A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation Chapter 816 Chapter 813

Side Story - A Tale of Cultivation After the Ending. Reader caution is urged: These side stories emerge from the author temporarily locking away logic to unleash buried urges and random ideas, resulting in a style that's completely opposite to the main narrative. For those who've finished the afterstories and wish to hold onto that fading sentiment, it's best to let these side stories rest for 'at least a week' prior to diving in.

Only folks who feel, "I need to shatter this residual feeling in my chest!" should rush ahead and devour the side stories in one go. Let it be said once more, but reading them might demolish the emotional afterglow readers cherish. Anyway, skipping the side stories causes no issues whatsoever, so if there's a real urge to tackle them, the author would appreciate waiting over a week until the sentiment has faded somewhat, then proceeding.

When he initially forged the entities known as Enders, errors were rampant indeed.

Upon the birth of the Enders, various wonders erupted across Mount Sumeru.

This stemmed from the recoil of violently dividing the Absolute of Miracle.

Fate twisted with glitches, unleashing calamities throughout the realm.

Yang Hwe's past incarnations got ensnared in such catastrophes multiple times, perishing like mere insects.

Handling miracles proves exceedingly tricky.

Since these are essentially beasts formed by injecting a sense of self into shards of the Absolute of Miracle, it's no surprise they resist control via standard fate.

On top of that, remnants of the prior Creator God's decree lingered.

The rule stating [a True Emperor cannot meddle in another's Emperor progression] extended to the Enders too.

Bestowing personalities on the Absolute Fragments led the Gestation World's laws to view them as potential True Emperors.

Hong Fan couldn't directly impose fate on them or steer their paths.

The entire sequence of fate's inception, progression, reversal, and resolution that he'd set up to polish those Absolute Fragments simply rebounded without effect.

Ultimately, Hong Fan accepted that no internal method within this world could tame them.

Thus, he shifted his focus to realms beyond Mount Sumeru.

***

He journeyed across endless worlds.

Hong Fan encountered beings of comparable might to his own, and others who, under certain circumstances, could surpass him in strength.

'Had I crossed paths with them prior to ascending as a True Emperor...might I have edged nearer to redemption?'

Yet, before his True Emperor ascension, he lacked even the knowledge to venture into other realms, rendering the thought pointless.

Hong Fan also confronted Creator Gods from those other realms and attempted their demise.

But as Creator Gods embody true immortality, they resurrected no matter how often he struck them down.

Beyond discovering that the sole path to slaying Creator Gods involves them willingly relinquishing their Creator God status, he acquired nothing else.

Killing them repeatedly as an outsider yields only a brief knockout, devoid of lasting impact.

For Hong Fan, such temporary eliminations always proved costly.

Though he might confront and dispatch one or two using the Emptiness Sword sans Divine Art, the ensuing curses and resentments they unleashed were quite vexing.

'Could the former Mount Sumeru Creator God have deliberately forsaken their Creator God position by dividing their soul into three and reshaping their form into the Gestation World?'

He uncovered some fresh insights on Creator Gods, yet they offered little aid.

While wandering those other realms, Hong Fan mastered myriad techniques, including ways to skirt laws and fool them.

Once he grew certain of crafting fitting Enders, he made his way back to Mount Sumeru.

With Splitting Heavens, he cleaved Miracle apart.

Next, he shaped the seven Miracle shards into the seven emotions and dispatched them to another realm.

The Absolute wields vast might and dominion within Mount Sumeru, yet in foreign worlds with utterly alien rules, it spawns no such potent anomalies.

The glitches manifest at most as spawning a handful of weak spirits in a ghostless domain.

Through this, the Absolute Fragments ripened in disparate worlds governed by wholly distinct laws, developing personalities aligned with those domains' regulations.

By fate's design, Hong Fan assembled those personalities at the precise moment and hour, then recalled them to Mount Sumeru.

Before his throne,

In the Audience Chamber, he bound those personalities with pacts, promising fresh existences, while securing ownership of their entire lives, names, and beings as collateral.

As the Audience Chamber sits at the Gestation World's edge, relics from the predecessor—like the 'ban on meddling in True Emperor ascension rites'—failed to fully apply, enabling the feat.

