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Demonic Cult (5)
I looked out from above the Gwangum Station, at the desolate land in the distance.
The starting point of the Nankei region where the disciples of Geumsincheonryeomun are said to have entered.
An endless, lifeless desert.
Originally, this type of land was common in the world of the famous.
Because it was difficult for life to be infused, it was a good place for creatures with specific attributes to live.
But I noticed that there was something fundamentally different about this desert.
‘Even ghosts… are invisible.’
It’s so desolate.
Originally, in the world of ghosts, anything that caught one’s foot was considered a ghost.
There were some brilliant ghosts, but there were also quite a few stupid ghosts who were not very intelligent.
Especially in the case of such ghosts, they really did take all sorts of forms and resided all over the underworld.
But, there isn’t.
Even those common ghosts are nowhere to be seen.
All that is visible is an endless expanse of barren land.
and….
Crack, crack, crack…
‘Someone’s skull’ lying alone in the middle of a barren land.
As I looked at the skull, I realized that it was the remains of a monk who had been eroded by the truth.
Boo-
Kwaaang!
I quickly flew up and landed in front of the skull.
‘This….’
Upon closer inspection, I saw that this was no ordinary skull.
Crack, crack, crack, crack―
This skull, which kept moving its mouth as if it were alive, was quite a creepy sight.
But when I sensed the reality of this skull, I knew it was much more horrifying than it appeared.
Crunch!
I grabbed his head and pulled it out of the ground.
Quagagagagak―
Then, a body that looked like a spine appeared from underneath the barren land, and as it was pulled out a certain length more, hundreds of disgusting fiber-like things began to sprout from the spine and come out.
[Is it mycelium?]
I had a quick look at it in my conscious realm before I even landed on this earth, but it was still disgusting.
The investigator who was eroded by the true person must have originally been an ordinary ghost.
But as time passed, the body gradually transformed into these mushroom-like mycelia, which took root under the ground.
Woohoooooooo―
I looked beneath the ground into the realm of consciousness.
A huge amount of mycelium was writhing beneath the ground.
There were so many mycelia that it was impossible to count them in the thousands or hundreds of millions.
‘The further north you go, the more numerous the mycelial clusters become.’
I looked into the distance, aware of the mycelia that had eroded the ground beneath.
‘Did the remains of the eroded ones spread from far away and bloom this face with mycelium all the way here?’
I stared at the skull, still crackling, even though it had been pulled out of the ground.
The skull, to my amusement, showed no reaction as it watched my death.
‘You don’t care because my body has already been eroded?’
I tried to stimulate it with my powers of hearing, manpower, and spirit power.
But the skull mushroom didn’t care and just kept chattering its teeth and wiggling around in my hand.
That was when.
Wiggle, wiggle―
The skull mushroom began to spread its mycelium over my hand.
The mycelia spread their roots inside my hand, tugging at it.
‘Amazing. I was pulling up the Changryungseonggwangochaedaebeop, but it just broke through this solid body.’
I paused for a moment, admiring the sight, trying to shovel away the fungus eating away at my arm.
But no amount of magic I had learned could drive out the mycelia.
‘Tsk… Should I just cut it off?’
It was when I clicked my tongue inwardly.
Dismissed!
The last force I used made the mycelium flinch and react.
[… Hoo.]
It was the fog of all creation.
In addition, the mycelium reacted to the power of the Sword of Heaven.
Perhaps because it was a sword that contained the energy of a thousand eons, the fungus withdrew from my hand as soon as the power of the sword touched it and its life force died.
Woohoooooooo―
I combined the power of the Cheoncheon Sword and the Mansang Inyeondo to quickly expel the fungus from inside my hand, and also burst the skull mushroom in my hand.
Plop!
The skull mushrooms that touched the sword turned to ash and fell down under his hand.
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Kwajijijik!
Jeon Myeong-hun flew next to me and asked.
“Have you found out anything about this land?”
[okay.]
I nodded and said.
[These fungi are weak to the Thousand-Kalpa. However, they are not weak to simple ‘brain power’, but they barely react to the Black Lightning of the Six Extreme Sound Lightning God. So, it seems like you should move forward by imitating the Thousand-Kalpa as much as possible with your Red Lightning Thousand-Kalpa attack.]
