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[495] The Night Before the End (4)
‘I’ became a very small being.
No, ‘became’ is a bit strange.
I was small from birth.
But it was strange.
It was as if I had been something big before.
A being that can shatter the entire world, travel between stars, and possess powers more powerful than those of the gods… .
I don’t know why, but I felt like I was that kind of being.
It’s probably a delusion.
I am just a small microorganism.
I photosynthesized, absorbed substances from my surroundings, and gained nutrients, living my entire life like that.
And then he died.
….
I became a microbe.
However, it was a slightly larger microorganism than before.
I could now eat other microbes.
Unlike last time, I lived by eating microbes.
Then I was eaten to death by a microbe bigger than me.
….
When I came to my senses again, I was a microbe again.
But this time it wasn’t just some large microbe.
I came to exist ‘simultaneously’ as several microorganisms.
In short, the one microbe at the eastern end was me, and the one microbe at the western end was me.
Several microorganisms themselves became colonies and gathered them together.
I became the colony consciousness of microbes and made them cooperate to find food.
This time, I wasn’t eaten, nor did I live as short a life as before.
But in the end, I too lived to the end and died.
….
I came to my senses again.
In this world, there were many beings like me last time who had become a colony consciousness of microorganisms.
And I also belonged to one of those hive consciousnesses.
Beings that achieved hive consciousness survived by preying on and eating countless microorganisms.
There were even cases where hive consciousnesses consumed other hive consciousnesses.
I think that colonies of such microorganisms used to be called ‘bugs’.
…But what is a bug?
And what is ‘before’?
I don’t remember very well.
And while I was lost in thought, I was eaten to death by another ‘bug’.
….
When I came to my senses again, I realized that I had grown again.
I had become a big bug.
I realized that I could eat other bugs.
The moment I realized that, I kept moving so as not to get eaten by other bugs.
It was constantly eating other bugs, running away, and struggling to survive.
However, he was hit by a huge rock that fell from the sky and was crushed to death.
….
When I came to my senses, I was alive again.
There was a rock in front of my eyes, and underneath the rock was a small, dead bug.
By the standards of the old days, it was a rock smaller than a little finger, but to the bugs, it was a big rock.
‘What were the standards of the past? What kind of organ was the little finger?’
I thought about something else for a moment, then quickly stopped thinking.
In the great outdoors, if you think like this, you never know when you might die or be eaten.
You need to prepare to survive quickly.
As I was moving my body, I realized that the area of ‘me’ had expanded again.
I became a ‘bug’.
Just as I was a colony consciousness of microbes, I became a colony consciousness of ‘bugs’.
I led the bugs that had become a part of me and set out to survive once again.
In the end, I died again, but now I wasn’t so afraid of death.
We didn’t know this back in the microbiological days, but we know it now.
I am growing up little by little.
The more you experience death, the more you evolve.
So death is not something to be feared, but rather something like the next opportunity.
So there was nothing to fear.
….
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‘I’ continued to grow.
First, microorganisms.
Next time, bugs.
Next is a large bug that eats bugs.
Next, a small beast that eats a large bug.
Next up is the big beast.
A bigger beast.
A monster that eats beasts.
….
And then, before I knew it, I had become the hive consciousness of monsters.
….
Whoosh whoosh!
The whole world is on fire.
This is where ‘I’ live.
The land is mostly clear and transparent.
Of course, there were many places dyed in a variety of colors.
However, you have to be careful because there are jagged and sharp things all over the land.
Because if you’re not careful, your body could be torn apart in an instant.
And what we need to be even more careful about is ‘forest fire’.
A high place on the ground is called a ‘mountain’, and from the top of that mountain, flames of the same color as the ground occasionally burst out, turning the surrounding area into a sea of fire.
When the flame touches your body, you feel as if your mind is being torn to pieces, or rather, you experience an even more painful pain.
Of course, there is no problem with survival since it does not actually harm the flesh.
But if you touch that fire, you have to be careful because it will be so painful that you will not want to live.
If you do it wrong, just touching it will be so painful that you might commit suicide.
If that fire was a threat to the ‘mind’, there was something else that was a threat to ‘life’.
Kwarrrr!
