Lord Shadow

Chapter 603: Duality (3)

Azief realize that his perspective and the shift in his opinion the more he become stronger.

While he could not allow the people he loves dies or come into harm, he himself did not mind dying if he could see the realization of his path.

Now he understands. And he does not know whether he should be terrified or amazed at that change of opinion.

He now understands that if he could see his Grand Path in the morning, he would mind dying in the evening.

Yet, there is also a part of him that also wanted to survive. To reconcile these thoughts is the one thing in his mind when he was in that Sealed World.

He is a greedy person. He wants happiness and he also wants power. The two thing is not mutually exclusive.

And there was proof that those things are not mutually exclusive. The Immortal Couple did not seek power but they could still attain happiness.

The Immortal Couple lives up to their nickname, touring the world carefreely and having each other in each other arms. In the morning they paint painting, in the afternoon they play the flute and in the evening they walk out from their homes, looking at the beauty of the world

What an enviable life! But Azief doubt that way of life would make him happy. He is not Xu Chong and the women he loved is not Lihua.

Happiness is a state of the heart, much like emptiness and heartlessness. Yet, people still seek it.

He sighed as that thought were drowned by other information of Aether energy.

Azief now is being imbued with the knowledge of the Aether Law Body also had some things in his mind that he tried to buries.

Yet, as the Aether energy fills his body, it forces those thought he wanted to buried to rise up

He likes challenging himself and he likes that feeling of growing stronger. It is one of the things he liked about the new world after the Fall

It felt like his hard work were rewarded. Effort equals to strength in the world. Even luck would come if you keep living your life hard.

But there is this one thing he is too afraid to admit.

If he walks his Path until the end, if there is an end to his Path, then…what then?

If all he seeks is power, then why he risks his life and betted his life?

He could also gain power by other ways. Hirate was not like him but he still holds power and influence that would not be far from his own influence

He had the answer a long time ago.

He wanted to seek his Path.

So, he was afraid that if he walks until the last step of his Path, he would find it very meaningless.

That is one of the things that scares him the most.

Now that he is at the seventh stage he clearly felt a little bit emotional. It is like waving farewell to an old friend.

The pain he had to endure, the pressure on his body when he climbed these steps is still clear to him even though years had passed.

He still remembers how he had to gouge his own eyeballs because it hinders him.

He had to walk with his body bloodied by storms of Laws. Now, five years later, he once again steps on these Stairway.

Only this time, he is no longer battered and broken, instead he come proudly, reclaiming back what should be his.

From the top to the bottom. From the bottom to the top. This journey of his on the thirteen steps of Supremacy Stairway is like a cycle of rising and waning, like it symbolizes death and rebirth.

Azief look at his fingers. His entire body is still glowing with Aether energy, one of the rarest energy in the Universe and even in the Omniverse.

He could feel the purity of energy coursing through his veins, expelling any harmful or irrelevant irregularities in his body

‘Is this Aether?’ he asks to no one in particular.

He once heard rumors that most Gods or at least Supreme Beings in the Universe that humans regarded as Gods is chock full of Aether energy in their body

Aether is something that seems to exist between both matter and energy. It can partake in the nature of either substance but it is neither of those things.

It is hard to explains it and even harder to describe it. Even those who cultivates in it find it difficult to describe what it is

Azief had reigned in the explosive power when he merged with the Law Body but even then a powerful fluctuation of Life Force is still emanating from him

To called it a life force is not very apt in that it appears and seems like a life force but it is not.

‘A Divine power that could remake Life Force. A power that flows through all life and existence’ that is what he understands from the comprehension of his Law Body.

He is itching to try this newfound powers.

He did not think he could use this power on Earth. Not that he can’t use it but more that he wouldn’t.

If he uses it on Earth, he fears that he would destroy Earth unintentionally.

Though, he thinks that the All Source on Earth probably would restrict his power.

But until he returns back he won’t know what the All Source would do. Azief toss that thought into the back of his mind as he looks at his hands.

He felt that if he waves his hand, he could create life. Aether is all encompassing and the source of power for many of the other energies

Azief concentrated the power of Aether into his right hand. Right hand holding the power to create!

Azief smiles as he felt that life energy swirling all over his right hand, like he holds the power to create, to make anything he wanted from nothingness.

‘Life’ he muttered. One hand holds, Life. And another holds Death

That is what he is intending to do. He knows what kind of Law Body waiting for him in the eight steps.

That is why he concentrated the power of Aether into his right hand. Right hand holding the power to create life, and left hand holding the power to destroy and bring death.

Duality of concepts, life and death, creation and destruction. Azief is slowly coming closer to the ideal power that he had dreamed of.

Azief then floated there on the seventh steps a few more moments as the pressure around his body was stabilized and sucked into his body, no longer affecting the space around his body.

He looks behind him again and saw only the blue colors that emanated out from his body envelops the entire dimension.

Life blooms all over the entire Dimension accelerating even more life process in some barren planets and some of the fertile planets.

Before Azief ever came to the seventh steps, the Aether Law Body had already unintentionally leak out his life energy and coincidentally started life in some of the barren planets.

One of the planets were even created unconsciously by the Life Command of the Aether Law as gaseous substances merged and with that Divine Spark of Life from the Aether Law Body, planets comes into existence by magical powers and supported by laws of the most divine in the Omniverse.

Azief then clench his fist and all of those blue colors that cover the Dimension return back to him as he is no longer glowing.

But the effects of life that had spread out is permanent. In a few trillion years, life probably would sprout all over inside this dimension.

Some of those species in that myriads of planets that were affected by the Life force maybe will be lucky enough to evolve and possessing intelligence.

Azief calms himself down and then he took that next step. He is slowly reaching to Heavenly Realm of Divine Comprehension.

Reaching perfection is almost near for him.

He took the next step to the eight steps as his power surges on.

The seven steps broke down, crumbling into nothingness, not even its dust could be seen, like it was erased from Time and Space.

And just like before, another string latched onto him. But unlike before, when he didn’t notice anything, Azief suddenly look back behind him.

His eyebrows frowned and his forehead creased.

For a moment, he felt something

‘Is it just my feeling?’ he thought to himself.

When he was stepping onto the eight steps, suddenly he felt something. It is not a sensation on the skin, it is just a premonition of feeling.

He just turns back because of that reflex but then he shakes his head.

‘I am too sensitive’ he thought to himself. Then he looks back at the eight steps. The eight steps are very different from the seventh steps.

If the feeling he felt when he was in seventh steps could be described as pleasant and soothing, the feeling he felt if he were to describe the eight step is that it is suffocating and unpleasant

The Eight steps are where he had his Nether Disk yanked out from his Inner Universe. He didn’t forget the pain but now he felt the pain is all worth it.

And unlike the Aether Law Body, the Nether Law Body still exuded a powerful pressure that if this was Azief before he become a Divine Comprehension leveler, he would be pressed to the ground right now just by the pressure alone

And while Azief is looking at his Nether Law Body on the eight step, somewhere in the vast expanse of the Omniverse, someone is looking at him with intent eyes

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See you tomorrow. Dont forget to vote and leave some comments. Give me your thoughts who woudl be looking at Azief from a distant Universe.

I dont think it would be hard to guess.