“I see. Okay, I understand.”
[Then let’s set off.]
Jeon Myeong-hun and I returned to Gwang-eum Station again.
Kugugugugugu―
I sent a departure signal from above the boundary of the Gwangum Station, and the Gwangum Station gradually began to move towards the north.
At the same time, Jeon Myeong-hun transformed into a six-legged giant at the northern end of Gwangeum Station, took out a six-colored flag, and began swinging it wildly.
Kwarung, kwarrurung!
Colorful lightning bolts, following the six-colored flags, gather in the air and become one in red.
Jeon Myeong-hun spat out a spell toward the red brain sphere in front of him.
Then, as if the thunderbolt had exploded, a thunderbolt with an energy that was infinitely similar to a thousand eons spread out like a curtain in front of the light field.
Kwajijijik!
The Gwangum Station moved forward, erasing the mycelia beneath the ground.
Woohoooooooo―
I concentrated my mind and wrapped the light field around my conscious area, observing to see if anything would happen.
And that was when the massive body of the Gwangum Station entered the desert.
Kookookookookook!
The entire earth seemed to shudder, and the mycelia wriggling beneath the earth began to release spores all at once.
‘There was no reaction when Nana Jeon Myeong-hun came in, but is it reacting now that a big prey has come in?’
But it’s no use.
Wheeee …
To the Sims, the realm of consciousness is power and strength.
Their implementation is overwhelmingly based on the conscious realm.
However, the area of consciousness they first attain remains largely unchanged.
Kim Young-hoon and Jang Ik-do.
The first thing he did was to use all sorts of tricks to defeat the investigators who possessed a consciousness that could cover the heavens and the earth, using the consciousness he had obtained in the realm of Ogijowon.
However, I had the power of the mind tribe and the consciousness realm of the Heaven and Earth tribe.
My conscious area covers this entire optical realm!
Kwarrrrrr!
My consciousness surrounding the Gwangum Station became a storm.
The formless storm raged in a rainbow of colors, blasting away each and every spore.
The spores that bounced off turned to ash and fell into the desert, and we continued on through this vast and desolate desert.
* * *
About a month has passed.
How far must they have traveled across the vast desert?
“Is that it?”
We have finally found the source of the mycelium that has covered this entire area.
We managed to reach the remains of the eroded investigator.
Kwajijijijik!
Jeon Myeong-hun cried out, spewing red lightning from his chest.
Then, a storm of lightning swept through the heavens and earth, sweeping away all the mycelia.
Kwajijijik!
After he had walked through the mycelium like that, he placed a barrier of lightning around the entire area of Gwangum Station and looked at me.
I nodded.
Jeon Myeong-hun, Oh Hyeon-seok, and I left Gwangum Station and walked towards the eroded remains.
In the case of Oh Hyeon-seok, it was discovered over the past month that spores are absorbed when touched by the purple energy he creates, so we brought him out thinking it was okay.
It was a huge wreck.
[This is horrible.]
I clicked my tongue as I looked at the huge wreckage before my eyes.
It was clear that these remains were still ‘alive’.
Jeon Myeong-hun stuck out his tongue and looked back and forth between the wreckage and me.
“It seems quite similar. As expected, since you look like this and are sitting there pretending to be the leader, people are accusing you of being a member of the devil’s cult.”
[… .]
I hated to admit it, but the remains of the investigation that had been eroded by the truth looked just like me.
At the center of the mycelium, it had a black body that supplied power to the mycelium, and between the black body, there were pure white skulls protruding.
In fact, if you look closely at the inscription, it was a bizarre sight with death overlapping in quite a few places.
Really, this was quite ‘similar’ to my appearance.
‘Tsk, they’re not called the Demonic Cult for nothing.’
“Then Hyunseok and I will look around and find the disciples of the text.”
Jeon Myeong-hun and Oh Hyeon-seok left behind this huge piece of debris, about 30 sheets in size, and began to walk around the area.
I clicked my tongue and felt pity for this thing in front of me.
‘By the way… he still seems alive, but he’s pretty miserable.’
Each of these skulls was oozing with emotion.
Those emotions were intertwined and formed a single realm of consciousness.
