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Also hope you all enjoy this chapter.
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[Yingzhou Island]
The darkened sky above rumbled with thunder and lightning as the three men all stood and looked at one another.
Well two men were looking at Wrath.
Wrath was just studying the heart in his hands.
The tension was so thick that you could taste it in the air. The smell of ozone filled the nose's of Yang Mei and Chu Kaungren.
Chu Kaungren stared seriously at the strange person in front of him.
His brain was going haywire with warning bells, his very soul was screaming at him to get as far away from this person quickly.
But his face on the outside was as calm as he could make for the situation.
Yang Mei on the other hand was losing his marbles, this strange looking man just appeared out of nowhere and took something from the ruler of the universe.
You have to know that after Chu Kaungren won the immortal throne, he received the crown and full control over the immortal world.
Thereby he was the ruler of the universe and was invincible in this realm.
So, the fact that someone could just randomly appear and take something was ludicrous.
And now that he looks at this mysterious man, Yang Mei had certain ideas that he was responsible for the way the Great Dao was silenced.
"This is a pathway to understand the law of power." Wrath spoke to himself.
As Wrath was speaking to himself, Chu Kaungren was franticly speaking with the AI in his soul.
'Li Ai, scan this man. I need to know all about him asap.'
'Right away master, one moment.'
A few seconds later than normal of her, Chu Kuangren in his mind said, 'Li Ai what have you found?'
There was a period of silence until she responded. 'Master....I cannot scan this person. Infact when I tried to...he looked at me. And I felt that if I continued then I would be destroyed.'
But what see didn't say was that when she tried to scan and look inside of Wrath, a black ash looking skull face appeared smiling at her.
It was the abyss looking back at her.
And for the first time, she felt true fear.
*Boom*
Like he struck by lightning Chu Kaungren mind went ballistic with random thoughts. In all his years in this place a situation like this has never occurred.
He didn't know it, but a little seed of fear was planted his soul.
But he calmed down and thought to himself, 'Then I have to probe him, if I even can.'
He didn't want to admit it, but this man gave him an unfathomable feeling. And he was concerned as to what this person wanted.
So, with a confident face as he knew people were watching his every move. He took a step forward towards Wrath.
And he was right, many people were watching this situation.
Many divine senses were communicating with one another on who or what Wrath was. But they were out of luck as they can't even begin to fathom what Wrath was.
Or who he represented.
As Chu Kaungren took another step, Wrath paused studying the heart in his hands. He looked up at the approaching figure of the main character of this story.
His red eyes saw everything about Chu Kuangren.
The past, present and future.
The things he saw just annoyed him even more than he already was. Looking at his three souls, Wrath could also see a white light inside of each of them.
Looking at his brain, Wrath could see golden runic symbols intertwined with it. 'Must be the Ai spirit.' Wrath thought to himself.
Getting an idea, Wrath decided to use his newly trained power of reality manipulation and have a bit of fun.
After all he was trying to scare this person.
And so, a fast red light blossomed from his body covering the entire universe.
Chu Kaungren felt no problems or difference with his surroundings, and he simply kept walking forward. The many gazes who were watching were all frozen in time and didn't even know it.
This included Yang Mei as well.
Their minds were focused on the time before Wrath arrived here.
And so, to begin with his scaring.
Wrath said, "you know with someone of your background, you would think they would know it's not polite to try and scan other people without that person's consent."
These words froze Chu Kaungren in place for a split second, this didn't go unnoticed by Wrath. And he smirked a little.
Chu Kaungren keeping a confident facade flew up to be on the same level as Wrath. But his mind was franticly trying to speak with Li Ai in his soul.
'LI Ai run propablies on if I could win against hi-'
"Don't bother trying."
Wrath voice sounded in his head.
And for the first time, Chu Kaungren's arrogant face crumbled, and he seriously looked at Wrath and said, "Who are you?!"
"Who I am doesn't matter, what I represent does." Wrath said.
Chu Kaungren arched an eyebrow as he said, "and what do you represent."
After he said that, Chu Kuangren felt his entire world blur. All that filled his sight was darkness.... no it was an abyss of destruction.
There was no light, no heat.
Only the cold, the embrace of death.
He saw his home, loved ones, and kingdom be destroyed by a huge black dragon mouth. There was nothing he could do but watch as everything he worked hard for be wiped-out of existence.
He couldn't think, nor could he talk to LI Ai.
He was just frozen like a little weak lamb.
