Samsara

Samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.

The Samsara is usually a vast, dark world, almost like the universe and its stars. The exception would be that these stars were moving very fast, but fading within seconds of their appearance only for it to reappear within a different area of the vast Samsara, to once again disappear after a few seconds.

Some stars take longer to fade, some fade immediately after its birth. This process represents the lives within these stars. When a star fades and reappears within another part of Samsara, a life has ended, and a new life has been born.

On the other hand, when a cultivator of a long-lasting lifespan has his star fade, this occurs:

An explosion of the dying star that affects the surrounding area of the Samsara.

Instead of the star typically fading away, due to the power of life within the star, the star explodes. These explosions occur in numbers that are countless within the Samsara. After all, in 3000 Mortal Realms, death was transpiring in endless amounts.

However, the death of the strongest Immortal of the single Immortal Realm cannot be merely measured by an explosion. A black hole would be a reserved way of calling it.

Liao Feng, who has now forcefully re-entered Samsara, looked around in curiosity. This was his first time entering Samsara with his acknowledgment. This is what it means to be Immortal. To be able to defy the Heavenly Laws of life and death, to be able to look down among countless numbers of Kings and Emperors and their short lives.

As Liao Feng has now 'perished' his star has now become a black hole that has sucked billions of billions of other stars and all their contents. Talent, virtues, ideas, thoughts--everything. All for him.

And now, instead of merely being reborn as a talentless mortal, he shall be reborn as a genius with the talent of trillions. To defy and alter the Heavenly Laws, to effortlessly end and an infinite amount of stars that held the lives of Kings and Emperors with merely your death, to choose how you are reborn. That. That is what it means to be an Immortal.

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She had to run. She had to run, but not for herself, but her baby. The pain of running while in labor was ceaseless, but as a mother, she could not birth a baby in such an environment where it could die the moment it sees the light. How could she ever live with herself after that? No, how could she even live right now? But she had to survive for the baby.

This woman is Liao Chen. Liao Feng's soon to be mother. She was a beauty that gave off a warm feeling of family, but right now, she was covered in dirt and soot while running away, tired, alone, and broken.

She trusted her husband. She gave him everything. And yet, he sold her off as a slave to receive a higher position in the Liu Clan's family. He was a disgusting bastard. However, no matter how much she despised him, as a mortal, she could not do anything against him, who was a cultivator and the Liu Clan. Her only option was to run away and hide, but looking at the situation now, it was too late.

Liao Chen despairingly looked at her surroundings. Blue-robed cultivators, all of which were men. They looked at her mockingly.

"Beauty Liao Chen. Why not stop the pathetic chase and come with us? I'm sure you are in much pain as of right now due to that baby. Please stop harming yourself and give up," one of the cultivators mocked.

She looked disgustingly at the man but was too tired to retort. She could feel her eyes growing more burdensome, and her limbs going numb. She had to do something, but what?

It was at this moment that she felt something chilly in the air, almost as if she were in a blizzard. She then looked around and saw the cultivators and the surrounding turn to ice.

'W-What? Where did all of this ice come from?' Liao Chen thought, confused.

Liao Chen instinctively looked up and saw a heavenly beauty with long cascading black hair with snow-white skin descending from the skies with her intricately decorated robes fluttering along with the wind.

Liao Chen immediately went to kneel, but her body was in aching pain, and before she could have the chance to at least bow her head in gratitude, she fell over, fainting.

The heavenly beauty immediately vanished and reappeared right under Liao Chen, allowing her to fall into her arms.

'Poor little girl. To be betrayed by her husband and forced to escape from pursuers while in labor. It should be against the Heavenly Dao for this to happen.'

Little did she know that this was the Heavenly Dao's only way of balancing out the good fortune that Liao Feng forcefully blessed himself with.

To no longer adjust to the Heavenly Dao but to make the Heavenly Dao adjust to oneself, that is what it means to be Immortal.