That’s right.
This wreckage, as horrible as it was, was alive.
‘Are you dreaming?’
An eroder who seems to be ravaging this land while receiving the gaze of a true person and dreaming a long dream.
Did this guy really want to end up like this?
Woohoooooooo―
I took out the sword and held it, thinking about it.
‘Can you ring?’
But after thinking about it for a moment, I scattered the swords again.
‘I can’t cut it.’
The attempt itself would have been possible.
However, I stopped extending my sword because of the endless ominous feeling I felt inside this wreckage.
I had a feeling that if I cut it recklessly, I would suffer a huge loss.
“Found them! They’re here!”
Jeon Myeong-hun’s voice was heard from far away.
[Go that way.]
I nodded and started walking towards him.
That was when.
Creepy!
An ominous feeling runs down my spine.
I hurriedly turned my head and picked up the sword.
What soon came into my eyes was the remains of a ‘pupil’ made of pure white light inside the eye socket.
Eyeballs sprouted from the remains of dozens of heads, staring at me.
I tried to hurriedly leave that place, but the surrounding environment changed in an instant.
Pasa sasa sak!
[…!]
As the surroundings fell apart, I found myself floating up into the night sky.
[This place….]
And the moment I looked down, blood burst out from my 38 eye sockets.
Phew!
[Ughhhh…!]
female!
It was like seeing a dead ‘woman’ with her limbs grotesquely twisted and holes all over her body.
I gritted my teeth as my head started to swell.
‘What did you just see?’
I was so unable to stand that I collapsed on the floor and barely managed to come to my senses.
‘You shouldn’t look down… .’
That was when.
Quaddududuk!
Suddenly, the force pressing down on me became so strong that I couldn’t bear the weight of my head and ended up slamming my head down on the spot.
There was something like a transparent film so it didn’t fall down, but the bottom was still clearly visible!
‘Oh, no…! Look down…!’
And that was when it happened.
[…?]
There was no woman I had seen ‘down there’.
There was just a ‘world’ so vast that it was a headache just to perceive it.
[Name… Gui-gye…?]
That’s right.
The area below was the entire Myunggwi realm.
‘What? I thought I saw a woman just now… .’
I squinted my eyes, straining my consciousness to perceive who had so violently banged my head against mine.
But nothing was detected within thousands of miles.
Nearby, stars rise in the night sky, brightening the darkness… .
[…star?]
Creepy!
Only then did I suddenly realize where I had come to.
‘Crazy… this place…!’
The sky above the world of the famous ghosts.
No, higher than that.
Outside the dimension of the world of ghosts!
A place where [true people] reside and look into the world of the spirits!
As soon as I realized it, a majestic voice buzzed in my mind.
[Who are you?]
“…!!!”
I feel it.
Dozens of ‘eyes’ are embedded in my body!
‘What the heck, are you saying that the True Men can summon beings within the realm of the Underworld outside the interface!?’
Many thoughts came to my mind, but I opened my mouth to respond to the voice that had just rang in my head.
[I am….]
[I didn’t ask you, bug.]
Kwajijijik!
In an instant, my jaw dropped and I was unable to speak.
No, the ‘will’ itself can no longer be expressed outwardly.
It was as if the ‘words’ themselves were sealed.
[We have been discussing this while your words have entered the realm of the underworld and stirred up trouble everywhere. But as we discussed this, we have come to know the terrible truth. None of us have ever eroded such a thing.]
The terrifying gazes seem to pierce through my body.
[Then I can only think of one thing. There must be a being beyond truth and goodness, something beyond our cognition, that is encroaching upon and controlling someone.]
The real ones, to me, no.
I kept talking to the being I thought was behind me.
[Please tell us who you are, and if there is anything you would like us to do, please do so. We have observed the world of the famous ghosts in our own way and have learned much, and we have cultivated believers who serve us in various places for countless years.]
Kugugugugugu!
As they talked, my whole body seemed to be shaking.
[Your Majesty, we would be grateful if you could give us a chance.]
And then I stretched out my arms.
Uduk, udukduk―
I got up from my seat.
Kkwadduk!
It felt like a cosmic gravitational force was trying to crush my body, but I endured it.
