The Thunder Tribulation (5)
I soared through the air, my ears ringing with the distant rumble of thunder.
Splash—
Suddenly, a mouthful of blood erupted from my mouth.
*Is it already at my limit…*
Flash!
Boom!
A pillar of light shot toward me.
Even Jeon Myeong-hoon barely had time to react as the lightning bolt plunged down with terrifying speed, shattering my entire body and pinning me to the ground.
Crack, crack—
[Groar—!!!]
I wrapped my body in the Invisible Sword, channeling every drop of life force I possessed to its limit.
At the same time, I thrust a single sword toward the sky.
[Groan—!!!]
Finally, the formless sword pierced the lightning as it raced skyward.
“Huu, huuu…”
I had once again overcome the Heavenly Tribulation.
Jeon Myeong-hoon stood beside me, teeth gritted, watching in silence.
“Seo Eun-hyun, include me in that sacrificial technique. Otherwise, you won’t survive!”
“Survive…?”
I glanced at my arm.
It was pitch black.
Truly pitch black.
*Which tribulation is this?*
I pushed on toward Yeon-jin, no longer thinking about anything else.
I had absorbed the other’s martial power, feeding on the demonic energy of the Demon Realm, strengthening his regeneration. Whenever time allowed, I offloaded the accumulated damage back onto the other. Yet here I was.
Now, I had no head left to calculate the power of the Heavenly Tribulation.
It was nothing but an ache.
“…Let’s go, Jeon Myeong-hoon.”
“….”
Jeon Myeong-hoon opened his mouth as if to say something, then closed it and shot forward once more.
He was more worried about me than I realized.
No, that wasn’t worry.
It was self-reproach.
From Jeon Myeong-hoon’s will: the despair of failing to save his sect, the regret of not believing in me, the hatred aimed at the lightning bolt—layer upon layer.
If I reached the point of death, he would swallow my tribulation however he could.
Of course, that would become *my* tribulation.
The moment Jeon Myeong-hoon began to eat the tribulation, it would never end.
That was why he had remained silent.
“Jeon Myeong-hoon.”
“…What?”
“Keep your eyes only on the path ahead.”
“Of course I will…”
I watched him as he flew ahead and spoke.
Flash!
But before Jeon Myeong-hoon could answer, another bolt of lightning fell toward me.
Rumble!
This time I used the Lightning Barrier to preemptively counter and drive the bolt away.
Crack—!
In the process, the lightning swept across my entire body once more.
Yet I had still succeeded in repelling the tribulation once more.
“You…”
“Jeon Myeong-hoon.”
I turned to look at him and said.
“Look forward.”
“….”
“Until you have saved Yeon-jin as well, you must never die.”
“…I know.”
Jeon Myeong-hoon ground his teeth, then flew forward without another word.
I stared at him with a face that had begun to melt, following behind.
No more physical regeneration was possible.
In the time I had left, I needed to gather at least a little qi to prepare myself against the tribulation.
*Prepare to die.*
I hadn’t spoken those words to Jeon Myeong-hoon, but while wrapped in the Invisible Sword of the Death Desert, I had been using the Energy Gathering Art nonstop.
Every time the tribulation struck.
Every time I repelled it.
Every time I sliced through lightning.
Bit by bit.
Inside my colorless glass swords, the [Strengths] accumulated from clashing against the tribulation raged.
Thanks to the Energy Gathering Art and the Death Desert, my efficiency had skyrocketed. Thanks to the other, my meridians had grown so dense that my life hung by a thread. With the Curse Art, I could strike the other with a shock.
I had already given up on living.
Yet even in that state, I accelerated time, turned my head like a madman, and thought.
The Death Desert’s acceleration effect was insufficient. I needed to combine it with the Strange Star-Mind Scroll to maximize the acceleration.
*Almost there.*
I had locked onto direction.
During that time, I had imprinted my martial strength upon the world so thoroughly that it had changed the world itself. I had accumulated gradual progress.
*A little more.*
The end of the martial arts I had built up like a madman was finally beginning to show signs of the peak.
Far ahead.
I felt the summit was within reach.
*A little more.*
I followed Jeon Myeong-hoon, awakening the tension in my body and soul, feeling out the next step.
What I had been trying to reach beyond the Death Desert was, in explanation, like this.
A blind man must fully grasp the appearance of an elephant.
I had understood the direction in which the elephant existed, and through gradual progress I had continued to search that direction, imprinting the shape of the elephant on my mind all along.
