LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 565: Visions (2)
Just from the fact that rather than making me understand everything with just few words, the current visions were forcing me to ask the questions to myself, I could see that either their efficiency was dropping, the fact that I stalled for too long with actually using them was affecting their quality, or maybe the complexity of the new questions that I was always going to ask was simply too much for those visions to handle.
"But what is this great void? Or rather, what is the void in the first place?"
With how different those visions were from what I expected, rather than waiting for answers I even went out of my way to ask the questions openly, yet still, I didn't receive a single answer.
"Just what the hell is that void…"
Considering how no more words were appearing in my mind while the visions continued to trap my consciousness, I could tell that there was something more to the show. But seeing how absolutely no changes appeared in this strange condensed space despite time continuously flowing, I realised that if I didn't do something about this fact, then my visions could very well last for the damned eternity!
"Just what is this void…"
With how big emphasis the voice from the visions put on this one element that I couldn't even see, the void, I was sure that I had to somehow understand what it really was myself before the visions would move forward.
Thinking about this, during the first instance of those wisdom visions appearing, they lasted for as long as it took me to understand the truth about the crucial mistake that cultivators of this world made when constructing their techniques. Back then, it was about how everyone considered cultivation to be an act going against the will of heaves, and that means that this time, it was about comprehending what the void was?
With this thought appearing in my mind, I instantly recalled all the information that I had about both the ultimate cultivation realms and the way of advancing towards the higher plane of the world.
From what Celleria told me, it advancing both in the immortal and grand sage realms required one to harness either greater or purer form of the power of decay. Initially, I thought that it was the entropy that she meant. After all, while it was a destructive force or rather, destructive factor in this part of the world, by reversing the scale, it would act as the basic constructive fabric of the other part of the world.
But how did this entropy and the magical force connected to the void? Or maybe I was simply overthinking everything?
If entropy was on one end of the general scale, with magic appearing on the other end, and just like energy in the world that I came from, they both were the true basic building block of everything in the world, just in a different form, then wouldn't the void be a state of the energy so stable, so devoid of any potential that it would be represented by the perfect middle of the power scale?
As soon as this thought appeared in my mind, the entire surroundings changed, as if the two layers of the universe that were on top of each other with each of my eyes responsible for seeing only one of them, separated.
But rather than parting ways and turning into two separate wholes, they once again took the shape of a double cone, connected with its spicy end. Once again I was reminded of this model of the universe, where the further one got from the middle point connecting two cones, the stronger the influence of either the magical energy of the entropy was!
"Does that mean…"
Suddenly connecting the facts, I realised one thing. If one could advance through the stages of the immortality by increasing the amount of entropy in his cultivation, there had to be a breaking point where the magic his body and soul would be soaked in, would finally come into the conflict with the growing potency of the entropy. Whenever it would happen, I could see how parts of one's cultivation would be cleaned out of the magic, with entropy taking its place.
By extending this example, did that mean that in order to advance from one world to another, one had to completely remove all the energy, be it negative or positive, from his body, so that the void would pull it's into itself, and then use that momentum to break to through the bottleneck connecting the two words?
But that obviously defeated the point that I was trying to currently understand. What if someone managed to clear his body with entropy from all the traces of energy in such a gentle way, that rather than shooting past the bottleneck, he would end up right inside of it?
BOOM!
As if the entire universe shook in its foundations, I could feel my vision blurring, with those two twin universes I saw stretching through time and space, as if by understanding this point I was finally allowed to see past the curtain that covered everyone's eyes!
Righ in this very moment, rather than looking at the universe from the point of view within one, my perception was moved to the side, shedding all the limits that one accustomed to the normal rules would always have to obey!
In this very moment, the time itself turned into nothing more than another dimension that I was capable of scanning through, but whenever I attempted to actually interact with the world itself, it seemed as if this complete lack of potential of my current state, rather than attracting energy, repulsed it?
Blink.
With not even a single word more, I suddenly came back to my senses, with my right hand stretched in the same way that I just attempted to tear a hole in that imaginary universe. But rather than pulling it back to a more natural position, I decided that testing this little discovery out seemed to be a nice idea!
"Just take a bit of magic… Use it to create a complete vacuum…"
Muttering to myself, I quickly whipped out a small ball of perfect vacuum, devoid of everything but the very fabric of the world itself.
"Now just infuse it with entropy to the taste…"
With no advanced structures to dissolve, the entropy that I infused within this enclosed system, instantly started eating away at the very fabric of the space. But rather than making it disappear and make a place for the void itself, it seemed to just… dilute the space?
Both confused and curious about this event, I continued to fine-tune the amount of entropy that I infused inside while doing my best to limit it to just the right amount, all the way to the point where I could tell that space itself was at the verge of collapsing.
"Now… let's see how efficient it is…"
Rather than letting this strange entity go free in the direct proximity, I pushed the ball of magic that enclosed the unstable space all the way to the absolute limit of how far my eyes could see, finally infusing the last, tiny strand of entropy inside its system where I could only barely recognise that it was still there.
SZZIT!