Epic Of Caterpillar

Chapter 2934 - 2935: Ascension

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The One, present within Kireinaʼs Aura, swiftly swung his giant hand. A massive white fan materialized, unleashing Dimensional Winds that tore through space and time, obliterating the pocket dimension.

”Thank you for the assist!” Kireina said.

”If you will not claim my legacy, then—as I am now—I will aid you in whatever way I can,” The One replied. ”Kireina… I must say, you are an admirable being. Long ago, I believed all of Reality was predestined—until you were born. You are the Child of Defiance, destined to shatter the predetermined fate of everything and grant true freedom to all.”

The One appeared as an old, bearded man with an immensely muscular frame, clad in flowing white robes and crowned by a glowing, shattered white circlet. His eyes blazed pure white, like twin supernovas.

Using the Heaven and Earth Cultivation Immortal Arts, he swiftly seized hold of Existence itself and plucked the two beings the Spider Queen had concealed while she clashed with Kireina.

”Wait, wait, wait! Give them back to meeeeeee!”

She hissed furiously, lunging at Kireina with her enormous scythes. She moved with terrifying speed, evading Kireinaʼs strikes, but Kireina pursued relentlessly, expanding her own Dimensional Aura and distorting reality around her.

Her Dimensional Aura was far denser, thicker, and more potent than that of ordinary Dimensional Rulers, enabling such extraordinary feats even against a Multidimensional Paragon—a being an entire Realm above her.

”Where do you think youʼre going?!”

Kireina ensnared her within the Dimensional Aura, yanking her back with Attraction Force before swinging her sword in a devastating arc that sliced through the Spider Queenʼs body!

”Heaven And Earth Defying Soul Heart Style!”

”Fist Form – Crimson Eclipse Bloom!”

Kireinaʼs first form had evolved alongside her to an entirely new level. Her Dimensional Aura coiled around her body as the Crimson Moon manifested—crafted from her own Dimension itself—with the Star of Misfortune eclipsing it from behind.

An eternal garden spanning countless universes unfurled outward. Trillions of petals compressed into razor-sharp slashing waves, bombarding the Spider Queen with endless assaults.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

”Now that I have you, I wonʼt let you escape!”

Kireina roared as she carved through the Spider Queen without pause or mercy. The Spider Queen desperately fought back, but her attacks were feeble, lacking depth, technique, or true understanding.

”S-Stop…! STOOOP!”

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

She could not halt the onslaught. The Spider Queenʼs body shredded rapidly, swiftly disintegrating into cosmic dust.

She struggled, but once Kireina seized her, resistance proved futile.

And somehow, when The One retrieved the two beings hidden behind her, her power diminished sharply—her connection to the Plane of Fate severed almost completely.

”This is the end!”

Kireina pressed forward. Her Infinite Heavens Sword shattered into countless fragments—each piece a different universe—before merging back into her, transforming her very being into a blade.

SLAAAASH!

”I-Impossible…! AM I DYING AGAIN AGAINST YOUUUUUUUU?!”

The Spider Queen screamed in torment as her plans collapsed. Her body split in two; her eyes widened in disbelief as cosmic blood sprayed from her wounds. Both halves detonated violently before she could utter another word.

BOOOMMM!!!

With the death of a Multidimensional Ruler, Kireina watched a crown forged from universes drift toward her. It fused with her Sword Soul Heart, flooding her with even greater power. Circuits of dimensional energy blazed across her body.

By slaying her, Kireina inherited the Multidimensional Paragon Crown, ascending to that rank in an instant. Her True Immortal Status solidified.

”Itʼs done, but… who are they?” Kireina asked.

”I knew it. So this is where they were…” The One sighed. He released the two beings from the spiderwebs, revealing the Mountain Monkey King and the Gale Bird King—both vanished after their revival in Helheim, long before Kireinaʼs death and reincarnation in Terra. ”So this is where you were!”

”Great Master…” The burly Mountain Monkey King knelt before The One with a heavy sigh. ”I have done as you commanded. Kireina is… here now, and you have been freed from your fragmentation.”

”I see…” Kireina said, approaching them. Each step carried her across trillions of light-years within the vast Outerdimensional Expanse. ”So he was serving you? Did he orchestrate everything in the Grand Forest to guide events in my favor—so I could reach this point?”

”Yes. Events unfolded precisely as my remaining will had planned,” The One explained. ”I apologize, Kireina, for using you in this way.”

”Well, you should be apologizing to someone else. And honestly, I was using you too,” Kireina replied. ”So letʼs call it even.”

”Ugh… So you went ahead and killed everyone for this… huh?” the Gale Bird King muttered, eyes widening in despair. ”Haaa… Hahahah…”

He looked utterly broken. After his closest friend had slaughtered his own family to destabilize the hierarchy in the Grand Forest—creating the power vacuum Kireina filled and allowing her meteoric rise—it all felt somehow justified, yet the irreplaceable lives lost could never return.

”Go now,” The One said, enveloping them in shimmering light. ”This battle is not yours. You have fulfilled your duties. Live freely.”

Both vanished instantly, teleported back to the universe below where everyone watched in astonishment.

”The Spider Queen was using them to exert control over the Plane of Fate,” The One explained. ”That was how she remained so invincible during your fight. The moment I claimed them with my own authority over Fate, her power crumbled, and she fell to you swiftly.”

”I see. So because you chose them, they were linked to this Plane?” Kireina asked. ”Hmm… the old me would have certainly tried to exploit them. But I donʼt care anymore.”

