Axis of the Earth
A full ten thousand years of lifespan had gathered.
For the past millennia, to accumulate the contraction that had been sown across the lower realm through my power—my sacrificial ritual.
Through that ritual I had stacked seven thousand years, and in the time granted to me I tore three thousand years from my own lifespan to fill the ten thousand.
What remained was only to compress this contraction completely into myself and perform the ritual declaring that I had acquired the contraction in the Ghost Realm.
Uwooong―
In the darkness I shaped the altar and gazed at the light pillar that had formed before my eyes.
The pillar that had been made from ten thousand years of lifespan.
With this pillar, if I refine it one final time, the contraction would be complete.
Yet for some reason…
There was something that displeased my heart as I looked at this pillar.
‘Why?’
No longer was I taking the lifespans of the beings of the lower realm.
I did not lack the power to save my companions.
And it was not as if I were hesitating here now. Even at this very moment my companions outside were pouring every last drop of their strength into protecting the Sound Realm.
Then why was I hesitating here?
‘Had I simply not put in enough effort?’
That was not it.
I had always received lifespans and given the minimal price for the greatest gain.
And when I tore my own lifespan to erect the last three thousand years of contraction, I had felt the pain of hell.
That was how much agony it was to rip my own flesh with my bare hands—suffering and penance at once.
‘Then why…?’
Why was I hesitating at the final moment?
“…Huu.”
I drew a deep breath.
And, no longer hesitating, I began the contraction ceremony.
Now that I had stacked this contraction, I would simply declare it to the Ghost Realm!
There would be no more time wasted!
Whiiiish―
From the twelve directions surrounding the contraction, crimson ghost flames blazed.
“I begin the Earth Axis Ceremony!”
Uwooowung!
I raised my hand to take the first step toward truly ascending the Earth Axis Stage.
The Earth Axis.
Why must the first stage of the Middle Realm be the Earth Axis rather than the Four Pillars?
The Earth Axis meant the axis of the stars.
The north and south of the stars.
The end and the end.
The center that connects the extreme and the extreme!
That, precisely, was the Earth Axis.
Then what else should I call this stage that stacked the force linking man to man and the world to myself?
‘Wait… was I right to give it that name?’
Thinking back, I had not thought in those terms or named the Four Pillars the Earth Axis.
Suddenly, a name had been engraved in my mind.
[This land is indeed called the Earth Axis.]
The truth had been stamped so clearly in my head that I had simply spoken the name Earth Axis Stage and later attached that logic.
‘…What on earth is this?’
I did not fully understand, yet I began the Earth Axis Ceremony as it was.
It was similar to the Seven-Star Ceremony.
However, I did not need to perform the ritual facing the heavens like the Seven-Star one, only where the flow of the ley lines was smooth.
At the center of the contraction, one by one, I fed the energy of the twelve shis of the Ghost Realm into it.
That was when it happened.
“…!”
I suddenly looked up at the ceiling of the underground chamber.
Above.
From the [sky] came a sinister energy that began to swirl.
‘What… a celestial phenomenon? No… this is…!’
***
Jeon Myeong-hoon had become a storm.
Thunderclouds gathered thickly around him, and countless bolts of lightning scattered in every direction.
The ghosts who had reached the limit of the Extreme Supreme Power screamed and retreated, while the ‘believers’ who had been eroded by the True Man also fled in terror before Jeon Myeong-hoon’s thunder spears that were no different from the Tribulation of Heaven.
Crack!
Jeon Myeong-hoon dominated the battlefield with his thunder spears.
For that moment he was the king of this place.
Boom!
Red thunderbolts howled, sweeping in every direction, raging like a storm, piercing like a needle, burning like fire.
With every movement of his six arms the battlefield turned into a sea of red lightning.
Boom!
Yet slowly his expression darkened.
‘It’s about time the subordinates arrived.’
The source of this poisonous lightning he was spitting out across his entire body was the Tribulation of Heaven he had transformed.
He had been facing the enemies with the Tribulation of Heaven, and that Tribulation was gradually growing stronger because he judged that he was receiving help from others.
The Tribulation of Heaven was both a medicine and a Dharma protection to Jeon Myeong-hoon, so it was fine if it grew stronger to a certain degree.
But he felt it.
The Tribulation of Heaven he held in his hands was growing heavier and thicker.
And gradually he himself was becoming too hot to endure.
‘I can’t keep doing this.’
