The Venerable’s Power
Crackling!
A loud hiss rose from the lineage of the righteous path.
The Venerables recoiled as one, their bodies trembling violently in place.
But.
“Roar!”
The roar of the Yellow Dragon Tribe’s Venerable cut through the air, instantly steadying their nerves.
“So you have the strength to interrogate the Holy Son… but it changes nothing.”
Fwoosh!
The Yellow Dragon’s body ignited from within the cosmic space.
At the same time, I saw six stars burning inside his flesh.
“He’s already completed the True Heaven Great Completion… late-stage Star Shattering.”
In the Star Shattering realm, the number of stars naturally divided the stages into early, middle, and late.
One True Heaven Great Completion meant early stage.
True Heaven, Supreme Heaven, Mysterious Heaven, Reversal Heaven, and Extreme Heaven—that was the middle stage of five stars.
After that, forging the True Heaven Great Completion while absorbing the laws of the universe and growing stronger on a larger planet marked the late stage.
And the seventh star, drawing the universe’s aura through the laws of man, formed the Great Completion realm and became the ultimate Star Shattering stage.
Boom boom boom!
The six stars of the Yellow Dragon pulsed in perfect sync, exchanging strength and amplifying their power.
Then, at the peak of that surge!
Flicker!
A dragon roar exploded from his mouth.
The cosmic space instantly blazed with light.
Amid the scorching heat and radiance, I recalled the Dharma-Destroying True Word of Taesan Sage.
“It is… marvelous….”
Heaven and earth were drenched in pure gold from the dragon roar.
I pulled my Glass Reincarnation higher within that light and smiled a blinding white smile.
“Even if it’s rough… it won’t break.”
* * *
Boom boom boom!
The Yellow Dragon Tribe’s Venerable, Gye-wol-jin, spat a dragon roar and furrowed his brows.
“I knew the madman who tortured the Holy Son would be terrifying… and he is.”
Drip drip drip!
Beyond the dragon roar, he saw the monstrous scale slowly piercing through and clicked his tongue in his heart.
“Word has it he allied with the descendant of the Golden God and stabbed the Holy Son’s wound… I thought he was simply after our weaknesses… no, wrong. He’s an old general of countless battles who has crossed warfields far stronger than himself to reach here.”
Gye-wol-jin immediately grasped Seo Eun-hyun’s true nature and signaled the other Venerables.
The Venerables read the signal and raised their power with grave expressions.
“It’s a monster. Do not relax your guard.”
“Trample it with everything you have!”
None of the experts gathered here underestimated Seo Eun-hyun, for they had all read the future and the wisdom of space-time.
Three Yellow Gold Realm Venerables headed to the next floors.
Floors 99, 98, 97, and 96 had already been breached, and the monsters on each floor were spewing killing intent at him right now.
“It would have been nice to have the Myeonggwi Realm allies as well.”
“We had no choice. At some point he suddenly went mad and fled somewhere.”
“No time to lament those who aren’t here.”
They ascended to each floor and began inducing the minds of the floor lords spewing killing intent at Seo Eun-hyun.
The floor lords began glaring at Seo Eun-hyun.
Whoosh!
From within Gye-wol-jin’s dragon roar, a hand erupted.
It was a hand made of glass flames.
Screech!
That hand tore through the dragon roar and began widening the outer passage by ripping at Gye-wol-jin’s roar.
And when he finally tore through the dragon roar!
Flash!
Gye-wol-jin stopped spewing the roar and quickly retreated.
The space he had occupied was now filled by the four Venerables of the Goryeok Realm.
The four Goryeok Venerables.
Haemol Venerable Wumicheon.
Chokjo Venerable Gyowi.
Yeomhae Venerable Yukjeung.
Daemak Venerable Soha.
They were the Venerables of the Haemang Clan, Chokgyo Clan, Haeryong Clan, and Cheolhae Clan—all bloodlines descended from the Sea King.
“You’re the one who summoned that damn Blood Sound and ruined the Gwanghan Realm, right?”
Slam!
Yeomhae Venerable Yukjeung, a Venerable of the Haeryong Clan, descended in half-man half-dragon form toward Seo Eun-hyun and asked.
