Power of the Beginningless

In a tearful moment, Sordil glanced up and accidentally saw the culprit that had bumped into the back of his head.

"Hmm? Isn't this the barrier that the seven-colored energy uses to isolate me from ' Contradiction '?"

Looking at this thin barrier, Sordil instantly recalled his previous disheveled state, and in an instant, an inexplicable karmic fire ignited his chest.

"Hmph! You bullied me because I wasn't strong enough before, now I'll bully you back!"

After speaking, Sordil placed his right palm on the barrier and began to absorb the seven-colored energy that constituted it.

"Whoosh whoosh"

As Old Suo placed his palm on the barrier, the seven-colored energy within it flowed into his body like rivers converging into the sea.

Thinking back to how fast he used to pump water with a straw, and then feeling the current torrent-like speed, Old Suo exclaimed, "Wow! The difference between having a body and not having one is just too great!"

After making his remark, Old Suo looked smugly at the Easter egg not far ahead and gave the other party a cunning smile.

"You little brat, daring to bully Grandpa Sordil, this time I'll bite you into nothing but dust!"

"Um?"

After venting his anger, Sordil prepared to take out a wicker chair from his storage space and sit down to do his work. But just as he was about to mobilize his Space Magic, he suddenly discovered that the Space Magic source that had been located near his dantian had disappeared!

In a panic, Sordil quickly examined his internal condition, and then he completely lost it. (Um... how do I describe the young master right now? Oh dear! I can't find the right words in my database. I can only tell you that "utterly bewildered" is not even an accurate description of Sordil at this moment!)

"Gone? All the Magic Source have disappeared?"

Looking at his empty stomach, Sordil said with tears streaming down his face, "Seven-Colored Boss, I was wrong! I shouldn't have devoured your brothers. I'll release them now, please give me back the Magic Source!"

As he spoke, Sordil prepared to pull his right hand back from the colorful barrier, but he found that his palm seemed to be attached to it and he couldn't pull it out at all.

"Brother, you can't do this! I've already admitted my mistake, why won't you stop?"

After finishing his pleas, Sordil confessed to the eggshell while trying to expel the seven-colored energy that had surged into his body. But how could such a raging torrent of seven-colored energy be summoned and dismissed at will?

Therefore, Old Suo could only watch in despair as the seven-colored energy continuously rushed into his body and merged into his muscles and bones.

"Big brother, this is outrageous!... Waaah!"

In his past life, as a recluse, whenever he encountered something sad, Sordil would channel his sorrow into food to vent his negative energy. At this moment, overwhelmed by the scene, he repeated what he had done countless times in his past life, and soon Old Suo mouth was stuffed full of all sorts of delicacies stored in his storage space.

"Waaaa (sound of eating, not crying)... This is so unfair to the dragons! The dragon family is heartbroken... Waaaa (sound of crying)" (Now you know why Igneel always mentions the dragon family!)

"Belch!"

Because he stuffed too much food into his throat, and because Old Suo's throat was too small (can you believe it?), his esophagus got blocked!

"Knock knock"

"Knock knock"

After pounding his chest a few times and finding it had no effect, Sordil hurriedly took out a supply of water from his storage space and gulped it down his throat.

"Cough cough"

"Cough cough"

Having successfully escaped the double crisis of choking and near death, young master Sordil finally returned to normal and also discovered his abnormality.

"Huh? Didn't my Space Magic source disappear? Then how can I still retrieve things from my storage space? Could it be..."

After questioning his own judgment, Sordil re-examined the state of his body. He then discovered a huge, transparent, new Magic Source in the location where the original Magic Source had been.

"Hiss! Could it be that all my Magic Source have merged into this one giant Magic Source?"

"Gulp"

To test his judgment, Sordil began to try to activate the Fire Dragon Slayer Magic.

"Boom!"

The giant Magic Source released a point of orange-red light, and the next second, a ball of orange-red flame suddenly appeared on Sordil's left hand, just like when Natsu used Dragon Slayer Magic in battle.

"Wow! Has this evolved? It can use the required attributes directly without switching modes!"

Sensing the changes within himself, Sordil instantly emerged from his deep sorrow and entered a state of extraordinary joy. (Don't worry, everyone, with Great Owl protecting him, Old Suo won't become another Fan Jin!)

"Ha ha"

"Ha ha"

"Big Brother Seven-Colored Energy, I love you so much! Come on! Be even fiercer! Come and ravage me!"

Although Old Suo had made a very difficult request to the Seven-Colored Energy, the Seven-Colored Energy was a proper person... well, a proper energy, so it did not respond to Old Suo's invitation and continued to maintain the status quo.

After about four or five minutes, the seven-colored energy barrier was finally completely absorbed by Old Suo.

