Chapter 820 All Twists and Turns Arise From a Compassionate Heart

The World of Creation welcomes the dawn.

After arousing all the divine intent of the Great Daos, the Pioneer Space released a colorless, brilliant radiance that filled the world, bathing all things within it.

Like a long-awaited rain after a drought, or the scent of rice and meat to someone starving, people and gods who were previously unaware now suddenly realized that they had indeed been living in a universe with great flaws.

Of course, no one's feelings could be as profound as the universe's will.

[This feeling...]

The Perpetual Motion Star God, the second-generation universe will, gazed in bewilderment at the radiance that was permeating every corner of the universe. From His origin, He naturally knew what it was—the origin of the universe, and the essence of His life.

[So warm,] even the Only God murmured.

Warm, fulfilling... like being in a warm, sturdy house during a massive blizzard, with a full belly and a warm bonfire burning nearby.

The blizzard raged outside the window, but an unparalleled sense of security made Him no longer fearful and anxious.

--Is this what you promised, Primordial Torch Dragon... if this is the result you wanted...

Then you succeeded.

Primordial Torch Dragon, you win. I willingly concede defeat.

The originally fearsome and terrifying Perpetual Motion Star God, composed of billions of stellar spiritual veins, the solid scales and fangs, the indifferent and ruthless eyes, and the long tail like a bladed whip, all slowly softened.

The star serpent, once a cosmic weapon, now seemed like an ordinary silver serpent. It quietly coiled at the edge of the universe, its head being the center of the galaxy, and its long tail being the spiral arm.

The universe will prostrated in the starry sky. He was no longer angry, because he was no longer in pain.

Since Su Zhou fulfilled His promise—he repaired the most fundamental conflict between the universe will and all living beings, ending the strife with a method no one could have imagined, from beyond the world.

Then He should also fulfill His promise.

Learn to wait, learn to believe in miracles that seem impossible.

[Come out, Kala.]

At the root of the universe, the Great Dao chains that imprisoned Kala, the Daomerge expert of the Imperial Balance Path, loosened. The voice of the universe will echoed: [You owe me nothing... As for your trespassing in my home...]

[I forgive you.]

He tried to use the generosity and forgiveness He had just learned.

[What exactly happened?]

Hearing this, Kala, who had finally gained freedom, should have made a few jokes, but at this moment, He was completely confused. He didn't understand the situation at all—being sealed at the root of the universe, He didn't know what Su Zhou had done, nor did he understand the current situation of the World of Creation. As a Daomerge, He could indeed sense that the entire universe was undergoing an anomaly, but how could He know the specific details so clearly.

[Hmph... you can go see for yourself later,] the universe will simply snorted and then ignored him.

The star serpent calmly gazed at Su Zhou. He could see that the massive cosmic dragon stood before the silver light sphere. His originally broken wings and northern scales had been restored to their original state. As the universe itself returned to completeness, all life in the World of Creation also welcomed a 'free' repair from the Pioneer Space.

Of course, it wasn't really free. Compared to the truly infinite divine power, repairing the entire universe and then casually repairing the sentient beings who were also part of the universe, what big deal was that?

--Everyone.

At this moment, Su Zhou walked in the light.

He was very clear that the divine intent of only fifteen Supreme Inheritances was far from enough to exchange for ten small universe-level universe origins. After all, while the Supreme Inheritance was precious, what was even more precious was the person who could cultivate it—even if the Supreme Inheritance was spread and popularized to the whole world, it would not create a leap in social development, but instead would create a large number of people who were unworthy, similar to the Sun Emperor and the Void Cult Leader.

This wasn't to say that they were so evil... In fact, just like the universe will, when an existence's joys, angers, sorrows, and happiness can truly affect the entire universe, even if He only feels 'wronged,' it would be a great disaster for all living beings.

What's more, without being crazy enough, without being mentally ill, without being extremely pure, ordinary people wouldn't even meet the prerequisites for cultivating the Supreme Inheritance—to say nothing else, the most important element of the Burden of the World Scale is 'arrogance.' Ordinary people wanting to have Su Zhou's level of arrogance, feeling that they should naturally go and save the world, and actually daring to do it, and believing that they can indeed succeed... this isn't something ordinary people can have.

The reason why the Pioneer Space only required these as conditions for exchange was actually very simple.

After all, the Pioneers also loved all living beings.

Since they could, then they would do it. They would just find a reason to help. Anyway, the Pioneer Space would never lose out—it was foreseeable that Sojindao, one of the Ten Divine Systems, would probably invest the entire Divine System into the Pioneer Space after everything calmed down.

One couldn't say that it was a big win, but one could only say that it would never be a loss.

And now, Su Zhou was walking in this warm light, towards the World of Origin's small universe, [Shiguangtian], which was also the 'Heavenly Light Realm.'

