Cultivating in Honkai!

Chapter 431: Self-Destruction

It has been a long way since I started immortal cultivation. It all began when I crash-landed on Glastonbury. The first person I met back then was Bianka. Her presence revealed that this world was, in fact, an Earth wrought with Honkai.I haven’t forgotten how I starved for an entire night, only for a kind girl to give me her jacket a sandwich. That was when I discovered the golden orb and officially embarked on the path of cultivation. A minor honkai eruption occurred due to my [Toushen Manual], which led to my first meeting with Kiana.

Back then, I was young and indecisive. I didn’t have any pursuits in life. I am already satisfied with my previous life. Compared to my standing and the experience brought by wealth and status, dying at a young age didn’t seem as heavy. I didn’t know what I had to do. Before I knew it, I found myself following this little ball of sunshine.

The way she lived up to her oath, her split-second decisions to save as many as she could, and the concern Kiana has for me touched me. There a reason why she is the protagonist of the story I saw in my previous life.

Compared to my dull life, Kiana shone as bright as the Sun. I found myself giving my life up for her. I didn’t hesitate to face Sirin who was dangerous at that time. My Foundation Establishment Realm cultivation could barely hold itself in front of her. After that was a long period of slumber. Grandpa Su appeared to fish me up at that time. 

Although my physical body was incapacitated, my mind was active. I fought against IX’s influence at that time while chatting with Grandpa Su. His personality as a ‘riddler’ in the story wasn’t all there was. He was someone who lived through an entire era. Someone who saw his comrades fall one by one. Finally, he was the one who sealed Kevin just because their ideals in saving humanity became different. That was also the last time he could talk to his best friend.

In the end, he passed on his hopes to me—an unknown variable—and helped me resurface back to the real world. That long-awaited reunion came next. I confessed to Kiana not just my feelings, but also the truth behind my identity. Frankly, she did not care about the latter part. 

It was then did she slowly unveil another side of hers… the one starved for affection. Because of my way of handling things, however, Seele had an emotional breakdown. The four of us—Kiana, Seele, Veliona, and I—were trapped inside the Sea of Quanta. That was where I consummated my relationship with Kiana, becoming addicted to dual cultivation since then.

We fought the Herrscher of the End, broke through that Bubble World’s strangeness, and returned to the real world. We didn’t have much time to rest as Kevin had already started Project STIGMA. We managed to defeat him in the end.

There are so many things that happened even beyond that. The Federation’s development, my relationship with Seele, Veliona, Sin Mal, and Bronya…

There is also Amphoreus where I spent a thousand years from. The Eternal Land taught me a lot of valuable things. It was there that I reaffirmed what my true purpose had become.

It is incredibly selfish, but it is my desire. I do not want to see partings and sorrows, no matter how much it is a part of . Nothing could stop me from moving towards it…

The patch of gray fog atop my palm churned. The power of All Creation concentrated within it was so high I couldn’t imagine how far it would influence things. The essence of All Creation steadily flowed inside my mind. It isn’t just ideas regarding its usage. The thousands of Daos that could be derived from it presented themselves in my mind.

To them, All Creation is the source of everything. The sole Dao that could house all the other Daos in existence. It could make anything, as much as it could destroy anything.

Whether something is a creation born out of this Dao or not, it could forcefully take it over. Causality is nothing but a modifiable string in the face of it. Time could be manipulated like a cassette tape.

In this regard, my All Creation mainly originated from three Daos: Five Elements, Yin-Yang, and Extremity. Then, there was the Dao of Void as its ‘backdrop’.

Five Elements are the foundation of this universe. It is the ‘building blocks’ supplied to the world that shaped it to its current form. 

Yin-Yang is the mutual interaction of two opposing forces—fire and water, male and female, good and evil—that spurns on the process of destruction, and then creation.

Extremity is the farthest one could ever step to, inferior only to the true .

Finally, the Void binds them together, assisting their manifestations.

I have used these four aspects to manifest All Creation in various ways. My small universe originated from these three. The Five Elements are responsible for the basic structure. Yin-Yang gave through the opposition of five elements yin and five elements yang. Extremity gave it an extremely high , comparable to that of the real world.

Still…

Something inside me keeps pointing it out.

A possibility I have overlooked… or that I haven’t thought of. It is the answer to leaving the space where this colossal rift resides. It presented two different worlds and is related to my tribulation. If so, their existence is a great danger to me… and to this world.

Inadvertently, some of the stories I told back in Amphoreus flashed in my mind. To be more specific, Kadoya Tsukasa. I chose his story as a template to entertain Trianne. The flashiness of is universally effective to children of all worlds. 

Anyways, his story entailed his destruction of nine worlds. The moment his presence was added, nine different worlds became tied to each other. They are forced to undergo fusion, thereby creating a brand new world. It is bad news for its inhabitants as they would face destruction. It remains unknown what would happen beyond that.

Reorganization…

…

An absurd thought came into my mind.