A black stream of water flowed before my eyes.
It was a ‘river’.
When anything touched that black water, it slowly died, regardless of the reason.
Fortunately, there was no pain, but it was still so terrifying.
The only fortunate thing is that over time, the black energy in the black water dissipates and it becomes just ‘water’.
The ‘water’ created in this way was extremely precious.
Because that ‘water’ symbolized life itself.
Luckily, I happened to see a lake filled with ‘water’ in the distance.
‘I’ led the bodies to the lake and supplied water to the bodies.
That was when.
Kookookookookook!
The sky turned red.
I was curious to see what was going on, so I looked and saw a fireball falling from the sky.
That wasn’t the only one either.
I instinctively thought I shouldn’t get hit by the fireball, so I tried to dodge, but the fireball crashed down into the distant mountainside without even being able to avoid it.
Cookies, cookies, cookies, cookies!
At the same time, the world shook.
A massive shockwave swept through us all, wiping out every single species we could.
….
Gradually, life began to sprout on the land.
And ‘I’ also came back.
But ‘I’ felt something had changed.
The bodies gradually began to not listen to me.
Those bodies had something different than before.
“Wow! Woof! Woof!”
“Woah! Woah!”
Beings with scales on their bodies, hair on their heads, and smooth faces.
My bodies took the ‘fire’ with their tails and handled it.
At the same time, the combination of ‘river’ and ‘fire’ created a unique phenomenon.
They began to refine the earth by combining black rivers and colorless fire to create something called a ‘tool’.
It was around that time that I understood why bodies began to not listen to me.
They developed a sense of ‘self’.
Now I could only induce their ‘ego’, but I could not directly manipulate them.
But after ‘I’ discovered their selves, their scope grew and broadened.
My spirit melted into their egos and became their own.
I was someone’s mother and father, someone’s child and parent.
I was their prey and predator, and at the same time their daily bread and tool.
‘They’ gradually became stronger in their ego and reason, and began to use tools and ‘letters’.
For some reason, the text was in Korean.
….
What was Hangul?
I think I remembered it before, but it didn’t seem that important.
Anyway, I gradually evolved, struggled, and sometimes reconciled with them.
And as their egos developed and their intelligence grew, I gradually became more and more absorbed into them.
The original me was so speechless that I couldn’t even remember.
….
The original me?
What the hell was that?
I don’t know.
It didn’t seem like anything important.
The important thing is that they were me, and I was them.
They were always filled with fear.
It was because of a primal fear of death.
But I wasn’t afraid.
Because I knew that death was ultimately a part of my process of being reborn.
I whispered wisdom to them.
The wise among them received my wisdom, and at the same time sought after me who had given them the wisdom.
There was no way it could be found.
Because I was them.
But when they could not find me, they created a symbol and began to worship it, calling it ‘me’.
Before I knew it, ‘I’ had become their god.
And those who serve me as a god bow down to me and analyze my wisdom.
I whispered more and more wisdom to those who sought me out.
Years passed.
They took my wisdom and started to do something.
And after a while.
The most intelligent of them spat fire from his mouth.
Others feared and worshipped its existence more and more, and developed a respect for ‘me’.
The first being to spit fire taught his kind how to do so.
Their people recorded, improved, and practiced their methods in writing and systems.
Soon they were able to handle more and more fire.
And among those who handle fire, the most intelligent ones improved and evolved their methods of handling fire, finding ever more superior methods.
And then at one moment, they were struck by lightning falling from the sky.
Kwarrrrung!
Those struck by lightning had their childhood images imprinted on their bodies, and their appearance changed into something they had never seen before.
Their faces were the same as before, but their bodies, which had only scales and tails, grew arms and legs, and the scales and tails disappeared.
They were so amazed and afraid that they immediately gave the figure a name.
It was called cremation.
The being who was soon burned at the stake became their leader and ruled the entire world.
And at that point, I confirmed the reality of this world.
The world was round.
And as it rotated, day and night came into being.
My mind was suddenly absorbed into this entire world, and I felt my mind connected to ‘something’.
It was another ‘me’.
A being like me.
So there are now six more beings with minds spanning the entire world.
I could instinctively tell that they and I were the same beings.
