Wo-wooong—
The Radiance Seven Immortals are by now cut off from everyone's attention.
No...
Those beings, who should be called the 'remnants' of the Radiance Seven Immortals, are vainly dying away in the abyss within the Inner Sea of Mount Sumeru.
: : Is it...now the end? : :
: : It would seem so. : :
They tremble all over at an intense feeling they feel for the first time in life and accept death.
: : Executor Rain Dew... : :
: : Execute us. : :
: : If we die like this...our souls will be dragged into the arms of the Underworld, not to the Head Realm, which is our sanctuary, and we will undergo reincarnation. : :
From the very moment Radiance Ten Heavens Heavenly Lords were born, when their souls die, they would reincarnate into the Head Realm through the hands of the Rain Dew or Torch Candle Heavenly Lord.
Strictly speaking, when the time for replacement comes, one should say that the traces of the previous generation would be completely devoured by the Origin Essence of Light and flow into the Head Realm.
In any case, for every generation of the Radiance Ten Heavens Heavenly Lords, the Head Realm was a kind of utopia.
This is, because cultivators above the Heavenly Being stage cannot exist there, their ideal is realized, and they can repeat eternal, unchanging ages in the Head Realm and exist forever as the 'same being'.
In life they discuss justice with the body of a god, and after death they enter a world of eternal cycle and are guaranteed comfort.
That is the dream of all the Radiance Ten Heavenly Lords.
Therefore, the Radiance Seven Immortals, as they die now, begin all at once to pour strength into the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord.
Wo-woong—
: : Become once more the sole survivor, preserve Radiance Hall, and return honor to our end. : :
With the words of the Great Forest Heavenly Lord, all the strength of the Seven Immortals flows into the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord.
Of course, since everyone is in a horribly wrecked state, nothing like the newly recovering Rain Dew Heavenly Lord becoming stronger happens.
At most he only recovers power at the level of one Immortal Lord.
Rain Dew Heavenly Lord weeps as he feels the last fragments of his comrades flowing into him.
: : Comrades...I am sorry. It is all my mistake. I should have, without delay, carried out execution on Sword Spear Heavenly Lord at once... For having my mind sold to the curse of Vast Cold and failing to pre-empt them...it is my fault : :
: : Do not blame yourself. : :
At the final moment of life.
Listening to the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord's words, all the Heavenly Lords including Great Forest only laugh about Sword Spear.
Perhaps it may be a forced laugh, but as ones who wear masks, they do not mind a forced laugh.
All for the sake of the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord who will remain.
: : We are unburdened. : :
: : The matter of the Sword Spear cannot be helped. : :
: : Even if we had not met the Sword Mountain Devil Lord, Sword Spear might still have been lured by Great Mountain Supreme Deity in the end because of the name Ji Hwang (地黃). : :
[Editor: As a reminder, Ji Hwang (地黃) means 'Yellow Earth,' contrasted with 'Black/Mysterious Heaven' (玄天).]
: : All is predetermined fate. If this too is all decided from the beginning...there is not a single thing for us to blame ourselves for... : :
Thus they try to console themselves, until...
Kkaang!
: : ... : :
Kkaang!
From somewhere.
Far away outside Mount Sumeru.
Until an unpleasant resonance coming from within a vast light pink Artificial Gandhara reaches them.
Kkaaaaaang!!!
That sound grows larger and larger.
Kaaaaaang!!
And it becomes clearer and clearer.
Everyone present can tell.
That is the sound of the Tridacna Vast Cold Heavenly King, Kim Yeon, refining the soul of the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord.
Kaaaaang!!!
However, what the dying Seven Immortals feel is not simply shame that a comrade was captured by vicious ones and is being refined.
It is betrayal.
Chaeaeaeeng!!!
In that sound of refinement that becomes clearer and clearer, a heart is carried.
It is the heart of Sword Spear.
Because they are ones who bloomed the heart, they can in fact know what that heart means.
: : Sword Spear... : :
The Great Forest Heavenly Lord cries out with a trembling voice.
: : Do you truly...truly mean to be newly born from inside there!!?? : :
Chaeaeaeeng!!!
Within that clear sword ring, the sound of the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord reviving is heard.
