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The Empty One (1)
[…Tsk.]
Baekwoon, who had been quietly looking down at the thunderstorm, reached out his hand.
The energy of the Great Heavenly Force that remained in her body moved and covered the entire Thunder Sea.
Swaaaaaaah!
Just like the magic used by the Venerable Salt Sea, the entire Noesunghae was covered in water.
At the same time, I felt a tremendous water pressure pressing down on the entire brain.
But Brainwash didn’t show any reaction.
[Did you use the Heavenly Golden Thunderbolt? You blocked it well.]
Baekun Seongsa clicked his tongue in annoyance and said.
[Listen, my lords. The attack on the Thunder Sea is now meaningless. There is now only one way to endure the end.]
I was startled by her subsequent words.
[For the remaining ten thousand years, the five middle realms’ saints. Venerables. And by weaving the power of the five middle realms into one, we will create a space that can withstand the end. The total number of venerables in the Ilwolcheonyeok is twenty-seven. Among them, the venerables who are with us are twenty-six, including the newly ascended Seo Venerable. Five saints, twenty-six venerables. A total of thirty-one people will create a space where they can take refuge during the end, and when the creation of the world is reborn after the end, they will come out and prosper their respective races again.]
Some people nodded indifferently to her words, but some, including me, were outraged.
[Wait a minute, Seongsa. What do you mean? We’re the only ones evacuating?]
[The shelter space that can survive the apocalypse is a kind of sub-heavenly world created by weaving together the power of the five middle boundaries. In that space, it is impossible to survive unless you are a conceptual being. Since you have become stars yourself and have half-stepped into a conceptual being, you are able to escape. It wouldn’t be bad if I could all avoid the apocalypse, but normal life forms cannot survive in the shelter space.]
[But… can’t we change the shelter area to make it a little more habitable?]
[Don’t talk nonsense. This is the extent of what it takes to survive the apocalypse. To be honest, this is a shelter where the conditions have been relaxed so that you, the venerables, can endure. Our saints will have to make great sacrifices, but there is still a possibility of avoiding the apocalypse through the middle boundary, but I am making this consideration for you.]
[…is there any other way?]
Baekwoon clicked his tongue and said.
[How could that be? Since Yang Su-jin has blocked the entrance, we can’t go to other heavenly realms. Because of Yang Su-jin, it’s hard to borrow the power of the other heavenly realms. The people of Gae-yeol-gi are also anxious about their own survival. What else can we do in this situation?]
[… .]
I shed a sigh of relief.
[But don’t worry too much. If the five middle realms, the five holy priests, and all the venerables join forces to create a shelter, each of you can place your cherished ones on the outskirts of that shelter. Of course, the survival rate will still be 10%… no, it won’t be more than 50%.]
My shoulders naturally became heavy at the thought of those bleak odds.
[Then I’ll go back now. You guys should come back as soon as possible.]
Baekwoon placed his hand on my shoulder and returned to the light limit through the sword mark on my left shoulder.
I looked at Noesunghae, shaking my shoulder nervously.
‘… Jeon Myeong-hun… .’
Yeonwi’s request came to mind.
Her plea to protect Jeon Myeong-hun lingers in my mind.
however….
I failed to protect Jeon Myeong-hun.
[Look here. Venerable Seo. Shouldn’t you also return to the Gwanghan Realm first? Even if the Holy One doesn’t have a way, it’s impossible to enter the Brain Sea.]
Gyu-Wol-Jin came next to me with a bitter expression and said.
I said with a deep sigh.
[…isn’t there a way?]
[None. The saint has declared it.]
[Can’t you draw on the power of the Dragon King Jinin?]
[Not only the power of the true man, but even the power of the [Great One] that the Holy Spirit brought did not work. So what else can I do?]
Woljin sighed and said.
[If you really want to stay, I won’t stop you. However… unless you can use the Star Path, it will take at least 1000 years just to get back to the Middle Realm. So you need to get back to the Middle Realm as soon as possible.]
[… What do you mean by saying that the star path cannot be used?]
I came here by way of the star path, so I asked a question out of curiosity.