To dominate the Enders and enforce fate's inception, progression, reversal, and resolution, he introduced them to the Immortal Cultivation system.

Hong Fan himself devised the Immortal Cultivation system as a core incantation.

Thus, should an Ender willingly engage it seeking strength, he could sidestep the 'ban on ascension interference' law and embed the full fate cycle.

Naturally, Immortal Cultivation wasn't the only snare; even the Heart Tribe, wielding Plane of Soul energies and drawing from the Interdimensional Void via a tweaked Emptiness Sword Martial Arts framework that Hong Fan crafted, remained firmly in his grasp.

Should the Absolute of Miracle spawn endless unpredictabilities, he'd execute a flawless scheme to capture and confine those boundless variables without fail.

Such was Hong Fan's strategy.

Still, Miracle itself generates fresh variables even in the most improbable scenarios.

No matter his assurance in flawlessness, Hong Fan recognized it wouldn't truly be without flaws.

'Despite all this effort, my goal won't manifest immediately, and the Enders will escape my hold once more.'

Hence, he viewed this endeavor as far from concluding after a mere one or two attempts.

Thousands, hundreds of millions...

Only through countless, vast repetitions beyond measure could he claim Miracle's variables.

'Repeat.'

He relentlessly shredded the Absolute of Miracle, dispersed its pieces into other realms, birthed them into mortal forms, and repeatedly summoned them here to toil under the powers he'd forged.

He constructed this cycle without end.

Through such persistence, eventually the Enders, the Miracle Absolutes...

Via the repetition of history and fate.

Under the dominion of those dual Absolutes, they would slowly yield to his possession...

"It shall repeat for eternity."

Until the birth of the Creator harboring every secret to salvation.

Clinging steadfast to hope...

***

Poong-

Within the shadowy, murky expanse of the Darkness World.

From a dark, bubble-like void hovering there, a Supreme Deity composed of countless stellar clusters materializes.

Tsuaaaaaat!

This being, radiating starlight briefly, shrinks down and reshapes into human form.

"Were Enders manufactured in this way...?"

A figure clad in a white dragon robe.

Seo Eun-hyun emerges from the bubble-resembling entity, the Future King's recollections, and gives a nod.

His current location resides within the Gestation World.

It's the core of the Future King's corpse, remnant after death, shaped by boundless gravitational darkness.

Paaaatt!

In a flash, Seo Eun-hyun turns to starlight and hurtles away, then directly exits the Future King's form, ascending toward the conical universe's apex overhead.

The site dubbed the Audience Chamber by some.

Heading to where the grand Crystal Throne, Flame Throne, and Darkness Throne stand, he settles onto the grandest Seat emerging from the Crystal Throne and declares.

"Within the slain Future King's form, I witnessed his memories. From that, I uncovered precisely what Mount Sumeru has lately pulled in from beyond."

Perched on the Crystal Seat, Seo Eun-hyun details to the occupants of the opposing Darkness Throne and Flame Throne the root of Mount Sumeru's latest odd occurrences.

"The recent influx into Mount Sumeru of [something] from [beyond] the Gestation World...stems from the Ender production cycle that endured for an inconceivable span... It's now etched as history repetition."

On this note, the Heavenly Venerable of Time and the Darkness Throne's Agent, Cheon Woon, inquires.

"You mean the law's influence extends even outside the Gestation World?"

"Likely it doesn't span every realm."

Then, the First King Heavenly Venerable of the Underworld, Bong Hwa, speaks up in response.

"The scope of that Ender production history repetition law's power is confined...to the dimension from which the Crystal King and the final Enders originated, the Crystal King's native realm. With the Crystal King's fragmented bodies and allies present there now, the pull between our worlds has linked up."

Bong Hwa embodied the true Life Supreme Deity.

Leveraging her ascent as Akashic Records' Master, she shares her wisdom.

"Yet one puzzle lingers unsolved. The Ender production history repetition forms a potent history, but...the originator of that history got cut off, and regardless of the lingering history repetition's might, in normal circumstances...this shouldn't happen."

Bong Hwa's eyes shift elsewhere.

A transcendent's vision pierces vast spacetime.

Across remote spacetime,

Beyond the chaos enveloping the Gestation World.

