strokinit Chapter 411: Foreign Creature
Chapter 411: Foreign Creature
Ximen Juesheng watched carefully as the process unfolded.Inside the distorted cube, Yu Xuan’s figure began to break apart.
His body was not truly shattering, but rather dissolving into fragments of thought and will.
Those fragments scattered, vanished, and reassembled again and again.
Each moment he seemed to disappear.
Only to reform in a slightly different state.
A strange aura gradually spread from Yu Xuan’s body.
Above the cube, something invisible began to gather.
It was his raw potential.
It condensed slowly, like mist thickening into substance.
Then the unseen mass darkened.
Within that darkness, a faint light appeared.
A small spark.
It drifted downward and fused into Yu Xuan’s body.
Moments later, another spark formed.
Then another.
Each time the process repeated, the light merged with Yu Xuan, strengthening the invisible foundation of his will.
Ximen Juesheng narrowed his eyes.
"How strange..."
He focused more closely on the phenomenon.
"Normally, a Supreme Will manifests according to the cultivator’s personality, but this..."
He paused.
"It feels more like a representation."
The Human Emperor frowned slightly.
"How odd..."
Then suddenly.
The entire cube turned pitch black from the outside.
Within the darkness, Yu Xuan’s body began to glow.
A brilliant light radiated outward from him.
Cracks formed across the surface of the cube.
CRACK.
In the next moment.
The cube shattered.
An overwhelming Supreme Aura burst outward.
It pressed down on the surroundings, attempting to dominate even the natural laws governing this sealed realm.
For an instant, the atmosphere itself seemed to tremble.
Then Yu Xuan’s body dropped to the ground.
He groaned weakly as he tried to move.
"This will take some time to recover from," Ximen Juesheng said calmly.
He stepped forward, lifted Yu Xuan slightly, and fed him a pill to stabilize his condition.
As Yu Xuan’s breathing slowly steadied, the Human Emperor studied him with a strange expression.
Normally, the awakening of a Supreme Will was not a quiet event.
When it happened, Heaven and Earth themselves reacted.
Vast phenomena appeared across the skies, announcing the birth of a powerful will.
But in this sealed domain, those visions could not manifest.
Even so.
Something still felt unusual.
Yu Xuan’s awakening had been different.
Too different.
Even now, Yu Xuan still carried that immature, somewhat bratty temperament typical of someone his age.
Yet the Supreme Will that had just manifested felt...
Ancient.
As if it had existed long before this moment.
Ximen Juesheng’s eyes narrowed slightly.
’It almost feels as if he already possessed a Supreme Will and what I just witnessed was merely him recovering it.’
The thought lingered in his mind.
Meanwhile, Yu Xuan slowly regained consciousness as time passed.
***
Yu Xuan frowned slightly.
’...Why don’t I remember anything?’ he thought.
A vague suspicion formed in his mind.
It felt as if many things had happened during the awakening, things that were now hidden from him.
His body still felt extremely heavy.
Even lifting his arm required effort.
Nearly an hour passed before he could move normally again.
Nearby, Ximen Juesheng watched him silently.
When Yu Xuan finally steadied himself, the Human Emperor spoke.
"Try to control it."
Yu Xuan followed the instruction.
He concentrated.
Slowly, a hazy black aura began to emanate from his hand.
But the process was far from easy.
It required intense focus just to maintain that faint manifestation.
"So this is the Supreme Will..." Yu Xuan muttered.
He stared at the aura in amazement.
"I feel like I could destroy worlds with this."
Ximen Juesheng immediately frowned.
"Don’t have such destructive fantasies, that feeling is merely your imagination reacting to the sudden strength of your will."
He paused.
"You still need to learn how to control it properly."
Yu Xuan nodded.
’Wouldn’t it have been better if this happened during the Future Blessing Ceremony?’ he complained internally.
Now he had even more things to train.
Not only did he need to master his existing abilities, but he also had to integrate this Supreme Will into them.
Still.
For some reason, Yu Xuan felt confident that this integration would not be too difficult.
"Come," Ximen Juesheng said, clapping his hands once.
"I have obtained several prisoners from Lord Hundun and they are currently mindless creatures but you must kill them quickly, otherwise, they will become dangerous for you."
The moment he finished speaking.
Space shifted.
Yu Xuan suddenly found himself standing in a vast all-white domain.
In front of him stood a cage.
Inside it was a grotesque creature.
The moment Yu Xuan saw it, the thing began producing disturbing noises.
WHAY YAW HWAW—!
The sounds twisted through the air like mental needles, attempting to invade the mind of anyone who heard them.
For a brief moment, Yu Xuan felt an intrusive sensation.
As if something was trying to force its way into his consciousness.
But the feeling quickly vanished.
His traits [Mental Resistance] and [Adaptive Mind] reacted instantly, neutralizing the influence.
Even Yu Xuan himself did not fully understand how they worked so quickly.
’Did I cross some kind of threshold without realizing it?’ he wondered.
Before he could think further.
Ximen Juesheng spoke again.
"Your task is simple, I will release this creature and you kill it before it gains strength and wisdom."
The cage suddenly disappeared.
At the same moment.
Ximen Juesheng vanished as well.
Leaving Yu Xuan alone with the creature.
The monster did not hesitate.
The instant it was freed.
It lunged straight toward him.
***
Within Yu Xuan’s mind...
Old Yu sat upon a throne.
Golden chains bound his body, stretching outward into the endless darkness like anchors locking him in place.
Despite that, his expression remained calm.
In his hand, he casually rotated a small cube, turning it over and over as if it were nothing more than a toy.
He was the one who had interfered with the awakening of the Supreme Will.
Although the current Yu Xuan had technically succeeded in condensing it, the result was not entirely genuine.
Not yet.
"We can’t allow that to happen now," Old Yu muttered quietly to himself.
"Otherwise this entire rebirth would lose its meaning..."
His gaze lowered slightly toward the cube in his hand.
After all, the last thing he wanted was for his current self to forcibly achieve Pseudo-Immortality before the proper time had arrived.