125 My Dao

Chojusen stood still, seated on the platinum throne for ten months. At some point, his eyes closed and his aura started to glitch out; in almost the same fashion as when he fused back with his avatar for the first time. Sometimes the pressure of his aura would suppress and compact the space within the white room into infinity, making the room warped and distorted, while other times he would seem to be blending in with the room fading in and out of existence.

Throughout this one year meditative trance, Chojusen flared out his various forces and Dao energies. Stafforce, spaceforce, yinforce, yangforce… and the rest of his energies, including his divine, heartforce, and immortal energies, melding them together into a pure white stream. This stream of energy while calm might seemed to be extremely ordinary, but if Chojusen put even the slightest bit of intent on it, the stream would cause immortals and devils to fear for their lives.

(A/N: All these "forces" are levels of intent a cultivator gets while training on their Dao. Each force has six levels and at the sixth level, a "Dao Heart (I'm making this term up)" for that energy is reached; this is also the final level. At that point the cultivator has successfully "mastered" the Dao which they can perceive from the prime essences and can advance to the World God stage to start looking for their own Dao~ Naturally, since Chojusen has reached the Omega level, he has all these forces to the sixth and final level~)

Upon fusing together all these energies, Chojusen woke up from his trance. He played around with the new white energy source and discovered some of its ridiculous properties. First and foremost, this energy source could power any and every one of his skills. What does this mean? Well, to put it in the most simple terms, Chojusen can now switch Daos seamlessly and unpredictably; he could be using a flamethrower-like attack with the Omega Fire Dao, and then suddenly switch to the Lightning Dao with no indication.

The white stream of energy is much more potent than any of his previous energy sources; about 50% stronger in any case. And the white energy can also be replenished from any energy source Chojusen tried; elemental essence, chaos drops/cubes, pretty much anything.

However, even though the new energy successfully fused all his forces, it still felt like there was something missing. Chojusen thought about this problem for quite a while, but he never managed to understand why this was the case. So… for the first time in centuries? Chojusen asked the system for some advice.

Quite confident in its judgement, the system said [You've reached the level of pseudo fusion for all energies, creating mana. However, there is a level above that… a level were the fusion is absolute.]

"Ok? But what am I missing? I've already fused all of my energies together."

[Really? Last time I checked, you still have three Daos that aren't at the Omega level, and you haven't taken that Reality Dao Law Fragment either.]

"Mhmm? I guess you have a point… Back to work it is~" Chojusen still had two months before his "time" came up, so he returned to the platinum throne and sat down once more. Now, he wouldn't get caught in a trance and could focus his attention on cultivating his remaining three Daos of Dreams, Constructs, and Cooking.

Under the effects of the marvelous platinum throne, Chojusen spent a day of meditation to reached the Omega Level in the Dao of Dreams, a week for the Dao of Constructs, and yet another three weeks for the Dao of Cooking; ironically, one of the Daos he practiced the most for, Cooking, took the longest to reach the Omega level.

With just under a month left before his time ran out, Chojusen reached the Omega level in all 39 Daos he had been cultivating for the past several decades. At last, he could take the Reality Dao Law Fragment and be one step closer to surpassing the Ancestral Immortal Rank.

Chojusen told the system to give him the Law Fragment and as usual, he blacked out upon shoving the crystal on his forehead. When he awoke, he was seated in a white room; much like the white room he was staying at within the real world. In this white room, there was no platinum throne, instead there were all thirty nine of his avatars, each holding one of his Daos, one of his bloodlines.

The "real" Chojusen stood in the center of a makeshift circle created by all these avatars. He watched as his avatars started moving about very naturally, completely out of his control. Chojusen watched as all his avatars merged in his Nihility Dao avatar. From this one avatar came his Creation, Space, Time, and Void Avatars, Creation started an unstoppable process of Chaos and Chaos created Yin and Yang.

Yin and Yang separated into two sets of five elements. One set had fire, water, earth, wind, and lightning, while the other set replaced wind and lightning for metal and wood. Now the elements started to go crazing and snow, hail, ice, light, darkness, and magnetism appeared. Chojusen watched as countless aeons flashed in the blink of an eye and in this "short time," he saw all of life's creations. All these living beings existing and having free will were connected by Karma and Numeracy.

People invented weapons like the Staff through Artifacting, and as civilizations became more profound, Teaching, Alchemy, Cooking, Constructs, and Formations appeared. Then Karma became unbalanced because of unstoppable sin and all of existence head into a downward spiral towards destruction. Things like Dreams, and Dual Cultivation had neutral alignment in the beginning, but with the ever increasing negative Karma, they became evil.

Life ended in Death and all the elements of reality started dimming with the passage of time. Planets rotted, Stars extinguished, and even Black Holes, the final bastions of celestial bodies, evaporated in destruction and entropy. All returned to Nihility, and even Nihility itself blinked out of existence for what seemed like an eternity and a instant, all at the same time. And then the process started once again…

Chojusen watched how reality itself began, progressed, and ended for countless times before a certain spark of insight appeared in his head. When Chojusen thought 'Reality? Everything and nothing at the same time?' his mind, which had been forced to watch these scenes replay for an eternity, froze in place and all of reality within this Law Fragment world shattered.

Chojusen once again stood within a circle made of his avatars, each giving him a nod as if to encourage him on to do a certain action which they all knew about. Chojusen narrowed his eyes as he stood still within the circle of his various incarnations. He thought about Reality and the Dao of Reality for quite a while, but never managed to draw upon the Prime Essences to fuel the Omega Dao of Reality he was sure he had reached.

"Mhmm? I've already mastered all of the aspects of reality! Why is there no Omega? Why is there no end in sight?" Chojusen tried everything he could think of, he used his inferior mana to fuel his insights into the Dao of Reality and nothing happened. Nothing? How can there be nothing? Even if he was far from the source, his insights should at least be enough to effect some parts of reality, right?

Chojusen tested out application after application of the Dao of Reality, which he had learned from his countless reruns of watching existence live and die like any mortal. None of the applications he was sure worked did anything. Not a single one! "How can this be? Not even intent has formed… I should be at the Omega level! I broke through the projection! Why is nothing working? It's almost as if the Dao of Reality doesn't even exist..."

"The Dao… doesn't exist?" Chojusen looked like he had seen the light at the end of the tunnel. His eyes sparkled with the brightness of a thousand stars as he continued along this train of thought. "Reality… is everything and nothing. It exists in a state of constant flux, never appearing or showing itself."

As Chojusen continued thinking like this, he pulled out his book of Dao Origin at long last and confirmed his suspicion "It's just like I thought! There is no Dao of Reality! No one has ever trained in this Dao before. Even my Dao being recorded on the Ancestral Immortal page shows that my Dao of Reality is at the Omega level, while not existing!"

Chojusen could be seen laughing like a madman at this revelation. He looked at his various avatars with humorous light shining through his eyes and they all seemed to know what he was cooking up. One by one these avatars started converging on his image in the center of the white room. Chojusen absorbed each of his avatars back onto his body in the order they appeared in according to HIS Dao of Reality. As he welcomed the first avatar, his Calamity Fiend incarnate, back onto his body, Chojusen said "If Reality is false and doesn't exist, I'll just have to make my own!"

Chojusen continued the process of absorbing his avatars at a snail's pace. Every absorption brought about extreme changes to the inside of his body and after the second avatar, the Markerfiend incarnate, entered his body, an unstoppable fusion between Chojusen's energy sources began again. While his energy was being fused more perfectly than even that mana from before, his true body outside of the Law Fragment's world started breaking through to the World God stage.

This fusion process started a day before the day Chojusen would complete being in that white room for a year.