Woljin said with a deep sigh.
[The Star Path is ultimately connected to the high-power system. And the path leading into that high-power system is the end of the Star Path. It is the Buhae system where there is a continent called Pyeongun Continent. For convenience, let’s call it ‘Pyeongun System.’]
[Yes, I know where it is.]
[Yes. Then, have you seen the remains of the fight between Hamcheon-jonja and Goryeo-gye Eum-gwi-jonja that took place on the continent of Pyeongun?]
I nodded, remembering the mountain where the corpse of the giant turtle that had been in Pyeongun-gye had turned into.
[At the time when we set out on the expedition to Noesunghae. We originally planned to go to Noesunghae via the Star Road. That was the fastest way. However… the problem was that ‘something’ was possessed by the Lord of Evil.]
[Huh? Something was written on it?]
[Yes. The Ghost Lord, who was born with the true blood of the Ghost Lord, had a high level of resistance to spirits and possession… but for some reason, [that being] possessed the Ghost Lord so naturally that it tried to completely cut off the path of the stars. And it rushed at us, who were going on an expedition to prevent the end, to kill us all.]
[…!]
Before we knew it, other monks had come up to us as we were talking.
Among them was Jang Ik-do.
[I thought he was a completely different guy. He was only in the early stages of his revival, and he was a venerable being who mainly learned defensive supernatural powers, so I thought we could quickly subdue him even if he went crazy and attacked us. However… .]
Jang-ik shivered with a goosebumps-inducing expression.
[He had become a monster. No, it would be more accurate to say that [something] possessed him made him a monster. After all the venerables confined me and the Eumgwijonja to the Pyeongun Realm, they manipulated the laws outside the Pyeongun Realm to make ‘the power accumulated through repairs inside the Pyeongun Realm become nothing more than trash.’ Since I didn’t accumulate power through repairs, my power didn’t decrease, but the bastard had already reached the peak of his power through his utmost practice, so this was a method I set to seal his practice. After I subdued him like that, the gnome-world guys came out and tried to exorcise the being possessed by the Eumgwijonja. However… .]
Jang Ik, who was trying to explain something, suddenly looked at me and said.
[No, wait a minute. Now that I think about it, I saw you guys fighting earlier and you were on the Swashbuckler with the Heavenly and Earthly Dual Blades.]
[Yes, that’s right…]
[Then why do I have to explain it so painfully? You see for yourself!]
[yes?]
When I looked flustered, Woljin coughed and said.
[Come to think of it, Venerable Seo… He may not know since he only entered the Shattered Realm not long ago. It could also be because the vast majority of practitioners of the Heavenly and Earthly Duality are more accustomed to the perspective of the Celestials.]
[What do you mean?]
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[Have you ever tried to activate the vision of the tribe to its maximum after climbing the ladder?]
[Um, nothing in particular…]
[Then that’s good. I’ll teach you how to see the sight of the lord efficiently. Now, follow the main deity.]
Woof!
The Tai Chi appeared in Woljin’s eyes.
I followed him and pulled up my gaze to the ground.
[The sight of the Earth Tribe is usually said to be the eye that sees the energy of heaven and earth. It is an eye that reads the exact flow of the energy of heaven and earth, and reads information from nearby spaces… To be honest, this Earth Tribe’s eye is nothing more than an animal’s sixth sense greatly enhanced. That is, until the combined stage.]
Woohoo!
The entire universe was dyed with Taegeuk.
I could see the Taegeuk symbol standing on everything.
‘I’ve seen the combined machine up to this point.’
I read the information of the Taegeuk flowing throughout the universe, and my sense of contentment was further strengthened.
And then, more of Woljin’s explanation came into my ears.
[However… from the beginning of the Shattered Age, the eyes of the Earth Tribe finally bloom like the eyes of the Celestials. Just as the Celestials were able to read the secrets of the heavens through gravity starting from the 7th stage of the Smoke Period… the Earth Tribe is able to go against the Supreme Ultimate through explosions.]
Tsk tsk tsk tsk!
Gradually, my senses come into contact with the very essence of the universe.
