I am the magnetic field maniac

Sha Antian could still see clearly. Sha Antian was now completely calm. Sha Antian... could accept any outcome.

"Sha Antian is a machine, while the white-haired man is a person. Hahahaha, damn it, is that why you wanted to be Sha Antian?"

The second man seemed unable to contain himself and burst into laughter, laughing wildly and unrestrainedly, mocking the black-eyed man.

Damn it, all those nonsensical reasons about love and hate are wrong for Sha'antian. He became Sha'antian simply because being a 'machine' was more comfortable for him, wasn't it?

Heaven and earth are ruthless, treating all things like straw dogs. Waaah... this seems to be a line from the Tao Te Ching?

Isn't this exactly what Sha Antian is like? Treating everything as equal is itself the ultimate manifestation of ruthlessness and injustice.

"Enough with the nonsense, Second Son."

Darkness stepped forward and unleashed an attack at the enormous world.

As a tiny black cloud descended upon that vast world, countless lives were instantly engulfed and swallowed by the expanding darkness, amidst endless wails and screams, completely swallowed by the darkness.

His eyes were now completely filled with pure black, and the darkness stared at Sha Antian, speaking slowly and deliberately.

"I don't care what you call yourself, Sha Antian. To me, you will always be Bai Shou Nan."

"You fucking bastard, I'm going to beat you to a pulp, you white-haired man!"

His tone was so calm, yet his actions contradicted any of his quiet demeanor!

His life was burning, burning for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years! But such behavior seemed to be merely for venting anger, or simply darkness using pain to awaken itself.

There is absolutely no calmness to be found in darkness.

You don't feel any sadness, pain, or any other emotion.

Because sadness and pain are emotions that arise from things that have feelings. And even if he were to scream and shout "Autumn Will Never Return" in the darkness, it would be better than his current peace.

The darkness will be gone, there will be no joy, no excitement, and certainly no sorrow.

Even if you face an old man with white hair, you can't feel any sense of 'being alive' from him.

If you had to describe it, you would only feel as if you were peering into an immeasurable abyss, a pitch-black abyss that swallows everything, and into which you willingly confine yourself forever...

"..."

There was nothing to say. Sha Antian slowly withdrew his hand. He knew there was nothing to say to the darkness, and he couldn't say anything.

No need for further words, just go and fight...

Even in battle, it seemed impossible to ignite any dark passion within him; yet, the moment he made a move, he didn't seem like someone whose heart had given up.

After all, he was risking his life the moment he made a move.

"A billion years of life - the cycle of Asura".

Darkness clasped his hands together, instantly igniting an incredibly terrifying amount of life force, then calmly, yet ruthlessly and precisely struck towards Sha Antian.

"Ninety-nine trillion power - Shaking Zen Reincarnation!"

Chapter 44 The Ultimate Power of Darkness

Does darkness truly deserve to become the ultimate power?

Perhaps not, and even Darkness himself believed that he was not qualified to participate in this final battle that would determine the fate of the universe.

Besides, he didn't care about any of that.

But he was not qualified—for a simple reason: he had neither enough talent nor a strong enough true self.

Darkness's talent seems powerful, enabling him to cultivate an incredibly strong Asura Path from the Bodhidharma Sutra. However, his understanding of the Asura Path actually surpasses that of later generations.

To darkness, the power and techniques of the Asura Path are more like a form of self-torture.

All the moves in the Asura Path are actually irrelevant. The so-called Six Paths of Reincarnation move is just something that Darkness randomly mixed together from its past moves with the moves of some powerful people to make up the numbers.

The core of the Asura Path, and the only one that darkness excels at and cultivates, is—

Asura Reincarnation

This power to burn life and everything is what darkness is most proficient in and what is his strongest move.

Whether it's been 100,000 years or 300,000 years, this is his only and most proficient move in darkness.

Just like Oga's Whale Killer Fist and Sea Tiger's Sea Tiger Explosive Fist.

This is why the ultimate power that Darkness possesses at this moment is the same life force as Oga, rather than the death force—because this is the only essence that the dull-witted Darkness has mastered that can become the ultimate.

