Oh Hye-seo understands that the history of the entire world is being twisted and that Seo Eun-hyun has severed [something] entangled with Hon Won and Yeon Wei.
And in that moment, she feels an overwhelming killing intent engulf her.
Shiver!
'Th-This is...'
The place she looks at in shock.
There, Hon Won is standing.
Kuduk, kudududuk...
Hon Won clenches and unclenches his fist, as if confirming something.
Seeing this, Oh Hye-seo realizes that her instincts are sounding a fierce alarm.However, she doesn't show it outwardly and raises several Immortal Beast forms around her.
At the Grand Perfection Integration stage, with her sights already set on the Star Shattering stage, she smirks.
"Grand Cultivator Hon, what are you doing? Grand Cultivator is a hostage, so you should quietly..."
In the next moment.
Kwadududuk!
Hon Won's fist is suddenly right in front of her, striking her head directly.
Kwaaaang!
Oh Hye-seo screams in agony, as if her Integrated Dao Domain is being torn apart, and she is sent flying several zhang away.
With an expression close to panic, she stares at Hon Won.
'I was defending myself using the power of the Yin Ghost Black Turtle, and yet...the form of an Immortal Beast. The form of the Immortal Beast Yin Ghost Black Turtle that is specialized in defense at that, was shattered in one strike, and I was sent flying?'
Hon Won cracks his knuckles as he speaks.
"I thought you were just some mongrel bitch, but this is unexpected. I intended to kill you with that blow, yet you endured it."
Oh Hye-seo, feeling a strong instinctive warning, opens her mouth.
"...You've...regained your cultivation...!?"
"Would it just be that?"
Hon Won sneers.
Kugugugugu!
"Forgotten memories. Twisted spiritual veins. The pride of the Penglai Palace Lord. I've reclaimed them all."
However, despite having regained everything, he does not look happy.
Instead, Hon Won grits his teeth and sheds tears of blood.
"It's so miserable that I can't even speak..."
Oh Hye-seo's eyeballs dart around.
'If I lose him, Seo Hweol's plan will fall apart.
Because the soul inside him needs to create attraction force!
If I lose him, and Seo Hweol fails...
...Then Seo Eun-hyun will come to devour me again, right? No! I can't endure being trapped in something as horrifying as Seo Eun-hyun's stomach again!'
Oh Hye-seo grinds her teeth and raises several Immortal Beast forms around her.
"Enough with the bothersome words and just obediently become a captive!"
Huarurururu!
The wingbeats of the White-Winged Heavenly Pegasus engulf all phenomena in flames.
The royal palace Seo Hweol built on the Lofty Dragon Star begins to burn, and flames ignite on Hon Won's body as well.
"This is the fire of an Immortal Beast! Now then, let's..."
At that moment,
Hon Won takes a stance.
At the same time, the prison of Yin-Yang and Five Elements envelops Oh Hye-seo.
"...Huh?"
Good-Devil energy surges in both of Hon Won's hands.
Viiiiing!
'N-No!'
Oh Hye-seo feels an intense threat of death and realizes she must escape the Prison of Yin-Yang and Five Elements as quickly as possible.
Woo-wooong!
A Taiji symbol begins to spin around Oh Hye-seo.
However, despite the Taiji's rotation, the Prison of Yin-Yang and Five Elements created by Hon Won does not break.
Not just the Five Elements, but even Yin and Yang itself!
She immediately understands the cause of this phenomenon.
'Resonance! Hon Won's method is resonating with the entire universe!? Why!? This, this is...'
Seo Eun-hyun's Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra is currently being unfolded on a universal scale.
That mantra is resonating with Hon Won's Great Mountain Splitting Emperor Technique, elevating Hon Won's power to his peak state.
"Great Mountain (太山)!"
Kugugugugugu!
Oh Hye-seo's body begins to assimilate with the Yin-Yang and Five Elements.
With a sensation of her mind going blank, she pushes the power of the Immortal Beasts to their utmost with all her strength.
"Splitting Emperor (裂帝)!"
Countless forms of Immortal Beasts rise to protect her.
However, with a sinking feeling in her chest, she realizes the truth about Hon Won's attack.
