Chapter 58: Evolutionary Ascension

Heart Devil, more than just a saying, an actual intangible Being that is a representation of inner wickedness. It is birthed once, during a mortal’s Evolutionary Ascension, by a union between utmost desire and Nature.

Its reason for being is an instrument for Nature’s retaliation. Nature loves mortals and abhors Immortals, for it, they are all Beings that liberated themselves from the cycle of life to rein free in its cosmos and abuse its laws and elemental energies.

As a sort of obstacle and punishment, the Heart Devil nips at the culmination of the mortal Martial path, spoiling it. If not stopped, it will devour the entire cultivation base, leaving the ascendant bare to endure the Evolutionary Ascension, a death sentence. Caught and vanquished on time, a Heavenly Immortal would be born.

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On his knees, pupils rolled back, Zax bellowed to the light of purple sky that breached the cracks of the once impenetrable ceiling of New Earth.

His body was covered by ugly black burns, his right arm and left leg nothing but black bones, seemingly unrecoverable; the smoldering shockwave induced from a Heavenly Immortal’s attack came up short at taking the life of a cultivator in the Mortal Enlightenment state.

The aura of ascension shrouded him, as he was in the midst of evolution, but his lucid frame of mind was deprived of him by the scenes and sounds imposed on him by the Godly Retribution.

He saw them die, burnt to ash, saw them torn apart, crashed, yelling for help, blaming him ... he saw and heard over and over again in an unending sequence of agony.

He lost reason, wanted to die, consumed by unadulterated hatred, yet was feeble, capable of only loosening his voice until it, also, was too hoarse to make a sound.

Eventually he was brought to a physical and mental stillness, in the same wretched pose, whilst his Evolutionary Ascension proceeding toward failure.

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The energy signature of the Evolutionary Ascension rattled the Immortals to their core, not because of how unexpectedly it happened in this particular moment, but due to what their senses read from it.

Senior Ohar utilized eighty percent of his power to mend the Core Star, along General of the Armies Nikari and the four dozen Immortals who were influenced by his warning.

‘This is definitely the signature of a dark element Evolutionary Ascension’. He determined. ‘But the fluctuations are on a ridiculous scale! Is this birth of a new Heavenly Immortal the purpose I was sent here?’

General of the Armies Nikari had a nasty mug. After snatching the Godly Law Template and leaving, Violet Star Commander Kitanoriya rescinded her claim on the Core Star and so did His Holiness Morien, once he assumed it is irredeemable. However, General of the Armies Nikari had another hypothesis for His Holiness Morien’s irrational conduct ... The Almighty had already promised him something just as precious or even more than the Godly Law Template.

Worse still, now an Immortal was in the process of emerging from where the aboriginal supposed to be located!

With nothing but a Core Star and a Plain on the verge of collapse, even if by some sort of miracle, they will be able to salvage it, General of the Armies Nikari would be left with no reward worthy a Godly Law Template and someone with greater claim for the Core Star.

By law of the Three Valleys, the first aboriginal to successfully accomplish Evolutionary Ascension in his or her Home Star can raise a petition to reclaim it.

His Holiness Morien meaningfully stared below, his gaze piercing through the cracks to New Earth, landing on the miserable figure standing on its knees and leaning back, inaudibly wailing with an expression of sorrow.

Gradually, the solemn glint in his eyes softened. He silently uttered a prayer no one could hear, pointed his hand down and shot a white beam that traveled many times above the speed of light for Zax, a killing blow.

“This has gone too far...” A single phrase reverberated, sounding as if it originates from every corner of the planet, no! Every area in the entire Milky Way Plain.

Time stopped, or rather the following things to transpire happened so fast even to a Neonate Immortal like Senior Ohar an extreme instant had become months and years.

A lone woman, draped in a blue and shiny armor, at least three meters tall, appeared before Zax. She had a crown of seven short dark blue horns and azure skin. Her hair, which was just as long as her height, was pitch black.

She stood in silence after her five words proclamation, her gaze both peaceful and apologetic, as if there was nothing for her to learn since she already knew it all and now was only relating to a poor soul.

Glancing aside, she noted the concentrated beam of white element energy. She tapped it and it dissolved to the ether.

“That’s an intervention”. Suddenly a new voice said.

Next to the blue scheme seven horned woman and Zax, another figure appeared.

This time it was a man, muscular and short with dark brown skin, dark brown three pairs of eyes, dark brown hair and wearing a black robe with gray and white patterns. He had four arms folded and long pointy ears, no nose or lips.