Chapter 128: Trials (Part:1)

​​”Pff-Hahaha!! I see, I see! Good, very good. I can see what you are trying to say here. And yes, I have the perfect answer for all of your questions, you stupid trial.”

Rahu laughed out loud. He was a bit lost due to the rapid turn of events these past few days. Shaking his head, he sighed. In times like these, he really needed a woman to relieve him.

“…”

“You indeed are different, you are qualified.” Seeing his laughter, Karma spoke. But when he glanced at the spot where she stood, there wasn’t a single soul standing. Rahu blinked, and when he opened them. He again found himself in that black space.

Rahu smiled, “If you had chosen anyone else, maybe just maybe I would have fallen for your nasty tricks.”

But his words fell on deaf ears, as the void began to tremble.

“Candidate #Rahu passed the first trial: Trial of Senses. The next trial will begin.”

An ancient voice sounded. Rahu frowned. It didn’t seem like artificial intelligence. It seemed very much alive.

“So, there are more trials, huh. Figures, but…candidates? It seems there are others here as well.”

This only made the situation all the more complicated. Only the Origin Realm cultivators are one thing, but if those thousands and thousands of other rabble? It was only a waste of time.

He just shook his head and stood there, waiting for the words to speak. When he blinked, an ancient book suddenly materialised in front of him.

“Hmm?” Rahu looked at it curiously. But didn’t attempt to touch it.

The pages in the book began flapping rapidly; it was so fast that it just became a blur at one point. Rahu just stood there, waiting.

​“If you hadn’t existed, what would change?”

​An ancient voice echoed. It was coming from all directions. The void shifted. From the book, strange scenes unfolded…not dramatically. Just plain continuation.

The world moved forward, and wars broke out. Houses were destroyed, empires rose and fell. Cultivators advanced, failed, died. Even some faces Rahu recognized lived on, mainly his harem and other women he knew. Some, adjusted, adapted. While some struggled briefly.

It was nothing, just a continuation of life.

Nothing changed. No collapse followed his absence, nor any gap formed.

Everyone found their own paths and continued to live on.

Rahu just quietly watched this scene. It wasn’t an attempt to belittle or suppress him. It merely showed him something cold and precise.

Many people feel a small crack somewhere deep inside them because their spirit relied and thrived on significance. On the belief that their presence meant something, no matter how small.

But when that belief failed, so did their spirits.

Rahu did not deny what he saw here, nor did he make any remarks. He also did not justify this, even though there were thousands of loopholes and other ways to answer, but he chose the loudest one…silence.

The void darkened and shifted further; the pages of the book once again began their flapping.

“Who has the authority and right to end your existence?”

But this time, the answers presented themselves, not as choices but as claims.

Fate.

Enemy.

Yourself.

Fate may end you.

Another may end you.

You may end yourself.

Those weren’t mere words; Rahu could feel it. The moment each claim surfaced, it attempted to assert itself!

Invisible threads of fate compressed around him, tightening the reality, a wrong answer, and it would hack its existence.

And as always, Rahu just remained silent. Contemplating, he didn’t reject any of them, nor did he accept them.

The pressure on his spirit increased, demanding that he yield.

But he stood tall, and the forces withdrew eventually. Not defeated but…satisfied.

Rahu just stared at the void, his thoughts unknown.

After a few seconds, the void cleared. This time, there wasn’t any pressure, just a small inquiry.

“If nothing you do has any meaning, why continue?”

The void once again shifted, and Rahu suddenly became weightless. His cultivation itself was nullified. The ideas of progress and evolution dimmed ever so slightly. Legacies, rewards, consequences…all of it. Stripped away.

Any action felt hollow, meaningless. Rahu exhaled, every inch of his power was stripped away…But he noticed something strange: his [Dimensional Core] was still spinning. Spinning inside him without a care for the world. Seeing him, his mind suddenly felt like it was zapped.

“Huff…Huff.”

Rahu breathed heavily, closing his eyes for a moment. He focused on himself; there was…something else that was influencing his mind. And…it wasn’t mind manipulating entities. It was something far more than that…far too powerful.

“Well, well. This Inheritance sure has a phd in philosophy, I have to give it to it.” Rahu let out a small laugh and stared at the book.

These questions did have an effect on his mind, but it was just that. There was no way he was going to lose himself in between some stupid questions.

The questions themselves were wrong. Poorly framed, offering false choices and leading only to an inevitable end.

At this point, the trial was basically forcing people to make a choice. Not the other way around. A wide grin stretched across his face, raising his head, and he gazed at the void. The book trembled.

“All the nonsense you spouted right now, those are nothing but constraints! Your constraints! Not mine.”

The void stirred, as if provoked by his words. Thick ripples spreading outward.

“I don’t act because it matters,” He grinned widely. “I act because I can. It is my will! Whether the world remembers me or erases me, it makes no difference. Fate cannot claim me, nor do my enemies have the will. In the path of Supremacy, all of these are constraints…constraints which you could shove down your ass and seal it there!”

​BOOM!!

​The void began to crack, snap, and tear apart as those words echoed. Rahu hadn’t spoken emptily. The will behind them was so natural and overwhelming that even the book’s frantic flapping slowed down.

​And finally, with a thud. It shut close! There were no more questions in front of such a being with such horrifying will. Every question was worthless.

​CRACK!

​”Candidate #Rahu has passed the second trial: The Trial of Spirit. The next trial will begin soon.”

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