Kireina turned her gaze upward to the Primordial Cosmic Nebula Heaven that blanketed the Outerdimensional Expanse—the domain where the Spider Queen had resided and managed the Dimensional Cosmic Labyrinth.

There, the three presences of the Three Fragments observed from above. They had witnessed the entire battle. Kireina could read their hearts clearly: shock, awe, tension, and utter disbelief.

”To reach the Empyrean Throne, I must cross this, right?” Kireina asked.

”Yes,” The One confirmed. ”Do you intend to proceed alone? You will die. The Empyrean Throne is the summit of Existence. Any who step upon it are crushed by the sheer weight of Existence itself—unless you ascend further to become a Reality Monarch, seize authority over the Sun and Moon Heavenly Dimensional Domain from its current owner, and acclimate to that weight for at least one trillion years. You wonʼt— Hey! Are you even listening?!”

”Do you think I have time to waste, old man? Right now, this entire Heavenly Dimensional Domain is being torn apart by them!” Kireina snapped. ”I have no time left. And judging by their silence, the cowards wonʼt even descend to face me…!”

Kireina internalized her Infinite Heavens Sword and began dividing herself—thousands, millions, billions, trillions of selves—through Heaven-Surpassing Infinite Self.

She then overlapped one billion of those selves into a single form, repeating the process with the rest until she achieved one hundred overlapped selves, each containing one billion divided selves.

”That must be your Immortal Art…!” The One gasped as Kireina raised a pillar of light through her one hundred unified forms.

”I will pave the road ahead,” Kireina declared. The pillars shone with blinding golden radiance.

”Heaven And Earth Defying Soul Heart Style…”

”Fifth Form – Heaven-Defying Celestial Path!”

SLAAASH!

One hundred sword-energy slashes overlapped—each carrying the force of one billion selves—condensing into a single, apocalyptic strike that cleaved the Primordial Cosmic Nebula Heaven apart.

TRUUUMMM!!!

Reality itself trembled. Kireina stepped forward along the newly forged path, each stride skipping immeasurable distances with effortless grace.

As she advanced, the Primordial Cosmic Nebula Heaven felt irresistibly drawn to her. She began refining it at once, her Immortal Art assimilating it into her Heart Essence.

In mere seconds—to the stunned disbelief of The One, every Dimensional Ruler, every Multidimensional Paragon, and the lone Reality Monarch—Kireina claimed the Sun and Moon Heavenly Dimensional Domain, internalizing it as the core of her own Heart Essence.

FLAAASH!

Radiant as a newborn star, Kireina ascended into True Immortal status, rising higher and higher toward the boundless Summit of Reality—the Empyrean Throne.

Before she could even survey her surroundings, an immense, overwhelming, all-encompassing weight crashed down, threatening to annihilate her instantly.

Yet the fact that it did not kill her immediately meant she could endure it. Her Pillar of Celestial Enlightenment—born from the ultimate evolution of the System—enabled her to adapt and grow stronger in the face of any trial.

This was one of her Heart Manifestation Abilities, magnified exponentially after reaching the True Immortal Realm.

”Haaa…”

She gasped for breath in a realm with no air, dizzy and teetering on the edge of death—yet she did not die.

Slowly, her Pillar of Celestial Enlightenment took form. Here it appeared no larger than a rapier; the sheer scale of the Summit of All Existence was truly incomprehensible.

Every ”molecule” in this place was a multiverse unto itself.

Kireina, who had grown so explosively fast, adjusted gradually.

The One manifested beside her as the Grand Father of the Three Thousand Heavens, regaining roughly half his original authority and power. With every fragment of himself reunited within her, assuming this physical form at the Summit became effortless.

”Kireina, I told you,” he said, stepping toward her.

Kireina remained silent, gazing at her reflection in the flawless, endless glass beneath her feet.

It stretched infinitely—an eternal mirror. The skies held no stars; the stars lay below. The glass gleamed with infinite cosmos—constantly birthing, dying, and rebirthing.

Above, however, lay Beyond Existence: the Eternal White.

Pure, featureless white. Nothing existed there. This was Non-Existence—a blank slate within the All. Here, Empyrean Thrones shaped Reality with their will, forged Heavenly Dimensional Domains, and created new legacies, lives, and stories.

The vast glass floor was far from empty. Countless fragmented Realities intermingled, forming shifting images: deserts, snowy peaks, purple grasslands, abyssal shadows, infernal volcanoes, starry nights, lunar surfaces, gaseous worlds, bizarre realms of living plastic, domains where time itself had taken form, and countless more.

This was the Summit of Existence, where only True Immortals of the highest order could stand.

”Welcome to the Eternal Summit Of All Things That Are And Will Be, ʼsisterʼ. It is pleasing to see you have reached this place on your own.”

”…!”

Kireina started at the powerful voice descending from above. Three fairies—similar to her yet composed of eternal radiance, colors, darkness, dimensions, galaxies, and universes—gazed down upon her.

”I am indeed finally here, just as you desired,” Kireina said, smiling defiantly. Her one hundred selves unified into one. Suddenly, the crushing weight became bearable.

”How was your journey through the Saha World?” one asked. ”Did you enjoy it?”

”Now that you have suffered enough, let us reunite as one,” said the second.

”You carry the fourth within you—the impatient one,” said the third. ”Nothing remains to stop you from becoming Complete with us.”

Kireina smiled wider, gripping her Pillar of Celestial Enlightenment.

”I refuse.”

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