Returning Immortal

Chapter 50 : Cheonbugyeong

Gwi Seongjin, who had been immersed in meditation while sitting cross-legged, opened his eyes after three days had passed.

The consciousness that had been consumed while subjugating the Earth Ghost had finally been restored.

Gwi Seongjin, who had confirmed that his body and mind were in the best condition, scanned the ground below with his spiritual sense.

Perhaps because his cultivation had increased, the range of his spiritual sense that he could detect had also greatly increased.

The underground without rock walls was a distance of about forty zhang.

Even a place where hard rock was located in the lower part like now could be penetrated by a whopping twenty zhang.

Gwi Seongjin, who was greatly pleased, looked for the place with the weakest ground in the cave.

And he tapped the Qiankun Pouch as he walked to a corner of the square.

It was to train in the Earth Escape Technique.

The method of calling out the Earth Ghost was very simple.

"Earth Ghost, come out and receive my command. Geupgeupyeoyulryeong!"

When Gwi Seongjin chanted the incantation, a transparent legal body came out of the talisman like a ghost and landed on his palm.

Flinch.

When the heterogeneous energy dug into his palm, Gwi Seongjin's body trembled.

That too was only for a moment.

The bold Gwi Seongjin immediately regained his composure.

Gwi Seongjin, who was staring blankly at the Five Elements Divine Pearl in his hand, felt that the Earth Ghost was connecting him and the pearl as one.

Remembering that feeling, Gwi Seongjin carefully blew his legal power into the pearl.

Unfortunately, Gwi Seongjin had hardly used his legal power until now.

He had only used it for a moment while deploying his spiritual sense, fighting the evil ghost that had entered his spirit platform, and storing items in the Qiankun Pouch.

Swish.

When Gwi Seongjin blew his legal power, a yellow earth attribute spirit energy came out of the pearl.

It was a divine energy that completed the Earth Ghost's divine power.

Gwi Seongjin, who had completed the Earth Escape Technique by circulating a part of the energy in his body, let the remaining spirit energy flow into the ground below.

At that, the stone under his feet softened and rippled like water.

Swish.

Then it sucked Gwi Seongjin in like a swamp.

Gwi Seongjin, who had flipped his body underground, looked around with his spiritual sense and immediately dug into the ground.

Perhaps because it was hard rock, the speed of descent was not fast at first.

It was to the extent of being a little faster than walking speed.

Then, when he met soft earth, Gwi Seongjin's speed increased by leaps and bounds.

As if a mermaid were swimming in the water, Gwi Seongjin moved forward quickly.

His direction changes were also skillful.

In less than half a shichen, Gwi Seongjin was striding through the ground as if it were flat land.

Gwi Seongjin, who had gained confidence in the Earth Escape Technique, gradually moved away from the cave.

After meeting a hard iron ore and going down to a deep place in the ground and coming up, Gwi Seongjin turned his direction towards the top of Mount Shinmok.

It was because he had heard the scenery was good, but he had never been there.

Swoosh.

Gwi Seongjin, who had been advancing underground for a long time, suddenly shot up his body and came up to a place close to the ground.

Then he deployed his spiritual sense and confirmed his location.

Fortunately, it seemed he was going in the right direction.

Gwi Seongjin, who had lowered his head and had gone down to a deep place, gradually increased his speed.

Gwi Seongjin, who had been advancing for a long time, accidentally discovered an underground water vein.

Fortunately, it was a waterway that matched the direction he was going.

Splash!

Gwi Seongjin, who had jumped into the water, moved along the underground water vein for a while.

Then, when the direction changed, he dug into the rock again.

"Ugh, it's hot."

Suddenly, his body began to get hot.

Gwi Seongjin, who had sensed that the top of Mount Shinmok was getting closer, confirmed his location with his spiritual sense and began to climb the mountain slope at an angle.

Then he stopped his body abruptly.

It was because he had sensed something moving underground.

Thud. Thud.

When he checked with his spiritual sense, it was a large demonic beast that looked similar to an earthworm.

The speed at which the earthworm demonic beast was moving through the soil was surprising.

But it was no match for the Earth Escape Technique.