It is not a mere revival.
It is a rebirth as a completely new being, denying everything about their own birth.
To the Seven Immortals who just consoled themselves that all this is merely an arrangement of fate.
The sight of the traitor denying fate and being newly reborn...
...boils up an emotion they cannot possibly express.
Affection toward an old comrade, shame, despair, sense of betrayal, jealousy...
All emotions that cannot be described seethe up at the moment of death, and at last the Great Forest Heavenly Lord cuts off the life they are sending to the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord and screams.
: : Shoot, Azure Arrow. : :
As always as the partner of Great Forest, the Flower Plant Heavenly Lord follows Great Forest and uses their Immortal Art.
: : Eat, Flower Garden. : :
Great Sun and Torch Candle use Immortal Arts in succession.
: : Burn, Great Sun. : :
: : Blaze, Heavenly Torch. : :
And seeing this, Rain Dew realizes something.
: : Do not shoot!!! : :
Kugugugugugu!!!
From that Gandhara, the afterimage of a gigantic White Wheel appears.
The Rain Dew Heavenly Lord recognizes it at once.
The Heavenly Venerable of the Underworld is intervening!
The power of the Heavenly Venerable of the Underworld at last begins to move in order to release the seal of the Northern Dipper Sealing Immortal Flag that is set on the Sword Mountain Devil Lord.
The Rain Dew Heavenly Lord realizes that the reality they are in itself is a reality rewritten by the Underworld.
In the reality rewritten by the will of the Underworld, the attacks of the Great Forest, Flower Plant, Great Sun, and Torch Candle Heavenly Lords shoot in order, not as an intentional sequence of attacks.
The Rain Dew Heavenly Lord, their eyes rolled back and unconsciously swept up in emotion, blocks the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord.
: : We will not suffer any further!!! The seal of that Devil Lord shall not be released!!! : :
The Wheel of the Underworld is terrifying, but the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord, seeing the plan of the Underworld that is exposed to them, screams.
: : I am a member of the last Radiance Supreme Deity...! I alone...At least I alone will not fall for your stratagem!! : :
It cannot be helped that even Torch Candle has attacked.
Perhaps up to Torch Candle's attack, the Underworld can distort or rewrite it and drop it onto the Sword Mountain Devil Lord.
But Sword Spear has died and is being reborn, and Pearl Jade, Great Sea, and Rain Dew themselves are well under his own control.
The Rain Dew Heavenly Lord shouts, thinking there is absolutely no way the seal on Sword Mountain Devil Lord will be undone.
: : On this alone, I, Rain Dew, staking the honor of all the prior Radiance Ten Heavenly Lords, shall block it!! : :
The sky distorts.
Gwak Am's fist and claw technique attack me in separate order.
The sword of golden light that stuffs Kim Young-hoon wholly inside gradually loses its light.
Jjeojeojeong!
Hit by Gwak Am's attack, I am flung straight out from the eastern edge to the very center of the Head Realm.
I am flung to the middle of the Treading-Heaven Desert, to the place where the Ascension Path is located, and I crash into the very middle of the Ascension Path.
The great barrier of the Sky Island is pierced, and at the waist of the Sky Island floating in the void...
Walgak...
'Damn it...'
The Sky Island is falling.
The barrier gradually grows faint, and I feel the spirit herbs, spirit fruits, and the spiritual veins in Ascension Path scattering.
Heaven and Earth spiritual energy is dropping,
The battlefield Kang Min-hee made for me.
If it is a world without the mystery called Qi, my win rate certainly rises.
Without Heaven and Earth spiritual energy, if we exhaust all our energy, that is the end.
We must fight with only the strength of the bodies we are born with.
Kududuk...
I check my body.
While evaporating the sea at the eastern end of the Head Realm with Gwak Am, the realm that was the Earth Axis stage dropped down to the Heavenly Being stage.
The structure of my body also changed to the level of a slightly trained ordinary human, not one who holds a world within.
I am now a human with flesh and blood.
'But the opponent is an innate demigod.'
Gwak Am has nothing but the Heavenly Being stage, but as that stage combines with his innate divine strength, he wields power at the Star Shattering level.
