Chapter 829 This is the Real Myriad Paths Returning to One (Part 2) (6800)

The sealed universe floated in the void, like a lonely city standing in the dark wilderness, with lightning illuminating its borders.

The many great worlds floating around the sealed universe were like scattered fortifications, like stars surrounding the sun. The place where the Hedao experts gathered emitted a dazzling light, flickering like moonlight, illuminating the void.

Even compared to the entire multiverse, Hedao experts were an unignorable force. Their opponents would always be other Hedao. Lower-level existences, no matter how numerous, how skilled, how determined, or how united, with civilizations filled with burning passion, were all meaningless.

Just relying on these basic things to defeat a Hedao was wishful thinking.

But right now, a dim yellow light appeared at the end of the void horizon. The faint flames were clearly flickering, but they gave a sense of silent stillness.

The Tianyi Divine Emperor silently gazed at the distant boundary. As He focused the laws in His eyes, expanding His vision, He sensed it – a tide-like entity was surging from the distant space-time.

These fellows radiating a dim yellow light, their very existence was like a moving ruin, living tombstones. Even though they had long died, they still lingered, unwilling to return to oblivion, clinging to their respective broken beliefs, advancing with shattered Daos and banners.

Buzz, buzz, buzz.

The halos merged, turning into a hazy twilight mist. Silent lightning bolts struck from within, illuminating the surrounding void, allowing the Hedao experts and the surrounding worlds to see their true forms.

One was a shattered world, like a broken egg, shaking and dragging a long fiery tail through the void. It was once a powerful and prosperous world will, but it lost all its children due to a cosmic disaster. The storms and lightning of the void shattered its shell, but did not completely kill it.

But the remaining world will was worse than death. Unable to give birth to new life, without a future, it could only wander until its eternal end.

The halo turned scarlet, a burning soul flashing past. A saint's soul, missing an arm and half a chest, calmly strode through the void, surrounded by raging flames and crisscrossing thorns.

The strong who once guided civilization forward made mistakes. Even though they had perished themselves, the remaining obsessions gathered the souls of all beings, turning into a calamity wandering in the multiverse.

And there were so many more... independent warships detached from their original civilization, wandering in the void for millions of years, still carrying out their missions even after their mother civilization had been destroyed; monsters that gave up their own will and turned into beasts following their instincts because intelligence brought suffering, yet still unable to find peace, even their instincts sensed pain… Compared to the many normal civilizations that still existed, these kinds of existences were the majority in the multiverse.

Great existences loved all beings. They endowed true spirits with eternal immortality, an ultimate essence that even transcendents could not alter. They used their own Daos as the foundation, making all life in the multiverse thrive.

But this also brought strife – the more life, the more strife; moreover, survival itself was a small probability event. Compared to those successful people with clear goals and knowing their future path, the number of failures and confused people was countless.

The more living, the more dead.

The longer the day, the longer the twilight.

The more 'love' and 'giving', the greater the nihilistic sorrow.

From Tianshi Heaven to Tianyi Realm, from the world of Tarario to the micro-constant central core, at the edges of the many worlds surrounding the sealed universe, even mortals sensed it. They trembled and looked up, at the phantoms appearing on the surface of their universe – everywhere were surging twilight monsters. In the dim yellow background, the heaving tides were the most direct representation of despair.

[These monsters... when did they gather together?!]

The Hedao of the rock-like lifeform, the behind-the-scenes leader of the Tarario civilization, couldn't help but speak. His expression was puzzled: [Seeing one of them is rare enough on weekdays, why are there hundreds of thousands... no, I can't even count them!]

[Quick!]

The Tianyi Divine Emperor turned around directly. He ordered in a deep voice: [The Divine Court warns the Three Realms, activate the great world-protecting array, the gods take their positions at each node, and the seventy-two blessed lands begin to take in civilians from dangerous areas!]

The losers came in clusters, marching silently. They should have been wandering alone in the empty spaces of the multiverse. These twilight monsters, who had died once but could not be completely eliminated, were man-made disasters wandering in the void.

True spirits were immortal, this was great compassion and love. But if there was obsession, despair, confusion, and hatred clinging to the true spirit, then they were also almost immortal.

