Chapter 143: Final Chapter

"Lord Xiao En, please speak." The Dark Sovereign Erui Bos replied with a smiling face immediately;

He was also fearful; with Xiao En's current power, killing him would be a mere wave of the hand, and he also knew that among Xiao En's descendants, the most promising son was cultivating the Dark Law, and even the duel between Xiao En and Augusta wagered the Dark Middle Divine Sovereign rank;

Now the balance among Divine powers has been broken, and the old Divine Covenant surely has little effect for Xiao En, the strongest;

Xiao En said, "Bring me the angels that were sacrificed from the Abiya material plane back then."

At first, because the last Soul Pearl's scattered soul aura hadn't been found, Xiao En didn't rush to reclaim the soul auras from the Dark and Light angels;

First, because the angels on both sides belong to the Dark and Light Sovereigns, there was no need to clash outright; second, after the Underworld–Heaven plane war, the angels exhibited a "fear of death" phenomenon, attracting many Divine attentions, so the Dark and Light Sovereigns locked those angels away separately to study the cause.

Now only the last few soul auras remain, and their locations are known; having become invincible across the universe, he naturally wants to retrieve the auras to understand what this Soul Pearl truly is.

The Dark Sovereign hurriedly agreed, "Yes, Lord Xiao En."

Xiao En nodded, then looked at a Middle Light Sovereign, "Dalian, Augusta should have locked away the few angels who evaded the battlefield back then; go find them and bring them to me."

"Yes, Sovereign." Dalian bowed quickly and said.

Now Xiao En is the Light Sect Sovereign, and his strength is the strongest among the Divine collective; the Light‑aligned Divines are naturally in high spirits;

Xiao En glanced at all the Divines again and said, "Everyone, disperse."

"Yes." All the Divines, faced with Xiao En's supreme power, obediently complied in unison.

Quickly, Dalian and the Dark Sovereign located the appropriate individuals and brought them to Xiao En on Youluo Island.

"All right, you may return now." Xiao En, seeing the numbers complete, smiled contentedly.

Erui Bos and Dalian bowed quickly, "Yes, Lord Xiao En."

After they left, they happened upon Tuoya and Bulaier outside; Tuoya had become a Middle Dark Sovereign, which eased Erui Bos's lingering worry;

"Both of you, shall we have tea together?" Water Sovereign Bulaier laughed.

Erui Bos naturally replied, "Fine."

Inside the palace, Xiao En easily reclaimed the soul auras from several angels; the Soul Pearl within his body, after absorbing all the auras, emitted an extremely potent soul aura, far stronger than Xiao En's own soul power, seemingly of a different tier.

"This feeling is completely unlike that of the Supreme Deity."

Xiao En had seen the Supreme Deity a few times; although its power was beyond his comprehension and touch, before the Soul Pearl's might he felt it vastly inferior.

The Soul Pearl's power gradually rose, a strange sensation spreading within Xiao En; between Heaven and Earth, an odd pressure suddenly manifested everywhere.

"Is Heaven and Earth rejecting the Soul Pearl?" Xiao En suddenly felt a ridiculous notion, yet upon deeper perception it seemed true.

At that moment, deep within Xiao En's mind, an unfamiliar voice rang, "Hahaha, it truly is."

"Who?" Xiao En was startled; even with his fused Divine consciousness, he hadn't detected who was speaking, and he sensed the voice wasn't transmitted sound but some method he didn't understand.

The unfamiliar voice sounded again, "I am Hong Meng. If you wish to see me, communicate with the power of the pearl inside you; its power will bring you to me."

"Hong Meng?" Xiao En's guess proved correct, but as he considered the words, his soul sensed the Soul Pearl; upon feeling his consciousness, countless soul forces merged with its soul;

Instantly, his Divine consciousness expanded to encompass the entire universe: the eleven Divine realms, countless material planes, boundless space turbulence; any tiny object or creature within fell under his consciousness, far stronger than before, and it felt not like consciousness but a different tier of existence.