The huge black Dragon then turned to look at him, and the last thing he saw was its blood red like eyes as the mouth of the dragon closed on top of him.
*Booomm*
*Crunch*
"Grauhh!" Chu Kaungren groaned in confusion.
Looking around, he found himself back to reality, but he was on the ground instead of his previous position in the air.
"Ha..."
"Ha..."
"Ha..."
Breathing out heavily, he noticed that he was sweating like a dog. This pissed him off a great deal as he has never encountered or been in this kind of position before in his life.
He tried to get up but found he couldn't move anything but his neck. Then he felt a sharp pain flood his stomach.
Rasing his head up he saw Wrath with a single finger extended out to where his stomach would be located.
It was surrounded in a red glow.
The looking down at his stomach, he was shocked to see a fist sized hole there. But the crazy thing was that he wasn't bleeding out at all, nor was he healing yet.
Chu Kaungren tried to remember what happened to him just now.
One moment he was looking directly at Wrath's eyes and the next he was in that dark horrible place seeing everything he loved destroyed.
And now as he looked around, he saw that his world was fine.
"It's quite something isn't."
The voice of Wrath pulled his attention away from himself and up to him. Then a feeling of anger overcame Chu Kaungren as he saw Wrath's look of distain, it was like he was looking down at him.
Wrath unbothered by this raging pubescent teenager, simply looked around the immortal world.
"Reality is such a fickle thing if you know what strings to pull." Wrath said calmly.
Then he turned and looked back at Chu Kuangren and said, "Now you know what a true death is, and the feeling of really losing something important to you."
"I hope in our next meeting that you bring more than what you have today, it was quite an embarrassing display for the ruler of a universe."
"Here let me help you up."
And Chu Kaungren felt his entire body fly off the ground he was lying in.
"Oh, also let me take this out of you as well."
*Tissssss*
The hole in his stomach closed up slowly as Wrath took out his power that was preventing him to heal.
"Arghh!"
Chu Kaungren groaned out in a pain as he felt the effects of Wrath's power fade from his body.
"Also let me resume reality as well." Wrath spoke as he released everyone under his power of reality manipulation.
*Shaa*
"Mas-"
"Mast-"
"MASTER!!!!!"
The familiar voice of his lovely Ai filled his head.
Even though his body was aching, Chu Kuangren was happy that she was fine at least. Because she was his biggest trump card in the universe.
'I'm glad you're alright master. When I felt your soul disappear, I feared the worst.'
Although he was shocked that his soul was out of his body Chu Kaungren said, 'I'm fine for now, but I'm glad you're alright. Did your ha-
"Ok that's enough pleasantries." Wrath said as he didn't feel like hearing them profess their love for one another.
This worked as they both went quiet, and Li Ai focused on speeding up his bodies and souls healing.
"Might want to grab another robe." Wrath joked.
Looking down at his bare chest Chu Kuangren hurriedly waved his left arm and magically put on another white robe.
Wrath ignoring him for a moment looked down at the heart in his hands. And after pondering for a bit, he threw it back to Chu Kuangren.
"Here catch."
Chu Kuangren looked up and saw the black heart flying in his direction. Catching it, he looked back up at Wrath confused.
"What?" Wrath asked seeing his confusion.
"What are you after. No one with power like you give stuff away for free." Chu Kuangren said seriously.
"There has to be a catch."
Wrath looking at him was dumfounded and he took a moment to calm himself down from smacking this guy's head clean off his body.
Then he looked at Chu Kuangren and said, " Unlike you and your kind, I don't have to plot or trick people."
"Only those with true power have no need for tricks. " Wrath said.
"People like you who have never worked hard a day in his life need to feel the need to plot or trick people."
Every word Wrath spoke struck Chu Kuangren's heart like a sword strike.
"Besides, I already have learned much of what I wanted to know about you and this place."
"Take a look."
Wrath simply floated up in the sky and looked out into the starry sky. Then he calmly pointed at a deserted galaxy in the universe.
And from his finger came a clear, almost white looking beam of power, that moved so fast it burned a hole in reality.
The beam came into contact with the galaxy, and it simply turned into ashes. Or better yet it was eviscerated into nothingness. There was no noise, explosion or profound displays of power.
Just simple and straight to the point.
Looking back at Chu Kuangren dumbfounded face, Wrath said, " I'm not done just yet."
His thoughts going haywire, Chu Kuangren thought to himself,' What is he going to do now. He already has comprehended the Dao of power. What next?'
