Chapter 565: Guided to here (1) (1/2)

Azief found out the specials steps of the Temple when he researched the Temple of Xi.

To his surprise, everyone in the martial arts world knows about the Thirteen Steps. The only reason he did not know was because he did not come from this world.

The Thirteen Steps of Gods and Devils had many origin story. But the one that the Temple believed to be the truth was that it was built by the Demon Monkey magical abilities.

In the story of the Temple, it was said that when the Demon Monkey reach enlightenment he had pointed his finger down from the Heavens to the mortal word.

Light covered the whole world and divine songs could be heard echoing all across the four directions of the world

The sick was healed, the blind could see and the deaf could hear. All kinds of miracles were happening the moment that light envelops the world

When the light subsided, the steps to the Temple of Xi were changed. There are thirteen steps, different from the stone steps leading towards the Temple.

The Abbot saw the steps, thirteen of them and its peculiarities and named it the Thirteen Steps of Gods and Devils

The reason why it was called the Thirteen Steps of Gods and Devils was because each steps features a statue of some images of the gods that they worship and otherwise unknowns type of beings.

The Temple believes that some of those are Devils and some of them are Gods. It is a mystical steps of the Temple and was revered and respected by the martial arts world.

Even today, some martial artist would climb the steps leading toward the Temple and walk the Thirteen Steps of Gods and Devils hoping that some of their confusion of martial arts would be solved when they look at the eyes of the statues.

There are some stories of how some martial artists gained an enlightenment when looking at the eyes of the statue.

When he heard the stories, Azief immediately connected the Thirteen Steps in front of the temple of Xi to the Thirteen Steps of the Supremacy Stairway.

Sun Wukong, Demon Monkey, or whatever the hell his name is in the Omniverse, he must have predicted his coming.

Azief was not surprised at this.

Alsurt once teaches him that there are many powerful beings in the Universe that could divined fates and Destiny, and even manipulated Time to get the best conclusion for them.

But only the most powerful of them dares to mess with fate and Destiny, to divine it and even fewer that dare to manipulate it.

It was never easy and the Price is always steep.

The Demon Monkey had predicted his coming since ages ago. That was his conclusion

It would explain a lot if he accepts that answer

Azief also found something else when he was researching the myths of this world.

It was not a surprise that the Gods and Demons and Devils in this world is heavily related to the Heavenly government of the Jade Empire.

After all, this is a world inside the system of the Three Thousand Worlds

What surprises him is something else

On one of the story he read it was said that the Monkey Demon and the Enlightened Monk had found the Sutra of Immortality hundreds of years ago.

But from what he knows, the Beings that walks those Supremacy Stairway, on that Thirteen Steps and that includes the Demon Monkey they were all ancient beings of immense power that probably lives for thousands of years or even eons ago.

For example, Azul who had lives passing many epochs.

Of all the ancient beings that Azief had encountered in his journey, Azul might be the one that is most ancient of them all and probably the oldest being that still exist.

Azul race, the Ancient Asura, the predecessor of the Asura race was a race that live during the era of the Etherna, the First Race that exist before even Time exist.

Azief had researched them of course. And while he has a lot of information about this mysterious race, he knows it is not enough.

Some of these stories of the Etherna were imparted to him by Alsurt. Some of them he heard from some tents of oracles and soothsayers when he was jumping through realities and worlds, stranded in an infinite world with Will.

What he notices that in every world, if they reached some level of power they would one day found the remnants of the Etherna.

Their traces remains

It is like while some things changed in parallel worlds or the other realities, there is one thing that is not erased. The Etherna traces