A Regressor's Tale of Cultivation
C794 Chapter 790: Protagonist (主人公) (5)
Chapter 790: Protagonist (主人公) (5)
Kugugung!
Divine providence tangles.
Presences whose mere sight makes the chest tremble personally descend to this place.
Tsuaaat!
Borrowing the power of the myriad stars to restore the body, I at last.
Finally, I can realize one of the answers I pondered for a long time.
[Baby].
The colossal form of the [Baby] I saw in the world beyond the timeline...
Its true nature.
'I see.'
Absolute Ones.
Omnipotent beings.
Those who take a single worldline as their blood vessel.
"Creator Gods..."
Divinities of infinite chaos and omnipotence.
Outside Mount Sumeru.
The Earth we came from, Silver Basket, Obsidian, and so on.
Creator Gods of Otherworlds where the very foundational principles of the world are entirely different reveal themselves in this place.
They are true Undying.
Perhaps because I am a Governing Immortal, perceiving them itself is not a problem, but...
Surely, if one is below Great Net Immortal, one's very existence would shatter just by perceiving them, and even at Immortal Lord level one's eyes would hurt.
Kung— Kung— Kung— Kung—!
However, what truly makes the chest throb is not their rank.
Kung— Kung— Kung—!
'So...many...!'
Each and every one is omnipotent, and there are far too many.
Beings who would be omnipotent in their own worlds send incarnations to this Mount Sumeru and reveal fragments of omnipotence.
And there are very many such beings.
At a glance, they number in the dozens!
'The world is...'
I once had such a thought.
Why do those who become Supreme Deities head to the Audience Chamber?
Why, after becoming Supreme Deity and fully enjoying what there is to enjoy, do they not live as eternal undying rulers of the Heavenly Domains, but instead...
...head 'outside,' and challenge the Future King!?
'It is...this...vast...!'
Even if one lives as a Supreme Deity, after living for hundreds of millions, tens of billions, trillions of years and more, all feel it.
Though one cannot know what lies outside this place called Mount Sumeru, surely 'outside' there is a world broader than this!
What the Radiance Hall says is nonsense, and 'outside' this world there are far, far too many other worlds that are so mysterious, beautiful, strange, and full of things to discover.
One instinctively realizes it.
The outside of this world is a different Heaven and Earth.
'If you think about it...isn't that so...?'
I look upon those mysterious, strange, and awe-inspiring Creator Gods and feel it.
'The beings drawn in periodically from other worlds are those called the Enders...so what Supreme Deity would not be curious about the outside...!?'
The incarnations of the Creator Gods seem to explain the very foundations of their own worlds.
Even one whose entire body is made of fire.
Even one made of endless chaos.
Even one composed of the cosmic great desolation itself.
And even one who assumes the form of an ordinary stellar system...
Through the insight of a Supreme Deity, as I peak into the worlds of the Creator Gods of Otherworlds...
I feel some emotion deep in my chest begin to throb.
And, leaving such a me behind, the Creator Gods use power.
In forms so bizarre that one cannot even guess their shapes, they block the front of Bong Hwa and each disperses the power of [Hope] in her stead.
As the authorities of a dozen or so Creator Gods overlay, Hope slowly disperses and scatters.
Seeing this, Hong Fan quietly asks Silver Basket.
"To defeat me alone, how great a price have you paid? Even if they do not desire it, by the promise of gods, you must serve them. Then again, since you are the wanderer who has roamed countless dimensions, you must indeed know many entertainments to please them."
"...O Future King. Do you not already know?"
It appears that, in order to summon those otherworld Creator Gods, Silver Basket, who is likewise originally a Creator God of another world, took some considerable loss.
"To those who possess everything, what could I give to spark their interest? I am merely the pretext. They are beings who descended because they are intrigued by you and Mount Sumeru itself."
"They are all faces I see anew. Since I see no familiar Creator Gods, they are gods who are not old, are they? You have lured in nuisances with curiosity as bait."
"If it is five or six, you can probably keep them briefly killed through your Hope. But o Future King! I have called them even at the cost of consuming the causality and legacies of high divinities I obtained while traveling innumerable Otherworlds. So many beings have gathered to block your Hope!"
Hong Fan sends a cold gaze toward Silver Basket, and Silver Basket, dwelling within Oh Hyun-seok's body and restoring the spirit, smiles.
"What could you possibly do against this many gods of Otherworlds!?"
As if offering gratitude toward Silver Basket's soul, Bong Hwa bows her head toward the being resurrecting inside Oh Hyun-seok.
Hong Fan glances at such a Bong Hwa, then looks again at Silver Basket, and then opens his mouth toward the beings of the Cosmic Great Desolation (宇宙鴻黃) who block them.
