Chapter 143 - 112: Samsara

Chapter 143: Chapter 112: Samsara

“Thump”

“Thump”

“Thump”

In the silent and chaotic fourth layer of the Spirit Realm, there was no other noise, just the sound of three heartbeats emanating constantly from within the cocoon of light, never ceasing.

They maintained an unborn yet alive state, with their connection to the fourth layer interface growing increasingly tight.

Standing there, Laine gazed at the floating black crystal, feeling the power that could end all things.

Death, but not pure, was caused by the nature of the Chaos World itself. After all, even to this day, no deity had truly died.

The death and rebirth of Cronus had never erased his immortal essence, and Laine couldn’t do that either. Hence, the power of Death that grew as a result halted at the pinnacle of great divine power and, unsurprisingly, it had no further potential for growth.

So even though there were some underlying concerns, Laine had no other choice.

“I wonder if it can fulfill my expectation... Well, when I pioneered the Spirit Realm, I wasn’t entirely sure either.”

“Let’s just give it a try, whether it succeeds is up to luck.”

Taking a deep breath, Laine finally made up his mind. Whether it would succeed or not, it was necessary to try.

“Just as I thought.”

The changes before him did not surprise Laine. In other worlds, he didn’t know if life and death could naturally coexist, but in Chaos, they definitely could not.

As for their desire to eliminate each other, that too was to be expected, as the instincts of Source Power were more primitive than the will of the world. They found it difficult to judge the long-term good or bad of a situation.

Indeed, if Death were completely erased, the proportion of Life in the world would increase, but when one looks at the larger timescale, it’s not a good thing.

After all, with no ‘Death,’ the world’s capacity for ‘Life’ would soon reach its limit. At that point, Life would become stagnant water, with no more variation or creation.

Fortunately, Laine was prepared for this.

With a thought, two streams of breath from different origins slowly came into being in the void, and under his guidance, they moved towards the mouth of the well.

The two breaths—one from the ‘past,’ born from Cronus’s ‘Death,’ symbolizing the previous Divine King’s transformation from ‘Life’ to ‘Death’; the other from the ‘future,’ arising because of the three goddesses, symbolizing the change from ‘Death’ to ‘Life’ for the Chronology goddesses who otherwise could not have been born due to a change in fate.

This was a decision made at the outset. Laine rarely did things without meaning. The reason he still nurtured new deities in the fourth layer of the Spirit Realm, even though he knew he couldn’t grasp the secrets of immortality now, and had expended considerable energy for this, was for the very scene before him.

After all, the birth of a deity itself had a special significance. A god whose fate had been intercepted was even more so.

Moreover, aside from that, Spring, Summer, and Autumn originally had the incomplete meaning of ‘cycle,’ which is why Laine thought the Chronology goddesses were the best choice. If Themis were unwilling, he could have chosen other gods, but none of them would fit better than them.

Then the next moment, as the two mysterious breaths overlapped and rotated, descending together into the Well of Origin, a miraculous change began to take place.

Life and Death began to meld together, and a new, more complete ‘symbol’ was born. It was a cycle, an exchange, a process from birth to destruction, as well as the rebirth that follows destruction.