The Heir of Gwanghan (4)
Kung, kung, kung, kung!
I stepped into the flow of the universe and gradually drew near to Hyeol-eum.
Drdrdr!
Gradually, the power of heaven, earth, heart, and wheel surged wildly, and my body swelled like that of a pure white giant.
At this point, it seemed I could even swallow stars in my palm.
At the same time, Hyeol-eum’s body also swelled.
Kureung, kururung!
The pitch-black red mist spewing from his entire body began to erode the cosmic space.
At the same time, I could see something enormously vast.
It was…
[A head]!
The very head formed of pitch-black red mist burned with blazing light and revealed its form in the universe.
That head was like the Water Realm…
No, rather even more weathered than the Water Realm, it showed not a single shred of flesh or muscle, leaving only the shape of a skull.
And inside that head, the movements of thousands, hundreds of millions, trillions, and infinite souls could be felt.
True Immortal Hyeol-eum.
The Blood Yin Realm itself was beginning to properly wield its power.
‘It’s huge…’
Even for me, who could now fit stars in one palm, Hyeol-eum’s core was enormous.
He opened his mouth, possessing a size capable of swallowing my body whole.
:: By the name of Hyeol-eum, I prophesy… ::
Kugugugu!
At the same time, a star appeared inside [Hyeol-eum’s mouth].
[…!]
:: You will enter the mouth of my true body and be crushed to death. ::
[…Hah.]
A fate to be envied even as an enemy. A prophecy that naturally evoked admiration.
To overcome the prophecy, one must destroy the star of the prophecy.
However, to destroy the prophecy, one must crawl inside Hyeol-eum’s mouth.
And Hyeol-eum’s prophecy was [that I would enter his mouth and be crushed to death].
‘This is the True Immortal… who is said to have crossed the Emperor’s seat!’
As if he were a veteran like Bai Zhan Laozhang, a masterful manipulation of prophecy.
Together with him, countless whispers began to emanate from within Hyeol-eum’s body.
–Prophecy… prophecy…
–Prophecy… hano…
–You and my true body will today dissolve an inseparable curse of evil fate.
–You will watch for an opportunity beside my true body.
–You will become a brave warrior who never knows retreat… If you flee from my true body today, you will become a cowardly, pitiful, and weak-willed wretch who spends his entire life imprisoned in a cave and eventually commits suicide.
Chirit, chirit…!
‘This is…‘
It was a prophecy.
However, this prophecy inside Hyeol-eum’s mouth was not limited to the current battle but included the distant future.
At the same time, I felt two futures unfolding before my eyes.
Will I become a brave warrior who fights Hyeol-eum today, or will I stay behind and live my life as a loser who knows nothing but defeat, eventually suicide from disappointment?
Two choices were being forced upon me.
With this, I could no longer flee from the duel with Hyeol-eum.
:: Prophecy ultimately fixes the future with my will. That is clearly an act of defiance against the heavens. Therefore… prophecy also carries a price. ::
His will whispered wisdom to me quickly.
:: One, prophecies that give choices like this rarely require payment. The choice itself given to the opponent becomes the price imposed upon them… ::
Jiiing!
Forced.
Fate chose the option ‘by my hand,’ forcing the future of [facing Hyeol-eum bravely], and the choice of retreat itself was erased.
:: Then let us begin properly. ::
I stretched my hand toward Hyeol-eum.
Kugugu!
Musanggeom.
Cheonsu Musang.
The white power blazing from my entire body surged, and my body instantly swelled greatly.
I became destruction itself.
Revealing fierce destructive power, I struck my fist with the size enlarged beyond Hyeol-eum’s core.
:: Let the Five Elements star obey my true body’s command. ::
Blink!
At the same time, five stars were simultaneously created above Hyeol-eum’s head, infusing the Five Elements light.
Greenish-blue, crimson-yellow, yellow, silver-white, black-blue.
The five rays of light seemed to cover Hyeol-eum’s head, then five scenes each were carved into the respective stars and shot in five directions.
One, strangely, these Five Elements stars created by Hyeol-eum this time did not contain scenes related to ‘me’ or my victory or defeat.
What was contained in those stars was…
‘Subjugation?’
The meaning was that the Five Elements property would submit to Hyeol-eum’s command.
At the same time, the meridians spewing from each star connected.
The Five Elements energy seemed to dye the surrounding area, and it was visible that the surrounding Five Elements were suddenly caught in Hyeol-eum’s grasp.
Kwaaang!