'I didn't manage to wear down his realm.'
Because the body he has is so overwhelmingly strong, his consumption efficiency is far better than mine.
Moreover, from the moment he fell into the Head Realm, Gwak Am devoured all the living beings of the Head Realm.
Because of that blood energy, his regeneration is at the level where even if I cut an arm, the cut part regenerates immediately like I am cutting a mere phantom.
The biggest problem is the weapon.
Wo-woong—
I look at the faded golden sword.
The golden light is gradually weakening.
'...Hyung-nim.'
Naturally, Kim Young-hoon's power is not infinite.
Kim Young-hoon is in a state of having torn through time and space from an unimaginably distant past to arrive in the future.
In a very exhausted state, he is squeezing out all his strength and lending me power once again.
'I cannot waste it.'
I start to compress the golden sword imbued with Kim Young-hoon's authority.
Everything is for optimal efficiency.
Chuaaaaat!
The sword of golden light compresses and starts to become a familiar form.
Another name of the Formless Sword before the Impermanence Sword.
The Formless Sword refined into the shape of a line.
All-Heavens Sword.
'I can't just keep increasing sword energy as I please and fight. I will use it at the optimal moment and aim for the maximum effect.'
Watching Gwak Am fly in from afar, I kick off from Ascension Path.
Tukwaaang—
My sword and Gwak Am's shoulder collide.
With the subtlety of moving a thousand jin with four liang, I let Gwak Am's force flow past using only the minimum strength.
Jjeojeojeong!
The bizarre rocks and soil that cover Ascension Path split and explode as they are.
And what hides inside is revealed.
It is a three-legged cauldron.
"Heavenly Void Furnace, good."
Jjeoeoeng!!
Having revealed the form of the Heavenly Void Furnace, Gwak Am directly grabs one of the three legs of the furnace, descends to the Treading-Heaven Desert, and swings the cauldron at me, who still floats in the air.
"Guaaaaaa!!!"
Hwoong!
A mass the size of Ascension Path flies at me.
Jjeoooooeng!!!
Since there is no Qi, the abilities of the Heavenly Void Furnace cannot be used, but with just that insane mass I am hit straight away, flung into the sky of the Head Realm, and crash into the World Shield Force.
Pukwak!
"Kuhk..."
Spewing blood from my nose and mouth, I prepare for the next attack.
Jjeoeoong!!
Gwak Am, who again jumps up holding the Heavenly Void Furnace, swings the Heavenly Void Furnace.
While embedded in the ceiling of the Head Realm, I get struck by the Heavenly Void Furnace, and only by depleting my Heavenly Being cultivation down to the Nascent Soul stage do I barely preserve my life.
At the same time, feeling the ceiling of the Head Realm collapsing, I enter a strange world.
Whooosh...
'Sea...?'
It is a sea.
Not just any sea.
Its salinity is so high that it is no different from a Dead Sea.
At that moment, I realize where this is.
'Could this be...'
Without even a moment to be taken aback, Gwak Am rushes at me and swings the Heavenly Void Furnace again.
Underwater, I manipulate the current to evade, then I rush at Gwak Am and thrust the All-Heavens Sword into his chest.
Shukwak!
In an instant, multiple thrusts punch holes through his chest.
The very salty water of the Salt Sea flows into Gwak Am's lungs.
Not only that.
When I wound Gwak Am's body, the water of the Salt Sea seeps into his injuries,
No matter how painful it is to sprinkle salt water on a wound, Gwak Am trembles and flinches to a strange degree.
His eyes become bloodshot as if they are about to burst.
He is clearly in pain to an abnormal degree.
Seeing this, I feel a bitter feeling.
It is then.
Gwak Am even lets go of the Heavenly Void Furnace, rushes at me like lightning, clamps my neck, and swims off somewhere.
Even as we swim beyond the sky of the Head Realm, deep into the far interior of the Salt Sea, we exchange attacks several times.
My All-Heavens Sword cuts off his elbow.
His knee caves in my chest, and his grip rips out my neck multiple times.
I repeatedly tear his body with the All-Heavens Sword, and the more I do, the more his eyes fill with pain.
And at some moment, we exit the region of the Salt Sea.