"O great gods. I do not wish to insult you."
Then Hong Fan, with empty eyes, looks up at them and speaks.
"This place is the conception palace of omnipotence. The gestation world of a Creator who has not yet completed creation. It is not a place for those who have already accomplished creation to come. I ask that you please leave."
At a glance the tone is polite, yet at the same time proud.
In response, the Creator Gods reveal anger.
'No, that is not it.'
I notice that it is not anger.
It seems like pity, and also like joy, and also like sorrow.
It is literally true chaos itself.
: : O G O D W H O H A S F A L L E N I N T O D E S P A I R : :
: : W E H A V E W A T C H E D O V E R T H O U : :
: : R A T H E R , T H Y C U R R E N T D E E D : :
: : I S I N D E F I N I T E L Y D E L A Y I N G : :
: : T H E B I R T H O F A C R E A T O R G O D : :
: : D O S T T H O U T H I N K W E W O U L D K N O W N O T : :
: : O F T H E P R E V I O U S G E N E R A T I O N W H O L E F T T H E C R A D L E A N D S L E E P S ? : :
: : H O W C O U L D T H O U K N O W N O T W H Y T H E Y D I V I D E D T H E I R S O U L I N T O T H R E E A N D S P L I T I T I N T O F A T E , H I S T O R Y , A N D M I R A C L E ? : :
: : L E T G O O F T H Y O B S E S S I O N A N D A C C E P T I T N A T U R A L L Y : :
: : E I T H E R L E T G O A N D F O L L O W T H E W I L L O F T H E P R E V I O U S G E N E R A T I O N : :
: : O R D E V O U R A L L T H R E E : :
: : T H O U A C C O M P L I S H I N G C R E A T I O N : :
: : I S G R E A T E R T H A N T H E R E S U L T O F T H Y F O O L I S H O B S E S S I O N :
: : D O S T T H O U T R U L Y N O T K N O W ? : :
Countless wills resonate in wondrous and bizarre ways and deliver to the Future King.
Why is it?
Even though they are beings who violently invaded the world at Silver Basket's request, from them I feel a sign as if they 'worry' about the Future King.
And, while receiving the sympathy of innumerable Absolute Ones, he grips the Emptiness Sword.
"O young Absolute Ones. Your opening of creation comes after my birth. Believing only in rank while invoking the former generation, what do you know that you would dare preach to me?"
Judging by the tone, he seems angry, yet the wave of will I feel from him is rather one of 'contempt.'
: : O R D E R O F T I M E A N D S U C H : :
: : H A V E N O M E A N I N G T O T H E O M N I P O T E N T : :
: : D O S T T H O U T R U L Y N O T K N O W ? : :
"Omniscient and omnipotent ones on your own ground. Are you truly ignorant of the result of violating my taboo and coming here."
The speech (言) of divine beings and the physical voice of a mortal being collide in the void.
And yet, why is it?
Surely those beings are of a rank so high that even I, the Star Genesis Supreme Deity, cannot properly read their speech, and yet,
I feel that the Future King's will, spoken out as nothing but an ordinary voice, is all the more chilling and baleful.
"O young Creators. Are you truly ignorant of why the ancient Creator Gods do not violate my taboo and, even at Silver Basket's request, do not descend."
Thud—
Breath…
Begins to caught.
Even to me, who fully restored the true body of the Star Genesis Supreme Deity, can tell that [something] I cannot perceive is beginning to bloom from the true body of the Future King, the Fate Supreme Deity Hong Fan Gu Ju.
Just then, Silver Basket, who barely stitched the spirit together by borrowing the energy of the Origin Essence of Life through Bong Hwa, begins to let out a lamentation unbefitting a Creator God of another world.
"Lament, and lament, and lament again. O Future King. Do you truly not know why, despite making such a sacrifice, I am in this place?"
The Future King ignores that cry and starts to reach out his hand.
Woooooo—
Those far-distant Otherworlds.
The other Creator Gods who do not descend into this gestational world called Mount Sumeru all at once wail in grief and numb heaviness and begin to 'move' their own worlds.
Many of the lights that shine beyond the void and the Vairambha Wind begin to flee.
As if they do not want to be caught up in it.
Here, the Creator Gods of Otherworlds who descended through Silver Basket begin to exert the power of their omniscient and omnipotent (全知全能) might, pressuring Hong Fan Gu Ju.
The endless chaos and omnipotent power that originate from them cover him.
Silver Basket begins to wail.
"For the sake of what you call Hope, how long do you intend to carry on this painful story!? Hope that pushes every being of a world that has not yet been born, including yourself, into hell—what meaning does it have!?"
