The Turning Point
“Hyung.”
“Why are you suddenly acting like this?”
“Why do the Taoist priests have such no compassion?”
“…Who am I to know that?”
I furrowed my brow, thinking back on the conduct of the Taoist priests. From the monsters we had encountered at the very beginning of the regression loop, right up to them.
The Makri clan's cruel and brutal methods of creating dan.
And the Zhen clan Taoist priests who, instead of praising us for searching the corpses and burying the dead, scolded us for it.
‘Even if I bend over backward, I can understand searching the bodies.’
But why did they think burying the dead was a waste of time?
Why did their very way of thinking differ from ours?
“…Perhaps because they were born seeing the Five Qi Consorting with the Origin world. Our ways of thinking might simply be different. And they’ve lived their entire lives treating people as inferior.”
I sighed in frustration.
The Zhen clan Taoist priests informed us of the next gathering place, then left the village and activated the formation sealing the Makri clan’s territory before flying away on flight devices.
We were currently chasing after them on foot.
“…Is it just a difference in perspective?”
Or perhaps the innate arrogance of the Taoist priests.
Or maybe all Taoist priests eventually become like this?
I briefly pondered whether becoming a Taoist priest myself would be correct.
Thus, we continued following the Zhen clan Taoist priests’ guidance, heading toward another base of the Makri clan to destroy it.
* * *
Five years had passed since leaving the imperial court.
“Haha! Eun-hyun, look! Your face is right here.”
“….”
I could see my own face printed on the wanted posters wandering the streets.
I wasn’t the only one. Kim Young-hoon was there too, along with countless peak martial artists who had followed him, all appearing on the posters.
The charge: treason.
“Treason, my ass. Just because we’re lower-level forces of the Taoist clan. How exactly do they plan to catch us while we stay inside the Zhen clan’s territory? Besides, thanks to the martial arts I created, we have almost no restrictions on movement.”
“It’s fortunate that the reverse metamorphosis art is helpful.”
Over the course of five years, I had used my medical and transformation knowledge to create the reverse metamorphosis art, manipulating facial muscles to alter my appearance.
Thanks to it, even with the wanted posters out, I could walk the streets without any issues.
“By the way, where exactly is the next base?”
“There’s a hilly area to the west of Yeonseong. Apparently they have one of the Makri clan’s grand formations there. The one we’ll destroy this time is especially massive, so the Makri clan’s demonic Taoist priests should be even more numerous.”
“That makes sense.”
“And from what I heard, there are quite a few peak martial artists raised by the Makri clan there too. Since they aren’t just living corpses but actual peak martial artists, we’ll have to be a bit cautious.”
Peak martial artists.
I looked up at the sky.
Thirty-five years since my regression.
‘Only about ten years after regression, I reached the mid-stage of the peak realm, obtained Sword Thread, and it’s now been twenty-five years.’
My cultivation realm had remained unchanged.
‘My talent… has the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown still not appeared?’
Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown.
Kim Young-hoon and the other peak martial artists who had reached that realm had gradually shared clues about it.
‘The third color.’
The red intent meaning enmity.
The blue intent meaning self-will.
And beyond that, the realm reached only by discovering and reading the third intent.
However.
‘In a martial duel between me and you, what else is there besides the two of us?’
But clearly, something beyond me and you exists.
The very existence of the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown proves it.
Throb.
I ignored the throbbing pain in my hand, gripped my sword, and walked the streets while sensing the surrounding intents.
I could see the intents of others.
I could see my own intent.
But no matter how hard I looked, I couldn’t see what lay beyond.
‘Enlightenment still hasn’t come.’
Even asking Kim Young-hoon about the Three Flowers Gathering, I couldn’t fully understand his words.
After all, when Kim Young-hoon reached the peak realm, he had skipped straight from early peak to mid-peak without stopping at the initial or middle stages, then to the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown.
Asking someone who had reached the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown from mid-peak how one went from mid-peak to the Three Flowers would have been absurd.
Of course, I had asked other peak martial artists who had reached the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown how to proceed to that realm, but the answers were always.
―Sink into the realm of no-self.
―If you understand that there is neither you nor me.
―Explore pure martial arts.
Just metaphysical answers.
‘Is someone staying here because they don’t want to sink into the no-self realm?’
Ignoring the tearing pain in my hand, I had swung my sword for years.
No matter how I maintained sword intent and sword thread, no matter how many times I crossed life and death.
