Chapter 1811 Immortal Ascension of the Faithless Celestial

Chapter 1811 Immortal Ascension of the Faithless Celestial

Sansara Sage Lin Lehan took his time to get his thoughts together before verbalizing them in Nira's audience.

"Those of us who have reached S-Plus-Rank would eventually die because there's no way forward for us after reaching the Saint Rank. The requirements to move forward are too harsh and not something any particular Path can get around.

There's only one way to move forward. And that is to live as many lives as possible through the clones, extract experiences from them and finally combine them together before our 'deadline' approaches.

Of course, we can also take a faith-centric route, become demi-gods and try to become gods to achieve true immortality. However, I never liked that route simply because it is too dependent on others' faith.

A god who has to depend on their followers for their continuous survival is no god in my eyes. The pantheon gods are more or less the same with just less stringent requirements. Only when you reach the status of the Elder God would that curse be lifted from you," Lin spoke as he walked absentmindedly forward.

Nira opened her mouth to speak. But in the end, she hesitated, as if recognizing that she was not as qualified as Lehan to speak on the matter. Thus, the Saint Rank archer chose to remain silent and let Lehan carry on.

"Nira, I ask you, is becoming an Elder God so simple? So many gods are still trying to become Elder Gods, doing all kinds of things trying to generate Origin Force for themselves through their followers. How many of them have succeeded so far? How many of them were forgotten? How many of them experienced "Godfall"?

And how many Elder Gods are still there in existence? And most importantly, how much time will it take for any regular Practitioner to transform from a demi-god to an Elder God?

I'm afraid those questions are too complicated and answers to those questions would certainly be too vague. I'd rather take a less trodden path and become a Faithless Celestial.

For me to achieve that special form of Immortal Ascension, I need to explore many worlds, live many lives, and understand the Attainments offered by various worlds."

"Well, you have Allansia and Echidna that you haven't—" Nira was about to offer her opinion, believing it was what Lin wanted. However, the latter shook his head before cutting her off.

"Anfang, Labh Salem, Echidna, Allansia, and Tel Quasser are like five fingers of the same hand, Nira," Lin Lehan spoke as if he was speaking from experience.

"Although these five worlds are separate from each other, they are all connected in the space-time fabric and there's not much difference between them when we consider the kind of Attainments they have to offer.

So to deepen his concepts on the soul, he started creating artificial children and gave them a singular task– to cultivate a soul for themselves. He wanted to see if he could make another soul that was just like him. A true clone of his soul.

Sansara Sage's ultimate goal was to break the cycle of Samsara and obtain what lies beyond it– an Immortality that can't be taken away under any condition. And he started working towards his goal from the very early stage of his life.

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Nira also didn't say anything after she heard Lehan's reasons to take such drastic steps.

Even though she had not achieved a Perfect Sainthood like Lehan, Nira could also relate to his situation because she too was in the Saint Rank. As such, she too felt that the Path ahead was bleak and feared that there was no way forward for her.

And just like Lehan, she too didn't want to take a pantheon's help and become a demi-god only to be bound by the pantheon's rules. In her eyes, the so-called demi-gods were nothing but glorified henchmen for the Immortals, who in turn were bound by their own divinity.

Thus, Nira felt like she was caught between a rock and a hard place.

She didn't want to participate in the stealing of the Elder Seed Artifact from the Witch Association. However, she also didn't want to be left behind by Lehan if and when he succeeds in obtaining the said artifact.

In the end, Nira smiled mirthlessly before thinking to herself.

"First of all, who even thinks of stealing the witches' heritage while staying in Labh Salem?"

***

"Eren!"

Shallot, the Elder Seed Artifact Spirit, rose and assisted Eren as he began coughing. With his face red like tomato, the butcher looked like an elderly mortal on the verge of succumbing to a fatal illness.