My Musanggeom strike was deflected by Hyeol-eum’s precedent and bounced off the Five Elements Heaven and Earth Energy Barrier.
‘Not cuttable…?’
:: Does a mere heart alone cut the principles of the universe? Arrogant… Let the Five Matters star follow my true body’s principle. ::
The Five Elements in the surrounding space controlled by Hyeol-eum moved, and again created ‘one’ star.
That one star contained five scenes.
At the same time, the ‘Five Matters star’ containing five scenes and the ‘Five Elements star’ resonated, and the yin-yang began to surge around the Five Elements star.
:: The Five Matters are finally comprehending the Taiji through hearing, seeing, and thinking. The way to obtain the Five Matters is to comprehend the cycle of Light and Time. ::
Although somewhat philosophical, it seemed understandable.
‘Comprehending the Taiji is the Five Matters. And… through those Five Matters, comprehending the Taiji of the Five Elements… ten pillars will be established…’
:: The Ten Heavens have been completed… ::
Around the Five Elements star, the Taiji seemed to surge, and the Five Matters star exploded.
At the same time, the Five Matters star became a star system, forming a star system centered on the Five Elements stars, and ‘day and night’ were born in the stars by the star system, beginning the cycle of yin-yang.
I felt it.
‘Dangerous…!’
At the same time, it was wondrous.
The grand principles of the universe were being drawn by Hyeol-eum’s hand.
At this moment, whether Hyeol-eum was a Demon Immortal or not seemed unimportant.
I just wanted to stare stupidly at that star system.
:: The Eight Paths shall prostrate themselves and submit under my true body’s principle. ::
Eight principles were engraved around the star system.
At the same time, I realized that my own Eight Paths—namely, the authority as a Star Plate—were being ‘pulled out’ from the star system.
‘…!’
Only then did I regain my senses and once again swung my Musanggeom at Hyeol-eum.
Musanggeom.
Iptcheon.
Cheonsu Musang.
The power of Iptcheon and Cheonsu Musang simultaneously hammered Hyeol-eum.
The Heaven and Earth Energy Barrier of the Five Elements he had unfolded could not withstand this strike and collapsed.
At the same time, the shockwave from my strike caused the Five Elements star and the entire star system to be sliced into thousands of pieces and scattered into the void.
However…
‘What? Why, even after cutting the prophecy star…’
Still, the Five Elements supported Hyeol-eum.
:: The prophecy has already been fulfilled in the current state. What will you do by destroying the fulfilled prophecy star? ::
‘…!’
The Five Elements of heaven and earth submitted to Hyeol-eum’s command, and at the same time my Star Plate authority was about to be pulled out by the Five Elements.
At the same time, Hyeol-eum’s authority began forcibly imposing the power of the Eight Paths on an entire star realm, as if to claim the entire star realm as his own star realm.
At the same time, Hyeol-eum began to utter his next prophecy.
:: The Five Records shall submit to my true body’s principle. ::
Year, month, day, god, year.
Yes…
The light of Ilwol Cheonyeok began to shake under the influence of Hyeol-eum’s command.
That was not the end.
:: Beginning from the Imperial Extremity, the proper subjugation, the rigid subjugation, and the soft subjugation, you shall hear. Under my true body’s hand, you will become a dancer who dances and enjoys with your eyes and ears. ::
Ridiculing.
Hyeol-eum was ridiculing the light of the realm at will and enslaving it according to his will.
Chiieik!
Together with him, I felt my head becoming dizzy.
‘This, this…’
Hyeol-eum was lifting the light to the status of a command and pouring the lifted light into me.
[Gaaaaah!]
I screamed.
Something was being engraved in my brain by Hyeol-eum.
:: The Yi of the system and the Seo Jing shall dance under my true body’s command and transmit to the stars of the four directions. While comprehending the spread of my true body’s authority throughout the universe, you shall rightfully submit. ::
Kugugung!
Ilwol Cheonyeok began to tremble.
At the same time, the force emanating from Hyeol-eum seemed to grasp all the stars of the entire Ilwol Cheonyeok.
Chills!
I stared at Hyeol-eum with a dazed expression.
‘Is this… rather, isn’t this almost like announcing the entire Ilwol Cheonyeok as his own central realm…?’
Swaaaaaa-
The entire realm was stained with pitch-black blood demon qi.
I felt the blood demon qi enveloping every place my eyes and senses reached, and that I was placed under Hyeol-eum’s domination.
I felt a sense of overwhelming loss at the gap with the despairing Hyeol-eum and thought I might sit down right there.
