Chapter 168
The first demonic realm infiltration had gone smoothly, and I had handed over the bundle of tentacles while claiming full credit.
Capturing a demon commander had been a significant achievement, backed by my subordinates' testimony that I had defeated a Nascent Soul demon.
I received the insignia of a Hundred Person Commander, a rank all members of the Heavenly Person Division are entitled to, along with a law talisman and the Gwanghan Palace.
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“I heard one of your Heavenly Person Division soldiers who went through a sudden realm breakthrough before the demonic invasion and got beheaded for falling into madness… so you had the confidence to rise in cultivation, huh? From now on, I’ll rely on you, Commander Hundred.”
A Heavenly Person stage inspector from my own division named Wiryul patted my shoulder.
I looked at the required insignia, law talisman, and Gwanghan Palace that every Hundred Person Commander receives.
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‘The Gwanghan Palace…’
From now on I would stand at the forefront of the demonic realm infiltration operation and use the Gwanghan Palace to invade the lands of the demon realm.
I expressed my gratitude to the upper levels, then made my way to the assigned post.
Everywhere was already thick with Heavenly and Earthly energy, so breathing was no issue and even Foundation Establishment inspectors had no trouble using law techniques.
And that meant:
“Hey, use your law techniques properly!”
“Raise the walls!”
“Build the roof!”
Even just with Foundation Establishment inspectors, we could build a house in the distant land of the demon realm exactly as if we were still in the Gwanghan Realm.
Numerous houses, mansions, and estates made of earth and wood were already scattered across the area.
The massive transformation was caused by the Foundation Establishment inspectors charging into the construction work with determination.
“Ah, Lord Hundred Commander, you’ve arrived!”
Yeon-jin, my previous supervisor for a short time, and his ten-member squad came out of one of the estates to greet me.
“As expected, Inspector Seo… no, Lord Hundred Commander. I always knew you would rise because you’re more skilled than me, but I never imagined you would become a commander so quickly. This estate has been assigned to you, Lord Hundred.”
“Oh, thanks, Inspector Yeon. Now everyone, come inside.”
I led the ten members into the estate.
“You’re all assigned to my Hundred Division. When the next wave arrives, my division will be reinforced. Take care until then.”
“Yes, Lord Hundred Commander!”
“Glory to you!”
I shared some wine with Yeon-jin and his ten members inside the estate.
After laughing and chatting for a while, we returned to our original posts. I dismissed them and, alone in the quiet estate, looked up at the sky.
“…”
The ground was bright from the energy, but the sky above the demon realm still churned with demonic energy.
“…Something feels off.”
I had the strange feeling of a hole being drilled through my chest.
A sense of having lost something.
But I couldn’t figure out what it was.
Something felt wrong, yet I couldn’t remember what.
Time as an invading force kept flowing.
* * *
The rank system of the demon invasion army had originally been purely cultivation-based.
One, as the invasion continued, the ranks gradually split according to achievements.
As a Core Formation cultivator, I had earned far more merits than my same-stage inspectors or even Nascent Soul inspectors, and I had eventually received the insignia of a Heavenly Person Commander.
They say that from the Heavenly Person Commander onward, one can receive the authority of a Governor of the Demon Realm colonies.
‘Governor…’
After the first demonic infiltration operation.
The demonic infiltration had continued steadily, and we had now completed the ninth operation.
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Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Energy surged across the demon realm.
And the remnant soldiers of the demons who had yet to flee, along with the human inspectors who literally “hunted” them, were visible.
I stared blankly at the scene.
And soon Oh Hyun-seok and Kim Yeon approached me, both clicking their tongues.
They too had earned enough merits to wear the insignia of a Heavenly Person Commander.
Then Oh Hyun-seok, who had come closer to me, spoke up.
“Honestly, I only came because of my master’s order… but I’m not sure if this is right.”
“…I feel the same way. I thought the demon realm was just a place where demons live… but…”
What we saw was human inspectors wielding law talismans, chasing down demons, separating bones and flesh, draining blood, and even absorbing souls to store them.
“…I don’t know who’s demon and who’s human.”