'...This attack...is at the Quasi-Star Shattering stage...'
She cannot block it.
In the next moment, every Immortal Beast form surrounding her is shredded apart. Oh Hye-seo's body is torn into seven pieces, and her Integrated Dao Domain is violently ripped apart as she is hurled deep into the underground depths of the Lofty Dragon Star, unconscious.
Hon Won, having rendered Oh Hye-seo unconscious, slowly turns around.
Splurt!
Blood gushes from his mouth.
"...Damn it..."
The single strike just now cost him all his cultivation and every drop of his true origin vital energy.
Hon Won, too, is now on the verge of death.
For someone who still has a significant amount of lifespan left, an observer might call him insane.
But Hon Won doesn't care and steps into the burning palace of the Sea Dragon Race.
There lies Yeon Wei's body, thrown aside by the aftermath of the battle between Oh Hye-seo and Hon Won.
Is it perhaps because it's the body used as a vessel to contain the attraction force of Vast Cold?
Yeon Wei's soul has already been drawn by that attraction force to the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect's shrine and placed into the body crafted by Seo Eun-hyun.
Hon Won,
Slowly,
Approaches Yeon Wei,
And embraces her.
"...Wei-ah."
"...What is this, Hon Won."
Yeon Wei slowly looks up at Hon Won and speaks.
"Have I also gone senile?"
At those words, Hon Won gently strokes Yeon Wei's black-and-white hair.
Huarururu!
The royal palace of Seo Hweol, engulfed in the flames of an Immortal Beast, begins to collapse.
Burning debris from the building falls above Hon Won.
However, Hon Won neither uses spells to block it nor heals his body.
Instead, he simply endures the collapsing building with his body while focusing all his efforts on extending Yeon Wei's fleeting lifespan by even a few more seconds using the Immortal Art Sunshine of the Immortal Art Various Omens.
"...The one who went senile...was I."
"...You trash bastard."
Yeon Wei spits out venomous words.
"You are trash. So vile and rotten that it was impossible to feel satisfied with you."
Yeon Wei glares at Hon Won and unleashes a torrent of curses.
"When I heard I was to enter into a political marriage with you, I felt so nauseated that I even considered suicide. It was an engagement devoid of emotion, made solely for the safety of my Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect. When I betrayed you, I thought it actually turned out great. The sense of liberation was so overwhelming I felt like I could fly. Rather than marrying an idiot and ugly man like you, I preferred to bring in brighter and more handsome children to have relations with. My descendant, Yeon Jin, is one of the offspring from such men. Do you remember when I plucked your eye out last time? Your eye, I boiled it into a tonic and drank it. It wasn't even tasty... Why are you still here? Get lost, you retard. What, if I die here, will you turn my corpse into some kind of pill...?"
"I'm going to die here today as well, Wei-ah."
Hon Won smiles warmly as he continues to embrace Yeon Wei.
"I detonated my true origin vital energy and crushed the subordinate woman of the bastard who captured us. I, too, after tonight...will die from the extinction of my true origin."
"...As if someone who can resurrect..."
"All the life force and soul force I have for resurrection are being spent on the Immortal Art to extend your lifespan. Once I die, likely not even a leftover will remain."
"What kind of insane nonsense are you spewing? Why are you doing such a thing!? Someone like you can't defy the celestial energy to extend someone else's lifespan. That's something only a Sacred Master can do. Even if you extend it, do you think my lifespan will increase by even a moment? What is your reason for this!!!"
At Yeon Wei's furious shout, Hon Won gently strokes her hair.
A single tear falls from Hon Won's eye.
"Because...even if it's just a little longer...I want to hold you."
"...Hah..."
At those words, Yeon Wei tightly shuts her eyes.
Then, with trembling hands, she raises them to cover her face.
Slowly, she begins to sob.
Hon Won also sheds tears.
"I'm sorry, Yeon Wei. The one existence I've loved all this time...yes. Cheon Ra...in the end, was you."
I'm sorry.
A short and insincere apology.
Yet, with those short and insincere words, Yeon Wei feels the resentment of the past forty-five thousand years gently melt away.