Looking at the ' Contradiction ' cell so close at hand, Sordil did not rush in rashly as he had done last time. Instead, he adjusted himself to his best condition before launching a full-scale attack.

"Hey ' Contradiction ' little thief, Grandpa Sordil is here!"

After shouting, Sordil grabbed the egg and began to peel away the outer shell. At the same time, he started mentally simulating the corresponding strategies and tactics based on the previous situation.

"Judging from the situation back then, I need to find a way to slow down that guy and increase my own speed. Otherwise, I'm afraid I'll still get utterly crushed!"

"Ah! If only I could stop time like Dimaria!"

Just as Sordil finished speaking, the seven-colored energy surging into his body suddenly stopped. Not only that, the giant egg, which had been shimmering with seven-colored light, suddenly turned black and white, as if the world had been frozen in time.

"Holy crap! This can't be real, can it?"

Looking at the incredibly familiar scene before him, Sordil lifted his chin from the ground and said excitedly.

Ouch!

A sharp pain shot through his pinched cheek, making Sordil realize that his wish had truly come true, and he wasn't dreaming. The thought of soon being able to brutally crush ' Contradiction ' filled Old Suo with unrestrained laughter.

"Haha! ' Contradiction,' let's see if you'll live or die this time!"

After saying that, Old Suo canceled the time stop and began to vigorously extract the seven-colored energy.

Three minutes later, Sordil opened Pandora's Box once again, and the black and white ' Contradiction ' continued to rush toward Old Suo at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

"Pause!"

As Old Suo's words fell, the world turned black and white once again.

After the world froze, Sordil carefully searched all the locations in front of him, but could not find the whereabouts of the black and white orb.

"Oh no! Could it be that I was too slow and that thing has already burrowed into my body?"

Thinking of this, Sordil sat dejectedly on the ground, contemplating his tragic end. The thought of never being able to face Irene and the others again suddenly brought a lump to Old Suo throat, and something welled up in his eyes. To prevent those tears from spilling out, the young master raised his head, trying to hold them back.

Only after making sure there was nothing else in his eye sockets besides those large eyes did the young master open them. At that moment, a black and white energy sphere hovering above his head entered his pupils, causing his eye sockets to contain something else once again.

"Damn! That scared the hell out of me! I thought we'd failed!"

After laughing and cursing for a while with tears streaming down his face, Old Suo leaned on the eggshell to stand up and then began to try to absorb this scourge.

"I wonder what the consequences will be after absorbing this stuff. I hope I won't end up like Zeref, otherwise I'll be courting death!"

After hesitating for a long time, Old Suo finally decided to absorb them. After all, he had quite a lot of colorful energy in his body that could deal with them!

"Call!"

He took a deep breath, then Sordil reached out his right hand, grasped the ' Contradiction,' and began to absorb them into his body.

"Buzz!"

As the new Magic Source within its body began to function, the black and white energy orb suddenly resisted and attempted to break free from Sordil's restraints and escape to another place.

"Heh! So you have moments of fear after all. Too bad it's too late!"

After uttering a vicious taunt, Sordil suppressed his amazement at his new Magic Source and continued the process of absorbing it.

"Buzz!"

"Buzz!"

Although the ' Contradiction ' resisted fiercely, it was still swallowed into Sordil's body under the powerful attack of Sordil's new Magic Source. Strangely, after entering Sordil's body, the black and white energy sphere split in two and merged into the Magic Source from different directions.

"Huh? So ' Contradiction ' can be broken down. I wonder if this technique can be used to deal with the ' Contradiction ' within Zeref and Mavis?"

"Forget it! I'll stop thinking about it! I'll find out by testing it on those two after we get out!"

Having said that, Sordil put aside these trivial matters and began to concentrate on dealing with the unsettling fellow in his hand.

To Sordil's surprise, this small black-and-white sphere of light, though small in size, took even longer to extract than the previous rainbow barrier and eggshell. (Of course! The rainbow energy actively sought it out, while ' Contradiction ' was defeated and then absorbed, so naturally it took longer!)

However, no matter what, ' Contradiction ' still couldn't escape the fate of being devoured.

Gazing at the new Magic Source that had completely devoured the ' Contradiction ' and remained utterly silent, Old Suo sighed and said, "The nameless is the origin of heaven and earth; the named is the mother of all things. Therefore, one should always be without desire, so as to observe its mystery; one should always have desire, so as to observe its manifestations. These two are the same in origin but different in name; they are both called profound. Profound and yet more profound, the gateway to all mysteries." (Excerpt from Chapter 1 of the Tao Te Ching)

"Since you are capable of encompassing everything and are so mysterious, from now on I will call you the Power of the Beginningless!"