No miracle of skipping a realm had ever happened to me.
Although it wasn’t as despairing as reaching the peak realm, climbing to this realm still required tremendous talent and effort.
‘With so many peak martial artists present… I might be able to gain something from fighting them.’
Somehow, I felt this base discovered by the Zhen clan was a trap.
One of the Zhen clan Taoist priests had judged the base’s military strength and power level based on how they found it.
‘Even the Makri side wants to catch Kim Young-hoon and me.’
And so does the me who betrayed the imperial family.
Therefore, I felt they would meet us with full preparation this time.
‘But I’m not worried.’
I glanced sideways at Kim Young-hoon walking beside me.
He had been writing a book recently.
The title was Daoist Sword Art.
‘The condensed and deeply integrated essence of the Six Volumes of the Daoist Sword Art, wasn’t it?’
Just like the Moon Water Palace Sword Record, the Daoist Sword Art, and the Daoist Sword Classic, I couldn’t understand it even when I looked at it.
But one thing was certain.
Kim Young-hoon had surpassed the realm of his previous life.
And with someone like him, he could now deal meaningful blows even in front of Core Formation Taoist priests and escape quickly!
‘Traps won’t work.’
We would destroy their base this time as well and leave without a hitch.
* * *
Yeonseong.
‘This is the place I first fell from in my very first life before regression.’
It had been a very long time since I had visited.
‘Making soap here, picking herbs, brewing alcohol, begging bandits for mercy….’
Those miserable memories from back then were surfacing one by one.
“Let’s head west.”
“…Yes.”
Had the daughter of the Ju family been born?
The Geum family mansion still had servants raising their heads high.
Did the Geum family persimmon tree still bear ripe persimmons?
I stared at Yeonseong for a moment, then followed Kim Young-hoon as we ran west.
Memories no one else remembered anymore, only mine.
My regression ability had turned those memories into something only I knew.
A miracle-like, incredibly precious ability.
Yet because of that, it had to be eliminated.
From now on, the memories only I knew would keep piling up, and my mind would grow harder to endure.
Therefore, I had to return to the previous world and erase my ability.
And.
‘Until then, I would remain human.’
As a human, I would live a human life.
Absolutely.
I would never let myself be tainted by demonic arts like the Makri clan’s Taoist priests, nor would I violate the principles of humanity.
Of course.
‘I can’t let the filthy demonic priests run wild in front of me.’
Those who violated humanity’s principles would still have to be dealt with while I could reach them.
Thud!
Upon arriving with Kim Young-hoon, the Zhen clan Taoist priests in red robes and other peak martial artists were already gathered there.
“The elders’ council has decided the Makri clan’s base has a high probability of being a trap. Therefore, one-third of the Zhen clan elders’ council has personally come out for combat.
“Thus, you martial artists should prepare yourselves to fight with all your might.”
Among the Zhen clan Taoist priests, quite a few had reached the Foundation Establishment realm with significant conscious domains.
“Understood. Don’t worry. I always do my best in battle.”
“Hm, good. Then I’ll open the formation.”
Whoong―
After one of the Zhen clan elders tied a seal, the space began to tear.
Following the Zhen clan elders, we entered the formation, and soon the village appeared just as before.
This village was roughly twice as large as the Makri clan’s territories we had seen before, and besides thatched houses, there were also quite a few tiled mansions.
And.
“…It was indeed a trap.”
The Makri clan Taoist priests had formed a formation and tied seals in front of the village.
“Kyeol!”
The Makri clan Taoist priests tied their seals simultaneously and chanted a chant.
At the same time, an incomparably huge barrier surrounded the Makri clan’s territory, unlike anything before.
“Soo!”
At the same time, dozens of Taoist priests tied their seals again and used another magic technique.
Chwaaa!
At the same time, a massive wave of water surged from behind the Taoist priests and crashed toward us outside the barrier.
A rotten corpse stench wafted from the water, and one drop touching the body would be fatal.
That was when.
“Elders’ council, move forward!”
The Zhen clan Foundation Establishment Taoist priests stepped forward and tied their seals.
“Yeom!”
Whoosh!
A wall of flames appeared.
The massive fire wall blocked the flowing water and began to evaporate it as is.
“Push!”
Chiiii―
As the Zhen clan Taoist priests stepped forward one by one, the massive fire wall began advancing in response.
