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Chapter 1,310.
🕑 Added 2024-11-29 19:43:23 +0000 UTCA/N: And that's it for November. I hope you've enjoyed the Dipper Mountains miniarc.
A heads-up regarding my Christmas Schedule. As previous years, I'm taking the holidays and New Year's off to recharge and visit family. The final chapter of 2024 will be Friday, December 20th. Releases will resume again January 6th.
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The conversation was kept short as both needed to focus on their tasks. Having Ogras back by his side was a comfort, though Zac would have been happier if the demon had managed to get out ahead of schedule. Things with the flower had progressed roughly as he’d expected, barring a critical detail. Hidden Earth’s notes said the energy was split fifty-fifty between petals and pistil. That was woefully inaccurate.
The eight petals worth of Void Energy he’d pulled into the [Fuxi Mountain Gate] at best accounted for a fifth of the flower’s accumulations. Zac had only realized just how much Void Energy the flower’s central spatial fold was hiding after going through half the petals. Each petal was like a remote fortress guarding the capital, preventing hostile forces from peering through the defensive layer of formations.
Zac doubted Hidden Earth would have made such a significant miscalculation. The [Twin Eclipse] must have expanded its Inner World since his death. It might even have one foot into the next stage. It would explain why the palpitations he got from the pistil were much more intense than what he felt from the Void Energy stored in the petals.
Hindsight was 20-20, but Zac should really have guessed as much from the crater’s scope and the other clues. The Hidden Earth Abode had provided the flower with fertile soil and endless nourishment for millions of years in a tailormade environment. It would have been pushed onward whether it wanted to or not.
There was simply no way Zac could extract the pistil’s energies with his current method, seeing how a few petals had literally cost him an arm and a leg. Replacing his lost limbs with Creation Energy wasn’t a viable solution, even if he still had ample stores of Creation Energy left in his five shards. It didn’t even matter that the cost of using the Remnants had greatly decreased.
Most of it was thanks to overcoming the Atavism. The drain on personality and longevity was mostly the ancient entities demanding payment for borrowing their power. Incorporating the concepts of Creation and Oblivion into his Daos also made it easier to utilize the energies. Completely removing the cost needed a fundamental transformation of the Remnants, though. It would break the Law of Balance, and the drain was part of their nature.
Rather than the Remnants, the problem was that newly-regrown flesh needed a while to fully incorporate his many advantages, like his bloodlines and constitutions. Such limbs were unsurprisingly not up to the task. Zac had already tried regrowing a few fingers while dealing with the petals, and they’d instantly exploded when trying to take on the C-grade energy.
Zac also couldn’t take it nice and slow, dealing with the pistil at a manageable pace. He didn’t have the final say on how much energy to send through. Opening an outlet into the flower’s Inner World was an irreversible process that destabilized it further. The near-death eruptions would have been even crazier if Zac didn’t act as an emergency valve, siphoning energy to lower the internal pressure. He didn’t even want to imagine the amount of energy he’d need to draw out of the pistil to stop it from directly exploding.
That wasn’t to say he was out of options, especially now that Ogras was here to share the load. Of course, the demon would have to play a minor role while staying inside [Void Zone]. He was limited to using his shadows, which were essentially parts of his body, to block the errant streaks of Inverse Dao that entered his nullification zone. Truth be told, Zac was surprised Ogras managed even that much while he kept [Void Zone] at maximum strength.
‘Don’t worry. I’ll keep enough reserves to survive your “creative” solution,’ Ogras assured, understanding Zac’s concern.
‘Let me know if it becomes too much,’ Zac said and continued working on the Void.
While he felt bad, turning off the Bloodline Talent wasn’t an option. The chamber’s trapped energies had reached terrifying levels, and maintaining a survivable environment cost huge amounts of Void Energy. Zac would have run out long ago if he hadn’t been force-fed deadly levels of the flower’s excess. Whether virtuous or vicious, the forced absorption and subsequent expenditure had formed a self-propagating cycle that replaced his need to eat Void Treasures.
They wouldn’t need to endure much longer, though Zac had no earthly way to happen what would happen when he’d dealt with the final petal. At the very least, it would push the surrounding mayhem and spatial decay to the next level.
