Suddenly, Aria had a bad feeling.
If this person was stuck in this mory world, then what was going to happen to her? Was she going to be stuck in this world too?
She was supposed to be in the middle of her Transcendence!
"Is there really no way to leave this world? I can't be stuck here. I was still in the middle of a breakthrough before I entered this place!" Aria said with an urgent tone.
The other Aria glanced at Aria with surprise and asked, "You didn't co here after dying, but while you were in the middle of a breakthrough? What realm were you breathing through to?"
"What? Of course not!" Aria denied the possibility of her dying. Shortly after, she explained, "I was in the middle of breaking through to the Transcendent Realm."
"The Transcendent Realm? What kind of realm is that?" The other Aria asked with furrowed brows. She had not heard of this realm within the realms of Divine Cultivation.
"The Transcendent Realm is the realm that cos after…" Aria began explaining to the other Aria about Awakening Cultivation and the comprehension of laws.
After she was done, the other Aria had an understanding look while saying, "I see. That sounds like a really interesting cultivation system. However, sothing would not be possible in the Divine Realm. It seems we are really from different worlds."
The other Aria recalled the World Tree that Aria ntioned in her world—A World Tree that blood in a world with scarce Spirit Energy.
"Why don't you tell more about your world? Maybe we will be able to figure out a way to leave this place if I get a clearer understanding of your situation." The other Aria explained.
She was intrigued by Aria's world.
Aria nodded.
"It's rare to have soone to talk to. I shouldn't keep calling you, you, and the sa goes for you too. My na is Aria White. And you are?" The other Aria decided to finally introduce herself.
Aria glanced back at Aria White in surprise.
Not only did they look the sa, but they also share the sa na? Although it was only the first na, it was enough to prove that so profound and separable connection truly existed between them.
"I am Aria Rivera."
"Ah, another Aria. I see. We really do share so sort of inexplicably intertwined fate. Co to think of it, you share the spitting image of my younger self. If you were to practice my divine cultivation technique, we would beco like twins in a few years."
"Is the divine cultivation technique called the [Ice Phoenix Divine Canon]?" Aria asked.
Aria White was imdiately taken aback before she said, "So you also know that na of this divine cultivation technique too. It seems we will have a lot to talk about."
"It's a pleasure to et you."
"Likewise. I have so much I wish to learn from you."
When the two Aria tried to shake hands, sothing happened.
Their hands phased through each other just like when they tried to interact with the mory world—However, that was not all. Aria White's body beca slightly translucent, like a part of her being was absorbed by Aria Rivera.
The scene stunned them both.
"I-I'm sorry… I did not expect for this to happen…" Aria apologetically said, taking a few steps back with shock and incomprehensibility.
In re monts, she experienced a greater shock as a source of information flowed into her head.
"Y-Your mories… I have them in my mind…"
"So that is how it is…"
The other Aria said.
She glanced at her slightly translucent hand for a mont before she seed to have understood what was going on.
Shaking her head, she said, "No, don't be sorry. This is fine by . I am supposed to be dead anyway. This could be the secret to leaving this place. Destiny brought us together for this mont—I was kept alive for this mont. Let us beco one."
"No! There had to be another way!" Aria denied while retreating backward. Her hand was still clear as can be, while only Aria White had beco translucent. "You will die if this continues!"
"Yes, as it should have been years ago." The other Aria nodded, thinking nothing of it. Her heart had died long ago.
The only she was still alive in this place was because she cannot kill herself.
Aria frowned.
"Don't you want to know more about my world? We can sit down sowhere; I will tell you more about it!" She persuaded.
"There's no need for that."
"Besides, your world's power is centralized around law comprehension. In that case, you will find my knowledge especially useful. You see, this place is ideally the best place to comprehend the Temporal Laws."
Aria was startled when the other Aria suddenly disappeared in front of her.
When she thought about it, they were both observers in this mory world. Yet, the other person could freely change the flow of ti to show her specific events within the history of the mory world.