“Traitors! We’ll clear a path, so you break the barrier!”
“Understood!”
Paaang!
Kim Young-hoon pushed off the ground and charged.
At some point, he leaped into the air, stepped on the void again, and dashed toward the barrier.
And.
Whoong!
When Kim Young-hoon reached out his hand, energy condensed in his palm, and a sphere of Sword Gang shot out from his palm deep.
‘That’s the realm Kim Young-hoon obtained by condensing and integrating the Six Volumes of the Daoist Sword Art.’
Sword Gang condensed in the air in a complex manner, but it was released simply inside the body and instantly formed a sphere.
Whether I understood it or not, he had reached the realm his previous-life Kim Young-hoon obtained and then surpassed it to open a new realm.
‘Plus, compared to compressing Sword Gang like last time, the preparation time is much shorter!’
Before the battle started, I remembered the Daoist Sword Art Kim Young-hoon had given me.
‘If I pass this key to Kim Young-hoon in the next life.’
I would surpass that realm again.
Kwaaaang!
Kim Young-hoon launched the sphere and struck the barrier.
Once again, a deafening boom echoed and gale winds blew.
However, this time the barrier only trembled slightly and remained unmoved.
‘As expected, they prepared well this time too!’
But Kim Young-hoon showed no sign of surprise and extended his palm deep again.
And again, a sphere of Sword Gang shot out.
Kwaaa!
Continuous booms struck the barrier.
Cracks appeared in the barrier.
And Kim Young-hoon extended his palm deep once more.
Kwaaaang!!
More cracks appeared in the barrier.
Kim Young-hoon extended his palm deep again.
With each successive attack, the barrier developed cracks.
And at some point.
Pakang!
The barrier that couldn’t withstand Kim Young-hoon’s attack developed a wind hole.
“Everyone, charge into the barrier!”
“Burn the Makri bastards’ business hall!”
The Zhen clan Taoist priests rushed toward the hole Kim Young-hoon had made, and the peak martial artists slipped through the gap and entered the inside of the barrier.
“Die, you demonic bastards.”
And that was when I, gripping my sword, entered the barrier.
Paaang!
A whooshing sound rang out, and something long crashed toward me.
A halberd.
Kaaang!
I spit Sword Thread and blocked the halberd, then checked the face of the one who had thrust it at me.
And I couldn’t stop my pupils from shaking.
“…Daeju?”
The leader of the shadow guards of the imperial palace.
The person who had been my superior before had been blocking me.
And behind him, the members of the shadow guards lined up, holding weapons.
“…Long time no see.”
“…I don’t know anything about traitors.”
Booong!
The leader swung his halberd.
Seven red intents shot out from his halberd.
I blocked his intents with my own intents, opposing the red intents.
Red and blue my intents and his crossed in the air.
“Traitor. Do you know what the current imperial court is doing, Daeju?”
“…I know.”
Booong!
He swung his halberd again.
I dodged his halberd while clashing intents and let Sword Thread fall to swing my sword.
“You know? You know yet still claim loyalty? That’s not something a human would do!”
“…We are not human yet. We are tools of His Majesty the Emperor. Tools do not think. They only move as commanded! Since His Majesty ordered you captured, I won’t think either.”
“Frustrating! Humans like us, the traitors, are not the same as you humans! We are not His Majesty’s subjects; we are only the livestock he raises!”
The leader raised his halberd and spun, thrusting three times, then let out Sword Thread to slash at me.
I stepped on the Moon Rock Blade to dodge the leader’s attack, received a thrust from the Mountain River Painting’s first stance, and infused Sword Thread into my sword to block his Sword Thread.
“Loyalty has a different target to offer. Offering loyalty to him will only result in the death of powerless common people!”
Our intents intertwined.
And, piercing through my intent, the leader’s knee aimed at my waist.
“Kerk!”
I took the leader’s kick and floated in the air, spun once, and landed.
‘My strength has grown. Daeju… that person.’
He was on the boundary of the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown!
“…Is the other side different?”
At that moment, the leader asked me with a gloomy face.
“Are the former imperial figures from the Zhen family you’re with different?”
“…Compared to those demonic bastards…”
“No. The former imperial figures from the Zhen family who came with you are also Taoist priests. The only difference from the current imperial figures is one of degree. Looking at traitors as insects is the same! Are you really on the correct side now? Wrong! It’s just a difference of scope and degree.