Gwi Seongjin, who had judged that it would not be a threat to him, advanced towards the top of the mountain again.

'Huff, huff! It's too hot, I can't.'

From some point, the surrounding temperature had risen sharply, and the ground had also become hard.

But Gwi Seongjin did not give up.

Gwi Seongjin, who had protected his body with his spirit energy and had continued to pierce through the rock, was out of the ground at some point.

'Such a magnificent view...!'

The place where Gwi Seongjin had stuck his head out was the middle of the crater.

When he looked down from there, the wide crater created by the volcanic explosion came into view at a glance.

White clouds were billowing like mountains between the black smoke, and the river that was faintly visible between the clouds was none other than crimson lava.

Rumble! Zap!

Suddenly, a red flame shot up from the top of the clouds.

When the dark red clouds became flames and scattered in all directions, the small world in the crater was filled with flame flowers.

When the hot heat rushed in, Gwi Seongjin quickly hid his body underground.

And after watching for a long time, he came down to the bottom of the mountain again.

Gwi Seongjin, who had decided to come and play again when he had time, soon turned his direction towards his residence.

Then he discovered a large cave deep underground.

"Wow! This place is really wide."

Gwi Seongjin, who was hanging from the ceiling of the cave, shouted in surprise.

Swish! Thud!

Gwi Seongjin, who had dropped his body and had landed on the floor, first examined his surroundings with his spiritual sense.

The cave was really wide.

It seemed to be over three hundred zhang in all directions.

Its shape was like a large cauldron.

And it was covered with red rock.

That was all, there was nothing inside the cave.

There were no common stalagmites and stalactites, and no puddles of water or living creatures were visible.

The disappointed Gwi Seongjin lifted his Thunder Cloud Sword and tried to pierce the wall.

Puff!

The sword dug deep into the red stone.

Gwi Seongjin, who had confirmed that the wall was not a hard metal, swung his Thunder Cloud Sword again with great disappointment.

'Red Cliff Cauldron.'

Gwi Seongjin, who had engraved the name of the cave on the wall, jumped into the wall without delay.

On his way back, Gwi Seongjin practiced the second secret art, the Petrification Art.

The Petrification Art was a secret art that freely handled earth and stone and hardened them like iron.

Gwi Seongjin, who had been making bricks with earth and stacking them like a wall, soon changed the earth into the shape of a wall without bricks.

Then he made a house and demolished it, then made a long spear with earth and swung it in all directions like a madman.

That too was only for a moment.

Gwi Seongjin, who had thrown the spear he had made deep into the ground, decided to test the Stealth Art he had desperately wanted.

Before performing the Stealth Art, Gwi Seongjin first sealed his own spirit platform with ghost qi.

In that state, he held his breath and even deactivated his five viscera and six bowels.

And when he drew out the energy necessary for stealth from the Five Elements Divine Pearl and wrapped his body, his form began to become blurry little by little.

Then his attribute changed like earth, and he assimilated with the surrounding environment, so his form could not be distinguished.

What was regrettable was that he could not exert his spiritual sense while performing the Stealth Art.

When Gwi Seongjin performed the Stealth Art, no movement or sound was heard in the vicinity where he was hiding.

It was as if it were a dead space.

Gwi Seongjin, who had been performing the Stealth Art for a long time, was about to release the spell, but suddenly he had a strange feeling.

It was a feeling that something was scanning his body.

A single streak of cold sweat flowed down Gwi Seongjin's back at the chilling feeling.

It was because he had recognized that what had just scanned him was consciousness.

What was fortunate was the fact that the being that had attempted to manifest its consciousness had not detected him.

The consciousness that had brushed past once did not return again.

Zap, zap, zap!

The familiar noise that was heard next.

It was a sound similar to what he had heard when the Blood Scorpion Demoness had taken him and had moved underground.

But the sound now was louder and more urgent than at that time.

It seemed a demonic creature was fleeing from something in the ground.

Gwi Seongjin lay flat.

Unlike his expectation, what had scanned his body this time was spiritual sense.

The monster following behind was clearly a spiritual beast.

When even the spiritual sense had scanned his body and had passed by, Gwi Seongjin, who had been performing the Stealth Art, let out a sigh of relief inwardly.

