The Asura Empress

In the great sea of stars, the clusters of lights, and the void of endless expanse, the whole universe churned, revolved, and spiraled like the whirlpool that forms after the unplugging of the water-filled sink.

Star among stars, realm upon realms, and heaven upon heavens, the myriad worlds, slowly but surely, inched closer on a forward path of collision and funneled down the path of extinction. 

Everything came from nothingness, and so too, everything shall eventually return to nothingness. To be reset and reborn, delete and recreate, the world will start anew. 

The end after the beginning. And a new beginning after the end. 

In the Nine Divine Heavens that exist outside the boundary of the universe and mortality, immortals quietly observed the divine shift in the Lower World, unperturbed by its eventual end as if it had nothing to do with them. 

However, they could not be more wrong.

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