Chapter 300
I watched as her Willow Leaf Sword sliced through the air.
“Disciple-nim, how many seconds is enough?” she asked.
Since it was a clone, long-term combat against her would be overwhelmingly disadvantageous.
Therefore, gauging each other’s hands in a short exchange was the wisest course.
I pondered for a moment and replied, “Ten seconds. That should be sufficient.”
“Oh my, ten seconds? Can you handle it?”
“What?”
“Ten seconds would be more than enough to kill you, disciple-nim…”
“Hehe…”
Her words were so utterly mad that laughter escaped me.
Indeed, a cultivator at the Integration stage should possess such confidence!
“Come then. Let us see.”
“Very well. If that is your wish…”
Uuuuung—
Her Willow Leaf Sword cleaved the void.
It was familiar.
It was exactly the same stance as Jang Ik’s.
Since she claimed to be his disciple, there was no falsehood in her words. She unfolded a precision of spirit and artistry that rivaled Jang Ik’s madness.
It was completely identical to his.
‘But it is different.’
The Heavenly Tribe’s foresight.
The Earth Tribe’s spirit pursuit.
The Heart Tribe’s will.
Kim Young-hoon’s perception and King’s perception.
With all those senses combined, I could barely track the trajectory of her unyielding will.
And as I followed the path, I understood.
It was hers, yet not quite the same as Jang Ik’s.
Ting—
It felt as though her voice echoed through a frozen world.
Her words were clear and resonant, like no Heart Speech I had ever heard.
She spoke to me in a voice that carried the weight of countless battles.
“You have seen the will to fight once, haven’t you? Your master’s, I mean?”
“I do not deny it.”
She noticed that I was tracking her trajectory with familiar eyes, preparing a counter, and a spark of interest lit in hers.
Line connects to line.
Following the trajectory of her Willow Leaf Sword, ethereal veins pulsed like arteries.
But unlike Jang Ik’s Four Treasures Heaven-Destroying Saber, Tae Yeol-jeon’s Willow Leaf Sword did not draw in the surrounding Heaven and Earth qi even as it connected the veins.
The power did not amplify or grow larger.
Yet somehow, I sensed that her killing intent was far more ferocious and terrifying than what Jang Ik had shown.
‘If I cannot stop it properly, my body will be torn to pieces.’
Overwhelming power!
Dominion beyond strength!
Originally I intended to duel with pure martial prowess.
But the next moment, I discarded any such leisurely thoughts and immediately raised the Triple Taiji.
At the same time, I began the Dan-ak Sword Art’s first form.
It was out of the instinctive dread that if I did not cancel the attack head-on, my upper body would vanish.
And so she struck.
Heart Heaven Painting.
Seven Colors King.
First Color: Golden Body Heavenly King.
Shiver!
In that instant, the trajectory of her Willow Leaf Sword blazed with immense golden light.
‘That’s…’
The next moment, she danced toward me like a golden phoenix.
Compared to Kim Young-hoon’s mad speed, it was painfully slow.
Yet I knew it was slow and still could not dodge.
Crash!
“Kuhk!”
I spat blood and realized my entire body was covered in burns.
‘W-what…!!’
Kuuuak!
Shockwaves hit my back late.
I quickly assessed the surroundings.
‘T-this place…!? What kind of mad…!!!’
This was the Whirlpool Domain.
One strike from Tae Yeol-jeon had flung me from the outskirts of the Heavenly Mountain in the center of the Human Alliance to the Whirlpool Domain.
Kugugugu!
The air tore apart and the ground rumbled everywhere from the shockwave.
The burns on my skin regenerated instantly, but my internal organs felt completely shaken.
While Heon-won’s attacks had caused severe external wounds, my internal injuries had been minimal.
Tae Yeol-jeon’s were the opposite.
Barely any visible wounds remained, yet the accumulated internal injuries were terrifyingly vast.
‘Here it comes!’
I immediately stabilized my stance and prepared to counter the killing intent that assaulted me from Heavenly Mountain.
Seven Colors King.