“Yeah. I heard there are some ordinary demons, but even if they’re lower-level demons, I thought all demons above Core Formation have intelligence… but…”
While listening to their conversation, I felt my chest tighten.
Emotionally I felt empathy for them.
But rationally I understood the human inspectors hunting demons.
‘Why…’
It was a recent feeling.
Logic and emotion were too far apart.
‘It’s strange…’
What was right and what was wrong?
I blankly stroked the chest where something felt forgotten, gazing far away alongside Oh Hyun-seok and Kim Yeon.
* * *
“Are you talking about the temporary governor of the occupied territory?”
I asked, not fully understanding.
“Yes, Seo Eun-hyun. You’ve been appointed temporary governor of the territory extending from the Maeryeong Mountains to Heukju River, which you recently occupied.”
I questioned Hyun-woon.
“I’ve earned a lot of merits, but I’m still only a Core Formation inspector… isn’t it better to entrust this to another Heavenly Person inspector?”
“That’s exactly why I’ve decided to assign you as temporary governor. The other Heavenly Person inspectors have important roles in the next operation, and if one or two are missing from managing the occupied territory, it will be problematic.”
“Understood.”
“Furthermore, recent reports indicate that you’ve occasionally shown unstable mental states. Soldiers pulled from the battlefield for long periods sometimes suffer mental issues. At this opportunity, working as temporary governor and taking a long rest, then obtaining Nascent Soul energy to stabilize your mental foundation would be ideal. Since you were already aiming for Nascent Soul stage before this mission, this is a good chance.”
I remained silent for a moment after Hyun-woon’s words.
It was true.
But what bothered me was…
‘The color of Hyun-woon’s will…’
A faint foreign feeling had gradually crept into his will lately.
He had received the report of my unstable mental state, yet apparently he himself didn’t realize his own mental condition was off.
‘How should I handle this…’
I hesitated briefly, then decided it was probably one of the mental illnesses experienced by many cultivators during wartime and set it aside.
‘It’s not my place to decide anyway.’
“If you say so, I will accept the temporary governor position.”
“Good. From today, you are the temporary governor of the eighth infiltration zone.”
I received the insignia from Hyun-woon and walked out of the estate where he was staying.
The second wave joined the first, and more human inspectors advanced to the front.
After the demons were repelled, the occupied territory transformed into a bustling city in an instant thanks to countless human inspectors.
Foundation Establishment inspectors had gathered and quickly built cities and fortresses.
I passed through the bustling area and headed to the assigned estate.
Inside the estate, my subordinate Hundred Division commanders were chatting.
“Ah, Lord Heavenly Person Commander has arrived!”
“Lord Commander, what rewards did you receive this time?”
Most of the commanders were Nascent Soul cultivators, yet none of them treated me with disrespect.
In fact, no one among them could defeat me in a one-on-one fight.
Moreover, General Seo had somewhat recovered, so I wasn’t significantly weaker than a Heavenly Person stage cultivator.
Among the commanders, Yeon-jin, who had followed me and earned extra merits, was also present.
He was tipsy, cheeks flushed, surrounded by Nascent Soul inspectors.
“Everyone, listen! I will be absent from the next tenth infiltration operation.”
“Yes…?”
“No, why?”
I informed them I had been granted the temporary governor position.
“What?! There is no one more capable than Lord Heavenly Person Commander! Is this right?!”
“Commander of the staff, Hyun-woon, I’ve disliked that guy since the beginning! I’ll smash his head and get Lord Heavenly Person Commander back!”
“Ah~ How many Heavenly Person Commanders are as capable as Lord Seo among the others?!”
“Everyone… thank you.”
Honestly, the Heavenly Person Division I led had been steadily advancing.
Of course, it wasn’t because we earned huge merits every time, but because we grabbed small merits and ensured the majority of troops survived safely.
That was the part praised in the division: focusing on small merits rather than chasing big ones, and caring for the safety of subordinates.
“Ah, Lord Heavenly Person Commander. Aren’t you going to the front line anymore?”
Yeon-jin asked, blinking drunkenly.