Ultimately, the source of all the conflicts in the World of Creation stemmed from the stripping away of the universe origin to create a small universe.

And the reason why the Creation Ring was able to strip away the universe origin back then was because of a star in Shiguangtian.

A great star called 'Tianguang' (Heavenly Light).

That great star, which sealed the universe, had another name—the Gate of Finality.

That was a part of the Great Seal, a fragment of the origin of the sealed universe, the seal of the Finality Seal!

It simultaneously penetrated countless universes, with a nearly million worlds just in the observable number, and existed simultaneously in the myriad heavens!

It was because the experts of the World of Creation were too powerful, reaching the peak Daomerge realm that was almost like a torrent, that the Dao Lord at that time was able to use a part of the power of the Finality Seal to 'suppress' the entire World of Creation, strip away the universe origin, just like tearing off a part of a cream puff cake and kneading it into a new cream puff, creating his own small universe.

Even if the universe itself would slowly transform the void and grow stronger, the wound would still be the same, and no matter what, it would leave a hideous scar.

This scar, which originated from the sealed universe, created another scar in another universe.

Who could know how many other universes such scars had appeared in the long past?

Su Zhou didn't know, but he hoped that such a sad thing would never happen again in the future.

Therefore, he planned to go to the place where the Finality Seal was located to see the situation.

"The Void Cult is planning to use the Finality Seal to destroy the sealed universe and release all the Great Existences—perhaps there are other crazy reasons, but that's another matter."

Walking alone, a Daomerge expert could cross the two ends of the universe with a single step. He arrived at the interior of the Heavenly Light Realm from the edge of the universe in three steps. Even the gods of the World of Origin didn't notice, but were still immersed in the repair beam of light from the Pioneer Space.

Of course, this repair beam of light was large enough to cover the entire universe—and Su Zhou also shouted boldly, 'Deduct all the repair points from my account'!

If it was about karma and merit, all living beings in the World of Creation owed him a big favor.

But even now, Su Zhou was thinking.

Back then, among the many Twilight Affiliates that had invaded from all corners of the multiverse in response to the call of the Void Cult, the reinforcements from the Myriad Manifestation Burial Grounds and the Firmament Heaven World arrived the fastest and seemed to be the strongest.

The Firmament Heaven World was Yala's primordial world, and should be an extremely high-level Xianxia (Immortal Hero) myth worldview, while the World of Creation was also a great world with many divine systems converging in Daomerge. It wasn't surprising that they could react so quickly.

But now, Su Zhou was very clear about the situation of the Myriad Manifestation Burial Grounds. He knew very well that Lincoln Erda didn't care much about those Twilight Affiliates who manifested from dreams—He only cared about those dreams.

And the Firmament Heaven World obviously didn't have a Daomerge realm Dao Lord or Dao Ancestor coming...

So, who exactly was it that cooperated with the Firmament Heaven World and the Myriad Manifestation Burial Grounds fleet to attack the spacetime rift around the central black hole of the Laniakea Supercluster back then?

Or rather, what super powerhouse was it?

Being able to attack the seal set up jointly by many Dao Creators of the past Pioneer Civilization proved that the other party was also in the Daomerge realm. Although it wasn't successful, it didn't mean that He was weak—just like Su Zhou was also in the Daomerge realm now, but if he was to seriously attack the core hub of the Imperial Balance Sacred Palace, where the Daomerge Divine System had set up strict defensive measures, then he would probably take a year or two to break through that tortoise shell.

"Twilight Affiliates from other primordial worlds... or rather, from other ordinary universes?"

Muttering softly, Su Zhou didn't think that there would necessarily be more powerhouses in the primordial universe than in ordinary universes—if he had to say, crazy powerhouses were more common.

Ultimately, the age of the entire sealed multiverse was estimated to be over ten billion years old, and it wasn't surprising that it had nurtured its own unique cultivation system to the Daomerge.

Just like the Earth Divine System, they left the sealed universe tens of thousands of years ago and traveled in the multiverse. Su Zhou believed that there must be powerhouses among them who had already reached the Daomerge realm, and perhaps even had some understanding of the Flood realm because they traveled the multiverse and didn't settle in one place?

"Need to be careful, since it's not a problem with the World of Creation and the Firmament Heaven World, then it's a dangerous third party."

Su Zhou lowered his eyes. He thought that this trip to the World of Creation would solve many things in one go, but now it seemed that although he had indeed found clues related to the Finality Seal and the 'monster,' the threat was still in the shadows.

Or rather...

"Is it possible that it's a problem with the sealed universe itself?"

This wasn't a false guess.

After all, Su Zhou already knew that the sealed universe also had its own universe will, and had once awakened for a period of time because of the Finality Seal, the fall of the Galaxy Star and the Heavenly Divine Scale, and had fallen into rage. The Ancestor Pioneer Civilization joined hands to appease it, or rather, suppressed that still self-willed universe instinct with the Finality Seal.

