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The Nine Heavens trembled, rainbow-colored lightning spreading, stantly attempting to destroy my body with each strike. Primordial Essence flowed through my body as I stared at the os that the Nine Heavens’ colorful yer of clouds hid from all of us, even Immortals.
My Assion was only halfway through, but I was already beginning to feel the accumuted damage. Heaven’s Will was not happy with what I was trying to do. Its endless power surged across the Nine Heavens, stantly attempting to interrupt my transformation, my evolution, and the breaking of my s.
The damned s of Fate that have kept me enclosed in this horrid world for thousands of years, where Might makes Right. People called it by many names, but the most on s inhabitants gave it was "Murim,” a World of Martial Arts, Immemorial Treasures, Myth and Legends, as well as a world of bloodshed, ruthlessness, and endless battles for supremacy.
RUMBLE!
More lighting strikes struck me; my Primordial Nine Heaven Prote was slowly beginning to weaken, a special Immortal Teique I refined using the Fragments that fell from the Nine Heavens ihical Era of this world’s creation.
Crack… CRACK!
The rainbow-colored barrier of light began to slowly gain cracks, slowly starting to shatter into pieces. My Primordial Essence was also dwindling. I’d been doing this for a year now, yet it felt like only minutes had passed.
“Not even with the Nine Heaven Prote will I be able to Asd?! Heaven’s Will! How many years will you have to torment me?!”
As if responding to my words, the Nine Heavens started to swirl around. The rge cra the Spatial Pilrs I had made was beginning to slowly close. The iergy ing from it, bathing my body and allowio slowly refine my Primordial Essence Core, was beginning to disappear. Without it, I won’t be able to asd into an Immemorial Void!
“STOP!”
With a mighty roar, I unleashed my teiques, which I’ve saved until this very moment. tless colors appeared around me, dang as beautiful butterflies reached the skies, immediately exploding into swirling storms of Primordial Essehe Nine Heavens were affected, slowly beginning to weaken.
At the same time, I uhed my sword, one divided into bd white clowing with the power of the Primordial Essence of Yin and Yang. This was a sword I fed using the body and soul of the Divine Harmony Venerable, whom I felled a hundred years ago. That damned old man was a tough nut to crack.
“Haah!”
With a roar that reverberated across the heavens and the ey of Murim, I swung my sword with all my strength. A wave of bd white energy was unleashed, splitting the nine heavens again. An explosion ht and tenebrous essences engulfed it all. The World’s Will was furious, and I had finally attaihe power to go against it.
“Ugh…!”
But even then, I vomited blood; my Dantians were struggling to keep up with all the energy I was f myself to absorb from the os above. I always khis was going to be a painful and agonizing process, but it seems that even after all my calcutions, it was still a gamble—a desperate gamble to escape from this world. In a world that had me trapped in an endless cycle of death, bloodshed, aru for over ten thousand years, I’ve lived so long that I barely remember who I used to be before I nded in this world.
I don’t even remember the fay mother or of my little sister, not even the name of my father. All these memories that this world was slowly taking away from me made me so mad. I wasn’t from here, and I tried so hard to fight and survive.
And even after reag the pinnacle...
“You dare oppose me?! After everything I’ve done?! After all the things I’ve aplished! Wasn’t this what you wanted me to do?! Wasn’t this the reason yed me here, Heaven’s Will?! Show yourself! Speak to me!” Despite how old I was, I couldn’t help but feel a surge of emotions, perhaps the first ones in thousands of years. Tears fell from my eyes.
“Very well…”
Suddenly, a heavenly voice spoke, a mix between a female and male voice, but not o felt like thousands or millions of people speaking at the same time. The Nine Heavens swirled together, their essences bining into a materialization of pure Primordial Essence of the highest and most refined grade, Heavenly Essence!
A humanoid figure appeared, resembling a god made of stars and rainbow light. It looked down oh its bright, shining eyes. It had no mouth, no nose, or anything else but bright eyes that could see it all.
“So you finally show yourself." I smirked, blood still ing from my mouth. “The Legends of the A Venerables describing the “Heaven’s Will Embodiment” were true all along!”