Suddenly, his soul seemed to sense something beyond the space turbulence; his soul seeped outward and instantly perceived, beyond the turbulence, a destructive energy that immediately detected Xiao En's soul power and attempted to devour it, yet could not sway it.

"So this is Hong Meng's space?" Xiao En instantly realized his location: "I didn't expect my body couldn't transcend into it, but my soul can? What exactly is this Soul Pearl?"

Lin Lei achieved transcendence through the fusion of Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind Divine powers; Hong Meng had said that is the only way, so even though Xiao En has become the strongest being between Heaven and Earth, he still doesn't know how to transcend.

If it truly cannot be done, then he can only continue to roam freely within the Panlong Universe, which still grants him endless longevity;

Yet he didn't expect the Soul Pearl to possess such ability, allowing his soul to enter Hong Meng's space.

"Hahaha, come to where I dwell first." Hong Meng's voice resurfaced; Xiao En felt a direction, flew toward it, and after a long journey arrived at a solitary island with a house and a middle‑aged man sitting inside, sipping something.

Xiao En's soul power also took human form and arrived on the island;

Hong Meng, seemingly curious, looked at Xiao En and laughed, "Sit down. It's a pity you're here in soul form; otherwise you could have joined me for a drink."

"What place is this, and who are you?" Xiao En asked knowingly.

Hong Meng explained, "Hahaha, I am"

As Hong Meng continued, Xiao En naturally "understood" and asked, "Since the Hong Meng aura here can assimilate everything, what is my soul form? And what about the Soul Pearl inside me?"

Hong Meng smiled and explained, "This begins with the initial opening of your magical universe's Heaven and Earth. Shortly after your universe's birth, a soul not belonging to my Hong Meng universe arrived—from outside, from a place even I don't know, namely you."

"Wait, 'shortly after Heaven and Earth opened'? When exactly is this 'shortly'?" Xiao En asked immediately.

His appearance coincided with the sixth Supreme Deity mission, which certainly isn't 'shortly after Heaven and Earth opened,' right?

Hong Meng recalled, "Probably when your universe's Divine Sovereign descended."

"When the Divine Sovereign descended? Yet by the time I was born, billions upon billions of years had already passed," Xiao En asked, puzzled.

Hong Meng said, "That's because when you entered the magical universe, you didn't become a living being directly; you existed in a vague state, drifting between Heaven and Earth;

Moreover, the magical universe has an unknown Heaven‑and‑Earth law: any deceased being, after its soul flies apart, has its soul essence recombine to form a new soul;

This was normal, but because your soul existed, a problem arose; the Heaven‑and‑Earth law didn't recognize your soul, yet it persisted, so over time your soul instinctively absorbed other souls' power to strengthen itself;

Eventually, after an unknown span, your soul grew strong enough to materialize into a pearl."

"Soul Pearl? You mean the Soul Pearl is me?" Xiao En was shocked;

He had thought the Soul Pearl might be a treasure surpassing even the Supreme Artifacts, but never imagined it was himself, a bug in the Heaven‑and‑Earth law after his crossing, eventually forming this thing.

Hong Meng smiled, "Yes, you are the Soul Pearl. Originally you couldn't become a living being; the Heaven‑and‑Earth law forbade it. Later your material form was wounded by a Supreme Artifact; although the artifact absorbed the Soul Pearl's aura, the Soul Pearl also took on the Supreme Deity's aura;

Thus another loophole emerged; after drifting in space turbulence for countless billions of years, the Soul Pearl approached a material plane, entered it, and formed a soul—that is you."

"The Qingyuan material plane—no wonder the Heart of the Underworld inquiry revealed I have no parents," Xiao En finally understood everything.

He was an orphan on the material plane, raised by others; after achieving Great Perfection, he asked the Death Sovereign to investigate his origins, but received no answer;

The Death Sovereign replied that his parents were either god‑level post‑death beings, or had scattered before the Sanctum, and another special case: a divine beast born with Heaven and Earth, like the devouring mouse Berut, a suddenly appearing being;

He had thought his parents were special, yet it turned out he truly was a suddenly born soul.

