Seo Hyeol’s True Form (Part 2)
The moment Seo Eun-hyun reached the 107th floor, the gazes of those who had activated Takhon Mancheon pierced across the universe and reached the Blood Ghost Realm.
And before anyone could notice, the Heavenly Demons of the Blood Ghost Realm had already been infected by Seo Hyoel.
Now, those Heavenly Demons crumbled with their burdens on their backs, smiling faintly as they fell apart.
Crack… crack… crack…!
The Heavenly Demons crumbled.
At the same time, the “Seo Hyoel” inside them began to be consumed.
By devouring the Heavenly Demons, which could be called the power of Blood Ghost, he sought to brainwash the original Blood Ghost himself.
A voice resounded from the very origin of the Blood Ghost Realm, dyeing the entire universe.
By lightly staining the power retinues of the main body, by lightly staining the constellations of the main body, by climbing up the power of the main body and reaching before the main body… Do you truly believe that such a failed work as you can devour the main body?
The voice of Blood Ghost, mixed with rage, seemed to scatter across the entirety of Ilwol Cheonyeok.
How pitiful. How can the main body not become the main body’s pebble? And even this pebble-like existence made of that pebble has become so condescending toward a failed work like you.
There were fifty True Immortals in Ilwol Cheonyeok who maintained clear consciousness without forming a path of stars.
They simultaneously concealed their own light completely.
The True Immortals who had thus far strained to maintain consciousness and fornicate with the Myeonggwi Realm simultaneously closed their consciousness as if they had made a promise, sinking into slumber.
The main body is Yu Ho-deok.
One who carried the memories of the former Chief Judge General of the Underworld.
Now, the True Immortal who had seized the throne of evil virtue.
The owner of the Blood Ghost Realm, True Immortal Blood Ghost, descended upon Ilwol Cheonyeok.
How pitiful. A bug that cannot even shake off the curse bestowed upon the successor of the main body. I shall tell you your place.
At the same time, the stars across Ilwol Cheonyeok began to be enveloped in a red mist.
I, Yu Ho-deok, declare this in the name of evil virtue.
At the same time, blood began to flow from the eyes of the Seo Hyoel that had been scattered across the entirety of Ilwol Cheonyeok.
Proceed to judge the criminal who has been judged by the current Chief Judge General, Hell Ghost Myeongma Jin-gun. Criminal Seo Hyoel, hear me!
At the center of the galaxy army that had descended where Blood Ghost had appeared, blood mists began to gather from all directions.
And the blood mists condensed in the void, forming a small galaxy-sized seal.
The seal unfolded.
On that seal was written evil karma.
That evil karma was the evil karma committed by the existence named “Seo Hyoel.”
At the exact moment when Blood Ghost was about to proclaim the crime of Seo Hyoel in this world that had reached its end with a resounding voice.
How amusing. You, Blood Ghost. Despite looking down on me as a mere bug, what is the reason you broke your seclusion and descended into the Star Realm to heal the wounds inflicted by the Master of Light? What is the reason you forcibly invoke the power of evil virtue even while the Dao is incomplete, claiming to catch a failed work like me?
Shut up!
Blood Ghost roared.
Yet the reply that came from the distant constellation only further mocked Blood Ghost, peeling back his true intentions.
Do you fear me? Is that not so, Blood Ghost? What has you contaminated in the Water Realm, and what ominous power have you acquired in the Water Realm that allowed you to escape your own control and stain the entire Ilwol Cheonyeok… You do not know that, do you? You fear the unknown, so you are trying to throw your full strength. Hehe…
…I shall begin the verdict…
Blood Ghost ignored the voice of Seo Hyoel transmitted from the distant constellation and tried to infuse strength into the seal.
But right then.
That filth is precisely your reason for defeat, Blood Ghost.
Inside Blood Ghost, something began thrashing madly as if it wanted to erupt.
Crack crack crack!
The inside of Blood Ghost, the Blood Ghost Realm, was violently flipped over.
And at the same time, a purple dragon roared from within.
I can’t endure it anymore! I must hang! I must hang! I must hang!!!
It was the first Dragon King who had been invaded by the Demon Realm thousands of years ago and had been devoured whole.
The personality of the First Dragon had been temporarily released from within Blood Ghost by Takhon Mancheon.
Whoosh!
In front of Blood Ghost’s nose appeared a man wearing a jet-black robe and jet-black horns, his face bearing a kind smile.
You are not Yu Ho-deok. You are merely a madman who believes himself to be Yu Ho-deok.
