Chapter 877 - 485: Sea of Flowers

The deepest part of the Subspace, a place unknown to anyone.

The Divine Tree, formed from the coalescing of True God, becomes the throne where Lord of Mist sits; branches continually bud, then wither instantly just before becoming towering trees.

Behind the True God, six arms twist grotesquely, each arm bears a face with eyes and a mouth at its center, endlessly uttering various distorted babbles.

Yet, the Lord of Mist remains indifferent to these incessant babbles. At this moment, the alluring True God gazes through the veil woven from roots into the grandest vista of Subspace—the infinite Subspace Barrier.

This barrier also locks away all Evil Gods; likewise, it captures the Venerable King and the Void as well.

"Soon, soon..."

"My power and status are gradually approaching ’True God’, soon, with time, I can shatter this false wall..."

"And thus release Them!"

"No, why do I wish to shatter the Subspace Barrier? Why am I obsessed with becoming the True God?"

"It doesn’t matter, none of this matters, becoming True God, shattering the Subspace Barrier..."

The twisted babbles resonate here, while the seemingly constant-evolving True God keeps amassing His strength, beneath Him the Primordial Divine Tree already fully merged.

This is a Divine Tree surviving in Subspace for 4 billion years, the most primordial of all.

Before activation, it becomes the World Tree that gathers life and air, nurturing all beings congregating. But when its underlying code for absorbing ’Spiritual Particles’ activates, it instantly turns into a Demon Tree devouring ’humans’.

billion years ago, after Fuge perished at this tree’s foot, the obsession and desire ultimately twisted the New Divine Shell Fuge crafted, culminating into this monster that coexists with the Primordial Divine Tree.

Even now, becoming the True God alongside the tree, or rather the Lord of Mist Himself cannot separate from this tree.

He cannot leave the tree for long.

For His existence itself is a product born from the tree’s protection of ’Fuge’, hence the entity protecting itself for 4 billion years is revered post-deification.

The Divine Tree remains silent, merely supplying all its energy to this sole contemporary monster who depends on each other.

Meanwhile, at Mist Council, this planet used once as the 13th Expedition’s final ceremony, God of Order and Void’s monster achieved perfect balance.

This instead becomes the utmost test of God of Order’s strength, requiring Him to maneuver to achieve absolute parity with the Void; if suppressing the Void, He would immediately step over this final threshold, getting drawn into the Subspace Barrier by the Venerable King, suffering eternal martyrdom.

If oppressed by the Void, then the Void would soon engulf Him individually, leading to complete eradication.

"Time is running short, for all of us." God of Order is silently calculating how long He can maintain this balance, gazing at the endless Subspace Barrier, pondering unknown thoughts.

...

At this moment, in the shallow layer of Subspace, where the debris of the original seventh expedition lurks.

When the old thing brought Xue Dili here, Xue Dili couldn’t perceive any area.

Inside Subspace, the surreal surroundings defy the laws of physics from the real Universe, and this complexity explains why Subspace development proves challenging, even the Interstellar Corps can only navigate its shallow layers.

Had Hassan not summoned the Mimic Venerable King for exploration to the Subspace end, perhaps the Mimic Venerable King would still be meandering in the shallow layer without becoming God of Order.

The entire Subspace harbors treasures albeit limited to its surface; stirring the nest of those monstrosities at Subspace’s end could hold graver consequences.

Xue Dili and the Great Sage tirelessly search here, aiming to find the correct fissure; while searching, Xue Dili relays accounts of recent events.

Starting with encountering Uncle Brave, first awareness of Interstellar Corps’ inception, then encountering a civilization symbiotic with a Giant Beast, meeting Old Green who persisted over thirty millennia, killing Blington in Earth’s Parallel World consequently accidentally hailed as the 13th Apostle of Mist Council.

Xue Dili’s narrative is succinct, each story briefly summarized.

For his own tale, he treats it casually as idle chatter, then nearly assaulting the Apostle, contacting Senior Hassan through connections, when the old thing finally couldn’t endure.

"Mr. Hassan... once invited me to join the Masked Ball, but I refused; maybe I never truly experience an emotion called ’happiness’ in my lifetime." The Great Sage laments, "Back then, he mentioned his limited time, urging me to take over his Masked Ball."

Xue Dili: "..."

Then you ended up dying thousands of years before Hassan...

Xue Dili retorts, also incredulous Hassan once considered the old thing as leader of the Masked Ball?

But now, I indeed lead the Masked Ball correctly, albeit, managed little of human affairs, vanishing after conning a wave of investments, even absent during the Apostle’s assault on the Masked Ball.