The Battle of the Stars and the Silent Plea
Kim Young-hoon sweated profusely in the misty air of Sam-mok-chong, Gwanghan Realm.
Then, without warning—
Whoosh! Whoosh!
A massive solar orb of light manifested upon the overlapped Ghost Realm that hung over the Gwanghan Realm.
“Haaaah!”
Thud!
With zero qi infused, Kim Young-hoon’s saber severed an entire mountain peak of Sam-mok-chong in a single stroke.
“…Ha… hahaha!”
Kim Young-hoon laughed at the sight.
And beside him, Jang Ik smirked.
“Now you’ve finally become somewhat usable.”
“Haha! ‘Finally’? This is far faster than Senior Jang! Aren’t you afraid of being surpassed, Senior? Will I leap over you?”
“Hahaha!”
Jang Ik chuckled at the ridiculous remark.
“How could you possibly surpass me? ‘Now.’ ‘This very instant!’ I am stronger than you! If you leap over me one second from now, what will you do? I can chop off your neck right this moment!”
The Heart Tribe disciples began their charge.
Crack!
Jang Ik lunged at Kim Young-hoon.
The Four Treasures Heaven-Destroying Saber.
Slaughter of the Heavens.
An razor-sharp slash grazed the air and shot toward Kim Young-hoon’s face.
Kim Young-hoon bent his waist as if ready to bow, then deflected the blow with explosive force.
Boom!
The golden blade rebounded from the emerald stone sword.
The Form of the Hundredth Pillar.
The Third Form.
Golden Blade, Jade Voice.
Kim Young-hoon’s saber, ringing like the mountain-echo chant of Dan-ak Sword Art, poured into Jang Ik’s body.
Jang Ik clicked his tongue and closed in like a snake, slapping Kim Young-hoon’s chest.
“…Kugh!”
Kim Young-hoon spat blood and glanced around.
‘This madman…’
He had been dragged from the An-gye region all the way into the upper airspace of the Nan-gye region.
Despite the Guardian Blade Qi, his entire body was shattered, limbs torn free, internals crushed into pulp.
Even in that instant, he had been piercing the Gwanghan Realm’s atmosphere at supersonic speed, burning from friction.
Allowing one strike from Jang Ik had been a fatal mistake.
Boom!
Jang Ik leaped through space and hovered above him once more.
‘One more hit and I’m dead!’
Kim Young-hoon swiftly forged a martial art.
Yang-saeng Gu-jeon Gong.
In the span of a breath, countless golden threads erupted from Kim Young-hoon’s body, weaving his shattered blood vessels, bones, and nerves back together.
Internal organs returned.
Limbs regrew.
Kim Young-hoon’s body glowed gold.
The Golden Myeok-gi Gong revolved nine times inside him, granting regeneration on the level of a Cheonin Grand Completion cultivator.
The Four Treasures Heaven-Destroying Saber.
Six-Line Heaven-Destroying.
At the same moment, Jang Ik overlaid his own Four Treasures Heaven-Destroying Saber on both legs and struck downward like a thunderbolt.
In that instant, Kim Young-hoon moved faster than light and prepared to catch the blade.
The Form of the Hundredth Pillar.
Golden Light Extinction!
It seemed like the form of a golden-winged bird, but it collided with Jang Ik’s slash.
Rumble!
The next moment, deep beneath the ground in the An-gye region wilderness.
Kim Young-hoon was forcibly buried there.
“Gwaaaah!”
Crack!
Jang Ik’s massive will forced Kim Young-hoon straight into the earth.
The intent sealed in the Four Treasures Heaven-Destroying Saber relentlessly drove him deeper underground.
‘Hitting head-on is impossible.’
Feeling his body being torn apart by the Six-Line Heaven-Destroying qi, Kim Young-hoon gritted his teeth.
‘I must not allow any direct attack. Defeat is guaranteed! Jang Ik won’t give me a single opening—I have to cut him down with a hundred strikes before he can even look at me!’
Boom!
And again, as Kim Young-hoon steeled himself, Jang Ik charged once more, unleashing his ultimate technique.