The memory domain displayed a surprising resilience despite its fading faith, so survival could very well come down to the engraved rock held against his thigh. While Zac suffered, the [Fuxi Mountain Gate] flourished. He had no way to observe its inner state with a torrent of Void Energy blocking the entrance, but any hints of weakness were gone.
The ancient stone felt incredibly sturdy, even exhibiting a pressure similar to the weight of an Inner World. If Zac wasn’t mistaken, it was also partly responsible for the accelerated decay of Faith Energy. The golden runes on its surface seemed to draw from its surroundings to maintain the isolation. Whether the change meant [Fuxi Mountain Gate] was ready for Zac’s backup plan remained to be seen.
‘Careful!’ Zac suddenly warned when a surge of Void Energy destroyed another chunk of flesh. The Void petal was buckling, and there were no siblings to maintain the peace.
To keep things balanced, the Dao petal trembled and released a stream of energy in the opposite direction. Even its wayward streaks were much deadlier than the constant leakage, and it shouldn’t be something Ogras could deal with in his restricted state. The streaks coming their way were only marginally weakened by the nullification domain.
A wraith appeared to stand before him just when Zac planned to deal with the threat with another activation of [Void Mountain]. Zac thought he could sense a hint of reluctance in its gait before it consumed the Inverse Dao and flew away. It lasted less than a second before exploding, and one second was more than enough time to cover quite a distance. The unstable energies were absorbed by the dimensional layers before they could pose a threat.
The salvo was the beginning of the end, and twelve more wraiths had to make the ultimate sacrifice as Zac absorbed the last of the Void petals. The petal withered and disappeared, destroying the final node of the flower’s outer formation. Whatever concepts held the hovering Dao petal in place was gone, causing it to drift away like an unmoored ship set ablaze by its highly volatile cargo.
Even now, there were no signs of the memory domain collapsing or of Spatial Tears leading to the misty sea outside. It was time to get creative.
“Get ready!” Zac roared as his arms wriggled and regrew in the blink of an eye.
Zac grabbed the trembling pistil, which felt like holding a sun, and furiously pushed it against the [Fuxi Mountain Gate]’s opening. It didn’t enter, but Zac saw a flicker of hope when the rejection wasn’t absolute. Rather than trying to push the flower through solid matter, it felt like squeezing it through a dense layer of sand.
Squeezing it through would take time—something Zac didn’t have. The drifting Dao petal was expanding as its spatial folds unraveled. It was about to go supernova, and the surrounding dimensional layers looked ready to join it. If that wasn’t enough to worry about, the trembling core of the [Eclipse Twin] seemed intent on getting revenge on the world for having all its petals plucked.
Fueled by fear and madness, Zac dug his fingers into a deep wound on his side to pull out a ring. Since time was the problem, he just had to buy some. The ring transformed into [Verun’s Bite], roaring and ready for war. Zac’s Spatial Rings were left inside the laceration for safekeeping. His body was still a battlefield filled with Void and hostile Dao, but the environment could be considered a haven compared to the deteriorating surroundings.
Zac’s arm crumbled from the pistil’s latent energies as he swung his axe downward. It successfully severed the flower’s stem, and a freshly printed arm gripped the axe to release and released a fractal blade filled with Zac’s Daos. It tore into the realmgate the flower once grew from, and the attack proved enough to seal it. The array keeping the nourishing portal active had been destroyed shortly after Zac began his work, and it had been kept open by the [Eclipse Flower] itself.
Having its stem cut and losing its connection to his homeworld weakened the C-grade flower, and the [Fuxi Mountain Gate]’s rejection lessened as a result. Seeing it wasn’t enough, Zac swung his weapon one more time while rallying his Splinters of Oblivion. A small yet terrifying blade holding an aura of extinction appeared. This time, his attack was aimed directly at the trembling flowerhead.
Despite the terrifying, concentrated power of [Extinction Event], Zac only managed to leave a small nick. That blemish became the emergency valve Zac needed, though creating it was no different than opening Pandora’s Box. A monstrous sputter of unchained Void erased the floundering Dao petal before it could erupt. That was only the prelude. Cracks spread from the Oblivion-infused scar, casting shadows in the form of miles-wide Spatial Tears.