“That’s how it is.”
“Ah… Then I’ll follow Lord Commander to the eighth occupied territory… Please don’t forget my loyalty!”
“Hehe! Yeon-jin, that’s not loyalty to the Lord Commander; it’s because you’re afraid of being reassigned to another Heavenly Person Division with a lower survival rate if the Lord Commander leaves!”
“What an interesting guy! Hey, you lot! Pour more wine on this coward and make him drink up!”
I chuckled watching Yeon-jin surrounded by Nascent Soul inspectors while he drank heavily.
Then I entered my private residence inside the estate.
Inside the residence, a large bundle of tentacles writhed and twitched.
It was the demon commander, Gyeon Shin, whom I had first captured as a prisoner.
After the prisoner interrogation, I had requested him to be sent to the medicine hall, but due to my request he could now live as my pet demon.
“Inspector Gyeon, are you comfortable here?”
[Ah, Lord Seo. You’ve come. As you can see, thanks to the Lord’s kindness, I’ve been doing well.]
“There’s no need to call me ‘Lord.’ Anyway, it seems the time has come to release Inspector Gyeon.”
At my words, the bundle of tentacles twitched and turned toward me.
“This time you’ll be temporary governor of the eighth occupied territory. Rest there for a while. When you arrive near the eighth occupied territory, I’ll release you.”
[…I am grateful, Lord Seo. You are the one who keeps your promises better among all humans I’ve met.]
“…”
When I first handed Gyeon over, I had promised to treat him well as a prisoner.
But human “prisoner treatment” supposedly meant driving a needle into the head to force him into servitude or extracting his core to make medicine.
Because of that, before Gyeon entered the medicine hall, I had barely saved him and brought him to be my pet.
Of course, to command a pet I would need to learn special techniques or drive a needle into his head.
After bringing Gyeon, I had removed the needle from his head to remove the binding, apologized for not keeping my promise of proper prisoner treatment, and vowed to release him later.
“Inspector Gyeon.”
[Yes, what is it?]
“…Although I don’t know the situation of demons well, from your perspective… do demons seem like a benevolent species compared to humans?”
[A benevolent species… depending on what ‘benevolence’ means, it will differ.]
“Hmm?”
Gyeon’s tentacles writhed as he continued.
[If indiscriminately capturing other species and turning them into medicine is evil, then demons are generally benevolent. But in my Yuchok tribe, we suppress the spirits of other beings, control them, and parasitize their bodies to suck nutrients and energy until the host ages, then steal all their lives and move to a new host. We also lay eggs in other species’ bodies, exploit other species, and sometimes wage war with other species… so even demons are not benevolent in every aspect.]
“…”
[My Yuchok tribe has exceptional spirit-suppressing ability, so we can read others’ consciousness to some extent. So, you may find this arrogant, but when I read your Lord’s consciousness… you seem to be troubled about the good and evil of what you are currently doing.]
“…That’s right.”
Gyeon’s tentacles writhed.
[If someone other than you asked, I would have answered that humans are the filthiest and most evil. There are many species, and the demon species are quite bizarre, but if asked to treat prisoners, the species that immediately drags captives into the medicine hall is almost only humans. But since you are human, and I speak with some objectivity rather than hatred for humans…]
Gyeon raised one tentacle to meet my eye level.
[Might makes right. That is the truth of this world, an unavoidable fact, and the destiny granted to all living beings from birth. Our demons are also wronged by this invasion, and although humans are very hateful… honestly, if demon strength had become stronger, we would have raided humans and, as I said, parasitized human bodies like you, laid eggs in them, or exploited them. But since humans are currently stronger, we are only invading the demon realm to turn demons into medicine.]
“…Understood. Thank you for the answer.”
I turned away from Gyeon and entered my room.
‘It’s not about good and evil, but about strength and weakness…’
But it didn’t feel quite right.
Gyeon’s words were clear and easy to accept, easily sweeping away the guilt rising inside me.
Yet I felt there was something else.
Something else in this chest that I had forgotten.
It was definitely…
Three days later.
