Epic of Caterpillar Chapter 2936 2937: The Final Battle Begins

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As Kireina rose to the Empyrean Throne, details of her authentic identity surged into her mind, at last piecing together the final lost shards of her memories.

Her primal form had been a supreme entity titled the "Eternal Mother of Flowers," who commanded the Heavenly Law of Life and Evolution.

Besides the Sun and Moon Heavenly Dimensional Domain, her dominion extended over four more.

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 oversaw the life and evolution across these five Heavenly Dimensional Domains, where comparable laws of physics held sway.

The other Heavenly Dimensional Domains belonged to different Empyrean Thrones, each imposing unique Heavenly Laws that shaped existence and "life" there—regulations so foreign that inhabitants of one realm could never grasp those from another.

Problems arose when the Eternal Mother of Flowers grew compassionate toward the creatures in these domains, beings trapped in eternal torment. Through endless cycles, the Empyrean Throne would devour the domains, annihilating them completely.

Following devouring, nearly exact replicas would emerge anew. She came to pity the very lives she was compelled to consume, and this compassion sparked immense guilt and self-hatred.

In a burst of fury from conflicting egos and feelings, she ripped out her own heart and splintered into four pieces.

Her Heart Demon represented her Fear.

The remaining four pieces embodied her Happiness, Sadness, and Anger.

Her Sadness specifically divided into two pieces, each capturing a distinct aspect of that feeling.

One such piece was the form Kireina had battled—the one that had seized and dominated the Sun God. Kireina had defeated it and merged its core into her Infinite Heavens Sword.

Therefore, the leftover "sisters" consisted of Happiness, Sadness, and Anger.

Happiness glowed most brilliantly, emitting golden radiance. She looked like Kireina but with blonde-white hair, vast white-and-gold butterfly wings, and a gown made from infinite white lilies.

Sadness appeared the most somber, her figure entirely shadowed: dark brown skin, lengthy black hair, black lipstick, black-and-red eyes, and a gown of black roses matched with enormous black butterfly wings.

Anger manifested as a savage red-haired Kireina, her fiery butterfly wings burning fiercely, her gown forged from scorching red roses. Her eyes blazed with golden, red, and orange flames, her vivid red skin adorned by a black-and-red horn emerging from her forehead.

All three fragments carried aspects of the Heavenly Law of Life and Evolution—the exact authority Kireina ought to have held yet had denied and demolished to stop it from consuming her.

At this moment, Kireina commanded that authority by herself.

"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 filled with annoyance and sorrow as she looked 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 responded, clutching her Pillar of Celestial Enlightenment firmly. "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 grinned together. Their auras exploded outward with ferocity. Innumerable lifeforms erupted from their golden, red, and black powers—cosmic entities rivaling Dimensional Creatures. These beings merged back into their originators, amplifying their dominion.

Trillions of those lifeforms condensed into armaments. Happiness called forth a shield and sword, Anger summoned a duo of massive flaming axes, and Sadness produced a lengthy black lance paired with a shield.

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

Happiness burst into laughter, obviously delighted. "Oh, don't make me laugh! You're nothing but a mass of tiny fragments stitched together by our sister!"

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

Anger growled in frustration. "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."

A heavy tension filled the quiet void. Each breath, each fleeting moment here stretched like billions of years in the lower realms. No one stirred for what seemed an eternity; they just glared, anticipating.

Clashes among Empyrean Thrones were exceedingly rare. The cause was straightforward: such mighty beings could conclude any conflict merely by existing.

When foes were evenly matched, drawn-out battles might unfold, but each action was so exact and blindingly swift that barely anything appeared to occur.

This proved a scarce spectacle.

Kireina never even blinked, but suddenly they all disappeared.

CLASH!

A Sword of Life's Light stabbed her back and impaled her spine.

CLASH!

Two Axes of Life's Flame hacked off both her arms.

CLASH!

A Spear of Life's Darkness plunged through her head, smashing her brain.

It happened in a flash.

And…

It had ended already.

"…"

Kireina crumpled down. Her three sisters sneered as they neared her downed form, lifting 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 gaped in disbelief—she had dropped before he could react. "Wait!"

He charged ahead. White Heavens burst from the Planes of Fate and Souls, creating billions of hands that rushed at the three women.

Yet their weapons struck with horrifying accuracy: piercing, slicing, hacking every attack away before striking The One and slamming him into the ground.

A sword cut his back, two axes lopped off his arms, and a spear skewered his head.

They coordinated perfectly, lethally so.

No true fight occurred here—the three fragments battled as a single unit.

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

They dodged with ease, stomping his head down and dismembering him into myriad chunks.

Still, as part of Kireina now, The One regenerated rapidly and countered, annoying the trio.