Shut up!!!
Blood Ghost shook the entire universe with rage.
Yet, despite being enraged, he could not do anything to the kind-faced man before his eyes.
It was because of the purple dragon-like being rampaging inside.
But even so, he had done a great deal of shameful effort to become Yu Ho-deok himself. For example, to remove the names engraved on the souls of Wolryeong and Cheon-eum, he had used the information body of the Black Dragon and intertwined its power with that of Wolryeong to create the Xuan Yin fragment.
And to cut out the contradictions within his own soul that denied himself, turning them into fragments of Xuan Yin, and creating yet another fragment, the First Dragon, independent from the Black Dragon.
Hehe… hehe hehe… Do you not find it amusing? Filthy, filthy, so filthy. The ‘First Dragon’ you tore out… was ultimately the ‘dignity’ of Yu Ho-deok that was inside you. Having completely despaired of his own corrupted self, he bore the heart demon of Yu Ho-deok, harboring resentment toward you, Blood Ghost.
The dignity of Yu Ho-deok is me! The First Dragon is ultimately part of the main body! Because the main body is Yu Ho-deok!
And the reply came from the First Dragon, who was rampaging inside Blood Ghost.
Shut up! Yu Ho-deok is dead! You are Blood Ghost, and I am only the First Dragon. Please stop already. Please stop this filthy act, and please do not defame the formerly noble Yu Ho-deok. Please hang!
I… am Yu Ho-deok!
Red energy extended from Blood Ghost, wildly engulfing the surrounding galaxy armies.
The universe seemed to be destroying itself due to his thrashing.
Can you, bugs like you, who hold the throne of evil virtue, defeat the main body? Can you, bugs like you, possibly do anything to Yu Ho-deok, the greatest retainer of the [oldest being] who has reached the apex of the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds? I am Yu Ho-deok! A great… that no one can deny…
Right then.
Seo Hyoel smiled faintly and pulled something from his bosom.
The Chief Judge General… was… me…
And when Blood Ghost saw that, he stopped thrashing and widened his eyes, staring at something.
What Seo Hyoel pulled from his bosom was the Heavenly Lotus Fruit.
Precisely, the True Heavenly Lotus Fruit that Seo Eun-hyun had sent into Kang Min-hee’s embrace.
It was the fruit of the True Immortals that he had obtained by intruding into Kang Min-hee’s promotion ceremony.
Seo Hyoel smiled faintly and made a gesture.
The Master of Takhon Sal-mok.
From his hand, a magic spell that revealed the truth that the other most could not acknowledge, through the traces of soul and history, erupted.
Pa sa sa sa!
With it, the Heavenly Lotus Fruit scattered, illuminating the scenery in some distant space.
And Blood Ghost looked beyond that scenery.
He looked into the eyes of someone who had been resting beneath the illusion of the Dreamtree.
…I… am… Yu, Yu Ho-deok… Yu Ho-deok…
The existence of the Dreamtree opened its mouth.
At the same time, the First Dragon who had been rampaging wildly inside Blood Ghost began thrashing madly, swelling to engulf the entire Blood Ghost Realm.
The true body of Blood Ghost began to collapse.
Yet Blood Ghost only trembled while looking at the person sitting beyond the scenery, and did not resist the First Dragon.
Pa sa sa sa…
After a while.
The scenery beyond the Heavenly Lotus Fruit that Seo Hyoel had summoned through Takhon Sal-mok crumbled.
And Blood Ghost began to wail.
Aaaaah! Uwaaaaaaaa!!! Aaaaah!!!
As if he had received a shock so great that his mind would collapse, he began to shout madly and thrash wildly.
Kwarrurung!
Inside the Blood Ghost Realm, the First Dragon suppressed Blood Ghost’s outburst and cried together with him.
Poor fellow. Please sleep. Seo Hyoel will put us to sleep. Retribution. Is that not the very word Yu Ho-deok most liked to say! We are merely receiving the result of the evil karma we created!
Ku gu gu gu gu!
Seo Hyoel’s mouth appeared as if torn open by an evil curse.
Soon, Seo Hyoel began to swell his body toward the half-mad Blood Ghost.
The darkness of the universe began to rush toward Seo Hyoel.
The Seo Hyoel who had completely devoured the Black Dragon King Xuan Yin descended in front of Blood Ghost through the true body of Xuan Yin.
The First Dragon had suppressed Blood Ghost’s body, and the owner of the swollen, evil Takhon Mancheon opened his mouth toward Blood Ghost.