“Bing Xue, or should I call you Katherihe Heaven’s Will Embodiment spoke. “You have indeed worked hard. You’re the first person in this entire world to reach the pinnacle of pinnacles. Yet you still desire more. I’ve offered you a life full of excitement and power, yet you desire to leave me now."
What is this bastard talking about? Leave them?
“You…” I muttered with a disgusted face. “What are you?”
“I am Heaven’s Will, and I am also someone who has fallen for you, my dear Bing Xue.” The entity muttered. “I don’t want you to go. You’re my everything—powerful, mighty, domineering, yet full of beautiful, delicate emotions inside! A beautiful rose that protects her beautiful interior with sharp thorns. What is there not to love here? Since you were dragged here by a Spatial Disturbahat I’ve been you all this time. I’ve gained a greater sciousness by prehending the struggles aions of someone. I might no longer be just the embodiment of the world’s will. All thanks to you.”
“You sick fug thing..." I spoke with disgust. “I’m not into primordial isters. I like girls, you know?”
“I be a girl; I be anything you want. So please, Bing Xue. The very reason I have not killed you yet is because you’re precious to me. e to me; let us assimite one another. I will give you the privilege of asding into a Heavenly Will! We will be together forever—no more struggles, no more pain for you! Isn’t that what you desire the most?!” The Heaven’s Will asked, spreading their bulky arms.
So this whole time... The Heavenly Will was in love with me! What sort of sick fug plot twist is this? All my efforts, all the fights, and all the friends I’ve lost All because of some sick bastard that loved me.
I won’t accept this!
“No… I reject your offer, Heaven’s Will.” I spoke, eling all my power at once, as I directed my eyes into the cra the Spatial Pilrs. “I won’t let anybody me down anymore. I am free, and I will die with my freedom! I always hated you; do you truly believe I will ever accept you?! I would rather die!”
“So that is your decision." The Heaven’s Will Embodiment nodded. “Then I will simply have to forcefully extract your Immortal Soul and devour it. You will bee oh me, like many others."
So the reason they have so many voices is because of their souls?! This mohis isn’t the will of heaven; this is just an aberrant monstrosity!
“I won’t let you!”
I flew towards them with all my strength and power. My Primordial Essence rapidly coursed through every Immortal Dantian of my body. My Primordial Core shone brightly with gold light. My Primordial Nine Heaven Teique enpassed my body into a rainbow-colored dragon armor as I swung my sword.
A storm of attacks was unleashed, and the Heaven’s Will Embodiment was cut down to pieces in an instant. Exploding with rainbow fmes, I quickly flew upwards, only to see owo, three, four, and five more of them!
“You ’t escape!”
“I won’t let you escape."
“e back, my precious Bing Xue!”
“NO!”
I spun in midair. Waves of rainbow divine essence were unleashed, explosions of colorful fmes engulfing them as the heavens reverberated more. The skies cracked; the ic Gate I had opeo absorb iergy was my only way out. I had not used it before because I knew I would definitely die. But now, I had to gamble and see if that was really true. Even if it is minuscule, there could be a ce to get me out of here alive. And even then, I would rather die trying than stay with this creep.
“You’re not going anywhere, Bing Xue! You’re mine!”
Gigantids made of rainbow clouds caught me in midair, dragging me down. Beams of light rushed down towards me, pierg through my armor and shattering it with each impact. I gritted my teeth as I forced my ward, kig the sky below me until cracks appeared in spad time.
“I don’t belong to anybody!” I sshed my way through. Heaven’s Will tore apart my armor and then grabbed my legs, which, as I flew upwards, were quickly torn from my own body. The pain was the least of my worries. I kept flying upwards, faster, and faster!
“DON’T GO!”
The cries of Heaven’s Will tinued reverberating as I stretched my arms upward. His tless hands tore my body to shreds, yet my torso and my head mao reach the portal, a sea of stars greeting me. I triggered a Martial Dao Teique left in my heart as my body slowly regeed.
“Goodbye, motherfucker.”
With my newly regeed legs, I kicked his fad then leaped into the unknown. I could hear his screams filled with frustration; his power could no longer extend out of Murim. I couldn’t breathe now, and only an endless, enpassing ess started c my body. I floated in an endless sea of stars, my energy slowly decreasing.