Even Hedao experts would find it extremely troublesome to encounter such monsters – they were just obsessions wandering in the shadows, without responsibility or burden. They didn't have a civilization to care for behind them, and they didn't have any desires that could be used to lure them.

They were just natural disasters, and all one could do was resist when encountering them. Even if they could be defeated, it wouldn't mean much, because they would eventually revive and return.

All Hedao experts had faced such twilight monsters several times. They felt extremely troubled, and at this moment, I was even more frightened – although the monster clusters that had turned into twilight tides wouldn't be able to break through the great array that they were defending, they could force them to retreat to defend.

——This was the danger that the Primordial Candle Dragon spoke of, that would follow him?

For a time, the Hedao experts turned their heads, their expressions complex.

What exactly did the Primordial Candle Dragon do... to attract so many twilight monsters?!

But soon, they knew.

Because the leading twilight monsters didn't care about the worlds outside the sealed universe. They directly swept past, causing the many Hedao experts who were on alert and stationed in their old homes to be slightly stunned.

Then, the monsters gathered in front of the sealed universe, and called out towards the inner side of the universe.

[Venerable Lord...]

[Venerable Lord... guide me... guide us.]

A voice that was almost crying rang out, spreading throughout the surrounding universe: [Tell us... how to let go... how to overcome.]

The dim twilight settled, the silent monster clusters gathered here, making their first call.

Hearing this voice, the many Hedao experts held their breath in silence, even shuddered.

Inside the sealed universe, the Tianshi Sacred Emperor could also see this scene.

As many Candle Dragon incarnations appeared, and finally merged into one, the twilight clusters from many time-spaces also arrived.

In just a few breaths, the situation of the many Hedao experts who had joined forces to spy on the sealed universe suddenly changed – the worlds were too busy to take care of themselves, how could they still join forces to target the Primordial Candle Dragon and the great world behind him?

The Tianshi Sacred Emperor believed that this was definitely within the Primordial Candle Dragon's expectations.

And... the words of those twilight monsters...

He fell into deep thought.

In response, Su Zhou just raised his head, his gaze penetrating the void, staring at those lamenting monsters.

He said softly, "I am a Hedao, the Hedao of the multiverse."

"Look, all beings suffer, my responsibility is heavy – but this is my due responsibility, as it should be, not difficult. Bearing it is also freedom."

"Tianshi Sacred Emperor, you cannot defeat me, because I have the entire multiverse in my heart, and I am implementing my own Dao in the multiverse. How can you, who are just walkers spreading your footsteps step by step, surpass me in this regard?"

Saying this, he did not immediately answer the questions of those twilight monsters, nor did he guide those people.

When Su Zhou left the World of Creation, he received the blessings of the Ten Heavens God System.

Although they were both Hedao, the blessings of the Ten Heavens God System were not very useful, but at least, Su Zhou's path of innovation would continue to grow in that world, and [Creation] also tacitly approved of this.

And as soon as the mission was completed, and the Only God and the universe's will were properly settled, Su Zhou immediately received many new missions when he returned to the Pioneer Space.

Because of the power of the Great Existence, many world clusters were moved and gathered together. This caused many of the originally fixed routes in the Pioneer Space to change... if it was just like this, it would only be a matter of adjusting in an instant, but the real difficulty lay in the fact that after these worlds gathered together, many karmas and missions were intertwined, many brand new possibilities, brand new unknowns were derived, and infinite new information erupted.

Transmigration itself was the greatest change, the greatest miracle – and the aggregation of infinite worlds was equivalent to infinite mutual transmigration.

Not to mention, around the sealed universe, this abrupt aggregation of more than a dozen Hedao experts, more than a dozen Hedao great universes, even without the sealed universe as the core, just the exchanges between them might have a small probability of catalyzing the seeds of a torrent.

After all, the World of Creation, with more than a dozen Hedao experts, did indeed breed several methods of achieving a torrent. Although they all had supreme inheritance, the talents of ordinary Hedao experts could not be underestimated.

What Su Zhou had to do was, as the only Hedao expert among the current Pioneer explorers, help the Pioneer Space adjust the positions of some worlds, move out some worlds that were relatively special and easily affected by other worlds and lost their unique characteristics, to ensure that their ecology was not affected.