This was a situation that was extremely similar to the World of Creation. The only good thing was that this was a real accident, not the result of the World of Creation's gods' own doing.

And back then, what the Ancestor Civilizations suppressed was probably not only the primitive universe will, but also those powerful existences who still had obsessions with the seal fragments, intending to obtain the power of these fragments.

Guesses were fruitless—everything would have to wait until he returned to the sealed universe for detailed investigation.

Now, he should look at the situation of the Finality Seal.

At this moment, he was already close to the Heavenly Light Star.

The giant star, so huge that it was beyond imagination, looked like a white giant wall spanning between all things when viewed up close. There were no fluctuations on the surface of its light sphere, not even a single coronal flow. Rather than a star, it was more like a wall, a wall that could seal the origin of all things.

Standing in front of it was like standing at the edge of the universe, unable to move forward even an inch.

Su Zhou stood before it, and for a moment didn't know how to enter.

"As expected, do I need to use the Heavenly Divine Scale?"

Without hesitation, Su Zhou took out the Heavenly Divine Scale from his arms. Silver light overflowed, forming ripples, and when these ripples touched the Gate of Finality, it was like a drop of water dripping on a lake, causing the same ripples to spread.

A small door appeared on this blazing white star.

Unlocking does indeed require a key... Su Zhou nodded slightly and stepped into it.

A dazzling torrent of light.

After entering, he could no longer see anything. It was like a great river, a tsunami, a tide, made of countless starlight and the radiance of supernovae explosions. The incredible light currents roared past Su Zhou, circling around the silver halo formed by the Heavenly Divine Scale.

The Gate of Finality was indeed a door. The entrance of each world was different, and one would probably step onto different paths. Only by finding the correct path could one find the 'Finality Seal' itself at the core.

Presumably, the Creation Ring Dao Lord back then had also walked such a path. Although He didn't succeed, He should have obtained a part of the power of the Finality Seal.

Su Zhou didn't think that he could directly reach the end this time, but this time in the World of Creation could be used as an experiment for the next formal exploration.

The young man stared intently. He did indeed discover that there was a faintly silver path that wound forward, leading to the depths of the light torrent.

Following it forward would probably lead to the place where the Dao Lord had arrived in the past.

So he stepped forward.

The scenery along the way was unremarkable, nothing more than light, light, light, flowing light and stagnant light. He could vaguely see that these lights, which sometimes flowed and sometimes solidified, would present some strange postures, like runes, or like some kind of overly vast cosmic structure... Su Zhou, who had once seen a part of the essence of the Great Seal, was thoughtful. He could sense that this was indeed a kind of figurative form of the Great Seal fragment.

He could sense that the repair light of the Pioneer Space had also seeped into this Gate of Finality. Perhaps it was because he had opened the door, but it didn't matter. Anyway, it was all light. The light of the seal and the light of repair looked almost the same.

Just like if the origin of the universe was too weak, it would not be able to maintain its intangible, immaterial, and unobservable essence, and would be forced to materialize into a solid form... If the Great Seal was perfect, then it must be an invisible form that transcended the entire multiverse, encompassing and sealing all things, but since its fragments were broken, it would probably turn into a solid form like the Finality Seal, overflowing with infinite energy.

Su Zhou looked around, engraving these structures and runes in his heart—although he didn't understand them now, he might in the future.

And in the process of walking and observing, he suddenly saw a wisp of shadow.

A wisp of shadow lingering in the brilliant light, as if it had already given up hope, already given up in despair.

"Eh."

Su Zhou exclaimed softly. He could see the essence of that wisp of shadow, so he was surprised: "Universe..."

"Universe will?"

[What?]

As if hearing Su Zhou's voice, that wisp of shadow suddenly startled and then curled up into a ball, guarding: [Don't come over!]

But obviously, such vigilance was meaningless.

Su Zhou moved forward, approaching this wisp of shadow.

The strong are the evil.

The existence of powerful beings alone can cause harm to other beings, affect other people, making it impossible for others to adhere to their own thoughts, and thus be distorted.

This was a truth that Su Zhou had long known.

But the strong are also the lonely.

The existence of powerful beings alone can cause them to be feared by others. Others fear the changes, the harm, and the distortions that they will bring, so they want to stay away, to reject and oppose.

Therefore, the strong are difficult to be loved.

Because he had been in contact with the Perpetual Motion Star God, and the second-generation universe will, Su Zhou was very clear about the essence of that wisp of shadow.

That was a lonely fragment, a remnant of the 'evil,' 'extreme,' and 'crazy' universe will.

That was a trace of the obsession of the first-generation universe will that remained in the world—a wisp of will fragment left in the Gate of Finality when the Creation Ring Dao Lord used the Finality Seal to suppress the universe and strip away the universe origin.

