Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Reincarnation (1)
This is the final strike.
'Heavenly Demon Descent.'
I consumed even my True Origin Energy to pierce through the ice barrier that was several layers thick.
Behind the ice barrier, shattering into pieces.
The witch harboring a bone-chilling cold like frost appeared.
'It's over.'
I've finally reached the witch.
The 20-year war ends today as well.
I pierced through her chest and grasped her heart.
This is what happens to all those who oppose the Heavenly Demon.
I unified the Murim and conquered four otherworlds. This makes it the fifth.
But the witch smiled.
Why?
I put strength into the hand gripping her heart.
The heart burst like a water pouch. The witch only twitched her eyebrows briefly.
An ominous feeling arose.
I tried to pull my hand out. It wouldn't move.
Why?
My hand froze together with the witch's body.
And a giant ice spear fell from the sky.
Puk.
A futile sound.
The ice spear pierced through my body.
Mutual destruction.
This is not the result I desired.
To die together with the witch.
The witch was smiling.
Why?
"You'll die first."
The witch said in a trembling voice. Even facing death, her arrogant expression remained unchanged.
My consciousness grows faint.
I must endure.
If I die first, I lose.
I am the Heavenly Demon. At the very least, I must die after watching the witch die.
I am the absolute being who leads 5 Dharma Protectors, 100 White Blood Corps members, and 1,000 Heavenly Bone Corps soldiers.
My eyes closed regardless of my will.
I forced them open once more and endured.
The corners of the witch's mouth rose. Still with an arrogant expression, she smiled and said,
"I won."
Along with those words, my life also ended.
Death was a long journey.
I clearly existed, but there was no evidence to prove my existence.
I merely traveled through the black space as if being drawn somewhere.
I called this the journey of oblivion.
My memories tried to scatter into the black space like shedding old skin.
It was frustrating.
Not being able to directly witness the witch's death was most frustrating, and I was furious that my conquest stopped here.
So I endured.
'I cannot lose my martial arts knowledge.'
It was an obsession.
Everything in my life is in martial arts.
Martial arts are life itself. Since I lost my life, I must keep this.
Whether it's stubbornness or greed, it doesn't matter.
I endured to the end. Even if this journey never ends, I had no intention of giving up.
How much time passed?
I couldn't feel the flow of time.
At some point, the surroundings brightened. And in the distance, I saw a sphere shining in blue.
The sphere grew larger and larger.
Later I learned that this is called a planet.
Earth.
I was sucked into it. Only then did I realize that many other lights around me were heading to the same place.
Did they also preserve their memories?
What will happen to me?
The long time of patience ended that way.
Reincarnation.
To be born again.
The long journey was the process of reincarnation.
It felt like I slept briefly.
What woke me was the sound of a heartbeat.
Regular heartbeats.
I was curled up.
I couldn't breathe, but I wasn't suffocating. It was warm and comfortable.
Occasionally I heard voices. Warm sounds calling me.
The meaning isn't clear.
They also sing songs. As if for me to hear.
The woman's song was comfortable. It had a charm that tickled my entire body.
'A fetus.'
I'm inside my mother's belly.
I thought of it as rest.
Rest given after my fierce previous life.
A bit stuffy, but not bad.
As my body grew, evidence of being alive began to be felt.
The process of lost senses returning one by one was quite interesting.
But that pleasure didn't last long.
Because I felt another presence.
Why is there another creature in my space?
'Twins?'
It bothered me.
Who will be born on the same day as me?
The question didn't disappear easily.
But I couldn't engage in complex thinking. I needed more rest.
As time passed, my thinking ability gradually increased. My senses also became clearer.
Who is this creature in the same space as me?
I began to sense it.
'Am I getting a sibling?'
When I thought of the word sibling, a strange anticipation arose.
I had no siblings in my previous life. Family didn't exist either.
My parents abandoned me, and I lived like a beggar as an orphan before being captured as a slave by the Demonic Cult.
Now I have a family.
I can be the one to protect them.
Sibling.
A sibling born from the same blood.
Yes, I can yield about one position.
When I unify the world again, they can guard my back.
Of course, I'll sit in the highest position.
My sibling is lucky.
Because they met me.
It's a new life.
I will become a Heavenly Demon even stronger than the dead Heavenly Demon.
I will become an existence that doesn't mutually destruct with the likes of the Ice Witch.
Time passed again.
Now the stuffiness was greater than the comfort.
My body grew faster than the space expanded.
It's time to come out.
The moment the Heavenly Demon is reborn.
'Together with my sibling.'
Perhaps because my past life was so fierce?
Warm parents and a sibling felt like a gift.
'Hm?'
At the moment I was waiting for birth, I felt a terrible cold.
'Why...?'
I hate the cold.
Because it reminds me of my last death.
Instinctively, I searched for the source of the cold.
'What is it?'
The cold was right nearby.
Only my sibling and I are in this space.
Then?
'Don't tell me?'
An ominous feeling arises.
But the cold grew worse and worse. It seemed like it would freeze all the amniotic fluid surrounding me.
It's a familiar cold.
'The witch!'
It wasn't a sibling.
Fraternal twins.
The witch was growing in the same space as me.
I saw something called light again.
Being able to recognize objects with two eyes and see various colors is certainly a blessing.
Though my body doesn't move as I wish and words don't come out of this small body, I was satisfied to be reborn.
