Epic of Caterpillar-Chapter 2936 - 2937: The Final Battle Begins

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When Kireina ascended into the Empyrean Throne, information about her true identity flooded her mind, finally completing the last missing fragments of her memory.

Her original self was a Great Being known as the "Eternal Mother of Flowers," who governed the Heavenly Law of Life and Evolution.

Beyond the Sun and Moon Heavenly Dimensional Domain, she also ruled four others.

The White Lily Heavenly Dimensional Domain.

The Azure Mountain Heavenly Dimensional Domain.

The Celestial Cloud Heavenly Dimensional Domain.

And the Primordial Earth Heavenly Dimensional Domain.

She presided over the life and evolution within these five Heavenly Dimensional Domains, each governed by similar laws of physics.

The remaining Heavenly Dimensional Domains fell under other Empyrean Thrones, each enforcing different Heavenly Laws that defined what existence and "life" could be there—rules so alien that beings from one domain could never comprehend those of another.

The trouble began when the Eternal Mother of Flowers started to pity the living beings in these domains, creatures condemned to endless suffering. Through perpetual cycles, the Empyrean Throne would feed on the domains, destroying them utterly.

After consumption, nearly identical new ones would be reborn. She began to pity the very life she was forced to devour, and this pity bred overwhelming guilt and self-loathing.

In a surge of rage born from clashing egos and emotions, she tore out her own heart and shattered into four fragments.

Her Heart Demon embodied her Fear. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

The other four fragments embodied her Happiness, Sadness, and Anger.

Her Sadness in particular split into two fragments, each representing a different facet of that emotion.

One of them was the version Kireina had fought—the one that had overtaken and controlled the Sun God. Kireina had slain it and fused its essence into her Infinite Heavens Sword.

Thus, the remaining "sisters" were Happiness, Sadness, and Anger.

Happiness shone the brightest, radiating golden light. She resembled Kireina with blonde-white hair, enormous white-and-gold butterfly wings, and a dress woven from endless white lilies.

Sadness was the gloomiest, her form completely dark: dark brown skin, long black hair, black lipstick, black-and-red eyes, and a dress of black roses paired with massive black butterfly wings.

Anger appeared as a ferocious red-haired Kireina, her blazing butterfly wings aflame, her dress crafted from burning red roses. Her eyes glowed with golden, red, and orange fire, her clear red skin marked by a black-and-red horn sprouting from her forehead.

All three embodied fragments of the Heavenly Law of Life and Evolution—the very power Kireina should have possessed but had rejected and destroyed to prevent it from overtaking her.

Right now, Kireina wielded that power alone.

"Your greatest mistake was rejecting the Fragment of our true self's Heavenly Law," Anger snarled. "Without it, you've got no chance, you stupid fucking bitch!"

"Hahaha! Hehehe! This is soooo nice!" Happiness giggled. "You're here, our beloved 'sister'! Come on, come to me! Let's fuse together and be one forever once more!"

"If you won't do it willingly… we'll have to use force," Sadness sighed, her voice laced with both annoyance and sorrow as she gazed at Kireina. "I hate it, but that's what we must do."

"Even if you combine with me, you won't reach the perfect form anyway," Kireina replied, gripping her Pillar of Celestial Enlightenment tightly. "I haven't changed at all. You're also mere fragments—not comparable to true Empyrean Thrones. I have a chance, and I will seize it."

Happiness, Anger, and Sadness smiled in unison. Their auras surged violently. Countless lifeforms burst forth from their golden, red, and black energies—cosmic beings on par with Dimensional Creatures. These entities fused back into their creators, intensifying their authority.

Trillions of such lifeforms coalesced into weapons. Happiness summoned a shield and sword, Anger conjured a pair of giant blazing axes, and Sadness manifested a long black lance alongside a shield.

The One remained behind Kireina and sighed. "I suppose you're not even going to consider me in this battle? Are you looking down on me, Eternal Mother of Flowers?"

Happiness laughed heartily, clearly enjoying herself. "Oh, don't make me laugh! You're nothing but a mass of tiny fragments stitched together by our sister!"

Sadness sighed again. "You can't do much more than assist her."

Anger groaned in irritation. "You're an absolute idiot if you think you can accomplish anything."

"Hah, well, that's what they think," Kireina said. "Prove them wrong."

"I will."

Tension hung thick in the silence. Every breath, every passing second here felt like billions of years below. No one moved for a long moment; they simply stared, waiting.

Battles between Empyrean Thrones were almost unheard of. The reason was simple: beings of such power could end any fight with their presence alone.

When opponents were equally matched, longer clashes could occur, but every move was so precise and so impossibly fast that little seemed to happen at all.

This was a rare experience.

Kireina didn't even blink, yet in an instant they vanished.

CLASH!

A Sword of Life's Light pierced her back and drove through her spine.

CLASH!

Two Axes of Life's Flame cleaved both her arms.

CLASH!

A Spear of Life's Darkness stabbed through her head, pulping her brain.

It was instantaneous.

And…

It was already over.

"…"

Kireina collapsed. Her three sisters smirked as they approached her fallen body, raising their hands toward her.

"Fool. Did she really think she could best us? Hah!" Anger laughed.

"How utterly laughable!" Happiness chuckled.

"Now… let's finish this…" Sadness said.

"Kireina?!" The One stared in shock—she had fallen before she could even act. "Wait!"

He rushed forward. White Heavens erupted from the Planes of Fate and Souls, forming billions of hands that surged toward the three women.