At the same time, I could tell that as my mind expanded and grew larger and larger, and I became fully connected with them, something big was going to happen.
I wanted to know what the incident was.
And again, years passed.
‘them’.
The ‘other selves’ who call themselves the Candle Dragon Tribe have reached the pinnacle of burning themselves to death and even more.
They called that area ‘the axis of the earth’.
And as the number of dragons practicing ‘Ji-Juk-Ki’ increases, the spiritual realm also grows larger and larger, and I have now become no different from this star itself.
And then at some point.
One of the dragons that reached the axis of the earth flew into the sky, saying that he could no longer practice on this planet.
He flew into the sky, piercing through the realm of the void and into the world of gravity that called them.
Yes, it was a great success.
And that was when the first non-winner came from ‘me’.
‘…iced coffee….’
I finally found out who I am.
Tsk tsk tsk tsk!
My mind, which had been divided into seven stars, was now reconnected.
At the same time, the [wheel] above me took full form.
Eight spokes extend from the central axis of the wheel and connect to the circle of the wheel.
The wheel was finally completed.
At the same time, I finally found the memories of ‘me’ that I had forgotten.
Kookookookookook!
The stars exhibited strange phenomena.
As I regained my sense of self, the surface of the stars began to tremble.
A memory from years ago that I had forgotten came back to me.
After I created the Ucheon Daeseong, I slowly grew the incarnation to the point of a combined machine, and exploded it to create the Jecheon Daeseong.
It was easier than the first promotion ceremony.
This time, it wasn’t about completely exploding everything about me, it was about exploding my clone.
When Jecheon Daeseong was promoted, a circle was created around him according to the nine vowels of the Mugyeol Mantra.
At the same time, the circle rotated the nebula, sucking in the surrounding dust clouds along with the rotational force.
According to the gravity of my body, the Jecheon Daeseong was completed only after it had the same mass as the Ucheon Daeseong.
Normally, it would have taken a long time to gather the nebula, but the Infinite Mantra minimized that time.
As I recited the Mantra of Purity, I continued to create the next stars.
Mongcheon Daeseong (Great Star in the Sky).
A star in the sky.
The Great Star that conquers the sky.
The five stars symbolizing Woo, Je, Mong, Yeok, and Geuk were completed.
I regained consciousness for a moment and told my colleagues that I would walk this ‘path’ ahead.
Then, I again created the Jeongcheon Great Castle and the Hoecheon Great Castle in a state of selflessness.
Five stars orbit the star, finally lining up in a line.
The five stars received the power of the stars and formed a sixth star by connecting them into a constellation.
And after the sixth star was created, the six stars began to rotate and revolve around the star.
Because of that rotation, the surrounding nebula was drawn back in, and by completing the last star through that nebula, I finally created seven stars corresponding to Woo, Je, Mong, Yeok, Geuk, Jeong and Hoe, and entered the Great Circle of the Saeseonggi.
That too, was only the Great Circle of Heaven and Earth, with all seven stars having rings.
And then, after entering the Shattered Stone Unit… .
My consciousness was fragmented.
‘I see….’
I remembered the ‘first’ me thinking of the ‘before’.
It reminded me of myself when I was a microbe and myself when I was a snail.
My memories continued to roll back into the past.
This time it was a memory from the days of the combined machine.
I remembered that during the merge period, I went on an adventure with my colleagues and climbed the Void Shatter.
I also remembered that time when I had been wandering the universe for 190,000 years.
My memory went back to before that.
The era of the cattle herd, or rather the earth’s axis.
When Taesan Sangje crushed the Mugeuk religion and died.
When I was practicing basic training in the high-powered and famous worlds… .
The days of the millennium.
When the Geumsincheonroemun was destroyed by divine punishment.
When it was divided into the West and the West… .
Wonyoung-gi, determination machine, chuk-gi, acting machine… .
My memories went back to that time, which was both nostalgic and hazy.
Ogijowon, Samhwachwijeong, climax, first-rate, second-rate, third-rate…
And that was when I first fell into the trap of not knowing anything.
I realized that the phenomenon of me going back in time was not a simple flashback.