It was already destined in essence that foolishly burning one's life was merely a manifestation of darkness upon the true self.

What then is the dark self?

fall

There is nothing else but these two words; only these two words fill the darkness of the heart, and only the person represented by this name.

Bai Wujie once said that Darkness is a person very similar to Haihu, and it could even be said that they are the closest people in this final battle.

They are all the same; they can destroy the world and their own people without hesitation for the one they love most.

But this love in the darkness is heavier than that of the Sea Tiger, and also more...self-destructive.

Haihu's love for Guanyue Tong would make him do anything to be with her, while his dark love would make him sacrifice everything without hesitation for everything in Qiutian.

There is no superiority or inferiority in this kind of love, but the only difference is that, if they were on the same footing, Haihu could accept Xiaotong's sacrifices and their goal of winning the final battle together, but he absolutely could not do anything like darkness.

Even if winning the final battle means winning everything, the darkness would never accept it if it were preceded by a goal that required watching autumn die.

Is it stupid? Of course it's stupid.

Love is inherently an irrational, impulsive act.

Rather than calling dark love the ultimate altruism, it's more accurate to describe it as pure altruism—love so pure it's terrifying.

Therefore, the Asura path invented by the Dark Ones was not as complicated and legendary as later generations believed, and it did not even have a so-called 'Great Way' direction.

He invented the Asura Path purely out of a strong self-destructive urge that followed the loss of autumn, driven by the thought that he wanted to suffer in despair.

Therefore, the dark path of Asura only involves burning life; his understanding of life is pure and direct.

This is due to Darkness's lack of natural talent, but Darkness's biggest problem from beginning to end has always been his mindset.

Everything he did was for autumn; he lived for autumn and died for autumn. To empty one's heart of everything, leaving only autumn—how could such a person be worthy of being called the ultimate powerhouse?

Yes, perhaps darkness is simply unqualified? He is something without a self, or perhaps his self is someone else entirely.

If pure love still gives him the potential to become the ultimate powerhouse, then what will he have left when that love disappears?

Yes, darkness. What else is left?

When the darkness sends autumn away to its cycle of reincarnation, when everything that was once in the heart of darkness has departed, darkness is left with nothing but an empty shell.

Without autumn, he is nothing. Without autumn, darkness only seeks liberation to pursue autumn.

He didn't even have the idea of ​​seeking revenge against Sha Antian—because he wasn't stupid. After learning that Qiu Tian had entered the cycle of reincarnation willingly, he naturally knew the kind of pain she had endured when he left her behind.

But why didn't she say it? If autumn had told her how much pain she was in, darkness would have released her without hesitation and gone with her.

She remained silent simply because she didn't want to speak to the darkness. She remained silent solely because of her profound disappointment in the darkness—disappointment in him for betraying both hell and heaven, and for hurting the people autumn had desperately tried to protect.

The silent disappointment was more painful to the darkness than any verbal rebuke. And perhaps he should hate himself, who had tormented autumn, more than he hated the Dark Sky.

But... even this one and only wish of his could not be fulfilled.

Like a powerful being manipulating things, or perhaps this is the unique nature of a dark destiny. In the moment when he lost autumn and his heart was filled with emptiness, he had the potential to become the ultimate powerhouse.

A void of nothingness is actually more suitable for filling the darkness of the Asura path of cultivation.

He reversed the Asura path and began to frantically absorb countless lives born from light-years away, filling his pitch-black heart with them and replenishing that void.

And it was under these circumstances that darkness came to understand its own ultimate power.

Void Power

A truly special and incredibly powerful force—great power!

At this moment, darkness is about to kill Sha Antian!

With overwhelming power, the 990 trillionth cycle of the Vibrating Cicada shattered and destroyed everything around Sha Antian, from quarks to all things in space!

With such terrifying power, darkness flashed directly to Sha Antian's side and blasted him down instantly!

The body was carried by this enormous force and fell into the small world shaped by the Dark Sky, and the roaring power instantly turned millions of kilometers of land into power crystals!

The power that darkness drives by burning one-tenth of its own life force is truly terrifying!