For example, moving a gourmet world where all the seaweed was bacon rolls, the weeds tasted like nori, and crab sticks could be grown, away from the side of the Gluttonous Demon's universe... this was an obvious multiverse ecological protection measure, and Su Zhou was quite happy to do it.

After all, he also knew very well that the Pioneer Space had taken good care of him in the World of Creation, so it was not unreasonable to help it with some work, right?

In addition to this, Su Zhou also received commissions from other Great Existences.

For example, Twilight.

Because of the aggregation of multiple worlds, many twilight monsters that were originally wandering in isolation gathered together. They turned into a turbulent tide, and worlds that would not have been affected originally had a great chance of being submerged by them.

Even Hedao experts could not stop such a disaster, and it would be very difficult for a torrent to deal with it if the compatibility was insufficient, and it would not have any meaning... after all, twilight monsters would revive. Unless their obsessions were dealt with and they were allowed to rest in peace, they would be immortal.

Su Zhou obtained the aura imprint of Twilight, and he happened to be able to deal with these monsters, and he could guide these lost ones back to the right path.

Or rather.

Give them a home.

"The favor of the Great Existence has its benefits, and naturally it also has its responsibilities, but this is not a burden."

Walking slowly forward with the Tianshi Sacred Emperor, stepping out, space-time distorted, Su Zhou stepped into the depths of the subspace: "This is what I wanted to do in the first place, so the Great Existence will support me – because I wanted to do this in the first place, so I will 'gain more help'."

"So I can be free."

As he stepped into the subspace, two incredibly bright suns suddenly lit up in the silent and dark inner side of the universe – one of the suns was blazing white and cold, while the other huge sun was cyan and purple, scorching the void.

But strangely, many light-avoiding spirits that originally wandered in the subspace should have been afraid of these lights, because the brilliance of the strong would destroy these spirits, even if it was just an unconscious wave... the strong were the evil ones, and this was brought to the fullest in the subspace. Just being strong would kill other lives.

But Su Zhou's radiance made these spirits feel warmth, so they gathered and surrounded the sun that Su Zhou transformed into, forming clusters of light mist like fireflies, outlining all kinds of wonderful patterns, gorgeous and magnificent.

The Tianshi Sacred Emperor's aggressive spiritual light was completely suppressed, unable to cause any harm.

Gazing at these spirits, the youth smiled slightly.

——As long as you do what all the beings in the multiverse want you to do, then the beings in the multiverse, and even the world, will help you.

——As long as what you do can benefit many worlds, then many worlds will naturally accept the Dao of the strong.

"Don't you understand, Tianshi Sacred Emperor."

He seemed to be talking to himself, and seemed to be instructing: "Your Hedao, is nothing more than devouring the world, forcibly assimilating the world, and turning the world into your own image... this is not impossible, but this is 'evil'."

"It is so sad for the strong to force other worlds to be assimilated by their own Dao, and they also lose their unique possibilities... you can clearly let those worlds accept your Dao as one of them, not the only one."

"And I don't care, I just need to casually combine it, and it's almost done. There's no need to care too much about whether my Dao is important in other worlds... all beings will choose for themselves, and will follow the Dao they want to follow."

[...But this is not in line with common sense.]

Shocked by Twilight, and confused by Su Zhou's warm spiritual light, the Tianshi Sacred Emperor had not yet reacted for a while. After being silent for a while, he slowly shook his head and said in confusion: [If the Great Dao is not promoted, then it will decline. Primordial Candle Dragon, if you don't spread your Dao, then no one will learn it and spread it.]

"Why do you think so?"

Su Zhou asked in confusion, "Wanting to become better – whether it is striving to improve oneself or being jealous and envious, is the beginning of innovation. Such people will not be lacking in any world. They exist eternally, eternally verifying my Dao, and someone will eventually obtain my inheritance and carry it forward."

"Don't you believe it? The Dao of Tianshi, the Dao of Runes, is the inevitable path that any civilization that develops writing, geometry, or even artistic pictures will take, and it is also a Great Dao that will exist eternally."

