GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Apparently, every phoenix in the void universe is one of her soul fragments, not a few of them. So he wasn't unlucky when he met a soul fragment within an egg. Every phoenix egg has a soul fragment of hers within it.

People think that Phoenixes are immortal because of their flames of rebirth but they are wrong about that. Phoenixes are immortal because of the great mother as their foundation. It is why no one has been able to copy their "divine ability."

The flames of rebirth is just a technique that uses spiritual energy to copy the properties of the grey water here. It destroys matter in the void universe and transforms it into energy capable of strengthening the soul.

This energy is then transported to the great mother through the spiritual links between her and all her soul fragments. That is how the great mother has managed to acquire enough energy to become as powerful as demon gods.

He found out all of this from the white motes and he couldn't help but marvel. It is all fascinating to him. Anyone who knows of the secret of the Phoenix race will be impressed by it.

He praised her sincerely, "The great mother is truly a great entity. She formed a race that is present in the whole void universe and not just in the realm of high heaven. All the phoenixes are working towards freeing her. Even demon gods are not capable of such a thing. What a great mother."

Demon gods can also create races but no demon god has managed to create a race that spans the entire void universe. It goes to show just how massive her influence in the void universe is. And she is not even in the world of manifestation herself. One can very well imagine just how big her impact on the void universe would be if she were allowed to exist in the world of manifestation.

"In a world where others are struggling to survive, she has not only survived, she has thrived. She is truly a genius."

He praised her while running as fast as possible. He doesn't need to stop to express his sincere opinions. In fact, it is because he appreciates her resourcefulness that he knows that he must not meet her. People who have achieved great things like that are not soft or kind. Especially not people who rely on slavery for labor.

"Where there is life, there is always resistance. And when there is a Will, there is a way. The great mother is the embodiment of the struggle of life and its victory over death. Unfortunately for her, I am not willing to join her."

He admires her but he will do so from a safe distance. If she gets him, she might be able to use him to protect herself from the digestion of the spiritual dimension. It won't make her capable of surviving in the void universe but it will make it so that staying here is no longer a constant race against death.

She has always been in a hopeless situation here. She can't learn laws so she cannot become immortal. She can't become immortal so she can't meet the requirement to exist outside of the void universe.

She is as powerful as demon gods but she is still pitiful. The bigger she gets, the more she loses to the spiritual dimension. After all, the grey water can only digest what it is in contact with. The larger the area of contact, the higher the corrosive pressure. So the great mother's large surface area is a problem for her.

Then he came along with a power that could completely resist the corrosion of the grey water or nether water as she called it. If she gains it then all the energy coming from her soul fragments can be directed toward more useful objectives such as the issue of her freedom.

All of these have made it so that there can be no negotiation or truce between them. She must have him at all costs. Even he won't let himself go of he were in her shoes.

He shot through the grey water while paying attention to his environment. He didn't use his divine sense to see like he normally would. His divine sense has a large range but any entity that is aware in the spiritual dimension will be able to sense his divine sense and see him too when he sees them. That's how the great mother became aware of him.

His ignorance drew her attention. She has a lot of soul fragments and she can't pay attention to all of them. The soul fragment he encountered in the egg was dormant because she was focused elsewhere. That's why it didn't fight back against him. Not even his attacks awakened it.

It instinctively tried to protect itself by returning to the spiritual dimension. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough for it. It needed the flames of rebirth to heal the damage to it. So it pulled the egg down to the spiritual dimension and dragged Legion-7 along with it.

It didn't wake up even then. It was Legion-7's interaction of his divine sense with the spiritual link of the soul fragment that awakened it after drawing the great mother's attention.

He has learned from that experience now and he knows better than to spread his divine sense wantonly in the spiritual dimension. Everything here is extra sensitive to spiritual fluctuations. Instead, he used a spiritual echo method to sense the world.

He agitated his divine sense and sent out a wave of spiritual fluctuations in a particular frequency outwards from his position. The waves return to him after rebounding on obstacles. They bring with them information about the obstacle.

This method is safer in that while it can be sensed by others, they won't be able to lock on to him through it. The disadvantage is that it is many times slower than the use of divine sense.

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A/N: At this point, we should already know where Legion-7 got the idea of a resurrection system independent of the void universe. He copied someone else which might explain why he didn't get a reward for breaking any laws of the void universe when he did it.