[I said don't come near me! Damn it, stay away from me... what are you doing?!]

The fragment of the first-generation universe will angrily scolded Su Zhou, who kept approaching Him. He should have dissipated long ago, but the powerful power of the Finality Seal stagnated time and even things above time, making Him a wisp of phantom in this door, like a painting-like imprint.

But, just now, a wisp of silver light swept across, and the repair of the origin slowly awakened Him.

Just as He woke up, He saw a terrifying cosmic dragon approaching Him. Although He couldn't say that He was afraid, nor did He feel that death was anything to fear, but harboring hatred for all living beings, He still scolded the other party, not allowing Him to approach.

But, that dragon seemed to be deaf. He slowly approached, getting smaller and smaller, and then transformed back into a human form in the light.

Then, He came to His front, reached out His hand, and hugged Him in His arms.

"It's all over."

He said so, stroking the shadow's upper end, where the light and shadow surged like flames, as if stroking a cat's fur.

The young man's voice was sincere: "It's all over."

"The origin has been repaired, the second-generation universe will has been produced, the Creation Ring has collapsed, the previous era has completely become history... Your existence is no longer a taboo."

"Don't be afraid anymore, no one can remember you anymore, so you won't be tortured, won't be hated... won't be in pain."

He said gently, carrying this wisp of shadow forward.

The silver light, originating from the Pioneer Space, was still constantly repairing the shadow of this first-generation universe will—He was naturally also a member of this universe. Although He could never be restored to completeness, at least He wouldn't dissipate.

Listening to Su Zhou's words, the fragment of the first-generation universe will originally wanted to rebuke, wanted to curse something, but listening and listening, He fell silent.

Su Zhou raised his head, carrying the silent fragment of the universe will, and turned to look in the direction he had come from.

He also raised his head, looking at that universe.

That universe that had calmed down and would not have any more strife for the time being.

That the Perpetual Motion Star God was silent, watching the reincarnation; that the Only God had begun to try to wander the universe, looking for a 'warm' world.

He saw all of this—the ending that He didn't even dare to imagine.

The origin of the universe was filled, the small universes still existed, with the small universes surrounding the World of Creation, like ten children surrounding their mother.

[Why...]

It was because He saw it that He whispered to Himself, with a loneliness that others could never imagine: [Why?]

Su Zhou sensed rapid and violent fluctuations coming from the shadow in his arms.

If the universe will was born because of all living beings, and thus also had the emotions of all living beings, then the short and sorrowful fluctuations probably represented crying.

[Why me? Why did I have to suffer so much?! Why did I have to suffer all this, why was I born at that time?!]

Those peaceful, gentle endings made the shadow yearn, but it was precisely because He knew that it was a result that He could never reach that He was in despair.

[I'd rather not exist, rather not have lived... I don't want to see these, don't let me see them!]

[Please... I don't want to see anymore...] the shadow was almost sobbing.

"I won't allow it."

Then, He heard the young man who was holding Him, answer seriously: "I said, I want to lead all living beings to a better ending."

The shadow heard the black-haired youth, staring with Him at the peaceful universe He had created, and making a declaration: "You are also one of all living beings."

"I can't do anything about those who died without leaving a trace. Most of the living beings who died back then were reincarnated, and the World of Origin Dao Lord is probably also not immortal, but since you still have some remnants... then universe will, first-generation universe will, since you have already suffered punishment, then in addition to repaying your sins, you should also enjoy peace."

Saying so, Su Zhou turned his head and walked forward with the fragment of the first-generation universe will, along the past path of the World of Origin Dao Lord.

As he walked, he muttered to himself: "I used to think like you, why there is still suffering in the world when there are supreme existences... why there are really too many, I became stronger along the way, answered many doubts, but there are still some existences."

"But later I understood that the operation of all things is like the rising and setting of the sun and moon... this world is so troublesome, there is no way to be perfect, there will always be suffering and sorrow."

"Therefore, I can only try, try to make everything better."

The young man's words gradually calmed the violently fluctuating shadow fragment. The universe will fragment stared blankly at Su Zhou's face. He couldn't figure out what was going on with the person in front of Him.

--Did He know how troublesome the thing He was talking about was? Knowing the essence of all things, knowing that the existence of all living beings in the multiverse was such a troublesome thing, and still wanting to try so hard to make everything better... How grand was this vow, did He really know?

But later, He was no longer in doubt.

Because He was doing it.

Holding the gradually silent, gradually calming universe fragment, Su Zhou stepped toward the depths of the Finality Seal.

No matter how heavy the pace, no matter how long the road, no matter how many difficulties, no matter how entangled the cause and effect, it didn't matter.

He was determined to do it.

After all...

All twists and turns arise from a compassionate heart.