:: The Six Extremities, you shall also hear. Now that the stars are complete, my true body prophesies once more. ::
Hyeol-eum’s divine voice engraved itself into reality and began creating stars once more.
According to the authority of the Yi and Seo Jing, Hyeol-eum’s blood demon qi spread in the form of u, je, mong, yeok, geuk, jeong, hoe.
And then in the forms of u, yang, yuk, han, pung, si, it spread throughout Ilwol Cheonyeok, and the shadows of the Five Blessings and Six Extremities sprouted across the entire Ilwol Cheonyeok, seeming to hand over the sovereignty of Ilwol Cheonyeok itself to Hyeol-eum.
‘This is… the Hyeol-eum who has given it his all…’
I cannot win.
He has become the world itself.
How can a being born from the world defeat the world?
I…
Cannot.
…
[…]As expected, this is not unfamiliar…]
In a state of despairing numbness, I smiled faintly.
By now, the Six Extremity misfortune prophesied by Hyeol-eum had attached to my shadow.
Unknowingly, those misfortunes had been gnawing at my mind.
The Six Extremities are the shadow of the Five Blessings.
And Hyeol-eum is the remains of Yu Ho-deok among the Five Blessings who controlled those Five Blessings.
Therefore, there is no one on Sumi Mountain more skilled at naturally handling the Five Blessings and Six Extremities than Hyeol-eum.
[I will not give up.]
Udeuk!
Gradually, I began to rotate the [chariot wheel] rapidly.
[I cannot understand all of his precedents and fate.]
That is why I could not twist his fate with the [chariot wheel] or reverse his prophecy.
Reversing the end of Ilwol Cheonyeok had been possible because I understood the special nature of endings and successfully controlled the end itself to some extent through the Dharma Destroying True Word.
However, regarding the Ilwol Cheonyeok currently controlled by Hyeol-eum, I could not even muster the will to steal control.
But then, is everything over?
[Still, there is something I can change.]
The Chariot Wheel is the technique I understand and change.
However, the current Ilwol Cheonyeok has become something I cannot understand because of Hyeol-eum.
Then, the only thing I can change now is…
[Myself.]
Weeeing!
I change!
My own heart that wants to despair, follow hope.
Weeeing!
Power began to surge from my entire body.
I know myself well.
I know about the connections I have met.
I know to some extent about the worlds I have lived in.
And everything that has come together to this place is exactly ‘me now.’
Because I know that and understand it…
Although the world cannot be changed, I myself can be changed.
Kiieeing!
The power amplified from heaven, earth, heart, and wheel gradually began to explosively amplify.
Perfect amplification without waste burst from my body.
‘Let me believe in the things I have accumulated.’
Even if this entire world presses down on me, I will resist and move forward.
That is the will I have upheld until now.
I became a sword.
Not simply a blade made to kill people and animals or cut things.
A weapon for facing off.
The will itself to confront the heaven, fate, and world that press down on me.
This was…
Enough to be called the True Impermanent Sword.
[Ooooooo!]
My body gradually grew larger, and I became large enough that stars could fit in my palm.
With a build larger than Hyeol-eum’s, I swung my hand.
Following the principle of non-action, my hand blade shattered a corner of Ilwol Cheonyeok.
If Hyeol-eum dominated Ilwol Cheonyeok, he would confront with the momentum to destroy the entire Ilwol Cheonyeok.
If Hyeol-eum prophesied death to me, he would crush him with that prophecy.
I am the strongest.
Because…
I have accumulated something until now.
Kwaching!
And finally, my strike created a crack in the void.
‘As expected…’
It was not controlling the entire Ilwol Cheonyeok.
He had simply grasped one star realm of Ilwol Cheonyeok in his palm, trapped me there, and only intended to face me from inside.
Kwaaaang!
However, the realm created by Hyeol-eum collapsed with each of my strikes and restored the passageway to the outer universe.
[Help me…!]
I boarded my glowing Chariot Wheel and called my companions to finish Hyeol-eum once and for all.
Together with him, my connections gathered in one place.
Paaaaaat!
Kim Young-hoon, who had become Golden Light Shenma like a golden phoenix, flew into this place.
Kwarurung!
Jeon Myeong-hoon, who had only just succeeded in Star Plate ascension, arrived with red lightning wrapped around the three heads and six arms.
Kiyaaaaaah!
Kang Min-hee, who commanded countless ghost hordes and appeared as Star Plate Great Integration, immediately began trying to steal Hyeol-eum’s realm.