And reaching beyond the Death Desert was.
Like the blind man, after touching the shape of the elephant, drawing an elephant identical to it himself.
Of course, no matter how real the truth, the elephant drawn by the blind man could never be exactly the same as the original.
That was why blind men drew wildly different shapes and gave them all different names, calling them “elephant.”
This was the realization of the soul tribe.
Boom!
I had completely melted away, my face no longer visible, and stood looking up at the sky while swinging my colorless glass sword.
At that moment, the lightning bolt falling toward me was sliced away by my sword, felt only as a faint sting at the tip.
Jeon Myeong-hoon had followed my earlier order and kept his eyes only on the path ahead.
*I feel it.*
The speed of the tribulation was gradually increasing, and the power contained within it was growing larger.
Yet, in proportion to the tribulation, my comprehension was also steadily solidifying.
Spirrrl—Spirrrl—
The tribulation struck, and in that instant I halted, drew circles on the spot with my footwork.
At the same time, I naturally channeled power into the sword and raised it toward the lightning.
Bang!
That was all.
With that alone, I felt the tribulation split apart.
It was no longer visible.
It was no longer felt.
My eyes melted, my skin melted, and two of my senses disappeared.
Soon, even my entire face would melt, and I wouldn’t even be able to smell anymore.
Boom!
As expected.
The second tribulation fell immediately, striking me.
Finally, my face melted completely away, and I could no longer feel anything except the faintest hearing.
A world where all five senses had disappeared.
A world of nothingness.
I gathered every ounce of qi that regenerated my body and poured it into the tip of my sword.
And so, sitting before my painting board, I began to draw the elephant I had been searching for.
Boom, boom.
My sword had become a brush.
Every time a tribulation struck, one stroke of the picture was drawn, and I began sketching the elephant on the painting board.
* * *
Jeon Myeong-hoon suddenly remembered Seo Eun-hyun’s words: “Keep your eyes only on the path ahead.”
*What exactly is he?*
His words were so resolute that he could not refuse.
That was why Jeon Myeong-hoon decided to fly ahead.
But the sounds coming from behind made him want to turn around.
*What are you doing back there?!*
Squeee—Squeee—Squeee!
The sound of something thin slicing through the air.
No, not even that—something even clearer, like the sound of a single water droplet falling into a still pond, only thinned out.
Such a bizarre sound began to echo endlessly from behind him.
But what truly terrified Jeon Myeong-hoon was something else.
He had only just realized that he could hear Jeong-ryeo’s voice.
The sensation he had gained allowed him to hear the voices of *all* kinds of lightning.
Since Jeong-ryeo was a kind of lightning, that was why he had been hearing her voice all along.
And from his ears came those strange voices.
Thump, thump…
*What… what is it…?!*
Jeon Myeong-hoon could not bring himself to turn around.
Because what he heard behind him was, quite literally, the sound of “many people bustling.”
Behind the clear sound Seo Eun-hyun was emitting, countless voices hammered against his ears in the form of “lightning voices.”
As if millions of mouths had sprouted all over Seo Eun-hyun’s body and were shouting, Jeon Myeong-hoon ground his teeth.
But, following his earlier order, he did not turn around.
There must have been a reason.
If he had not believed in him until now, he had to believe now!
Thinking that, Jeon Myeong-hoon sped up toward Yeon-jin.
* * *
Gradually, the speed and interval of the tribulation chasing Seo Eun-hyun and Jeon Myeong-hoon increased.
Now the tribulation fell toward Seo Eun-hyun once every breath.
The power contained within it had grown so enormous it was no longer conceivable.
Yet strangely, Seo Eun-hyun was slicing through the tribulation with almost no effort.
Using only minimal force to unleash maximum power, he flew straight ahead like Jeon Myeong-hoon while drawing his sword dance.
And neither Seo Eun-hyun nor Jeon Myeong-hoon realized.
A faint milky-white mist was flowing from Seo Eun-hyun’s body.
The possibility of a seer was gradually mixing with the Invisible Sword that covered Seo Eun-hyun’s entire body.
The Seo Eun-hyun of the physical body and the Seo Eun-hyun of the soul were, without either knowing, becoming one beneath the tribulation of the sky.
And from Seo Eun-hyun’s body came the faint sound of thunder, similar to the tribulation.
Perhaps the many voices Jeon Myeong-hoon had heard were this.