The Four Treasures Heaven-Destroying Saber.
Trap of the Heavens!
The dimension itself collapsed!
* * *
Void Space.
Outside the Gwanghan Realm.
Boom!
A powerful vibration erupted, shattering the dimensional barrier of the Gwanghan Realm.
From within, Kim Young-hoon—his body charred and regenerating—emerged, while Jang Ik appeared grinning, blood dripping from his lips.
Kim Young-hoon moved.
Boom!
The Form of the Hundredth Pillar.
The Fourth Form.
Golden Stonefire.
Created Martial Art.
One Hundred Styles!
Kim Young-hoon’s body turned to pure gold.
In an instant, he transcended light itself.
Jang Ik raised his emerald sword to block, but he had already been sliced into pieces a hundred times.
Splurt!
Blood sprayed like a fountain from Jang Ik’s body.
And then—
Jang Ik grinned.
“Usable now.”
“…!”
Kim Young-hoon tried to react, but a new sword art exploded from Jang Ik’s body.
Created Martial Art.
Fierce Light Soul Slaughter.
In the blink of an eye, like a beam of light, Jang Ik approached at Kim Young-hoon’s own speed and thrust out his blade.
The Four Treasures Heaven-Destroying Saber.
Extinction of the Heavens.
Shuk!
Fwoosh!
Kim Young-hoon stared at Jang Ik with cold eyes and watched his severed head tumble.
He had barely dodged, but the feeling that even a direct hit would have left him no chance for regeneration was overwhelming.
He had been hacked to pieces more than a hundred times—yet his body remained intact.
Jang Ik had sealed himself with a makeshift martial art right then and there.
His body was far less perfect than Kim Young-hoon’s, still showing slashes everywhere.
It was crude.
The completion was low.
But…
Kim Young-hoon understood.
“How… how did Senior Jang… possess such talent…”
“Acquired through training. You seem to think it’s ‘innate,’ but when you reach this level, you can acquire it somehow. Young Eun-hyun seems to have that same instinct.”
Jang Ik grinned and floated four emerald swords around him.
“I believe in what I have accumulated. Aren’t you afraid I will surpass you once you grow strong? Hehe, good challenge, but it won’t work on me! I have already reached the ultimate realm! Come on, do you have the guts to face me at that level!?”
Kim Young-hoon had stared at him for a long time, then smiled.
“Very well. Then, Senior, please show me the ‘ultimate realm’ you have reached…”
“I won’t show it to you. I have another target in mind…”
“…I’ll make you show it.”
And once more, the two Heart Tribe disciples clashed.
All of the Gwanghan Realm’s outer dimensions became the battlefield; gold and emerald light collided.
In raw power, Jang Ik was superior.
His will was overwhelming, demonic, a ‘power’ beyond comparison.
In speed, Kim Young-hoon was superior.
The Golden Light was naturally a speed-specialized martial art.
The outer Gwanghan Realm rang with chaos.
Dimensional barriers shattered; Baek-woon’s furious roar echoed from within; thousands of spectral beasts in Void Space were pulverized.
And when their duel reached its peak!
Trap of the Heavens collided with Golden Light Extinction.
Kim Young-hoon saw it.
The ultimate realm that Jang Ik had reached—the despair of what was called the Three Steps Before Dawn!
Jang Ik saw it too.
The overwhelming genius in Kim Young-hoon’s hands… and the hope that he might one day reach the Three Steps Before Dawn!
Facing a new cliff, Kim Young-hoon laughed, teeth bared.
Facing a new light, Jang Ik laughed, teeth bared.
The next instant, their clash shattered the Gwanghan Realm’s dimensional barrier.
* * *
Whoosh!
Kim Young-hoon and Jang Ik stood facing each other, steam rising from their bodies.
They had returned to Sam-mok-chong after circling the realm; they looked at each other and laughed.
“If I had used that… I would have died. Why didn’t you?”
“I told you. It was not something to show you.”
“Hahaha! Well… for now, I’m satisfied just vaguely understanding the essence of it.”