Oh Hyun-seok was supplying power to his companions from the rear with the power of the soul.
Kim Yeon was pulling the Wondrous Castle and artificial stars from Samokdo from slightly further back.
Drdrdrdr!
The power of Oh Hyun-seok and Kim Yeon merged and showed enormous amplification.
The wave of Kim Yeon’s enormous power was transmitted to me.
[From now on…]
Hwarrurueuk!
Keeping the Jongmyeongja companions beside and behind me, I looked down at Hyeol-eum.
[I will hunt you. Hyeol-eum…!]
With that as the starting point, we all attacked Hyeol-eum at once.
Golden light tore through the entire realm of Hyeol-eum.
Jeon Myeong-hoon’s electric shock spread like a net, trapping Hyeol-eum’s blood demon qi.
Kang Min-hee’s Ghost King clans clashed with the heavenly demons spewing from the Blood Yin Realm and protected the minds of her companions.
Oh Hyun-seok’s power and Kim Yeon’s power continued to supply us with enormous authority.
And I stood at the forefront, drawing out my Musanggeom.
[Meanwhile…]
Countless precedents and prophecies spewed from Hyeol-eum’s mouth.
I cut the stars and prophecies and began to fall toward Hyeol-eum.
With perfect emptiness in my hand, I stretched my hand toward Hyeol-eum.
[I suffered. Too much oppression and pain… lost companions, watched precious ones being devoured…]
I gradually became a meteor.
A long trail of light followed behind me like the tail of a shooting star, and the light of Myeongsaninreudeng shone from within the trail, displaying countless past scenes.
To others, it was merely faint light, but to me the meaning was different.
Countless past connections were pushing me from behind.
[But… not anymore…!]
The countless cycles of pain I had repeated.
But… now I am the strongest.
I will no longer simply be oppressed like before…!
[Then…]
I looked at Hyeol-eum.
The prophecy was that I would enter his mouth and be crushed to death.
However, I would not be crushed to death.
With the power I have accumulated, with the connections I have created, I would pierce the prophecy head-on!
[You too, face me head-on.]
Our eyes met.
My will and Hyeol-eum’s will touched.
My will said: Return to the glorious and noble past you once had before Hyeol-eum.
Face the evil deeds and evils you have committed until now, reflect on them… and arrive at the old throne.
Chiralarak!
The heavenly demons of the Blood Yin Realm poured out and blocked my view.
Kang Min-hee’s Ghost King clans advanced and cleared the heavenly demons.
Hyeol-eum’s prophecy spewed, and a constellation was born inside his realm.
My path was blocked.
But Jeon Myeong-hoon and Kim Young-hoon shattered it with lightning and cut it with golden light.
At the same time, Oh Hyun-seok’s soul connected us all and supplied power.
Kim Young-hoon mixed his consciousness with mine using Oh Hyun-seok’s authority and glimpsed the enlightenment of Cheoncha.
Jeon Myeong-hoon received some of my enormous [power] and stabilized the Star Plate realm, while
Kang Min-hee began to transcend the Fissure Opening stage while glimpsing my enlightenment at that level.
And… Kim Yeon’s power reached me.
Kwarurung!
Kim Yeon’s power raised my speed as a meteor fell toward me.
Adding her power to my霸力, she pulled even more boundless power.
‘Can I do it?’
Kim Young-hoon, Jeon Myeong-hoon, and Kang Min-hee opened the way.
Oh Hyun-seok wove us all together, and Kim Yeon transmitted power.
And the power of heaven, earth, heart, and wheel flooded my body.
‘Of course I can.’
We break through!
My fate!
* * *
‘I can’t…’
Kim Yeon bit her lip and clenched her fists.
Through the Wondrous Castle and her own full bloom, she amplified Oh Hyun-seok’s power and transmitted the amplified powers to Seo Eun-hyun.
But for some reason, an ominous feeling arose in her.
Haebangbaeja had warned.
With this much power, you cannot break Hyeol-eum’s design.
Seo Eun-hyun warned that he would simply be devoured by Hyeol-eum.
‘No… no…’
Kim Yeon bit her lip fiercely.
‘Why am I… so powerless…!’
At that moment, Kim Yeon was despairing over her own weakness.
Through Oh Hyun-seok’s soul authority, Seo Eun-hyun’s enlightenment was faintly transmitted to Kim Yeon.
It was…
The enlightenment of faith.
–Believe in yourself.
–Believe in what you have accumulated.
It was seemingly plain stubbornness.
