Pure-Heart (9)

The massive humanoid trembled. This humanoid mass of purple light wasn't blessed with any features like a nose, mouth, eyes, or ears but, Pure-Heart could sense it.

The being was staring at him with a gaze filled with endless hatred. Right after, a deadly killing intent penetrated through Pure-Heart's body.

It was as if thousands of bombs had exploded around his soul. As if countless swords, blades, and sabers had stabbed into his consciousness.

He had lost any sense of reality. The only thing he could feel right now was...

DEATH!

This was the closest thing to him. This was the only thing present in all his possible future paths and destinies.

The great being pulled back its arm before sending it toward Pure-Heart whose figure seemed like a little toddler next to an elephant.

Thrum!

Pure-Heart's eyes contained a trace of anger, regret, and fear. But, most of all, he had reluctance, truly unwilling to fall in the face of the cosmos.

And though his situation seemed horrid, he still coldly laughed.

'The consciousness of this place can't stand what I just did. Once life disappears in the whole cosmos, it'll have no choice but to enter another samsara...'

'From what I've observed through the previous one, once it enters a new samsara, the previous consciousness would die. So technically, I've killed my enemy, the only downside is...'

The palm traveled fast. Soo fast that even someone whose thoughts traveled at a speed faster than time, couldn't finish his thoughts.

Pure-Heart's vision was completely blocked by the palm. He was still unwilling but, in the face of true power beyond comprehension, what can one do?

No tricks can face true might. In the face of true oppression, nothing can help. No matter how unwilling, Pure-Heart's fate was sealed.

BOOM!

The palm landed.

It landed on a massive beam that blocked its path toward Pure-Heart's body. This beam contained twelve different auras.

Each aura was more mysterious than the other as the beam broke apart into countless fragments of light.

These fragments formed golden patterns.

These golden patterns, ancient characters then rushed toward the humanoid cosmos like a river, completely enveloping it before...

Thrum!

'This...'

Pure-Heart's brows furrowed. What his eyes saw, he questioned it himself before, they slowly lit up in understanding.

"Hahahahaha!..."

Bursting into a peal of laughter, he then said. "Of course. Hehe, how can the cosmos simply kill whoever they want? If this was the case, there wouldn't be those things, those Operation Laws...!"

Seeing the golden patterns formed on the body of the humanoid being much larger than his multi-light-year-sized body, his grin widened.

BOOM!

The humanoid body exploded into a mist of purple energy, leaving the void with only those mysterious patterns remaining.

Sigh!

"The cosmos, I can already feel it..." Pure-Heart's voice trembled. "The Operation Laws forcefully suppressed it, even injured it greatly. Well, it seems this is the price to attack me. Hehe, and it didn't even harm me... -!"

But, before Pure-Heart could even finish his sentence, his persona changed. The mysterious Operation Laws, the golden patterns in the void...

They all turned into streams of golden light and rushed toward Pure-Heart's figure!

Before he could even react, his skin riddled with wounds was already filled with tattoos of these golden ancient characters.

Shocked, he watched as his palms, his arms, his shoulders, chest, stomach, legs, ankles, feet, then neck, face, and finally, his head were all filled with these tattoos.

Gradually, he finally realized something.

The power, the control over the mysteries of the universe, even his insights into the origin of mysteries, all of it was disappearing!

"Huh!" Pure-Heart's brain buzzed. "No... No no no!" His eyes showed how frantic his thoughts were becoming.

In seconds, all his comprehension of the origin of mysteries had disappeared!

In seconds, countless hundreds of millions of years of comprehension disappeared.

He was already back to where he was when he had just awakened from enlightenment.

But, it was these seconds that were necessary. In these seconds, it was enough for him to think, analyze, think, and conclude.

In his chest, a greyish-purple spherical object had burst out!

As soon as this happened, his body exploded...

Something shocking truly took place. It seemed that even the Operation Laws didn't expect this as they quickly disappeared.

The explosion of a being beyond comprehension. A being who was the first to be created by the Ancient Universe...

This explosion brought about a massive whole revealing the grey space. For the second time, the grey space broke into the Ancient Universe.

A change from the last time had already taken place.

The mysterious grey space enveloped the spherical object that burst out of Pure-Heart's body, and soon the whole Ancient Universe.

It seemed like an instant later, and it already disappeared. Inside the Ancient Universe was now an empty purple space.

The spherical object, previously a greyish-purple color was now dominated by gray similar to the gray space which just retreated.

Around this peculiar object that had originated from inside the fleshy body of Pure-Heart, the space was constantly distorting.

Slowly, it seemed to merge with the space.

The dark purple space, around the area of hundreds of millions of miles, slowly became a gray similar to outside the universe...

By the time it had finished fusing, it was impossible to tell whether it was an exact mirror of the outside, or a space still inside the Ancient Universe.

Like this, time passed...

Unimaginable changes took place. It was much different compared to after the first samsara. The reason?

Maybe due to the fact that the Operation Laws suppressed the universe itself. After all, now there wasn't any suppression of the power due to its injuries.

A pity the one being who would benefit the most had already died... Or, at least, this was what the universe itself thought.

Even though there was that gray space it had left behind, it was thought to be a space connected to the grey space outside.

Anyway, the universe was considered lucky. At least the Operation Laws had rid it of the one calling himself Pure-Heart.

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...

Inside the grey area of the Ancient Universe, it seemed to be a whole universe of itself. Inside this grey area, there was a small purple dot.

This purple dot expanded, constantly merging with more of the grey space.

As this happened, similar to the actual universe, stars, starry skies, star fields, and a universe was formed.

But, as its existence was much different, as if influenced by another will, it didn't stop as the universe formed. More universes took shape.

There were normal universes and special universes. Some contained mysteries while others simply contained normal laws.

Most universes formed life, whether it be the normal universes or the special universes, all formed life.

Beyond the creation of the universe, a mysterious object in the shape of a planet also formed.

This object was much larger than any universe and contained much more mysteries.

Life was also formed in this place. Unlike the universes though, the life on this large planet had either purple hair or grey hair, like a symbol of sorts.

It wasn't always like this though.

Born with the ability to cultivate power, after reaching a certain level, the souls of these beings would split, forming giving birth to either the grey-haired entities.

Though they took on the same appearance, they formed a natural dislike for one another as the one who survives the inevitable fight to the death would find their strength sharply rise, as if blessed by a mysterious power.