The Invisible Sword that had become similar to the tribulation mixed with the power of the land.
And the seer’s power was connected to the Ten Thousand Phenomena Affinity Diagram.
The world Seo Eun-hyun sought to imprint was his sincerity.
And sincerity was all of Seo Eun-hyun.
That was it.
Seo Eun-hyun had originally intended to imprint all of himself upon the world.
Boom, boom, boom!
Clang, clang, clang!
Gradually, Seo Eun-hyun’s sword dance sped up.
The speed and power of the tribulation grew stronger, but from some point onward, Seo Eun-hyun’s speed began to outpace it.
And finally.
“Here it is, Seo Eun-hyun!!!”
Jeon Myeong-hoon had found the place where Yeon-jin was.
“This place is…”
Jeon Myeong-hoon’s expression grew complicated.
It was now the land of Bongrae Palace.
The land Seo Eun-hyun had once controlled and schemed upon.
Somewhere down there, Yeon-jin was hiding.
“What happened?”
One of the Guardians of Bongrae Palace spoke to Jeon Myeong-hoon.
Jeon Myeong-hoon said.
“There is a disciple of the main sect inside. It’s a shame, but if you take out just one, it will be fine. Please let us in and out quickly.”
“I’m sorry, but which sect are you from?”
“The Elder of the Geumsin Cheonroemun.”
“Hmm, the new sect that’s been receiving special attention from the upper levels lately?”
The moment he learned Jeon Myeong-hoon’s affiliation, the Guardian’s tone changed.
“Why should I let you in? Is there a contract?”
“There is no such thing.”
At those words, the Guardian of Bongrae Palace said with obvious displeasure.
“You brat, I don’t know who you are, but this is the land of the Great Bongrae Palace. Even if your sect has been receiving a little special attention from the upper levels lately, we are a legitimate upper sect, and you brats cannot…”
“Shut up. Then die.”
Boom!
Jeon Myeong-hoon thrust toward the Nascent Soul stage Guardian of the Great Bongrae Palace.
A red lightning spear pierced the golden core in an instant, and the Guardian’s entire body exploded.
The Nascent Soul of the Guardian scattered like ashes and fled, and Jeon Myeong-hoon ground his teeth and shouted.
“I have realized that arguing with etiquette is a waste of time. From now on, anyone who blocks my path will die. Anyone watching will also disappear.”
As Jeon Myeong-hoon released killing intent, disciples of the Great Bongrae Palace appeared all around, surrounding him.
“You brat! No matter how much the upper levels are indulging you lately, you are a disciple of the Great Bongrae Palace! You killed a Guardian and still…”
Puff!
“Y-you! What are you doing!? You killed another Nascent Soul!? Do you think the blood of the Great Bongrae Palace will be so easily repaid by your Geumsin Cheonroemun…?”
Bang!
“Hu, hu aaak! Attack!”
Jeon Myeong-hoon ignored the questions and began slaughtering the Nascent Soul stage patrol disciples of Bongrae Palace.
More than forty Nascent Soul stage patrol disciples launched a simultaneous assault on him, forming seals.
Jeon Myeong-hoon stood with veins bulging on his face, grinding his teeth.
*These idiots who don’t even know the way… If they block the path…*
He reached out, and a red lightning spear appeared in his left hand.
Jeon Myeong-hoon grabbed the lightning spear and swung it.
Red Lightning Heavenly Tribulation.
[I said I would kill everything.]
Boom!
From the lightning spear, lightning shot out like a tidal wave, sweeping the front.
The forty Nascent Soul stage patrol disciples were knocked backward, and the mountain range behind them was completely shattered, creating a path.
Jeon Myeong-hoon spat out with a frustrated face.
“Didn’t you see the bastard dancing a sword dance while taking the tribulation behind me? Idiot.”
Jeon Myeong-hoon clicked his tongue and headed into the basin beyond the mountain range.
When he reached the basin, his gaze was directed at one side.
Deep underground.
Jeon Myeong-hoon heard the voices of lightning whispering from there.
“It’s all here.”
Boom!
A lightning spear reappeared in his hand.
Jeon Myeong-hoon drove the lightning spear straight down.
Boom!
A pillar of light formed from lightning illuminated the surroundings.
It looked as if a red pillar was glowing in the dark sky of the Demon Realm filled with demonic energy.
A short while later, a vast tunnel leading underground appeared ahead of Jeon Myeong-hoon, and without looking back, he leaped into the tunnel.
