Thud—
The Sword Mountain Devil Lord slowly begins to raise their head.
Hundreds of millions of layers of seals wrap around their whole body, and massive stakes of light are driven into them in many places.
Beyond that, their flesh is bound by dozens of chains of light, prophecies, and a certain dimensional veil that appears to be the Heavenly Domain itself.
[Huuuu...]
And within those countless seals, the Sword Mountain Devil Lord exhales and writhes.
At that very moment, the one who discovers the Sword Mountain Devil Lord's strangeness is the Envoy of the Final Age of Dharma in charge of their sealing, the Ghost Net Heavenly Lord.
: : Hm? Hear me, the Sword Mountain Devil Lord has risen. Inform Radiance Hall. The Sword Mountain Devil Lord has opened their eyes. : :
At the Ghost Net Heavenly Lord's transmission, replies from the Eight Immortals arrive in an instant, and numerous Vestige Liberation Immortals, Upper Immortals, and Great Net Immortals pour into the sealing ground.
: : We will set up a formation on the boundary of the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain and come at once. Wait only ten seconds. : :
Ten seconds.
For True Immortals, ten seconds is not a long time, but it is not that short either.
The Ghost Net Heavenly Lord, well aware of the seals Radiance has laid upon the Sword Mountain Devil Lord, sits at ease as they look down upon them.
: : If it's only that, nothing much should occur. : :
But immediately after those words end.
The Sword Mountain Devil Lord begins to exert force.
Kugugugugu—
: : O Ghost Net Heavenly Lord, the Devil Lord is exerting strength. Shall we reinforce the seal or intercept? : :
: : No need. The barriers upon the Sword Mountain Devil Lord alone are... : :
[Guaaaaaaa!]
Then, the Sword Mountain Devil Lord's roar begins to resound throughout the entirety of the Palace of Radiance.
The power sealed beneath the name of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord begins to bloom in earnest.
Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra.
Flawless Mantra.
Wheel.
Impermanence Sword.
Authority of the Immortal Beast King.
Ultimate of Martial Arts.
And...
Radiance Mantra.
A total of seven Governing Immortal-rank authorities, breaking through the hairline scratch pierced in the name of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord, begin to overturn the interior of Radiance Hall.
Ururururung—
The power they exhale spreads in a spiral and begins wildly distorting innumerable seals, and all the seals and prophecies laid upon the Sword Mountain Devil Lord in by Radiance Hall begin to stand off against them in equal opposition.
Only then does the Ghost Net Heavenly Lord realize something is wrong and hastily gives orders.
: : Reinforce the seals! Pour more prophecies upon them and intercept that one through Immortal Arts! : :
The Ghost Net Heavenly Lord draws power from the Origin Essence of the Gwi Celestial Mansion that they seized, which governs the Gwi Celestial Mansion (鬼宿星/Vermillion Bird Constellation) of the Grand Perfection formula at the Qi Building stage, and shapes a harpoon blazing with ghost fire.
Woo-wooong—
The Ghost Net Heavenly Lord's prophecy dwells in the harpoon.
It is their Innate Immortal Art, Ghost Net Slaughter (鬼羅殺).
: : Thee who is struck by Ghost Net Slaughter shall grow weary. : :
Not death, not falling asleep, but simply growing weary.
But precisely because the range of this prophecy is so narrow, this prophecy can even take effect upon a Supreme Deity.
Tukwang!
The Ghost Net Heavenly Lord hurls the prophecy-laden harpoon straight at the Sword Mountain Devil Lord.
Now, with the power struggle between the Sword Mountain Devil Lord and the seals that confine them in Radiance Hall having reached a stalemate—
If a curse that makes the opponent grow weary is driven into the Sword Mountain Devil Lord, the situation would be reversed at once.
Or so they think.
[Coordinates, the interior of Radiance Hall.]
Clank, clank, clank, clank, clank!
Tukwaaaang!
Ripping the space-time of Radiance Hall's interior, five chains suddenly appear in place, snatch the Ghost Net Heavenly Lord's Ghost Net Slaughter, and fling it straight back at the Ghost Net Heavenly Lord.
The Ghost Net Heavenly Lord tries to block their own Immortal Art, but because of the Supreme Deity-rank attraction force contained in that art, they are skewered by his own harpoon and are flung out beyond the interior of Radiance Hall.
Kwagwagwang!
The space and dimension within Radiance Hall distort, the power of the five chains resonates, and they begin to reach the clear rank of a Supreme Deity.
[Immortal Treasure Five Desires Chain. We come by the Lord's command.]
Kwaaaang!
At the same time, the Five Desires Chain, which has reached the Supreme Deity-rank, combines with the Sword Mountain Devil Lord's attraction force.
The powers corresponding to the eight Supreme Deities at last rip apart the seals and prophecies entwining the entire body of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord and undo their sealing.
Kukwagwang, kwaang!
Numerous True Immortals tied into the seals are flung here and there, screaming and shrieking.
