Darkness and shadows intertwine and merge, forming an indistinguishable staircase beneath the divine palace. Huge blocks of color hold the remains of the collapsed world, and countless bones accumulate and sink into the bottomless abyss.
The world created by God originally floated on this shadow, like an iceberg on the sea of ice. When this world is destroyed, all living things will be left with only bones and souls.
The heavy bones sink, and the light soul rises, going to the real heaven and earth.
At the deepest part of the abyss hangs a cage made of chains. These chains are based on blood and constantly draw on the power of God to maintain themselves. Only God can bear their weight.
They are the blood and soul of creation, and their weight far exceeds that of the entire world.
Kneeling in the cage was a man, wearing black clothes, with black hair, silver eyes and white skin. Scarlet chains were tightly tied around his neck, wrists, ankles, waist... They were entangled in every corner of desire, as if they were alive, like thorns all over a white rose, and the sharp thorns made the petals bleed.
Su Yun lowered his head and looked at the chains on his body. He didn't know if it was because they were too heavy, but for a moment, they made him feel breathless. He looked at his wrists, where wriggling scarlet threads were circling on his pale skin. These interlocking chains had a hot texture.
The chained cage was at the lowest point of the dark abyss, surrounded by countless remains from all creatures that had ever lived, whale bones filled with rotten bird feathers, human skulls entangled with smelly insect shells, pale bones tangled, remaining tissues rotted. They were natural enemies that devoured each other when alive, but became brothers who relied on each other after death.
The corpses were the heaviest things in the world. Su Yun turned his head to look at them, and the corpses responded with silence as a sign of respect.
This dark world is boundless, but it is not silent and quiet. Violent turmoil is causing waves under the divine court.
Su Yun raised his head and looked at the darkness above him, and... the seven creatures in the darkness.
They are fighting.
They fought with claws and teeth, biting and strangling, in the most primitive way. Broken limbs and bones fell in the darkness like blood, and finally merged into the grave of bones.
The first thing Su Yun saw was the bone snake wrapped around it. Looking up from the bottom, this huge bone snake seemed to have endless heads and tails. Every inch of its bones contained the power to crush rocks. As it swam, Su Yun seemed to be able to hear the sound of its joints expanding and contracting, which must have sounded like the collision and friction of steel.
Apart from the outermost layer of bone snakes, the most conspicuous is the dragon. This dragon has wings that cover the sky and the sun, and its scales and bones overlap layer by layer, but there is no part of its huge body that meets the definition of beauty. It only has distortion and fear. Its sharp claws are limbs and its huge jaws are filled with bony teeth. It keeps roaring, but all the sounds are drowned out in the endless darkness.
The space between these two behemoths was filled with wriggling tentacles. These nightmarish soft branches were covered with 30,000 eyes and 30,000 mouths. These constantly opening and closing things were scattered among the flowing tentacles like ugly flaws, hideous and greedy.
Then there were smaller creatures, centaurs in human skin, lion scorpions with wings and hooked tails, and demons wrapped in flames. They moved between bones and limbs, spewing flames and poison, and using bone spurs and spears to bring blood rain to the sky.
…and shadows.
The omnipresent shadow is devouring its brothers. It is greedy and cruel, unwilling to let go of any power, even if these powers are hidden in bone spurs and poison. It regards the world as a dining table, and there is nothing it cannot defeat and devour.
Su Yun looked at his creations. He was clearly a bystander, but an unprecedented pain emerged in his chest. This pain did not come from him, but it was worse than the destruction of the world. Countless voices rang in Su Yun's ears. They were the same words from different voices and different tones:
"Oh my God, it hurts so much..."
These monsters broke away from the divine court. They imprisoned their father and God. They wanted to escape the blessing and curse of immortality, and then fight each other and eat their brothers. When the last one is left...
That is when blasphemy comes.
The memories of the past were discarded by Su Yun when the new world was created, and they are only being revived little by little now. It is a cycle that has been repeated billions of times, with the birth and death of the new world as the scale, and there is no end.
Su Yun suddenly recalled the maze of the previous world, a maze built by a civilization born on an island to protect the rose of God.
The monsters in the maze devour each other, and they are immortal. They constantly change their positions in this cyclical food chain, but - there will never be a day when they can escape.
And such despair is just a mere projection.
The entire world was once built on such despair. Despair is a shadow that permeates every corner. It is the end and focus of everything. It has never weakened, but has been covered up and exposed again and again.
So have they succeeded?
...successfully.
Su Yun recalled the countless reincarnations. When the sky was shattered in blood and fire, and only the last of his creations was left after the fight, the monster that fused all the malice would fall from the sky. The flames around it would burn all the corpses, and it would finally land in front of him and break the chains like unravelling the ribbon on a gift box.
Only Su Yun could tell which creature they came from. Sometimes he could see the prototype of the monster, and sometimes he couldn't. Too much desire and malice were blocked in that body, making it look like countless bones twisted together.
Then, it will let out a howl of joy and pain, it will madly pour out its inextricable love and desire, it will be reborn again and again in constant collapse, and at the last moment, Su Yun will end its suffering.
Su Yun remembered the last reincarnation, the last time...ah, the final winner was Flora.
The shadow wrapped in corpses fell from the sky, and sticky liquid slid across his skin, invading every crevice and blocking out all light.
Then...then Su Yun will break free from the chains and kill the monster in despair and joy. Even if it is the winner, it still cannot match God.
When all creatures die, Su Yun will step on their corpses and return to the throne. He will resurrect them, punish them, and lock all the disobedient children in his arms.
Then the order of death gradually returned, until God created a new world and then fell into a deep sleep.