For some reason, I said it because I felt like I ‘could’ do it.
[…!]
[How could a mortal rise up and gain the power of the Transcendent One!]
[I see. Is the being behind that lending you strength?]
[How can you secretly give strength to that thing while peeking through our eyes!]
I looked around, cutting through the countless voices.
Countless stars.
And, the ‘eyes’ that are pretending to be stars.
There are probably about fifty people.
Yes, 50 Jinins of the Gaekyeolgi era were looking at me with stern gazes.
Giggle, giggle giggle—
I tried to pull up the Samtaegeuk or the circuit, but realized that it was impossible.
‘Right.’
I understood what the Jinns had done.
‘You didn’t drag me here. You just pulled my mind out of the interface for a moment. My body is still down there.’
I had a shining eye.
And then, with all my might, I pushed through my imagination and the ‘something’ that was suppressed inside it.
Kuguk, kugugugugugu!
Just as I raised my body that had been knocked down by the power of the true people, I pulled out my ‘words’ that they had sealed.
[To the great…sages… this insect reports.]
Kukugugugu-
It’s hard to utter even a single word.
It felt like my whole body would fall apart at any moment.
But I can bear it.
Because what is here is not my real self, but my spirit.
Since only the spirit has been summoned, the Samtaegeuk or the circuit that requires the practice of the Heavenly and Earthly Tribes cannot be summoned, but on the other hand, if the spirit power is sufficient, it can be endured!
[I am… not… under anyone’s… control. Please… let me go.]
However, the sages seemed to hesitate for a moment at my words and then sent their will.
[Bug, I will acknowledge the achievement you have brought up in front of us. If you are truly great, you can move your fate and history and guide your actions, whether you realize it or not. Do not dare to reveal your unreasonable opinions in front of us and interrupt our conversation.]
Uduk, ududuk!
What if I call it a reverse cone or a fishing boat?
I wanted to do something like that right away, but the words themselves were sealed, so I was barely able to express my opinion.
Because of this, it was impossible to bring out ‘words’ that had such powerful power, and likewise, such names or symbols could not be brought out either.
[Your Majesty, please answer us. We remained silent even when your hideous believer roamed the underworld, even when he founded a religion with strange teachings with a body layered with ominous deaths, even when he disturbed the heavens of the underworld with cursed dolls with circuits connected to the realm of light. Inevitably, your believer approached our believer and tried to annihilate him by pulling out a thousand eons in front of him. No matter how good you may be, you are not a great believer, so you cannot treat us so insultingly.]
They didn’t even care about me and were just talking to someone I didn’t even know.
I gritted my teeth.
Somehow that time came to mind.
The despair of facing 50 slaughterhouse investigators.
Now they are cute things that need belly scratching, but back then I felt like a bug.
Barely able to breathe and tremble in a collapsed building, being treated like a bug hiding behind Kim Young-hoon.
I feel like I’ve completely gone back in time.
The situation itself was similar.
At that time, the elders of the Makrisega family were busy chasing after Kim Young-hoon without even paying attention to me, and these Jinins were the same.
[Kneel down. Don’t you dare look at us with those insolent eyes.]
Quaddududuk!
An incredible pressure was pressing down on me.
[… .]
But I didn’t kneel down and look at the floor even when I was hit by that cosmic force.
Everything is the same as it was back then.
But something has changed.
[Again and again…]
Kukugugugu-
Gather your will.
[I have been treated like a bug again and again.]
Woohoo!
I raised my head.
[But even though it’s a bug, it’s not your toy.]
I concentrated all my will and raised the ‘words’ to my throat.
[If you want to talk, treat me right. Otherwise, you’ll get stung by a bug.]
Kugugugugugu―
Anger.
Incredible anger fills the sky.
The real people are angry.
It’s the same situation as before, but what’s different?
That is, through several lives, I have constantly trained my will and my desires!
Right now, I will say what I want to say even if my mouth is torn!
[Ghhhhhhhhhh!]
Through the Sword of the Heavenly Sword, I transform my mental power from the level of the soul to the level of energy.
The power of the five elements and the power of yin and yang covered my entire body.
[Taesan!]
Kwuuung!
Light swirled in both hands.
It is not a simple offering of Taesan Yeoljeong.
