234 The Divine Stellar Ligh (1/2)
Yi Ping was alarmed as he asked, ”Just what are you?”
The blue stellar light blinked and resonated with a soft hymn, ”Do you really want to know? There is a price to pay for knowledge.”
The Goddess Isa hummed coldly, ”Shut the crap and reveal yourself.”
The blue stellar light blinked and echoed, ”I am here.”
The Goddess Isa was startled, ”Huh? What do you mean?”
Yi Ping said quietly, ”Indeed. It is there. This is its energy manifestation and this energy manifestation is the Universal Creation Force!”
The blue stellar light glowed brilliantly, ”You have finally recognized me.”
Alice and Asura were looking at each other as they gasped at the same time, ”This is the Universal Creation Force? It is a living entity?”
Like everyone else, Nuwa was also startled. She looked into the blinking light as she said. ”How is it possible?”
Lele said quietly, ”I sense an immeasurably sadness in there…”
Xian'Er nodded, ”And a deep sense of regret…”
Yi Ping heaved a soft sigh as he sheathed his swords…
Ye Yin, Yu'Er and Mei'Er who had acute senses were perplexed. Their seventh senses were supernaturally sharp but why did they not sense anything?
What they did not know was that Yi Ping, Yixian and Lele were judging by the blinking of the stellar light. Somehow, they felt an attunement to it and could read its emotional state through the blinking!
Yi Ping said, ”If your solo purpose is only me alone then let it end now. I will be the only person that will climb this stair.”
The stellar light answered, ”If you have the courage and if your group is willing, you may try then.”
Yi Ping turned to his group and heaved heavily, ”Let me go up alone.”
Yu'Er said panicky, ”Master Yi, you are really going up? It is so dangerous!”
Mei'Er nodded as she grabbed his sleeve, ”We don't know what to expect from there!”
She turned to Yixian the Celestial Fairy, ”Mistress! You are really letting him go up there?”
Xian'Er answered gently, ”It is for Yi Ping alone to decide.”
Yi Ping turned to the group and said gently, ”Everyone, I think that I have finally discovered the true reality of the Stellar Sanctuary but in order to prove it, I must go up on my own.”
Everyone was gasping softly as they looked at each other…
The Celestial Liege laughed, ”Let's go up together. I am not afraid!”
Yi Ping smiled and said gently, ”That won't do. That is because anyone that goes up that stair will surely die. It doesn't matter how powerful you are.”
The Ancient Heavenly Sage King looked at the Sacred Embodied Heavenly Goddess before he asked, ”We will all die except for you?”
Yi Ping nodded as he trembled lightly, ”Everyone with no exception. Maybe even for me. I am not sure. I am actually gambling.”
Lele flashed Yi Ping a dangerous look, ”Then let's us leave now!”
Yi Ping shook his head as he looked at the Goddess Celestial Alice, ”Then I won't know why the Dark Chaos Lord died at the very end. I need to know.”
Alice looked at him as she pursed her lips, ”Don't do it at the cost of your life…”
Yi Ping rubbed his nose as he smiled at her, ”Ziyan, Alice…it is not just for you…”
He also stole a secret glance at Isa, who lowered her head shyly. ”It is for everyone.”
He looked at the Western Paradise Heavenly King, the Jade Emperor, the Ancient Heavenly Sage King, the Sacred Embodied Heavenly Goddess, the Celestial Liege and the Lord Supreme, ”Thank you for accompanying me in this journey. You must know that I desire not to be the Great God Pangu when I request for everyone to let me climb the stair alone. It is because the entity in front of us, is trying to tempt everyone to climb the stairs. If you go up, you will surely perish!”
The Western Paradise Heavenly King looked at Yixian and Yi Ping, ”Great Goddess Fantian and Great God Pangu, I do not desire to take the mantle of the Great God Pangu but can I know why? I am a little dense to figure out why.”
In his heart, the Western Paradise Heavenly King had already acknowledged Yi Ping as the Great God Pangu and what he had said was the truth.
The Sacred Embodied Heavenly Goddess smiled, ”Same here!”