After saying this, he looked at the Tianshi Sacred Emperor's plain white eyes.

In the instant when their eyes met, the youth immediately understood: "So that's how it is, I understand."

He shook his head: "You are not firm in your beliefs."

"You don't believe that your Dao is beneficial to all things and beings at all. You don't believe that what you are doing is correct at all."

"The Dao of Tianshi is just an inheritance, a powerful tool. You believe in its power, but you don't believe in its essential correctness."

Speaking of this, Su Zhou smiled, he looked around the subspace, and also saw through the outer side of the subspace, the many planets and civilizations in the material universe.

"I died."

He said calmly, "There will still be new innovations."

"Even if I am defeated by others and my Great Dao is erased, in the distant future, will there not be others who aspire to create a path of innovation for the better?"

"No, in the distant past, maybe someone has already created all of this, and I am just reviving it? The correct things will never be erased."

Because you care too much about your own 'Dao', you don't care about the 'self' in your Dao.

You have obsessions, but you are not obsessed.

This is freedom.

Having said this, Su Zhou nodded slightly, he was a little regretful: "So if you don't change, don't innovate yourself, you will only be like this at most now – you will never be able to achieve a torrent, even a 'miracle' will not favor an existence that 'does not believe in itself'!"

"Tianshi Sacred Emperor, I chose you as my target, not because you are so unfortunate, nor because you are so lucky. Just because you are only one step away from Twilight, and if you fall, you may become a monster."

[I... am only one step away from those Twilight demons?]

Hearing Su Zhou's pronouncement, the Tianshi Sacred Emperor was still thinking about what 'belief' really meant, but the youth's next words made Him feel incredible again: [How is this possible...]

No.

Suddenly, He closed His mouth.

What was impossible about this?

It doesn't matter... nothing matters.

What the Tianshi Dao Sect wants to do doesn't matter, they themselves are responsible for their own karma. All things and beings don't matter, their existence is reasonable, and the end is also normal.

If you want to become stronger, then become stronger, but why you have to become stronger doesn't matter either.

In the final analysis... what is the meaning of all this?

Ever since he lost his teacher and was alone in this multiverse, the Tianshi Sacred Emperor had been living with a mentality of taking things as they come.

He felt that being frank with everything was freedom.

"That's called being numb and indifferent."

Su Zhou shook his head, and took another step, he had already arrived around the Milky Way, where the Gate of the Ultimate End was located.

In this former stronghold of the Void Sect, many organizations of the local forces in the Milky Way were building fortresses and bases, as the center for studying that huge star. Many Earthlings and Serosians had professional research teams stationed here.

Su Zhou's arrival, although abrupt, was not without warning. At least the Earthlings and the Serosians who held the Galaxy Star had already learned of Su Zhou's message, so they had prepared to wait in advance.

"...Isn't it a bit too much?"

Although he was already in the Earth Immortal Realm, Daosheng, who had achieved the position of a former immortal god, stood on the observation deck of the research center.

Staring at the dazzling sun that had broken through the boundary, this old senior of Su Zhou smacked his lips and sighed to Yansheng on the other side, "Although it's a good thing, how did he level up again? Does this kid really not need any accumulation to directly break through the realm?"

[No]

Yansheng, who had condensed a mass of data spiritual shadows, stood beside Daosheng. He controlled the instruments, condensed the laws, and saw clearly the lines of the invisible pulse that pulsated around Su Zhou.

This Holy Seat exhaled a mouthful of cyber heat: [It's not that there is no accumulation]

[Look, around Su Zhou... those spiritual veins that are constantly pouring into his body]

[That's our universe, actively pouring divine power into him, to put it simply, it's empowerment]

Saying this, Yansheng's tone also became complicated: [Is this what a correct Hedao is like...?]

[It's not about conquering the universe, nor about assimilating the universe... the so-called Hedao is not a verb or a noun, but an adjective for the strong...]

[It means that the universe itself desires that this kind of Great Dao become a part of itself, and intends to merge its Dao!]

[Carrying baskets of food and pots of soup to welcome the royal army... I see, all beings in the universe are working together, urging, and yearning for Su Zhou to become stronger!]

Just then.