Splash!
The place Jeon Myeong-hoon arrived was a vast crystal cave.
And covering the crystal cave were thousands, tens of thousands, and billions of “formations.”
“This is…”
Just as Jeon Myeong-hoon was bewildered before the crystal cave.
A clear voice rang out.
“Jeon Myeong-hoon? No, Yeon-jin is here too. Wait… that thing in your arms is the Geumsin Cheonroemun? The energy inside seems to be from the disciples of the Heavenly Thunder Sect….”
From inside the formation barrier, a woman walked out.
With hair that had turned black and white, she crossed her arms and looked down at Jeon Myeong-hoon.
“What happened, Jeon Myeong-hoon.”
Jeon Myeong-hoon immediately understood.
The person in front of him was not the Yeon-jin he knew.
The voice of lightning was speaking.
The opponent was the traitor of the Geumsin Cheonroemun four thousand years ago who had attached himself to Yeon-jin.
Geum Wi.
“You…”
But instead of killing the traitor before him, Jeon Myeong-hoon simply stated his original intention with cold clarity.
“Take Yeon-jin out. From now on, I will lead Yeon-jin to the Water Realm.”
“Hmm, this young brat is speaking to the sect’s headmaster with such insolence.”
“If you say another word, I will kill you.”
At Jeon Myeong-hoon’s blunt words, Yeon Wi let out a short laugh as if surprised.
“Hah… you really are something. Well, I understand. It’s good timing. Come in first. I’ve been hiding here for years after you captured Seo Eun-hyun, hiding my energy. But lately the Heavenly Qi has become strangely monstrous, so I was curious about the situation…”
Flash!
At that moment, a tribulation fell toward Seo Eun-hyun who had followed behind Jeon Myeong-hoon, and bright light scattered in all directions.
Boom!
At the same time, a massive pillar of light struck downward from above Jeon Myeong-hoon.
The pillar of light struck Seo Eun-hyun and collided with the formations Yeon Wi had laid out.
The formations literally crumbled like beans, and Yeon Wi jumped back in fright.
Rumble…
After the tribulation subsided.
There remained a charred human figure.
“Seo Eun-hyun!”
“W-what…!”
Jeon Myeong-hoon shouted with a twisted face.
But the charred figure did not answer.
Its face had been completely burned away, leaving no form.
Yeon Wi looked at him and quickly formed a seal.
Crack, crack, crack!
At the same time, the formations spread in all directions activated.
“After you were captured, the Bongrae Palace went all out to analyze your formations. Fortunately, they couldn’t find the formations of my body, so they didn’t find me… But they still didn’t dismantle the formations, gathering massive life force!”
Whoosh!
As Yeon Wi formed the seal, golden dragon vein power flowed toward Seo Eun-hyun.
In an instant, the charred body of Seo Eun-hyun returned to normal.
* * *
Blink.
I slowly opened my eyes.
I felt as if I had slept through a long dream.
And I realized I had finally almost completed the elephant.
“This place is…”
I looked around.
Yeon Wi stood in front of me, and the surroundings were a crystal cave filled with crystal light.
Far away, a transparent lake reflected the opposite side.
It was Gongryeong-ji.
“Haa…”
Yeon Wi tried to explain something, but I shook my head to stop her.
From just seeing her will, I could tell the situation.
I thought she had run away, but she had been hiding until the end, protecting the loyalty in a way I had not expected.
Boom!
I leaped into the sky and thrust my sword toward the lightning bolts falling once more.
The tribulation was sliced away.
Splash!
I landed back on the ground and faced Yeon Wi and Jeon Myeong-hoon with eyes that had grown wet.
“Seo Eun-hyun, you…”
“It’s fine, Jeon Myeong-hoon. Everything turned out well, didn’t it?”
“No, you almost died!”
“It’s fine. Besides, this is not Gongryeong-ji, is it?”
“Yes.”
Yeon Wi answered.
“I heard roughly from Jeon Myeong-hoon. It seems time is short, so I won’t ask much. Do you have the Heavenly Thunder Banner?”
“No.”
“Has the Geumsin Cheonroemun been destroyed?”
“Not yet.”
“I see. Then you’re still going to the Water Realm?”
“Of course.”
When Yeon Wi looked at my eyes, she seemed to hesitate for a moment, then said.
“Jeon Myeong-hoon has not risen to the Nascent Soul stage in the Water Realm, so finding it will be difficult. Extract your blood lineage. From now on, I will guide you to the Water Realm.”