Those people are also turning the people of Yeon Kingdom into livestock in exactly the same way. They’re just the same kind of people, with no difference at all!”
“….”
Bung, bung, bung!
As he swung his halberd, it seemed the wind was being sucked into the leader’s arms.
The intents spun and shot toward me.
‘I can’t block!’
Just like the Spring Mountain Void Shattering Heaven technique, these were attacks whose nature could not be predicted even in advance.
“If neither side is different, I won’t return the loyalty I’ve given now!”
The movement of the halberd concentrated in one place and shot toward me.
The Sword Thread in his halberd gradually strengthened and began to evolve.
Paaat!
A brilliant light burst out.
Sword Gang!
“…If that’s your thought…”
I looked at the Sword Gang crashing toward me and relaxed the power in my sword.
“I respect that as well.”
When I released the Sword Intent, the Sword Thread in my sword disappeared and only pure Sword Qi remained.
In that state, I brought my sword to the halberd crashing toward me, received the power of the halberd, and returned it to my sword.
Danak Sword Art.
Sword Qi Gathering Peak!
“…!”
Surprise appeared in the leader’s eyes.
And I spun the Sword Qi in my sword once and returned it as is.
Blink!
Light flashed.
And in the place where the whirlwind of light had subsided, the leader stood with his right hand cut off.
“…I lost. As expected, your sword technique is unyielding no matter how many times I see it.”
“…It’s too much for me.”
“Too much? There’s no way. Just the first stance you used just now was a stance with enlightenment of the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown. It was the most beautiful stance I’ve seen.”
He said with a smirk.
“I trained martial arts all my life hoping to reach the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, but when I reached it, I turned out to be nothing more than a lower-class Taoist priest. As long as it’s not the legendary realm of Five Qi Consorting with the Origin, martial arts in the Wulin will forever be just a branch of the Taoist priests’ inferior species. Hahaha, Seo Eun-hyun, do you understand? Nothing means anything in front of the Taoist priests.”
“….”
“Since this martial art means nothing, in the end the only thing left is for me to give it meaning. The meaning I gave was loyalty, and the target I gave my loyalty to was only the current emperor.”
He smiled somewhat sorrowfully.
“That our intents are different is… a pity… only…”
Cough, cough…
The leader vomited blood and fell to the ground.
No more life flowed out.
He was dead.
“…Why didn’t you join the fight?”
I asked the other shadow guard leaders, looking at them.
If they had joined while I was fighting the leader, I might have died.
“…It was Lord Daeju’s request. If we joined, Deputy Lord would start using assassination weapons and poisons, so please allow us to duel with pure martial arts.”
“…You still call me Deputy Lord.”
“Once a superior, always a superior. Also, once a loyalty target, always a loyalty target.”
“Yes, you also intend to maintain your loyalty to the current emperor.”
I smiled sadly at my former subordinates.
“I’m sorry.”
I may have to kill you today.
Paaabat!
Before I could finish speaking, all the shadow guard leaders drew their weapons and rushed toward me.
Chwaak!
I first scattered poison and drew assassination weapons.
Combat Monster Assassination Art.
Twin Killing Snake.
Piiing, piiing!
I dipped the two assassination weapons in different poisons and threw them at the leaders.
All eleven leaders dodged with the minimum movement without hitting the poisoned assassination weapons.
Danak Sword Art.
Mountain River Painting.
Entering the mountain.
Rolling hills.
Deep mountains.
After dancing my sword with the Mountain River Painting, I switched to the lower stance to aim for balance, used the crooked thrusts to harass, then dove in and cut.
“Hup!”
However, the leaders quickly dodged and each swung their weapons at me.
Combat Monster Assassination Art.
Three-Headed Snake.
Shuk!
After inserting three assassination weapons in my left hand, I swung them like a guide toward the closest leader.
After swinging three times to create distance, I dipped poison on the assassination weapons and launched them with a time delay.
Piiing, piiing, piiing!
While the three leaders who were rushing at me dodged the assassination weapons, the leaders coming from behind leaped over them and swung their weapons.
Sword, spear, evil blade, spear, dagger.
Each different weapon crashed toward me.
Danak Sword Art.
Monster Assassination.
Bung, bung, bung!
I spun my body and swung my sword in a full combat stance.
At the same time, I took poison powder from my pocket and scattered it around.
Combat Monster Assassination Art.
Phantom Fog Snake.