Inside this, I imprint the shape of [what I saw]!
[Hot topic!]
I scattered the Taesan Yeolje toward the sky and showed them the [Inverted Cone].
――――――――!
―!!!!
―――――!!
――――――――!!!!
An incomprehensible roar shook the space.
No, their shouts seemed to shake the entire world of the famous below.
[Your Majesty! Are you really going to fight with us!?]
Kookookookookook!
A jinn with a furious voice shouted wildly.
[Your followers will be miserable. We will drive their sect out of this land by any means necessary. Your followers will become the public enemy of all. The words of your followers will be misinterpreted by everyone, and your followers will be annihilated and thrown into the underworld, or they will be cast out to another world, and nothing else will be possible.]
Ooooooooo―
I chuckled as I felt the fury in his voice.
Crisp, crunchy, crunchy!
He took off his demon-like body.
My true self as a human being was revealed.
I looked up at the sky as a human, Seo Eun-Hyeon, and said.
“You’re talking like a dog. Isn’t that what you’ve been doing all along?”
It’s not the first or second time that they’ve said things like “big ghost,” “demon leader,” or “evil religious sect.”
For the past 200 years, all I have done is preach, do volunteer work, and bring benefits to many places.
I didn’t even go outside of the Wujigyo Temple because I was afraid that there might be people who were afraid of my appearance and appearance.
Yet all the powers were hostile to me and called me an enemy.
200 years is not a short period of time, and wanting to look good to someone during that time is not a simple matter.
It is natural that we open our hearts to each other as much as the time we invested.
But strangely enough, everyone is caught up in a bizarre misunderstanding until they see the sect with their own eyes.
Is all this a coincidence?
I’ve been toyed with by fate time and time again.
Now that you’ve come this far, don’t you think you can feel the sense of destiny?
“Haven’t you long ago distorted the information of our sect, twisted our perceptions, and scattered it throughout the world of the Ming? Haven’t you suppressed us for 200 years by interfering with the Ming hierarchy, preventing us from spreading everywhere! And now that I ask you to let us have a proper conversation, you growl at me as if I’ve done you a favor!”
I smiled brightly as I shouted at the Jin people who were shaking like crazy after seeing the inverted cone.
I’ve been looking for a way to return to the underworld for a while now.
And now I found it.
“Goodbye, I’m going now.”
I already know.
These people, due to their promise with the Blood Yin, can never interfere with the Middle Realm.
This is something I heard directly from Hyun-eum, so it must be true.
Even if these guys talk to the being behind me for a hundred days, since that doesn’t even exist, they’ll end up thinking I’m ignoring them and try to kill me.
In that case, it would be better to just kick his butt and go back.
“Judge of the Underworld, Myung Gwi Jin-gun, Yu Su-ryeon! Please let me in again!”
―――――――!
―――!!!
――!!!!!!!!!!
―――――――――――!!!
Once again the true people go crazy.
I too was shocked to the point where my soul felt shattered.
But rather, high-level information is more dangerous to higher beings, so they would have been even more shocked.
And anyway.
Kkugugugugu!
By calling [name], a powerful ‘attraction’ was created between me and the world of the underworld.
“Well then, that’s it, goodbye!”
Phaaaat!
The surroundings seemed to be heating up, and I returned back into the realm of the spirits.
* * *
Kugugugugugu!
The space where Seo Eun-hyun disappeared.
There, countless wills communicated across boundless space and time.
The countless wills were noisy, but the content was the same.
How on earth did a bug manage to confront the will of the Transcendents head-on, talk back, scatter [terrible things], and then run away?
And then, the star that Jin-in was talking to behind Seo Eun-hyeon among them shone brightly.
[I see. Are you in the process of completing the Earth? But how is that possible? How can a mortal, even if he has the Five Blessings, fuse all of the Six Extremes into him?]
He was confused, but soon regained his composure and starlight began to flicker.
[Okay. You don’t need to know. The being behind it must be exerting its power. And since he ignores us like this, there’s nothing we can do. We’ll use all the forces of the world of the famous to eliminate or chase him away so that he can’t exert his power here!]
Woohoo!
At the words of the wise man, the stars all over the universe twinkled in agreement.
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