I silently took out the other and swung my sword toward the tribulation falling once more.
Ssh—!
The moment I swung the sword, I realized my sword and the power of my seer were connected.
And the power of the seer was connected to the Ten Thousand Phenomena Affinity Diagram, which was the power of the Celestial Tribe.
I felt that Heaven, Earth, and Soul were completely tied together.
I had practiced these in parallel before, but I had never felt them as perfectly unified as today.
*What is this feeling…*
Yeon Wi had detached from the body of Yeon-jin in front of me and entered the body of the other.
Crack, crack, crack—!
At the same time, she began forcefully matching the other with the other from inside the body of the other at the Fourth Pillar stage of consciousness.
Jeon Myeong-hoon quickly placed Yeon-jin inside his compressed space, and Yeon Wi began forcibly amplifying the training of the other from inside the body of the other.
Crack—!
Enormous lightning power erupted from the other, and the training of the other shot up from the Nascent Soul stage to the Heavenly Person stage in an instant.
But perhaps because the training had increased too suddenly.
I saw the body of the other beginning to collapse.
However, as Yeon Wi formed a seal with the body of the other, the Immortal Life Array activated.
Crack, crack, crack!
The power of the Immortal Life Array flowed into the body of the other, supporting the massive life force that was collapsing.
Once the body of the other returned to its original state, Yeon Wi forcefully matched the waves of consciousness once more to the other.
And the other began to collapse once more, and how many times did I repel the tribulation?
How much time had passed?
Finally, Yeon Wi succeeded in claiming the body of the other.
Crack, crack, crack!
Clear Heavenly Person stage power was felt from the other.
Crack, crack—!
At the same time, the body of the other, previously mixed with both sexes, became a complete female body.
“As expected, I prefer something so certain.”
Yeon Wi smiled brightly and looked back and forth between me and Jeon Myeong-hoon.
“Then, let’s go to the Water Realm now!”
Without hesitation, we nodded.
Yeon Wi grabbed the hands of me and Jeon Myeong-hoon and ran straight toward Gongryeong-ji.
Jeon Myeong-hoon and I each wrapped our qi in layers of space pressure.
The next instant.
Whoosh—!
We entered a vast dark space.
*This is the outskirts of the Demon Realm!*
But at that moment.
Boom!
From far away, it looked as if the tribulation was occurring inside the Demon Realm.
And it seemed to be chasing me even outside the Demon Realm.
But because it was outside the world, the tribulation was chasing me at a noticeably slower speed than before.
Whoosh—!
Ignoring the tribulation, Yeon Wi stretched her hand into the void and grabbed some [Flow].
The flow became a kind of thread, connecting Yeon Wi to distant places.
She grabbed the thread, pulled out two more arms from behind her, grabbed me and Jeon Myeong-hoon, and began to fly.
Boom—!
Finally, a massive tribulation shot toward me once more.
Whoosh!
The hand of Yeon Wi that was holding me became a fleshy binding rope so I could move more easily and tied around my waist.
I nodded in gratitude.
I looked at the tribulation rushing toward me.
“Huuu—”
From outside the world, the lightning threads stretching from inside the world reached out to me. This scene felt incredibly bizarre.
I felt indescribable emotions and faced the tribulation.
In that state, I slowly.
Very slowly, matched the speed of lightning and swung my sword.
Boom!
And my sword swung toward the lightning, matched to its speed.
“Ah…”
I understood.
I felt it.
Right now.
The elephant drawn by the blind man had been completed.
The sword form I had swung countless billions of times felt imprinted upon my hand and across this entire world.
I looked at the elephant I had drawn on my painting board.
The name of the elephant was Seo Eun-hyun.
Boom!
The next instant, I had already sliced through the tribulation.
Lightning Speed.
Boom!
From my entire body, thunder-like sounds erupted from the Invisible Sword I swung.
It was not an illusion that the world had stopped.
I was moving close to lightning speed.
I wrapped colorless lightning around my entire body and raised the heart I had forged through my martial arts.
The name of the heart was Sincerity.
At the same time, True Heart.
The sincerity I had completed was crystallized at the tip of this sword.
At the same time, the sincerity I had imprinted became another me and began to move by itself.
The Invisible Sword had gained life.
Boom—!
Clearly, it was a tribulation that would have been impossible to block if not completed.
But the Invisible Sword did not care and sliced through the tribulation.
