Chapter 83: Her Legacy

Chapter 83: Her Legacy

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The heavens above rumbled, trembling as rainbow-colored lightning constantly surged, zapping through its endless white clouds, which sometimes changed in color. An overwhelming and all-encompassing presence, a being that dominated it all and that represented the very laws of everything, roared with anger.

He had been in such a state for several years now, lamenting the departure of the only thing he had grown interested in these last eleven thousand years. A woman who ended up landing here from another dimension, a faraway world, weak and powerless, known as Earth,.

Surprising him time and time again, her survival instincts surpassed all his expectations, as did her endless resolve and her incredible mental strength, coupled with the morality and righteousness she carried from a weak and pathetic world to this one.

A world dominated by men and their power, where women were nothing but servants and slaves due to ancient traditions forced into them by their first-ever ancestors.

Yet she broke through all conventions, became truly free, and defeated even the oldest man who created all people in this world—she, the human woman born in another world, Katherine.

The people of the Central Continent glanced into the skies, concerned. Almost 83 years have passed since the Heavenly Martial Empress of Light, Bing Xue, their supreme leader, left for the stars to never return.

The governor of the Heavenly Court left everything to her precious disciples, the strongest women and men she raised by herself, teaching them everything she could and leaving the world in their hands.

Fen Chun, one of Bing Xue’s closest disciples, a beautiful woman with long blonde hair and sapphire-colored eyes, looked into the skies. As a Rank 19 Primordial Immortal, she was the closest to becoming a new Venerable, but she had yet to fully comprehend her Dao to reach such a height.

Without her beloved master, the cold yet always attentive Bing Xue, she felt lost. 83 years for an immortal were but the blink of an eye, but to her, they felt like very painful years.

“Master... When will you return?”

She looked at the rumbling, furious skies, noticing how annoyed the Heavenly Will was; it had been the same for the last few years. He had not even attacked anybody either; he simply couldn’t. The Heavenly Will, although it possessed an ego, was impartial to all things.

Only when they would attempt to breach the walls of the world and tear through space to escape is when he would truly act, because it was against the laws of the world’s pillars to do such a thing.

However, the Heavenly Will was cunning and vicious; it could play in different ways, twisting the world and nature itself to go against those it targeted.

But none of such things have happened yet.

Fen Chun still remembered his master like yesterday: her bright rainbow eyes, her long silvery-white hair, and her radiant aura of supremacy.

And her cold eyes, always sorrowful.

Even after 83 years, she can still recall their last interaction before she flew into the heavens to never return.

“Master, please don’t leave us! We need you. Without you, how will we be able to manage the Heavenly Court? How will we be able to have a leader to guide us?”

Fen Chun prostrated herself in front of Bing Xue, asking her to stay with her, with the big family they had made together, with all her disciples, and with the many immortals that had sworn their eternal loyalty.

Yet Bing Xue only looked with sorrowful, yet cold, and different eyes, detached from everything. She helped her stand back up and then held her disciple’s hands.

“Fen Chun, you know, everyone here knows. I am not from this world. My world is named Earth, and I am a human named Katherine. It has been more than eleven thousand years since then." Bing Xue sighed. “Yet the only thing I always think about nowadays is returning to see my family. My mother and my sister... more than anything in the world. I am selfish and self-centered. I am not fit to lead you or guide you. This is not my world; I don’t belong here. This is your world; you were born here; it is yours to lead, yours to guide, and yours to grow.”

“B-But master...” Even after living for one thousand years, Fen Chun was crying like a little girl in front of Bing Xue. “You’re the one that helped me... You’re the one that gave me a new life after living as a beggar my entire life... I thought... we would be a family.”

“I am sorry, but I cannot see any of you as my family,” Bing Xue said coldly. “And I must return, no matter what. You have yourselves to rely on. I’ve taught you enough; I’ve left everything you need to lead this world to prosperity. My disciples, the future is in your hands, not mine.”

Her disciples, human men and women, stone men, mermaids, intelligent martial beasts, and more, all watched as Bing Xue flew into the skies with only her sword in her hands.

