Transcending Limits

"A man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains."

Sheng Tian felt his vision blurry as his body started losing strength.

His sharp eyebrows furrowed as his sky-blue pupils shrunk, he clutched his heart. He gritted his teeth and clenched his jaw as his handsome face distorted in pain.

Even with his breathtaking features which could make him a model, he was a human after all. Limited in lifespan, experience and existence.

Warm, thick blood gushed out of his chest as he collapsed on to the ground.

Death was never so close. At that moment, his sixteen years of life flashed in his mind.

The parents he never met.

The foster mother who left him all alone years ago.

The poverty he faced, the nights of hunger, the misery of life.

He wanted to end his life many times and let it all vanish, but a burning desire to break his limitations and achieve freedom- a small hope to one day find his parents- were the only things which kept him going.

But Reality was cruel. As the years rolled, he got used to the reality of life or rather, grown to despise it.

There were many things he wanted to change. Find his parents, explore the vast universe, reach beyond human. Yet, it seemed like a pipe dream. Distraught, he curled himself avoiding his own dreams.

He was smart, but it only served as a tool to survival.

He only focused on enjoying the present. Such an attitude was born from an extreme detachment of life and lack of hopes for the future.

He knew that he was in a bubble which might break anytime, the life he was telling himself was just his way of escaping the reality.

When reality comes crashing down, he would have no choice but to face it.

Today, he was going to a cafe to read some novels, as always, to keep himself engaged.

When he was about to reach the cafe, he heard the sounds of a lady's heels approaching his direction.

Before he could even turn around, he felt a fierce burning pain in his chest. Looking down, his heart area was bleeding.

The warm blood tingled his insides as it flowed out like a broken dam. He collapsed.

As he felt life leaving his body, Sheng Tian, after witnessing his whole life in a second before death, had a single thought

'I won't submit to this world. I didn't meet my parents. My life was an entire waste.

If there is an afterlife, I will break the limits this bloody world made and transcend everything. Fuck the impossible!'

Before his vision completely turned blank, he saw a young woman collapsing next to him, with her white dress dyed red. He vaguely saw her silver hair as everything turned blank.

*** *** ***

A white light shone in the space as Sheng Tian felt a bit dizzy and drowsily opened his eyes.

He presumed that he is in his Soul Form. Before he could even think of why he didn't die, the speed of his travel rocketed exponentially and a marvelous sight came into view.

What greeted his vision was a wall which seemed like a curtain spread across the universe and Sparkled with all colours, seemingly outshining the Whole Universe by its brilliance.

The Huge Curtain seemed to hide a huge and vast world on the other side, looking like an aurora borealis magnified on a universal scale.

The force propelling him forward seem to increase all of a sudden as a pathway was formed in the Boundless Curtain.

Sheng Tian saw nothing but a flash of colours beyond his wildest imagination as he unknowingly voyaged across the multi-verse breaking the Universal barriers.

After an unknown period of time, he arrived at a mysterious place

Sheng Tian felt as if Space-Time itself were originating from this place. It gave him the feeling completely different from any of the others he experienced in his journey across cosmos.

A sphere that seemed to be so bright that it illuminated light itself was shining brightly in the space. Its beauty is unmatched. This large sphere dazzled with every colour as space itself was dyed with its light.

Sheng Tian never felt so small as the gigantic waves of light swept through space shimmering, weaving an unbelievably aesthetic Cosmic picture.

The force propelling his soul pushed him forward and Sheng Tian soon entered the mysterious Vast sphere.

Inside that vast sphere, there is was a white smaller sphere shining with incomparable white brilliance.

Sheng Tian got a feeling as if time and space froze, life and death were transcended, he felt as if he arrived at the origin of everything.

Sheng Tian found himself strangely attracted to the small sphere. When he finally touched it, it encompassed his whole being as Sheng Tian experienced a euphoric feeling beyond the realm of words.

And in his mind, a name appeared for the small sphere, 'Origin'

*** *** ***

At a place far far away from Earth, there is a place which was way beyond the concept of "Paradise".

In an ancient palace made of shining crystals, was a Young man, looking to be around 20 years was seated on a Crystal Throne. He slowly opened his eyes.

He was very handsome and had a thin frame. He had sharp eyebrows, golden pupils and a sharp jawline.

His thin lips curled into a faint smile. His golden hair looked godly.

His eyes each seemed to contain the secrets of the Universe as he calmly stood up.

His every action made the laws of the World resonate with him. He was like a god of the world, surmounting everything.

He gazed deeply in a direction and enigmatically smiled"The barrier is finally broken. I should get ready."

"That is inevitable. The amusing question is, 'Who did the Absolute Orig.., no, Origin, choose?'" he sneered.

The entire realm's temperature dropped and every being there, who could destroy stars with a flick of their finger, felt intensely suffocated.