Between the poison powder, other assassination weapons dipped in another poison flew and targeted the leaders.
Taking advantage of the gap as they tried to dodge the assassination weapons.
Danak Sword Art.
Entering the mountain.
Switched to the lower stance to aim for balance.
“Kkuk!”
“Damn, this is the same mid-stage peak…?”
“As expected of Deputy Lord.”
Crunch.
I took out a detoxification pill and chewed it, gripping my sword so hard it would crush.
Ignoring the pain as if my hand would break, I said.
“Don’t open your mouth. If you want to live, use the soul-eating technique. The poison powder I just scattered won’t poison the skin.”
I quickly rubbed numbing powder on the flat of my sword and, with me holding my sword, grabbed a sword-gripping stance again and charged toward the leaders.
‘Not sword technique, but blade technique.’
Since it had the same root, I could use it similarly.
Severing Pulse Blade.
Mountain Wind.
Five Links.
Piiing!
The thrust at a processing speed that was hard to react to slashed the air five times.
“Kk, kkuk…”
Five shadow guard leaders collapsed to the ground after taking the numbing powder on their blades.
‘Six are left.’
Looking at the six leaders rushing at me, I drew and gripped the assassination weapons again.
Combat Monster Assassination Art.
Red Snake.
Toward the leader charging ahead holding a twin sword, three assassination weapons flew with time delay.
The first assassination weapon to his eyebrows,
the second right behind him to his ankles,
and the third again behind to his lower abdomen.
The trajectories of those assassination weapons looked like watching a single red snake.
Ding!
His twin swords knocked out two assassination weapons, but he couldn’t knock out the third.
I dashed in like mad and used the Moon Rock Blade to use Moon Rock.
Chwaak!
Along with the leader’s chest front, his skin was slightly cut.
Soon after, he was poisoned by numbing powder and collapsed to the ground.
“Will you keep coming?”
I asked the remaining leaders.
“As expected, Deputy Lord.”
“You are worthy of being a hundred-battle veteran.”
“The strength gap from your immense actual combat experience cannot be fixed no matter what….”
They each held weapons like spears, crescent blades, twin swords, rings, swords, etc., and laughed while looking at me.
“Since the Taoist priests are all the same anyway, I empathize too much with Deputy Lord’s thought of doing well to the target he gave loyalty to now.”
I smiled bitterly.
“You’re right.”
Even if the Zhen clan retrieves the former imperial figure, perhaps the traitors’ situation might not change.
But, a little, a little, it might change.
With that shallow hope, I just kept pushing my actions.
“All of you, attack!”
A ring flew at me.
A spear crashed toward me.
The crescent blade swung from the opposite side of the ring.
The guy holding the twin swords swung a sword from the opposite side of the spear.
The guy holding the sword leaped up and came down slashing at me.
In between, countless intent clashing targeted me.
Red lines and blue lines drew countless trajectories and bounced around me.
It felt like my brain would fry.
How could I escape this crisis?
How?!
And then, I suddenly saw the ‘third color’ among the countless clashes.
Whoong!
The spear grazed my waist.
The flesh of my waist was ripped away by the energy in the spear.
Combat Monster Assassination Art.
Three-Headed Snake.
Piiing!
I inserted three assassination weapons into my fingers, dipped numbing powder on the assassination weapons, and threw one at the leader who swung the spear.
My assassination weapon simply pierced the leader’s clash and hit his shoulder.
The ring spun and targeted my head.
I threw the assassination weapon to twist the ring’s trajectory, then threw the final assassination weapon at the guy who had thrown the ring.
Again, my assassination weapon easily pierced the guy’s clash and stuck in his thigh.
Two leaders became combat-ineffective.
Three remained.
Something was visible.
Between me and them.
A third color that was neither red nor blue.
Shuk!
The twin swords swung from right to lower left.
I bent my waist to dodge the twin swords.
However, a long scar from my forehead to my left jaw appeared on the Sword Thread in the twin swords.
The crescent blade aimed at my waist and came to cut.
If I dodged upward, it would become a spike to the guy slashing from above, and if I dodged downward, it would be cut by the twin swords preparing the next sword-grip stance.
But amid the red and blue clashing continuing,
in the life-and-death fight, my gaze headed toward the third color just beginning to appear.
Danak Sword Art.
Twisting valley.
Heaven and earth.