But in these countless cycles, there are more failures than successes.
Long before the creatures had decided the winner, God broke free from his chains, returned to his throne, and judged from above, directly bringing about the end of order.
All reincarnations lead to the same destination. The endings and beginnings of all worlds are blocked by pillars. When love and hate, desire and pain, prayer and longing reach the end... the only emotion left is despair.
Even though this cycle is just repeated countless times, they have no choice but to throw themselves into the flames.
Su Yun cut his wrist, and his blood gushed out. The silent bones seemed to be awakened by the blood. They twisted their bodies, eager to get closer to Su Yun, and only the skeletal limbs were left reaching out to him. As long as they touched Su Yun's blood, they would become the eighth creation.
If you look down from above at this moment, all the bones in the abyss are leaning forward at the same amplitude. Together they form a tight vortex with countless waves surging in it.
And Su Yun was right at the center of the vortex of bones.
In the endless cycle, there were a few times when Su Yun created the eighth creation. It might be a skeleton whale or a bone bird or something else, but no matter what it was, Flora's shadow would immediately strangle and eat it.
Su Yun raised his hands, wrists upward, his blood seeping through the scarlet chains, his unparalleled strength squandered without a care.
Under such an impact, even those from the blood chains of the plague were helpless, because the bridge was made of the blood of creation, which was incomparable to the blood of God, so they trembled in rejection, shrank flatteringly, and finally shattered into countless pieces.
Su Yun broke all the chains, but at this time, his creations were still trapped in the killing.
At this moment, there were countless skeletons under him. The skeletons reached out to Su Yun, longing for the only salvation and hope. They gathered together, stacked up like the crown of a cedar tree.
If Su Yun lowered his head slightly, he would see countless empty eyes.
There are mountains of bones beneath my feet and an ocean of shadows above my head.
The monsters stopped their unnecessary fighting and pounced on Su Yun together, but whether it was the sticky limbs or the scaly bone spurs, everything came to an abrupt end beside Su Yun.
Su Yun saw Alice's face, which was the true appearance of the devil.
There were also the faces of Jasmine and Isis, the bones of Anita, the eyes of Julia, the body of Theresa, and the limbs of Flora.
These jaws with countless sharp teeth opened and closed in front of him, and they were repeating one sentence - "Father God, I am in so much pain."
Su Yun wanted to respond, but a huge force came from above. It was the Divine Court welcoming its liberated god. The next moment, Su Yun broke away from the boundless shadow and reached the highest "water surface".
The entity of the divine court has long collapsed here, and all that remains is a throne, whether it is a rose or a rose.
Su Yun looked at the throne in silence for a long time. After a long time, he stepped onto the stairs of the throne. Here, the shadow was reduced to a calm surface of water, like a mirror. It would only produce ripples because of Su Yun's movements.
At the same time, all creation fell into true madness.
They gathered under the shadowed water, looking at their god with hatred and infatuation. At this moment, they only wanted to drag Su Yun down, no matter what method or cost.
Su Yun sat down on the throne, and the shattered divine palace re-condensed around him, forming seven pillars with relief carvings on them, ranging from small peach hearts to crowns.
The temple of God was originally the coffin of the Creator.
Su Yun raised his hand slightly, and seven pillars descended. Seven rays of light illuminated the darkness and also illuminated the most hideous and ugly things.
The monsters tore at their brothers and themselves aimlessly. They struggled painfully under the water. Countless pairs of eyes looked up at Su Yun from below, and countless throats let out the same desperate roar.
"Oh my god, it hurts."
“…It hurts.”
"Father God, it hurts..."
…
They are wailing, they are crying.
Su Yun stared at the water in a daze, the same pain was tearing his chest.
Even if the pillars fell, even if his plagues regained their sanity... they still could not escape the pain of despair.
Su Yun understood more clearly than ever before that his existence was the source of their suffering. He had shared his evil with them when he created the original creation.
He is the root of sin and the source of all evil.
"Does it hurt a lot..." Su Yun murmured, "So, have you always been in this kind of pain..."
No, how could he let them suffer like this? He was the one who created them and he loved them so much, how could he watch this cycle of reincarnation go on endlessly?
Su Yun clenched his fists, and seven pillars exploded in mid-air. He stood up, and the throne under him melted away.
He knelt on the water, and tiny ripples continued to spread on the mirror-like surface of the water, these ripples came from the falling water drops.
Su Yun touched his cheek. The moist touch surprised and relieved him. A distant ballad seemed to ring in his ears again, played by all the instruments at the same time.
It's time to stop it all.
"I said I will stay with you until the end of everything."
Su Yun rolled up his sleeves and stretched out his pale arm. He tapped the water surface and then reached down - the moment his fingertips touched the shadow, it was held.
This is a human hand, belonging to Alice in disguise.
Su Yun smiled slightly. He let go of this force and continued to sink down, first his palm, then his forearm, then his right hand, and then his right shoulder...
"...Hold it tight."
Pale hands climbed up his sinking arms one by one, and they were so tense that the joints bulged under the skin and the blood vessels emerged in the muscles.
Su Yun raised his head and let the force pull him into the shadow. He raised his head and felt a pain in his neck that was almost like a piercing.
More things were entangled around his body, maybe arms, maybe bones, maybe tentacles... But no matter what they were, Su Yun didn't care.
When the shadow permeated everything, Su Yun had completely fallen into the arms of the creators. This embrace filled with pain and despair was now filled with fulfillment and extreme madness.
"Eat me." Su Yun said softly, "This way, you won't feel any pain anymore."
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Let's replace the concept of eating with a less bloody one.
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