At this mont, the other Aria was also displaying the usage of Spatial Laws. Aria was amazed that this person could freely control the Spatial and Temporal Laws despite not being an Awakener.
'Divine Kings were amazing.' Aria thought.
However, she was wrong.
Aria did not know that even among Divine Kings, no one is able to control the Temporal Law as well as Aria White had shown.
"Ti moves in a linear path. The first step is to speed up the flow of ti, achieving Temporal Acceleration."
The other Aria reappeared in another location and lectured Aria while showing a demonstration.
"The second step is to slow down ti, achieving Temporal Stagnation…"
"The third step is to stop ti, achieving Temporal Suspension…"
"The fourth step is to reverse ti, achieving Temporal Reversal…"
"This is what I have comprehended. If there is a fifth step, allowing you to reverse ti back to the beginning of ti… Well, I suppose you would have the sa power as the Creator—if there's one, of course."
The other Aria flickered and disappeared again, reappearing and launching a surprise hug from behind, wrapping her arms around Aria.
"That's about it. You should understand the rest once you absorb my knowledge. Alas, I do not know how useless this knowledge will be in your world. However, I pray that you make the most of it."
"Stop it, Aria! Let go of ! You're disappearing!" Aria struggled, but she could not great free from Aria White's embrace.
Aria White's body gradually turned more transparent. Parts of her body faded into nothing, but a smile hung on her face while her eyes appeared clouded and unfocused.
Her mind was preoccupied with sothing else.
"I see… he was reborn into that world. You were a lot braver than I was… I hope you can take care of him well for … my other self." The other Aria spoke before the last trace of her being completely vanished into Aria's body.
"Noooo!" Aria cried.
The invisible force restricting her movents were lifted, along with Aria White's disappearance. Aria tried to catch the final fading particles of light, but they just vanished into her hands.
Two streaks of tears ran down Aria's cheeks while an endless stream of information entered her mind.
They were absorbed directly into her soul core and grew increasingly like a patch of snows being added to a rolling snowball. It was not like a growing balloon; there was no stress on her mind.
Shortly after, cracks began to form on the distant edges of the mory world. It broke down in parts as large pieces of the sky fell to the ground one after the other and shatter like glasses until everything disappeared.
The world outside the mory world was not the infinite void of darkness but a great grey expanse. Aria only managed to catch a few glimpses of it before she felt an invisible tug on her mind and brought her back into her sea of consciousness.
Everything had disappeared in an instant and gave Aria the surreal feeling that everything she had witnessed was nothing more than an illusion.
'What kind of spiritual world was that?' She mused quietly with a forlorn expression.
…
anwhile, sowhere in the Divine Realm.
A man wearing a traditional silk robe with luxurious dragon patterns was seen inside a dark but spacious underground tomb with dimly lit candle fire.
The temperature of the underground tomb was below freezing point, and the soft billows of cold mists could be seen filling the place. Any ordinary person who touches this cold mist would freeze in an instant.
Nevertheless, the man in dragon-patterned silk robes did not seem bothered by this coldness. A faint layer of Divine Energy shielded his body.
His cultivation was not very high, only within the middle stages of the Divine Transformation Realm. Even so, it was more than enough to protect him against the cold.
He was seated by an ice coffin made of sothing called 'Icesoul Crystals,' sothing used to preserve the body of the dead in their most pristine state.
Legend had it that when soone is preserved in the Icesoul Crystal Coffin for 100 thousand years, their soul fragnts would slowly gather in that tispan until the person is finally revived.
However, at this mont, the Icesoul Crystal Coffin suddenly cracked. Extre frosty air began to spill from inside imdiately as the coffin walls gain translucency, revealing the person of a fairy-like woman with otherworldly beauty inside.
"No!"
The man cried with desolation and misery imdiately.
He shot to his feet and tried to quickly seal the crack in the Icesoul Coffin before roaring with anguish, "Why did this happen?!"
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