Chapter 783: Truth about the Past (2/2)

”I know,” Gravis said with furrowed brows. ”After all, that was the goal of the highest Heaven back then. However, my question is why there was an original, to begin with.”

Arc lightly shook his head. ”How many people exist in all the worlds, Gravis?”

”No idea,” Gravis immediately answered. ”The number is so astronomically big that it could as well be seen as infinite.”

Arc nodded. ”And among a nearly infinite number of people, there are bound to be at least two that fit perfectly together, right?”

Gravis furrowed his brows again. ”I guess so,” he said.

”Why create something completely new out of nothing when you already have every possible mindset and personality to choose from?” Arc asked. ”My creator simply searched for a fitting and talented person. If the person wasn't talented enough, they wouldn't be able to absorb my creator's Energy quickly enough.”

”A Shooting Star, as your father calls it, is someone whose Life Energy starts burning out incredibly fast. If they can't absorb Energy with ridiculous speeds, their consumption of longevity can't keep up with the added longevity by reaching a new Realm.”

”If that person weren't talented enough, they would burn out before even reaching four years of age. Then, what would be the point of introducing them to you? You wouldn't even remember them.”

”So, my creator searched for every person that perfectly fits you and took the most talented one out of the bunch,” Arc said and then smirked. ”And where do you find the most talented Cultivators? In the most powerful higher world, of course. The highest world may have stronger peak geniuses, but the average talent of my world is far higher than the average talent of the highest world.”

Gravis absorbed all of Arc's words like a sponge. However, his mind was somewhere else.

'So, my childhood friend had always been a copy of someone else,' Gravis thought. 'However, that doesn't invalidate her existence. After all, she was still a human with feelings and a Spirit. Calling her a copy would be demeaning her existence. It would be better to call her an identical twin since she was as much a human as the original.'

Gravis sighed. ”What are the chances of meeting this person amongst so many worlds and so many people?” Gravis asked himself more than Arc.

”That's why I said your luck was transcendental,” Arc said with a smile. ”That luck would be so good that no one would believe it. Honestly, even I doubt that it was only luck. It's just too coincidental.”

Gravis' eyes narrowed. ”The highest Heaven?” he asked Arc.

Arc nodded. ”Possible,” he said. ”I might be the strongest amongst all Heavens except for my creator, but I'm not the only one that knows the Law of the True World. Why I'm the most powerful also doesn't have anything to do with my fighting style or anything.”

”So, when we inevitably fight, I wouldn't be any more powerful than any other Heaven that knows the Law of the True World since our Laws and Realms would be equalized.”

”Yet, you still ended up in my world. Additionally, I'm by far the most unruly of my creator's creations. If he wanted to kill you, he could have sent you to any other world. There are enough Heavens that fanatically worship my creator like the one you had met in your middle world. Your chances of dying would be far higher in such a world than this one.”

”So, I think that my creator sent you here specifically to meet Stella. If it is out of an altruistic motive or because of a scheme, I don't know. I only know that this is probably the reason why you came to this world.”

'The highest Heaven,' Gravis thought. 'I have buried my enmity with the highest Heaven, but I still don't like it. It has helped me innumerable times, but it also keeps involving itself in my shit. It really is never simple when it involves the highest Heaven.'

However, Arc said something else that interested Gravis.

”How did you actually become the strongest Heaven?” Gravis asked.

Arc smiled. ”Guessing,” he said as he drew another line in the dirt.

”Guessing?” Gravis asked.

Arc nodded. ”I'm stuck in this world and have been for over 45 billion years. That's a lot of time, you know,” Arc said with a chuckle. ”So, when I'm bored, I'm simply guessing.”

”Guessing what?” Gravis asked.

”The Laws of the highest world,” Arc said.

Gravis was taken aback when he heard that. ”But you can't see the Laws of the highest world.”

”Pfft,” Arc sputtered with a slight laugh. ”That's why it's called guessing.”

Gravis almost couldn't comprehend what Arc was saying. One Law had so many different interactions and functions that it was basically infinite. Without seeing the Law, it was impossible to comprehend it.

Arc was guessing the Laws of the highest world? He was just randomly going through functions and connections?

”Did you have any success?” Gravis asked.

”I've learned some Laws,” Arc said with a smile.

Some… not one.

This was why Arc was the most powerful higher Heaven.

He wasn't the most powerful because of his battle style, but because he knew Laws that weren't part of the higher worlds.

Gravis found that thought frightening.