Lord Shadow

Chapter 2104: The Worth of Life and Death

Certain fates are easy to change. And certain fate are hard to change

Death and life destiny might seem like a hard thing to change but the difficulty of changing life and death mostly stems from the effect of one death and life

Different life and different death have different weight.

Because of the action of the people.

The soul are precious no matter who it is.

Life itself is precious no matter who it is.

But what make it precious, what make the soul worth protecting is the action and decision of the living beings that have it

Given life, one should explore the world, explore truth, explore people and other living beings and try to understand them

You might understand them, you might not but you would learn something from it.

Living beings are not immune to making mistake.

Instead mistake is the mechanism on which living beings have to experience.

Only by making mistake some lesson would strike even harder.

And then have the capacity to rectify oneself.

This is what makes certain death and certain life precious and worthless

And also because of this, fate and destiny of people also have different weight

A life of a nobody, of someone who did not do any kindness in the world, did not affect the people around him, no cause and effect is the easiest kind of fate to change.

Since it did not affect much, as long as you are careful in making sure that this person life and death did not affect the big picture of fate and destiny, it is very easy to change this kind of person feat

Azief.....his fate is tied to the Omniverse itself. That is not the kind of fate and destiny that is easy to change.

It is one of the hardest. Almost impossible. Because the moment he changes something, three layers of the most powerful Will in existence would try to correct it.

The Heavenly Will, the Universal will and the Omniversal Will.

This is not a simple destiny that could be changed and could be hidden from

He remind himself of this every time. He

And since he could escape it, then the only thing that is left is to accept it. And once he accepted it, his heart feel relieved.

It is like that feeling of always wanting a way out.

If there is a chance of a way out, you would always be tortured with a dilemma.

Like for example there is two door in front of you. Each door has a certain monsters behind it.

You do not know which monster is stronger.

And so, you stand transfixed in front of these two doors. Both are monsters behind the door.

But you know that between these two monsters, there would be one that is weaker than the other

You would always be torn between two doors.

But if one door is gone, then, you could focus all of you mind into facing the monster behind the door

There is no doubt. No second thought, you would focus only on surviving. On killing the monster that would be on the other side of the door.

That is the kind of mentality he had after accepting his fate

Nota resignation.

But a new determination.

Not to overcome it, but to survive it. A fate that even beings like Wargod feel helpless with, a fate and destiny that causes Odin, a figure in the mythology of Earth and even a Divine Sage monkey to concern themselves would not be the kind of fate and destiny that a junior like him could change

Now there is only one door. Since tehri is only one door, there is no need to think too much

Just face it with an open mind

And he had better luck than most. No....not better luck than most. Better luck than anyone that have ever existed since the creation of time

For the things that would happen to him, the entire Omniverse lend its luck. It is not a blessing but a sliver of chance

In Daoist teaching there is the word that out of fifty path, forty nine is blocked and yet even then, there is one path that offers escape

And now, Azief mind is clear. He had many more thoughts. Sofia, Katarina, Sina, Loki, his disciple, Xi Feng and Somi and many other people he met

He even subconsciously remembered Hamad and Hatta and even that man who gives him the wallet with picture of his loved one and even that Badger.

He remember how he no longer tame any pets after that. He did not want to kill his pet. He did not understand that feeling at that time

But he understood it now.

What kind of feeling was that?

It was not like he did not know it.

But he refuse to acknowledge it at that time.

Was it the right choice?

Maybe. At that time, he needed to focus on surviving. So what he did make sense

But now, he understood what he was feeling at that time

His pet Badger died and since then he has never taken any other pets. He never show any inclination of it.

He was even hesitate to take a disciple. It was like an unconscious involuntary reaction. It took him some time for him to understand why he acted the way he did

He was in grief at that time. And that grief changes his behaviour. He himself did not notice it.

Those who lived through a war would have a different viewpoint and different priorities then someone who did not live through it.

Then his memories changes again. It was not like he is only reforming his bodies, his strength and his divine sense

It was almost like he is reliving back those moment all those years ago. Almost like a mirror is being held up in front of him, that shows all of his biggest hits in life.

And then there were many other people he remembers.

He remembers how he met Sasha. And how he hunted him down. How she kidnapped Sina. How he nearly went crazy about it

At that time, family....that family of his was the only thing that matter. The world could burn for all he cares

Because at that time, he was like the kid that was never brought up by the community.

There is an African proverb that sounds like this

A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. In the past, he was that child

All he knows is the coldness of the world. So, he really did not care if the world burns or not.

It took him many years, to learn. To see and understand.

Then his mind wanders again. And he thought of Wang Jian. Wang Jian is someone who is introduced to him.

He did not have camaraderie with him. With Wang Jian, Azief is the superior and he is the subordinate

And if there is someone he is obligated and feel a debt towards, it would be to Sofia and Loki and not him

But he serves under him and follow his order. Loyalty is his brand.

Then he thought of Athena and Freya. These two were also his enemies in the Fake World. That moment felt like a lifetime ago. And he sometimes wonder what those celestial creatures are up to now.

Whether there is cause and effect that is forged when he release that Fake World and return the world back to how it was before.

Then he thought of Hirate, Raymond, Jean, Hikigaya, Oreki, more and more people he had met in his journey

Sometimes, people he had met only briefly would sometimes pop in his memory, like a sudden flash in his mind.

He thought of all of these people and then he clams himself down, look at these memories and then his thoughts slowly calmed down

Like a surging torrent of water being calmed down by some invisible force

And the moment his mind clears, he could feel his energy suddenly surging.

This sudden surging reinvigorate his entire existence. He could feel it coursing in his blood, in his veins and in his bones and a storm of energy erupted from him

BOOM!

The area around him is nourished by this energy but also pressured by it

And then he felt the calling. The calling of rules and laws of this world. The calling of those two Essence Avatars.

Of order and chaos. Of death and life. Of creation and destruction.

That two Essence Avatars immediately feel him.

They are not constrained by time and space. They could be halfway through this Universe and this distance would be no hindrance for them to feel him

"Summon!" he summons his two Essence Avatars.

And they immediately appears beside him.

Right now, he is in two places....no, two state of existence.

The real body is in the cove hidden and his other state of existence is like a translucent Will spreading all over the world present in the Divine Sense that is now growing and expanding without stopping

His energy converges in his Inner Universe and his energy reaches to the peak of the Essence Creation realm

At the same time, his two Essence is now beside his body in translucent manner and both of them are now being absorbed back into the body.

Not to be separated again but to be mixed together

The path he chose is different.

To cultivate the Perfection Path, he had to refine the Primordial Body, form the Primordial Essence and cultivate the Primordial Spirit

He is different

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