“Heartless bastard. You expect me to reach the realm I’ve spent my entire life cultivating in no time?”
“…I’ll need several thousand years myself.”
“Still heartless, huh?”
Jang Ik chuckled and sat down.
Yet his face was glowing with joy.
“What is the ‘Void’ you have obtained?”
Kim Young-hoon, surprised by the sudden question, sat down as well.
“Void of the Moment.”
Kim Young-hoon could never have severed his bonds to reach Void Shattering.
Seo Eun-hyun had embraced bonds to reach the state of non-attachment, but that was Seo Eun-hyun’s realization.
He could not.
So he forged his own path.
“When I face the Martial Way, I decide to forget everything and realize the Void during that instant.”
His family were things he could not forget.
Yet the moment he returned to see them!
During that moment that stirred his heart, he could forget in order to focus on the goal.
“Forgetting once does not mean forgetting forever. Life is composed of moments. In those countless moments, sometimes you forget, sometimes you immerse yourself and forget, sometimes you remember. Therefore, I chose to obtain the Void of the Moment that I need from within those moments.”
“Seo Eun-hyun seems to have ‘accumulated’ it, but you seem to have ‘decomposed’ it. An interesting choice!”
Jang Ik laughed at Kim Young-hoon’s words.
“You’ve finally eliminated all hesitation and found the proper answer. Congratulations!”
Satisfied with Jang Ik’s acknowledgment, Kim Young-hoon smiled contentedly.
“You have reached the Extreme of the Three Steps Before Dawn!”
This had happened one thousand years after Seo Eun-hyun became a Saintess.
* * *
Crunch, rumble!
In the void of the universe, an unprecedented heavenly phenomenon was unfolding.
Crack, crackle!
A Grand Completion cultivator seemed to be condensing his own Great Dao domain.
And then—
Boom!
His Great Dao domain, the Lower Heavens Star Thunder Rain Heaven, exploded.
[Ahhhhh!]
The Grand Completion cultivator who had unleashed the explosion—Jeon Myeong-hoon—gritted his teeth through agony.
It was…
After the Great Dao domain exploded, the pre-prepared [Hand] that had not been swept away by the blast.
Twisted, flung apart!
Around that [Hand], Jeon Myeong-hoon’s consciousness began to coalesce.
[So… hae…]
Images swirled around Geum So-hae’s Hand.
It was the scene of her entire body being consumed by lightning while the Geumsin Thunder Gate vanished.
The day the entire Geumsin Thunder Gate was wiped out beneath the sky by lightning!
[So… hae…!]
Centered on that day’s pain and rage… Jeon Myeong-hoon regained his senses.
Boom, rumble!
Heavenly Tribulation tribulation waves crashed into the nebula created by Jeon Myeong-hoon’s explosion.
And Jeon Myeong-hoon, now with a clear consciousness, seized the tribulation waves centered on Geum So-hae’s Hand.
Crackle!
Tribulation waves infused with Seon-su and Seo-jing power.
Simultaneously, Jeon Myeong-hoon’s body began to coalesce.
[So… hae…!!!]
Rumble!
Finally, Jeon Myeong-hoon succeeded in coalescing the “flesh” of the Star Shattering Venerable.
And immediately after—
Flash!
A vast beam of light fell from the universe.
Heavenly Tribulation falling upon a Venerable.
It was a Star Tribulation.
And someone leaped toward that Star Tribulation.
Hong Beom.
[Wol-do-ip-cheon. Void Sword!]
Fwoosh!
Under Seo Eun-hyun and Kim Young-hoon’s guidance, Hong Beom—who had awakened Wol-do-ip-cheon even in this life—rushed toward the Star Tribulation without hesitation.
Sprinkling the blood Jeon Myeong-hoon had prepared, he unleashed his True Words.
[On the night without light, the tribulation is weighed. The tribulation comes here and before the light enters, all quickly enjoy the feast.]
The potion prepared with Jeon Myeong-hoon’s blood was sprayed, and Hong Beom’s Void Sword collided with the Star Tribulation.