I headed to the eighth occupied territory with those who would follow me.
* * *
Eighth occupied territory, temporary governor’s office.
I received a report on the territory’s situation from the administrator assigned to assist me in the governor’s office.
“…So currently there are seven demon tribes inside our occupied territory.”
“Fewer tribes than other occupied territories.”
“Yes, our occupied territory has many deposits of Maeryeong Metal from the Maeryeong Mountains, so the resources we can obtain by exploiting tribes are less important than the mineral resources from veins. Of course, if the temporary governor desires, we can also provide good medicine from the remaining tribes…”
“That’s enough.”
I waved my hand.
“No need for medicine. Let’s talk about resources and territory management. As far as I know, the truly important point of this eighth occupied territory is not that.”
“…Yes. There is the Empty Spirit Pool, which even the temporary governor knows.”
The Empty Spirit Pool.
It referred to the place where the dimensional membrane was weak.
That weak membrane reflected space like pond water, hence the name.
Near the Empty Spirit Pool, rare ores called Empty Spirit Stones were often found, used for creating the Jeomuldo and Jeomulbeopgi or spatial law techniques, making it a valuable resource.
But the true value of the Empty Spirit Pool was not that.
“Once the territory is fully colonized, I will clean the Empty Spirit Pool and explore the lower realms where humans have been summoned to see if they are suitable.”
The Empty Spirit Pool was also called the “untied thread”.
By cleaning the dimensional membrane of the Empty Spirit Pool and connecting it to a specific lower realm, it would become a thread for untied beings to ascend.
“Although it is still unstable, it will take at least one or two thousand years, but the point is that we can develop the Empty Spirit Pool into an ascension thread in that time, so the thing you should worry about most is this Empty Spirit Pool in the future.”
“Understood. Let’s go to the Empty Spirit Pool first.”
“Yes.”
I went to the Empty Spirit Pool with the administrator.
“This place…”
The Empty Spirit Pool was underground beneath the governor’s office.
After traveling far through a rock cave below, we found it inside the underground cave.
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Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
I arrived at the Empty Spirit Pool with the administrator and opened my mouth in awe at its grandeur.
An ancient underground chamber.
Empty Spirit Stones glowed with a greenish light, flashing from all directions, and below them stretched a vast underground lake.
It wasn’t a lake.
I pointed to one side of the Empty Spirit Pool and made a small gesture with the other hand.
“This is… the Empty Spirit Pool connecting to the outer dimension of the demon realm.”
“Correct. Unlike a normal lake, there is no ripple in the water.”
I gazed at the surface of the mirror-like pond and sighed at its beauty.
“It’s beautiful…”
“Don’t touch the surface just because it’s beautiful. Only a Four Pillars inspector who can resist spatial storms can do so; otherwise you will be torn apart by the space storm rushing from outside the pond, or fall into some unknown strange dimension even if you survive.”
“I’ll be careful.”
“Yes, and a formation has been set up so that most people except the governor cannot approach this place. Although the Empty Spirit Pool has been found a little in other occupied territories, you must be cautious not to let anyone break it. It would be right to punish anyone who approaches the Empty Spirit Pool without mercy.”
“Understood.”
Afterward, the administrator gave me a few more warnings about the Empty Spirit Pool and left.
But I gazed at the Empty Spirit Pool and said,
“The scenery is too beautiful; I’ll watch for a moment and go out. Wait above.”
“…Yes, if the governor says so…”
Whoosh!
The Core Formation level administrator flew up to the ground using his law technique, saying he had much work.
I looked at the place the administrator had gone for a while, then gazed at one spot of the Empty Spirit Pool.
“Come out.”
Whoosh!
The instant I entered the Empty Spirit Pool, I activated my Wansuigungmurok, which had been spread to hide me from the administrator’s eyes.
My Wansuigungmurok had now surpassed its original limits and could be used by others.
And inside the range of my Wansuigungmurok, small creatures crawled out, chittering.
“Little demons.”
One with horns on its head and one with bat wings.
Except for their strange bodies, the two demons looked almost human.
["What are you doing here?"]
