Chapter 4634 - Pathogen
Chapter 4634 - Pathogen
"How the hell can one finger be so humongous!"
Behind Tianming was the endless void he had come from. Ahead of him stood nothing but the gray, glowing wall.
He could not help asking, "Is this your finger?"
The Gravekeeper chuckled. "To be precise, it is the tip of a single hair on my finger."
Tianming’s mind couldn’t comprehend such sizes.
The revelation made him feel smaller than dust.
Ying Huo couldn’t resist and flew out to poke the glowing gray wall with a sword-like feather. It immediately recoiled. "So hard! You call this a hair?"
Meow Meow also emerged, looking up with awe, "If there were a girl this big... what an incredible mount she'd make."
Bai Ye, Bai Ling, and Bai Feng also flew out. Bai Ye glanced at Meow Meow. "Hopeless."
Despite that, the three of them stared up, down, and in every direction with undisguised astonishment.
Unable to hold back, Tianming asked, "Senior Gravekeeper, how tall is your divine body?"
"Roughly one hundred million light-years."
Tianming nearly stopped breathing. No wonder he was so terrifying! Such a titan could destroy countless nova source worlds with the slightest movement.
One slap could obliterate the entire Upper Star Ruin.
Tianming even suspected that if he entered the Gravekeeper's body, he would believe himself to be inside another universe.
Yet even someone this immense would appear insignificant if viewed from far enough away.
Such was the incomprehensible vastness of the Realm of Worldgazing.
He immediately asked, "Is your divine body also a real universe? Are there living beings inside you?"
The Gravekeeper smiled. "My body is indeed formed from nova sources, just like the Primordial God-Emperor's. However, I carry no living beings within me, for they are pathogens. Only diseased or dead divine bodies give birth to life.
"So, Li Tianming... you are merely a pathogen inside the Primordial God-Emperor."
Tianming froze. Ying Huo and the others exchanged stunned looks. Zi Zhen and Moran glanced at each other, shock written across their faces.
So... they were pathogens?
Tianming could only laugh bitterly.
Unable to resist, he asked, "How many meters are in a light-year?"
The Gravekeeper smiled. "Nine trillion kilometers."
Tianming did the math.
He was seventy kilometers tall.
Seventy versus nine trillion.
And that was merely the difference between himself and a single light-year.
The Gravekeeper before him stood one hundred million light-years tall.
More than ten quintillion times larger than Tianming.
"No wonder we were still stuck at the Primordial God-Emperor's mouth after flying for over twenty years... He’s a thousand times taller than the Gravekeeper. By proportion, his mouth alone spanned over two billion light-years." Tianming was speechless.
Even the tip of a single hair on the Gravekeeper's finger resembled a wall stretching across the cosmos.
He could sense the immense nova source energy within it, blazing with unimaginable heat.
That single hair surpassed every nova source inside the Primordial God-Emperor's universe. Or rather, it contained countless middlekin astrons.
He could scarcely imagine what the Gravekeeper's body contained.
What would a universe without life even look like?
After a long silence, Tianming finally composed himself. His priority was to transform into an worldgazing physique and step into the realm his parents had reached.
He asked, "Senior, what must I do to enter the Realm of Worldgazing?"
The Gravekeeper replied, "Simply touch me with sincere faith of gazing upon the world. I will guide you, just as I guide a new believer. Then you shall enter the Realm of Worldgazing."
Tianming blinked. "That’s it?"
He glanced at Ying Huo. "You touched it just now. Did you feel anything?"
Ying Huo scratched his head. "Nope. Maybe it's because I'm not human?"
Meow Meow yawned. "You're overthinking it. It's because he wasn't trying to guide you."
Zi Zhen and Moran both tightened their grip on Tianming's hands.
Tianming nodded reassuringly.
"I'll try first."
He walked toward the gray world wall and reached out and touch
The tip of a single hair on the Gravekeeper's finger.
The Gravekeeper's gentle voice echoed around him. "Are you ready? Do not close your eyes. Perceive reality. Imagine returning to childhood, your purest self. Return to the beginning, and seek the true meaning of life and cultivation."
Tianming nodded as he listened.
Warmth flowed from the point of contact as the familiar energy of nova source bathed him like gentle sunlight.
His thoughts drifted back to the beginning.
The Vermilion Bird Kingdom.
Ignispolis.
Red Twill Mountain.
Those youthful days had been the purest period of his life...
He recalled the trees, the flowers, the clouds, and the sky...
Then, a deep hum rang through his mind as everything began anew.