It was a good thing Zac hadn’t bothered repairing his eyes yet. They would just have been destroyed again after exposing him to the outrageously condensed spirituality peeking out of the pistil. The aura was enough to push Zac’s body to a breaking point even before it began leaking energy, and Ogras’s shadows were rapidly fading.
Zac confirmed that personally entering the gate was still impossible while pushing his Void Emperor bloodline to its limits. Six small vortices sprung up around Zac at the edge of [Void Zone], greedily absorbing both the leaking Void energy and lingering waves of Inverse Dao. The tumultuous process of absorbing the [Eclipse Twin] made it impossible to say whether his painful feast had helped recover his bloodline or damaged it further. However, Zac had more than enough Void Energy rampaging through his veins to open gates to his personal Void.
Doing so in his fight against Kator had come at a significant cost, and Zac knew he might very well be undoing months of recovery. Surviving took precedence over such concerns. He and Ogras were out for the count if he closed the vortices before getting away from the [Eclipse Twin].
While the vortices bought a moment of peace, Zac focused all his attention on the [Fuxi Mountain Gate]. While keeping the pressure on the pistil, Zac pushed as many tendrils of Void and Mental Energy into the entrance as he could. It worked! A seventh flickering Void Vortex opened inside the relic’s separate space, acting like a miniature black hole that tugged on its surroundings.
The burning sea of Imperial Faith and the scarred gate effortlessly ignored the pull from Zac’s bloodline. The intended target did not. With something pulling from the other side, the last piece of the [Eclipse Twin] swiftly phased into the Holy Relic—but not before giving the world a final goodbye. Just before the severed stem entered the stone, it spat out a concoction of foundering space and a million years of cultivation.
Zac urgently closed the Void Vortex before it could swallow the C-grade. Doing so, Zac also lost his view of the [Fuxi Mountain Gate]. He had bigger fish to fry than watching the Holy Relic digest the latest offering. The whole realm groaned as the beam of supremely condensed Void swept forth with incredible speed. It was gone as quickly as it appeared, leaving a terrifying blemish on reality. The Heavens momentarily held its breath before madness descended.
The countless Spatial Tears and unstable dimensional fragments were no longer kept in check. If anything, they were bolstered by the Void beam exhausting what was left of the region’s spatial integrity. They worked together to trigger a complete dimensional collapse with such efficacy it may as well have been rehearsed.
A thousand microscopic worlds born from the C-grade treasure were unmoored, turning them into frenzied beasts that targeted their own. Half immediately disappeared, becoming casualties in the war between the Inverse Peak and the Void. The rest were consumed by the Spatial Tears, which began expanding without any apparent limits. With the domains gone, there was also nothing to keep the Dipper Mountain’s spiritual surge at bay.
Horrific amounts of energy rushed toward their position, attracted by the vacuum created by Void and the suction from the Spatial Tears. A vast accumulation of inverse truth blended with the fractures. True to its nature, the Inverse Dao began transforming the dimensional cracks. The rebirths mostly ended in abrupt failure, creating deadly fireworks that made Zac’s Soul Sense tremble and shy away.
Only a fifth of the tears stabilized and expanded after consuming the Dipper Mountain’s lifeblood, having turned portals leading to other planes. Most had aligned with the Lowest Plane or the realm behind the Dipper Mountains, but not all of them. With so many unpredictable factors coinciding, a few spatial tears gained completely alien qualities.
The environment was thrown into greater chaos as Daos from more than half the peaks, and their accompanying energies poured into the Hidden Earth Abode. The growing tempest even seemed to consume the hidden concepts that kept the trial going, causing powerful temporal fluctuations that agitated Zac’s old wounds.
Zac was only marginally safe thanks to standing in the eye of the storm. He and Ogras were surrounded by a faltering barrier of the [Eclipse Twin]’s Void, which in turn were kept at bay by his vortices. The latter were about to collapse before even facing the storm. Zac had gone so far beyond any safe limits he didn’t dare think of what was going on in the depths of his Void Emperor bloodline.
