The Heavenly Martial Empress Returns: An OP Xianxia Returnee LitRPG

Chapter 184: The Heavenly Will’s Peon

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RUMBLE!

The nine heavens of Murim trembled as rainbow lightning shook the skies. All life within these nine layered clouds started panicking, massively migrating from the areas affected, most of them even going towards the Earthly Realms below, causing great chaos and commotion as powerful, high-tiered Heavenly Martial Beasts started rampaging the land of Mortals.

The lightning constantly spread further but rapidly began to gather together, beginning to form a sphere of rainbow light, as big as the sun itself, and then this sphere began to divide into many other smaller spheres, endlessly, dozens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and millions of them, each one smaller than the other.

Together, they slowly started to become something, taking the shape of a living organism, a fetus.

Endless eyes of all colors glanced from every single angle imaginable. The Heavenly Will’s divine and ultimate presence manipulated the Heavenly Dao as it was a part of their very existence, the laws of physics within Murim, the Essences of Heaven and Earth, the Daos, all converging before their divine and all-powerful will.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

He was creating something, something beyond life, a being that had surpassed life itself and evolved beyond that, many times, ascending to become near unparalleled, and then even beyond that, breaking all limits possible.

His death, their deaths, all became part of his will, of his existence. Sometimes, those that were strong enough, powerful enough, admirable, even, would become one with them once they died. The Heavenly Will absorbed their Essence, their Records, their Story, and created internal copies of their very Souls within its own existence.

Each one was more wonderful than the previous one; each one had surpassed their expectations even further; each one kept fighting to defy fate, to defy them.

Yet all of them fell ultimately against her.

She who came from another world, a displacement between dimensions caused by a storm within the cosmos, which the Heavenly Will used to bring her here.

A little toy, nothing of real value, something he would glance at for a few years and then forget about.

But they never expected that she would become such a menace to this world. That despite all of what she had gone through, that despite everything…

She would rise up again.

And again…

And again!

There was only one word that they thought about: the Heavenly Will, a being with no gender or sex, someone that could be a she as much as a he, or none at all.

For the first time, there was now something born within their empty hearts, always craving the excitement that only life as it struggled to exist brought to them.

Was it attachment?

No…

Was it caring?

Perhaps.

Was it…

Love?

It is what they thought it was.

Love!

But was it truly love? Or more like, an obsession that went beyond comprehension?

Because when you’re a being that cannot even comprehend their own all-powerful existence, a being that sees all things as nothing.

And a being that can only find a spark of color in their lives by seeing others suffer and struggle...

Can’t everything end up as mere love at the end?

Why did it matter anyway?

Love, obsession, feelings of attachment, hate, jealousy, envy…

It didn’t matter!

The only thing that had ever mattered to them, ever since she left, the only thing that has ever mattered to them since their very existence…

Her and only her.

The spheres of rainbow light that divided and then slowly merged into a faint humanoid form rapidly continued developing, the comprehension of the Paths of the Dao emerging one after.

“You, who all surprised me to the point I created an imprint of your very existences within me, shall be reborn. I can only do this once; only once will you come out… genuinely. The rest? They will be failures. So don’t disappoint me, alright?”

The entity that was being created out of rainbow lightning took the form of a man, a tall man, with a slender figure. Their bodies, made of energy, slowly began to condense into true forms.

Pale white skin could be seen across his nude body, long black hair, a sharp and manly, handsome face, and big eyebrows, giving this man the appearance of a sharp and ruthless conqueror.

His eyes opened, revealing a golden gaze that pierced across the nine heavens.

The Essence of many Daos emerged from their very existence—someone that had lived for thousands of years and had mastered not one, but dozens of Daos!

“It seems I have been reborn by your divine decree, Heavenly Will, my greatest foe,” he said with a melodious voice, as if he were reciting a poem. “And I seem to be bound by your tyranny once more. Am I merely a puppet to your wishes?”

“You are not a puppet.”

The heavenly will answered promptly after his words.

“You are a beautiful being that once existed and then stopped existing. You were so wonderful, I absorbed what remained of you. The very records of your existence now live within me.”

