“Hehe, so you actually managed to fully absorb all 18 World Sprouts! I wouldn’t expect any less from my only disciple! Of course, even though you had to sacrifice the World Sprouts you gathered from your friends and disciples, I am sure you know it was a worthy trade!” Nineorigin’s smug expression looked quite cute. Heifeng Jiansui suppressed the urge to pull her cheeks.
“It was all due to my Black Phoenix bloodline… Anyway, why didn’t you tell me of the new Supreme Dao?” Heifeng Jiansui casually asked.
“All to surprise you, of course! Wasn’t it astonishing?” Heifeng Jiansui sighed at Nineorigin’s answer. What kind of master did he have…
“Of course. How are the plans of forming the corresponding Supreme Worlds for them going on?” At Heifeng Jiansui, Nineorigin couldn’t help but lower her head.
“If you can’t tell me that, at least tell me when you are planning to create Divine Legacies for them…” Heifeng Jiansui couldn’t help but facepalm. She didn’t create Supreme Worlds for the Supreme Dao and didn’t create Divine Legacies for them! No wonder her manual was an incorrigible mess, it was incomplete!
“…It’s entirely your fault, who asked you to make your Quintessence Sword Art so profound…” Nineorigin quietly mumbled this, but Heifeng Jiansui’s keen ears caught everything.
“What? How does my Quintessence Sword Art correspond to this?” At Heifeng Jiansui’s bewildered question, Nineorigin pouted.
“Of course it’s all your fault! After you died, your Sword Dao was the only constant in your chaoseed and acted as a pillar for the Chaosworld’s stability! I have to create a Supreme Sword World, but I can’t do that because I can’t comprehend your technique! And without creating the Supreme Sword World, I can’t create the remaining 8 Supreme Worlds despite my full comprehension of the principles needed to create them!” Nineorigin’s angry rant surprised Heifeng Jiansui.
“Oh, so this was the reason you were so eager to become my disciple when I brought up the topic of a Master-Disciple relationship, huh?” Heifeng Jiansui realized this as he thought back.
“Yeah, yeah, laugh all you want.” Nineorigin’s miffed pout made Heifeng Jiansui apologize.
“After I am done with the Black Phoenix Ancestral Heritage, I’ll teach you my Quintessence Sword Dao. Eternity wouldn’t matter after we freeze time, alright? As long as you are diligent, reaching the Perpetual Emperor levels won’t be hard. If we spend some more time, I can send you to the gate of Chaos Sovereign in my sword art.” Heifeng Jiansui consoled Nineorigin gently.
“…How dumb do you think I am?” Nineorigin pouted as she asked.
“Dumb enough to disseminate an incomplete Divine Legacy. No wonder I nearly got my soul damaged from that vile book!” Heifeng Jiansui’s soul was that of a Chaos Sovereign so he could of course avoid injury. As for the hapless disciples of the Nineorigin Sect…
Of course, Nineorigin couldn’t respond to this super effective retort. After her pout became larger and her cheeks were pulled further apart, Heifeng Jiansui couldn’t resist pulling them anymore.
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“So, I am freezing time once more. Quickly finish your business in the library.” Saying this, Nineorigin went away without turning back, her face red. Of course, Heifeng Jiansui who had pulled her cheeks hard enough to dye them red didn’t care much about her weird behavior.
The memories and inheritances from Nakshatra, the soulshard of Shiva and the Mahasura Avatar came together to form a huge amount of knowledge. Heifeng Jiansui would require quite some time to process it and explaining it all to the Perpetual Emperors and Nineorigin would take longer.
So, Heifeng Jiansui decided to process the information while writing it down in manuals and jade-slips.
The history of the Chaturdasha-loka, the cultivation realms, the divine courts, famous gods, demons and asuras, cultivation techniques and heritages…
Writing them down one by one, Heifeng Jiansui realized that 3 million years later, he was going to be in quite a bind.
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In the Sect Master’s Hall of the Nineorigin Sect.
Nineorigin and Heifeng Jiansui were sitting together on a table beside each other. Accompanying them on the other side were the Yin-Yang Supreme Couple. A winebottle, some glasses and Immortal fruit and meat was served in front of them.