But their weapons moved with terrifying precision: piercing, slashing, cleaving every assault aside before they reached The One and smashed him into the ground.

A sword slashed his back, two axes severed his arms, and a spear pierced his head.

They were too coordinated, too lethal.

There was no real battle here—the three fragments fought as one.

"G-Gaaah?! I-Impossible…! My power… cannot compare to mere fragments?!" The One clenched his teeth, summoning a pair of golden swords and swinging them at the trio.

They evaded effortlessly, kicking his head down and chopping him into countless pieces.

Yet The One was part of Kireina now. He regenerated swiftly and struck back, irritating the trio.

"Well, that'll take a bit more time to—"

RUMBLE!

Before they could finish, the three found themselves trapped inside a garden of roses.

A crimson moon eclipsed a black star.

Every flower petal transformed into an attack, slashing across their bodies.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"Gyyaaaaahhhh!"

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"Uuugghhh?!"

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"Aaaaahhhhh!"

As agony tore through them and thousands of slashing wounds covered their hardened skin, they saw Kireina rise.

Her Garden had transcended mere manifestation—it had become a self-contained Reality, drawing on her entire Heavenly Dimensional Domain. Kireina pushed herself to her absolute limits.

As a True Immortal, she was far from weak.

The blossoming flower of defiance bloomed in the empty socket of her left eye.

The rest of her body became covered in flowers, sealing the wounds she realized she could not regenerate quickly.

She understood now: her sisters' attacks could destroy the very concept of her existence. Enough strikes would allow them to absorb her and repurpose her essence, forcing the rebirth of their original self—the Eternal Mother of Flowers.

So she covered her wounds with fragments of her own Reality—blood roses and sharp, thorny vines that wrapped protectively around her form.

"I am not done… Haaa… I will fight… not for myself… no… for everyone I protect…"

"FOOL!"

Her three sisters roared in unison. Their scream shattered the entire Reality Domain, allowing them to close the distance in an instant.

They forced her down, their weapons piercing her body once more.

Kireina clenched her teeth. She noticed the wounds on their bodies had also failed to heal.

She had been right. By infusing fragments of her own Dimensional Reality into their injuries, she weakened them too—and absorbed slivers of their existence in return.

This was not Devour; it was a matter of concepts and Heavenly Laws.

These four sisters were pieces of the scripture that formed the Heavenly Law of Life and Evolution.

Just as they could slowly consume her until they became whole again, Kireina was attempting the reverse.

It was her only way to oppose such overwhelming power, relying on the very origins she had once rejected.

It felt shameful, but it had to be done.

"HAAAH!"

The Infinite Heavens Sword erupted from the hole in her chest, catching Happiness off guard and piercing straight through her skull, tearing away a chunk of brain.

Happiness released an agonizing scream and collapsed.

Kireina kicked Anger in the face, but the blow was resisted. Anger's axes plunged into her stomach, spilling galaxies and stars from her guts.

"Nngaaaahhh!"

Kireina roared. Her white skin glowed as countless red runes spread across her body, blooming into red-and-black roses. Their petals slashed at Anger while Sadness impaled her back again, unleashing waves of darkness and curses of Life that hurled her away.

BOOOMMM!!!

Kireina crashed into a Reality Fragment, shattering countless landscapes into glass-like shards and spawning thousands of black holes that dissolved into black matter.

"Haaa…"

She rose slowly, sealing her wounds once more with Reality Fragments as fresh flowers and vines grew over her body.

Her sisters roared and charged.

The One emerged behind her, permeating her form and transforming into pristine white armor.

"If you won't accept my legacy, then use me as your armor!"

"Fine."

Kireina surged forward. Her leap tore apart countless dimensions that scattered into cosmic dust.

She reached her sisters, seized Anger and Sadness by their faces, and drove countless swords through their skulls.

BAAAM! BAAAM!

RUMBLE!

BOOOMMM!!!

A colossal explosion erupted as flames and darkness burst from their bodies. Anger and Sadness screamed in agony, retaliating by impaling Kireina's entire form with their attacks.

"Aaaaaggghhh!"

Kireina cried out in pain. The One's armor began to fracture but quickly reformed, filling her wounds and infusing her with his Immortal Art and the Heavenly Law of Cultivation of Heaven and Earth.

"Hahahaha! Hahahahaha! You can't beat ussssssss~!"

Happiness laughed wildly—even with half her head missing—as she reached Kireina and delivered a double-footed kick that sent her flying through eternity.

She crashed through dozens of multiverses and dimensions, glimpsing countless sights before slamming into a massive mountain composed of layered domains.

BOOOMMM!!!

"Guuuggh?!"

Kireina vomited cosmic blood, but she realized that without The One's armor she would have suffered far worse. She stood and expanded her Reality Domain once more.

This time, with The One's help, she compressed it tightly around her body as her sisters rushed in.

Sadness thrust her spear; each strike summoned multidimensional cosmic storms that dragged forth quintillions of cursed, agonizing souls she had consumed.

Anger swung her blazing axes; flames of burning lifeforce spread everywhere—quintillions upon quintillions of devoured, tormented lives.

Happiness laughed even through her grievous wound, her sword unleashing blinding barrages of light forged from the souls of quadrillions of victims.

Kireina pushed herself to the brink until blood streamed from her eyes and nose. She extended her consciousness in every direction, narrowly evading Sadness's strikes before driving her sword into Sadness's stomach. She slashed upward, tearing open her guts, then unleashed a massive explosion of Reality Flames that bloomed into endless gardens, thorny vines, and eclipsing crimson moons.

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