‘This….’
I strengthen the sense of contentment while at the same time increasing the level of energy.
Or I realized that this entire world, also called the material world, was changing dramatically.
‘This is… the essence of the hierarchy of qi.’
Kookookookookook!
explosion!
It’s a constant explosion.
All beings within this world were endlessly exploding, sending out waves to the surroundings.
And to the immature senses of the people, that wave appeared as the ‘shape of the Taegeuk.’
Woohoo!
Through waves, I understood how this entire universe works and how laws are established.
Simultaneously, the twelve zodiac signs of the three stars of the acting machine.
I now understand what it means to practice and imprint the 12 types of waves of the Heaven and Earth Spirit.
‘This is… the true meaning of the three stars of the acting machine… .’
It was when I was admiring the world made of waves.
A familiar wave came to me.
‘Is this the wave of the moon?’
I was struck by the wave and at the same time I could hear the voice of the moon.
[You came in. Now… let’s look for the waves of the Hamcheon Lord.]
[… found it.]
I felt the waves of Jang-ik.
[Connect your mind to that wave. It is possible if you realize that you yourself are a kind of wave.]
Woohoo!
A wave moved through my soul.
‘This is the true form of the conscious realm.’
I moved the waves of my soul and the realm of consciousness, and assimilated my mind into the waves of Jang-ik.
[How do you feel?]
[It felt like… I had put my arm into something that felt foreign.]
[Think of it as a book.]
[book?]
[Yeah… a book. Imagine putting your finger in a part of the book.]
[I did it.]
The spirit of Woljin guides me.
I moved my consciousness according to his guidance.
[Qi (氣) is ultimately an explosion. And an explosion is the trace of life itself. Therefore… Those who approach the essence of an explosion will gain the power to view the traces of life and history.]
‘Ah… I see.’
In fact, even without Woljin’s help, it would have been an ability that he would have naturally realized after living for a few years as a Saseonggi Venerable.
To that extent, this feeling was natural to me.
Clang! Clang!
As if turning the pages of a book, I went against the grain of the waves.
Dozens, hundreds of scenes and scenes flashed before my eyes.
I knew this sight well.
Because it’s something you see every time you go back up the river of time during regression.
As I went back through Jang-ik’s history, I arrived at the scene that Jang-ik was trying to show me.
‘This is… the true feeling of satisfaction…!’
If the Celestials read destiny, the Earthlys are the ones who read history!
Clang!
I arrived at that time when Jang-ik and Eum-gwi-jon-ja were fighting.
The world of Pyeongun, where two beings from the past fought, came into view.
And I was startled.
‘Jang-ik…!’
Jang-ik was panting for breath, covered in blood, while the black entity in front of him was sitting calmly on top of the rock.
‘Your Majesty… I heard you were born with the blood of the Black Tortoise, but you’re saying that you drove Jang Ik to the point of being burned alive when you were a simpleton?’
The past Jang-ik opened his mouth.
[Who are you? How can you… come into the dungeon that suppresses the power of repair and still push me forward while burning? And why on earth are you preventing us from going to the Thunder Sea?]
And then, someone in the darkness answered.
[When do you think existence dies?]
[what?]
[They say that a true immortal dies when he can no longer dream. They say that an immortal dies when he is forgotten by everyone. But both are wrong. There is no such thing as death in this world.]
[What the hell does that mean!]
[Life is about being reborn into the underworld and living as a slave to fate, no matter how many times we die. In the end, we are in a cycle where we can never die, even if we want to.]
[I don’t understand what you’re saying. What does that have to do with the reason why the evil spirit took over the body of the evil spirit and stopped us!]
[True liberation. If you want to reach the end of life, the first thing you must defeat is not light, but the underworld.]
The being in the darkness rose from its seat.
Jang-ik took a step back at his momentum.
An ominous wave emanated from the being, taking over the surrounding area.
[The true extreme of the mind can be attained by everyone. Since death is the mind itself, if we all die, we can reach the extreme of the mind. That is why the mind is a worthless and useless existence. But at the same time, it is also a regrettable existence because it cannot truly die because of that damned wheel.]
