The Legend of Min Hong

"The possibilities are endless…"

"You could neutralize other attacks, deflect or reflect them, even absorb them…"

"I was only ever able to get full control over gravity and kinetic force…"

"By cultivating these aspects of force, I created my first inner world and ascended into godhood…"

"The weight of this world within me could rival that of the biggest planets…"

"Imagine what just a kick from me would be like, and then imagine if someone else kicked you; that person would most likely have their leg shattered or crushed into meat paste…"

"Huh? Oh, sure… I guess?"

"Min Hong who was already lost in thought stuttered as he thought he had been asked a question…

"Now imagine such amount of force delivered by something much, much smaller…"

"All that force would be more concentrated and would even multiply by the ratio of the decrease in size and rip through you like a piece of paper…"

"In the same vein, force could also be applicable in several different situations; you could increase the gravity on yourself and become nigh immovable, you can reduce the drag in the air to increase your speed to insane limits….

"You could attract or repel objects make things or even beings explode and implode without even raising your eyebrows…"

"How menacing do you think such a Dao can be? Cultivation is endless, but the universe and planes even more so…"

"The possibilities therein, are therefore, also endless… It is truly a scholar's wet dreams and bliss…"

Cui ended with a belly full of laughter whilst Min Hong was simply lost in thought, thinking of how he could delegate this part to Little Fei who seems very interested in studying and experimenting on theories…

But there was also something that kept troubling his mind at this point;

"Cultivation is endless…"

Min Hong was stunned speechless and his mind truly bothered, as his scope of knowledge began to expand at insane lengths and speed…

He had always thought there was a limit on the path of cultivation, a certain realm or cultivation stage that you reach and would be vetted as the strongest…

But if it was endless, wouldn't that mean…

Cui also saw the look in Min Hong's eyes and instantly understood what was precisely going through his head…

He too had been on this end of the scenario once before…

When he was first exposed to this truth, he had gone for days without talking to anyone…

His level of wisdom, knowledge, insight and experience truly called into question about the deeper meaning and the true message that was hidden within that statement…

"But except you slightly change your way of thinking and provide space for completely different and unique school of thoughts, your chances of reaching a realm high enough for you to even cross one plane, is close to non-existent, not to talk of doing it again and again…"

"Even I have never crossed between planes, I have only entered the heaven and the ring of my specific plane…" 

"What do you mean by that?" Min Hong asked, he had just heard another new information…

"That is the relationship between heavens, planes, and rings of the netherworld…"

"Remember I made mention of seven planes, eight desolaces, nine hells and ten heavens…

"Each of these seven planes have their own plane, desolace, hell and heaven…"

"A hell, is just one ring, out of the nine rings of the netherworld, just like a thumb is to the rest of the fingers…"

"Meaning, the first place has its first heaven, first hell and first desolace that is assigned to it…"

"Same with the second plane having the second; heaven, hell and desolace… the only difference is, there is an eight desolace outside the reaches of the planes…"

"Unh…Okay…"

Cui was in the process of explaining everything to Min Hong when he abruptly stopped and gave a listening expression and then finally received an instruction from an unknown entity…

"You are in luck boy… The nature of your acknowledgement test just changed for the better…"

"To gain the acknowledgment of; Lekan, the abomination, you will have to answer one of its questions…" Cui looked at Min Hong with a smiley expression as he spoke

"Why are there only seven planes, but with eight desolaces, nine hells and ten heavens?"

"What is the reason for the increasing numbers…"

Min Hong heard what he just said and froze in shock... then after ten solid minutes of being stunned silly Min Hong finally blurted out with a pained expression;

"I knew it!"

"Damn… can't believe it took me so long to figure it out!?"

"That explains everything!"

"Haha ha ha…"

"I had been wondering why something like this would be happening within the spirit ring acknowledgement trials…"

"The Chaos could be explained, the monster too… I guess the monster must be the Lekan you just spoke about…"

"But what I couldn't explain was, or more like, the person I was waiting for had yet to arrive…" 

Min Hong kept spewing his mind with a bright smile plastered on his face…

"It is because you have already begun to deceive my mind since the first time we met…"

"Perhaps it was the wine in that gourd…"

"Perhaps it might just be because you didn't lose your powers and even gained Lekan's illusion Dao just by being in such close contact with it…"

"You aren't Cui, right?"

Min Hong blurted a question at Cui who froze on the spot as his eyes went wide;

"How could you get out so easily?"

Cui blurted in shock as Min Hong replied;

"Though, everything you said has been the truth, but they were all a massive lie also, just like the insight you gave me earlier; -

"It is my beginning and my end, it is my truth and my lie, it is something I own and also something that doesn't belong to me..."

"It is also the absolute truth and also the uttermost lie…"

"Those are the insights into the Dao of Illusion, isn't it?"

"I-…"

"Don't answer yet!"

"You will do that once I am done…" "The story you told me was true, but you were not Luo Sheng…"

"Luo sheng was the first person to take the acknowledgement trial and died when he failed…"

"You are not Cui either because he is the second person who took the trial and also died when he failed…"

"Then there is only one possibility left; you are 'the one whose name must not be spoken'…"

Min Hong continued as he suddenly frowned mid statement and then put his hand under his chin in a deeply thinking manner;

"But if that was the case, and as a result of the story daisy told me about; since you had to borrow the powers of all the elder gods and even sacrifice you own life just to seal the conscious spirit ring of 'Lekan, the abomination', then you shouldn't have survived since Lekan was stronger than you…"

"Unless…"

"Unless, 'the one whose name must not be spoken' is truly dead and you are Lekan itself…"