Puhwak!!
"Keheok! Gughk..."
Gwak Am coughs out breath, seawater flowing from his whole body.
'This place is...'
Escaping for a moment from Gwak Am's grasp, I scan the surroundings.
I can tell the identity of this Salt Sea.
The Salt Sea Supreme Deity Ryeong.
It must be the remains of their true body.
And the reason he is in even more pain as the true body of Ryeong seeps into his wounds is probably...
"...You are being rejected. You know it yourself, don't you?"
I look at Gwak Am.
Yes.
Gwak Am's way.
The karma he has accumulated...
It has already accumulated so high that he is rejected by the Salt Sea's remains itself.
"You...know that you cannot inherit Master's robe and alms bowl...don't you...?"
I understand why Gwak Am, leaving aside even the Splitting Heaven Mantra, gave up on seizing the chaos and made a surprise attack,
It is not that he gave up on taking control of chaos.
It is that he 'could not' seize it.
Gwak Am received the method to take control of the Salt Sea, but he does not have the qualification.
"You know it yourself... You know you are wrong...!"
Suddenly, I start to get angry.
He knows it too.
Whatever qualification requirements Salt Sea set, Gwak Am neither has the qualification, nor has he stopped denying Master's method while believing only his own method is correct.
He put power first, deceiving that he surpassed Master.
He, too, knows that he is deceiving not only his master but even himself.
"So why...why do you not break that stubbornness, why do you still cling to that disgusting method and even now still refuse to change yourself!? Why!!??"
Only now do I understand why that bastard burns with such rage and resentment just to kill me alone.
"You also know, don't you...? Though you received the method to take control, you have no qualification...but I have the qualification to seize the Outer Sea...!"
Maybe, I could have gotten along with him.
If he ran on his own two feet to properly carry out Master's command, and, no matter if he spent several kalpas of time, searched for a way to bring everyone to repentant enlightenment.
If, instead of forcing people into repentant enlightenment, he truly searched for a proper answer!
Maybe...
Maybe he could have truly inherited the will of the Salt Sea Supreme Deity, obtained the 'qualification' to seize the Outer Sea, and become the true heir of Salt Mountain.
If it was so, he and I might not have met as the enemy who massacred my family and the victim, but just as a normal senior brother and junior brother.
I fly at Gwak Am and grab him by the collar.
"Answer me, Gwak Am!!! Do I have the qualification to seize the Outer Sea? Is that it!!?? Is that why all this time, just to catch and kill me alone, you burned with such inferiority and brutally slaughtered my family!!??"
Even in the midst of battle, Gwak Am, calm with his collar caught in my hand, simply shakes his head forward and headbutts me.
Jjeooooong!!
To block that single headbutt, my stage drops from the Nascent Soul stage to the Core Formation stage.
It does not matter.
Right now, hearing this answer from him is more important.
And with our foreheads slammed together, Gwak Am speaks.
"That's right."
Kugugugugugu!!
Kicking off the bizarre chaotic space, Gwak Am speaks.
The place we arrive after passing Master's remains is where countless pieces of information mix and form chaos.
It is probably a space influenced by the Akashic Records.
Agate, Wu Jin. Derived Star Extinguishing True Chapter — Extinguishing Realms Record.
Obsidian, Vinaya. Five Thousand Stems, One Dao.
Lapis Lazuli, Jeong Shin. Black Fall Converging to One, Returning to Dao, Heaven-Breaking Star Extinguishing True Chapter.
Gold, Gugalanna. Splitting Heaven Mantra.
Tridacna, Shin. Blood Insect Demon-Devil Great Method.
Red Pearl, Yang Su-jin. Red Lightning Heavenly Tribulation Method...
Within the Akashic Records, the names of the former Enders, the Absolute they were granted, the Innate True Methods they learned, and such information, all pass by around us in a jumbled mix.
It seems the Head Realm contains not only the remains of the Salt Sea Supreme Deity but also, to some extent, the remains of former Enders.
Among them, I also see some of Yang Su-jin's information.
"I don't have the qualification."
Among those, I divine descent the familiar power of Yang Su-jin, and I gouge my fingers into where Gwak Am's spine is.
