"U.. Universe Curse? What is a Universe Curse?"
The man with the red light felt nervous not because he was afraid but because he couldn't hold back the joy that was in his heart. Hundreds of millions of years had passed but he was still unable to become a complete man, and up until a few breaths ago he didn't even know why he always failed.
"Hmm... I think I can barely tell you this information with your current strength" Groda said while stroking his chin.
"My friend, my race... The Asuras... have existed since the beginning of creation, one could say that the asuras were created at the same time as the universes and we serve as guardians, When the Ripe Time occurs in one universe, it's our job to bring destruction, and death. That's why we are very strong and equipped with dragon prana... an energy that can absorb any type of energy…"
"Even so our strength itself has a limit. The limit is what we identify as the Universe's Law, a simple example of the Universe's Law is the existence of the Universe's Limit. So even though many of us can destroy your universe with a single breath, they are not allowed to come into this universe..."
"Apart from limiting the asuras, the Universe's Law also serves as a marker of the age of a Universe. The older the age of a universe, the closer the time when the asuras can launch their attacks, or what we call Ripe Time. So based on that, it can be said that the Universe's Law is always related to the asura race..."
"However, after millions of epochs of the asura race traversing universe after universe, we discovered another form of the Universe's Law that has nothing to do with our race. We call it the Universe Curse…"
"The Universe Curse is a curse or restriction imposed by a universe on the native of the universe itself. This is due to various reasons but the goal is to protect the universe itself from the hands of the original inhabitants... An example is the restriction of science and technology in the Cultivation Universe that is usually visible in other universes type…"
"It's strange that I can feel the Universe Curse inside your body... Maybe this is one of the new forms of the Universe Curse that we have no idea about... hmm..."
"Science and technology? wait... wait... what?" The man with the red light felt that his brain was filled with buzzing bees.
The amount of information he received in these few seconds exceeded anything he had known in his entire life. He didn't know where to start from and his face showed obvious confusion.
But unfortunately, Groda didn't pay much attention to the confusion on his face and replied casually, "Science and technology is a form of power used by the Twin World Universe and sometimes it also appears in the Magic and Sword Universe. In the case with the Magic and Sword Universe, it depends on whether there is a soul transmigrator of the old world era or not..."
This time The man with the red light really lost it, he could only listen to what was coming out of Groda's mouth as he could not comprehend it ...
"hmm?" When Groda did not receive an answer from The man with the red light, he looked at him and saw that he was confused.
"Eerr…" Groda understood his mistake and scratched his suddenly itchy cheek. He simply had no talent for explaining things and felt he shouldn't have started to do so from the beginning.
"Anyways!" *Clap!
While trying to snap The man out of his daze with loud clapping, Groda changed the line of conversation,
"The only way to get rid of the Universe Curse is to get out of the Universe itself and move to another universe that doesn't have the same Universe Curse. But for that, I have to know the real reason you were hit by the Universe Curse."
The man with the red light shook his head violently. He, the Immortal Paragon, just nearly lost his mind because of the information he had just heard. The man with the red light knew that what Groda said was not just any information, if someone that was not as strong as himself heard this then he would immediately crumble into dust and his soul would disperse.
That's why Groda said that with the cultivation realm he currently has, he could barely know about this knowledge. But even with the cultivation realm of an Immortal Paragon he had almost lost control of his thoughts and lost focus on what he was actually seeking.
Luckily Groda quickly came to his senses and stopped rambling otherwise he might have actually gone mad from too much information.
"So what are you going to do?" said The man with the red light after managing to refocus. Currently, his goal was to return to being a complete man, so more information could wait until he gets stronger.
"I have a device that can detect the source of the Universe Curse but you have to take off all the protection that is in you whether it is in your body, mind, or soul." Groda didn't speak long and immediately took out a device shaped like a full-face helmet.
"It's lucky that we are currently in chaos so this tool can be used, otherwise the Universe Curse in your world will hinder the performance of this tool and render it a useless object," said Groda with a bitter smile as he gave the full face helmet to The man with the red light.
The man just nodded and took off all the protection he had, both active and passive. After that, he immediately put the full-face helmet on his head.
The red light that was protecting his body disappeared but before chaos could destroy his body, Groda waved his hand and made a protective film around them.
What The man with the red light did was reckless because he wore a strange helmet without protection and stood in front of his enemy. But he didn't care about that, he had lost hope and Groda had renewed it.
If this thing ended up a sham then he could only surrender and accept the end. Luckily Groda didn't intend to do anything to The man with the red light, he only hoped that his rival could find hope in living and one day they could duel again.
The full-face helmet was activated and a blue light scanned The man with the red light's body. Without divine sense, he felt nothing, at the moment his body was like that of an ordinary mortal who couldn't use any Qi at all. Even so, his instincts that had been tempered in a million fights made him notice the foreign energy that was entering every cell in his body.
A few minutes later the blue light disappeared and a swirling circle appeared on the full-face helmet glass (a loading screen). Then a few seconds went by and three words appeared.
Ayam Cemani Body.
(A/N: Ayam means "chicken" in Indonesian, while cemani (originally a Javanese word) means "thoroughly black")
"What the hell?"
"What the hell?"
Two voices simultaneously sounded amidst the dark chaos. One voice didn't understand what was going on and the other voice didn't understand why this was happening.
The point was Groda and The man with the red light were both confused.
"Groda, what is an Ayam Cemani Body?" The man with the red light took off the full-face helmet and asked with a confused expression.
"eee... I don't know what an Ayam Cemani Body is, but I know what an Ayam Cemani is. In other universes, especially in chaos, there is a region of space-time where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light or other electromagnetic waves, can pass through without enough energy to escape its event horizon which is named a Black Hole..."
"At first we thought that the Black Hole was just a gravitational hole absorbing energy but the change occurred to the oldest Black Hole we have ever encountered. The cracks seen in the Black Hole were like the shell of an egg about to hatch and from inside came a creature shaped like a chicken ..."
"Well... that creature was Ayam Cemani, apart from that I don't know much about it, and with our current strength, it's better if we don't know about it... But it seems you don't have the Heavenly Rooster Body physique but the Ayam Cemani Body..." Groda's forehead creased.
He wanted to find out what really happened and why this could happen but he knew that there was information that could destroy him without leaving anything behind. Because of that he could only report this to his father, this was the first time Groda had heard of someone who had the physique of the Ayam Cemani Body.
The man with the red light understood what Groda meant so he didn't inquire further about the Ayam Cemani Body. The man with the red light refocused on what he really wanted to know.
"Then can I escape this Universe Curse?"
"Uuuhh... I think it won't be a problem when you move to another universe. There are several universes that have black holes in them and some of them are under the control of asuras. However, it's better if you don't enter a universe that is under the control of asuras because of the possibility that that universe is near its Ripe Time"
"Ripe Time?" The man with the red light tilted his head.
"The time when the asuras will attack" Groda answered curtly.
"Okay... what must I do to transmigrate to another universe?"
"For someone with low-medium power like you, you just need to pay before you transmigrate"
"What kind of payment?" The man with the red light started feeling nervous.
"You need to pay all your power or in your words all your cultivation realm. You will pay with your body cultivation and energy or Qi except for your soul. And then you will be reborn as a baby, your fate with this universe will be separated, and everyone or everything that can remember you will perish and merge with the new universe..."
"Or in other words, you will never be born or 'exist' in this universe" Groda gulped, for him, this payment was too much to bear. Who wanted to lose everything and start over in a foreign place where he wouldn't be recognized?
But for the man with the red light this was a small fee.
"Okay.. I will do it... NOW!" said The man with the red light with new ignited hoped