Omnipotent Overlord

“Bro Mo, that’s creepy. This Heavenly Emperor looks just like me!”

Du Fei was the first to react to the shock.

“What?”

Du Fei pointed at Heavenly Emperor’s statue, “H-h-he looks like me. Can’t you see it?”

Li Mo was stunned.

To Li Mo’s eyes, Heavenly Emperor looked like him…

‘Does everyone see themselves in this statue?’

“What I see is that he resembles me.”

“Eh?” 

Li Mo pondered, “This must be the theory of everything.

“Among the 36 Emperors, Heavenly Emperor can’t be said to have attained his power early, but his goal surpassed any before him. He created Heavenly Court and wanted to build the Underworld so that every being in creation would enjoy reincarnation.”

Li Mo sighed, “He may have failed, but his merits place him above every other preceding God Emperor.

“There was an account that stated the Heavenly Emperor’s power had reached an almighty level. When he became a God Emperor, he flattened seven forbidden areas.

“And when Heavenly Court was experiencing upheaval, Heavenly Emperor was at his peak. Even if the civil war was great, he shouldn’t have died because of it…”

“Bro Mo, I feel like this is related with that red palm. It must be!”

Li Mo nodded.

No one under a God Emperor Stage could kill one, but that didn’t go the same for a sneak-attacking God Emperor

“If that’s true, then Heavenly Emperor’s death must be hiding a terrible secret.”

“It is without a doubt clear that man does not want this world to have reincarnation. That is why he interferes each time.”

“This must be it!”

“But what does he get from all this?”

“We just need to find the motive and this ancient secret will unravel.”

Li Mo used Eye of Truth on the Heavenly Emperor statue, but all he saw was himself still.

“Strange, it feels like a mirror.” Du Fei touched the statue and shuddered.

“Bro Mo, put your hand on it. It’s like, like it speaks.”

Li Mo touched the Heavenly Emperor statue.

“Infinity… is… a lie… take care…”

A broken voice kept repeating these words over and over.

“Infinity is a lie, take care. Bro Mo, do you hear that?”

“Yes.”

“What does it mean?”

Li Mo shook his head.

Across the entire universe, infinity was related to one thing, eternity!

There had been one constant throughout time, that as long as one achieved eternity, regardless of cultivation, even a mortal could enjoy eternal life.

That was why eternity had been the sole yearning of every powerful beings in the universe. The legend of eternity had been the oldest in existence, yet no one could tell if anyone achieved it.

Li Mo had only managed to come back because of this eternity!

In his past life, Heaven Diviner and God Diviner gave their lives to perform a scrying to find eternity’s location. Henceforth, eternity was the sole thing on every overlord’s mind.

To enter eternity, one had to walk on the path of eternal life. It was on this path that the universe’s races had fought to their bitter end and Li Mo died stabbed in the back by his own comrade. 

What had gnawed Li Mo all these days was the fact he still couldn’t figure out who it was. No matter how he saw it, the likeliest would have to be one of his friends.

Li Mo said, “Is Heavenly Emperor telling us eternity is a trap and to be careful?”

“That is quite obvious. But bro Mo, didn’t you say eternity exists? How can it be a lie?”

Li Mo had said more than once about eternity to Du Fei and the latter slowly began to understand it. 

“Eternity is definitely a real world, of that I’m certain. If Heavenly Emperor wanted to give others clues about it, he wouldn’t go about it speaking some broken line.”

Li Mo touched the statue and heard the repeating broken words.

They held nothing of value.

“Du Fei, what do you suppose the existence of these statues mean?”

“With the 36 Emperors so famous, seeing their statues in one place sure is fancy.

“Bro Mo, my words are highly plausible. Just thing about it, the Underworld Emperor, most certain than not, had to be an otaku from Earth who had rebirthed. With his lame brain, this outcome is perfectly normal.”

Li Mo smiled, “Why do I get the feeling you have the same lame brain as well?”

“No way. I am anything but an idiot! That back then was just… a coincidence.” 

Du Fei said faintly. That ‘f*ck you’ password he said to enter here, he convinced himself to be a coincidence.

‘It may be a coincidence, but that doesn’t make me a lamebrain.’ Du Fei added to himself. 

“What is that?”

Li Mo stared blankly.

Li Mo noticed a glint coming from the foot of every statue. What he found was shocking.

Those were his God Prison fragments!

The red palm destroyed it and took all its inmates to death with it, including the donkey…

Li Mo thought God Prison was gone, but here he was finding all its pieces.

Li Mo flicked and the fragments landed in his hand.

God Prison was his best magic weapon he refined, connected to his mind. This item didn’t need some art to control it.

“God Prison is incomplete, but it is the toughest beneath imperial items. It being shattered may be a good opportunity.”

“Bro Mo, look, that donkey is still alive!”

Li Mo saw that Du Fei found the donkey at the feet of some statue.

It was split apart when the huge red palm struck, yet was now in one piece.

Du Fei said, “Holly hell! What is this guy made of? He won’t die even ripped to pieces?”

Li Mo loomed over the hibernating ‘donkey’ with a raised eyebrow.

He had no fear it would ever wake. Its Ageless Art kept it dormant until the right time, regardless of stimulus.

Li Mo sighed, incapable of refining God Prison in Underworld. And without it, how couldn’t he take the donkey out?

‘Well, carry it I guess.’

Li Mo pulled a donkey leg over his shoulder.