And he did what no other Venerable has ever dared to do.

She clashed against heaven itself.

They watched in silence; her battle lasted for a whole year. Explosions of divine and primordial Ki constantly clash against one another.

The heavens slowly became more and more conscious as they battled her, to the point everyone could hear and see their battle.

The heavens revealed themselves to be an intelligent entity, a being that could even take upon forms and shapes.

Yet Bing Xue was unmoving, unfazed; she battled without end, trying to ascend into her Immemorial Primordial Void Realm.

But she failed.

However, that never stopped her either; even if she failed, so what?

She kept fighting and ascending further; using her sword, she cut through space and escaped, even as the heavenly will raged and tried to tear her to shreds.

Bing Xue was strong enough to resist the wounds for a whole year before finally escaping.

It was a spectacle nobody would ever forget.

But even now, they were still sorrowful, lamenting her departure into another world, perhaps to never see her again.

Their master was someone incredible, but her personality... Although she often showed great care, warmth, and love, she would always force herself to be distant.

It was as if she didn’t want to become close to them, even after spending so many years together.

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Above the heavens of Murim, the Heavenly Will kept roaring in anger, frustration, and even sorrow.

“My Bing Xue! Where are you?! Where did you go?!”

His powerful Primordial Heavenly Eyes pierced through the Cloud of Chaos into the Outer Cosmos.

He kept looking and looking, without an end in sight.

There were only endless stars and nothing else.

“Is she truly gone? What can I do to find her? How can I find her?!”

His obsession only grew as he started to spread his eyes outside of Murim, something the Heavenly Will had never tried.

However, because of how obsessed they were with her, they had to do it, even if it meant forcing their own existence to stretch and suffer pain.

“Hm?”

The Heavenly Will, however, saw something else through his countless eyes.

Something is slowly approaching Murim.

A giant floating spire made of black stone travels across the stars themselves.

It looked like a gigantic... tower.

“A moving relic from an otherworldly realm? Do you truly believe that, below my supreme watch, you can dare enter my world?!”

The Heavenly Will’s giant hands stretched out of his own world through the hole Bing Xue left behind, enormous, they stopped the tower from even getting closer!

CRASH!

The tower started to gain countless cracks as his supreme hands pressed against them, even as his own essence was burning due to the Chaos and the Cosmos disrupting him.

Yet, a sudden tremor produced by the tower sent his hands back to him.

RUMBLE!

“What?”

From within the cracks, a black-colored ooze started leaking, slowly forming into a large, strange, and amorphous entity made of black tentacles and covered with red eyes.

It slowly flew towards Murim, entering through the cracks. The Heavenly Will allowed the entity to enter to better study this alien being.

“Greetings, Supreme Entity of Universe-111. I am a representative of the Supreme Entity of Universe-112. Due to the Alliance between Supreme Entities, it has been stated that you have accomplished all the qualifications necessary to join the Alliance. However, the master does not approve of you breaking the tower he-”

CRUNCH!

Before the little eldritch entity could continue speaking, the heavens transformed into a gigantic jaw and devoured it.

His entire body was crushed and digested as the Heavenly Will swallowed this alien entity to absorb its power.

Its strange soul was assimilated as memories, and countless pieces of information about the Outer Cosmos entered his gigantic mind.

He learned countless things he never knew: the existence of Supremes, the power of the Cosmos, the Towers, the Worlds, Mana, Magic, Skills, and the System!

However, the thing he was most fascinated by was something else.

A small bit of information he found about a certain woman from a world known as Earth that has wreaked havoc within a certain tower.

Universe-1702.

“I’ve finally found you... You’re there! Bing Xue...!”

His countless eyes, full of obsession, spiraled across the entirety of Murim, forming endless storms of all colors.

“If she’s there and alive, then there’s always a chance of rekindling!”

His giant hands erupted from Murim’s boundaries once more, slowly approaching the tower.

“And you’re going to get me there... You want it or not.”

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