Eventually the Tribulation of Heaven would grow so violent that it could no longer be controlled by Jeon Myeong-hoon and would instead attack him.
Of course Jeon Myeong-hoon would not be harmed by the Tribulation of Heaven, but if it grew this strong after being absorbed, there was a high chance it would explode his dantian.
Boom!
He roared with thunder and broke out in cold sweat.
‘Damn it, just hold on a little longer, Jeon Myeong-hoon!’
He forced himself to continue, swinging the Tribulation of Heaven as if dancing.
But gradually the Tribulation of Heaven grew hotter in his hands, and finally he abandoned it.
Boom!
The Tribulation of Heaven he held in his hand flared and flew away from his grasp.
And the Tribulation of Heaven began to cover him and enter his body.
His lifespan, his cultivation, his madness began to explode.
Boom!
[Gooooooah!]
Jeon Myeong-hoon’s body grew even larger.
And at some moment!
Boom!
Jeon Myeong-hoon’s body had become nothing but thunderclouds.
When the six-armed giant made of thunderclouds alone roared, the entire vicinity echoed thunderously.
Boom!
And around Jeon Myeong-hoon a semi-transparent curtain appeared and spread out.
That curtain swelled insanely until it swallowed the Sound Realm whole.
The ghost kings of the Four Great Powers who saw that sight laughed bitterly.
“…He’s gone mad. How did that happen? He reached Integration during a fight….”
Jeon Myeong-hoon had finally completed the process of Heaven and Earth Unity and reached the Integration stage.
[Come at me, everyone! I’ve finally ascended the stage— I’ll devour you all!]
Kugugugu!
Jeon Myeong-hoon’s voice thundered from within his domain and spread in every direction.
The eyes of those watching him were filled with tension.
“Even at the Four Pillars stage he showed immense power, but at Integration… how terrifying will he become….”
“As expected, the great heretical sect’s Dharma protector…!”
Contrary to their worry, Jeon Myeong-hoon was tense.
‘Although I reached Integration, my combat power has become far weaker than when I received the Ascension Tribulation of Heaven.’
The moment he was strongest was when he received the Ascension Tribulation of Heaven.
The moment he reached the stage after receiving the Tribulation of Heaven was far weaker than the moment he received the Tribulation of Heaven.
‘Will the bluff work?’
And that was when it happened.
The ninety-six ghost kings who had been attacking Jeon Myeong-hoon and the Sound Realm retreated.
Joy appeared in Jeon Myeong-hoon’s eyes.
‘Wha… did I eat them?’
And right then.
A voice came from Seo Eun-hyun, who was clearly in closed-door cultivation.
[Jeon Myeong-hoon, be careful. Those guys seem to be trying to do something crazy!]
[What…?]
And.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!
The seven believers who had been attacking together with the Integration ghost kings suddenly leaped toward the Sound Realm in the opposite direction of the retreating ghost kings.
[They sent the erosion bodies… so they’re borrowing the power of the True Men…? This crazy…!]
Kugugugu!
The seven believers stretched their hands and bodies toward the sky with multiple heads.
And from the sky a light descended connecting the believers and the True Men.
‘I have to stop them…!’
Kuru, kururung!
But before Jeon Myeong-hoon could move, dark clouds of rain gathered in the sky once more, blocking the sight of the True Men.
The believers who had tried to borrow power from the True Men were cut off from them.
Jeon Myeong-hoon’s eyes filled with joy.
[Too late, you slowpoke!]
[Sorry about this…]
Kugugugu!
A ghost king with nineteen heads flew toward the side of the six-armed giant made of thunderclouds.
The six-armed giant made a seal and pointed at the sky.
The dark clouds that had been wriggling, ready to drop a pair of Tribulation of Heavens the moment Seo Eun-hyun completed his contraction, could not drop them.
[I delayed the time a bit so that the Tribulation of Heavens would fall with my power. There will be a chance to recover… Anyway, Seo Eun-hyun… is it done?]
[Done. Now… I just need to open the ‘back door’!]
Jeon Myeong-hoon let out a small sigh.
The five-fortune contraction Seo Eun-hyun had stacked so far was two.
And according to Yeon Wi, three were required to open the back door.
Of course, if he combined the two contractions Seo Eun-hyun had stacked with the power Jeon Myeong-hoon had reached after reaching Integration, it could be treated as three and the back door opened.