In one such spot, a warp-like anomaly has formed.

This warp resembles...

Among Heavenly Domains, it's akin to the spatial ripple from Radiance Hall's ancient inter-Heavenly-Domain transmission array.

"Regarding that warp, the Akashic Records hold no record, so even I remain ignorant. It's hazardous. It could serve as an entry for a malevolent great divinity from another world into the Gestation World. In our current states, you and I can fend them off, but countless lives might suffer in the clash. We need to seal it swiftly. Crystal King, did the Future King's memories yield any leads?"

To Bong Hwa's query, Seo Eun-hyun on the Crystal Seat affirms with a nod.

"From the Future King's views of other realms, I spotted a lead. It appears a entity acquiring an artifact tied to our world, upon ascending to great divinity, impacts this place too. Most likely..."

"This arose because you flung the source of Omnipotence to a far-off other realm."

"It's not solely from the Omnipotence source and another world's great divinity ascension...but layered with the Ender production history repetition, multiple factors intertwined to cause this."

Bong Hwa lifts her hand.

A tremendous vital energy caresses the dimensional warp within the Gestation World.

"Gate...it's a Gate God. Linked to the Omnipotence source...in a remote dimension, 'the one who is gate, guardian, and key' has emerged. That one's ascension and the Ender production history repetition have aligned in an astonishing fluke...forming a dimensional gate linking the Crystal King's home dimension to ours."

Her golden gaze gleaming, Bong Hwa foretells with a furrowed brow.

"Via the [Gate], Ender-like beings will re-enter Mount Sumeru from Earth to fulfill history repetition. They won't be genuine Absolute Fragments, but based on past history repetition patterns, they'll stir major disruptions. And even in death, the repetition persists. Thus, to halt this history repetition, just one path exists."

As Bong Hwa presses on, the Crystal King Star Genesis Supreme Deity Seo Eun-hyun exhales deeply.

"Normally, with even a single Ender's history enduring, no successors emerge. Crystal King, since this mess traces to you casting out the Omnipotence source, you must face the consequences. Capture the emerging Pseudo-Enders...and preserve them through a hundred billion years of taxidermy to break the history repetition. Doing so will erase that rift from the tangle of coincidences like history repetition and divinity ascension."

Seo Eun-hyun recalls hurling the Omnipotence source to a distant other realm.

Indeed, back then, merged with Bong Hwa and fellow Ender allies, they consented...

But Seo Eun-hyun's core self pushed hardest to abandon the Omnipotence source.

Likewise, he was the one who executed the act.

So Bong Hwa's call for his accountability holds true.

'Now I must preserve Enders personally, eh.'

Of course, it's partly in jest.

Bong Hwa just evoked a harsh term from days when she aimed to preserve Seo Eun-hyun,

and really, nurturing a True Immortal or Governing Immortal resilient enough for a hundred billion years suffices.

Or, akin to Ban Ta still toiling in Sacred Master duties amid screams of torment, pinning them as a Middle Realm Sacred Master for a hundred billion years to prolong life works too.

'Either way...they aren't authentic Enders...but fresh arrivals...'

Sensing novel feelings about snatching newcomers from Earth and elevating them to True Immortals—at minimum, Sacred Vessel level—Seo Eun-hyun stands from his throne.

"...Understood."

He conveys instructions to his allies and Immortal Treasure Sword Extreme lingering on Earth, savoring its ways.

He also reaches out to Wol Ryeong, head of the star-cluster Wuji Religious Order spiraling within Mount Sumeru, overseeing its inhabitants.

"Starting today...the next Enders—no, not real ones, but those spawned via history repetition and assorted flukes...Neo-Enders. I'll fetch the Neo-Enders from Earth and see them preserved."

Thus, Seo Eun-hyun's Immortal Treasure, the [Silver Snake Biting Its Tail] Ji Hwa, commences scouting Earth for fresh souls.

All night-sky starlight now oversees the globe and spins fates for these new souls.

In the tale's closing moments, the Crystal King Star Genesis Supreme Deity Seo Eun-hyun readies to preserve the incoming new souls and, upon the Crystal Throne, shuts his eyes to await.

The dawn of a fresh saga!