Heart beating like a drum, Zac’s head swiveled back and forth in search of the final piece of the puzzle. Despite the terrifying view, things had gone mostly as he’d hoped when striking the pistil. The calamity about to descend on the Dipper Mountains might almost be as intense as the original timeline, but what did he care?
Where was it? The only thing missing from the mercurial tapestry was a path out of this crappy place. Zac cursed with anxiety. They’d seen such exits inside Ivar Serpico’s Inner World, so why didn’t at least one appear among the thousand Spatial Tears? And how the hell hadn’t the memory domain collapsed?
Had they misunderstood what’d happen when a domain ended like Black Zenith, misunderstood the very nature of memory domains? Was the path back to the present already gone, leaving them stuck inside the world’s memory?
The storm’s intensity only grew as boundless energy poured into the world from the multiplying cracks. Zac’s Danger Sense was screaming so loudly he could barely think. It was all building toward some form of singularity. Like brought forth by the realization, it happened at once. Faith failed, Time unraveled, and Space shattered like a broken mirror.
Zac’s mind briefly shut down when concepts far exceeding his comprehension appeared in the midst of reality’s collapse. They weren’t just facing the mundane Daos who’d joined hands to bring down the Dipper Mountains. Zac felt like he’d pulled away the curtain, exposing him and his companion to the hair-raising presence hiding behind—something that far exceeded Antuka, the ancient A-grade Crocodile.
Time and Karma were joined by countless subordinate concepts to create a force able to overturn the Heavens themselves. It was a machine made from so many components that Zac’s Soul Cores almost burst from hearing their clatter. Zac finally understood what he’d brought forth. They’d caught a glimpse of the Fifth Pillar itself.
Struggling to hold onto his sanity, Zac escaped into the closest portal. It wasn’t the kind he’d held out for, but staying meant certain death. The portal collapsed only moments later, but the danger had followed them through. Zac had appeared in a disorienting gap between realities not too dissimilar to the one they escaped. The Pillar’s terrifying presence was still there, only slightly weakened.
‘What fresh hell is this?’ a weak voice wheezed.
The scene was familiar to the Void Star’s bridge. They were surrounded by innumerable jagged windows into different worlds. Zac took in the surroundings with wild eyes, confirming they didn’t lead back to the Dipper Mountains. They didn’t have any apparent connection to the spatial tears or the events surrounding the Hidden Earth Abode.
Not two of the myriad views were the same, and only a fraction of them emitted the aura of the Inverse Peak or Lower Planes. The windows didn’t even seem to point toward the same point in time. Some had a distinctly more ancient aura than others, and their Dao ranged from rough and primal to almost matching the present.
Were the places real or fake? Did the windows lead to specific memories or different parts of the Left Imperial? Zac’s mind was a mess as he tried to figure out what to do while resisting the Pillar’s aura and keeping his internal pressure in check. It was at that time that Ogras sprung into action.
‘This way!’ Ogras shouted, dragging Zac toward a random world.
They appeared mid-air, facing a salmon-colored tower standing at the edge overlooking a vast, bottomless crater. Zac only had time to confirm it wasn’t the Dipper Mountain’s crater before a powerful sense of rejection made the world shatter. They were back inside the world of countless mirrors like they’d never left, facing a new seat of gateways.
Ogras wasn’t willing to give up and directly lunged him into another world. It looked nothing like the region where they entered the memory domain, making Zac wonder if the demon was picking them at random out of desperation.
“Why—” A deep tremor coming from the depths of his bloodline foiled Zac’s attempt to ask what Ogras was up to. Zac felt stabbing pains as countless microscopic gates were being forced open by a power far exceeding what they could contain. The [Eclipse Twin]’s spirituality was about to escape from his personal Void.
Zac had no time to worry about Ogras jumping from world to world in a frantic attempt to escape the Fifth Pillar’s pathbreaking aura. He rallied his Bloodline one last time to open another Void Vortex. This time, it was to release its catch. There’d be nothing left of him if the pistil’s Peak C-grade Void Energy was allowed to escape through his cells.
