道罗邪皇子 (邪神之道 B5)

Chapter 814

Author: I feel somewhat out of touch with the story's flow recently while writing. It's probably due to how rough my family's situation had been for the past few weeks and a month. I'll probably look back on this volume from the first chapter of it tomorrow. 

[The other option is for you to become one of the many Moments.]

["Moments?"]

To the common mortal the definition of a moment is nothing more than an instance of their short lifespan, but the meaning of this simple word is seemingly twisted into something of a vastly different nature when it comes from the mouth of the Half-Monarch.

[Upon reaching the realms of a Half-Monarch numerous roads of unknown possibilities shall appear before one's feet. Of the many possibilities that are available the path that I have chosen to walk is the Eternal and the existence of a proper Eternal is an individual that doesn't exist across parallel worlds. Meaning there can only be one Eternal per common point of origin. In my current state I am an individual that walks between the lines of a common practitioner and a Monarch.]

Sweeping his gaze across the numerous bodies that stand before him the Half-Monarch continues to speak with a plain tone of voice.

[Each and every one of you are a parallel world version of me while I myself is the point in which us as individuals of a common origin intersects. Regardless of the lives that you have lead or what it is that you have become at the end of it, to me all of them are but an experience, hence the entirety of your lifespan is but a single "moment" of mine.]

[...]

It took Ye Gui Feng a bit of time to fully comprehend the harsh meaning of the words that had come from the mouth of the Half-Monarch.

[Merely an experience, just a single moment of your life...]

These two means of describing his entire life up until this point causes a feeling of anger to well up in Ye Gui Feng's heart. This might as well be the equivalent of saying that everything he has accomplished thus far is but a minor feat, something that is hardly worthy of another's ears.

In the same instance-

"..."

"Each and every one of you are a parallel world version of me," to Xuan Nuo these specific words caused his eyes to give off a strange gleam as the suppressed feelings of fear from before dies down at a trickling rate.

Without full confirmation it would be difficult for Xuan Nuo to say for certain if the Half-Monarch in front of him is the original person or-

(Is he really that Half-Monarch or is he just one of the many fragments that were scattered into the voids upon their death?)

Despite not having been at the forefront of that war Xuan Nuo has witnessed the final moments of the Half-Monarch through other means and has also heard the Asura Monarch's thoughts about the matter.

"..."

Recalling the events of that time along with the Asura Monarch's speculations Xuan Nuo gradually begins to piece the information that he possesses together.

In the cultivation world that Xuan Nuo lived in death is not the worse fate possible.

In fact it is often times considered a mercy for there are numerous methods out there that are designed to torment a person's soul even after their flesh and blood body has been destroyed.

That being the case it's common for a practitioner to want to die cleanly should they fall.

"There's nothing better than having control over my own death," this line is something that is popular amongst the practitioners of that era and the twisted mentality that is bred from such a practice is probably difficult for a mortal to comprehend for they live in a vastly different world.

Comparing the practitioners of modern times to ancient times one would be a civilized individual with manners while the other is a barbaric savage that is akin to a beast for most of these ancient practitioners carried a mindset of taking their foes out with them should they be cornered to the edges of death.

That Half-Monarch naturally possessed a similar mindset and upon realizing that he didn't stand a chance in defeating his enemy he had chosen to detonate his flesh and blood body triggering a devastating explosion that readily swallowed an entire region of the outer heavens.

The scenery of destruction at the time would be difficult to describe but that single explosion had torn open several dimensional scars that disrupt the stability of the region turning it into a world in which the laws of time and space has all but collapsed.

Maybe that Half-Monarch wasn't the first of his peers to do such a thing but the scenery of destruction that had occurred is something that cannot be painted with words alone. One would need to personally witness it for themselves to know of how fierce it had been.

Having sacrificed his body to tear the fabrics of time and space apart the Half-Monarch then proceeded to shatter his spiritual body into the fragments.

Each of these fragments are meant to contain traces of the Half-Monarch's soul, divine senses, memory, and will.

In a way that is similar to sowing the seeds of a plant the Half-Monarch sent his fragments into the voids.

Realistically as someone that is already dead the Half-Monarch didn't expect himself to be able to directly manipulate the destinies of his fragments that would most likely end up becoming their own person in their own worlds that will run parallel from one another.

The ideal outcome that the Half-Monarch had in mind would be for one of the many fragments to cultivate themselves to the point in which they would only need to take a single step more before becoming a Half-Monarch themselves.

Once a fragment has reached that point in cultivation they would become a suitable vessel that is able to absorb the other fragments to eventually reform themselves back into the Half-Monarch.

But that was merely the ideal result that the Half-Monarch held in mind and the chances of it happening can only be slim.

After all this time that has passed the Half-Monarch's will that is contained in these fragments have most likely diminished to the point of nonexistent. Without the will that is the center piece for reforming his original self his plans will most probably fail.

"..."

The more that Xuan Nuo thought of the speculations that the Asura Monarch had at the time the more convinced he is about his thoughts of the Half-Monarch in front of him being but a fragment of the original person.

However, on the off chance that the original person's will continues to linger then the possibilities aren't zero for this person to hold a portion of the original person's strength.

[...]

Unbeknownst to Xuan Nuo the figure sitting upon the throne has already noticed the changes in his behavior.

(How truly fascinating this world is. Perhaps I shall finally find the things that I am look for here. But I suppose I should resolve this matter in front of me first.)

Without anyone noticing the figure's golden eyes gave off a sharp gleam as he turns his attention back towards Ye Gui Feng.

(Now... The me who holds control over your own- no, our fates what will you choose? Will you yield and willing become one of my Moments or will you choose to make your own tales an Eternal instead?)