But the problem was that if Jeon Myeong-hoon focused on opening the back door with Seo Eun-hyun, there would be a gap in their combat power.
[Can you really hold out without me and you…?]
To Jeon Myeong-hoon’s question, Seo Eun-hyun turned around.
From the entire Sound Realm his disciples had come out and were looking up at the finished closed-door cultivation of Seo Eun-hyun.
Jeon Myeong-hoon and the other companions, the protecting ghost kings, the guests like Yeo-hui, and every single one of his connections were watching him.
Seo Eun-hyun smiled.
[Don’t worry.]
Uwooowooong!
The force began to arise within his body.
Jeon Myeong-hoon jumped in surprise at the sight.
[You…! I clearly said it was two contractions…!? You tricked me!?]
[Um… I didn’t trick you, I explained that if you cut the stage and converted with the Gwan-gan decree of Gwang-han Heavenly King you could stack one more contraction, right? You just didn’t listen?]
Seo Eun-hyun clicked his tongue and laughed bitterly, while Jeon Myeong-hoon got angry instead.
[Damn it! If there was something that good I should have beaten you into learning it!]
[So-hae was the one who said she had to reach the stage quickly and wouldn’t listen. Anyway, I can open the ‘back door’ alone.]
From the forty-eight eye sockets he nodded toward Jeon Myeong-hoon with trustworthy eyes.
[Then I leave the sect’s protection to you, Jeon Myeong-hoon!]
[Ha… understood. Sect Master!]
Seo Eun-hyun flew toward the Wugeuk Sect direction and began making seals.
[Then… I will open the back door…!]
And.
Kugugugu!
The dark clouds of rain in the sky that had been sealed by Jeon Myeong-hoon and still contained the Tribulation of Heaven.
The symbol of that Tribulation of Heaven began to lift.
[…What?]
The next moment.
Ziiiing―
A massive [will] began to descend to the ground.
―By the will of the True Men, all heavenly punishments occurring in every corner of the Ghost Realm at this moment shall be delayed by one year. The clouds dropping the Tribulation of Heaven, disperse.
Ziiiing―
The will of the True Men echoed across the battlefield.
The dark clouds that Seo Eun-hyun had created upon his ascension scattered absurdly, and the will of the True Men descended once more to the ground.
Kugugugu!
Starlight from the sky fell on the seven believers.
[Goooooooah!]
[Gaaaaaaaah!]
[Geeeeeeeaaaah!]
The believers began to scream in agony one after another.
Among those watching the battlefield uneasily from behind Seo Eun-hyun, Yeo-hui’s eyes shook as she looked at them.
“Wait, what!? Cheonjo-gwi-nim…!?”
She cried out at one of the believers who was accepting the light of the True Men and suffering.
“Cheonjo-gwi-nim! Why are you there! Cheonjo-gwi-nim!”
But the transformed believer of Cheonjo-gwi could not hear her words and only murmured while accepting the light from the sky.
[I… will save… I will definitely save…]
The ninety-six Integration ghost kings who had been behind the seven believers gathered behind each believer twelve at a time and began making seals.
Uwoong, uwoong, uwooowooong―
The Integration ghost kings expanded their domains.
Their domain, like a dimensional curtain, rang and stretched toward the sky as a pillar.
And those pillars were the ends of the light falling on the seven believers.
They sprayed the force of the ghost kings toward the void.
Finally, a crack formed in the void.
Crackle!
Nothing looked particularly different.
The dark sky of the Ghost Realm still had stars floating, and the stars were only looking down at the ground.
The only change was the transparent ‘crack’ that had appeared in the sky.
However, through that crack the [power] from above poured down.
――――――!
With an unknown cry, the seven believers simultaneously reached their fingers toward the Sound Realm.
The next moment.
Kuguguguguk!
Over the entire Sound Realm an irresistible weight was placed.
Boom!
Crack!
The domain expanded by the Six Extreme Ghost King Jeon Myeong-hoon was shattered to pieces.
Jeon Myeong-hoon was not dead, but he lay on the ground with no breath, his body pressed flat.
Seo Eun-hyun, who had been opening the back door from above the Wugeuk Sect, was also thrown to the ground.
[Kku… uuuuuug!]
Seo Eun-hyun did not press his body flat like Jeon Myeong-hoon, but he was stuck to the ground and could do nothing properly.
Moreover, the force was gradually growing stronger.
Deng deng deng deng!