But even with its immense power and terror, it was still far from being enough to truly overwhelm Sha An Tian.

"Cause and Effect Cycle Fist!"

Amidst the scattered crystals beside Sha Antian's indifferent gaze, a sound rang out, and incredibly, this 'reincarnation' power, like an invisible cause and effect, completely redirected the attack from the darkness back to him!

Countless gear-like structures held the dark body in place, and these 'causal gears' were created by the invisible creative power of the Dark Heaven, using the power of darkness!

However, interestingly and ironically, the Karma Wheel Fist used by Sha Antian was completely derived from the dark Asura Path.

But as mentioned before, the original Asura Path created by the talentless Darkness has long since become something else in the hands of Sha Antian. In fact, it can be said that it is no longer the 'Asura Path'.

"Waaah..."

Caught in the gears of cause and effect, unable to move, the darkness remained silent as before.

However, Sha Antian had no intention of pressing his advantage. Instead, he stood on a set of causal gears and said calmly...

"Darkness, do you hate me because of autumn? Do you hate me for sending her into the cycle of reincarnation instead of saving her?"

"...If you were doing this as an old man, I would rather die than not take a piece of your flesh."

After a moment of silence, darkness broke its own void and spoke in a hoarse voice.

“But my reason tells me that you did the right thing. Autumn is tired, she should rest, she should enter that cycle instead of… continuing to suffer for us.”

Yes, even darkness understands; darkness sees everything clearly.

She knew that living in autumn was destined to be painful, whether facing herself and her former husband, or the children who had completely failed in their responsibilities as a mother.

Moreover, she should have entered reincarnation long ago. If it weren't for the darkness, if it weren't for his 'selfishness'...

Although Darkness didn't know it at the time, when he later clearly realized how painful it was for Autumn to remain in that dead body, Darkness wished he could kill himself!

Therefore, his rationality actually told the darkness that Sha Antian was right.

Autumn has fulfilled her duty; she has given everything she could throughout her life. She deserves a rest, a peaceful and eternal sleep.

Instead of continuing to write this awful life with them, I will wait for a new life after a long and endless period of time!

It was incredibly painful, but the darkness knew it should let go.

This is the decisive difference between him and Haihu: for Qiutian, he can accept her leaving him forever!

However, if darkness could so easily balance emotion and reason, then it wouldn't be darkness.

Because of his lack of rationality, and because hatred itself is a significant component of dark thoughts, he is destined to be unable to find peace, destined to be unable to forgive anyone!

Autumn has gone forever, and even if darkness could seek her 'reincarnation,' it would never do so.

He loved autumn, the woman who had forever stolen his heart. And even if she were to be reincarnated, she would never be the autumn in his dark heart again.

Rather than be disappointed, darkness prefers to accept that autumn exists only in its own heart.

But this disappointment and emptiness, after rising and fermenting for three hundred thousand years, after cycling through three hundred thousand years of endurance and suffering—

Darkness has become 'nothingness'.

An empty heart can no longer find any purpose or motivation to live. Perhaps for darkness, there is only the relief of death and the possibility of achieving so-called ultimate victory.

Even the latter doesn't offer much impetus to the darkness; it has strayed further and further down the path of nothingness.

Sha Antian remained silent, but the causal gears disintegrated instantly, and Antian fused them back together, using his own causal wheel fist to both eliminate and attack the darkness!

Each punch could easily unleash an attack with a force approaching 990 trillion, making it extremely difficult to withstand. Even in the darkness, his body and soul shattered and disintegrated under the barrage of attacks.

Darkness wanted to use the power of the black hole to escape from this place, but it found that all its actions were immobilized by this cycle of cause and effect.

"It's useless," Sha Antian said indifferently.

“I have locked down every instantaneous structure here. Neither the power of the black hole nor anything else can help you escape. You are destined to be at my mercy.”

He spoke calmly and had a calm demeanor, but the punches he threw from Sha Antian were anything but calm!

After landing ninety-nine consecutive punches on the darkness, he finally broke free from the power of the dark hole that had sealed him off from the place. And it was clear that the damage that the dark hole had inflicted on him was nothing at all.