《Celestial Journey》131] - [Retracing one's steps, Dao Enlightenment]
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Void. A distant yet close place. A zone where nothing yet everything exist. Where everything can be birthed, where nothing can last. Time a warped notion within, space a complex visualization to comprehend.
Yet, within this void, a spark of a myriad colors blew from its arcane core. A spark coming out of nowhere yet everywhere.
The black void, missing the appeal of others, illuminated. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, any color one could imagine, any shade one could ever fathom. All of them erupting across the void's blurred limitations.
As if fireworks, chaos formed.
This chaos of strange colors, a veritable mixture of both useful and useless. From it, one could harvest both magical energies and colorful junk.
From it, Qi was born. With time, Qi turned both into Mana and True Qi. With more time, some True Qi became Emperor Qi. Following this trend, Star Qi and Celestial Qi.
Once all converged, merged and ascended, Origin Energy appeared. Yet, Origin Energy was chaos itself. The power of all amidst nothing. The might of potential. Of time.
A boundless void. A boundless world. Nothing and everything. Chaos and energy.
One trillion.
A trillion beads of jumping and esoteric colors, some that creatures might never properly see.
Dark blue, translucent exterior. An interior of explosions, rainbows of colors splashing everywhere. These Universes, a trillion of them.
Within each of them, three worlds were forcefully born. Each an intricate maze inside, a rather common land outside.
However, compared with the last time, two more appeared each time.
One's gaze evading their brilliance, staring up toward nothing, a giant world. This complex maze gigantic, a work of art. An inside working many would gasp at.
Soon cloaked within the fabric of space, it faded into nothingness, invisible to not only the eyes, but the touch as well. As if it never existed to begin with. But, when energies swirled around it without halt, its presence became more noticeable.
And above even it, giant light-brown rocks rotated. They spread out flat far above, covering the whole void. A ceiling shielding the remaining stars of chaos, the leftover gusts of colorful potential.
Striking it, a blue lightning bolt submerged the void, drowning everything and nothing. Worlds shattered, dimensions quivered, minds evaporated, life and death emerged.
A sudden blast unfathomable, a light of white and blue exploding in the middle of the void, blinding everything. From it, Universes dissipated, rocks eroded and resilience came forth. An enhancement to everything. A gentle caress toward nothing.
Time a distant world, space a close land. A trillion Universes, one Celestial Realm, all must face the doom of the Heavens far above all. All must defy its tribulation.
To survive, all should endure.
To walk forward, all should surpass this pain. Engraving a way up with only one's nails scratching the sturdy metal. A sound worst than Hell's nightmares, a suffering worthy of death, a drive few can match.
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A dimension fewer could ever step upon.
The Heavens a gentle being of compassionate warmth. One human being unwilling to be looked down upon, to be frowned upon. Unwilling to be left behind.
One palm print of blue lightning holding the entire void. The entire Multiverse.
Reshaping its frail determination, collapsing its faint foundation.
To become the Heavens, to surpass them.
A helping hand not needed, a simple man left to his own devices of even simpler nature. To stand above all and beneath none. A hatred for some, fading pieces of love for sparse others.
Orange turning into silver. A bead covered in purity. A holy sanctuary of nothing and everything. A place where chaos itself can rest. A domain of orderly energies. A prison to many, a blessed land for few.
A Dao unexpected. A learning process.
Dao of Order, Dao of Law. Dao of Superiority.
Dao of Supremacy.
Inside one's domain, none shall lift their heads, all shall kneel in shame. One and only Deity left to rule from above. The green roots, world of the Heavens, already submitting to the true ruler of this realm.
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Space shivering, time warping.
The void surging, the power of supremacy remains unmatched even from the two other strongest laws in existence.
Time and space, both fighting against supremacy.
A world of darkness, barely granted the grace of a faint blue light from a faint blue mist.
A man of silver light. His holy sanctuary, divine domain, grandiose appearance. All forming a true wall thousands of dark figures dared not cross. Creating a world millions of dark figures dared not live within.
The being of silver opening its silver eyes, words escaped his almost closed mouth.
"Disappear!"
Screams of horror, screeches of strange notes, all from the demise of dark creatures. Beings of the void itself. Entities all must fear. Yet, the being of supremacy did not flinch. A human having been granted, no, having forcefully stolen enlightenment.
As the man could never receive. The man could only steal.
A human being all should revere, all should admire.
"You filthy creatures! Let this Alexander show you the way out of this disgusting place!"
A void torn open. A dimension, a realm. Completely shattered.
Limbo crying, the void begging. Silver orders both to be blinded.
None can escape from the domain of supremacy.
"None can escape from supremacy, as supremacy shall rule both everything and nothing! Existing above all, below none!"
A laugh causing worlds to crumble, Alexander was now smiling from pure glee.
His body shaking, might surged.
Chaos and meridians merging, his vessel rumbled.
Time left behind, not looking back to its pressing anxiety. A life wheel brimming from a fiery red, a flame of ambition suppressing one of worry.
Uncovered from the void, stepping back into Limbo. A being of silver, a being of power.
