Duality of Shadows-Chapter 1022: Luck Wasn’t On Their Side

The days passed as Alm and Bruno focused on sensing the pearl’s fluctuations, which was currently with the queen.

The Heaven’s Will present in the item had been modified by them, integrating their soul, which now embodied that will. This allowed them to subtly track the queen’s movements and, at the right moment, send a message for their undercover agent to act.

During this period, Alm and Bruno also gathered all the deities around the Tree of Chaos, helping them comprehend the Immortal Chaos Fragment. This was a key difference between deities and common immortals—they didn’t rely solely on absorbing this resource to advance; they needed to fully comprehend it.

They had the advantage of needing far less to absorb and advance. But understanding this power, which was the closest to the Birth-Law, was incredibly difficult. For Alm and Bruno, however, this wasn’t a problem. With the Tree of Chaos’s help, the process became significantly easier.

Over the years, they had always done this, and the deities kept up with the others. Among all of them, Rehvka stood out impressively. After reaching the immortal realms, she and Thea, using the Dao of the White Guardian God, achieved unique feats.

Thea now had several bodies she could switch between as needed, one of which was a humanoid body similar to a pure Alv, created from scratch. This body was conceived through a Yang domain she developed. Although it had internal differences and wasn’t entirely genuine, it contained everything a normal body had.

This achievement resolved her long-standing issues of having an android body, which had previously prevented her from expressing emotions or emitting perceptible fluctuations of what she felt. Now, everyone could see it physically, feel it, and understand her better.

Despite this, Thea remained rather antisocial. However, her closest friends constantly sought her out, dragging her into interactions and ensuring she wasn’t alone for long. Now that they were sure they weren’t upsetting her or causing any harm, everything became easier. Corin, however, continued asking highly personal questions about women. Despite feeling uncomfortable, Thea enjoyed talking about it.

As for Rehvka, she fulfilled an old wish: making her body accept the Yang of life again. To achieve this, she had to absorb it directly from someone else and adapt it to her body. This required her to seal her Yin since only one of the two could remain active at a time. To fight and use her Dao, she had to maintain the original configuration.

When Ruri found out about this transformation, she became excited and curious. She had always sensed Rehvka’s natural inclination to be a mother, but for that to happen, she’d have to... When Ruri brought this up, Rehvka responded with only a disgusted expression, making it clear it wasn’t going to happen. She was simply happy with her achievement.

As for Maelik and Rivine, they were sent to the same universe along with their harpy daughters. It was no surprise that the harpy population in that universe had grown shockingly, and all of them were incredibly powerful.

Rivine never gave Maelik a break, even after millions of years together. Despite the ridiculously low odds of having children as immortals, Rivine had six more. All of them were as fierce and chaotic as her. These daughters, in turn, also had many others... no humanoid male in that universe was safe.

Their lives were fine, but all men who saw them feared living with thin, weak bodies. Of course, those from outside feared for them, but the ones taken by the harpies were living happier lives than anyone could imagine. Only their appearance didn’t show it.

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On the other hand, couples like Corin and Calirer, Kisala and Rock, Idris and Ambry, among others, focused mainly on cultivation. Still, they dedicated some time to trying to populate the universes they managed. But none were as dedicated to this as Rivine, and none of them had more children.

Alm and Bruno learned about all this thanks to Ruri’s cheerful reports about the lives and experiences of their allies everywhere.

The two had, of course, turned all the awakened universes into cultivation universes. The new universes, with their unique laws, gave rise to cultivation systems with completely different, sometimes even bizarre realms.

However, after a certain point, they all converged to the standard immortal realms. Although the structures were similar, the differences in cultivation made their abilities unique and varied.

Back to the present, while the deities continued their studies around the Tree of Chaos, Alm and Bruno used the free years to nourish their allies’ weapons with the power of Heaven’s Will. Using the same method applied to their own weapons, all their allies received Paragon-level weapons.

Lian and his women also contributed significantly. With his alternative version of the Tree of Chaos, after reaching the immortal realms, he used the tree’s power alongside them. To Ruri’s dismay, Alm and Bruno shared their technique. They did this because Lian’s tree seemed to have adapted to work that way.

In fact, he and all the women were growing explosively this way, and he generated a large amount of Immortal Chaos Fragment in the process. Although it wasn’t enough for everyone to cultivate, the fragments were sufficient for those at lower levels to use them and reach the same level as the others.

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Ten years went by...

Thirteen years...

It was at that moment Alm and Bruno felt a fluctuation in the underworld. When they focused, they realized there were actually two fluctuations. The two items had appeared and were on the move!

Neither they nor the queen could capture the items before this because they had remained in an ethereal state, not fully physical. The items had fused with the chaos of the new underworld and had stayed inactive until now, without emitting any kind of fluctuation.

The queen couldn’t even move easily through the underworld, making it impossible for her to search for them. The whale, on the other hand, could move freely, but without fluctuations, finding the items was like searching for a needle in a haystack.

With a lot of luck and time, they might find them, but relying on chance wasn’t an option. They’d waste too much time without guarantees. It was wiser to focus on getting stronger.

They sent an alert to everyone in the internal universe, and then the whale opened his eyes in the underworld. He and the queen appeared simultaneously and activated their celestial souls to track the fluctuations.

The two items took on their physical form in places far apart from each other, and the power emanating from them began to flow and intensify rapidly.

It didn’t even take a minute for them to start moving. The whale focused intently on the direction they were heading. Unfortunately, luck wasn’t on their side: both items had manifested at the same time. That meant the queen would get one, and they’d be left with the other.

However... this bad luck might actually be a gift.

As soon as she got one of the items, she’d have five Primordial Chaos Items. She would undoubtedly feel empowered and wouldn’t allow them to assimilate their gains to grow stronger. She would attack them as quickly as possible, and then they could...

"What?!"

Suddenly, Bruno’s eyes widened, and Alm’s expression grew serious. Both of them suddenly felt a subtle power erupt in the queen’s location. Then... the two items stopped before entering a universe.

Seconds later, they changed direction. Alm and Bruno were confused until they realized the items were converging toward the same place.

In less than ten seconds, the two items reached the queen, who stored them as if they were already hers and quickly fled into a universe.

They had no idea what the queen had done or how. They couldn’t simply try to stop her. Even though they were confident they could beat her, the difference between them and their enemy was still small. They needed an advantage for their trump cards to be effective.

"What the hell..." Alm and Bruno muttered almost at the same time. At that instant, their souls instinctively merged. They immediately sensed a deadly aura hovering over them — this was a serious problem.