Ogras appeared to understand what was going on, and he fled with even greater urgency. Foreign worlds flickered one after another while Zac desperately tried to excise the unbearable energies. The vortices didn’t last long, forcing him to repeatedly conjure new ones. Thus, a trail of blood and Void was left in their wake.
No matter what he did, the pressure only kept building. Just when Zac was about to lose control, the surroundings stopped flickering. The world had been frozen in place, including the Zac and the energy that was about to go supernova. Even the Fifth Pillar had been pushed away, preventing them from being dragged back to its side.
“This place,” Ogras said, eyes wide with shock and confusion as familiar lines began spreading across his body.
Zac could barely hear him. His eyes were glued to the approaching procession and the coffin in its center.
Comments
Dan
Literally the first think I thought as well. Need a line where he has rebuilt some of his missing parts…OR…change it to “Zac took in his surroundings with a wild heart” or something.
David Ballantyne
innumerable jagged windows into different worlds. Zac took in the surroundings with wild eyes - does Zac have eyes at the moment? I wondered if I had missed him regrowing them, but I read the next chapter and it doesn't seem like he does until after the death healing
David Ballantyne
including the Zac and the energy that was about to go supernova. - the Zac?
David Ballantyne
Zac urgently closed the Void Vortex before it could swallow the C-grade. - the c grade dao
David Ballantyne
and a freshly printed arm gripped the axe to release and released a fractal blade - pick one
David Ballantyne
Zac had no earthly way to happen what would happen when he’d dealt with the final petal. - to know
Azwrix
I haven't known what's going on for several books, let alone chapters. And I read every chapter on patreon lol
Owen Stevens
"Even the 5th pillar had been pushed away, preventing them from being dragged back to its side." -- If we assume that all these mirrors are memory domains within the trial, then it's truly odd that there is an opening directly to the Jade General. It makes me wonder what karma needs to be changed with the Jade General? It's especially notable how he is able to push back the power of the 5th pillar even though he is supposedly in a memory held up by the 5th pillar. Either 1. the Jade General is the cause, 2. Ogras is connected to Kalasutra, 3. Zac's luck is just so overwhelming that things fell into place, or 4. the memory was already placed there to save him in the future -- Time shenanigans have been going crazy these last few chapters so I would only be mildly surprised if that last one were the case. It's possible that Emperor Limitless knew which memories would be best to include in the trial without knowing why. Like the same way the Monks change karma in the future without being able to tell exactly what happens in the future.
Seamus Harley
Im not hoping for a harem, but, life, death, conflict. Iz - life, catheya - death, thea - conflict. It's almost scary how well the three together match his path
Dro
The Sysyem/current Heavens were built on 8 pillars with each Pillar being powered by an eternal heritage. Sounds like they all when the system booted up but have been steadily reappearing over time. 4 pillars have previously returned and were been captured by other factions (2nd heaven claimed one of them). Ultum/the Left Imperial Palace is the 5th Pillar to come up out of history. I think Esmeralda caught a glimpse of it a dozen or so chapters back when they first entered the realm - it's what's been powering all the time-defying shenanigans going on.
Jeff McCulley
And, no matter how many bodies he has, he’s clearly monogamous. One body or two, he’s still only one person. Besides, for the Undead aspect, Tavza >>>>>>> Catheya. But you’ll all see.
Reno
I forgot what the fifth pillar was. 🫣 Or that the other pillars might be. Something something heritages?
MacMahon Wenzl
I do think it is a bit hard to always follow the cultivation system if you don't know general cultivation beliefs, read many other cultivation books, or a lot of other LitRPGs. I think you would get the most out of it by not reading chapter to chapter. I had a hard time following the Oram arc chapter by chapter but when I listened to the audio book it made a lot more sense. I think it comes down to a lot of new vocabulary being used once or twice but having wide arching implications on the overall story. It makes feel like you have to re read chapters. Maybe if there was a simple index in chapters that introduced new things where you could refer to it to understand the more esoteric parts going on. As for Zac v Arcaz, I think referring to their names separately would go a long way. There was a discussion a while ago about this. They could be referred to as seperate people and have the index in those chapters simply say "they are the same person". I think at this point everyone knows they are the same person. It helps that they have different traveling companions so referring to the different situations helps distinguish whether we are with Zac or Arcaz. The audiobooks help the most with this because different voices are used when they speak, so you know who specifically is speaking.