'Directly into the spinal cord...'
Kwajijijijik!!!
The red lightning of the Red Lightning Heavenly Tribulation Method strikes Gwak Am's spinal cord directly.
However, Gwak Am, without even twitching despite that pain, grabs me and goes endlessly upward to somewhere.
"The method to obtain the qualification is only one...!"
And then, at some moment.
Jjeoeoong!!
We re-enter the 'sea'.
'This place...!'
I realize right away where this place is.
The southern part of the Treading Heaven Desert, the Great Sea.
"To eliminate...every enemy in this world."
Puhwaak!
"Someday, just as [someone] has done...kill all who block the way and drive them out beyond Mount Sumeru, so that in this world only I exist alone...Heaven and Earth, I alone am honored...! That is qualification."
Since the space of the Akashic Records that connects beyond the sky of the Head Realm is not a proper spacetime, miracles like going up and then being able to come back in from below seem possible.
"Do you understand what it means?"
Jjeooooong!!
Gwak Am extends his fist.
By that fist pressure, the surrounding seawater is pushed away and surges outward.
In an instant, the sea dries up.
"..."
And I answer.
"...The phrase 'Heaven and Earth, I alone am honored'...does not mean that."
Tukwang!
Gwak Am kicks me.
The energy I have left is at the Core Formation stage.
In contrast, because Gwak Am broke through that bizarre space of the Akashic Records, his realm dropped down to the Nascent Soul stage.
Why is it that even though both of us broke through the space of the Akashic Records, my realm is relatively intact?
Woong, woooooong!
'Yang Su-jin lent it to me.'
I did not just divine descent Yang Su-jin's power.
A fragment of Yang Su-jin's remains resonated with me and actively lent power to a later-generation student.
"All existences in this world are as noble as myself... Because they are noble, there is no need to distinguish the boundary between self and non-self... Therefore, it has a meaning not different from the notion that only I exist alone in this world."
Flying south over the Great Sea, I look calmly at Gwak Am.
"You know it too. That talk of 'Heaven and Earth, I alone am honored,' or killing everything in Mount Sumeru, it's all an excuse. The qualification to seize the Outer Sea is..."
Chwaak!
And at some moment, I set my stance, grab the All-Heavens Sword with both hands, and block Gwak Am rushing in.
Kwaaaaang!!
Gwak Am's single fist extends as if to collapse Heaven and Earth, but I let all that power flow to my back.
The seawater behind me evaporates all at once, and the sea floor at the southern end of the Head Realm reveals itself.
The familiar Sea Dragon Palace reveals its shape from beneath the sea.
Kwaaang!!
I kick into one of the Sea Dragon Palace's halls directly, collapsing it, and reach my hand toward the things inside.
The countless dharma treasures that one of the Sea Dragon Palace's owners sealed inside.
Though they lost spiritual energy and spiritual nature, they are objects sufficient to use as good weapons.
—Hoho, Fellow Daoist.
An unpleasant voice rises up.
"Gratitude and forgiveness."
To forgive my enemy and to be grateful to all my connections.
The way to eliminate every enemy is to make every enemy a friend.
The weapons stored in the Sea Dragon Palace come into my hands.
I overlay the power of the All-Heavens Sword, which I have kept using only thinly until now, onto those armaments to minimize the consumption of power even further.
Severing Mountain Swordsmanship.
Mountain Echoes Valley Responds.
Echoing Valley.
Landscape Painting.
Flowing Ridge.
As the sword cry rings, a sword wave at the speed of sound cuts Gwak Am's upper body.
I parry Gwak Am's fist with the technique of Echoing Valley, then break his balance with Landscape Painting, then thrust with the move of Flowing Ridge.
'Concentrate the power...'
I focus the subtlety of the bow-body movement technique onto the sword tip.
'Flick it away!'
Paaaang!!
All the martial arts techniques I learned in my martial world days blossom from my sword and my whole body.
Gwak Am is flung far away and disappears beyond the horizon.
Bakakang—
A weapon of the Sea Dragon Palace turns to powder.
I quickly ransack the treasury of the Sea Dragon Palace.
Short swords and daggers, scabbards, bags, poisonous herbs and throwing knives.