Kuuung!
He extends his hand.
Just an outstretched hand gesture, without any meaning or purpose.
However, Jang-ik is directed towards the movement of the land, main line, section line, and ship line.
I barely managed to hold on to my spot, swinging all four swords simultaneously.
Ddddddddd!
‘What the heck is that….’
I didn’t use any magic.
I didn’t even use my energy.
It wasn’t even a talisman or anything.
However, it seemed as if the unidentified entity was using an unknown power to push Jang-ik to his limit just by extending its hand.
[What a worthless and pitiful being…]
He looked at Jang-ik with a look of sympathy, and gradually began to grow in size.
It was a turtle.
The legendary Yin-Gwi-Hyeon-mu’s first-class blood, inherited by Yin-Gwi-Jeon-Ja, took out the main body.
[Can you come in front of me?]
Phew!
After Jang-ik cut through the ominous wave sent by Yin Gui-jonja, he jumped into the air and combined his four swords into one.
[Destruction of Heaven!]
Jang Ik’s all-out attack struck the Eumgwijonja.
For some reason, the evil spirit did not dodge Jang-ik’s attack, but was killed when Jang-ik split his shell to pieces.
But as he died, he tore the green jade tablet that seemed to be the key to the path of the stars from Jang-ik’s waist and swallowed it.
After that, he closed his eyes and covered the spot where the Star Path Transmitter was.
Jang-ik, covered in blood, fell in front of the demon lord and screamed.
[You… who are you! Who are you! Why on earth did you take the body of our fellow demon and interfere with us, who are just trying to live!]
He answered, closing his eyes slowly.
[I am just me. And I did not take over your colleague’s body. ‘Eumgwijonja’ was just another personality of mine from the beginning… You don’t need to know the details. And there is no need to fear death, slave… After all, the beings of Ilwolcheonyeok… are all slaves who are neither alive nor dead… What is the… difference… between not living nor dead… ]
For some reason I… .
I got the feeling that this unidentified entity was ‘annoying’ me.
‘You don’t like dying? You said you were another personality of the Demon Lord…?’
In that way, the evil spirit died, and in his place, only Jang Ik was left, covered in blood, looking up at the sky and crying.
Jang-ik flew out of the Pyeongun world, hissing.
This was Jang Ik’s memory.
‘… What kind of being possessed the devil?’
And then, as I tried to release the sense of satisfaction, I realized that for some reason the sense was not being released.
[…uh?]
For some reason, my mind was fixated on the dead body of the evil spirit.
And then.
Dreaming.
The demon lord, who I thought was dead, opened his eyes and made eye contact with mine.
[…!]
I gasped in shock, my head turning white.
Flash-
The giant turtle before my eyes disappeared, and the figurine of the Demon Lord appeared in front of me, carrying a bundle on his back.
Unlike when he was in front of Jang-ik, his body was not covered with an ominous aura, so his figure could be seen clearly.
But I was actually so shocked by his appearance that it gave me goosebumps all over my body.
This was because his appearance was so similar to that of the Black Turtle of the Black Lingering Gate.
[You are probably the Golden God of this generation. Ordinary guys like Eun Ram have mastered martial arts to the extreme.]
Thump, thump, thump… .
I felt my heart pounding even though I didn’t have a heart, and I lowered my eyes to avoid eye contact with Hyun-Gwi.
It’s ominous.
Ominous, ominous, ominous again.
I have never encountered such an ominous being before.
[I asked you just now. Could you come before me? How is it, Geumshin? Could you come before me? You worthless and pitiful… dregs.]
I shook my head without realizing it in front of Hyun-Gwi, who was somehow feeling a sense of distant despair.
I could tell instinctively.
Hyun-Gwi is no different from our natural enemy.
Hyun-Gwi stood there quietly, looking at me, carrying his luggage behind his back.
I couldn’t read his emotions at all.
A void of nothing!
A swamp that endlessly sucks in existence!
[Ugh… gasp… gasp… .]
I sat down on the spot and clutched my heart.
‘The power of return, return, return, is shaking… .’