I twisted the trajectory of the guy who slashed down with the sword using the Twisting valley’s first stance, and paused the guy’s action of swinging the crescent blade with heaven and earth in a moment of stillness.
In between, the leader who had just completed the sword-grip stance swung the twin swords at me again.
In that moment, I threw assassination weapons dipped in numbing powder at the arms and legs of the leaders holding sword and crescent blade,
and then suddenly extended my sword toward the leader of the twin swords.
Danak Sword Art.
Sword Qi Gathering Peak!
Between the cyan and red overlapping.
The color that appeared there was purple.
The leader’s intent and my intent.
No matter which, the purple intent of the unknown, showed me a new trajectory between me and him.
Following that first unseen trajectory, I countered the twin swords’ first stance with the Sword Qi Gathering Peak’s first stance.
Kaaang!
My sword cut the guy’s twin swords as is.
The leader, whose weapon was cut off, took out a dagger from his bosom as if rushing at me, but I was faster to draw and throw the assassination weapon.
“K, kuh… It felt like seeing Deputy Lord’s movements.”
“….”
“…You could kill all of us, couldn’t you? If so, it would have been much easier without wounds. Why did you choose such a difficult path…? If you had at least decided to cut off a limb, suppressing us would have been much easier…!”
I told the collapsed twin swords leader shortly.
“You called me Deputy Lord, didn’t you?”
“…Kk. You’re interesting.”
“….”
“The movements just now seemed similar to Deputy Lord’s too. Sudden attacks beyond clashes… The ability that suddenly pierces through clashes with red light not visible… Did you gain new vision…? Did you reach the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown…?”
I shook my head bitterly at that question.
“No. I’m sorry, but I didn’t reach that realm.”
“Then…”
“I’m catching up to it. Slowly, I’m entering that area.”
The third color.
The purple intent appeared and disappeared occasionally.
It had never been stable.
Then, to see purple stably,
I would need to keep fighting life and death.
And then.
Someone approached me.
This time, it was someone familiar to me.
The person I had protected a few times while in the shadow guards.
The crown prince.
Makri Hyeon.
“Impressive. So the Deputy Lord’s strength is this much. There must be a reason Father sent me.”
“Long time no see, Your Highness the Crown Prince. If you’ve been watching from the beginning, why didn’t you join in the middle?”
“The reason is, if I join, it won’t be fun, right? And don’t call me Crown Prince. Today I came as a representative of the Makri clan’s branch, not with the status of a royal.”
“Fun… If I had joined, the entire shadow guard could have died by my hand, Your Highness. Is that fun for you?”
“Don’t call me Crown Prince… Well, you keep calling me that, so I’ll tell you one thing. Do you know why I became crown prince?”
The crown prince began to puff up his domain.
His red intent invaded the surrounding space.
“Because I reached the fourth layer of Qi Condensation at a young age like Father! Even if it’s the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown or whatever, it’s just at the level of barely matching the first, second, or third layers of Qi Condensation. Can you, this me, who has reached the fourth layer of Qi Condensation, really beat you?”
“…I’ll ask again. You asked if it was fun.”
“Tsk, not fun. Now stop talking and come at me.”
Anyway, even when protecting the emperor, he was an annoying guy who talked to the shadow guards on every occasion.
While talking, he was always the arrogant one who expressed his opinion on our necessity.
But that guy had the right to be so scheming.
Because he was strong.
The martial artists were no match no matter how many joined.
Even the general Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown peak martial artists would have to risk their lives to fight that guy.
However, I wasn’t even in the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, just on the boundary of stepping into it.
To oppose that guy, I would definitely die.
But.
Why?
I felt a smile forming at the corner of my mouth.
‘Ah, yes.’
Because I could die.
I had obtained the thread of enlightenment, what difference would it make if I died the next moment!
“…Take care, all shadow guard leaders. I’m going to… die now.”
Since I obtained enlightenment this morning.
It would be fine to die by evening.
To solidify this enlightenment,
I would die today.
I raised my sword and charged toward the crown prince, the emperor’s son.
Watching the faintly visible purple light, after several regressions I had never even dared to try something I suddenly felt I might be able to do.
I swung my sword as is.
The martial art that had been stuck in my head all this time, which I had never understood at all,
The record reaching Heavenly Martial!
Entering the crown prince’s red conscious domain, I used the martial art I had longed for so much.
“Moon Water Palace Sword Record.”
The next moment, Seo Eun-hyun’s figure disappeared like a ghost.