Why do they wail?
Because they fear Hong Fan?
No, that is not it.
That is...
Pity.
"Do you not know how deeply those who watch over you pity you?"
They pity the Future King and feels endless compassion for him.
—True Martial Arts Emptiness Sword.
—Linked Profundity.
Throwing technique.
An upward cleave that uses repulsion force.
Accelerating technique.
A downward cleave that uses attraction force.
The ultimate techniques of the Emptiness Sword combine in an instant and are born as a baleful killing art.
—Upper Heaven Future King
Within the authorities of Creator Gods, Hong Fan Gu Ju, who takes the stance of throwing, begins to throw something.
It is not the Emptiness Sword.
It is...
"Just how long do you intend to continue that horrific Divine Art!?"
It is a transcendent [something] that I cannot even begin to perceive.
The power of transcendence that is called Great Mantra, or also called Divine Arts.
That is cast through the combination formula of the Emptiness Sword, pierces the incarnate bodies of the Creator Gods, leaps beyond the Void, and flies out to cause the collapse of a single world beyond the void in a single strike.
At the same time, one Creator God in the vicinity disappears.
The cause and effect are unknown, but through insight it is possible to infer.
At that very moment, a Creator God, world and all, was skewered and killed by the Future King's Divine Art.
That is the beginning.
Tukwang— Tukwang— Tukwang!
The Future King Fate Supreme Deity, tearing the authorities of the Creator Gods apart with mere movement, begins to throw something.
Each time that unperceivable thing called Divine Art is thrown, one world is pierced and meets annihilation.
And the Chief Divinity at the center of that world.
The ruler who governs the single world.
The Absolute One.
The Omnipotent One.
The Creator God, is torn and killed.
He brings collapse to worlds.
He brings annihilation to worlds.
He brings the End to worlds.
He brings ruination to worlds.
He brings massacre to Absolute Beings.
He executes them.
He exterminates them.
What on earth could one call it?
In that ghastly and hideous revel of killing, feeling inexpressible terror and pain, we can only watch as countless worlds and Creator Gods turn to powder before they can even react.
The Creator Gods are being massacred.
Before that appalling killing power, everyone except Bong Hwa only stares blankly at the scene.
Even Silver Basket and I, for a brief moment, lose even the will to resist that appalling absolute authority and can only stand with mouths agape.
Wooooooo—
The Creator Gods wail.
Jiiiiiing!
The wails of beings who create and annihilate worlds with a single word.
Their cry brings pain even to us who have nothing to do with them, our chests ache, and a bitterness of having lost a world invades the mind and delivers suffering.
They grant, by sound alone, emotions so fierce and terrifying even to Governing Immortals.
That is the wail of the Creator Gods.
And that terrifying wail at a glance also seems to be a wail from the pain of their worlds perishing and their very beings being torn to shreds.
Yet, I can tell.
They do not simply wail for that.
They are pitying the Future King.
Whisperwhisperwhisperwhisper—
As the Absolute Ones fade, they whisper.
Even as they themselves go to their deaths, as if such a thing does not concern them at all,
Wholly pitying and blessing the Future King...
: : Pleasedonottakethelongroadbackbutfindtheanswer : :
: : PitifulandpoorHongFanGuJuIshedtearsatthepainyousuffered : :
: : Igivemyblessingthatyoufindtheanswerandpraythatyoufindsalavation : :
: : Somedayescapeandbefreedfromthedreadfulandfoolishbridbleofpainyouoncethrewuponus : :
: : Isincerelypraythatyouyourselfareliberated : :
Empathy.
They, even as they die by Hong Fan Gu Ju, who destroys their own worlds and tears their true bodies apart, feel pity and sorrow for him, and sincerely empathize with him.
It is a strangeness that I cannot possibly understand.
Sensing the bizarre and incomprehensible vested interests of the truly born Absolute Ones, I feel the song of their wailing subside.
He, who destroyed the Creator Gods and tore apart dozens of worlds to powder, sits upon the jade throne of the Audience Chamber.
At the same time, for the first time I can feel 'emotion' from him.
Hearing the horrible and agonizing screams and wails of the Creator Gods, and hearing the blessings and empathy imbued in them, does he feel some stirring of emotion?
The emotion he shows for the first time.
It is 'fatigue'.
"Now!"
And Kim Young-hoon, who discerns him, shouts.
"If it is [now]...at least in 'speed', we can surpass him!"
What is obtained by emptying everything into emptiness is the Apex of Movement Techniques of Hong Fan Gu Ju, True Martial Arts Black Heaven.
The principle of Void Speed.