The entire sealed universe, the surrounding void.

And even the many worlds surrounding the sealed universe, the many demons of Twilight, could hear a voice ringing out.

"Bear Witness."

This voice rang out, causing the sea of realms to rise with tides, with surging waves rising and falling, making the spiritual energy more active and stronger: "What the true posture of a Hedao is!"

All the saints, demons, and beings looked up.

They saw that next to the Seal of the Ultimate End, in front of the shattered fragment of the seal core of this multiverse, a cyan-purple flame suddenly rose up, covering all directions with light, illuminating the subspace and the mortal world in an instant, piercing through the dark void, and shining on the endless twilight.

The Flame of Innovation blazed fiercely, its light reaching all the depths, and countless worlds were ignited by this suddenly rising flame, whether they were desperate beings, shattered worlds, brilliant divine domains, or prosperous human realms.

"This, this is inheritance?!"

"The Flame of Evolution... although it looks very ordinary, it can actually allow me, a useless waste with severed meridians, to cultivate?!"

"There is hope... there is hope!"

Countless voices rang out, and the light became more brilliant.

"Even for you misguided ones who have taken the wrong path, in addition to punishment, I also hope that your Great Dao can become better."

Vaguely, the Tianshi Sacred Emperor could vaguely hear these words: "Because you are Hedao, you are the strong, and you are the rules of the universe. If you have your heart set on all things and honor all things, then all things will honor you."

"Your Dao is also correct... you just need to become better."

The Tianshi Sacred Emperor could feel what He had not felt for a long time.

The feelings that his master had for Him and all the disciples in the past.

'Love'

Su Zhou loved Him, just as he loved all beings.

The Path of Innovation, the Light of the Candle Dragon, was always impartial.

The Sacred Emperor's hands fell down.

At this moment, He gave up resisting, and instead knelt behind Su Zhou, staring at His own hands.

[I was wrong,] He murmured softly in loss, but then laughed heartily in frankness: [Yes, I was wrong, this path was wrong – just as the master was supposed to be destroyed and return to silence, so am I.]

"No."

And Su Zhou also let go of his hand: "Not yet."

"You have more debts to repay."

"I will guide you to learn how to brand the true Great Dao in this world... of course, I also have selfish intentions. Only when more Great Daos are branded into the universe will this universe become more solid... In the great changes of the world that may occur in the future, my hometown will be safer."

Saying this, the youth's expression was frank: "But this selfishness is also the selfishness of all beings."

"This is the real Myriad Paths Returning to One."

At this moment, Su Zhou no longer restrained this Hedao, but stepped towards a higher place step by step.

It was not a high place in the physical sense, but the root of the universe, the inner side of the world, the same kind of supreme place as the 'root of the universe' in the World of Creation.

That is, the place where the 'will of the sealed universe' was located, which was sealed by the former pioneer civilization with the Seal of the Ultimate End.

In the entire universe, countless people could see this scene. They could see Su Zhou stepping into the highest place in the sky, which they could not look directly at even if they looked up.

At this moment, the Flame of Innovation finally ignited the entire sealed universe.

For a time, the entire universe was filled with light!

At this moment, the Tianshi Sacred Emperor admitted his mistake, and this immediately caused his Great Dao to shatter and burst into cracks, but for some reason, the Sacred Emperor's heart felt pain.

Compared to 'it doesn't matter', this pain was more vivid and real.

And because of the stimulation of this pain, this Hedao expert looked forward in a trance.

So, He seemed to see a figure, a phantom of a young man burning with flames, holy and solemn, embracing the entire universe, and even those demons of Twilight wandering around the universe were embraced by him.

In the multiverse, endless light gathered from the distant ends of time and space, forming the posture of this strong man, and that was the support of many worlds in the multiverse.

And He gently gazed at the universe in his arms, and ignited it with his own flames.

In this raging flame, the invisible Great Dao began to be branded, branded into the hometown of this strong man.

The place where his heart was, the place where he eternally gazed.

——Hedao... Success!

The flames gradually dissipated, but there was a brand left, floating in the void of the multiverse.

At this point, Su Zhou truly entered the realm of Hedao!

Still a bit stuck in the writing...