take them with me, and smell their fragrance.
And then, I look back.
The white lilies, which only shake their branches in the wind and do not scatter, look almost as if they are waving their hands to see me off.
As if to say, farewell.
In that way, I...
Thus reach the 17th cycle.
Kugugugugu!
Hon Won.
It is a face I'm seeing for the first time in a long while.
And in front of Hon Won, there is me whose whole body is torn apart and turned into pieces of flesh.
"You are...no, you..."
Hon Won startles when he sees me suddenly intervene in reality, but soon, unable to gauge what kind of existence I am, he trembles.
I retrieve the Supervisory Eye embedded in Hon Won's eyes.
"Kkeuuuughk...!"
The character for Supervise that has been dwelling in his eyes disappears.
"Have you come back to your senses, Hon Won?"
"Ah, aaaaaaagh!"
"When you have pulled yourself together, go to Yeon Wei. As you are now, you should be able to...have a slightly more proper conversation with her."
Finishing my words, I leave Hon Won where he is, take my body that has become chunks of flesh, and bury it nearby.
"You have worked hard."
Afterward, I head toward the previous cycle.
The last day of the 16th cycle.
Tsuaaaaat—
There, I see Hong Fan meeting eyes with [me].
Right now, Hong Fan is in a state no different from the Future King himself.
Therefore, at least in this cycle, even though he died, it seems the record remains vivid.
*
Hong Fan simply, with pure curiosity and the desire to become like Seo Eun-hyun, decides to take on an appearance like Seo Eun-hyun's and to try becoming someone who knows nothing, like Seo Eun-hyun.
It is as if he is trying once more to dream a fleeting spring dream.
'At the very end of all endings...'
Will Seo Eun-hyun be able to keep his promise?
Looking forward to that...
Hong Fan plops down to lie beside Seo Eun-hyun.
Right before he loses all reason for the last time.
In the eyes of him, the Future King, one strand of a far-off future is caught.
A future where Seo Eun-hyun believed in him and believes him.
A future where, in the end, he gives him rest, becomes an omnipotent one, and looks back over the past.
'Ah...is that so?'
Perhaps, he might be able to reach that future.
Thus, as Hong Fan closes his eyes, together with Seo Eun-hyun, he heads toward a new timeline.
He flies toward Seo Eun-hyun's 17th cycle.
*
Watching Hong Fan flying toward the 17th cycle, I reach the last day of the 16th cycle and bury the two of them.
At first, I only roused my will and buried them.
But starting from Seo Li and the others, I gradually began to use spells like the Earth Escape Technique, spells I do not particularly need to use, to lay them to rest and build graves for them.
After burying Hong Fan and the me of the 16th cycle, I speak.
"Once again. Thank you."
With those words as the end...
I once again continue flying toward the previous cycles.
The last day of the 15th cycle.
Gyu Baek's soul lays a curse upon Seo Hweol.
In the miracle created by the connection between my old comrades and me,
I impose Heavenly Tribulations upon Seo Hweol.
Among them there are countless Heavenly Tribulations, but the most fearsome is Gyu Baek's Heavenly Tribulation.
It is the [Heavenly Tribulation that descends until Seo Hweol dies].
Kwarururung!
Golden lightning strikes down upon Seo Hweol.
Seo Hweol runs away.
The me of the 15th cycle passes Jang Ik's enlightenment to Yu Hwa and closes his eyes.
The performance Seo Hweol has staged comes to an end.
Step—
And...
Only once the curtain has fallen on the stage is it possible for an outsider, for me, to intervene.
Yu Hwa looks at me and flinches in surprise.
"Uh, uh..."
"Daoist Yu. By any chance...would you help me."
I look at her and smile faintly.
In a nearby sunny place, we use a suitable Martial Arts method to bury [my] body and make a tombstone for it.
For a while her face is confused, then she turns to me and asks.
"E-Excuse me...just who..."
Hwoooong—
However, I do not answer.
The me in this world is dead.
As one who is dead, all I need to do is simply remain still as the dead.
I embed the Impermanence Sword into the heart essence of my friend Yu Hwa.
The Impermanence Sword will lead her to a higher realm.
The ability her Manifestation possesses is sleep.
It is the best non-lethal Manifestation that is not specialized in killing.
If she reaches the same realm as Jang Ik...
The number of people in the Heart Tribe who die from greetings will surely visibly decrease.
Because it means that the comrades of the Heart Tribe will have another way besides suppressing others destructively.
Leaving her behind, I become a single strand of wind and slip out of the place.
And, from far away, I look at Seo Hweol who is receiving Heavenly Tribulation.
The Auspicious Exchange of Emotional Expression is an enormous calamity for Seo Hweol.
'So I had to develop my Sub-Heart Sword that far in order to be able to capture Seo Hweol.'