The Thirty-Three Heavenly Resplendent Treasure Immortals holding one axis of the sealing all fail to endure, and from the shock they are repelled and bounce away, scattering in all four directions, and the Qiantian True Lord and the Kunyu Heavenly Lord vomit congested blood and momentarily faint.
The time it takes for all of that to occur does not even reach nine seconds.
Paaat!
Interior of Radiance Hall.
There, the Radiance Eight Immortals who have come to guard the boundary of the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain gather.
: : Great Forest, Rain Dew—what is this!? : :
And the Eight Immortals, upon arrival, grasp the situation at once, and among them the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord shouts in a near-scream.
: : Did I not say that the matter of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord is urgent, so at least send Sword Spear!? : :
Indeed.
When the news about the Sword Mountain Devil Lord came, the Eight Immortals foresaw that Seo Eun-hyun's comrades will launch surprise attacks inside and out from outside the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain, and decided to go after firmly fortifying the defenses of the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain.
Since no one thought the Sword Mountain Devil Lord would break free within ten seconds, it seemed to be no problem.
Only, the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord, seeing that the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord was virtually sidelined and staying in their quarters, proposed to have at least Sword Spear go to the interior of Radiance Hall, but that proposal was smoothed over by the Great Forest Heavenly Lord.
: : And on top of that, what are those things, those that are made from the Immortal Treasure transformation of the Swallowing Heaven Supreme Deity, what are they!? If those can infiltrate the interior of Radiance Hall so easily, then for what did we come after guarding the Heavenly Domain!? : :
The Great Forest Heavenly Lord and the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord, as if they have nothing to say, keep silent for a moment.
But Sword Spear looks at the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord and soothes them.
: : Calm yourself, Pearl Jade. This is not the time for us to be fighting amongst ourselves. Above all, the Heavenly Domain defense we have carried out is not meaningless. From the start, is it not well known that the interior of the Swallowing Heaven Supreme Deity is connected to the center of every Heavenly Domain?
: : In the first place, the sealing formation of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord is set to confine even if their Immortal Treasure appears, but who could have known that they, alone, would equal the entire power of the sealing formation? They are merely out-of-standard... This is no time to blame our comrades. : :
: : ...Understood, Sword Spear. : :
At the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord's logical words, Pearl Jade slightly calms their anger, and the Great Forest Heavenly Lord and the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord also lower their heads.
: : I apologize. But now we are all gathered, so let us begin with subduing the Sword Mountain Devil Lord. : :
: : Let us decide the punishment for the mistaken judgment after the subjugation of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord. In the name of I, Great Forest, the operational command authority of Sword Spear and Pearl Jade is hereby restored, so begin the subjugation of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord. : :
Having finished speaking, they all look at the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord.
The Sword Spear Heavenly Lord, looking down at the massive body rising below, joins their palms.
: : We shall go with full force from the start. All divine spirits affiliated with Radiance Hall, assemble. This is a full-scale war. The current Sword Mountain Devil Lord's combat power shall be estimated as Bing-class (丙), and all Envoys of the Final Age of Dharma, all Great Net Immortals, all Upper Immortals, all Vestige Liberation Immortals, all at once, shall execute prophecies according to Pearl Jade's command. : :
All across the Heavenly Domain, countless stars of prophecy are born, supporting the Eight Immortals and beginning to bind the Sword Mountain Devil Lord.
At the same time, the Radiance Eight Immortals form a circular formation and, with palms joined, begin to draw power from the Seat of Radiance.
: : Glory to the Radiance Supreme Deity. : :
The place where they are is inside Radiance Hall.
Right beneath the Seat of Radiance.
There is no place in this world where the power of the Radiance Supreme Deity reaches as well as there.
Above the Radiance Eight Immortals who have drawn a circular formation centered on the Seat of Radiance, a gigantic symbol of Heuk Sa (黑蛇) appears.
The ominous Light of the [Black Snake Biting Its Tail] begins to pour down toward the Sword Mountain Devil Lord.
And the Sword Mountain Devil Lord Seo Eun-hyun begins to exert his power in earnest.
The first to appear is the [White Three Great Ultimates].
A pure-white Three Great Ultimates appears under Seo Eun-hyun's feet and amplifies his power.
Next to appear is the [Wheel of Starlight].
Receiving the power of the Three Great Ultimates, the form of the Wheel shining with starlight encircles outside the Three Great Ultimates and appears again beneath Seo Eun-hyun's feet.
And the last to appear is...
...the same symbol of the [Black Snake Biting Its Tail] as that of the Radiance Eight Immortals.
: : W H A T !!?? : :
The Radiance Eight Immortals, including the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord, cry out as if screaming when they see that symbol.
Seo Eun-hyun, encircled by the overlapping symbols of Three Circles, sees that sight and, with his faceless pure white head, begins to stretch his hand toward the sky.
Chwarurururuk—
The five chains wrap around the right arm that Seo Eun-hyun lifts, and their ends each coil around one of Seo Eun-hyun's fingers.