Kwaddok!
And that was the moment when Xuan Yin pierced into the true body of Blood Ghost.
Pa sa sa sa-
The darkness that had composed the body of Xuan Yin collapsed, and in that place, only the 2,401 stars that had formed the information body of the Black Dragon King Xuan Yin remained.
Seo Hyoel had begun to brainwash Blood Ghost by consuming the personality of the Black Dragon King Xuan Yin that he dominated.
And after a while.
Ku gu gu gu gu!
The Blood Ghost Realm calmed once more.
At the same time, the Blood Ghost Realm compressed its size and manifested a phantom body in one of the 2,401 constellations.
The phantom body of Blood Ghost was a man wearing a jet-black robe and bearing a kind face.
Seo Hyoel’s face.
…It seems you are truly a True Immortal. Soon the Takhon Mancheon will be undone.
Even though he had completely consumed one Black Dragon King Xuan Yin, he possessed the nature that soon the brainwashing would be undone.
That was the True Immortal.
Perhaps the most evil True Immortal in Sumi Mountain, who had gone mad proclaiming himself Yu Ho-deok, was Blood Ghost.
Yet Seo Hyoel smiled faintly, his face showing no concern at all, as he looked somewhere.
What does it matter.
Ttak!
At the same time, in each middle realm.
The Venerables who had entered that middle realm simultaneously began to smile faintly.
And the Saints who had formed the safe haven with the Venerables, along with them, furrowed their brows in resistance, but soon began to smile faintly.
With the brief Takhon Mancheon activated by Seo Hyoel, the entire Ilwol Cheonyeok had been brainwashed in an instant.
Indeed, even the Venerables and Saints would find it difficult to resist for long with the brief method.
Perhaps the Venerables and Saints would last a bit longer than Blood Ghost, but within half a year they would surely escape from Takhon Mancheon on their own.
Yet he was not still in a worrying expression.
Now… it will all end soon.
Swish!
After a while, Seo Hyoel, who had briefly hidden his body in some place in the constellation of Xuan Yin, smiled while looking toward the direction of the Noe-seong-hae (Thunder Star Sea).
His plan had been completed in full.
The drawer had finally reached the Water Realm.
The longest, longest journey.
Seo Hyoel smiled brightly and spread both arms wide, murmuring as if shouting to the entire universe.
Activate. Takhon Mancheon.
Ku gu gu gu gu gu!
At the same time, the gravitational force of the entire universe reached its peak and the universe began to contract.
With the end beginning, the Takhon Mancheon that had infected the entire Ilwol Cheonyeok activated.
Target: the Void between the Ilwol Cheonyeok.
The most ominous ruin in the upper center of the five middle realms, the most inauspicious place in the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds.
The head world, called the Water Realm (Sugye), the head of someone’s skull.
By the side of Seo Hyoel, Oh Hye-seo appeared and extracted the soul from the head of Seo Huel and Hong Yeon.
And finally, Seo Hyoel activated the plan that had been planned since the time four thousand years ago.
Ku gu gu gu gung!
The gravitational force of the entire universe began to gather toward the Water Realm.
***
Ku gu gu gu gu gu!
I stared at the sky of the Water Realm with a stunned expression.
It was the familiar darkness.
I finally understood Seo Hyoel’s purpose while looking at that existence with the disgusting mind.
The Water Realm (Sugye)… brainwashing… Is that your purpose, Seo Hyoel?
Gwuuuueuk!
I had a stunned expression, looking at the center of the sky of the Water Realm.
The Ascension Gate in Deungsunhyang.
The Ascension Gate, which had been normally closed, was forcibly opened, and from there a brainwashing force that was like the combined entirety of the universe enveloped the Water Realm.
…Seo Ran?
And I saw Seo Ran screaming.
Seo Ran!
Buuung!
A halo appeared behind Seo Ran’s head.
And the guy, in apparent pain, vomited a name.
Gwuu… uwaaaaa!!!
It was the halo of the Heavenly Circle that one obtains during the Cheonin stage.
The circle symbolizing Ka-zhong-myeong.
***
Star Realm.
Where Seo Hyoel was.
Four axes appeared around Seo Hyoel: Su, Bu, Gangnyeong, and Yu Ho-deok.
The Ka-zhong-myeong of the Water Realm and the four axes of the Star Realm.
Seo Hyoel chanted the gesture and finally wiped away his smile, shouting with a serious face.
Then from now on… the union of heaven and earth begins.