I could tell instinctively.
Interest is death.
And at the same time… .
Perhaps, it is a being that has a great connection to the origin of our species itself.
… .
[I see. You are a being connected to our origin. Isn’t that right?]
I looked up at Hyun-Gwi, laughing my mouth off at that fact.
[hmm?]
Hyun-Gwi’s eyes widened.
[I will… correct my words. I will reach you. I will reach you! I can reach you!]
I looked straight at him, filled with ecstasy, relief, and extreme joy, and burst into laughter.
[You can kill me, right!? Right!? Come on, kill me. Kill me right now!]
Hyun-Gwi looked at me with empty eyes.
And then he blurted out his words in a slightly absurd tone.
[… Amazing. No gold god in history has dared even breathe properly in front of me… The perfect superior-subordinate relationship between me and the gold god. You’re a little special.]
He wiped his face.
At the same time, Hyun-Gwi’s appearance changed.
He transformed into a girl with a ponytail, wearing a black martial arts uniform.
[I was planning on stealing your power today in order to properly surpass the light, but I changed my mind. I will give you a little more chance to mature.]
chuck!
The girl took a stance.
[I will show you the extreme limits of martial arts. Watch carefully and try to achieve it.]
With her eyes looking endlessly empty, she danced.
‘That’s….’
It felt like everything in the world was disappearing.
All that remains is her and what she paints.
Her every movement and gesture draws a circle.
At the same time, she danced and melted into the circle.
In the end, only one thing remained in all things.
I could feel both the sacredness and the ominousness within that circle.
And the next moment.
Pakang-
At the end… the circle was broken.
There is nothing left… .
Endless emptiness!
The extreme of meaninglessness where nothing exists!
‘this….’
The limit of nothingness.
It is a part of Wuji.
Pasasasasasasasa-
At the same time, the peaceful world of Jang-ik’s past that I had glimpsed with a sense of satisfaction was scattered into pieces and disappeared into the void.
Looking at that sight, I was finally able to snap out of my sense of contentment and come back to reality.
* * *
Crack, crack, crack!
Someone was hitting me hard on the cheek.
It was a good thing.
[Seo Eun-hyun, are you awake? Stop pretending to be asleep and wake up!]
[… happened.]
Crack, crack, crack!
[I came to my senses. Stop hitting me.]
I shook my head and stared into space with a somewhat vain expression.
‘I see….’
Blood sound said that I realized the five senses.
A state of awakening that allows one to feel the afterlife.
Seongmaek-an (星脈眼) that feels the source of the river.
Fetal movements that can be felt in the world.
The basic consciousness that recognizes the universe. And the senses derived from it, such as the identification of levels, etc.
I had four senses.
The ability to discern levels, etc., was derived from consciousness, so in fact they were one, and I did not understand why I had acquired the sense of perceiving the five worlds.
But it was only today that I understood.
A sense of giving talent to Kim Young-hoon.
The ultimate goal of my life as a martial artist, which I have acquired through studying martial arts.
What we have conveniently called perception was actually a sensation coming down from the void.
It would be more correct to call it an illusion rather than a perception.
Gulp… .
I suddenly felt tears welling up in my eyes.
Jang-ik said in surprise.
[What the heck, why are you crying, you punk? Are you hurting because you got slapped? Have you ever seen such a greenhorn girl!]
[Leave it alone, Master Hamcheon. Judging from your expression, it seems like you have realized that the person you used to love has no interest or meaning in you. I know that feeling, too.]
The Heavenly King, the Aurora Borealis, made a face of understanding, and I wiped my tears and said.
[… Just now, I think I met the God of Martial Arts.]
[What! Then why are you crying? Shouldn’t you be happy if you meet such a being?]
Jang-ik seemed puzzled. But I couldn’t hide my feeling of emptiness.
because….
[Because I saw in advance how futile and terrible the limit of nothingness is.]
The martial arts I have been pursuing.
I realized that the limit of nothingness is, in fact, nothing but emptiness.
The martial god of this world is a being that governs the void.
And then, I received confirmation from the god himself that nothing meant anything.
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