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

RUMBLE!

Before they could conclude, the three became ensnared within a garden of roses.

A crimson moon blotted out a black star.

Every flower petal turned into an assault, lacerating their bodies.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"Gyyaaaaahhhh!"

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"Uuugghhh?!"

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"Aaaaahhhhh!"

As torment ripped through them and thousands of cuts marred their toughened skin, they witnessed Kireina stand.

Her Garden had evolved beyond simple creation—it formed a standalone Reality, harnessing her full Heavenly Dimensional Domain. Kireina drove herself to utmost extremes.

As a True Immortal, her strength was immense.

A defiant flower blossomed in the void of her left eye socket.

Flowers enveloped the rest of her body, closing the injuries she knew she couldn't heal swiftly.

She comprehended now: her sisters' blows could erase the essence of her being. Sufficient hits would let them assimilate her and reshape her core, compelling the revival of their original form—the Eternal Mother of Flowers.

Thus, she shielded her wounds with pieces of her own Reality—blood roses and jagged, thorny vines that coiled defensively around her.

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

"FOOL!"

Her three sisters bellowed together. Their cry demolished the whole Reality Domain, letting them bridge the gap instantly.

They pinned her down, their weapons stabbing her form anew.

Kireina ground her teeth. She saw their wounds hadn't healed either.

Her hunch was correct. By embedding bits of her Dimensional Reality into their gashes, she had debilitated them as well—and siphoned traces of their essence in exchange.

This wasn't Devour; it involved concepts and Heavenly Laws.

These four sisters formed segments of the scripture comprising the Heavenly Law of Life and Evolution.

Just as they could gradually absorb her to reunite, Kireina pursued the opposite.

It was her sole method against such vast might, drawing on the roots she had formerly spurned.

It felt humiliating, yet necessary.

"HAAAH!"

The Infinite Heavens Sword burst from the cavity in her chest, surprising Happiness and skewering her skull, ripping out a mass of brain.

Happiness let out a piercing wail and tumbled down.

Kireina booted Anger in the face, but it barely fazed her. Anger's axes buried into her belly, spilling galaxies and stars from her innards.

"Nngaaaahhh!"

Kireina bellowed. Her pale skin shimmered as myriad red runes crawled over her, flowering into red-and-black roses. Their petals shredded at Anger while Sadness skewered her back again, releasing torrents of darkness and Life curses that flung her aside.

BOOOMMM!!!

Kireina smashed into a Reality Fragment, pulverizing countless terrains into glassy debris and birthing thousands of black holes that melted into black matter.

"Haaa…"

She climbed up gradually, patching her injuries again with Reality Fragments as new flowers and vines sprouted across her.

Her sisters howled and lunged.

The One appeared at her back, merging into her and becoming flawless white armor.

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

"Fine."

Kireina rocketed ahead. Her bound shredded innumerable dimensions, scattering them as stellar debris.

She closed in on her sisters, grabbing Anger and Sadness by their faces, and thrust countless swords through their skulls.

BAAAM! BAAAM!

RUMBLE!

BOOOMMM!!!

A tremendous blast detonated as fire and shadow exploded from their forms. Anger and Sadness shrieked in torment, countering by riddling Kireina's body with their strikes.

"Aaaaaggghhh!"

Kireina howled in anguish. The One's armor cracked but swiftly mended, staunching her wounds and empowering her with his Immortal Art and the Heavenly Law of Cultivation of Heaven and Earth.

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

Happiness cackled madly—even missing half her head—as she closed on Kireina and unleashed a double-legged strike that hurled her across eternity.

She barreled through scores of multiverses and dimensions, catching glimpses of myriad scenes before colliding with a towering mountain of stacked domains.

BOOOMMM!!!

"Guuuggh?!"

Kireina spewed cosmic blood, but she knew without The One's armor the damage would have been catastrophic. She rose and unfurled her Reality Domain anew.

This time, aided by The One, she squeezed it snugly around herself as her sisters barreled in.

Sadness jabbed her spear; every thrust birthed multidimensional cosmic tempests that hauled quintillions of cursed, suffering souls she had devoured.

Anger whirled her blazing axes; infernos of searing lifeforce raged everywhere—quintillions times quintillions of consumed, tortured existences.

Happiness chortled despite her dire injury, her sword firing dazzling volleys of light crafted from quadrillions of victims' souls.

Kireina strained to her limits until blood poured from her eyes and nose. She stretched her awareness everywhere, dodging Sadness's blows by a hair before plunging her sword into Sadness's abdomen. She ripped upward, eviscerating her, then triggered a vast eruption of Reality Flames that flowered into boundless gardens, spiky vines, and overshadowing crimson moons.

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