“You, who is all-powerful, what needs do you have with my existence? Yet another of the many that was unable to defy you? Merely a failure no matter my feats.”

“There are things that not even I can do.”

“Oh, pray tell, what can’t the Heavenly Will not do?”

“Bing Xue.”

“Hm?!”

The man immediately responded the moment he heard that name.

That accursed name!

His calm face changed, wrathfully changing into the embodiment of a ferocious asura!

“Do not dare say her name in front of me!” he roared. “That mare, who I could never tame, dared to kick the man that fed her well, in his very face!”

“You’re full of anger, aren’t you? That she betrayed your trust, that she even seduced you, all an act, to get to see your weakest point, and then…”

The Heavenly Will laughed.

“Yes, I remember! Such a wonderful thing cannot be easily forgotten! Did you ever truly expect to earn the love of someone like her?! HAHAHAHA! You even make the Heavens laugh at your stupidity!”

“SILENCE!”

The man screamed in anger, feeling more embarrassed and frustrated as he heard the words of the Heavenly Will.

“Heavenly Venerable of the Seven Paths of Heaven, or as your System called you, the Murim’s Destined Villain, Fang Gu Lan,” the Heavenly Will spoke. “You, a transmigrated soul from another world, possessing the fragment of a cosmic being turned into a system, have been granted the greatest chance of all your life!”

“What do you mean with this?”

“You want to kill her, don’t you? You want your revenge, don’t you?! Then this is your time! Slay her! Kill her! She’s all yours to slaughter as you please! Kill Bing Xue!”

“W-Wha…?!”

“Bring to me her corpse, her soul, or anything! I’ve revived you, all for this moment, so go, bring her to me, now!”

“So that was it; this is all because you desire her. And I want to kill her for daring to betray my trust... Hahaha! I suppose we do have something in common, Heavenly Will.”

“I’ve even restored your unique power, so you’re once more the same as before—in fact, I’ve even given you a “bonus”, so you’re even stronger than before!”

“My, you’re so generous! All for a woman? Perhaps you’re worse than me then… betrayed by one, I shall never trust any anymore!”

“Well, it isn’t as if you ever trusted or loved anyone either way, villain. You merely took them to please your sexual frustrations from your previous life, after all! You were such an open book, despite how much you believed to be the true protagonist of this world! Your System fed you good lies, and you ate them all happily. If anything, your death was not her fault, only yours for believing you were unparalleled.”

“Hah, truly the Heavenly Will, a bastard that simply won’t stop ogling and creeping over everyone else’s lives," said Fang Gu Lan. “I’ve had enough of your insolent words, Heavenly Will, and I shan’t have no more!”

RUMBLE!

The man’s powers manifested, seven paths of seven colors opening before him, the converged powers of many foes he had defeated and absorbed.

With the powers he was born with, he stole and devoured the Fate of those that were Destined for greatness, becoming progressively more powerful as his system fed him special items.

He advanced by leaps and bounds, becoming more cocky, braver, and also more reckless.

When he rose to a Heavenly Venerable, he believed the world was his plate, and foolishly dared to seduce the “Pillar of Light”, as Bing Xue was once called in those times.

Sadly, his fate was another; unable to even kiss her, he was instantly betrayed, and a fierce battle broke out while he bled when Bing Xue stabbed his back with a cursed weapon that absorbed his lifespan and cultivation.

A soul that could only be used once, forged from one hundred agonizing souls of one hundred demonic immortals that died while being tortured.

The curse was beyond what even his system could take care of, and he ultimately perished, pathetically.

His harem was freed, although those that dared to fight Bing Xue over his death were killed mercilessly by her.

Eventually, words about her cunningness and ruthlessness spread across the world by these women, further cementing Bing Xue as someone nobody could truly predict what her next action could ever be!

“That damn woman…” The Destined Villain of Murim sighed, clenching his fists as he glanced into the huge crack in space and time, clothes wrapping his body, born from his very Aura. “I’ll make sure to repay all your enmity a hundredfold! …No, a thousand—no, a millionfold!”

“Before you go, I must tell you what has been happening so far,” said the Heavenly Will. “So listen well.”

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