“Hahaha… So this is freedom!”
My life force began to dwindle as I tried to resist my attempts to cultivate the iergy here, but it didn’t work properly, only destroying my internal ans in the process of assimition. I had not reached the Immemorial Void Realm, so surviving in the os was impossible.
I was going to die. Yet, I couldn’t help but feel so happy. I was finally free—free from all the bloodshed, from all the pain, from that monster. From everything…
Although I was dying happily, I still wished for ohing.
“I wish I could see my family again.”
RUMBLE!
As my eyes were slowly closing, I noticed something within the endless os—a spiraling mass of chaos. Slowly, my body was dragged iwisting and trespassing through tless dimensional membranes. I fell unscious before I could even prehend what was happening.
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I dreamed of ing back with my family and finally meeting them again. I couldn’t remember their faces, so they were faceless. But they were there; they greeted me with hugs and kisses. And I hugged them back. I thought I could finally go back to those times, but I knew deep down that I was dreaming, perhaps the st dream before my death.
Yet, I wish it could st a bit longer.
“Hey, miss! Are you alright?”
Voices started speaking to me. Perhaps I was halluating, remembering my past when I was weak and pathetic, running away from danger while hiding like a rat. It took me ten whole years to finally begin cultivating when I appeared in Murim out of nowhere. Most of the first ten years were spent trying to live normally, yet I was always caught in danger.
“It’s dangerous to sleep in the middle of the streets, you know?”
It was a harsh life, but I never gave up. I tried to sell all kinds of things; I even started a small farm of Mystic Grass that could recover some Ki Energy when processed into pills—anything to get by. I never sold my body, and I always kept fighting, even against a world mostly dominated by men.
“This is bad... Should I call the ambunce?”
That damned voice, ’t it let me have my monologue in peace?!
“What do you want?! Leave me alone already!”
“Uaagh!”
Suddenly, as I opened my eyes, I found myself in an alleyway. Right in front of me, there was an old, homeless-looking man who had fallen to the floor in shock as I screamed at him.
Huh.
“Hm?” I looked at myself. I was alive and fine. My clothes were slightly torn down but were beginning tee thanks to their natural self-repair abilities. “What happened? Is this another dream? Hey, you, the mortal over there. What’s your name? I don’t remember ever meeting you.”
“Huh? Eh?! I-I am Jose... I was just looking at the trash, like every day, and you appeared out of nowhere. I was shocked! So I tried to help. Sorry! I didn’t intend anything else; I swear!” He cried. “Don’t call the cops on me, please."
“Hmph…” I looked into his eyes.
My eyes shoh some Immortal Essence as I activated the Nine-Colored All-Seeing Eyes. It could detect lies ahrough all the information. And indeed, he was telling the truth; he was an ho man.
“I see. Well, sorry for startling you. you stand up?” I offered him my hand. I wasn’t going to hurt an i mortal; I wasn’t a Demonic Cultivator. In fact, I killed most of them.
“Y-Yes, thank you. Damn, you sure are tall, Missy." He looked up at me. “You’re like… over two meters?"
“Hm? Ah, well, it es with Cultivating my Physique for the Immortal Realm. I used to be a rather small girl. Wait a moment.” I quickly grabbed the man’s clothes, lifting him. “Are you some sort of Nightmare Demon that trapped me inside his Domain?!”
“What?! No, I’m not that!” The man cried. “Are you an Awakened Person, miss?! You’re s- Ugh!”
“Ah…” I let him go once I realized he was telling the truth. “So this is reality? This is not a dream…”
I looked around in utter disbelief, my eyes deteg everything as the truth—it was reality; it existed, after dreaming of these streets, of these blue skies, of these tall buildings, and of these cars for thousands of years.
I was finally back?!
“I’m back…? I’m back…” I muttered in disbelief, tears flowing from my eyes. “I’m finally babsp;I’M BACK!”
As I cried and ughed, I lifted little Jose with my arms and celebrated. He was shocked and g out of horror, but I ighat.
“Hahahaha! I’m back! Thank you so much, mortal! I will never fet your act of kindness! I owe you a favor.” I smiled at him, him a gold . “This is an Immemorial Gold ! It probably costs something, right? Buy yourself some food with it.”