Hong Meng continued, "Now the Soul Pearl has re‑positioned, so the Heaven‑and‑Earth law again rejects it, because this Soul Pearl doesn't belong to this Heaven and Earth;

Yet you have refined the Divine Sovereign, which is part of Heaven and Earth, so the law is at a loss, drawing my attention. Hahaha, tell me, isn't this interesting?"

"So, if I'm not a Divine but merely a regular god‑level being, would the magical universe cast me into the Hong Meng universe?" Xiao En asked, "Would I then be instantly dissolved?"

Hongmeng shook their head and said: "No, the laws of heaven and earth in the Magic Universe do not know about the Hongmeng Universe outside; inside it is invincible, but it lacks the ability to expel things from its own interior, unless you yourself can go out;"

Actually, I discovered your existence long ago and also knew about this problem, but I have never intervened. I want to know how the universe I created will handle this problem, because even as its creator, I cannot fully know how the universe will change in the future, nor what fate the beings inside will have.

However, I never expected that, after so much time, the laws of heaven and earth still hadn't figured out how to fix this loophole, but the loophole itself—the Soul Pearl—has actually been continually learning the various laws of the Magic Universe and gradually gained the ability to nurture a new universe."

"Nurture a new universe? What does that mean?" Shawn asked hurriedly,

Hongmeng said: "That is to say, you indeed cannot transcend and come to my Hongmeng space; at most you can appear for a while relying on soul power, but the Soul Pearl itself can nurture a new universe. As long as the Soul Pearl creates a new universe, it will naturally not appear in the Magic Universe, and you, too, will become the creator of another universe, just like me."

"Creating a universe in such a tiny place as the Soul Pearl?" Shawn asked, somewhat puzzled.

Hongmeng laughed heartily and said: "Do you think creating a universe requires a lot of space? Actually, no—just a very small place is enough. The core is to have sufficient energy, and as creators, to establish a set of heavenly and earthly laws;"

You are also clear about the Magic Universe, so I won't elaborate further. In my another Technology Universe, your divine sense can also see it; there I set a speed-of-light limit, the speed of light is constant, and none of the technology, life forms, or planets inside can exceed the speed of light;

In the early stage of this universe, space was extremely small—too small to describe—but the energy was enormous. Then, after a great explosion, space itself expanded at faster-than-light speed, and the law I set is that energy and mass can be interconverted; when speed reaches the speed of light, any increase in energy does not increase speed but instead increases mass;

Therefore, in the initial phase of the cosmic big bang, because speed exceeded the speed of light, a large amount of energy was converted into huge mass, forming countless early massive black holes. Then space grew larger, expansion slowed, the formed mass dispersed, and then formed stars and nebulae;

Inside stars, the law of mass-to-energy conversion changes again, producing large amounts of light that illuminate the universe; then, when energy conversion is about complete, a large explosion occurs, forming various substances, which ultimately become planets where life could arise.

"This universe is indeed miraculous." Shawn felt that this universe resembled the one he had transmigrated from, but since Hongmeng didn't say so, it must not be the same one;

In other words, there are other universes outside the Hongmeng Universe, so he asked again: "Then, have you considered that there might be other universes outside the Hongmeng Universe you created?"

"I was originally uncertain, but your appearance has convinced me that there must be other universes out there." Hongmeng laughed and said: "However, even though I am the creator of this universe, I cannot leave it, just like Ofu in the Magic Universe; perhaps my original birth was also the creation of another powerful being."

"That is indeed possible." Shawn nodded,

In his previous life, the universe he inhabited had a temporal scale far inferior to that of the Coiling Dragon Universe, but its spatial scale was so vast it beggars imagination—just the observable universe alone spans 93 billion light-years, with one light-year equaling nearly ten trillion kilometers.

And according to the calculations of scientists before his transmigration, there may be other universes beyond this one—perhaps even an infinite number of universes.

"There are many things I don't understand either; I was originally torn, but later I let it go—perhaps I can never leave." Hongmeng shook his head and added: "However, you can also go create your own universe; once you finish creating it, you must let me come in and take a look."

"Create a universe?" Shawn's heart also instantly gained a new goal.

【End of Book】

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