Just like when I was promoted to Wonyounggi, it was a part of the promotion ritual that went back and forth through my entire life like a revolving lantern.
‘Ah… I see.’
My consciousness was now in a circular orbit around the sun, following the orbits of the seven stars.
The soul is in the process of transmigrating and forming a circle around the star.
And every time my consciousness rotated within that circle, memories from a time before, or a quarter of my life before, would return.
I looked back on the quarters of my life and remembered my life.
It was a memory of the past as elaborate as the myriad of relationships.
‘Now… let’s try to reach it before going to Dengsenhyang… .’
And I decided to go back to the days of Earth, looking back at my memories from the time of the first lighthouse.
That was when.
‘…uh.’
I suddenly realized that there was a part of my life that was not recorded in the Chronicles of Mansang.
that….
14th time.
Around that time, I entered the Changcheon Gaebyeokmun Gate and met Venerable Saeryeong in the Jinma Realm.
It was at the time when I created the Silver Mountain by using the 25-second Dan-ak Sword Technique and glimpsed into Kim Yeon’s consciousness, that I glimpsed [something] in her memories.
It was definitely [just before reaching the summit].
‘ah….’
Finally, consciousness also reached that point in the past.
Just before reaching the summit.
‘That’s….’
Just after we were caught in a landslide.
I vaguely remember that time.
In the darkness inside the dirt mound.
We were dying there… .
At some point, I arrived in a new space as if I was being reborn.
We all who came from the darkness to the light squinted and looked straight at [it].
And there we are… .
I saw a [black snake biting its tail].
The being that brought us here was a [black snake biting its tail]!!!
: : ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!!!! : :
I screamed at the pain and pressure on my mind that the entire universe would leave me.
‘Don’t think. Don’t think…!’
It was as if a more terrifying and frightening pressure was crushing my spirit than when I had ever thought of or encountered any immortal before.
The only being that has ever put this much pressure on me is [the oldest one] who was chasing me back.
Kiiing-
I quickly turned my mind elsewhere.
Jeon Myeong-hun, who gave me the wheel just before the landslide.
Jeon Myeong-hun, who made me work overtime the day before the workshop.
The day before that, Jeon Myeong-hun would call me to the smoking room and blow cigarette smoke in my face to relieve stress!
I quickly freed myself from thoughts of the terrifying being, using my anger towards Jeon Myeong-hun as a rope.
‘Thank you, Jeon Myeong-hun…! For giving me such strong feelings…!’
I continued to reflect on my entire life, inwardly expressing my gratitude to Jeon Myeong-hun.
Finally born from mother and father.
When I reached the scene from back when I was a young boy, I quickly snapped out of my recollection.
And finally.
‘iced coffee….’
I briefly left the orbit of the star system and ascended to where the wheels were turning.
My orbit spanning the wheel and the star system overlap.
I felt my mind becoming one with the magic.
At the same time, the orbit’s rotation began to accelerate.
I removed all the dragon races born on the surface of the planets from the surface and relocated them to nearby stars.
I knew I could absorb those born to me, but I decided to grant them a new life and destiny.
Those who bought land and buildings on my index were crying, but they didn’t know that.
And the moment the seven stars reached their zenith in rotation.
Booooooo!
I gradually narrowed the orbit of the seven stars.
And that was the moment when the stars came to the center of the wheel.
Flash!
The rotating stars explode simultaneously.
I felt like I was losing my mind.
Just like the promotion to the Shatterstone, the promotion to the Holy Plate boasts an incredibly difficult level.
Even if the Great Master of the Saseonggi makes all preparations and finds the best opportunity to advance, the probability of advancement is less than 10%.
However, it is clearly easier compared to upgrading to a higher rank.
While promotion to the top requires you to explode your ‘everything’.
The reason for the promotion of the Holy Ban-gi was that even after the Holy Ban was compressed and burst, his own tactic still remained.
‘The promotion of the Holy Spirit is… dividing oneself into small pieces, uniting all of oneself again in the talisman, and in the process creating an orbit that rotates into consciousness.’
And the ceremony of compressing and exploding that orbit is the Seongban-gi promotion ceremony.
Kugugugugugugugu!
The space shook and a gigantic nebula was created.