Yi Ping said, ”Because all along, it is waiting for me. Only the one with the Essential Righteous Energy can approach the stairs or else the Creation Universal Force will surely overwhelm the practitioner. Its solo purpose is to tempt all of you into your own demise.”
Everyone was startled…
Yi Ping added, ”The trials won't end unless everyone else is dead!”
Nuwa murmured, ”This…lucky I did not fly up the stairs!”
Everyone was nodding.
Actually, everyone that was left now had no desire to compete with Yi Ping or thought that they would be the chosen one. Precisely no one, that was why they would allow Yi Ping to ascend the stairs!
They were simply being worried for his safety.
Yi Ping smiled as he made his first step on the stair, looking back at everyone. ”Don't worry for me. I will surely return!”
All the maidens that loved him rushed to his back immediately as they prayed for him.
”Ping'Er…”
”Yi Ping!…”
”Master Yi Ping…”
Before long, Yi Ping had reached the 100th steps and he had struck a barrier of impassable windforce that was hindering him!
But still he persisted and every step that he had taken, he felt a mounting pressure that seemed to crush him.
By the time he had reached the 500th step, his legs were already shaking.
And there were 9500 more steps more.
Every step that he had taken, the mounting pressure would only increase.
By the time he had taken the 1000th step, he was already perspiring and he felt as though his chest would burst at any time!
He was shaking and thought, ”If I give up now, then I will surely perish as well! I must not give up!”
At the bottom, he could still hear everyone urging him on and calling his name!
Lingfeng, Alice, Lele, Xian'Er, Nuwa and Lie Qing were whispering to him and urging him on!
Their voices had become withdrawn because of the distance and all his focuses were only on taking the next one step, moving from one golden step to the other!
By the time he had climbed to the 3000th step, he could no longer hear from any of his group and after a while he was too tired to count anymore!
He had only one goal in his mind; to reach to the very top where the blinking light was!
The powerful windforce was pressing onto him like a pressuring wall that threatened to sweep him down the stairs despite the fact that he was already mustering all his strength, even drawing on the sanctorum strength of his divine swords!
When he had reached to the middle of the stairs, very step that he had taken was so heavy that it was like he was fighting against his very own Thousand Weight Fall.
He did not know the passage of time but it seemed like an eternal time had passed before his thoughts were interrupted by the familiar voice of the blue stellar light, ”You have reached the very top.”
When Yi Ping had lifted his eyes, he was looking straight at the blue stellar light and straight at the glowing animus of the Divine Pangu Armor.
Only sheer force of will had prevented him from collapsing on the platform.
He mustered all his wobbly strength to gasp out, ”Who are you?…”
The blue stellar light reverberated, ”Who am I? You have come all the way to ask me this? You should be concerned about the ultimate prize first.”
Everyone below could hear the reverberating voice of the blue stellar light but they were not able to hear Yi Ping so naturally they did not know what Yi Ping had said to provoke the blue stellar light to answer in this manner!
Yi Ping answered breathlessly as he struggled to stay on his feet, ”Who are…you?”
The blue stellar light blinked, ”You will have your answers very soon. Reach out to receive the Creation Universal Force, receive the mantle of the Great God Pangu and you will be transmigrated to the Great Beyond. Or alternatively you can leave with your group. Either way, the trials of the Stellar Sanctuary will end.”
Yi Ping murmured, ”Transmigrate to the Great Beyond? But the conflicts between the Immortal Realm and the Desolate Immortals have not ended…”
The blinking stellar blue light resonated, ”This conflict is of no consequence to you. You will be the Great God Pangu, future Lord of the Six Realms.”
Yi Ping stared at the blinking stellar light before he laughed aloud. His laughter was so loud that even those who were below were able to hear him!
He asked firmly, ”What exactly are you?”
The blinking stellar blue light flared before resonating, ”This matters not. You now have a rare chance that not everyone will have. Make a choice now.”
Yi Ping stared blankly at the blue stellar light before he muttered, ”Such sorrow in you…”