novelraw Chapter 185 : Chapter 185
Chapter 185 : Chapter 185
Chapter 185. My Name Is…… Jin Cheon
The boy’s heart, wandering alone in the wilderness, was full of anger, hatred, and desire for revenge.
The targets were the Central Plains Dynasty’s army and the ones called Murim people from the Central Plains.
They burned the village where the boy lived, committed massacres, and brutally murdered his family.
The boy couldn't understand why his family had to die.
Was it just his family?
It was an era where those who put down roots and lived in the Silk Road area were also massacred by the Central Plains Dynasty’s army and Murim people.
‘I will get revenge somehow. Somehow.’
The boy survived tenaciously while wandering the wilderness.
A half-broken sword was everything the boy had, but that was enough.
It was enough to hunt animals, kill those who attacked, and flee from the Central Plains Dynasty’s army and Murim people.
Like that, one day a few years later.
The boy formed a connection with an eccentric in the wilderness.
He was an old man over a hundred years old, and he called himself Demon Master.
Demon Master was an old martial artist who fled from the Central Plains, and he said he was being chased as a Public Enemy of the Murim for creating the Reverse Heaven Heart Art.
“Do you want power?”
“Yes.”
“Then I shall give it.”
Demon Master took the boy as a disciple, gave him the name Dokgo Seong, and taught him the Reverse Heaven Heart Art he created.
Like that, the boy’s life changed incomparably from before.
The boy reborn as Dokgo Seong became stronger day by day as soon as he learned the Reverse Heaven Heart Art.
“You are indeed a guy born to learn this Reverse Heaven Heart Art. Kukuku. That I came to create the Reverse Heaven Heart Art might also have been the will of the Heavens.”
Demon Master noticed that Dokgo Seong was born with a constitution different from ordinary people.
Why?
Because the Reverse Heaven Heart Art wasn't something just anyone could learn.
In fact, Demon Master had experience teaching the Reverse Heaven Heart Art to over hundreds of children to take in a disciple, but he had failed in all of them.
All the children he tried to make disciples died, went mad, became cripples, or even became demons.
That was also the reason Demon Master had to flee from the Central Plains becoming a Public Enemy of the Murim.
But Dokgo Seong was different.
He became stronger day by day as if he was born to learn the Reverse Heaven Heart Art from the beginning.
It was to the extent that even Demon Master, who created the Reverse Heaven Heart Art, was nothing but a drop in the bucket compared to Dokgo Seong…….
A few years later.
“You must show those bastards how scary the Reverse Heaven Heart Art I created is…… My wish is only that…….”
Demon Master passed away as his chronic illness worsened, and Dokgo Seong, left alone again, set out for revenge.
Dokgo Seong massacred the Central Plains Dynasty’s army and Murim people from the Central Plains at random and emerged as the new savior of the Silk Road Gang.
For the Silk Road Gang, who were always persecuted by the Central Plains Dynasty and Murim people, they had no choice but to follow Dokgo Seong, a young man who appeared like a comet and crushed the Central Plains army and Murim people.
Like that, Dokgo Seong, who seized the public sentiment of the Silk Road area, joined the Silk Road Gang and rose to the position of Boss before long.
Dokgo Seong, who became the Boss of the Silk Road Gang, spread demonic arts widely by teaching the improved Reverse Heaven Heart Art to his followers.
“I will kill and kill again until the Central Plains bastards are completely driven out from this land.”
Like that, Dokgo Seong succeeded in completely driving out the Central Plains forces after a long fight, and the Silk Road Gang came to reign as the Hegemon of the Silk Road.
Dokgo Seong was the Silk Road Gang’s savior, hero, and also an existence who received absolute support and trust as a spiritual leader.
Was that why?
Dokgo Seong put his enlightenment into scriptures and spread the doctrine widely, reaching the point of creating a new religion.
Dokgo Seong, who became the Cult Leader and Founder of the new religion himself, settled under Sky Mountain and declared the founding, naming it the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult.
Like that, Dokgo Seong, who became the first Heavenly Demon, gave teachings to the cultists and protected them from the attacks of the Central Plains until he passed away at the age of one hundred.
As the cultists grieved, Dokgo Seong left the following words.
“This shall not be the end. I will soon be reborn and return to you, and I will protect you.”
One day, twenty years later.
“Look at me. Am I not here.”
Dokgo Seong returned to the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult by reincarnating as if to show off, rose to the position of Cult Leader again, and reached the point of being revered as a god.
He was a hero.
He was a savior.
Also, he was a God.
The legend of the First Heavenly Demon Dokgo Seong, who reigned as the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Demons while being revered as a god for hundreds of years afterward, began like that.
And…….
‘That face is…… me.’
I realized that the faces of the First Heavenly Demon Dokgo Seong and the reincarnated 2nd Heavenly Demon Dokgo Seong looked exactly like mine.
***
The memory that unfolded before my eyes ended, and the wilderness dyed in purple came into view again.
“How is it, the feeling of seeing one's own past life.”
Dokgo Seong asked.
“…….”
I did not answer.
Seeing the life of the First Heavenly Demon Dokgo Seong was surprising enough, but it was because it was hard to accept that he was my past life.
“You must be confused. Since seeing one's own past life would be a rare opportunity.”
“So what do you want me to do.”
I asked Dokgo Seong.
“Are you telling me to admit that I am Dokgo Seong’s reincarnation or something?”
“Whether you admit it or not is not important. Enlightenment is something one realizes oneself.”