During the ceremony of promotion of the nebula, this nebula is gathered together to form a star.
But it was different during the Sungban-gi promotion ceremony.
Woohoo!
The nebulae gradually began to rotate around the talisman I had created.
Soon, dust clouds began to gather toward the center of the nebula, and the temperature at the center began to rise.
Phew!
And then, the calamity began to blow.
‘…! Something is strange.’
Originally, the thousand-year eons of the promotion ceremony of the Holy Spirit come from the four realms.
The afterlife, the void, the source river, the Dongcheon flower garden.
The purpose of the thousand-year eon of advancement to the Four Realms was to make the Venerable One, who would become the Four Realms, ‘recognize’ the Four Realms.
Just as the purpose of the Seong-Gyeop in the Seong-Gyeop stage was to connect the stars and the lord, the purpose of the Seong-Ban-Gyeop stage was to connect ‘existence’ and ‘after death.’
Kwarrrrung!
The veins of the original river were shaking, and a thousand eons of time that erased space and time itself were thrust into me.
A thousand eons of ‘fraud’, like the one that had piled up in my soul in the afterlife, were thrust upon me.
As soon as I was hit by the Dongcheon Flower Garden, my whole body was transformed into the fates of the Dongcheon Flower Garden and I was struck by the thousand-year-long kalpa of scattering and death.
And lastly.
In the void, something eerie and unidentifiable struck me.
What was certain was that if I lost my mind during the thousand-year eon, I would be immediately dragged to that world and die.
‘Something… feels strange.’
But I had a strange feeling as I faced the thousand-year tribulation.
‘Too strong!’
Ddddddddd!
The Holy Grail Promotion Kalpa is sent by each world, a total of 4 times per world.
Each of them will face 16 thousand eons.
However, even after the 16 eons had ended, I still felt the eons coming down with a completely different power than what I had heard from Baekwoon, and I felt a cold sweat running down my face.
‘The aeon has become strange!’
Generally, you can tell how many kalpas are left by looking at the sky.
It meant that how many thousand kalpas this was and how many thousand kalpas were left were all revealed in the heavenly records.
however….
‘A thousand eons… are running wild!’
Even if I read the weather, I couldn’t catch anything other than the future where ‘the thousand eons will continue to fall.’
It seemed as if Cheon-geon, who had been falling precisely according to my quantity, had suddenly lost his mind.
The standard of a thousand eons has disappeared!!
‘Why on earth… .’
I clenched my lips inside and continued to face the hurricane.
The more the aeons struck down, the stronger the force that dragged me to each world became.
hell.
The force pulling me from that deep, dark place becomes stronger.
‘Ah, no! If I continue like this for another thousand kalpas, I will truly die!’
The problem was not the power, but the nature of the eons.
The nature that drags me to death constantly comes down on me!
How many weeks did he endure the Four Heavenly Kalpas like that?
Pachijik!
Only then did the eons subside.
‘Hoooo…’
Kugugugugugu!
And then, as the nebula rotated, my consciousness came to be located at its center.
The constellation where the nebula rotates and the sacred constellation of reincarnation!
If the breaking point becomes a constellation,
The Holy Spirit was in a state of ‘rotation’.
At the center of the rotation was my soul centered around the divination, and my real body was the ‘rotating nebula’.
The center of the rotating nebula would gradually increase in temperature and power as it went through the penumbra training, and it would become a star that would emit light of its own.
Initially a rotating nebula.
In the middle period, stars.
In later stages it becomes a red giant.
In Daewonman, becoming a white dwarf was the normal path of the stellar cycle.
[Hoooo…]
I opened my eyes.
From the time of the Holy Sepulchre, one’s own imagination itself becomes the world.
The Colorless Sword Mountain and Sea World has now become a world that exists in my mind, and from now on, if I just take my time, I can extract everything that exists in this world into reality and make it last forever in the world.
At the same time, I thought about the time of evolution I had been going through.
A short period of time that doesn’t even last 2,000 years in real time.
However, during that time, my mind was split into at least ten thousand pieces and then gradually came back together.
And those fragments were reincarnated as microorganisms with little soul on the surface of my original nature, and went through countless reincarnations.