Immediately, Hong Beom’s body was incinerated and flung away.
Boom!
After Hong Beom was blasted away, the Star Tribulation merged with all the subsequent ‘Star Tribulations’ that were supposed to have followed and impaled Jeon Myeong-hoon.
And Jeon Myeong-hoon received the Star Tribulation.
Flash!
Heavenly Tribulations never made a sound when they collided.
Even in the void of the universe, where there was no medium, the corresponding spiritual wave should have echoed—but even that spiritual wave did not resound.
The Star Tribulation was simply absorbed and consumed by Jeon Myeong-hoon’s Lower Heavens Star Thunder Rain Heaven.
Rumble!
Above Jeon Myeong-hoon’s body, heavenly qi coalesced and projected a figure.
Jeon Myeong-hoon’s authority rose powerfully; his martial form naturally projected into the universe.
Jeon Myeong-hoon’s body, the Thunder God of the Twin Six Heads, transformed.
Crackle!
Thunder qi coalesced on Jeon Myeong-hoon’s Twin Six Heads, and a second head erupted.
The complete form of a Three-Headed Thunder God!
It was not over.
Six wings of lightning appeared on the six arms of the Three-Headed Thunder God—wings of lightning even though it was not a practitioner of Heavenly Twin Six Cultivation.
[Oooooo!]
Rumble!
The Three-Headed Thunder God roared; the entire sky and earth filled with thunder power and boiled.
Crackle, crackle!
The Three-Headed Thunder God extended six hands and coalesced the qi of the Star Tribulation.
And in the center of those six hands, a form coalesced.
Rain.
A sphere of thunder etched with the character “Rain.”
Next, more spheres coalesced in the Thunder God’s hands one after another.
Clear, Dim, Station, Conquer.
And Inner Hexagram and Outer Hexagram.
Jeon Myeong-hoon raised the six symbols other than the central “Rain” symbol on the hands of the Three-Headed Thunder God, eyes wide with awe, and unleashed a massive roar.
[Haaaah!]
Rumble!
Finally, the Star Tribulation was completely absorbed into Jeon Myeong-hoon’s body.
He opened one eye and pulled his original essence into the projection.
[…At last, I have arrived here.]
He had become a Star Shattering Venerable.
He gazed at the symbols in his hands.
The Dharma Treasure he had just forged with the power of the Star Tribulation.
With these, he could easily create the remaining six original essences.
‘If I have about a thousand years, I should reach the Star Shattering Grand Completion and aim for the Star Plate promotion.’
This was the Heavenly Thunder Flesh!
To rule as the master of all thunder, to gain help in raising his realm without suffering tribulation, and to turn it into a sacred medicine!
‘My Terminus One descendant, Yang Su-jin, who is speculated to have similar abilities, will probably reach the peak of True Immortal within three thousand years by fully utilizing this nature.’
Thinking thus, Jeon Myeong-hoon approached the existence watching his promotion ceremony nearby.
“Senior, I have finally succeeded in becoming a Venerable.”
And the one watching him.
Yeon Wi lowered her knees before him with a face that seemed to have shed one of her burdens.
“Do not speak in such high register, Venerable. You are now the greatest pillar of Geumsin Thunder Gate. This girl only worked as its Senior because she was born a little earlier than you. A small, insignificant existence that could never reach the Venerable’s achievements.”
Jeon Myeong-hoon saw Yeon Wi and felt a complex expression.
But he soon shook his head and accepted his place.
“Understood, Yeon Wi. From today, this Venerable declares himself the Supreme of Geumsin Thunder Gate. As long as the founding ancestor does not return, no one shall surpass this Venerable! In the future, the Great Geumsin Thunder Gate shall return to its golden age!”
Yeon Wi kissed Jeon Myeong-hoon’s feet with a far more natural and comfortable expression than the one she had shown Seo Eun-hyun last loop.
“Glory to Geumsin Thunder Gate!”
The worry for Geumsin Thunder Gate’s future had been greatly lifted; her expression was very relaxed.
