this infinite world

"...The course of cause and effect has changed."

In the depths of the void, infinitely far from the plane of the Ring, spanning countless dimensions, stands a colossal, primordial pillar of unparalleled grandeur.

This colossal pillar of primordial chaos, simply by existing, distorted and collapsed the surrounding physical laws, causing countless visible folds to form in space, and creating eerie ripples in the flow of time. Even the most basic particles of matter spontaneously reorganized upon approach. Viewed from afar outside the multiverse, it resembled a majestic mountain supporting all the heavens and myriad worlds…

At the very top of this earthen pillar, a summit that even ordinary saints could never reach, a young man dressed in gray loungewear slowly opened his eyes. As if sensing something, he muttered softly to himself, his brow slightly furrowed.

With the youth's strength, there shouldn't be anything in this multiverse that could escape his eyes. However, several days ago, he suddenly discovered that the secrets of the Lord of the Rings dimension had begun to become strangely blurred, as if a layer of mist had been veiled over his eyes.

Even as the primordial energy pillar surged upwards, reflecting the images of countless worlds, it could not pierce the thick fog and reveal the hidden truth. And today, even that hazy reality has been completely obscured; no matter how he calculated, all that ultimately met his eyes was a single image—

—That was a giant tree.

A colossal tree, so large it blots out the sky, obscuring all cause and effect. The interplay of yin and yang in its crown and trunk reveals an endless cycle of reincarnation!
Gazing at the only thing he could see, which seemed vaguely familiar, Pei Xi frowned slightly.

It's important to understand that although Pei Xi hasn't yet regained his royal status and has many reservations about his actions, his strength hasn't been significantly affected. Moreover, due to his experience traveling to the negative universe eighteen thousand years ago, he possesses an inexplicable and mysterious quality compared to ordinary royal saints. But now, this Lord of the Rings plane is truly shrouded in a fog that even he cannot see through…

Even though Pei Xi's current status is not as high as it was when he was "Fu Xi," even if the Three Pure Ones, those innate saints, joined forces, they wouldn't be able to conceal the slightest secret from him. And those beings who can still conceal cause and effect during deduction are extremely rare in this multiverse; looking around, there are probably only two or three...

“…Interesting, guide.”

Suddenly, Pei Xi smiled slightly and sent a message in his mind to the plane obscured by the giant tree: "Did you do this? I didn't expect you to be even bolder than I anticipated..."

Strangely enough, even though the cause and effect were obscured, this information seemed to follow a previously established channel, traversing infinite distances, and directly descending upon the plane known as the Lord of the Rings.

"...Your Majesty the Emperor."

At the same time, a young monk with red lips and white teeth, who was in the Lord of the Rings, suddenly stopped. A mark between his eyebrows glowed slightly, and judging from his surroundings, he seemed to be in the vicinity of the goblin kingdom.

Upon receiving this message, the young monk couldn't help but sigh softly, raising his eyes to gaze into the void, as if meeting the gaze of some being across countless planes: "It's merely a casual move..."

"Since the game has been played, there is no going back. Although you have found a way out of nowhere, I will remember this cause and effect and settle accounts when the world returns."

Looking at the second message that quickly arrived, the young monk frowned even more deeply: "Why are you doing this? We are not enemies."

"Shut your tongue."

The young monk's words only fueled Pei Xi's sneer: "It seems your Western Buddhism is determined to get a share of the spoils regarding Hao." Without waiting for a reply, Pei Xi continued: "Very well, if the Three Pure Ones can separate, how can the Three Sovereigns be of one mind? I suppose your Primordial Heavenly Court is already fed up with having a Human Sovereign weighing them down, hindering their free progress..."

"No, Your Majesty, this is not..."

"It's just a continuation of cause and effect from 18,000 years ago. It's just a matter of who has better methods and who has put on a show."

Before receiving any further reply, Pei Xi unilaterally severed the communication channel and fell silent. After a long while, as if finally making a decision, he sent a message into the void. The content of that message was…

"Wa, come to see me quickly."

……

"...Whether it succeeds or not, we'll only know after trying it once, Your Majesty."

Seeing that the channels of information had been unilaterally cut off, the young monk remained silent for a long time before finally sighing and saying, "Once a horse goes astray, it's hard to turn back. Now that Hao's reincarnation has appeared in this world, even for the sake of Buddhism's billions of years of foundation, we must do our best to repay this karmic debt and establish this good relationship..."

The young monk, who had been near the goblin kingdom for some time, muttered to himself. Instead of entering, he began to circle around the desolate and treacherous place, just as he had done in the past few days.

He was simply walking, yet each step seemed to tread upon golden lotuses, a cycle of birth and death, prosperity and decay. In this cycle of birth and death, a Buddhist path, seemingly traversing the past and future, was constructed in the void—

"After all, our life's greatest wish, that of the two of us brothers, rests entirely on that rule that unites human faith and transforms it into power..."

……

In a semi-swampy area some distance from the goblin kingdom, a translucent green slime, resembling a jelly, was tumbling and struggling as it moved towards the goblin kingdom.

Surprisingly, despite the slime making gurgling sounds, it didn't attract any attention whatsoever. And if you were to translate the sounds it made, they were...

"It's finally here! Waaah, it's finally here! Damn it, the Reincarnation Squad has finally appeared! How many years have I been stuck as this disgusting, bug-like, poop-colored herbal slime? The Reincarnation Squad has finally appeared! Don't finish the mission so quickly! Wait for me! I want to return to the Main God Space!!"

In a short time, the Arctic team, the Celestial team, the young monk, Morgoth, and this herb slime with an extremely low profile will all gather in the goblin kingdom...

...all converge in this place where cause and effect are intertwined. (End of Chapter)