MacMahon Wenzl
I noticed, it was a nice inclusion.
zukerburg
He's not gonna continue with 2 bodies forever he intends to fuse back together when he becomes a monarch
Krispy sock
I care ❤️
Jeff McCulley
Well, Vilari and Thea are both Anima Court, so that seems likely to come first.
Jeff McCulley
Pretty sure the flower is in the process of being mostly sucked dry inside the Fuxi Mountain Gate right now.
Blake N.
This isn’t an airport. Just leave. No need to announce it to others. We don’t care
Doug
I happen to agree, would like for Thea to adventure with him and Iz. Would be eye opening for her to see two Eonic seeds Rollin
Flameboy
Who does everyone want Zac to end up with? I personally want Zac to stay as two bodies and have Catheya and Iz.
Flameboy
Also you need to put it into perspective, you’re only reading one chapter every other day. It feels more choppy if this is only how you are reading. It’s hard to keep the momentum going from chapter to chapter, I personally like to take a couple months break and then catch up a bunch of chapters at a time. I also enjoy re reading book series so after a few reads of the same book/chapters it becomes more clear. I don’t know about anyone else but I don’t ever fully comprehend things after I read/listen to it only once. 😉
Joshua Little
Thanks for the chapter.
Doug
Something tells me Iz will be about as clueless as he is
Arthur
Aren't we all😁
Arthur
I feel the same way Doug but like Dapper I'm audiobook fan. The last two books felt exactly like you commented on, but after I'd listen to the Audio it made a lot of thing much more clearer. I'm not saying this will be the case here, but like you I felt the detail seems a bit much. I think I have fallen asleep a couple of times reading these last few chapters. After all that I think, "more is better than less", as the old saying goes.
Borbino the great
Ohh one of the higher ups from back then would be really interesting too maybe the limitless emperor had the coffin placed there for this sole purpose I do wonder how far ahead he had planned and just how intricate his plans where
Borbino the great
That’s going to be a crazy chapter and Zac is just going to be standing to the side confused and kinda scared😂
Douglas Davis
Well maybe the author will see this criticism, take it to heart and improve things in the future. Maybe someday it will be worth coming back to.
liquid_helix
I certainly have no idea. I enjoy the story, but I’ve given up on trying to understand anything associated with Zac’s cultivation. It can be an effort to even keep track of which body’s perspective we’re in, let alone all the other shit. That said, I find the essence of the story compelling and enjoy the progression, which would be well served to do a little more progressing and a little less detail dumping.
Douglas Davis
Agreed. And as I said to Johnny, I read for escapism and pleasure. If I need someone in the comments section to decipher the chapter, then it really is time for me to move on. No matter how much I liked the initial books. I just haven't really enjoyed the series sense the whole war/spatial storm arc started.
Douglas Davis
I think it's purposefully esoteric so as to add the illusion of more depth to the magic system and progression than there really is. And frankly I'm not going to keep paying when I end up skipping half a chapter or more because its either overly dense or doesn't really effect anything. It's just a ridiculous number of adjectives strung together. What saddens me is a really really used to be a huge fan, at least in books 1-3.
Krispy sock
I’m right there with ya, I feel dumb for not comprehending the chapters anymore. I really enjoyed the graveyard arc because of the sweet fights and what not. But then I go many chapters of not having a clue who and what is going on. If it weren’t for the Jeff and lex in the comment section, I’d be completely lost.
Johnny
I’m teetering…every now and then we get normal chapters and the jist is explained, like “oh I can sense Zac is stronger”. The hows and whys I’ve been lost on ages ago. I’m curious if anyone actually follows and understands or if like me they coast thru til getting to more straightforward stuff? I mean does this have its own internal logic at all if you try to understand or is it purposely esoteric? We’ve come a loooong way from fighting demons with an axe
EsoEasy
It cannot be random that they ended up in Kalasutra with coffin guy. If Zac had been leading the way, then okay. That would be normal Zac luck or fate or whatever. But it was Ogras choosing the way forward…so what lead was he following? 🤔🤔🤔
Jeff McCulley
Could be, Birbino? We might be about to find out.
