Chapter 2137: That Dagger Again

The Immortal steps.

And the eleventh steps of the stairway.

But he still hears the chanting.

This dagger had once cut him.

It was like every part of him is being cut, being stabbed.

It almost like it is not there. But it is there. You just couldn’t see it. You couldn’t touch it.

To most mortal, they think since they can think, they can moralize, they can seek knowledge and do all of these stuff that no other beings could do, only beings that possess the same kind of constitution or specification could possess soul

This is something that Supreme Beings have all discovered.

Because mortals are limited.

The aura of it cut the spacetime around its edges

Sometimes, that aura is innate. Since they were born, they believe they could conquer the world.

A soul is like some kind of instruction.

They could only see certain things.

And whatever you think, that might be the truth. Because those who reached this realm, those who reached this place all have the power to shape the truth

It would be like it cannibalizes itself

Melody after melody, creating a rhythm.

They believe that eventually they could create things that could see even further.

"Hahaha!"

And you could hear it.

They are just not alive.

That invisible step is not considered as part of the true Supremacy Stairway.

Sometimes, it is urging you on.

That is what these songs are resonance souls.

A soul.

A rhythm that if one listen carefully, seemingly felt like the entire universe is beating

Like if you made a game, and everything is zeroes and one.

These steps are mysterious, magical and evolving.

Azief is here on the steps of the Supremacy Stairway, debating the nature of souls and he could not help but laugh

Though the instruction of this soul is probably different than the direction of a soul of a being like a human or an animal or nay other beings

Not considered one of the steps.

Because some people faltered almost immediately when they are faced with pressure and faced with insurmountable odds.

Even a proton, or neutron, or electron, these most infinitesimally small particles that made up an atom has a soul

This invincible mindset is some kind of "pride" that appears with confidence and experience

Azief smiles.

One of them is their longevity.

When one crushes a rock they found on the side of the road, they did not ponder whether rocks have souls.

After all, even if you open a gap, it did not mean you could open the entire door.

But to supreme beings not all that have soul have life.

He had heard it in many breakthrough

But it is like a line dividing between mortal and immortals.

Sometimes, it is warning you.

Then they created the microscope and they see things that their eyes couldn’t see.

And when darkness fills the heart, then life become worthless

Even magical beings find out hard to gauge of what is the soul is.

And that is it.

Probably when the beat first occurs, it is out of sync.

Stones have souls, water, soil, air.

Azief did not know the intention of this song.

In a simpler way, everything has a soul.

But there is limitation to mortals’ ability.

One thing is certain.

Of course, since then he had experienced more pain and more inexplicable torment.

And the most limited are those who simply believe in their senses.

They believe that even when the situation is dire, they could turn it back

"because I am no longer a mortal. There is no mortal part in me?" he asks himself. The Supremacy Stairway would not answer him

Some wanted to delve into quantum world, and see a new world.

Before he only heard the chanting.

Some have souls but do not have intelligence. But there is something in even the most inodiated thing.

But that did not mean that pain did not give him scare. This time however, he did not feel any of that cutting and stabbing feeling

They did not believe things they could not see with their eyes

And somehow, as they keep fighting forward, somehow, that closed door…. open a gap.

And for those who managed not only to open the gap but also manage to open the door, they cultivated more and more of this invincible mindset and their aura also changes so that when people meet them, whether it be enemies or people who want to submit to them, they could not help but be subdued or in awe of an aura of such a person

Everything.

Instead, you could only think of it.

And its beating is creating this rhythm.

Then there are many other limitations.

Like the universe has a heart.

but how many mortal civilizations is like that? Most of the time, the advancement of their technology outpaced their mentality

This time however, this dagger did not come fast at him.

they lost their souls even before they could reach the peak and when one loses their souls, darkness fills the heart.

One might think if everything has a soul then wouldn’t that be a sin of killing when one crushes a rock, or one sip water, or when one mess up the soil beneath their feet

They believe that they could defy the odds.

But you could sense it

It is not like they become arrogant. Arrogant is the precursor toa downfall.

They just didn’t know whether their version of the soul is the real version of the soul

The answer you get is the answer. Maybe that is the whole point. Those who reached this stair are all beings who have that invincible aura.

An illusory dagger. Could cut through planets and universes like it was nothing.

And he laughed

And when a civilization put life at the back of the priority, then it would not be long for such civilization to either crumble to other forces or crumble from within

A soul is not tangible.

Some would porose all kinds of theory to see different worlds and they all would believe that they could achieve this.

But they do.

You would even find it difficult to conceptualize it.

"Is it the dagger this time?" he seems to be asking himself and as he ask this, there is dagger that appears.

And those who have this mindset somehow managed to pried open the door from that small gap

The stronger and the close you are to the Universe the more you are attuned to this sense.

The moment he lifts his feet he felt divine energy entering his body.

A gap in the steps.

Some cultivated it. With each victory, after victory, after more victory, their mindset had changed

But the stairway, the steps, would not give you an answer.

From a dead end, to a small chance of victory.

"What a different treatment!" he noted and he could not help but laugh loudly. In the past when he lifted his feet to walk the step after reaching the eleventh step, he felt pain in his entire beings.

Of course, sometimes, such people die.

Soul is the building block that exist but could not be seen, could not be touched and mortal even debated its existence

Then they created more powerful microscope, electron microscope that could even see atoms

And those who walk this step probably also has many questions

But once it reaches his ears, the beats have already sync with each other

But what about things they couldn’t see?

It was like a new world had opened up.

This beat seems to be created from many universes.

Most of the time, when they are in dire strait, they too, could not see an escape path.

They know it exists.

The other are their inherent limitation of senses.

But, if he did not even try from the very beginning, if he is not bold enough to point the sword forward and relentlessly charge forward regardless of seeing the insurmountable odds, then that gap would not have opened at all

But hearing it made his soul feel refreshed. He smiles and take another step

This is not the first time Azief had heard such song.

Instead, it is there in front of him, seemingly floating

The ironic thing, those who have this kind of mentality does not always see the escape path in the beginning

But only those who have such mindset could see the escape path.

The Song of the Universe

But they could laugh at the death staring at them in the face, and then pointed a sword into this closed door.

And it is not simply a belief. They truly did it and each victory created this invincible mentality

This kind of belief somehow created miracles.

And each beat is slightly different, yet somehow it harmonizes when it reaches his ears.

Other times, it just wanted to sing its song.

No one really knows and different supreme beings have different interpretation of what a soul is

He did not think much of it. He knows it is called the Song of the world, the song of the seas, the song of the Universe depending on where this song comes from

What is this so-called soul anyway?

Mortals sometimes correlate soul with life.

Of course, if they focused their energy in exploring all kinds of science, these limitations could be expunged, reduced or even removed entirely.

This is a hard concept for some mortals to accept.

Now, beside the chanting, it is a melody.

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