So, although it was a very short period of time in real time, the ‘perceived time’ that I spent going through reincarnation and creating the Shurilong Tribe was close to twenty million years.
Woohoo!
Let us focus our consciousness on the rings of the nebula.
The Holy Pantheon is compressed.
I created an incarnation, placed the Holy Plague inside, and opened my eyes.
[It was long…]
It was a long, long time.
A miracle achieved by learning the Mantra of Innocent and Dharma-ending at the same time.
In general, the practice method is to divide the mind into ordinary parts and integrate them under the talisman.
The two masters of sorcery who helped me ascend to the stage of sagehood through the method of dividing my mind and reincarnating into microorganisms to evolve into a single species.
[It was you guys.]
Deep in the darkness, [the oldest one] is gently pulling me there.
And a mountain built up with pure white salt.
Those two visions flashed before my eyes.
[I don’t know what you want from me, but I will go my own way.]
I softly poured out my heart to the empty space.
No answer came.
But that alone was okay.
200,000 years.
After 20.19 million years in perceived time, I finally reached the stellar phase.
[Okay then now…]
It’s time to prepare for the end.
No brain damage.
Geum Jin-jo and Jeon Myeong-hun’s bedroom.
There, Geum Jin-jo was shaking in a corner of the bedroom, holding her head and seeming out of her mind.
[No no no no no no no no no no please please please please please
… Someone tell me it’s a dream… .]
Crackle, crackle!
Red lightning was flying off Jeon Myeong-hun’s body, which had countless marks from being stepped on by small feet, with his top off.
Jinjo Geum trembled as if she wanted to get out of the bedroom and tried to pull the bedroom door, but the red lightning flashed and shook her hand away.
[Bu, bu, bu…]
Geum Jin-jo looked back at Jeon Myeong-hun with a face full of fear and trembled like crazy.
[It’s being resurrected… inside his body… ! Ah, no. I have to get out. I have to get out. I have to get out… !!!]
But she couldn’t get out.
Unable to go out or approach Jeon Myeong-hun, Geum Jin-jo had no choice but to tremble in fear.
Gwanghan-gye Cheonryeonsan Mountain.
In the middle of it all, Baekwoon looked somewhere and smiled.
[… You did it. You monster. By the way… .]
But she, who had been smiling brightly, looked at the black paper in her hand and made a serious expression.
[… This is a big problem.]
High-powered Sea King Battle.
The Black Palace of the Myunggwi Realm.
The financial world is anti-establishment.
The True Demon Blood Sect.
Sacraments are everywhere.
Or, the blood yin particles all looked at the black paper in their hands with serious faces.
After a while.
Haerin, from the high-powered Sea King Battle, had a serious expression on her face.
Parsak!
The black paper he was holding in his hand.
The current situation has become worse.
He burst into laughter and covered his face.
[Ahh…! The vicious demon has eaten him too…! Now it will be the [hungry one’s] turn next. Is the entire Sumeru Mountain really about to perish… What are the celestial beings doing? Where did that heavenly craftsman disappear to, and what is that snake doing! The Eight Immortals of Light only know how to show off, but can they really do nothing in front of that demon!! Ahh! The world is going to turn upside down.]
Hae-rin sighed deeply and shed tears of pain.
Eat the owner of the name and the station of Sangbicheon,
Followed by Damokcheon Station and Jibyeoncheon Station.
Taesan Sangje, who had eaten up two Sangje and four Cheonyeok, sent his will in front of Seonjeoncheonyeok.
: : Come out, emptiness : :
He raised both hands and said.
: : If you don’t give me your head, I will eat you : :
But there was no answer from inside.
Taesan Sangje showed his anger in a subtle way and began to gradually close his hands.
The Seonggyeokcheon Station began to crumble.
: : You disgusting slave, keep falling down and dying over and over again : :
Ddddddddddddd!
In that way, Taesan Sangje, who had crushed and eaten the Seonkyuncheonyeok, ate the five heavenly realms and then headed towards the Ssangjicheonyeok (Double Holding Heavenly Realm) and quietly recited.
: : While you are lying down, I will eat all the hunger and spread a carpet of snake blood and walk on it until I reach the audience room. Don’t regret it. : :