But…
Kim Yeon felt, as if Seo Eun-hyun were saying those words to her for her sake.
No…
It was not a ‘feeling.’
Beyond that enlightenment, a warm will of Seo Eun-hyun blew toward her.
For some reason, she saw Seo Eun-hyun’s welcoming figure, as if he had turned his head slightly while running ahead and smiled warmly at her.
Seo Eun-hyun was deliberately transmitting the enlightenment she needed at that moment.
‘…Yes, believe in me.’
Weeeing!
Mochi flowers bloomed beautifully around Kim Yeon.
At the same time, the energy of the Gwanghan Realm bloomed densely around Kim Yeon.
The fragrance of persimmon blossoms gradually mixed in among the full-bloom mochi flowers.
‘Borrow the power of the Gwanghan Realm. More, more…! A little more…’
She recalled the path she was walking.
She had never raised her realm from Cheonin to Suseon until now.
The reason she had not raised her realm was only one.
Only…
Beyond the persimmon tree.
Because the remnant of Gwanghan had told her not to walk that path.
The remnant of Gwanghan had told her: Do not walk the path of Suseon, but walk the path of transforming the world with the heart alone.
That is why, after obtaining the Gwanghan Heavenly Garden, she had not raised the Suseon realm.
She had only…
Focused on moving the world with the power of the heart.
Paaaaaaat!
Kim Yeon’s consciousness realm blazed brightly.
Now it could cover the entire Gwanghan Realm as its consciousness realm, having grown beyond brute force… the consciousness realm exploded, generating enough light to illuminate an entire galaxy.
Kim Yeon momentarily felt she had obtained the power of a True Immortal.
‘S…uccess…!’
In the consciousness realm filled with the fragrance of persimmon blossoms, her full bloom bloomed.
The full bloom was converting her consciousness into power.
However, Kim Yeon could not move from that spot.
‘I need to transmit this…‘
She needed to transmit her power to Seo Eun-hyun.
If she did not, it would be a meaningless act.
However… the power itself was too enormous, and she realized she could not move her own power.
‘I must move…! Even if I borrow another power…!’
Weeeing!
Kim Yeon drew a formation through her consciousness in the Wondrous Castle.
The Cheongmyeol Chiji Jin was drawn by her, and she obtained the method to reach Seo Eun-hyun in an instant.
‘The Chiji Jin can be activated by pulling the power from the Gwanghan Realm.’
And she would be shot toward Seo Eun-hyun along with the Chiji Jin, aided by the torrent of power from the Gwanghan Realm.
However, there was a problem.
‘If activated with the power of the Gwanghan Realm, the Chiji Jin will break…!’
That could not be.
If the formation broke while Kim Yeon was leaping toward Seo Eun-hyun, she would simply become a cosmic orphan.
‘I cannot buy more time…!’
Seo Eun-hyun would eventually rush at Hyeol-eum and be devoured by him.
‘Is there another way… a way… Eun-hyun oppa trusted me…! Quickly, a way…’
And suddenly she felt someone pushing her back.
Chiieeeee-
Hong Beom, smoking from his entire body.
He had apparently become victorious again in the Water Realm, and with a broken body he looked at Kim Yeon and smiled.
“Sometimes, trust others. Go ahead. I will control the power pressing in from the Gwanghan Realm.”
“…Um!”
At those words, Kim Yeon nodded with tears in her eyes and launched the Chiji Jin.
The next moment, Kim Yeon flew toward Seo Eun-hyun with the [power] she had created through full bloom.
Kwaajijijik!
And only Hong Beom remained, receiving the power from the Gwanghan Realm with his body and controlling it to activate the Cheongmyeol Chiji Jin.
Jumping through countless space and time, Kim Yeon finally reached Seo Eun-hyun.
Seo Eun-hyun was huge.
A giant white giant.
To him, the small Kim Yeon seemed unlikely to help.
But…
Kim Yeon pushed Seo Eun-hyun’s back with her small hand.
At the same time, the enormous power of her full bloom generated in her body, and the power of the entire Gwanghan Realm transmitted through Hong Beom and Kim Yeon was added to Seo Eun-hyun.
[Hwaaaaaaah!!!]
Hong Beom’s entire body exploded.
However, Hong Beom endured it and controlled his power.
And the moment Hong Beom’s control reached its limit!
Blink!
The torrent of power pressing in from the Gwanghan Realm was transmitted through Hong Beom to the Cheongmyeol Chiji Jin, and a flash burst from Kim Yeon’s body that had received that power.