However, in this moment when fatigue and wavering nest inside that heart.
He has, for an instant, stepped out from perfect emptiness.
At least for now, he cannot use Void Speed.
And he also cannot use the ultimate technique that accelerates once more from Void Speed, 'Future'!
If it is now!
Through Golden Great Thousand World, we can seize superiority in speed!
With Kim Young-hoon's shout, a familiar authority begins to bloom from one corner of the Audience Chamber.
'This is...!'
The Origin Essence of Liberation inside the Liberation Seal of the Liberation Palace left by Bong Myeong freed Bong Hwa.
And what he left behind does not end there.
Pseudo-Ender
Liberation Law Talent
What is called a Pseudo-Ender is no different from a Pseudo-Absolute fragment.
Yes, he was truly a Craftsman of the Heavens.
For it is he who, with his own hands, weaved principle, fate, and causality to create a Pseudo-Absolute!
Clang, clang!
The Pseudo-Absolute fragment flashes, becoming a shining [key] that releases [something].
The next moment,
Kwaaaang!
Light bursts forth, and from the [cage] that has until now imprisoned the Heavenly Venerable of the Underworld Bong Hwa, seven-colored light sweeps the whole world.
At the same time, inside that cluster of seven-colored light.
The things that have been compressed into the form of a [cage] start to be 'liberated'.
'This is...'
Because it fell a bit short to liberate Bong Hwa, the Origin Essence of Liberation was detonated directly, yet it is a key sufficient to liberate 'something else.'
That key resonates with some being's Immortal Art and mixes with a silver cluster of light within Primordial Chaos.
It is Purple Soul Filling the Heavens.
—Purple is the most suitable color to hide in the darkness.
—Carry on life in the darkness where light can never reach.
—By continuing the inherited life, we shall all finally reach liberation.
The formula that Silver Basket created, as it touches the will of the Liberation Supreme Deity, reverses from that of an authority which is specialized in seizing another's body,
It becomes not one that seizes another's flesh and oneself evolves.
But one that sacrifices oneself, and revives the soul of the one whose self was stolen.
The will of sacrifice of the Liberation Supreme Deity meshes with the will of Silver Basket and explodes the Psuedo-Absolute Liberation Law Talent with Purple Soul Filling the Heavens.
Those who are compressed into the form of a [cage] and [confined] begin to be liberated!
Kung, kung, kung!
On the face of Bong Hwa, who is truly advancing, a warm smile settles.
Perhaps it is because there are several faces familiar to her.
A gigantic silver body begins to recover, sucking in the spirits of Silver Basket that were torn away.
A Heavenly King of far-off primordial antiquity.
The one who was called the Silver Basket Heavenly King descends to this place.
Next, a being that exudes a presence second only to Silver Basket's ferocity opens their eyes.
They are also of antiquity, known as the God of Gods.
The one who was called the Obsidian Devil Heavenly King descends to this place.
The last presence I feel is a being far too familiar.
The moment Kim Yeon offers the true body she prepared in offering, they settle into that flesh and, compared to the others, awakens without any loss of power.
The one who was called the Tridacna Vast Cold Heavenly King descends to this place.
Led by those three beings, countless existences appear in this place.
Red Pearl Yang Su-jin.
Agate Seo Wu-jin.
Lapis Lazuli Jeong Sin.
Obsidian Vinaya.
Tridacna Shin.
Gold Gugalanna.
Beginning from existences so very familiar, to those whose names, authorities, and natal dharma treasures were seen in the past.
And the Agate Hatred Heavenly King of the previous generation who has connections with us.
From the heinous beings who provided the causality that gave birth to Seo Hweol,
To Enders of the past generations at the level of mere mortal beings with no presence at all.
Even to Enders at the trivial mortal-level who, upon arriving at the Head Realm, fell at once and died with their heads split on stone.
All Enders of all eras come back to life in this place and awaken in the Audience Chamber!
Kuuung!
At the same time, Silver Basket stamps a foot and injects [wisdom] that explains the current situation to them all.
Enders at the level of mere mortal beings, who are not even qualified to respond to that [wisdom], all explode and die at once.
However, perhaps judging that Enders of that level will not even be of help, Silver Basket pays it no mind and points at me and declares.
: : All of you, listen. Now. Except for now, there is absolutely no chance in the future! Only now, when the first error that ripped apart the devil's fate with his hands is here in this place! : :
Uuuuuuuu—
Four among the Five Desires Chain who were clearly torn to death by the Splitting Heaven Mantra come back to life at a single touch of the Obsidian Devil Heavenly King, and without any time to grasp the situation, they join again and become a gigantic Swallowing Heaven.
: : This is the only