Fourth Color: Silver Basket Heavenly King.
It was chaos.
Gray chaos crashed down from nowhere, turning into a bubbling primordial void.
The chaos sphere was the color of gray, a blend of white and black, or a deep purple, a blend of blue and red.
The only certainty was that yin and yang were so thoroughly mixed it was almost impossible to distinguish them.
‘Ah, now I understand why Heon-won was so submissive in front of Tae Yeol-jeon.’
Leaving aside the Heaven’s Tribulation of the Heart Tribe, this power would have gone berserk the moment Heon-won’s yin-yang qi exploded.
I activated my Water Power Technique with full power.
I added the principle of the Thunder Power Technique.
Then I reversed the power method.
The exchange of yin and yang ceased, and the energies began to scatter within my body.
I organized the scattering yin-yang flow into the circuit of the Strange Castle and forced it to obey my will.
When I took that stance, I suddenly felt the chaos sphere approaching me.
Shurruk—
The chaos sphere was absorbed into my body.
It should have torn my entire body apart, yet it canceled out against the reverse-flowing yin-yang energy and restored normal flow within me before the chaos sphere faded away.
The dissolution method I could execute was unique to those possessing the Water Power Technique, the Thunder Power Technique, and the Strange Castle circuit.
“Remarkable. You are the first to have dissolved it in this manner.”
Tae Yeol-jeon had already reached in front of me.
“Then can you block the next one as well?”
Second Color, Third Color.
Consecutive Strikes.
Red Jewel Destroying Heavenly King.
Jade Armor Heavenly King.
A red flame and a blue phantom danced from her twin palms.
‘Each possesses a kinship.’
Crunch!
If it hit, bones and flesh would have been separated.
But I guarded against the other moves she had hidden.
‘The Willow Leaf Sword has vanished. Where will it emerge from?’
Dan-ak Sword Art.
Ocean of Righteousness.
Tststst!
My original spirit became a sword.
But this time, it was not swung as a weapon for the Colorless Glass Sword.
The essence of the Ocean of Righteousness was not a heart sword but the integration of power.
All my power was compressed inside the Ocean of Righteousness into a sword.
I literally pushed all power into the sword within the Ocean of Righteousness.
At the same time, every ounce of power in my body vanished, leaving me no different from a scarecrow.
Because it occurred within my body, even Tae Yeol-jeon did not notice immediately. Her twin palms struck me.
The red and blue palms touched my powerless body, then twisted along my meridians before being fused into one inside the Ocean of Righteousness by the formula.
“What?”
The shock was clear in her Heart Speech.
Crash!
I immediately grabbed her wrists.
“Remarkable. You dissolved this as well? How much battle experience must you have to have dissolved something you saw for the first time?”
Tae Yeol-jeon burst into a delighted laugh. I sweated from the premonition I felt behind my back and tightened my grip.
Crack!
Her wrists were severed as cleanly as if cut by a sharp blade.
I did not hesitate. I unleashed the power integrated inside the Ocean of Righteousness with the first form of the Great Heavenly Dao Escape Art and began the sword dance.
The sword dance that kills if you do not release the power!
This was the only form strong enough.
My sword dance swept her upper body away and simultaneously blocked the Willow Leaf Sword that flew in from behind.
Seeing the Willow Leaf Sword, I recalled the times I had fought Jang Ik and, rather than continuing to pour attacks into Tae Yeol-jeon, I retreated immediately.
Flash!
I escaped the Whirlpool Domain and prepared the first form of the Dan-ak Sword Art once more outside the Human Alliance region.
And in that brief moment.
Her Heart Speech echoed with clear regret.
“You fought your master, did you? You don’t fool me.”
Thick spider threads of deep rose bloomed in every direction and wrapped around the spot I had just occupied.
If I had been foolish enough to think I had seized victory and continued attacking her, I would have been crushed to pieces of space inside the blockade created by her Willow Leaf Sword’s veins.
I gradually approached her and felt the will that she had honed.
‘She uses the Willow Leaf Sword simply because she learned it from Jang Ik.’