I spoke with voice energy so the demons could understand.
At my words, the little demons looked around and answered.
“This is a secret place we found while exploring.”
“Yes, it’s a place we often play at.”
[…From now on you mustn’t come here. Haven’t you heard that this is an area occupied by humans?]
“But we found it first…”
“Found it first…”
The bat-winged demon pouted while imitating the horned demon’s words.
[First, how did you get in here? Are you children of nearby species?]
“Yes, I’m from the Xiju tribe, and he’s from the Giyuk tribe.”
“Yes, our two tribes are adjacent, so we often play together. Then when we were playing with him, we discovered a tunnel and came here exploring.”
[Sigh…]
I sighed.
[Go back. If you play here, an evil human might catch you and eat you.]
“What? Are you also not human?”
“Are you evil?”
[Well… maybe. So hurry and leave.]
“What? Why us?”
“This is the place we discovered!”
I was troubled how to drive these little demons away.
‘Scaring kids too much isn’t good either…’
I hesitated briefly, then hid them for a moment, went to the governor’s office, quickly brought Gyeon, and returned to the Empty Spirit Pool.
“Inspector Gyeon. Tell these children to go home.”
[Huh? No, you little brats! What are you doing here?!]
When Gyeon discovered the two little demons, he slapped them with tentacles and quickly told them stories of various instructive lessons from the demon realm, then chased them away.
[Hoo, that was embarrassing. Thank you for safely returning the children.]
“Big demons can be hostile, so I wouldn’t have returned them gently, but children have no sin, so there’s no reason to be hostile.”
[Correct. In the demon realm, countless bizarre species exist, but each species’ young ones never disturb each other. …Humans catch everyone’s young, but it’s really fortunate that there is someone like you, Lord Seo.]
“Hehe…”
Every time I heard praise for ethics from Gyeon, I felt something warm in my chest.
‘…This won’t do.’
I sighed and once again returned to the governor’s office with Gyeon.
Then I had the administrator relay the overall situation of the occupied territory, and had him enforce the law that prohibited making medicine from demons in the territory for resource mining on the Maeryeong Mountains.
After that, I instructed the administrator to implement territory policy as gently as possible and descended once more to the quiet Empty Spirit Pool.
Gyeon was to be released at an appropriate time.
But before that.
To overcome the karma beginning to wring my heart more and more recently, I quickly tried to recover my memories.
‘Let’s find the memory…’
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
In the quiet Empty Spirit Pool, I repeatedly breathed in the purified energy around the Gwanghan Palace.
I kept challenging the Nascent Soul stage.
And using the newly created technique, I created law talismans, condensed the energy at each Nascent Soul stage, and scattered it to store endlessly.
In that way, I spent several years in the Empty Spirit Pool.
Even though I had warned not to come, two little demon children kept coming to play.
The children kept coming to the Empty Spirit Pool despite my repeated warnings, and I eventually gave up and allowed them to enter as long as they didn’t disturb me.
I later learned their names: Su-in and Hong-yeon.
Occasionally when something big happened at the governor’s office, they would go up to help, and I would comfort Yeon-jin who was crying because he missed his hometown.
In that way, I spent several years in the demon realm.
* * *
“So, what was it?”
I sat in lotus position, rising through Nascent Soul energy, and blew the remaining residual energy into the law talismans, gazing at the figures before me.
“We got engaged.”
“What?!”
“…”
I looked at Su-in and Hong-yeon before me.
Su-in from the Xiju tribe with horns on his head and Hong-yeon from the Giyuk tribe with bat wings stared at me with sparkling eyes.
Eighteen years had passed since I became temporary governor.
These little demon children had grown quite mature and were no longer the genderless children I had known before.
“…Well, I roughly knew.”
I had already known they saw each other as the opposite sex.
But the headache was elsewhere.
“But you asking me to be a witness to your engagement… what kind of request is that?”
That was it.
These children had started begging me to be a witness.
“I’m human. The witness for your engagement… shouldn’t Inspector Gyeon handle that?”
[Yeah, these kids. Having me, the wise one, handle it would be much better!]
