Chapter 1085 - 491: Eternal Flame, Order of Nothingness (Part 2)

The consciousness of the Fire Avatar swept over these abominations, neither feeling compassion nor disgust, only a transcendent calm. She knew this was the inevitable cost of void transformation. Her fire was not a universal salvation but followed the laws of the cosmic cycle. Those unable to withstand the transformation would ultimately return to ’nothingness,’ becoming part of the void chaos, awaiting the next germination of ’existence.’

’The fire is eternal and has its order.’ Her will echoed in the void, with each word containing the ultimate truth of the cosmos.

In the depths of the void, the ’Ultimate Nothingness,’ which once carried the original will of the Chaos Devourer, was now completely enveloped by the Fire Avatar of the Seed of Eternity. Nourished by the fire, the seed was no longer that vague rune it once was; it was like a brilliant star, yet within it contained a miniature void. Gold and black intertwined, the cycle of birth and death turned, where Nirvana and vitality no longer opposed but nourished and fulfilled each other.

The Fire Avatar could feel that the original consciousness of the ’Chaos Devourer,’ which once issued grand will, had dissipated, but its ultimate interpretation of ’nothingness’ and profound understanding of ’entropy’ had been perfectly absorbed and transformed by the Seed of Eternity. It was no longer the terminator of the void but had become the perfect Executor of the void’s cycle in the Gui Xu link. It ensured that the end of ’existence’ was not complete annihilation but provided the purest nourishment and space for the next birth of ’existence.’

And where was the once-feared ’Chaos Devourer,’ revered by countless beings in the void?

It was not utterly annihilated but merged into the underlying network of the void in a more hidden and profound way. Its Law of ’nothingness,’ mastered by the Fire Avatar, was no longer pure devouring but transformed into the order of ’termination’ and ’reset’ in the void. Those Sea of Realms exhausted in life span and whose laws collapsed no longer disintegrated chaotically but returned orderly to the void’s origin, becoming the purest energy, waiting for the fire to rekindle and nurture new existence.

Deep in the void, primordial and grand wills were probing the region where the Fire Avatar resided at an unprecedented frequency. They were the true ’primal beings’ in the void, older than the Chaos Devourer, even predating the existence of the Master of Nothingness. They were the first consciousness born from the void chaos, witnessing the rise and fall of countless epochs, once ignoring the rise and rampage of the Chaos Devourer because it aligned with the void’s iron law of ’chaotic birth and death.’

However, the emergence of the fire broke this iron law. It brought the ’eternal’ cycle and the ’orderly’ birth and death, which puzzled and even slightly unsettled these ancient wills.

’The fire... it is changing the rules of the void.’ A hoarse will, like the friction of billions of stars, echoed in the void depths. That was the ’Touch of the Void,’ a formless, qualityless collective consciousness that could extend to any corner of the void, living by perceiving the void’s ’pulsations.’

’It is creating... and destroying.’ Another will, like the whispers of the Endless Abyss, was the ’Eye of Silence,’ which once resonated with the Chaos Devourer, as it also pursued the ultimate ’nothingness,’ but the Gui Xu path of the fire felt unfamiliar to it.

’It turns ’nothingness’ into nutrients for ’existence,’ the ’end’ into a prologue of ’rebirth’... this exceeds our understanding of the void,’ a roaring sound like the collapse of an ancient Sea of Realms resounded, that was the ’Source of All Things,’ one of the largest and oldest consciousnesses in the void, once believed it had comprehended all the mysteries of the void.

The Fire Avatar ignored the fluctuations of these ancient wills. Her consciousness had deeply integrated with the void’s underlying laws, sensing their confusion and vigilance, but she was more aware of her mission. The path of the fire was to blaze, to inherit, to let the doctrine of ’eternity’ take root and sprout in the endless void.

She gazed deeper into the void. There, countless bubbles of the Sea of Realms were like lost boats drifting up and down in chaos. Some Seas of Realms were dim, their laws collapsing, heading toward Nirvana; others were corroded by some bizarre force, turning into deformations, emitting silent wails.

She could feel, among the myriad bubbles of the Sea of Realms, a weak yet extraordinarily tenacious call that pierced layer upon layer of chaos, reaching deep into her consciousness. That call was not for rescue but a supreme will to ’survive,’ a shout trying to grasp the last thread of hope amidst despair.

It was a Sea of Realms named the ’Primordial Void Realm.’ It was not eroded by the tides of Nirvana nor devoured by the Chaos Devourer but trapped by a more ancient, more pure ’primordial void.’ This void was not the chaotic energy of the void but the original state at the birth of the Sea of Realms, where nothing had differentiated into things. The Primordial Void Realm was like an embryo forgotten by time, forever lingering in the ’never began’ stage, unable to truly be born or completely perish.

Its interior contained countless undifferentiated law fragments, entangled and repulsive to each other, unable to form a stable order. Some powerful beings tried to open up heavens within it, only to be assimilated by the primordial void, becoming a part of the void. They didn’t die but lost their ’self,’ becoming puppets of the void.