Seo Eun-hyun, raising the right arm wrapped in black chains, finally begins to draw up the power of the Radiance Mantra that is revealed beneath his feet.
: : ॐ अमोघ वैरोचन महामुद्रा मणिपद्म ज्वल प्रवर्ताय हूँ : :
[Editor: A Vajrayana Buddhist mantra associated with purification and the wisdom of Vairochana Buddha. Can be translated as: "Om! To the unfailing Vairochana of the great seal, blazing jewel-lotus, set forth! Hum!"]
An ancient tongue whose essence cannot be fathomed resounds all around.
Radiance Mantra.
Authority.
Space-Time Suppression (時空制壓).
Waduduk—
The world stops.
The state of everything in the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain freezes as is, and it becomes a place where only Seo Eun-hyun can move and think.
It is different from time stop.
Time stop merely stops time, but Space-Time Suppression means the entirety of the suppressed time and space falls into the hand of the suppressor.
Within the suppressed time, at the center of the Three Circles, Seo Eun-hyun begins to recite the incantation of Phenomena Extinguishing.
: : Immortal Cultivation is repentant enlightenment... : :
Kugugugugu...
Jjeok, jjeojeojeojeok...
Originally, the Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra should gather the jade of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements at the center.
But with Space-Time Suppression underway, with Seo Eun-hyun having become the master of that space-time, when he chants the mantra, something changes.
The entire spacetime of the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain splits apart, reverts into the jade of Yin-Yang and Five Elements itself, and starts to be trapped within Seo Eun-hyun's two hands.
Not at the usual level of compressing the jade of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements, but literally treating the entire Heavenly Domain as the jade of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements and imprisoning it in one's hands.
And so, just as the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain is about to fall into the clutches of the wicked Sword Mountain Devil Lord—
Mantra.
God-Killing Spear
Outside the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain.
At the far edge of the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain.
From the place where the Head Realm lies, eight eye-blinding lights fly in and pierce through the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain, which is frozen and undergoing disassembly.
It is the God-Killing Spears!
The ultimate technique of the Radiance Eight Immortals that defeats even a Supreme Deity.
Jjeoong!
The eight God-Killing Spears fly straight into the body of the wicked Sword Mountain Devil Lord that seeks to devour the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain.
Before that bizarrely overwhelming spear, which does not submit even to Space-Time Suppression, the Sword Mountain Devil Lord has no choice but to cancel the Radiance Mantra and take out something else.
Wiiiiiiing—
The symbol of the [Black Snake Biting Its Tail] thins, and the [Wheel of Starlight] shines.
The true purpose of the Wheel that the Heavenly Venerable of the Underworld possesses is the Origin of History.
Historical excavation to reach the moment of Genesis when the world was created.
Even the ordering of causality and the rewriting of history are merely authorities that arise from that historical excavation.
And that authority of historical excavation is, for Seo Eun-hyun who has become the Immortal Beast King, the greatest authority.
The authorities of the Wheel and the Immortal Beast King, from Seo Eun-hyun's hand, manifests a golden destruction.
The dreadful ultimate technique that once beat Seo Eun-hyun to the point of being sick.
Splitting Emperor Splitting Heaven (裂帝裂天).
Annihilation Advancement Mu (滅進戊).
Eight Consecutive Strikes (八連).
The dreadful light of destruction of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity that he experienced hundreds of millions of times meets the lights of God-Killing and cancels out.
Flash!
The world hums, and the entire Heavenly King Heavenly Domain twists madly under the collision of those forces.
As a result, the barrier formations that the Radiance Eight Immortals set up on the boundaries between Heavenly Domains to prepare for the intrusion of the other Enders all end up smashed to pieces by that distortion.
Kugugugugugu—
Unable to endure the collision of those forces, the Palace of Radiance crumbles, turning into powder and scattering into the void, leaving only the floor.
Within that storm of golden powder, the eyes of the Radiance Eight Immortals and Seo Eun-hyun meet.
Wooo-woooong—
Within the diagram of the Three Circles, the faceless Mountain Divine Spirit laughs.
: : It was a long sleep. Now then... : :
Guk, guguguguk—
His right arm wrapped with the Five Desires Chain rakes through space.
: : ...shall I put an end to Radiance Hall? : :
Chwaaaaak—
The next moment.
The hand that rakes through space passes straight through dimensions and flings open the gate of the Source River, the dimension adjacent to the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain.
Inside the Source River.
The Red Pearl Cycling Heavenly King Jeon Myeong-hoon.
The Lapis Lazuli Flower Heavenly King Kang Min-hee.
The Silver Nameless Heavenly King Oh Hyun-seok.
Ender Kim Yeon.
Ender Oh Hye-seo.
Five Governing Immortal-rank beings reveal themselves.
: : In the name of the Great Forest Heavenly Lord...I fully elevate the danger level of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord's party to Eul-grade (乙). They are now...dangerous persons on a level equal to the Tridacna Vast Cold Heavenly King, so aid us with full force. : :
Thus, the Second Bright Sword Great War begins.