Chapter 565: Visions (2) (1/2)
Just from the fact that rather than making me understand everything with just few words, the current visions were forcing me to ask the questions to myself, I could see that either their efficiency was dropping, the fact that I stalled for too long with actually using them was affecting their quality, or maybe the complexity of the new questions that I was always going to ask was simply too much for those visions to handle.
”But what is this great void? Or rather, what is the void in the first place?”
With how different those visions were from what I expected, rather than waiting for answers I even went out of my way to ask the questions openly, yet still, I didn't receive a single answer.
”Just what the hell is that void…”
Considering how no more words were appearing in my mind while the visions continued to trap my consciousness, I could tell that there was something more to the show. But seeing how absolutely no changes appeared in this strange condensed space despite time continuously flowing, I realised that if I didn't do something about this fact, then my visions could very well last for the damned eternity!
”Just what is this void…”
With how big emphasis the voice from the visions put on this one element that I couldn't even see, the void, I was sure that I had to somehow understand what it really was myself before the visions would move forward.
Thinking about this, during the first instance of those wisdom visions appearing, they lasted for as long as it took me to understand the truth about the crucial mistake that cultivators of this world made when constructing their techniques. Back then, it was about how everyone considered cultivation to be an act going against the will of heaves, and that means that this time, it was about comprehending what the void was?
With this thought appearing in my mind, I instantly recalled all the information that I had about both the ultimate cultivation realms and the way of advancing towards the higher plane of the world.
From what Celleria told me, it advancing both in the immortal and grand sage realms required one to harness either greater or purer form of the power of decay. Initially, I thought that it was the entropy that she meant. After all, while it was a destructive force or rather, destructive factor in this part of the world, by reversing the scale, it would act as the basic constructive fabric of the other part of the world.
But how did this entropy and the magical force connected to the void? Or maybe I was simply overthinking everything?
If entropy was on one end of the general scale, with magic appearing on the other end, and just like energy in the world that I came from, they both were the true basic building block of everything in the world, just in a different form, then wouldn't the void be a state of the energy so stable, so devoid of any potential that it would be represented by the perfect middle of the power scale?
As soon as this thought appeared in my mind, the entire surroundings changed, as if the two layers of the universe that were on top of each other with each of my eyes responsible for seeing only one of them, separated.
But rather than parting ways and turning into two separate wholes, they once again took the shape of a double cone, connected with its spicy end. Once again I was reminded of this model of the universe, where the further one got from the middle point connecting two cones, the stronger the influence of either the magical energy of the entropy was!
”Does that mean…”
Suddenly connecting the facts, I realised one thing. If one could advance through the stages of the immortality by increasing the amount of entropy in his cultivation, there had to be a breaking point where the magic his body and soul would be soaked in, would finally come into the conflict with the growing potency of the entropy. Whenever it would happen, I could see how parts of one's cultivation would be cleaned out of the magic, with entropy taking its place.