“Is this a gold ? T-Thanks!” He almost stole it off my hands; he seemed quite desperate.
I left the old man behind as I leaped onto the building’s rooftop, admiring the city arou was not just a simple city; this enormous, slightly ugly city was full of shitty people. This was in New York. I was bae.
“Did I somehow get teleported back to Earth through that bck hole that swallowed me?” I woo myself, admiring the modern city and the bright sun bathing my body. “My power… It has certainly weakened after that fight against Heaven’s Will, and then going through that Bck Hole. Maybe I lost around… thirty pert of my total strength? And almost all my Primordial Essence. I will o recover more- Wait, no! That doesn’t matter right now! I o see what year it is!”
I quickly leaped back to Jose, who was ruminating through the trash.
“Jose!” I called him.
“Uwaagh!The crazy woman again—I mean, yes?!” He cried.
“I will ighat remark for now,” I said with a stern voice. “Tell me, what year is it? I remember leaving when it was roughly... 2013?”
“It is the year 2024; why?” He wondered.
“So I’ve been away for eleven years only? But it was... almost eleven thousand years in Murim!” I gasped. “So that world had such a huge time differeh Earth. No, wait, it's still a lot! Over a decade has passed! My little sister must be an adult now, and my mother... I o go bae! Thank you, mortal Jose. I will be leaving now. If you ever want your favor repaid, just call me and I will e to your aid.”
“A-Ah, yes…” The gray-bearded old man stared in disbelief as I stepped into midair and ran through the skies at lightning speed. Even without any Primordial Essence, I still had Immortal Essend Ki Energy in near-infinite quantities. I simply had to refi bato Primordial Esseer!
If I remember correctly, my house artment we were paying fether with mom, around York Avenue, a white building! I looked around as I reached York Avenue, notig that most old buildings were gone; new ones had been built. I also noticed that there was a huge building called “Hunters Association” for some reason, but I decided to ighat for now.
“Ah, there it is! Thanks to the heavens! No, wait, I shouldn't say that anymore. Thank God it’s not gone!”
I flew into the white building, notig most of the surrounding ones had been rebuilt. There was some sort of catastrophe here in the past... Something must have happened. Does it have anything to do with the strange Hunter Association and the walls surrounding New York?
“Apartment number... 16, right?”
As I flew around, old memories started blossoming in my mind. My smile only got wider as I reached apartment 16 and knocked on the dently. Someone slowly came to open it—a young man! Who is this guy?!
“Huh? A cospyer? Yes, do you need something?” He wondered, looking at my attire with strange looks and raising an eyebrow.
“Cospyer?! How dare a mortal call me that? These clothes have been made by sewing the Immemorial Heavenly Dew Silk extracted from the Moonless Heavenly Void Silkworm!” I roared. “Who are you, though? Are you reted to my mother and my little sister? Do the names “Ruby” and “Elena”, ring any bells?”
“Ruby’s my girlfriend- Wait, are you one of her freak friends?” He wondered. “She’s home… Let me call for her.”
“I’m not her freak friend; I am her damned older sister! Move aside; I’ve had enough of you. Mortals should simply bow down to immortals the moment they see them.” I smmed the man away as he fell to the floor and groaned in pain. He was fine, just a drama queen. “St; I am fairly sure I broke no bones. I am a gentle dy.” I smiled back at him.
“Wait, where are you going?! You said you’re Ruby’s sister? There’s no way; her sister died in an act like ten years ago!”
I ignored him; I was clearly alive. I opehe door to my sister’s room, finding her awake, her eyes widening in shock. Her long bck hair, her cute blue eyes, and her baby face—she had grown and developed more, but it was still my little sister Ruby! The st time I saw her, she was barely 14, but now she must be around 25, right?
“Ruby! Y sister is finally bae." I spread my arms, waiting for her hug. “e to big sis!”
“Uwaaaah! Get away from here, you thief! Juan?! JUAN, CALL THE POLICE!”
I guess it’s fair she didn’t reize me at first; I’ve gohrough almost eleven thousand years’ worth of aging, de-aging, and body transformation.
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Pach
"Bing Xue, my dear! Where do you think yoing? You belong to me. You're mine. Let us bee one!"
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