Seo Eun-hyun raised one arm to block Yukjeung’s foot and looked up at him.
Yukjeung grinned and said.
“I don’t care about the exile order of Holy Son Hae-rin. But enough reason to hate you for helping that Blood Sound bastard!”
* * *
Three Hundred Million Jin Deep Sea Star
Boom boom boom!
Drop after drop of water the size of three hundred million jin formed spheres and encircled Seo Eun-hyun.
At first the water spheres seemed to evaporate against his Glass Reincarnation, but they swelled his body until they reached planetary size.
Seo Eun-hyun sank into the planetary sea and felt the monstrous attraction crushing his body while the pressure squeezed him.
“Disperse!”
Splat splat splat!
White light exploded from the Deep Sea Star.
The salt of the sea sprayed as it transformed into a power form at the level of qi.
“Salt Sea Tsunami Secret Word.”
A legend existed in the Goryeok Realm.
The legendary divine art Salt Sea Evaporating Jade.
It would seize the supremacy of the Goryeok Realm.
And Yukjeung had once purged a secret cult of the Goryeok Realm, killed its supreme law, and obtained a technique from the corpse of that supreme law.
That was his own name technique and a peerless divine art derived from part of the Salt Sea Evaporating Jade formula.
Salt Sea Tsunami Secret Law.
“Look! This is the ultimate secret law forged over ten thousand years to kill the Yin Sound and Son-in-Law! The Salt Sea Tsunami Secret Word!”
Kwaaarr-lee!
The entire Three Hundred Million Jin Deep Sea Star summoned by him blazed white and detonated.
The entire layer of space trembled and a hole tore open in the void.
Gye-wol-jin shouted at Yukjeung.
“Yukjeung! Why create a hole in the Trial Tower?!”
“Heh heh! You don’t get it! We’re not worried about that now!”
And in the center of the pure white light where Yukjeung had detonated the Salt Sea Tsunami Secret Word, shadows began to flicker.
Shiiii-
As the light faded, a round crystal floated in the middle of the explosion like an egg.
Ching!
The next instant the crystal shattered and Seo Eun-hyun sprang out from within.
“Not bad. If you’d only mastered the Salt Sea Evaporating Jade, it would have been dangerous.”
And he laughed sinisterly.
“Then is it my turn?”
Fwoosh!
Glass Reincarnation blazed fiercely across his entire body.
Completely unaffected by Yukjeung’s attack moments ago!
“All-out attack! Don’t give him an opening!”
One member of the Haemang Clan, Wumicheon, roared.
And at the same time the Goryeok Venerables unleashed their strongest techniques at Seo Eun-hyun.
And Seo Eun-hyun sealed his hand gesture.
**Glass Sea-Crossing Star**
**Sword Sea Star Body**
Swoosh swoosh!
The Glass Reincarnation flames on his body changed.
Shards of glass flame turned into swords and spun wildly around him.
At the same time, Seo Eun-hyun’s hands changed.
Fwoosh!
His hands became pure Glass Reincarnation and merged completely with the colorless glass swords that had erupted from the void.
The next instant.
Thud!
The surrounding attraction twisted violently and Seo Eun-hyun leaped toward the Goryeok Venerables.
* * *
Outside the Thunder Star Sea.
It remained calm, as steady as peacetime.
And around the Thunder Star Sea, four enormous beings each took a deep breath.
They were the Venerables of the Myeonggwi Realm.
“You must have felt it too, right?”
“I felt it. The Messenger of Death has descended on the Thunder Star Sea.”
“Hey, you black lotus skeleton! Say something! Everyone knows the lowest rung of the Underworld is just a small fry, right?! Why suddenly a Messenger of Death appears in the Thunder Star Sea?!”
“How should I know! And you lot calling us the lowest rung of the Underworld… we are just the lowest! We can’t even see the real [Underworld ship], and we barely manage to photograph its shadow with the Seopmyeong Ship! What am I supposed to do when the Messenger suddenly descends?!”
They were arguing over the horrifying death energy that had just descended on the Thunder Star Sea moments ago.
And then.
Something in their futures caught.
“Huuu, huuaaah!”