Swords and sabers.
Halberds, spears, shields, bows and arrows.
With all sorts of weapons strapped to my body, I check my energy that is now about to drop to the Qi Building stage.
Kugugugugu!!
From beyond the horizon where he was flung, Gwak Am comes back carrying something.
Perhaps he too must need a weapon to use instead of the Heavenly Void Furnace, as he comes back with gigantic weapons in both hands.
It is a mountain peak.
Directly uprooting the Shattered Heaven Peak of the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect, Gwak Am rushes at me like mad.
"You think that kind of thing is possible!?"
Kkwaaaang!!
The peak of Shattered Heaven Peak crashes down at me.
Its mass looks enormous, but it does not have absolute hardness like the Heavenly Void Furnace.
Tuuung—
Severing Mountain Swordsmanship.
Kunlun!
The strongest thrust unfolds together with a spear from the Sea Dragon Palace.
With that one thrust, the spear I obtained from the Sea Dragon Palace crushes to pieces, but one of the peaks of Shattered Heaven Peak that Gwak Am brought is pierced straight through and shatters.
Gwak Am spins the one remaining peak in midair and drives it down at me.
A halberd and a crescent-moon blade are in my hands.
Severing Mountain Swordsmanship.
Landscape Painting.
Chwarararak!!
Slashes spray in all directions.
With each strike, weapons at the level of dharma treasures shatter to bits and scatter, but without using any energy at all I manage to smash one peak.
Jjeoeoong!!
From within the dust cloud of the smashed mountain peak, Gwak Am extends a straight punch.
'After the straight fist...'
It is a claw technique.
Shwikak!
I evade the straight fist, then smash Gwak Am's elbow with a golden staff I obtained from the Sea Dragon Palace, twisting the trajectory of the claw technique.
"If you forgive, what about the other? Do you think the others can forgive you!?"
Jjeooong!!
Gwak Am's knee rushes into my chest.
I put forward a shield obtained from the Sea Dragon Palace.
It should be able to block that single strike.
But, contrary to expectation, Gwak Am's knee directly tears the shield apart and pierces a hole in my chest.
Walkak!
I scatter throwing knives into Gwak Am's eyeballs and, through hidden weapons, cut the various blood veins throughout his body.
However, Gwak Am does not care that his blood vessels are cut and his muscles are severed, and he still manages to grab my hair in the end.
"Connections of people? Forgiveness? Gratitude? Don't spout nonsense!!"
Boong, boong, kwaaaang!!
Gwak Am wildly shakes me in midair, then throws me straight toward the north.
I pierce through the atmosphere and fly like a meteor, and in an instant I crash into a volcano where the Jin Clan of Yanguo's main house is located.
Hwarururuk...
On the volcano where the Jin Clan resides, hot dragon veins rampage like mad.
It is because the entire world is shaking due to my battle with Gwak Am.
'Lava...'
Hwaruruk...
Because I just regenerated my body and, falling onto the volcano, protected my body, my realm dropped to the early Qi Building stage.
I use the basic Qi Refining method, Five Surpassing Paths to Cultivation.
Among them, with Fire Surpassing Path, I manipulate the surrounding fire energy and draw the madly writhing lava within the Jin clan's dragon veins up to the surface.
Kwarururur!!
From afar, Gwak Am is flying in after uprooting a few more mountains, and seeing such a Gwak Am, I shoot a lava waterfall at him.
Jjeong!
Jjeooong!!
But the mountain that Gwak Am throws blocks the lava waterfall completely, and Gwak Am directly crushes me beneath an entire mountain.
I consume the weapons obtained from the Sea Dragon Palace and split Gwak Am's mountain apart, and Gwak Am brings his hand blade down on me.
Kwarururung!
An earthquake occurs, and even more lava bursts out across the area.
Heaven and Earth in all directions are covered with lava.
"Even for you alone, how many people do you think there are who hate you...? Even for you alone, how many people do you think there are who would not forgive you...!? Including Wol Ryeong, even to the Radiance Seven Immortals, you are someone who cannot be forgiven!!"
Woooooong!!
I grit my teeth as I look at the Impermanence Sword overlaid on Gwak Am's hand.