Most opponents who fought her would mistake the Willow Leaf Sword for her weapon and concentrate on it.
But as someone who had truly fought her, I knew she had not become a Heart Tribe cultivator through the Willow Leaf Sword’s Dao.
‘It was called the Heart Heaven Painting, wasn’t it?’
I felt a chill as I recalled her killing technique name that had echoed in my Heart Speech.
‘If my guess is correct… perhaps Tae Yeol-jeon has reached the pinnacle of the Heart Method itself.’
To me, that would mean mastering the Dragon Vein Gong alone and reaching the level of one move.
And only implementing the form that matched her own inner energy method.
The essence of her killing technique was the Gong itself.
Uuuuung!
Far away.
The deep rose light that had risen from the Whirlpool Domain gradually began to compress.
It was a crimson-red light.
At the same time, her Heart Speech began to resound again.
“My master wanted the strongest to protect the weak, but I want the highest. Your master’s Four Treasures Heaven-Destroying Saber can absorb Heaven and Earth qi to endlessly increase your body size, but mine is the opposite.”
Suddenly, facing her, I realized one more thing.
‘So… her secret of power was here.’
No matter how overwhelming the power, it was meaningless unless it hit.
Striking the opponent and knocking them down.
That was one of the essences of martial arts and combat.
I, the formless heart sword that disregards defense and evasion, Kim Young-hoon’s lightning speed that defies reaction, Jang Ik’s Four Treasures Heaven-Destroying Saber that uses destructive power where defense is meaningless, all wielded the method of attacking the opponent.
But hers was completely off the beaten path.
Must Hit.
No one facing her attacks could evade.
They could only block head-on.
I recalled that I could not evade her attacks.
Slower than Kim Young-hoon’s, yet I had to block rather than dodge.
The reason I had never dodged in combat.
That was because of the attribute of her Heart Heaven Painting.
“Instead, I connect my mind and my veins to pull power from inside my mind. I am drawing out the possibility inherent in a human’s soul.”
Those who face the Heart Gong she has trained see their own possibility reflected in front of her transparent mind.
It was not a crude attack with destructive power, but one that used the mind as a mirror, forcing the opponent to confront their own possibility.
That was the essence of her Heart Heaven Painting.
‘The reason I could not evade was not that I could not evade, but if I had, the opponent’s mind would gradually break and the probability of insanity during combat would rise.’
A killing technique that forces an unconditional head-on confrontation.
That was her will to fight.
That was her martial arts.
Crunch, crrrunch, crrrunch!
I watched her while inserting explosive energy into the sword from within.
She looked back at me.
Heart Heaven Painting.
Sixth Color: Jade Womb Destroying Heavenly King.
Waves of crimson-red light spread like a sea of blood and enveloped me.
I feel it.
If even one drop of the sea of blood’s water touched my body, my entire skin would peel away.
The skin regenerates, but the essence felt was “peeling away.”
The surface layer of my soul may have been peeled off along with my skin.
My consciousness would disintegrate and fall into the qi level, my original spirit would scatter, and I would die.
This was the worst counter for the monks who perceive information through the consciousness domain.
“Hm? What’s this?”
I suddenly felt that I had analyzed the opponent’s strike too quickly.
Unlike the previous attacks, this one gave me a strange sense of familiarity.
‘Why… it feels like I’ve seen it somewhere…’
But I did not know.
I could not recall where I had seen it.
‘Got it. Now is not the time to think about such things.’
I recalled the dissolution method for Tae Yeol-jeon’s attack.
‘If it is an attack that disintegrates consciousness, I counter by not disintegrating it.’
The chaos sphere from earlier had been the worst counter against Heon-won.
This attack was one that Heon-won could have taken advantage of to gain the upper hand.
Of course, if it hit, the story would be different, but Heon-won could erase this attack before it hit, as easily as he pleased.
Qi cannot be disintegrated.
Qi containing all attributes is complete in itself; it is impossible for attributes to exist separately.