Alexander, returning not to the void, but to his peak.
"Chaos Archetype Realm's peak!!"
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The Inner Territory brought to its knees! A man no natives of this place could ever hope to defeat was here once again.
'I will breakthrough!'
"Even if it kills me!"
Alexander had not spent his recovery session only breaking through realms without a goal. He consistently trained his mind and future prospects for this specific breakthrough. Studying Lu Shu's eruption in strength, the Greater Primordial Deity's one as well. Analyzing this so called Empyrean Realm!
His red life wheel surging, it burst out, growing without being able to stop.
Soon, his life wheel grew two times its former size, then three, four, five, ten, a hundred...
After it stopped, it became three hundred times bigger. Not a life wheel anymore, but a ring of life instead. A ring orbiting a planet named Alexander.
Spinning all around a domain of silver, a domain of supremacy.
"Merge!!"
The life wheel now almost black, it shrunk, condensing into a smaller one.
Impurities left behind, energies replenished, the life wheel regained a brighter shade.
"Again!!" The same process rehappening, the life wheel became dark yellow.
"Again!!"
"Again!!"
"Again!!!!!"
A reactive life wheel behind him, his body shivered, flames of green assaulting his tarnished veins.
"Fuse!" Accepting his rampaging life wheel, containing more life than his existence actually had, he tempered himself.
"Even if it kills me! Even if I die here!"
"I will make this breakthrough, no matter what!!"
"I, Alexander, cannot fail! I may fail now, may fail later..."
"But one day..."
"One day I will be unable to fall! Unable to crumble! Unable to die! Unable to be dismissed! Unable to be forgotten!"
"Becoming the one and only! A being even my current self can only revere! I will shoot past my own potential!!"
Limbo covered in shades of bright green, life evolved even where arid deserted planets rested.
An ambition from a simple man... a resolve, a firmer grasp.
A true goal for an empty dream.
A filling for a lacking goal and full dream.
A perfection one can only claw toward.
A silver aura growing, the nearby worlds turned to dust, their poor materials unable to bear the tremendous pressure.
To the evolving dominion of utter supremacy, a change of heart meant a change of reality. A wave of the hand could only result in a wave of deletion.
A gaze became a peerless vision into all forms of time and space. A dream became a fate.
To walk the path of this Dao...
One should be ready to lose it all at a single moment of weakness.
A life wheel retracting into a silver body, it disappeared within. And soon, this same life wheel fused with the being's Dantian.
However, a rampaging life force was still left behind. A raging inferno of bliss and destruction.
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Core Territory's gates.
"Hey..."
"..."
"Hey!!"
"..."
"You mother... Fucking wake up!!!"
"Huh? What?!" Springing to his feet, a guard still felt sleepy.
"Why did you wake me up!? You better not tell me it was a joke or else..!"
"Look in front you, dumbass! We have a visitor... and I don't think this one will be easy to deal with."
"What? Why are you... you..."
"..."
"What's that?"
"Isn't that the guy from back then?"
"I think it is..."
"How? Wasn't he killed by Monarch Lu? Someone at the Chaos Archetype Realm... fighting against Monarch Lu... are you saying he's still alive?!"
"..."
"Why is it surprising? Do you actually know something I don't?"
A being of white robes, silver aura and green flames, burning for eternity, gazed upon the two poor guards in coldness.
"You two..."
"Get out of my way!!"
"We can't!" Brandishing a spear, one of the guards took a heavy stance on the empty void.
"Today, I will enter the Core Territory, whether you guys like it or not!"
"Sorry buddy, but this is impossible!" The other guard back to his feet, his mace intimidated even the surrounding energies.
"Then... you two can only die here."
A flaming hand grasping at the void, space distorted, transforming into a flaming claw of life.
"Reaping hand! This bastard... he mastered parts of the World Arts!"
"Isn't that-" Shut down from a green flaming hand clutching his face, the guard struggled to get free.
"No point." Squeezing harder, the guard's skull began to cave in at multiple spot, where Alexander's fingers pressed.
'S-Strong!'
"Help! what are you waiting- humf!!!"
"Shut it!" Feeling the guard almost get away from him, Alexander frowned, retracting his hand, but not without a piece of the opponent.
"Ahhhh!!!" Screaming from pain, the escaping guard had his face torn apart, now held in Alexander's hand. Who did not hesitate to tear it in two like paper in front of him.
Blood dripping, the guard protected himself with Origin Energy, fending off his gruesome injury.
"Why are you attacking us?! Do you not know who we work for? We are guards at the Empyrean Realm! Even inside the Core Territory, guards at our levels are not common!"
"Injuring me like this... even if you enter... you won't be able to handle the consequences!"
"All you had to do was gather one recommendation letter! Is it so hard?!"
"..." Faking a pensive face, Alexander reached for his internal world, soon pulling out a box. Presenting it, the uninjured guard carefully took it.
"What..."
"What is it?" The other guard still gritting his teeth, he curiously glanced to the side, where the other guard pulled out something from the box.
"?!!"
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