“Then the reason you showed me the past life.”
“I just gave a clue because you didn't seem to be aware.”
“If I become aware, what changes?”
“You will realize your own identity and return to your natural form.”
“If you say natural form…….”
“Heavenly Demon.”
“……!”
“You will return to being the Founder of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult, the sole Cult Leader, and the existence revered as the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Demons. As the only single Heavenly Demon throughout past, present, and future.”
“I see.”
“If that happens, you will be reborn as a great prophet and also a savior. Just as your natural form.”
Dokgo Seong’s words had a point.
The First Heavenly Demon Dokgo Seong’s deeds were undeniably the model of a hero.
Because he was the hero, savior, and also prophet of those persecuted and oppressed by the Central Plains people.
However…….
“Even if I am his reincarnation, what use is all that now?”
A cold smile rose on my lips.
“The reason for saying that?”
“Because he fell.”
It was also an undeniable fact that Dokgo Seong’s subsequent moves were typical of a fallen one.
From a certain point, Dokgo Seong had become an existence that could no longer be called a Sage Ruler.
Wasn't the future Dokgo Seong a devil who reigned only with terror and treated human lives like fly lives?
Isn't it no exaggeration to say there is no one who doesn't know that Dokgo Seong in his later years committed human sacrifice and engaged in massacres whenever he felt like it?
“Dokgo Seong? Just a ghost of the old era. Even if there were heroic aspects in his early moves, considering the terrible evil deeds committed in his later years, isn't it right for him to disappear from the world?”
“You do not understand at all.”
“……?”
“He, I, and you are still the savior who will save the world. In this vast universe, we humans are nothing but beings not even worth a speck of dust. It means merely insignificant beings. The Human World is nothing but a field of mud-slinging where such insignificant beings die, kill, hurt, and suffer. But if ‘we’ can reach the Heavens, and thus be reborn as a true God, we can purify this dirty and chaotic world.”
“Purify?”
“A world where no one suffers. A world where everyone is happy. There will be no pain, sorrow, or unhappiness there. To achieve the world of Vacuum Home (True Empty Home)………….”
“Fucking bullshit.”
Curses popped out of my mouth.
“To achieve Vacuum Home or whatever, it's okay to do such things? Are you saying it's fine to kill innocent people and extract their vital blood just because they are weak, just because they are trivial insignificant beings?”
“You still do not understand. There are no innocent humans. All humans are born carrying Original Sin.”
A sneer rose on Dokgo Seong’s lips.
“In this vast universe, good and evil do not exist. Since everyone is an insignificant being not even worth a speck of dust, what does that matter. Rather, as part of a great achievement…….”
“Cut the bullshit, you bastard.”
I aimed my sword at Dokgo Seong.
“Shut that mouth, and let’s end this.”
“To think you are this foolish.”
Dokgo Seong shook his head from side to side as if it was hopeless.
“Then, there is no choice but to awaken you forcibly.”
“……?”
“Remember.”
“……!”
I was startled to realize that Dokgo Seong was whispering in my ear.
Swoooooosh!
I tried swinging the sword, but it was useless.
Swooosh…….
Dokgo Seong, who scattered into smoke, began to permeate into every corner of my body.
‘Damn it!’
I hurriedly raised the Heavenly Demon Divine Qi to push out the permeating smoke, but that too had no effect.
Soon, Dokgo Seong’s voice rang in my brain.
- I am you.
“……!”
- You are…… the First Heavenly Demon Dokgo Seong.
Soon, Dokgo Seong’s soul began to encroach on my consciousness.
***
Dokgo Seong, who permeated as smoke, constantly whispered and encroached on my consciousness, shaking my identity.
From the First Heavenly Demon Dokgo Seong’s life, to his ideology, doctrine, and the grand goal of achieving Vacuum Home.
Dokgo Seong’s soul imprinted everything of his on my consciousness.
That must be a kind of brainwashing work.
It was to unify the consciousness in advance before stealing my body or assimilating with me.
- You, I, we are the savior. Purifying the world and achieving Vacuum Home is the mission of the great soul.
“I see.”
- Do you feel like returning to your natural form?
“Yes, I should.”
I nodded.
“I am…….”
I opened my mouth slowly.
“The only disciple of Azure Heaven Divine Warrior Jang Guk-pyeong.”
- ……!
“The seventh disciple of the current Heavenly Demon, Iron-Blooded Demonic God Yi Cheong-ha, and also the Seventh Young Master of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult.”
- You bastard…… Don't tell me.
“My name is…… Jin Cheon.”
Just at that moment.
- Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
Dokgo Seong’s scream rang in my brain.
“You are a part of the memory Dokgo Seong left for a contingency. An arrangement prepared in case he couldn't recover his own memories due to the Great Reincarnation Art going wrong. Another clone of Dokgo Seong.”
- H, How did you know that……!
“You are no different from Dokgo Seong’s Upper Dantian. It is said that the Upper Dantian is where the Spirit dwells among Essence, Qi, and Spirit. If so, absorbing and eating you would be obtaining the Divine Essence.”
Grin, a smile rose on my lips.
Soon, a completely different world unfolded.
There, warm sunshine poured down, plants were lush, pretty flowers bloomed, and a gentle breeze blew.
My world of consciousness was such a peaceful and beautiful place.
“H, Here is.”
Dokgo Seong was greatly flustered looking around.
“Where do you think.”
I approached Dokgo Seong with a smile full of killing intent.