Perhaps because the tracking spiritual beast's Earth Escape Technique was extraordinary, the two beasts were entangled together not long after.

As fate would have it, it was a place not far from where Gwi Seongjin was performing the Stealth Art.

Thud, thud. Puff!

Crunch, crunch. Gulp.

The fight ended too simply.

The tracker, which had subdued the demonic creature in an instant and had even swallowed its bones, licked its lips and then disappeared into the deep ground.

Even after the spiritual beast had disappeared, Gwi Seongjin did not easily release the Stealth Art.

After holding his breath for almost a jiao, he carefully released the spell and then immediately performed the Earth Escape Technique and returned to the cave.

Swish!

Gwi Seongjin, who had examined the front with his spiritual sense and had come out exactly from the part he had entered, withdrew the Five Elements Divine Pearl and dusted off his clothes.

Then he went into the training room, meditated for a while, and then picked up the parchment again.

But in less than half a shichen, Gwi Seongjin had to admit that his decision had been too hasty.

The second ghost's killing intent was too strong, so he could not subjugate it with his current realm.

Gwi Seongjin, who had barely escaped the crisis by mobilizing even his legal power, withdrew the parchment without hesitation.

And after eating a grain-abstaining pill and resting, he entered the training room only when it was late in the evening.

* * *

What Gwi Seongjin, who had entered the training room, had taken out from his Qiankun Pouch was the stone plate with the Northern Nether Divine Art written on it.

Although he had glanced at it for a moment in the Xuan Tian Cave Mansion, at that time, he had been short on time and had barely distinguished the pictures and the characters.

Since he had not had a chance to see it since then, in reality, it was the first time Gwi Seongjin was examining it in detail today.

Perhaps because he was nervous, Gwi Seongjin, who had controlled his breathing for a moment, soon penetrated his spiritual sense into the stone plate.

As the skull cultivator had said, the Northern Nether Divine Art was a strange cultivation manual that directly drew spirit energy into the upper dantian and cultivated.

What was even more ridiculous was that it could absorb not only spirit stones and demon stones, but also the spirit energy of demonic beasts and other cultivators.

'This is an evil demonic art. I have never even heard of such a cultivation method...'

Although he kept denying it as he read, Gwi Seongjin's heart was now pounding fiercely.

It was because if this were true, a leap in his realm would be possible.

But that didn't mean there was only hopeful content.

As the pages turned to the back, incomprehensible passages began to appear.

'It takes the upper dantian as the spirit sea? This is crazy...'

Most immortal cultivation methods accumulated only pure spirit energy in the upper dantian.

But the Northern Nether Divine Art could draw any spirit energy into the upper dantian.

It didn't matter if it was ghost qi or demonic qi.

The most incomprehensible passage was the content that this cultivation method was irrelevant to a cultivator's spirit root attribute.

'Well, since it accepts any spirit energy, it has to be like that... Wait! Then the body won't be able to withstand it...'

It was the law of heaven that a cultivator would generate and handle the spirit energy that matched their own spirit root attribute.

And only the spirit energy created like that could be operated smoothly without destroying the physical body.

But to think of a spirit energy that was irrelevant to the spirit root attribute...

This was an act that went against the principles of heaven.

Not only would he be unable to circulate the spirit energy properly, but there was a high probability that his upper dantian would burst and he would die instantly.

If that happened, not even his soul would remain.

"If I cultivate this cultivation method, my advancement will be faster than anyone else, but when I reach a certain realm, I will definitely suffer from qi deviation. I should review it more carefully so that I have no regrets in the future."

Gwi Seongjin muttered to himself with a look of regret.

But that didn't mean he would give up completely.

The Primordial Chaos Spirit Qi Art passed down in his family was also not such a bad cultivation manual.

But the Primordial Chaos Spirit Qi Art only had the cultivation method up to the Spirit Condensation stage.

The method of creating a golden core in the upper dantian and making a legal treasure was the last passage of the booklet.

But the Northern Nether Divine Art had more than that recorded.

Not only the Void Refinement stage, where one created a primordial infant with a golden core, but also the method of achieving the Transformation stage, which was said to be able to ascend to the spirit realm, was written.

