Chapter 1906 (1/2)
“You actually found something?” Qianye Ying’er turned serious as well.
Yun Che said nothing. He stretched out his palm and wreathed it in flames, but after hesitating for a moment he dispelled it and left behind only the purest Heretic God profound energy. Then, he touched the slab.
Chiang!
There was a soft resonance, and the dim slab suddenly glowed a little. Yun Che felt an invisible energy guiding his external profound energy and spreading it across the slab.
The energy turned into patterns, and the patterns turned into rows and rows of distinct script!
“This… is!?” Qianye Ying’er exclaimed in surprise. She didn’t imagine that the seemingly inert slab she had neglected up until now would actually react to Yun Che.
The fact that the slab only manifested words when the Heretic God’s profound energy made contact with it proved that it was engraved by the Heretic God himself!
It wasn’t even written in some foreign or incredibly old script like the Divine Text of Absolute Beginning. It was written in the common language.
Yun Che held his breath as he read the message left behind by the ancient Heretic God:
“The Myriad Tribulations burns my soul, and I will soon cease to be. Thankfully, with my remaining life as the medium, I was able to condense my origin power into a drop of Indestructible Blood.”
“Person of the future, know that from the moment you inherit my power, you and only you will be charged with the great mission of protecting the world from a great calamity. It is up to the heavens to decide if you will succeed or fail.”
If Yun Che had obtained this slab when he first inherited the Heretic God’s divine power, he would never have been able to imagine the kind of calamity the Heretic God was speaking of or the heavy and complicated emotions he must have borne at the time of writing this.
If he were to look at the result alone, he supposed that he had succeeded in accomplishing the “mission” the Heretic God had charged him with. The Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor had left, and the Devil Gods were prevented from returning to the Primal Chaos.
However, he knew that the one who truly saved the world wasn’t him, but the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor.
“The elemental cores have been scattered across the universe. It is up to your fate, your determination and your conviction to reunite them, future Heretic God.”
“My secrets, my care, and the wish my wife and I were ultimately unable to fulfill… How much of the truth will you uncover, future Heretic God? Again, it is up to you to protect, do nothing, or reject them.”
It wasn’t a long paragraph, but it still left Yun Che feeling a myriad of emotions.
He had found out all of the Heretic God’s secrets. He had found both of the Heretic God’s cares, bound them to his life, and protected them as well.
As for the Heretic God and the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor’s unfulfilled wish—the dream that God and Devil would one day be able to live together in harmony—he couldn’t say if uniting the four divine regions and urging its denizens to abandon their prejudices counted toward it.
“I shall put seven seals on the Heretic God Art both to bind and protect you. If you break the seals by force while your strength is still insufficient, you will damage yourself.”
“There will never be another True God in the future. The Hell Monarch Realm will be the absolute limit a mortal can endure. Unlocking the sixth and seventh realm will only destroy you, so I have made the sixth and seventh seals to last for eternity.”
However, the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor had removed those seals.
“My Heretic God Art was derived from a taboo art. Therefore, it is a taboo power that does not belong among the heavenly laws, and it is incomparable to the profound arts of the mortal world. If you are able to collect all of the elemental cores, you will attain the realm known as ‘Divine Master’ by mortals. You are not yet in the realm of a god, but you will be able to unleash the power of one.”
“There are gods and devils no longer, and the old order of the universe has crumbled. However, the loss of divine aura has slowed, and the new order is trending toward stability. If a new god is to be born in this world, it will surely strain the new order and harm the mortals. If you are an evil person, then it will surely be a calamity unto all.”
“Therefore, I have sunk the Earth core into the abyss to eliminate the potential danger once and for all.”
“You who inherited my divine power need not obsess over it.”
That was the end of the Heretic God’s final words. When Yun Che withdrew his hand and his profound energy from the slab, the words disappeared like they were never there.
“I have sunk the Earth core into the abyss…” Qianye Ying’er muttered before knitting her brows abruptly. “The Abyss of Nothingness!?”
To sink anything into the Abyss of Nothingness was to return it to nothingness. This meant that Yun Che would never find the Heretic God’s Earth Seed, and that the current universe would never see the Heretic God’s earth powers.
“I see.” Yun Che felt a bit disappointed knowing that the Heretic God’s Earth Seed was forever lost to the world, but he recovered from it in no time.
“You don’t seem too surprised?” Qianye Ying’er shot Yun Che a glance.
Yun Che replied, “Thanks to the Heretic God Profound Veins, I’ve never encountered a bottleneck in my cultivation be it during the Nine Mortal Realms or the Seven Divine Realms. As long as I’ve accumulated enough power, I could easily break to the next realm.”
“However, before the final battle against the Western Divine Region, during the few years Meiyin and I were cultivating inside the Eternal Heaven Divine Realm, I was unable to achieve a breakthrough no matter what despite having reached the peak of Divine Sovereign Realm.”
“In that moment, I had a feeling that the Heretic God had probably set up some sort of special restrictions that prevented his inheritor from ever advancing into the Divine Master Realm… for the same reason just as he had set up the Sixth and Seventh Gates.”
“As it turns out, my guess wasn’t too far from the truth.”
“So, the reason he set up these restrictions is to prevent a power that exceeds the world’s limits from appearing and triggering the collapse of the mortal order?” Qianye Ying’er snorted a little as if she was dissatisfied with the Heretic God’s decision. “He really should’ve named himself the Holy God instead.”
Yun Che rolled his eyes at her. “Nearly everything the Heretic God did during his remaining life was to protect the future generations. Without him, forget the peace we’re enjoying right now, the Primal Chaos itself may have ceased to exist already.”
“...” That Qianye Ying’er couldn’t deny, especially since she knew everything now.
“The loss of divine aura has slowed…” repeated one of the lines on the slab before humming to himself. “It looks like the Primal Chaos was still losing vast amounts of spirit energy long after the gods and devils had perished under Myriad Tribulations. It wasn’t until the Heretic God was about to perish that it finally slowed to a stop.”
“The new law and order of the Primal Chaos became stable as a result, but the extinction of the gods and devils and the loss of all that spirit energy severely lowered the level of this new world, and weakened it considerably. Therefore, a True God can no longer be born in this new world.”
“However, the Heretic God knew exactly how taboo and powerful the Devil God Forbidden Tome he and the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor created together was. If it was cultivated to completion, even a mortal may manifest the realm and power of a god.”
“For a god to appear in this godless, ‘fragile’ world may very well strain the new law and order to their limits. It may even trigger a collapse.”
The calamities that happened across all realms before and after the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor returned, the massive earthquake that shook over half of the Northern Divine Region after he activated God Ash by force at the Burning Moon God Realm, and the terrifying phenomena that took place while the Southern Sea God Realm was firing the Titanic Sea God Cannon...
They all supported the Heretic God’s theory.