Thirteen hundred years had passed since Seo Eun-hyun became a Saintess.
And so, Jeon Myeong-hoon ascended to Venerable.
* * *
Sss… sss… sss…
Endless whispers echoed in her ears.
Kang Min-hee slowly opened her eyes.
She had been flying upside down in the sky when she escaped from the whispers and looked forward.
In front of her were countless blue souls fluttering.
The day she had her mind restored by Seo Eun-hyun and fully understood her own fate.
Since then, all the ghosts that had followed her had transformed into blue soul forms like these.
“…Thank you, everyone. I’ve finally remembered everything.”
She had lost her memories during the Star Plate promotion ceremony and become a Seon-su.
And as a Seon-su, who had no memories at all, she had gained them through these blue souls that had attached to her during the ceremony.
These ghosts had completely fulfilled their grudges and become sincerely loyal to Kang Min-hee.
Of course, once grudges were satisfied, they should have been pulled into the Underworld… but for some reason, the blue souls never left her side.
As if they would not be affected by the Underworld’s attraction if they stayed by her side.
She had an idea of what her “true” ability was.
‘Details probably only become clear at the True Immortal realm… but my true ability is probably “curse creation.”’
Although the word “curse” felt repulsive, the essence of her power was actually “law creation.”
Creating laws to bind enemies or protecting those she wished to safeguard.
Especially the authority specialized in protection. That was the true nature of her power.
‘If I told my colleagues and discussed how to utilize this ability, I could develop it further…’
Unfortunately, Seo Eun-hyun had repeatedly warned her that she must never do so.
Therefore, Kang Min-hee had kept her true ability secret until now.
Anyway, the reason these blue souls were protecting her instead of being pulled into the Underworld was because she had created the laws.
She had declared herself another “part of the Underworld” and set it as a resting place before the souls were judged, allowing the souls to remain and serve her loyally.
‘This ability is still unstable.’
She was right.
The law she had set was created deep in her subconscious, not by her conscious intent.
‘If I reach the True Immortal realm, I can properly use my abilities…’
She wanted to do something with this ability.
She wanted to see something.
But… since she could not yet create laws at will, she sighed lightly.
‘Let’s grow.’
Now that she remembered everything, the Star Plate promotion ceremony would be easy.
Kang Min-hee walked forward, determined to become a Star Plate cultivator, a Fissure Opening cultivator, and finally a True Immortal so she could properly wield her abilities.
Whoosh!
Countless ghosts followed her in the inverted state.
Kang Min-hee strolled through the Moon Dream Planet selected as her Star Plate promotion ceremony site.
Kang Min-hee’s scattered fragments began to be absorbed around the Seon-su who was her.
At first, a sense of rejection arose during the Star Plate promotion ceremony.
Replaced myself with a Seon-su!?
It was too terrifying and repulsive.
Generally, the “Seon-su” recognized by those above Grand Completion was a “forbidden art that moved through the attraction of others.”
Basic Seon-su Seo-jing of the Grand Completion and basic Seon-su Gye of the Star Shattering were both activated through attraction.
Therefore, becoming a Star Plate felt like a deeply unpleasant sensation, as if replacing oneself with the “flow of attraction.”
But…
Seo Eun-hyun had told her.
Seon-su was actually the power of the mind.
A power activated by the mind…
‘Now I’m not afraid.’
Therefore, she could step forward without hesitation.
Seon-su was one branch of the mind.
Replacing oneself with a Seon-su was not a particularly grand thing.
It simply meant reconstructing oneself around the greatest mind she pursued from within her own mind.
By analogy,
This was the “nature.”
A sage once said.
If you align your mind with acting kindly, then even if you act according to your mind, you will act kindly.
If you create the habit of sharpening a sword and carry it out, then the sword master will soon find that acting according to his mind becomes sharpening the sword.
This was what was meant by Seon-su replacing one’s personality.
‘Humans are not determined only by their bodies, brains, or souls.’
Beings who act according to themselves and complete themselves as they wish.
That was what a person was.