Jeff McCulley
Well, at least I know I follow what’s going on than some people now. For me, the “senseless blabbering” is usually the pure cultivation stuff. In this case, I had some idea what’s going on. Whew!
TheDapperGent
I hear ya, personally I like how it’s gotten little more complex. I do however have an easier time understanding everything in audiobook format.
Jeff McCulley
I think that Alesia done with the whole coffin motif. This coffin would have a heart on it All of the weapons embedded in the coffin with a similar aura to the LIP suggest that this MIGHT be another of Laondio’s God King Generals, like Indra Eyler.
Douglas Davis
I think I've reached my limit. Over half of this chapter was an overly complex explanation of his attempted absorption, that even after rereading it three times, didn't make any sense. The story of Zac started as a simple guy with simple concepts and an easily followable story. It's evolved into an overly complex mess that just doesn't entertain me anymore. Good luck to all you other readers. Maybe I will come back again at some future point.
Doug
I would like to know what's happening with Thea, Catheya. Cannot wait for Iz, Catheya, and Thea to meet
Douglas Davis
Me either. More than half of that chapter appeared to be senseless blabbering.
Tartlet
Chekhov’s Death Plane Coffin!
Flameboy
Did everyone noticed that he clarified the cost of using the shards?? I think TFD thru in an explanation for us, not too many chapters back there was a big conversation on the price for using the shards. He likes us!!
Borbino the great
Later in 1245 when the spatial test is destroyed and ogras thinks it’s from the realm itself maybe it was the coffin helping him out??
Mike Naka
Maybe Zac's a Georgia O'keefe fan? Or TFD LOL
Mike Naka
What if time...What if the coffin is Alea in some far flung future where she's gone to the Threaded Hells to wait on Zac to complete something. It seems like a good hiding place.
Seamus Harley
What if Zac puts the flower thing in the coffin in the past and says they will meet again when he is a monarch in the future
Borbino the great
Huge that you found that I did not wanna have to hunt those chapters down
Silent Consent
Something needs to happen to spread the legend of the deviant to the entire multiverse. Even if it’s just a story Emely makes up.
Jeff McCulley
Posted the sequence. See above.
Jeff McCulley
Excerpted from the first visit to the Threaded Hells. Take it as you will: From Ch. 1,244 Kalasutra 'You… returned…' The voice exploded like a series of bombs in Zac's mind, and his surroundings were replaced by a sea of eyes. 'To… us…' The coffin continued its eternal journey, waiting for the destined day. Ch. 1,245 “Zac's best guess was that the corpse wasn't talking to him. It was rather talking to Karz, just like the wisp of Emperor Limitless when Zac used the Tribulation Throne.”
Jeff McCulley
If you recall, Zac thought that “old friend” referred to his bloodline. Who knows how many times Karz visited here?
Jeff McCulley
Since no one else has yet caught onto it… The pistil is the female organs of a flower No sign of a stamen (the male organs), maybe the reverse Twin had that? In any case…this is a girl plant. Deviant Asura, indeed.
Timothy Dana
Hate time-travel shenanigans. You never know how it’s going to end up until the end, and even then it might not be over.
Jeff McCulley
“And how the hell hadn’t the memory domain collapsed?” I think that I understand this. Through whatever mechanism, the Realm had to hold on until Kalir handed a copy of the repository to Pervata. Or maybe Pervata whisked them away—Zac did ask him to keep Kalir safe, after all. If the scenario only played out until Kalir was twenty feet away from Pervata, opening his mouth in greeting, it defeats the whole purpose of getting there. “Close, but no cigar” just doesn’t do it. Whatever entity is maintaining the realms (the Earth?) just needed to stretch it a wee bit further.