Instead, Heon-won’s Mountain-Cleaving Emperor Art, which forcibly disintegrates qi with those attributes, is an absurd and bizarre power method.
‘Qi is life, and life is history…’
The history accumulated through existence can never change.
Tstststst!
White mist wrapped around the sword.
The power of the sword merged with other powers inside the Great Heavenly Dao Escape Art—Heavenly Tribe and Heart Tribe forces.
I took one step.
At the same time, one sword scattered across a frozen world.
Boom!
One sword held up a hand, and a person stored in the Ten Thousand Phenomena Affinity Diagram appeared.
One drop of sea of blood water burst out.
This sword.
Another person raised a hand.
Two drops of sea water burst out.
Three swords.
Four swords.
Five swords…
My swords shot out like rays.
Countless white sword strikes spread like Avalokitesvara’s hand to the four corners of Heaven and Earth, shooting rays.
Countless sword rays clashed with the sea of blood, and each time, the people of the Ten Thousand Phenomena Affinity Diagram raised their hands one by one.
The sea water of blood burst out one drop at a time, clearly.
Countless people reached out from the sea of white mist and wiped out the sea of blood.
How many times?
I could not even count how many sword strikes I poured out.
And finally, I realized that the power of the Great Heavenly Dao Escape Art I had integrated and exploded had been completely consumed.
Bang!
But at the same time, I burst the last drop of sea of blood water.
Chi—
I had no power left.
The Great Heavenly Dao Escape Art had to be used until all the power in my body was exhausted, but the price was that I became completely powerless.
Tae Yeol-jeon looked at me and clicked her tongue.
“No one except my master and Heon-won has ever blocked the sixth color in this manner… remarkable.”
I smiled through the pain that felt like my organs were being squeezed.
“Originally, it seems you were not supposed to dissolve it in this manner.”
My mind felt unsteady.
I had squeezed out my energy so much that I felt like I would spit blood and die any moment.
Whee—
I was drifting in the void and began to fall because I could not maintain my energy.
Outside the Whirlpool Domain in the Human Alliance region.
A mountainous region filled with bizarre rocks.
If I fell, I would turn into pieces.
But I squeezed out the last of my strength and activated the circuit I had placed in my body in advance.
My body was no longer able to move at all, yet I moved like a puppet, forcing amplification of the last drop of strength to protect my body.
Kuuung!
I collapsed completely and caught my breath.
Fortunately, I had not fallen into pieces, but I did not even have the strength to pick up a sword.
Even breathing was difficult.
Pat!
Tae Yeol-jeon landed on the peak at the opposite side of the collapsed mountain and spoke.
“Originally it is not such a crude method, but to endure the disintegration of the soul by colliding head-on. By making the consciousness close to nothing and reaching the void, you can ignore the sixth color as easily as the seventh. My master could have dissolved it that way, but he said it was disgusting to have used such a killing technique on him and smashed the entire killing technique to pieces, and Heon-won’s Mountain-Cleaving Emperor Art… is so counter to the attributes that it had to be dissolved. And the method of bursting the sea of blood drop by drop… is the first time you have done it. I could not grasp how you did it…”
“Glo…ry…”
I could not continue speaking and panted.
It was difficult to spit out even one word properly.
In an instant, I felt as if I had aged a thousand years.
And at the same time, I realized something.
A killing technique that forces the opponent to face themselves.
‘So…’
The Heart Heaven Painting…
“Those… killing techniques…”
I had gained enlightenment about her killing techniques and felt that I must express my admiration for it, so I squeezed out the strength to speak.
Her Heart Speech squeezed the upper dantian subtly, so it was better to speak properly now.
“It is not a killing technique to kill the opponent…”
Techniques that separate bones and flesh, strip the skin, twist the meridians and kill the body—when looking at the results, they are terrifying.
But I, who had faced them directly, knew.
‘Nothing… all of them are attacks that turn you into nothing, making yourself nothing…’
A killing technique that forces the opponent into the state of emptiness to grant enlightenment.
That was precisely her technique, a killing technique for teaching enlightenment to the opponent.