'If only that woman wasn't here.'
I wanted to turn my head but couldn't.
The woman who saw the world before me. My nemesis. My twin.
The Ice Witch and I were each lying in glass tubes.
'When I can move, I'll kill her first.'
My body doesn't obey yet. But soon I'll be able to move.
Then, I must deal with the witch.
'That woman will try to kill me too.'
Just before coming out of my mother's belly, the witch emitted cold energy. This means the witch also has her memories.
The cold was probably a warning to me. And it was also a display of confidence.
It was the same in my previous life.
The witch never surrendered and always provoked me with an arrogant expression.
'Keke, heaven is not indifferent after all. To give me a chance for revenge so quickly.'
Should I try believing in heaven at this opportunity?
No.
I must become heaven.
Because I'm the man most suited to be heaven.
'Keke.'
Laughter came again.
'My obsession was not in vain.'
The opportunity came to resolve the memories and obsession I didn't let go of until the end in the journey of oblivion.
I was rejoicing at the new opportunity when I heard someone's voice.
"Oh my, she's smiling prettily? Everyone was worried because she didn't cry when she was born."
What is she saying?
I couldn't perfectly understand this side's language yet.
A woman in white clothes looks at me and smiles.
She had ordinary features, but her smile was quite pretty.
The first woman I see after reincarnation.
Shall I make her my attendant as a commemoration?
'Dealing with the witch comes first.'
Indulgence in women ruins great endeavors.
'I must start with internal energy.'
Since my body doesn't move, external martial arts training is impossible. But once I cultivate internal energy, my body will naturally respond.
'It's a pure body. It's the best for building a foundation.'
Internal energy cultivation starts with purifying the body. This process alone takes several years.
But now that process isn't necessary.
Even when I underwent bone transformation in my previous life, my body wasn't as pure as now.
This is no different from encountering a great fortune.
'If I build the foundation before the body becomes impure, I can have an eternally pure dantian.'
It's a realm that cannot be reached through cultivation.
A few people from mysterious sects in Murim history who lived isolated from the world had dantians similar to this.
Their internal energy, without exception, surpassed common sense.
'I don't have to do that shitty training.'
In my case, I cultivated internal energy with death as collateral.
I went through the ordeal of dying 2,000 times and being revived 2,000 times.
2,000 days of hell.
I did this three times.
This was the Demonic Cult's Hell Gate, the internal energy cultivation secret technique that all Murim people coveted.
I thought about just making it public and telling them to try it if they can, but I kept quiet because there are so many crazy bastards in Murim that someone might actually do it.
It's the kind of experience you can do once but not twice.
If I could just avoid doing that, I could give up about 10% of everything I have.
10% is giving up a lot.
With 10% of my power, one could enter the Ten Great Masters of Murim, and with 10% of my wealth, one could even establish a nation.
Of course, right now I have a body that can't even turn its head, but.
'Let's begin. Killing the witch comes first.'
A new life has begun.
Internal energy cultivation methods start with sensing energy.
The vessel to contain this is the dantian, and if you accumulate energy that doesn't dissipate in the dantian, this becomes internal energy.
Sensing energy wasn't difficult. I sensed the energy and synchronized my body with it.
At some point, the sensation of my body disappears and I become one with nature. When I become selfless as if scattered in the air, my body is gradually drawn as faint lines.
When the lines of my body are drawn precisely, I mark a small point in the dantian. Then I draw the energies I sense to the dantian.
'As expected, it's easy.'
The pure body made me fall into selflessness instantly. I felt pleasure.
'It's a great fortune. Everything helps me.'
The start of my new life is good.
At this time, I thought everything would go smoothly.
If only someone hadn't lifted my body, that pleasure would have continued.
'Gah!'
I almost caused the energy to flow backward.
Qi Deviation.
Fortunately, it was before the dantian was formed. If I had even a little internal energy, I would have died.
"Smile for mommy."
The woman who almost killed me shamelessly held me and stood in front of a glass wall.
Beyond the glass wall, there was a haggard-looking woman and a middle-aged man with a happy expression.
"It's mommy and daddy."
The woman in white clothes keeps talking.
I can't understand it, but I think I know the feeling.
The man and woman looking at me from beyond the glass wall.
'They're my parents.'
I could tell just by looking at their expressions.
Eyes containing love that won't exist again in the world.
Expressions as if they met a god.
There was a trembling as if tears would pour out any moment.
It was unfamiliar.
I learned that people can be happy just by facing each other.
It was an unfamiliar experience for me.
But soon another woman in white clothes stood next to me.
My parents' gaze moved to the side. And they sent the same gaze.
I could guess who they were looking at.
Irritation surged, but there was nothing I could do right now.
The woman in white clothes showed me to my parents for a while.
"You should greet your big sister, right?"
The woman turned her body to the side. A woman in white clothes was holding a baby.
I saw her for the first time.
The witch.
Knowing her true identity, the appearance of the newborn was shocking to me.
'I must look like that too, right?'
I haven't confirmed my appearance yet. Then my eyes met with the witch's.
'That woman!'
The witch raised the corners of her mouth.
A sneer.
The smile I saw just before dying.
The witch definitely recognized me too.
'I will definitely kill you.'
It was the first meeting between the reincarnated witch and me.
"Oh my, I guess since they're twins, they recognize each other."
"Right. Look at them staring at each other."
The women in white clothes chattered meaninglessly.