The curse puppets of the ghosts of the Sound Realm were all spewing white steam and breaking down.
The True Men were trying to exterminate the Wugeuk Sect.
***
‘This crazy….’
It was an enormous pressure.
If this continued, not only the Wugeuk Sect but the entire Sound Realm would be crushed into powder.
Kuguguguk!
While enduring the pressure falling on me, I mobilized all the force I had used to create the back door and blocked the power falling on the Sound Realm.
Thanks to that, the disciples and Jeon Myeong-hoon were relieved of a considerable amount of pressure, but the area of pressure I received increased, making me feel as if my entire body might explode.
“It’s… funny… don’t…!”
I shouted with my voice without the strength to use any technique.
The pressure was as if it were about to crush me to death right here with no chance to open the back door.
According to what I had said earlier, I should have repelled or destroyed them.
There seemed to be two choices, but in reality it was only the opinion to destroy them.
“Kku… uuuuuug…!”
But the truth was, I no longer had the power to stop it.
I felt it.
This monstrous cosmic power was being exerted by the True Men in a ‘wounded’ state.
It was not even their original body power, but simply indirect power poured through the believers.
If they used their power directly, they were probably afraid of seeing the Reverse Horn again from me.
However, with even this weak and indirect power we were on the brink of death.
I became furious and shouted at the sky.
“True Men! What wrong have we done to you!”
But no answer came.
Yet I knew somehow.
We were bugs to them.
I did not think it necessary to explain with great effort to bugs.
Yes.
The reason they were doing this was obvious.
It was not out of disgust for me or anger at me for showing them the Reverse Horn.
They simply felt that the being they thought was behind them was ignoring and opposing them, and were taking out their frustration on me, whom they thought was that being’s long-term plan.
‘How amusing.’
Such a being did not exist.
How many times had they mocked and ridiculed me like this?
Though aggrieved and angry, there was nothing I could do.
The only thing I could do was to be crushed a little more by the power of the True Men.
‘Again… am I going to die to a great being….’
I knew.
Being crushed by the will of the True Men and dying was the ending of this cycle.
There was no other ending.
‘Then… this is… our end….’
I closed my eyes.
And accepted death.
‘If I am to die like this….’
I began to decompose the contraction I had just completely stacked.
‘I’ll give it back.’
Tssssssst―
The lifespans I had received over the past millennia as a Wugeuk King and given to the beings of the lower realm in exchange for power.
Due to those lifespans I sensed the force connected to them.
‘I’ll give it back.’
Through the force I tore my contraction and gave it back again.
Through the Gongryeong-ji, countless lights poured down.
The lifespans used in my contraction were returning to their original owners.
In any case, since I was going to die, I decided to do at least what I could.
In any case, it was better to return what was not mine.
Tssssssst―
And right then.
A voice whispered by my ear as if someone were speaking.
―Is it a pity? Even if you do this and that, it is the price of a fair transaction. In the end you used only time and power and gained nothing. It is meaningless.
Was it my conscience?
Or the desire remaining in me?
It did not matter.
The answer was already set.
“I had nothing from the beginning.”
In any case, life was a succession of failures and emptiness.
It was only adding a single grain of meaningless dust to the mountain of countless failures and meaningless.
“If I came with an empty body, I should go with an empty body.”
With my last strength I was about to ingest the Myeolsin Geopcheon.
But then.
―You are magnificent.
I felt the [voice] I thought was my conscience or desire laughing.
A chill ran down my spine.
‘Wha… what?’
The next moment, I suddenly screamed in mad pain felt around my chest.
“Huaaaaaaaaaah!”
It hurts!
It hurts so much!!!
Crack, zizizizik!
[Someone]!
Was tearing my lifespan!
I had received ten thousand years of lifespan from the sky when I reached the Four Pillars stage.
And of that, I had used three thousand years for the contraction, so the remaining lifespan was about ten thousand years combined with what I had received during the closed-door cultivation of the Poverty Realm.
However, [someone] had torn my remaining lifespan.
In an instant seven thousand years of my lifespan had been ripped away.
I had experienced the agony of ripping my flesh many times, but the pain of being torn brutally by the lifespan itself was an unbearable pain I could never get used to.
The pain rushing from the depths of my soul left me unable to regain my senses.
But at that moment [someone] gave only three thousand years of the torn lifespan to the remaining contraction.
Uwooowooong!
The contraction that had remained at only three tenths for the beings of the lower realm was completed once more to ten tenths.