The enormous power of the Gwanghan [was] enough to temporarily peel the bird pattern that had risen on Kim Yeon’s face from her face.
Over ten thousand years.
Kim Yeon shouted to Seo Eun-hyun, who was leading from the front.
“Don’t just rush ahead! Look behind you too, Seo Eun-hyun! I… am waiting.”
Kim Yeon’s cry passed over the bird pattern that had momentarily left her body and reached Seo Eun-hyun.
Ten thousand years ago, on Earth, she once again spoke the confession she had never noticed, and she pushed Seo Eun-hyun with all her might with one small hand.
“I like…! Seo Eun-hyun!”
With those words, an enormous pinkish-orange glow burst from her body.
The persimmon blossom fragrance disappeared, and only the persimmon blossom fragrance remained throughout the heaven and earth.
And Seo Eun-hyun smiled back at her.
Kim Yeon looked into Seo Eun-hyun’s eyes.
No answer came, but Kim Yeon knew.
Seo Eun-hyun had finally accepted her.
Blink!
Seo Eun-hyun entered Hyeol-eum’s mouth with the help of his companions and Kim Yeon’s power.
And he became a window of light, shattering the star inside Hyeol-eum’s mouth, then pierced through Hyeol-eum from behind his head.
Hyeol-eum’s prophecy was broken.
Seo Eun-hyun smiled victoriously, and his companions looked at him with trustworthy faces.
Kim Yeon, too, spoke the words she had held in her heart for ten thousand years, and a bright smile bloomed on her face.
“Life… is… love…”
The tattoo of Haebangbaeja, which had been pushed outside Kim Yeon’s body by the power of Gwanghan for a moment, soon re-entered her body and sealed her divine voice.
Hong Beom fell asleep in the Wondrous Castle and rolled away somewhere, but a satisfied smile filled his face.
Perhaps he was proud to have properly supported his master.
And.
At the edge of Ilwol Cheonyeok.
From the place where the Noe-seong-hae had been, brilliant sunset light burst forth.
Through the gap where Yang Su-jin’s severed ring finger had blocked, an enormous ray of light burst out, and [someone] descended.
He was the sun.
One of the great rulers of the Bright Heaven.
The Eight Immortals of Bright Heaven.
The Third Seat.
The Sun Heavenly Lord, subordinate of the Heavenly Venerable of Time belonging to the Bright Heaven.
He descended to personally defeat the monster that had annihilated the projections of the North Star Seven Heavenly Lords.
* * *
‘…Were you satisfied?’
Hyeol-eum regained his senses and looked at the flickering purple afterimage before him.
And Hyeol-eum smiled.
‘This much… is enough.’
The purple entity smiled together with Hyeol-eum.
‘Now, go back. Although not as a king, as even a single phoenix.’
At Hyeol-eum’s words, the purple entity asked with a hint of doubt.
‘No lingering regret? Truly?’
‘…None.’
Hyeol-eum closed his eyes.
:: I assisted the historical actions of the Emperor… with my own hands. With that… there is no lingering regret… ::
Hyeol-eum in pitch-black red energy smiled brightly.
And for a moment, the pitch-black red light began to burn as it was.
It was no longer pitch-black red light.
It was dusk.
The light of dusk, like the evening glow, spread from Hyeol-eum and began to confront the glow of the sun rising far away.
:: Listen. As you have just seen, the true word of the Five Elements ends in the Five Blessings. And returning repeatedly to the Five Elements… is their power. Engrave in you the way to resist them…! ::
Conveying his final lesson to the victorious Seo Eun-hyun, Hyeol-eum closed his eyes.
At the same time, an enormous explosion of light burst from Hyeol-eum.
That explosion created a hole in the Ilwol Cheonyeok itself, and everyone except Seo Eun-hyun flew away to distant heavenly realms along the hole.
And Seo Eun-hyun, struck directly by Hyeol-eum’s explosion, immediately faced the True Immortal ascension ritual.
While pushing Seo Eun-hyun toward death, Hyeol-eum calmly closed his eyes.
‘Lord Emperor… please… find what you desired…’
To save the Seo Eun-hyun thought to be the historical actions of the Heavenly Lord of the Underworld from the grasp of the Bright Heaven Eight Immortals.
Hyeol-eum self-destructed like that.
A certain entity under the mulberry tree smiled at him and closed his eyes.
The former Chief Judge of the Underworld, Myeongma Jin-jun Yu Ho-deok,
completely fell asleep that day.