I spat blood and told her what I had learned.
Tae Yeol-jeon looked genuinely surprised.
“Remarkable… No one has ever known that in a single sparring match. Even the geniuses in the Heart Tribe were the same. Only my master grasped the essence and was beaten for being shameless… Hehe, fun. You are…”
A spark of admiration appeared in her eyes.
“How much hardship have you endured? The insight that can only be obtained by enduring pain like a madman for at least a thousand years without losing focus in a single thought. You… what resolve did you carry through?”
Creak, creak, creak…
I felt my body trembling as I stood up.
It was not my will.
‘Ah… yes.’
My body was practically only consciousness awake, nothing more.
Yet my body had stood up.
Ziiing!
At this moment, I felt an inexplicable sense of unity with the emptiness.
It was the true unity with the formless heart sword that I had never felt before.
Inside my body that had become completely empty, the mind of the formless heart sword filled and moved my body.
I recalled Young-hoon hyung’s words.
Before obtaining the formless heart sword.
That is, when I was at the Deungbongjogeuk realm.
When I was cultivating on Shattered Heaven Peak.
He said he had seen me get up and practice according to the daily schedule even after I fainted.
But the moment my memory cut off, I could not tell who had moved my body then.
‘So… you have been with me since then?’
There is a mind in martial arts too.
What I did when I reached the Heaven’s Tribulation was not to give a mind, but simply to awaken it.
And the beginning of this mind was something very familiar to me.
The formless heart sword spoke a word other than “bend.”
“Morning hears the Way, evening may die.”
“If you obtain the Way in the morning, you may die in the evening.”
I smiled as I conveyed the formless heart sword’s words through my mouth.
“In life, I have only striven to obtain even one more Way.”
“What is your Way?”
“Ten Thousand Phenomena Affinity.”
“….”
Tae Yeol-jeon stood there for a moment, then inserted her Willow Leaf Sword into the peak and began to form a seal.
Uuuung!
And her clone, which had previously lacked proper form due to poor magic power, began to gradually form a clear shape.
Tae Yeol-jeon’s main body in the distance was consuming her own power to make her appearance even clearer.
Her figure was that of a monk with her head shaved, wearing a kasaya.
She clasped her hands in front of me and saluted.
“I apologize for having rashly tried to instruct you. Please accept my apology.”
“I have obtained great enlightenment thanks to you. There is no need for apology.”
Thanks to her, I had learned the true use of the formless heart sword.
I moved in the state of the void where all power had drained, still united with the formless heart sword, and accepted her salute.
The Heavenly Person qi of the Heavenly Tribe and Earth Tribe gathers infinite Heaven and Earth qi by removing the boundary between the inner microcosm and the external Heaven and Earth nature.
However, the implementation stage three of the Heart Tribe was the opposite.
Using martial arts in which one has obtained a mind from inside the soul to raise infinite power.
That was the true use of the Moon-Saber Tribulation-Heaven I had only realized today.
She shook her head and said, “With your cultivation level, you would have realized it quickly even without me. I offer my respect to that resolve.”
Huuu…
I panted.
I felt the “power” rising from deep within my mind through the channel of will.
I did not know the origin of this power.
Perhaps the day I find the origin of power will be the day I understand what the mind is.
Originally, this power was the martial arts I had sought, the implementation that could only be used.
An ordinary Heart Tribe cultivator could only use their implementation in a situation where their body was breaking down.
But thanks to my formless heart sword, that “power” that had remained only at the soul level descended to the qi level and became vitality, infusing life force throughout my body.
Tae Yeol-jeon let out a dry laugh at the sight.
“Truly extraordinary. You have a method of using power that is not of this sort, yet you are able to transcend the ranks… Your enlightenment is also fun.”
She who had waited for me to recover said, “We have already exchanged six forms, so shall we try the remaining four?”
“Very well.”
She threw the Willow Leaf Sword she had planted beside her into the sky.
At the same time, I felt the surroundings darkening.
Heart Heaven Painting.
Seventh Color.
“Black Jade Magic Heavenly King.”
