Lord Shadow

Chapter 2138: Mind Palace

Azief eyes narrows as he looks at that dagger

It is not that the dagger slows down.

It is that this time his reflex is faster than the last time and everything appears slow in front of him

This dagger that once cut him once had the pressure that could the entire universe.

Around it is a mist covered with laws and rules of the Omniverse

Yes, this is the difference.

This dagger is even more powerful than before. The rules of the Omniverse.

The same Law of Fire have different variation and different kind of meaning depending on the world they come from.

And now the dagger has all of this.

"The manifestation of the Great Will" it is the distillation of the entirety of the Great Will that had come from the steps

This dagger once cut him. But once it cut him, it did not only hurt him but he gained enlightenment

Now.... he did not need another cut

He had enough enlightenment and he could not help laugh

The dagger moves towards him and he simply made a flicking motion.

A powerful blast exploded from his flicking motion, the blast hits the dagger and the dagger exploded into motes of light

Azief laugh heroically on that step

He had all the glory of the world since he breaks through to Disk Formation, never defeated, the luck and fortune of the world vie for him

Regardless of what will happen in the future, for the first part of his life, he was a dejected youth, a demotivated youth wandering in the world seeking the way forward

The second part of his life is full of horrors and hardship but it is also where he had glory, fame and fortune

He had overthrow thousand of armies, and his arrogance subdued the world

Lowering own his head, he looks at the vicissitudes of the mortal life and laughing at the living things of the world

The river and lake are surging, the heroic ambition is undiminished, the glory of the past waved away with a swish of the hand, unrestrained laughter fills the moons and the stars

This eternal heaven and earth, which one of it could withstand his attack!

Three thousand worlds, the three realms and five elements which could restrain him!

His laughter turns the rivers and lakes upside down, stomping his feet, the mountain cracks and the heaven collapse, waving his hand, he washes away the dust in the world!

Hundreds of battles won, where could he find a worthy opponent?

Azief right now feel this unrestrained freedom, this invincible confidence.

The powerful beings in the Omniverse all worries about him, but he himself have such confidence in himself

If he did not have confidence, he should not even try to do what he is trying to do now

His eyes shine even brighter and even his body is now emanating out divine light.

It pierced the golden barrier and it spreads outside from the region of this stairway and this dimension, and reach different worlds and different universes

He takes another step.

There is no enlightenment.

He had already determined his Grand Path is.

There is no need for enlightenment at this point of time.

During that time, each step he takes, it was like someone is giving him some kind of enlightenment and with every step he become stronger

Now, it is the same step.

But he did not need another enlightenment and the enlightenment did not come.

Not because he exactly rights and he already have all of his doubt settled

It is just that he is firm with what he believes

And he is firm what he believes is his path is.

Sometimes, whether it is true or not, as long as you have the will to act on what you believe, sometimes, you could turn dream into a reality

And that is what he is doing right now

There is no need to speak.

No need to remind himself.

Instead, he keeps taking step after step.

No dagger, no enlightenment, just the sound of him stepping on these steps echoing all over the Universe

And it created its own rhythm. Its own melody.

One might think how could the sound of a step created melody and rhythm.

It is not that Azief is hopping on those steps, or walk in irregular manner that it would create some kind of rhythm

Azief is not tap dancing on the steps.

So, how could each step create a melody, created a rhythm, a rhythm that then created a song. A song that anyone who had his senses reach the highest realm could hear.

Because, it is the same of how the world has songs, the stones, the seas, the leaves, the grass has songs.

Its soul reverberates. Each step created a sound, and sound reverberates.

But this "sound" is not the kind of sound that mortals like to believe.

It is not that kind of defined sound.

It is a sound beyond the definition of mortals.

When one reaches Azief realm and the realms of those beings who heard these songs, their reality is conceptual, and abstract and it could not be explained and described in the way mortal describe their lived experience

Each step created a song.

And to those who listen, the kind of song that is created each time Azief take a step in that stairway, many of them would frown

Not because the song is discordant.

Not because the song is bad.

The Song is a song that many of them recognize. But it is two songs. Mixed together, yet it did not feel awkward at all for these two songs to be together

Instead, one feel that it is only natural that these two songs are mixed together.

The first song, is bouncy, like a bight theme song, filling the heart with this kind of wholesome feeling.

But the second song is dark, heavy, and filled one heart with this kind of desperate despair.

But they all know this song. They had heard it before.

This is the Song of Creation and Destruction

Azief on the other hand is now absorbing all of this energy that is surging towards him with every steps.

There is basically a small mini tornado around him. A tornado of energy that is shrouding him and being absorbed by him

There is a Will of the Immortals that has walked this path. And it enters his mind and he learns their laws and rules.

Like they are imparting their knowledge to him.

And not in the way you expect.

The knowledge is sent to his mind and meddled with his consciousness, the conscious and even the subconscious but he did not yet master this knowledge.

It is almost like a book imprinted directly into his mind. But this book is not opened yet. If he wanted to master it, he first has to open it and read it

The concept is the same. If he wanted to learn the knowledge, he had to go somewhere quiet and studies all of this knowledge.

It would not be long considering the kind of things he had already learned. It would take him a few days to master it if he wanted to

But Azief is not particularly happy nor he is sad. He already has many knowledge and he would not complain to have much more.

But he does understand the burden of learning too much magic at such a short period of time. Azief knows why beings like him always return to seclusion.

Many mortals think it is to comprehend new method of powers and learn new things

However, many mortals seem to forget that whether it be mortals or immortals, you learn more when you explore the world.

Then why does beings like him enters seclusion and secluded themselves in caves filled with sealing formation or went to some dead star and secluded themselves there?

Many times, it is not that they are comprehending new method. Most of the time it is simply to digest what they have learned and to calm down any corruption that might have infiltrated your own magic when practicing other people magic or to balance out the energies in your body

In the Immortal Creed, there is only Mortal and Immortal

Mortal is Destruction. Immortal is creation. Mortal is the Beginning and Immortal is the Ending.

This is something he had already learned before. It is something that he had been enlightened on before

But now it is quite different.

Because at this point knows what destruction really is and what creation really is, what life is and what death is and he could control it and use it

The golden streak in his eyes did not dissipate and the laws and rules in his mind keep embedding itself without stopping.

Azief could let it be remembered by his mind and stored in his Mind Palace for those that is too much for him to bear right now

His Mind Palace is now nearly filled by all the knowledge of the Etherna legacy.

Many of those knowledges in his mind are also like thick leather bound book that is not yet open

He at least have to digest those knowledge first before cramming even more and if he did not know how to slow down there is a chance that later, he would be corrupted and his energies could go haywire.

The instability of the mind leads to the instability of the body

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