Chapter 537: Enough (1/2)

'This is… similar to the Abyss?' Wang Ling thought as he touched the ungraspable purple energy.

A power that violently tries to rip apart anything that gets in the way. Wang Ling stood in its middle, unable to control. His qi, or rather, his existence's essence was still very well rooted with life.

In a single place, Life and Death flowed, his qi became one, blue and purple, living yet not. From his body, it subconsciously leaked out of his body. His thoughts far away, something from within clawed its way out…

[Is she still her?] Wang Ling thought to himself… not expecting an answer, or at least one that comes in the form of words. Nothing echoed, nothing responded, but Wang Ling could feel it begging from the depths of the Void, [I see… but, not yet…] Wang Ling said as his sight now rooted on a single existence.

A purple fox, decomposing from the inside and out. Her body, tainted, by the decay of her mind. Spots, all over her ethereal body, and kept to exist inside a bubble that separates her from the laws of life and death, to contain her anomalous existence from corrupting the remainder of the Cosmos.

PoP~ that same bubble burst upon her awakening and Wang Ling stood inside the darkness allowing it to approach him without care. Within the enveloping reality that was death was life existing within, trapped inside, allowing death to ran rampant on the outside.

”Ling! You have returned to me~” From a red-furred fox to that of serpent that wrapped itself around Wang Ling's body. She moved around, slithering, rubbing her face on Wang Ling's flesh, overjoyed to see him return, ”I have missed you, my love, this time, I will not let you leave me again.”

She moved to and fro, smiling, as she does. The serpentine body bore red scales illuminated by the light of the darkness. Her flesh, though rotting did not smell anything other than pleasant aroma of flowers.

She was the being of life, even in death, she's a graceful creature. Her visage may not be fitting to the eye, but her entire being was the exact opposite. The loving Mother of every being… loving, and caring it caressed Wang Ling with her scales.

”Ling, why are you not smiling? Are you not happy to finally be reunited?” The predecessor spoke, her voice sultry and deep, tempting, and even devilish, ”It had been so long since we last met, millions, of years? After you casted me out of our Kingdom, I had been trapped in my own world, writhing in pain, as I die in a folded world—”

With her words, the darkness of death changed. Flashes of images, memories took over death… as if the manifestation of the previous predecessor transmitted her memories through it for Wang Ling to see.

The darkness warped changing to show Wang Ling the image of a red fox trembling, anxious and afraid, but more importantly, grieving.

”I died, waiting for you… wanting to destroy everything… but I stopped myself as I lost my lifeblood…”

She was in tears as her blood became her shell and eventually, as her life faded away with her tears drying, the predecessor got ready to be reborn.

”I was defeated, but I could have lived… but without you, life would have been nothing for me. I would return to rule over the others, but without your presence, with your existence trapped in that world to keep him at bay, I had nothing but the grief of death.

”Seeing our children die, little by little, one by one… it was something I could not stomach, Ling—we left in search of peace, and I couldn't have returned with it. I didn't want to return without it in tow. Ling, I was lonely, I was lost… but not anymore… finally, I have you with me, once more…our dream can finally come true—”