Rather than a killing technique name that had echoed in my Heart Speech until now, she began to unfold the form by directly spitting out the killing technique name with her mouth.
It felt as though the smooth black jade filled the space between Heaven and Earth.
The surface of the smooth obsidian covered everything, and I saw countless reflections of myself in the black jade.
All of them had eyes gleaming with filthy emotions.
This form was even more overtly summoning the heart demon than the sixth form.
‘It is a kind of final gate.’
If I had not experienced emptiness after the previous six killing techniques and fully struck the soul level with the last form, my soul would have shattered like glass.
I immediately grasped the essence of this killing technique and calmed my mind.
This killing technique was a pure soul-level attack that did not include the qi level at all.
Perhaps even Heon-won would not be able to dissolve this attack with his Mountain-Cleaving Emperor Art.
It was a kind of illusion.
However, I sensed a strange feeling as I realized this was an illusion.
‘Illusions never deceive me…’
But upon thinking about it, I felt strange.
‘…? What? What is that? No. There is no basis for me not being deceived by illusions. But what is this feeling…?’
I felt a strange sense of otherness lingering in my mind, yet even observing myself with the Ten Thousand Phenomena Affinity Diagram or the formless heart sword showed no abnormality.
‘I don’t know. I should at least dispel the illusion in front of me first.’
I calmed my mind and pulled up my mindscape.
The fact that illusions do not deceive is a groundless confidence, but I certainly had enough confidence not to be swayed by the heart demon.
Tstststst!
Soon, the scenery reflected inside the black jade began to change.
Instead of me who possessed filthy emotions, it was a mountain.
It was a knife mountain made of jade.
Where I draw up “power.”
I was at the center of this knife mountain.
From a place where even I could not dig, I was drawing power.
‘Perhaps… the path I must take is to find where that power comes from.’
A jade mountain appeared in the black jade.
The jade mountain reflected the black jade again, and infinite reflections that reflected each other began.
And from the end of those reflections, I could see the owner of the black jade—Tae Yeol-jeon.
Black jade and colorless jade looked at each other.
‘This is her mindscape…’
Inside her, it was one painting.
Seven enormous Heavenly Kings sat under a white lotus flower inside the enormous painting, their faces bearing kind smiles.
They looked like gigantic gods capable of supporting the sky, yet they sat in full lotus without leaving their seats.
Under the lotus, it was not a well but a hot hell, yet miraculously, no one suffered inside it.
The strange painting looked extremely sacred.
Strange as it was, there seemed to be a seat for someone to sit on above the lotus, yet no one had climbed onto it.
Tstst!
I had already returned from her mindscape and faced her again.
“Remarkable. You are the owner of the colorless jade.”
“What I have to say is that compared to the people inside you, it is much lacking.”
Despite it being obvious that she had entered my mindscape, she seemed to have received no pain unlike the others who had entered before.
“Heon-won feared the Black Jade Magic Heavenly King the most, but you fear it the least. The more one has not deceived oneself, the freer they are from his gaze. There is no more meaning in exchanging further forms. Please calm your body. It is my defeat.”
Tae Yeol-jeon smiled faintly and sat down.
I panted and began to pull in Heaven and Earth qi to treat my body more seriously and recover my internal injuries.
At the same time, I questioned the beings I had seen in her mindscape.
“…Who are those people?”
Having received the True Immortal’s gaze several times, I knew.
They were clearly transcenders, and they were definitely living gods.
Tae Yeol-jeon was essentially worshipping those gods inside herself.
“You said you did not ascend from the lower realm?”
Then you would not know. They are fictional characters appearing in the myth of the Fire Power Technique discovered only in the Greater Central Realm.
The lower realm where only the Immortal Dao exists, especially those from the Great Sea Realm, do not know about the Fire Power Technique.
They are fictional characters with the name Seven Colors King, known as beings who descend to the Saha World to grant enlightenment.
“Fire Power Technique…?”