Then Wrath did something new, he drew in a good amount of the spiritual Qi in the air. Once it was next to him, he compressed it like it was play doe.
It looked like a bluish golden green ball of energy. But the crazy thing was that it sure a pure form of Qi that Chu Kuangren felt his own cultivation move on its own, and that was just form smelling it.
Then Wrath simply flicked it towards the place where the galaxy was, and immediately the galaxy began to glow gold. And a breath of pure spiritual qi flooded it.
The galaxy rumbled and the spiritual Qi began creating life inside of it.
Wrath just made a higher plane in this universe filled with such pure Qi that it was like the creation of a new universe.
And after he leaves it will be a blood bath to control that galaxy.
Still stunned speechless, Chu Kaungren didn't see Wrath appear next to him.
"I hope you are more powerful the next time I see you. And can entertain me for a while, plus when the time comes this creation will need a knight in shining armor."
Chu Kuangren all of a sudden could sense the probing gazes of various people watching, and the embarrassment of the situation filled him with such anger that his blood felt like fire.
The gazes of the subjects from the Immortal World could only watch in shock as the madman that they have known all of their life was at the mercy of another man.
This strange visitor.
Still very angry and processing the words of Wrath, Chu Kuangren could only look over at him and with an anger filled face say, " I will find a way to defeat you and repay you for that humiliation you have given me on this day."
"I promise you I will!"
Wrath looked at him and calmly said, "Sure. Try your best."
And to really drive his point home and to also get his own bloodlust out, he bitched slapped Chu Kaungren so hard that his body looked like a sun shooting halfway across the universe.
*Boooooom*
This slap shook the entire immortal world so hard that it caused earthquakes all over the place. And the slap blew the clouds in million-mile radius.
The people watching were all dumbfounded and scared wondering what this man was going to do next.
They were all fearing the worst.
But unlike their thoughts, Wrath simply disappeared from this universe as a whole.
This day marked a new dawn for all of the people residing in the Immortal world. The day that their invincible king was made a plaything.
And for Chu Kuangren enemies, they were ecstatic, some even recorded the slap. They even were watching it over and over again like it was a movie. They began selling it for the people who didn't like Chu Kuangren, making a fortune in process.
But they were still very fearful on that black metal like man and was happy he left.
On this day everyone was reminded that there was always a bigger sky than what you were used to, and Chu Kuangren had literally been slapped down a few pegs.
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[The Void]
Coming out of that universe, Wrath smiled feeling happy with himself now that he damaged that loathsome guy's reputation.
And he was happy, not only because of that but also because of, raising his hand up, Wrath looked at the drop of golden red blood he took from Chu Kuangren.
His purpose for coming there in the first place was for this and the power it held within itself.
Not only did it have the abilities of all the Dao physiques in that universe, but also had the power and concept of Transcendence!
The former will give Vhaalku all of the abilities from the Dao physiques and his own power will amplify their strength.
'And that fool Chu Kuangren didn't even understand the very power he had inside of his own blood.' Wrath thought.
You see in the novel Chu Kuangren had the power of transcendence, and if he continued on with his path of power.
He would've eventually been able to step out of his own creation.
Leading him to become another boundless being, but instead the author or whatever controlling force only had him stop at combining himself with his cheat. Making him omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient in his own creation.
This concept or power in his blood would have led him to even greater heights.
"But now it's mine and it will shorten the time need for Vhaalku to become transcendent." Wrath said to himself.
Granted it will still be a while before he comes close to becoming Transcendent, but this blood will shorten the time needed.
Then he sent it into his pocket space to Vhaalku, who at the moment was having a conversation of a lifetime.
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[Marvel, The Overspace]
Coming back to the Marvel Universe, we find ourselves back in the dimension where entities can communicate with one another.
Besides the lower plane.
Right now, though, we find ourselves looking at the gigantic divine form of Vhaalku sitting on his throne in front of three other people.
Death, Eternity, and the Living Tribunal himself.
"Well, I guess we have much to discuss, don't we my fellow entities." Vhaalku spoke first and thereby initiating the conversation.
All of the other entities were quiet for a moment until a girly squeal came from none other than Death herself.
"Eeeeeeeiii!"
"He's so cool, don't you think Eternity!" She squealed out like a little girl looking at Eternity who was scowling.
Ignoring Death, he looked at Vhaalku with a frown and said, "you have destroyed so much already, I think we should either erase or seal you away somewhere before you get too strong."