Jjeooong!!
Jjeong!
He wildly brings down the hand blade.
Gradually the ground where I stand caves in, and I am driven down underground.
"Even you yourself cannot receive forgiveness!! This! Does this Impermanence Sword not exactly prove that? So why...why do you have the qualification, and I do not? Answer me. Answer me, Seo Eun-hyun!!"
Jjeoeoong!!
...
Kugugugugu...
The dust cloud clears.
Due to Gwak Am's fist pressure, all the lava in the area has cooled and become stone.
"What is different between you and me?"
Gwak Am's realm is now down to the Qi Building stage.
Of course, apart from that, his physical body's capability is at the Earth Axis stage.
I look at the one before my eyes.
And I answer with my sword.
Kaaaang!!
The All-Heavens Sword, which is as thin as a line, fails to even pierce his skin and breaks.
The will of Kim Young-hoon, who has been helping me until now, has worn out.
"...Is this your answer?"
In Gwak Am's eyes, a disappointed light circles.
"...If this is everything...die."
Kugugugu—
Gwak Am raises his fist.
If that fist hits directly, I will probably die.
But I close my eyes and wait.
"...This is not everything."
"...Prove it."
Gwak Am's fist falls.
Great Forest.
Flower Plant.
Great Sun.
Torch Candle.
Jjeong, jjeong, jjeong, jjeong!!!
The attacks of the four Heavenly Lords fall upon the main body of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord Seo Eun-hyun.
The attacks of the Radiance Seven Immortals, rewritten by the Wheel of the Heavenly Venerable of the Underworld, fall in sequence.
And at some moment,
Wo-woooong!!
Something silver sears the sky and falls upon the Sword Mountain Devil Lord.
And...
Seeing that, the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord, who is having their power absorbed by the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord, glares.
: : Sword Spear...Sword Spear...! Sword Spear!!! Sword Spear!!! : :
: : Pearl Jade...! Wait...! : :
Jjeoeoeoeoong!!!
The silver sword pierces the Immortal Body of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord, and the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord's attack follows along with the silver sword to strike the Sword Mountain Devil Lord's flesh.
And Kim Yeon inside the artificial Gandhara, who sent the silver sword at the Sword Mountain Devil Lord, smiles.
"Come back after winning."
At that moment,
Cheolkeong—
At last, one of the Northern Dipper Sealing Immortal Flags of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord releases.
Jjeoeoeoeoeoong!!
Between me and Gwak Am, a silver sword falls.
The sword that pierced my main body and flew to me holds a silver-white light.
"This is...!"
Gwak Am's eyes widen.
And I can finally smile.
Great Forest.
Flower Plant.
Great Sun.
Torch Candle.
Castle Wall.
Field Garden.
Sword Spear.
Pearl Jade.
"Aligning the order was hard."
The condition the Northern Dipper Seven Heavenly Lords painstakingly set.
Taking the attacks of the Eight Owners of Light in sequence.
Yes.
Not the 'Radiance Eight Immortals'.
It is the 'Eight Owners of Light.'
Gwak Am wearing the mask of Castle Wall.
And...
I, opening my torn, bleeding hand that has been gripping the golden sword's hilt until now, throw away the golden sword and grasp the silver Sword Extreme Heavenly Sword (劍極天劍).
Chwaaaaaa—
As the sixth Northern Dipper Sealing Immortal Flag unseals, an enormous power begins to well up not only in the main body but also in me.
The realm that has fallen down to Qi Building begins to surge.
It is not much, but it is enough to face Gwak Am.
Hwoong—
I swing the silver-white sword.
My sword, which kept being pushed back by Gwak Am, for the first time pushes Gwak Am back with force.
Gwak Am directly flies across Yanguo and crashes down into a certain familiar city.
Tadat!
Crossing the country in an instant and arriving at that city, I let out a hollow laugh.
The name of that city is Yanguo's Lianshan City (鍊山城/Refining Mountain City).
I approach Gwak Am, who has exhausted his strength as much as he can expend.
"Now, this is everything."
The battle of the Mountain Divine Spirits.
The place to decorate its finale is where I began my first life in Mount Sumeru.