“Yes. Occasionally discovered in the Star Realm, it is a power method system that lags behind the Immortal Power Technique in the Greater Central Realm but still maintains a lineage. The foundation of the Fire Power Technique comes from the Seven Colors King.”
“What kind of beings are the Seven Colors King?”
She explained slowly.
“Simply put, they are fictional characters woven together from various myths and legends. But they are at the same time test subjects who came to test the samsara and beings who grant enlightenment. This is the personification of a fictional concept rather than an existing divine status.”
“They do not exist?”
“That is correct. They are simply fictional concepts. As evidence, no sacrificial ritual can be offered to the Seven Colors King. Therefore, the Fire Power Technique incorporates the concept of the Seven Colors King into the power method, but the training of the magic power itself is taken from the existing Immortal Power Technique.”
‘They do not exist?’
Then what?
The feeling I felt when facing the owner of the Heavenly Tribulation.
The feeling I felt when facing the Heavenly Lord of the Underworld.
That feeling was clearly the feeling of existing gods.
“Anyway, their titles are as follows.
The Golden Body Heavenly King, symbolizing the instant.
The Red Jewel Destroying Heavenly King, symbolizing the cycle.
The Jade Armor Heavenly King, symbolizing protection.
The Silver Basket Heavenly King, symbolizing infinity.
The Cold Lunar Heavenly King, symbolizing binding.
The Jade Womb Destroying Heavenly King, symbolizing pain.
The Black Jade Magic Heavenly King, symbolizing filth.
These seven are the Seven Colors King, beings who personify a kind of concept. And…”
As she spoke, she looked at her own body and said, “If you wish to talk more, there is a temple called Tae-yeol Temple at the bottom of the Heavenly Mountain in the Whirlpool Domain. I am there, so please come find me.”
Tae Yeol-jeon’s clone disappeared as its energy scattered.
She must have exhausted the energy to maintain the clone while sparring with me.
Recalling our spar just now, I thought, “The Fire Power Technique…”
It had strongly stimulated my consciousness.
Perhaps there was a way to treat the abnormality in my spirit caused by the Fire Power Technique that stimulates consciousness.
I thought I should go with In-yeon and stood up.
* * *
Kuduk, krunch krunch…
Kugugugu—
A collapsed mountain range.
From below, a black dragon king rose.
Hyeon-eum, the Black Dragon King, turned his eyes full of anger toward the being who had destroyed his eastern part.
[Which filthy bastard dares…]
And the Strange Castle appeared in the eyes of the Black Dragon King.
Uuuuung!
Looking at the Strange Castle fully activated by the Strange Castle, Hyeon-eum’s eyes narrowed sharply.
[The Cold Lunar Heavenly King…? How…]
But the next moment, he shook his head.
[No, not that. It is definitely not him. Who the hell are you? How did you succeed in cultivating even a speck of the Cold Lunar Heavenly King’s power? I gathered them all to myself. How is it possible in the Gwanghan Realm? How?]
For a moment staring at the Strange Castle, Hyeon-eum smiled.
[Indeed. So the power left by the Cold Lunar Heavenly King in another heaven is impossible in the Gwanghan Realm. Then you are an incarnation of a True Immortal from another heaven. Haha, the place we were exterminated was the Ilwol Cheonyeok, and yet you thoughtlessly stepped foot here, not even a Heavenly Lord or even a light. There is only one reason that comes to mind. The higher-ups need my power! Do you have a message for me? What message do the higher-ups want to deliver to me? Hurry and tell me.]
And an bewildered message came from the Strange Castle.
[…? Seo Hyul came, but what the hell is he muttering? Die.]
Click!
Flash!
With the sound of something being pressed, six bizarre rays shot out from the Strange Castle and pierced Hyeon-eum’s mouth.
Hyeon-eum flew backward with his neck twisted in the opposite direction after being hit by the bizarre ray.
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Author’s note: Eun-hyun seems to be getting more and more lewd lately, which is sad. He seems to be turning into a trash guy playing with women’s hearts despite the intention… It seems the story needs a bit of adjustment, so the Fire Power Technique setting was released earlier than expected.