Although it was a dangerous and incomplete cultivation manual, it was very much worth researching.

Phew!

Gwi Seongjin, who was left with a lot of lingering attachment and regret, turned the last page with his spiritual sense.

Then he blinked his two eyes as if it were strange.

It was because the last page was empty.

Gwi Seongjin, who was staring at the empty space with a feeling of regret, finally withdrew his spiritual sense.

No, he was about to withdraw his spiritual sense.

At that very moment, a strange thing happened in Gwi Seongjin's spirit platform.

The deep place of the soul dwelling in the primordial spirit's head.

From a point whose origin could not be fathomed, a single streak of faint light flowed out like a rainbow.

Auspicious light.

The solemn and sacred radiance was not very bright.

Even so, it was brilliant.

The auspicious light that had come out of Gwi Seongjin's primordial spirit immediately dug into the stone plate placed before his eyes.

The place where Gwi Seongjin's spiritual sense had last stayed.

The auspicious light that had entered the empty space where there was nothing spread wide and settled down like a sunset.

At that, a surprising thing happened.

A dark whirlwind like the primordial chaos was created in the empty space, and it began to spew out small, silver-shining characters into the air.

Creation from nothing.

It was a situation where the light of wisdom that would brighten the world was being spewed out from the darkness of the primordial chaos.

Although the whirlwind tried hard not to let go of the characters, it was of no use.

When it touched the small, lotus-shaped radiance that had bloomed from the auspicious light, the whirlwind crumbled and powerlessly released the characters.

The characters that had come out like that rode the spiritual sense and entered Gwi Seongjin's spirit platform.

And after flying around in the air, they hung on the sky like stars.

Perhaps because the number of characters that had entered was not small, many stars were already hanging in Gwi Seongjin's spirit platform.

Woooooong!

When the characters of the heavens, which had been sealed since ancient times, were released, the space shook, and the darkness that was staying at the bottom of the whirlwind increased as if exploding.

At the same time, the energy of chaos flowed from the darkness and returned the silver characters to the fierce whirlwind.

In response, the auspicious light suddenly shone and bloomed countless lotus-shaped radiances.

The radiances that had poured out like a swarm of bees gnawed at the energy of chaos, pulled out the characters from the whirlwind, and sent them to Gwi Seongjin's spirit platform.

That too was only for a moment.

As time passed, the auspicious light gradually decreased, and the radiances also disappeared one by one.

At that, as if in a final struggle, the darkness increased the energy of chaos, and even the characters that had come out were dragged back into the whirlwind.

If only those would come out...

Flash.

When Gwi Seongjin's consciousness increased as if it would explode, the auspicious light spread throughout the whole world.

And after shining dazzlingly, it disappeared as if by a lie.

* * *

Gwi Seongjin, who had put the Northern Nether Divine Art into the Qiankun Pouch, looked at his spirit platform with an expression of not knowing.

Although he hadn't known when he had defeated the evil ghost in the ancient formation, now Gwi Seongjin knew that a very special power was dwelling in his primordial spirit.

It was because he had watched it clearly today.

He had not yet grasped the identity of the auspicious light.

But there was no room for doubt that it was helping him.

The situation where the unfavorable tide of battle had suddenly been reversed while fighting the evil ghost in the ancient formation...

There was a high possibility that that too was because of the help of the auspicious light.

Gwi Seongjin, who had turned his spiritual sense from his primordial spirit, this time looked at the air.

In the sky of his spirit platform, silver characters were embedded like stars.

Cheonbugyeong.

Ilsi Musi Il

Seok Samgeuk Mujinbon

Cheon Il Il Ji Il I In Il Sam

Iljeok Sipgeo Mugwehwasam

...

The moment he saw the characters, a single streak of thrill flowed down Gwi Seongjin's back.

His spirit platform brightened in an instant, and his primordial spirit also sparkled its eyes wide.

Like that, a few days passed in an instant.

Grumble.

When the sound of his stomach asking for food was heard, Gwi Seongjin woke from his trance.

Gwi Seongjin, who had finished his meditation, was surprised when he saw the time.

Tomorrow was the day he had to start working.

(End of Chapter)