Kwarururung!
As the royal palace collapses, one of its main beams falls onto Hon Won's waist.
Flames spread across Hon Won's body.
Yet, Hon Won continues to use protective spells and the lifespan-extending Immortal Art solely on Yeon Wei.
Yeon Wei slowly rises from her spot.
Both are drained of energy, their lifespans nearly depleted, but now it is Hon Won who is lying down.
Even as he lies down, he holds onto Yeon Wei's body, infusing Immortal Art, energy, and protective barriers into her.
"Wei... Wei-ah..."
Surururk...
Hon Won's rough hand brushes against Yeon Wei's cheek.
"At last, I've found you. Wei-ah... My Wei-ah..."
Hon Won's eyes gradually lose focus.
Death is approaching.
However, neither of them shows any sign of sadness.
Yeon Wei sheds tears while smiling.
"Just why...did you come all the way here? If it's you, you could have just left me behind and lived...
"...You foolish person."
"I wanted to see your smiling face...one last time...before I die..."
"So..."
"And, with you...I wanted to go...together, on the same day, same time. Long ago...we even exchanged the Vast Cold Oath...didn't we?"
"...I've told you so many times. That was just a forgotten, useless tradition. It was just a joke..."
But even as Yeon Wei sheds tears, she does not lose her smile.
Because Hon Won said he wanted to see her smile.
And that is enough.
"...You're the one who could pray to Seo Eun-hyun for help and live... Why aren't you doing that...?"
"...I've lived long enough. And..."
Yeon Wei hugs Hon Won tightly and closes her eyes.
"There's nothing more...that I wish for in my life."
She smiles.
It is the most peaceful and liberated smile she has ever worn.
Hwarurururu!
Kwaaang!
Finally, the palace completely collapses.
Yeon Wei and Hon Won burn together amidst the ruins.
The two whose lifespans have come to an end hold hands as they turn to ashes in the flames.
A pair of lovers had their fate toyed with by the will of a True Immortal.
But through one move by Seo Eun-hyun, they finally broke free from fate.
There might have been ways for them to live longer, but neither chose such methods.
Perhaps...it's because they don't expect a moment more precious and rare than this one to ever come again in their lifetime.
The separated lovers, thus reduced to ashes by the flame, become one as they turn into soil.
Hon Won and Yeon Wei, having reached the conclusion they desired most, die overwhelmed with happiness.
And...from within the ashes, two clumps of light rise.
Kugugugugu!
The Serving Command Palace is rotating around the Head Realm.
Having already completed half a rotation around the Head Realm, the Serving Command Palace is spreading immense brainwashing waves across the entire world.
And all of a sudden,
Paaaatt!
Around those brainwashing waves, a single clump of light rises.
At the same time, on a planet within the Astral Realm, another clump of light appears before Seo Hweol who is commanding all the brainwashing waves.
The souls of Su In and Hong Yeon.
It is the legacy of Vast Cold within Seo Hweol's grasp.
With his eyes gleaming, Seo Hweol grips tightly the attraction force that fills all of Heaven and Earth.
The attraction force of the End completely envelops Seo Hweol.
[You cannot stop me, Seo Eun-hyun.]
Seo Hweol also witnessed the recent history revision and the liberation of Hon Won and Yeon Wei through it.
But he is not concerned.
"Such a revision is impossible again."
Even history revision has its limits.
"One is in the Head Realm. The other is in my hand. Yet you dare interfere with the Head Realm and believe you can seize both souls?"
Wo-woong!
Seo Hweol even more violently squeezes the attraction force from the spirit bodies of the two souls and declares.
"This is my victory!"
Meanwhile, the three aspects of Seo Eun-hyun, gathered on Cedarwood Painting, unite into one.
Heaven, Earth, Heart.
Now that one has become Entering Nirvana, there is a difference in their cultivation realms, making it impossible to use the Three Great Ultimates.
But Seo Eun-hyun doesn't concern himself with such things.
He recalls a scene from the Canvas of Myriad Forms and Connections.
Wo-woong!
The children called Su In and Hong Yeon.
It is the scene of them dying tragically that day.