But of course, none of the participants even glanced at them.
“…So you are saying that the Black Dragon of Calamity was actually a Nakshatra Shivaputra, a cultivator hailing from the Chaturdasha-loka Chaosworld. When you killed her, a contract was passed on to you commanding you to bring calamity to the world she hailed from. Is that correct?” The Pure Yang Emperor had a serious expression on his face.
“Very much so. She had sealed her godblood and memories within my soul somehow, and after I entered the World Tree’s Spiritual World, I found out about it and separated it from me. Due to some reason, the separated parts turned into an avatar. I plan on cultivating it and sending it off to cause a calamity to that place. After I fulfill the contract, I’ll simply kill off that avatar and separate its karma from me.” Hearing Heifeng Jiansui’s explanation, the Pure Yang Emperor’s expression loosened.
“So this Chaturdasha-loka… How is it compared to our Nineorigin Chaosworld?” Nineorigin couldn’t resist asking anymore. Heifeng Jiansui immediately answered.
“The Chaturdasha-loka comprises of 14 Worlds which are independently large as Chaosworlds. Nakshatra called it an Eternal World… Nineorigin, do you know anything about that?” Heifeng Jiansui asked with a frown.
“Only after a Chaosworld with a fully formed World Spirit swallows more than ten Chaosworlds and fully fuses their laws into a system can it be called an Eternal World. For Chaturdasha-loka to have swallowed 14 Chaosworlds already… It seems you will have difficulty fulfilling the contract.” Nineorigin gave a worried glance.
“The World Spirit of the Chaosworld is called Brahmin. Not much is known about that person… More famous are the Trimurti who usually carry out the duties and control the powers of the World Spirit. The functions of creation, maintenance, and destruction are carried out by Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer. It is rumored that the three are Avatars that Brahmin separated into. Other rumors state that the Eternal World gave birth to them as World Spirits to succeed Brahmin.” Hearing Heifeng Jiansui’s words, Nineorigin slowly nodded.
“The godblood your Avatar is formed from… comes from this Shiva, right?” Heifeng Jiansui nodded at Nineorigin’s question.
“The whole Avatar thing… How does it work?” Nineorigin asked once more.
“It is similar to an apex cultivator splitting a portion of his soul and incarnating as a mortal. The Gods can easily cut off a portion of their divine souls, imbue them with extraordinary fate and send them to the mortal world to stir up karma. The incarnations usually possess no memories of their godly selves, and only have their extraordinary fate.” Hearing this, Nineorigin nodded.
“They don’t seem to be much of a threat right?” Nineorigin’s question was responded with nods from the others. Heifeng Jiansui wryly smiled at that.
“You underestimate their fate. The moment I send my Avatar to enter the Chaturdasha-loka, I’ll end up stirring an avatar or two who will certainly reveal my identity to the Divine Court. And just like that, rebellion stamped out.” Hearing Heifeng Jiansui’s answer, there were reluctant nods. It was impossible for them to understand the terror of these avatars without access to the vast amount of knowledge about their deeds.
“Now for the cultivation system… How does it work there?” Extreme Yin Empress was the one to ask this.
“Instead of refining laws and cultivating essence, spirit and energy, the cultivation system relies more on gathering faith energy. There are a ridiculous amount of mortals to harvest faith from, and avatars are regularly formed to control them and have them dedicate their faith. But it is ridiculously effective.
They have billions of apex cultivators who are at the Door to Deityhood yet incapable of breakthrough, all with the strength of Perennial Lords. 330 million or so Deities who are equivalent to Immortal Kings, a thousand or so Great Deities who are Perpetual Emperor equivalents and the three Trimurti each have the power of a Chaos Sovereign. The World Spirit Brahmin, Heaven knows what realm it has reached.” Hearing this, all three companions of Heifeng Jiansui gasped.
“Don’t worry. All I have to do is act as a trigger for a Divine War when fate aligns. I don’t need to participate in it myself. All I need is enough strength to kill off a Great Deity, assassinate the equivalent of a Perpetual Emperor. That will be enough of a trigger.” Even hearing this, the frowns on the faces of his companions didn’t disappear.