Stephen Taylor
I’m convinced he’s in the past. If he’s not, then he has multiple visits to this lower plane still to come. Old friend is too strong a reference to ignore. That said, it might be possible this plane is outside of time.
Jeff McCulley
Still finding these. “connection to his homeworld weakened the C-grade flower” >it’s homeworld “He and Ogras were out for the count >down for the count
Hakeem Gordon
With these Inverse truths and illusory petals it'd be cool if Ogras made use of this encounter to enhance his dao of false truths!
Indy
muhahaha, with the "new" pricing model your end of the month cliffhanger lost all the power! your dao and path are broken muahahah!
Jeff McCulley
I am pretty sure they’re in the present. Though there’s really no way to tell. Yet. However, we’re about to see if there is a reason that on his previous visit, this entity called him “old friend”, or whatever it said.
Jeff McCulley
The eight petals worth of Void Energy he’d pulled into the … If there are eight petals, at this point Zac has only pulled seven in so far. Maybe “was pulling”?
Matthew Hay
Threaded Hell's Jade General, from ch 1258 on RR.
Michael
I feel like this has got to be a new achievement. He just blew a hole in the trial itself. Something created by multiple supremacies from the peak of the era. That’s bound to have some implications for the rest of the trial takers.
Michael
Pretty sure they are still in the past. The coffin is almost definitely the one from the hells that they saw when escaping to the lower plane in the million gates territory. That entity mentioned waiting for Zac, so this is likely their “first” encounter from the coffins perspective.
Timothy Dana
It’s unclear if Zac is still in the Trial… so he may or may not still be in the past
DrSubterfuge
So the domain broke, but are they in the present yet? Or in other words, from the procession's perspective, is this before or after Zac's previous visit?
Jeff McCulley
Sure, but Ogras only told him to make sure he told the General Zac got credit. Nothing about him being the one to share them with the Wendimars. I suppose when they eventually collect Ventus, he’ll tell them what happened when Kalir reached the outside.
Jeff McCulley
So, in short… Zac got pistil whipped.
Lex Luther S
The whitecrest scion has proper copies of the repository while ogras took the originals. That array master monarch had set up one of the seven leap arrays as a teleporter to escape the mountain through the lower planes.
Jeff McCulley
So…how was Pervata supposed to get the Repository?
Jeff McCulley
There were a number. Compiled them above—missed that one!
Lizy Flore
Wth, I have no idea what’s going on 😂 loved it all, thanks for the chap
Jeff McCulley
Now I’m going to see to go back to see what Kator internal monologued this guy’s name to be. He knew more than he ever shared.
Jeff McCulley
Suggested Edits. This one seems a bit rougher than usual. “had no earthly way to happen what would happen” >know? Calculate? “Whatever concepts held the hovering Dao petal in place was gone” >were “gripped the axe to release and released a fractal blade filled with” >an extra “release”, I think? “before it could swallow the C-grade.” >swallow the C-grade…energy? “having turned portals leading” >turned into “the thousand Spatial Tears” >on second thought, I’ll let this one be “Like brought forth by” >As if was familiar to the >similar to the Left Imperial? >…Expanse. lunged him into >lunged with, dragged or shoved
EsoEasy
I guess we’re headed back to Kalasutra?? Excited to dig in (come on Primo secrets), but I do hope we get to really explore some explicitly “life”-related lore and realms at some point in the future too.
Lex Luther S
Interesting. So they ended up back in the Threaded hells huh? And are now right in front of the jade general..... Interesting. Can't wait to see how this turns into an insane opportunity for both zac and ogras. I'm more curious of this will deposit them right back at the location of the dipper mountain s memory domain as they do have to get ventus lol.
Doug
Dagnabit
Doug
Dag a it
Andrew
Thank you!
Timothy Dana
Edit suggestion: “…foiled Zac’s attempt to ask Ogras what he was up to.”
Tommy
Back in the thread realm I guess? Oh Zac you are a calamity TFTC!
The Lost Pages
Wow what an epic chapter. Monday cannot come fast enough. And I love the role that Ogras is now playing. Amazing.
Chewbacchus
Typo? 'Zac had no earthly way to happen what would happen' feels like the first happen should be know
Indy
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