The entirety of Seo Hweol's Tainted Soul Filling the Heavens burns in Heavenly Tribulation.
That is only natural.
A Heavenly Tribulation that targets only Seo Hweol.
Its structure is identical to Hong Fan's [Hope], so it is impossible for Seo Hweol to overcome it.
Looking at that Seo Hweol of the past, I point a finger at him.
Woo-wooong—
Even if the Heavenly Tribulation burns all of Seo Hweol's Tainted Soul Filling the Heavens.
In order so it does not burn Seo Ran's soul,
I thus twist fate.
By my hand, the Seo Hweol of the 15th cycle screams as he burns completely in Gyu Baek's Heavenly Tribulation, which is no different from [Hope].
I cross the timeline again.
The last day of the 14th cycle.
I see another scene.
The 14th cycle's Oh Hyun-seok and Kim Yeon surrounding me, who have lost my life.
And those who were saved by the 14th cycle's me looking at me.
Within that sight, the existence of the Enders is absorbed so naturally into my present comrades.
The Enders, like the Supreme Deities, are unique in and of themselves, and each time a cycle passes, they seem to merge with their selves from other timelines.
Watching that scene...
Together with Oh Hyun-seok, I head to that faraway place.
To the place where the soul of one man resides.
"What do you intend to do?"
"...I don't want to forcefully keep him alive. Only...just let me be able to guarantee his next life with my own hands."
"Yes."
Oh Hyun-seok places a blessing on the soul of Azure Tiger Saint, Cheongmun Sun-woo.
Cheongmun Sun-woo heads straight for the Underworld, and enormous fortune and virtue begin to pile up upon that soul.
In his next life, he will surely have the aptitude to reach the Star Shattering stage.
With that as the end, we again head beyond the timeline.
In this life, I do not deliberately bury myself.
Because others will enshroud the body.
The last day of the 13th cycle.
I die while sharing a kiss with Yeon.
Together with Kim Yeon, I briefly descend to this point in time and make a tombstone at the place where we died.
She assembles the remaining puppets from the Wonderfully Mysterious Fortress, turns them into puppets of a suitable level to guard the tombstones, and makes a shrine operated by the puppets.
When Kim Yeon and I reach out our hands, a quince tree grows from our tombstone and blooms quince flowers.
The light pink quince blossoms look truly beautiful.
The last day of the 12th cycle.
When I come to my senses, it is that day when I was killed by a Tall Tree Race cultivator at the Four-Axis stage.
The Tall Tree Race man kills me, and the Mad Lord abducts that Tall Tree Race man.
Afterward, the remaining cultivators of the Flying Immortal Platform try to take my Heart Tribe corpse and experiment on it.
Reluctant to touch the infants below the Four-Axis stage for no good reason, I take only my own corpse and head for the Head Realm's Ascension Path.
I bury it right beneath the spot where the Ascension Gate used to be.
The last day of the 11th cycle.
The me who killed myself right before dying to the Mad Lord.
The Mad Lord all too naturally tries to take my body and remodel it into a puppet.
"Huu..."
I sigh and intervene in reality.
My sigh directly becomes a repulsion force, tears apart the very space of the Head Realm itself, and in an instant forcibly ascends the Mad Lord to the Bright Cold Realm.
The Mad Lord, transported to the Bright Cold Realm in an instant, is probably bewildered, but that is none of my concern.
I also take the me of this life to Ascension Path and bury him.
After that, we finally arrive at the timeline of my 10th cycle.
The last day of the 10th cycle.
'Ah...'
There, rain clouds are gathering.
And...
On the opposite side from where the rain clouds fall.
In that place where the heat of the scorching desert beats down.
A person filled with pain is walking.
I become a strand of wind that enters the timeline, brush past him, and for the first time in a long while I check that face.
Yes.
It is the young me of the 10th cycle.
*
Now, I just want to rest peacefully...
Thud!
I summon another stick and plant it in the ground.
'Still, let's go, a little further...'
I definitely swore before them...
I swore to offer Yuan Li's head...
Thus, thud, thud...
How many times have I marked this milestone of pain, limping along?
Before I know it, Cheon-saek City is getting closer.
Blink.
'...?'
Just now, something seemed to have stood in front of me.
Was it just my imagination?
Wiiiiii...
A sandstorm blows.
Through the sandstorm, I see someone's footprints in front of me disappearing.
'Footprints...?'
Someone had to have been standing in front of me.
Just then,
Wiiiiiing!
A cold wind blows.
There, far away.
The dark clouds spread outward, and soon pour rain all around.
Swaaaaaaaa—
In the desert, rain is falling.
Translator Notes: Last chapter on Monday. Though there's still 40+ side chapters T.T.