The tribulation of the sky and the tribulation of humanity collided one after another outside the world.
The tribulation of the sky did not stop once and for all, but began to fall endlessly toward me.
The interval, which had gradually shortened, now entered even the inside of the interval with no room left for a moment.
Crack, crack, crack!
Slashing through the massive darkness, the tribulation continuously rushed toward me like rain.
*Can I block all of that?*
Whoosh!
However, the Invisible Sword resounded with the colorless glass sword.
—Bend.
That alone was enough.
I entrusted my body to the Invisible Sword and continued slicing through the endless tribulation while dancing.
The tribulation grew gradually stronger and faster, but I did not care and continued slicing through them.
Moreover, the Energy Gathering Art had not stopped yet.
I continued to grow stronger, but gradually my body was becoming unable to hold on.
What should I do?
—Bend.
This time, the answer of the Invisible Sword was the same.
I smiled.
I gathered every messy flow of power flowing through my body into a single sword.
Then, without hesitation or delay, simply.
Bend!
Boom!
I sliced through another lightning and laughed.
Not with loneliness, but with the Invisible Sword.
* * *
Crack, crack, crack, crack!
The [Flow] that Seo Eun-hyun, Jeon Myeong-hoon, and the group of Yeon Wi held began to accelerate.
Yeon Wi, while holding the flow, quickly looked upward while heading [down].
From above, Seo Eun-hyun was endlessly drawing his sword dance and growing even stronger.
*What exactly is that?*
Every time Seo Eun-hyun swung his sword, Yeon Wi felt a shiver at the effect of continuously growing stronger and amplifying power.
*Is he becoming infinitely strong? What… can his body hold? From now on, for at least three days, I need to gather qi while passing through the lower realm between the dimensional barriers, avoiding the attacks of monsters…*
At that moment.
Shiver!
Yeon Wi raised her tension.
*This momentum… at least Fourth Pillar?*
Between dimensions. The space seen by patrol disciples when they fail to win.
Void Space.
In this place called Void Space, occasionally intelligent-less monsters lived.
They were also called “monsters of the dimensional gap.”
These monsters had no intelligence and sometimes showed extremely monstrous abilities, eating the patrol disciples who failed to win, making them targets of avoidance among the patrol disciples.
And Yeon Wi felt something terrifying rising from below.
It was a golden giant Peng bird.
Just as Yeon Wi frowned while preparing to confront the Peng bird.
Splash!
The Peng bird brushed past Yeon Wi without stopping.
*What? When?*
But the problem was that Yeon Wi had not felt the Peng bird pass.
Literally, she had not noticed, but it had already passed.
But whether fortunate or unfortunate, the Peng bird did not hunt them, only barely brushing past Seo Eun-hyun and rising to the [top].
*What is that?*
It was when Yeon Wi felt something strange.
Splash!
She felt that the [Flow] she had caught was accelerating strangely.
*What? The force is stronger? The Water Realm! In the Water Realm, something is strongly pulling one of our group members by fate!*
She showed joy.
“You little brats, rejoice. It’s good luck!!!”
Crack, crack, crack, crack!
At the same time, the trio began crossing the Void Space at tremendous speed.
“Originally I expected about three days… Only thirty seconds left! Everyone, prepare for the impact of the dimensional wall!!!”
The next instant.
Whoosh—!
The three slammed directly into some kind of enormous “wall.”
But the next instant, the three passed through the “wall” and entered the inside of the “wall.”
Splash!
Purple light beams hit them.
Jeon Myeong-hoon furrowed his brows with extremely sparse energy, but his expression relaxed at some familiar energy.
Yeon Wi also looked down with a serious expression.
During the time Seo Eun-hyun was blocking the falling tribulation, he finally stopped his sword dance.
Finally, the endless falling tribulation could not chase them and stopped.
Seo Eun-hyun’s eyes looked downward.
“Shattered Heaven… Peak…?”
The place they had fallen was the edge of the Shattered Heaven Peak at the western end of the Water Realm where the Geumsin Cheonroemun originally stood.
It was the place where the Heavenly Thunder Banner had originally been stored.
* * *
Whoosh, dong—
At the eastern end of the Water Realm.
Beyond the sea east of the Death Desert, the end of the world protected by the World Power.
There, a man in black robes, wearing only a worn-out knife at his waist, was pounding the end of the world with his fist.
Suddenly, he looked toward the west.
**The End of Chapter 267**