87: Alaya, the Way of Heaven

Thunderstorm!

Immense and boundless power echoes the worlds beyond numerous dimensional gates!

It was as if the God of Heaven was enraged, with divine thunder above the nine heavens!

Thunder carrying the force of ten thousand tons mercilessly pressed against the Lord of the Origin Dimension's face. Using the battlefield of overlapping dimensions as the ground, thunder surged. You used this sudden burst of power to press the Lord of the Origin Dimension to the ground and rub him.

Sparks flew with lightning!

Dimensions were ground to dust!

But the Lord of the Origin Dimension's "skin" was extremely thick; it seemed only a layer was scraped off.

Thunder blooms, Heaven's Punishment follows!

So-called Sin is judged and annihilated by thunder.

So-called Order is reshaped in thunder. Who is the Celestial Rule Order? At this moment, it is clear!

So-called Nothingness, let it be utterly nothing!

The Thunderstorm is unstoppable!

Sin is judged, Order is reshaped, Nothingness returns to nothingness!

After the Soul Dimension Lord, apart from Origin which remains strong, the other three Dimension Lords also vanished, following the Soul's dissipation.

The three Great Emperors surrounded and battered Origin with thunder!

You won this battle!

Origin is no longer your opponent!

Winning or losing is only a matter of time!

But the battle was called to a halt!

More precisely, everything stopped flowing!

The dimensions seemed to have been paused, the battle frozen!

Even will was suppressed, gradually entering an unthinkable state!

Thunder roared with all its might, and the power of all heavens' dimensions converged, yet it still couldn't break free, but thought could operate normally.

She appeared!

The Mother of Dimensions! The creator of all dimensions, the Mother of Dimensional Origin! That existence of "Dao Primordial Beginning"!

Under the gaze of your thoughts, you saw a blurry figure outlined by a dimensional arc, seemingly encompassing everything, benevolent or majestic!

When you tried to see her clearly, your Soul was severely wounded, and then your immobile body and eyes shed two lines of bloody tears!

You were going blind.

Suddenly, you could move again, and the dimensions resumed flowing!

You retreated from the battlefield, protecting the three Great Emperors behind you, lightning flashed, and the blood flowing from your eyes was wiped away... This wound was difficult to heal; even if you plucked out your old eyes and regenerated new ones, the Dao Primordial Beginning wound would still follow at its root like a shadow!

You opened another eye on your forehead, transforming into a third eye to observe between dimensions.

Even if you had no eyes, thunder would give you the answer.

But if you perceive the unknowable in an unencounterable place, you would still be severely wounded.

She appeared.

The Lord of the Origin Dimension honored her as the Mother Goddess, calling her Mother!

Alaya!

The Dao of Dimensions is also the Dao of the World!

But in the real world, ancient enlightened beings had long since attained the Dao!

Alaya sought to devour all real-world space-time, replacing the space-time of all beings with dimensional space-time, and advancing further in the Dao!

Alaya, the collective consciousness of all beings!

She translates herself as the Origin of the world and all beings, the cornerstone of all things in the universe, the First One! This is the "Dao" she seeks to attain!

She scatters dimensions, allowing the Dimension Lords to wantonly devour real-world space-time, ultimately replacing it!

Alaya's ambition is immense; she considers the dimensions of Origin, Nothingness, Order, Sin, Soul, and Desire as her offspring!

However, powerful beings had long since attained the "Dao" through these six!

Alaya seeks to usurp and become the supreme source of the Great Dao of the myriad heavens of the void!

Alaya! The surname of all Dimension Lords is her name! When you realize this, she will cast her gaze upon you!

At this moment, she desired you to acknowledge her as your mother!

Benevolent words, temptation from the root, like a supreme grace, sought to assimilate you, to turn you into a part of some root!

You refused!

You have another root; you were unmoved!

Alaya could not shake your foundation!

Your trump card is always yourself: original self, Other Self, all me!

"Come back! My child who has strayed!

Return to Mother's embrace!

Return to the righteous path of dimensions!

I will bestow upon you a surname, Alaya, bear my name, and be my child!

Dimensional space-time, at your command!"

After Alaya discovered she could not usurp and rewrite your root, she sent an extreme temptation to your Soul, stirring your deepest desires!

But your deepest desire is to destroy all dimensions!

And Alaya is the true source of dimensions!

The Lord of Origin is merely one of them!

But you found that you could not defeat her, destroy her!

At least not now!

You decided to gather one last wave of intelligence!

"I want to know, what Dao Realm are you in?

Why are you so powerful!"

Worshiping power is the nature of living beings, just as fearing power is the nature of the weak!

Alaya seemed to realize that you were a pursuer of power, a seeker of the Dao!

But there is only one endpoint to the path; if you acknowledge her as your mother, then you will become a part of her, forever unable to surpass her!

Alaya answered your question very gladly.

Because she had traced back the past and found no irreconcilable conflict or mortal enmity between you and her.

Because your place of Origin was merely a real dimension that two Dimension Lords wanted to devour, a small place, although this place was somewhat special.

It gave birth to a powerful being like you!

This is also why Alaya wanted to assimilate the real dimension.

All beings possess boundless potential, and beings that rise in the real world will ultimately repay a great deed to their respective worlds!

The void has the Divine Marvel, and the Celestial Net has the Dao Realm!

Form a Dao Fruit, bloom a Dao Flower, condense the Dao Origin, and become the Dao Primordial Beginning!

Above the Divine Marvel, condense the Fruit of the Great Dao!

Below the Great Dao, all are ants!

The Dao has no strength or weakness; it is self-attested by the spirit!

The Great Dao has no strength or weakness, but living beings do!

You knew what you wanted to know!

Just as Alaya thought you were about to throw yourself into her embrace and acknowledge her as your mother.

You sneered and said, "Acknowledge you as my mother?

What a joke!

I am a Dimensional Demon God, feeding on dimensions!

You are the ones who should fear me!

One day, I will make all heavens' dimensions cease to exist!"

"Do you not recognize reality?" Alaya was very confused. To her, you were still just an ant, but she cherished talent.

She gave you a chance.

But you did not respond!

"Alaya! I remember!

You are the source of all misfortune!

I will kill you!"

After saying this, you chose annihilation!

Alaya was very confused!

Who commits suicide after making a threat?

She didn't understand, but she felt a rare shock!

"I will return... in a stronger form!"

You left your last words and fell into eternal annihilation!

This was your first time choosing to end yourself!

You had long since realized that this body was Other Self, that you were merely one of the other selves of all heavens, and that this life was not your strongest form!

It was even the weakest life, inferior to the previous one.

But you knew you had one last chance, one strongest chance!

In the next life, you will end everything!

In your strongest form!