But right then.
I felt as if I knew something.
―Cultivation is nothing but ‘taking.’ Taking from the magic path, from the righteous path, from the demons, from enemies, to elevate oneself. That is cultivation! The one who blocks my will, take it from anyone—take from evil ghosts, from enemies, from companions, even from those promised to be betrothed for a thousand years! Taking to complete oneself is cultivation!
‘Why’ was I hesitating before stacking the previous contraction?
‘Why’ did the method of stacking the contraction not appeal to me?
Yes, it was probably because it was too close to the magic path that could easily steal the remaining five-fortune contraction.
But now.
‘Only with my pure lifespan’ I was stacking the contraction.
I understood why there was still a hindrance in my heart.
I looked at the phantom of Yeon Wi before my eyes.
No, it was the phantom of Geumsincheonroemun taught by Yeon Wi and soon the phantom of Yang Su-jin.
“…How can one elevate oneself by taking what belongs to others?”
I could only elevate myself with myself alone.
―Cultivation is nothing but true right.
Only by turning inward to oneself, realizing oneself, and overcoming oneself can one be completed. How can what was taken from another become mine!
And the [voice] laughed.
―Yes, that is it.
In the midst of my body being crushed by the True Men I lowered my head and felt deep gratitude toward the [voice].
“I do not know who you are, but I thank you for the deep awakening.”
―Do you not know me?
“What?”
‘What are you saying?’
I made a bewildered expression at the feeling that the [voice] seemed to know me for some reason.
―Didn’t you call me? Many times.
“What do you….”
But the next words of the [voice] made me feel my head go white.
―Cultivation is nothing but true right.
Uwooowooong―
The words I had just spoken.
It seemed as if I had simply organized my thoughts, but it was a misunderstanding.
This was the ‘already’ present Gwan-gan decree within me.
―Just as tiny grains of salt gather to form the sea.
It was the same as when I had learned the name of the ‘Earth Axis’ stage.
‘Ah, I see.’
I had not specially awakened to know this.
I had already known through this Gwan-gan decree.
―Through true right, stack the mountain.
I stretched my hand toward the phantom of the Reverse Horn that appeared before my eyes as if I were possessed.
―Stacking only the mountain of salt will reach the sky the fastest.
Until now I had only used the information filtered through Seo Hyul.
But at this moment I realized I could read the [original] of this technique.
The owner of the Gwan-gan decree had permitted me.
Psssasasa―
Pure white energy began to form like grains around me.
I stood up from my place.
Although the True Men above were crushing my body, it was useless.
Now I knew.
The true method of performing the Earth Axis Stage.
First, contract with countless beings of the lower realm, receive the price, and then work for them.
After that, at the end, offer your own lifespan instead of the lifespans received from the beings as contraction, and return the price received from the beings.
Yes, it was returning the blessings one had obtained.
The Six Extremes were not something existing but the state without blessings.
In that empty state without blessings, feeling the Six Extremes and realizing all the Five Blessings and Six Extremes was precisely the Earth Axis Stage!
Psssasasa―
I smiled while looking at the pure white grains of energy swirling around me.
Previously when I used this, my arms or body extremities would salt up and become uncontrollable, but now it was different.
Perfect control.
I knew.
Heon-won had been using this technique in reverse for some reason of his mind.
The name of this technique was not the Taesan Yeolje Gong.
It was not the technique of the reverse heaven that split the original single energy into seven pieces.
Rather, it was the exact opposite.
‘Merging the seven kinds of energy into one….’
Wiiiiing―
The energy of yin and yang and the five elements merged into one between my two hands.
‘Reverse Horn… no. The wonder that forms the mountain.’
That was the true effect of this strange technique wrongly named the Taesan Yeolje Gong!
Chwaaaaaang!
The condensed energy from both hands was shot into the sky and exploded.
It was far greater and larger than the vague Reverse Horn shape I had vaguely shown before with the Taesan Yeolje Gong, filling the sky.
Pure white light swept across heaven and earth.
The bodies of the ‘believers’ of the True Men wrapped in that light began to melt and turn into salt.
And from inside the salt, the original forms of the ‘believers’ began to appear.
It was the power of the True Men retreating from the ‘believers.’
Moreover, the effect of this wonder was not the end.
――――――!!!
―――!!!
―!!!!!!!!!!
――――――――――――!!!
Kugugugugug!
The world shook.