And…
Replacing one’s personality with Seon-su meant completing oneself as one wished.
Cultivation was not simply becoming stronger, living longer, obtaining better Dharma Treasures, or eating better pills.
It was completing oneself.
Finding one’s own path (Dao) and advancing forward.
—That was what cultivation was, Kang Min-hee. So… you have nothing to fear. We will support you.
That was what Seo Eun-hyun had told her before the Star Plate promotion ceremony.
Fwoosh!
Kang Min-hee’s scattered fragments began to gather around the mind she had wished for and the flawless True Words she had set.
Cultivation was soon a curse.
A curse was something given to slaves or livestock.
Kang Min-hee had obtained this True Words from a certain [Deep and Dark Existence].
And as she conducted the Star Plate promotion ceremony, she felt she could sense the creator’s mind.
Endless sorrow!
That sorrow had created this Seon-su.
But Kang Min-hee added her own interpretation to that sorrow.
“Cultivation is soon a curse. But…”
Finally, she completed one full rotation of the Moon Dream Planet.
“This is to protect at the same time.”
The one who created the True Words had clearly used it to reveal himself as a slave and also used those who mastered it as slaves to make them submit to him.
But she felt the hidden meaning was “I want to protect you.”
“Attraction is a chain, and fate is a cage.
Therefore, before you become flawless, stay within it. I will protect you…”
Fwoosh!
After one full rotation of the planet, the last fragment was absorbed.
Fwoosh!
Countless blue ghosts danced joyfully, and Kang Min-hee’s body began to grow.
Fwoosh!
She transformed into a brand-new blue entity, wearing black and blue robes, and knelt on the spot in a state large enough to cover the planet’s continents.
Most humans on the Moon Dream Planet could not see her because she was overlapped by the Ghost Realm, but the Grand Completion cultivator Yu-hwi, who had reached the half-Bo-re Sa-chuk level, watched her with eyes about to burst from holding his breath and gained [Knowledge].
Kang Min-hee, in that state, gazed at the distant universe.
She saw Kim Young-hoon, who had completed his martial arts in one life.
Jeon Myeong-hoon, who had ascended to Venerable, and Kim Yeon, who possessed the Venerable’s power, watching over her Star Plate promotion.
Kang Min-hee looked at her colleagues and spoke.
[I will protect you. From now on.]
Kim Yeon smiled warmly, Jeon Myeong-hoon stroked Geum So-hae’s Hand and nodded, and Kim Young-hoon laughed boisterously, “Hey! What’s this?”
Kang Min-hee’s gaze moved beyond Kim Young-hoon, Kim Yeon, and Jeon Myeong-hoon to Seo Eun-hyun watching her from the distant Sam-mok-do.
Seo Eun-hyun and Kang Min-hee smiled faintly at each other.
Thirteen hundred years had passed since Seo Eun-hyun became a Saintess.
Thirteen hundred years after Seo Eun-hyun became a Saintess.
Kang Min-hee had completely completed her Star Plate promotion.
Whoosh!
And a [Gate] opened in the void and someone appeared.
Yu-o, the Saintess of the Ghost Realm.
Kang Min-hee bowed her head and performed the courtesies.
[Disciple of Black Ghost Valley, I pay respects to the Palace Lord.]
[…? I am not the Palace Lord of Black Ghost Valley. Black Ghost Valley has always been run by the Elder Council, so there can be no Palace Lord.]
[…Really? Seo Eun-hyun said so…]
Kang Min-hee was bewildered, and Yu-o was bewildered as well, scratching her cheek.
“Hmm… now that I think about it, if it’s Saint Seo Eun-hyun, he did say something strange to me last time too. ‘The back of my head.’ I have trained the Two-Faced Ghost Dao Art, but… I reached Great Completion a million years ago and my face was already merged… Truly strange.”
She shook her head as if unable to understand and reached out to Kang Min-hee.
“Anyway. I have something to give you. Please come visit the Ghost Realm for a while.”
Kang Min-hee looked at Yu-o with suspicion and asked.
