Chapter 4635 - What Is Reality?

A loud buzz rang through Tianming's mind, and a woman clothed in white appeared before him, radiating sacred brilliance as though she embodied all existence.

Trillions upon trillions of hands reached out from behind her to embrace him with a mother's warmth.

Endless white radiance enveloped him as an incomparably noble, pure, and holy female voice echoed, “All paths begin with compassion. Boundless compassion delivers all living beings. Behold the Worldgazing, know your true heart. The path to divinity begins at the origin..."

Tianming instinctively accepted the warm embrace. The countless hands wrapped around him, and he embraced them in return.

The moment he returned that embrace, everything before his eyes changed.

Thunderous roars filled his ears as the entire universe seemed to shrink, along with his own body.

Every one of his senses transformed.

Although he still possessed the power of his seventy-thousand-meter cosmic-god body, and his essence remained unchanged, everything he saw, heard, and felt became completely different.

The transformation was unbelievably fast.

In the blink of an eye, the stars, the void, and the radiance all contracted and vanished.

A deafening boom made Tianming instinctively close his eyes.

He simultaneously felt as though he had entered an entirely new world and that yet somehow nothing had changed at all.

The sacred white light still lingered around him.

Then the Gravekeeper's voice echoed beside him. "Open your eyes."

Tianming slowly opened his eyes.

Green grass stretched before him. The scent of flowers filled the air, and warm sunlight bathed his skin.

He stood in an ancient mountain valley, and his body had somehow returned to its original size of less than two meters tall.

Before him stood a white-haired old man clad in ragged robes. Age had taken its toll on him, leaving his back hunched and his teeth all lost.

Holding Tianming's hand, the old man smiled gently.

"Child, welcome to the Realm of Worldgazing, the origin of the world.”

He stared at the old man in disbelief, instantly recognizing the Gravekeeper's voice.

His gaze fell to the wrinkled hand holding his own. It was thin, aged, and unmistakably real.

Yet only moments earlier, he had touched nothing more than the tip of a single hair on the Gravekeeper's finger.

The Gravekeeper now looked like nothing more than an ordinary old man. Yet through that hand, Tianming could still feel the terrifying and familiar power of nova source flowing endlessly within him.

Countless nova sources were constantly being born and extinguished within his body in an endless cycle.

"So... only my senses changed?" Tianming was utterly bewildered.

Everything felt so realistic.

He couldn’t tell if this new Realm of Worldgazing was the real world, or was it the endless void outside the God-Emperor Universe?

He couldn’t connect this humble elder to a body one hundred million light-years tall.

He looked past the Gravekeeper to a towering mountain amid the swirling clouds. Atop its summit rested a magnificent black-and-gold tomb. Countless cosmic formations covered it, intertwining as they sealed and protected it.

Tianming instinctively knew that it had to be the tomb of the Primordial God-Emperor. His corpse rested within.

Inside that corpse was everything he had ever known: his family, his friends, the flameyellow divinities, and the Flameyellow Imperial Star...

The sight left Tianming deeply conflicted.

He no longer knew whether the Real World Dock or the Realm of Worldgazing represented true reality.

Within the Realm of Worldgazing, everything had changed. It felt like an ordinary world where despite being completely different levels of existence, he and the Gravekeeper now stood together as equals, speaking face to face.

Is this an illusion? Or simply another kind of reality? Tianming wondered.

He recalled something the Gravekeeper had said earlier.

When battles reach the point of life and death, many choose to return to the True World Dock. The purpose of the Realm of Worldgazing is to resolve conflict, strengthen understanding, enrich the Real World Dock, and bring enlightenment to all living beings.

Tianming was reminded of the wondersky realms.

Countless races and civilizations from across the universe had gathered there to exchange ideas and spar without slaughtering one another in reality. Had they not been part of the wonderians’ conspiracy, it truly would have been an ideal bridge between civilizations.

Could the Realm of Worldgazing serve a similar purpose?

"And who was that woman in white? Was she a manifestation of some natural force or an incomprehensibly powerful existence?"

Tianming had no answer, but he felt certain that the existence of the Realm of Worldgazing was somehow connected to her.

However, he couldn’t even begin to fathom the specifics.

Filled with curiosity, he asked the white-haired old man, "So this is the Realm of Worldgazing? Is everything here real? Or is this merely another illusion?"

The old man smiled. Holding Tianming's hands with both of his, he answered earnestly, "You have entered the Realm of Worldgazing and become part of it. But the Realm of Worldgazing is merely a return to the origin. Everything here is real, and so is everything in the Real World Dock.

"They are simply two different states of the same world."

Tianming was still completely confused.

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