“The Messenger! The Messenger! The Messenger is descending!”
“Kiiieee! Run!”
“I… I cannot die yet. Forgive me. Forgive me…!”
Each of them looked at the scene that appeared in their futures and trembled with fear, then leaped away to somewhere in the cosmos and vanished.
And the instant they fled.
Boom!
The dimensional barrier of the Thunder Star Sea shattered and a vast slash shot out.
Inside that slash, twenty Venerables emerged and looked inside with chills.
“Why are you staring? I told you I would hunt you down. Come on, hunt me. I’m not running!”
Drip drip drip!
Something walked out from within.
At the same time the cosmic space began to shake.
And the three Myeonggwi Realm Venerables watching him.
Heukryeon Venerable Omu.
Gyeokam Venerable Taecheok.
Tamseong Venerable Yowan.
The three Venerables of the Heukryeon Clan, whose bodies turned into black smoke.
The Amwon Clan, descendants of the former bankrupt Ma-won.
And the three Venerables of the Gieok Clan, who possessed bat wings, began to use their demonic arts.
Zwaaaaa!
A miasma of curses spread and began binding Seo Eun-hyun.
Gyeokam Venerable Taecheok rushed at Seo Eun-hyun and thrust a fist.
And behind him, the Tamseong Venerable Yowan, with the face of a girl, opened his mouth.
And Seo Eun-hyun spat out Glass Reincarnation.
**Glass Sea-Crossing Star**
**Heaven-Shattering Star Body**
A pair of wings appeared behind the Glass Reincarnation.
The glass-flame wings reflected the heavens and the starlight in turn.
The pair of wings seemed to absorb into his arms and he reached out toward Gyeokam Venerable Taecheok.
Ching!
“What?!”
The eyes of the Gyeokam Venerable shook violently.
And the next instant he screamed like a madman and fled from Seo Eun-hyun.
A glass-colored flame clung to his hand.
Seo Eun-hyun opened his mouth behind him and reached toward the Tamseong Venerable who was sucking him in.
**Glass Sea-Crossing Star**
**Twin-Color Heaven**
**Blood-Sucking Flame**
Fwoosh!
The black Glass Reincarnation entered the Tamseong Venerable’s mouth and soon after he closed his mouth and thrashed in agony.
And the next instant, Seo Eun-hyun looked at the black smoke covering him and smiled wickedly.
“You dared to curse right in front of this Venerable’s body?”
The Heukryeon Venerable met Seo Eun-hyun’s eyes.
He hurriedly read the heavenly secrets and calculated the optimal future.
And he froze.
Because every possible future he had seen was only the mad screaming kind.
“I’ll teach you properly.”
Boom boom!
Glass Reincarnation began spinning around him.
**Glass Sea-Crossing Star**
**No-Interval Star Body**
[…!!!!!!]
The Glass Reincarnation turned black.
At the same time, the black Glass Reincarnation enveloped Seo Eun-hyun’s entire body.
The Heukryeon Venerable looked at the black Seo Eun-hyun and his eyeballs exploded.
“Huaaah!”
He fled in terror.
A Venerable’s eyes exploding simply for looking at a curse.
This meant that the being in front of him was perhaps infinitely close to the True Immortal realm in terms of curses.
“Can’t escape.”
**Glass Sea-Crossing Star**
**No-Interval Star Body**
**Sword Sea Star Body**
Seo Eun-hyun’s hand merged once more with the colorless glass swords.
He swung the colorless glass swords blazing with black flames.
**Asim Sword**
**Eternal Soul Grief**
The curse of the No-Interval Star Body slammed into the Heukryeon Venerable through the inescapable Eternal Soul Grief along with the initial technique of the No-Interval Star Body.
The fleeing Heukryeon Venerable let out a horrifying scream that seemed to echo across the entire stellar system and soon after changed into a star right there.
He had suffered too much pain for too short a time and had momentarily lost his mind.
“No matter what, I can’t send you off so easily.”
Fwoosh!
His body returned from black flames to ordinary glass-colored flames.
At the same time, Seo Eun-hyun extended both hands toward the other Venerables charging at him aggressively.