[…] I heard from Seo Eun-hyun, but you don’t plan to dump the Ghost Realm Saintess position on me and immediately ascend, do you?]
“Whoohoo, you have great faith in Saint Seo Eun-hyun. It’s not that at all. At least until the end of the world, I must look after the children of the Ghost Realm. It would suit you best as successor, but it is not a necessity. I swear to the one I serve. Until before the end of the world, I will not dump the Saintess position on you.”
Kang Min-hee’s face turned slightly red at Yu-o’s words.
[I apologize for the misunderstanding. Then, what you will give me is…]
[What I will give you is information that will help your Seon-bo’s fragments and the True Words you have trained.]
[Thank you for your kindness, Senior.]
After performing the courtesies to Yu-o, Kang Min-hee informed Seo Eun-hyun and her colleagues of the situation, then followed Yu-o to the Ghost Realm.
Jeon Myeong-hoon and Kim Yeon looked at each other, then returned through the dimensional gate Seo Eun-hyun had created to Sam-mok-do.
Crackle!
The barrier Kim Yeon and Jeon Myeong-hoon had made with Seo Eun-hyun’s power disappeared.
After the barrier that had hidden Kang Min-hee’s Star Plate promotion ceremony and protected her was gone.
Boom!
A dimensional gate in a middle realm exploded open and someone yelled.
[Yuo! Did you use the attraction of Ghost Dao to notice first and strike first! Did you miss again! How long must I endure these useless idiots!]
Ban-ta’s True Words dripped tears of blood, echoing in the now-empty universe.
* * *
The Terminus Ones grew according to the flow of time one by one.
Kim Young-hoon, Jeon Myeong-hoon, and Kang Min-hee each reached their respective realms.
Oh Hyun-seok had grown well too.
And when two thousand years had passed since Seo Eun-hyun became a Saintess.
Eight thousand years remained until the end of the world.
At that time, Seo Eun-hyun and his colleagues—who had been growing and cultivating in various places of the universe—gathered again at Sam-mok-do.
And Seo Eun-hyun began to attempt something.
The moment Seo Eun-hyun’s plan began.
All rulers of the Ilwol Cheonyeok sensed an anomaly.
The most ancient, Baek-woon, and Yu-o noticed the fact.
Baek-woon looked up at the sky and her eyes widened.
“…Heavenly qi…? What is happening…!”
Yu-o’s body trembled violently.
“This can’t be…”
Then Ban-ta, Hae-rin, Ja-eum, and others sensed the anomaly.
“W-what is happening!”
Even the Fissure Opening True Immortals sensed the anomaly.
Countless True Immortals communicated with each other, sought help from one another, and fell into chaos.
And… the master of the Blood Realm, Hyeol-eum, understood the situation.
: : Madman. : :
Hyeol-eum realized the culprit of this heavenly phenomenon and clicked his tongue quietly.
Baek-woon trembled and muttered.
[The end… is approaching?]
It was true.
The scheduled end of the world after eight thousand years was approaching.
Half a clock.
Only ‘half a clock,’ but the end of the world was approaching.
And even now!
The attraction of the Heavenly Realm was subtly increasing in real time, and the end of the world was getting closer by the moment.
It was not a time that required great worry, but it was serious.
If the reason for the approaching end of the world could not be identified, the speed of the end of the world could become much faster!
[Search! Find the cause!]
[Hyeol-eum must be helped!]
[Look around the entire universe! If there is anything suspicious, inform everyone immediately!]
Countless Fissure Opening True Immortals scattered their will across the entire universe in bewilderment.
And while the entire Ilwol Cheonyeok became noisy,
In the center of Sam-mok-do, Seo Eun-hyun was chanting something silently.
[Cultivation is soon the True Void.
Like small grains of salt gathering into the sea.
Through the True Void, stack mountains.
The only thing that stacks mountains of salt is…]
Whoosh!
The power of the True Words around the Saint Seo Eun-hyun reacted and created salt.
Seo Eun-hyun opened one eye and looked up at the sky.
[…The one that will reach the sky the fastest…]
The heavenly qi was changing.
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