*Wranggggggg*
Flexing his power, the enitire overspace began to tremble from Eternity's might.
"Hoh?"
Vhaalku surprised at this guy's guts arched an eyebrow and not afraid either, he responded in-kind.
"This coming from the guy who needed help with an already weakened First Sentence of a dead universe."
Then the realm got a bit dark behind Vhaalku as darkness was made manifest as he spoke these next words.
"But I do need a good toy to test my full power, you'd be a perfect victim."
*Rumbllleee*
*Crackllllle*
Vhaalku's own power was making the overspace tremble alongside Eternity who was a little shocked because of his power and fast growth.
Death watching this was fan girling on the inside, she wasn't going to admit it, but because of Vhaalkus actions many souls have been flooding in her domain.
Making her strength grow even more as a side effect.
You see, on his way here Vhaalku was interrupted by others who had coveted his power and wanted to know his realm's location.
And knowing Vhaalku's personality you can guess what happened. So, a few universes were erased in the process of him dealing with flies.
Death loved the death and destruction that practically leaked off of Vhaalku, but Eternity didn't as he felt the lives of billions if not trillions disappear.
And sense he represented holding the very fabric of the multiverse together this made him not like Vhaalku at all.
The situation was growing even more serious, and Tribunal was annoyed so he yelled at Eternity.
"Enough already!"
*Shawmmmmm*
His eyes blazed with fury as he looked at Eternity.
Although mad, Eternity settled down, but he still glared at Vhaalku with pure malice. Tribunal looked over at Vhaalku awaiting his choice.
Giving the same respect to Tribunal, Vhaalku calmed his own power down. But he noted down Eternity as potential enemy he needed to destroy in the future just in case.
The trembling of the realm ceased.
Death pouted as she wanted to see more of Vhaalku's power. The future isn't certain though so she may get her wish.
"Thank you both for settling down." Tribunal spoke.
Vhaalku nodded in response, while Eternity was silent still staring at Vhaalku.
"Sigh."
Tribunal just sighed and began the meeting.
"I called all of you here because of a problem arising in the near future." He spoke very solemnly so Vhaalku knew it must be important.
"There have been echos of the Black Winter resurfacing, along with a few pawns in his games."
Then he looked over at Death who was nervously squirming in her seat and said, "One of them was a familiar purple grape."
"And... he looked over at Vhaalku and said, "he has somehow allied and empowered the real Dormmamu."
"Even Annihilus is attempting to resurface in this chaos."
Pausing a moment to let the news sinking in.
He continued by saying, " The reason I called all of you here was because of your connection with them."
"I can say that without a doubt the multiverse will suffer catastrophic damage, and many will die this war."
"And there will enemies lurking in the shadows waiting to strike in the dark."
"So, I would suggest that all of you prepare yourselves fully."
"That is all."
Seeing that none had any questions, he said,
"The two of you can leave, but Lord Nihility, please stay behind for a moment."
Vhaalku raised an eyebrow, but he stayed still.
While Death just huffed in annoyance that she couldn't stay and talk with Vhaalku and she disappeared in black twirl in reality.
Eternity just gave one last glare to Vhaalku and teleported out of the overspace.
Vhaalku unmoved by Eternity's dislike for him, simply looked over at Tribunal awaiting his reasoning for having him stay behind.
Tribunal seeing that they were truly gone looked over at Vhaalku and said, "I thank you for staying behind."
"It's fine, but what's with the name you just spoke, Lord Nihility." Vhaalku asked him. For some reason he felt that it resonated with him perfectly.
Tribunal just smiled and said, "I can't say just yet, but what I can say is that you will understand one day soon."
Nodding in response Vhaalku awaited what was so important that he had to stay behind.
"Now for the reason I needed to you to stay behind, was because of one thing." Tribunal spoke.
"Yes?" Vhaalku said.
"There have been echos of not only Black Winter coming, but also of a herald from the Abyss."
It seemed as if a sickening feeling arrived as Tribunal spoke the words Abyss.
Vhaalku just sat in silence for a moment.
Until he looked at Tribunal and Tribunal could have sworn, he saw another face horrible flash in the eyes of Vhaalku as he said,
"Then let them come."
The feeling of sickness disappeared as quickly as it came.
"No matter how many come, there will be nothing left, and they won't escape me or their end."
After that, Vhaalku faded out of reality heading back home.
Tribunal sat in silence for a while thinking to himself. The he too proceeded to leave, but not before saying,
"You were right Creator; he is truly a real monster."