**Glass Sea-Crossing Star**
**Strange Star Body**
Thousands of strands of Glass Reincarnation stretched from his body in all directions.
“Block it! Dodge!”
Under Gye-wol-jin’s command the Gwanghan Realm Venerables all dodged, but the remaining two Myeonggwi Realm Venerables.
The Chokgyo Clan Venerable Gyowi of the Goryeok Realm was hit by the flames.
And the next instant the Glass Reincarnation began tracing circuits through their bodies.
“Kiiieee!”
“Hwaaaaa!”
The demonic art of the Strange Parasite combined with the circuits of Goe-gun to make the target controlled in an instant, and it struck three Venerables.
The Tamseong Venerable, the Gyeokam Venerable, and the Chokjo Venerable.
The three Venerables suddenly screamed beneath Seo Eun-hyun and charged at the other Venerables.
The Goryeok Venerables and the Gwanghan Realm Venerables.
And the Yellow Gold Realm Venerables who had gone to control the upper-floor monsters appeared.
The lord of the 96th floor.
A Star Shattering Great Completion-level Thunder Corpse, controlled by the Yellow Gold Realm Venerable, charged at Seo Eun-hyun.
The lord of the 97th floor, a Star Plate-level Thunder Phoenix, flapped its wings and scattered a storm carrying thunderbolts.
The lord of the 98th floor, a Thunder Bear, began gathering the surrounding nebulae to prepare a supernova explosion.
**Glass Sea-Crossing Star**
**Wind-Smear Star Body**
And the interstellar wind began to blow.
Wind-Calling Responding Dragon Transformation, Great Desert Dead Sea Formation, and other techniques that controlled wind and attraction.
The power of the Glass Sea-Crossing Star manipulated the interstellar wind of the universe through attraction.
Boom boom!
A dragon roar appeared in the cosmos.
Glass Reincarnation mixed into the interstellar wind and whipped everywhere.
And the Thunder Beasts of the Trial Tower struck by the Glass Reincarnation began howling in fury.
Their demonic arts being disrupted by the interstellar wind was one thing, but the glass flames giving them a tingling pain in their bodies were unbearable.
And Seo Eun-hyun sealed his hand gesture.
**Glass Sea-Crossing Star**
**No-Interval Star Body**
The Glass Reincarnation covering their bodies all transformed into a black flame containing Seo Eun-hyun’s “all suffering.”
The Thunder Beasts immediately went mad from the black flames, screamed in pain, and fled far from the Thunder Star Sea.
Then, when the energy of the Thunder Star Sea cut off, the Thunder Beasts all disappeared at once.
Seo Eun-hyun looked at the remaining Venerables with a sinister smile.
Now only five Venerables remained in the space.
The Yellow Dragon Tribe’s Gye-wol-jin.
The Baekwoo Tribe’s Pyongcheon Venerable Hamrak.
The Buhyu Tribe’s Ancheon Venerable Guryo.
The Jangmok Tribe’s Docheon Venerable Gukgwang.
The Tugui Tribe’s Malcheon Venerable Jinwol-ryeong.
And the Jangmok Tribe’s Gukgwang pulled a silver-blue sword from his waist and shouted.
“I am the great believer of light.”
Flash!
Silver-white light surrounded him.
“Come, have you heard my name?!”
In response to Gukgwang’s shout, the remaining Gwanghan Realm Venerables all sealed their ears.
“Fifth Seat of the Gwangmyeong-palseon, Sword Extreme Heavenly Venerable!”
With the title of True Immortal on his lips, Gukgwang poured all the silver-white light into his sword.
Using the name of the True Immortal as an attack, he enlarged the silver-blue sword.
Woo-woooong!
A silver-blue giant sword appeared in the cosmic space.
“Sword Extreme Heavenly Venerable, grant your power to this believer!”
And a sacred sword light shone across the entire universe.
“No matter how strong that guy is, how can he stay sane in front of the name of the sacred? No, even if he stays sane, how can he stay sane in front of the sacred’s power!”
He boldly prayed to the sacred he served.
“Sacred One, please grant your protection to me!”
He extended both arms toward the sacred light like a priest offering a sacrifice.
The next instant.
The sacred sword light began to condense toward Seo Eun-hyun.