No, the entire Ghost Realm shook madly.
It was a reaction completely different from when I had shown the previous Reverse Horn to the True Men.
To put it metaphorically, the previous one was like an adult accidentally hitting the neck of a three-inch dwarf, while this one was like an adult stabbing a three-inch dwarf with a huge knife.
I felt the True Men receiving a proper fatal blow upon seeing the salt mountain.
My power was like a bug compared to the True Men, but the being beyond the salt mountain was not like that at all.
The pressure crushing the Sound Realm disappeared.
What remained were only the True Men glowing madly as if their minds had snapped outside the realm surface of the Ghost Realm.
I felt them convulsing in genuine pain.
I looked at the sky and smiled.
Psssasasa―
I, who had escaped the form of the ghost king with nineteen heads, stretched my hand with the contractions I had stacked only with my power and lifespan.
The two orthodox contractions and the contraction of the Gwang-han Heavenly King that matched it merged and opened the void.
The ‘back door’ that could only be opened with the special technique of the Heukgwi Bone Palace and the Seopmyeong Ship was opened by my hand.
Uwooowooong―
The back door widened and widened until it covered the entire Sound Realm.
After opening the back door I turned around.
On the other side the Integration ghost kings of the Four Great Powers were staring at this side with dazed expressions.
In between them the believers who had escaped the True Men were overjoyed at having found their lives, and Yeo-hui, who had already flown away, was hugging Cheonjo-gwi and sobbing.
Although it was fatal to the Gaeyeol, it was not fatal to the lower stages, and I withdrew the light rays.
And finally I lowered my head to the Ghost Realm itself.
Until then I was expressing gratitude to the connections accumulated in the Ghost Realm and to the world itself.
“Then, farewell.”
Kugugugugug!
Now it was time to return.
To the Gwang-han Realm I missed so much.
In this way, the Sound Realm entered the back door after leaving the Ghost Realm behind.
***
Cheonwang Cheonyeok.
The palace of light in the center of the heavenly realm.
Inside it eight massive existences were exuding anxious auras.
: : In the Jichukcheon-yeok an absolute tribulation has suddenly appeared. : :
: : What nonsense power is that. The sealed heavenly realm is shaking. : :
: : If this continues the mountain deity sealed with difficulty will break out again. : :
: : We must quickly create a sealed heavenly realm dedicated only to the mountain deity like when the tribulation deity was active. Sealing oneself in one’s own heavenly realm is unstable. : :
: : What is this sudden situation. Why is that person having an episode. : :
: : I don’t know. He’s crazy. First, we should have a few of us go directly to reinforce the heavenly realm. Otherwise that person will break the Gwangmyeong blocking and come out again…. : :
: : He’s a monster… He really is the match for the Heavenly Venerable…. : :
: : It’s only natural. Even if he has fallen, he was once a noble existence…. : :
The eight figures exchanging opinions soon made their decision.
: : It is a serious situation regarding the Imperial Immortal. Let everyone move. : :
: : Glory to the Gwangmyeong Sangje. : :
Ssssst!
After speaking, the figures vanished somewhere.
In the hall only the light throne remained alone.
***
Goryeok Realm.
The base of the Buk Hyang-hwa Fleet.
Inside it a woman in white was stroking a jade bead.
She looked at the ghost lying in front of her with a bitter face.
“Song-nim, are you leaving now?”
The ghost laughed loudly and said.
[The old man is finally leaving. Until then… it was really fun.]
“Noble one… there must be another path.”
[What path. I’ve lived enough. As long as the pure ghost energy of the main continent of the Ghost Realm doesn’t suddenly drop from the sky, I will leave now….]
The old ghost took the hand of the woman in white with a comfortable face.
[When I go… please take care of my disciples….]
At that moment.
Uwooowooong!
“…?”
[…?]
The jade bead in the hand of the woman in white began to vibrate wildly and emitted an eerie heat.
“W-why is this?”
The heat emitted by the bead gradually grew stronger.
And at some moment.
Kwaaaaang!
“…Eh?”
The woman in white and the old ghost could hear the world-shaking thunderclap that echoed across the entire world.
Kugugugug!
After the thunderclap the bead’s temperature stopped rising or falling and stayed fixed, and vibrations echoed across the entire world.
The old ghost said in panic.
[Th-th-the heavenly energy is shaking. Could it be…]
He shouted.
[A being from another realm has entered the Goryeok Realm…!]