Gyeon had said he would release me, but due to species characteristics, he couldn’t go anywhere alone and had to parasitize by suppressing demons.
However, the Maeryeong Mountains had almost no demon distribution, so Gyeon couldn’t find a demon to suppress and had been sending signals of distress to his own tribe, waiting to be rescued.
And for eighteen years.
Gyeon had received no answer to his distress signal from his tribe.
Eventually, he had given up and was just playing go or chess with me from time to time.
“But… even if you’re human, there is no human as good as the governor?”
“Compared to other demon-occupied territories, our occupied territory is very safe, and seeing the governor makes him really comfortable?”
“…By the way, have you both received permission from your respective tribes?”
They looked at each other and smiled.
“Yes!”
“Of course!”
“…Don’t lie.”
“How… uh, that’s irrelevant!”
“Not just as a marriage witness, but as an engagement witness!”
Eventually, I couldn’t resist their pleas and agreed to be a witness.
The two demons stood in the innermost part of the Empty Spirit Pool where the Empty Spirit Stones shone brightest and exchanged promises for their future.
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‘Why am I witnessing this…’
I smiled unconsciously while looking at the young couple.
Somehow, I seemed weak to those I loved.
The memories of the darkness not yet sinking in.
The memories of the era when I planted crabapple blossoms and white water lilies with my first love long ago, and the memories of the love I kissed in the puppet palace, made me smile.
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…
‘Ah…’
I, who had watched the two people I had known since childhood grow together, felt as if the karma that had tormented my chest all this time was beginning to loosen.
‘I think I know…’
I blessed the two demons and went up to the governor’s office.
Before organizing my realization, I first cleared all the backlog from the governor’s office and entered closed-door cultivation for a long time.
‘Almost there now.’
With just a few more steps, I could loosen the karma and recover my memories.
And that moment was when I was handling work with the administrator at the governor’s office after a long time.
“Go, go, Governor!!!”
“Hm? What is it?”
I and the administrator, who had been working in the governor’s office, looked at the person who hurriedly opened the door and entered.
A messenger sent by the Human Federation to each occupied territory.
I sensed something had happened by looking at the messenger’s emotional state.
“Take a deep breath and speak slowly. What happened?”
“T, the messenger from the Gwanghan Realm core. T, that, meaning…”
He trembled and took out a jade slip from his bosom, slowly beginning to read it.
“T, the True Immortal appeared in one of the human regions, used his power, and the Heaven Void Dao of the human region called Noeryeong-do burned away and evaporated in the Heavenly Thunder! And the Integration Grand Completion lords who came from various species of the Gwanghan Realm to investigate him, as well as the human Integration Grand Completion lords, also died or suffered fatal injuries.”
“…!”
I stood up abruptly from my seat.
Noeryeong-do was the name of the Heaven Void Dao where Geumsincheonroemun had settled.
‘At this time…’
And the messenger’s words continued.
“T, the problem is that news of the human Integration Grand Completion lords suffering fatal injuries has reached the deep parts of the demon realm through demon spies.”
“…That means the demon Integration Grand Completion lords in the demon realm heard it too.”
So far, large wars had mostly been fought with Four Pillars inspectors as the maximum combat power, no matter how high the stage.
Once Integration Grand Completion inspectors started moving, it would mean irreversible damage to one side or the other.
That was why in this human-demon war, even though Four Pillars inspectors had participated, neither the human nor the deep-part demon Integration Grand Completion inspectors had moved without checking each other.
However, the situation had changed.
The news that Integration Grand Completion inspectors in the Gwanghan Realm had suffered fatal injuries from the True Immortal had reached the ears of the demon realm’s Integration Grand Completion inspectors.
‘In the human-demon war, the demon realm’s Integration Grand Completion lords will move!’
The situation had begun to change dramatically.
Author’s note: The build-up story was a bit long. To avoid pulling too much, the build-up has been compressed into one paragraph, so please forgive me. During the rainy season my condition deteriorated, so the tension in the story also dropped a bit.
However, as the rainy season ends, I will focus more on quality from now on.
Thank you to all readers, always.