Sword God Reborn

Chapter 314 : I have now reached the end

Coincidentally, they both had the same expression.

The Heavenly Demon, and Cheon Mubaeck.

It was a face that could not understand this situation at all.

"I could have understood the way he held his sword. I thought the trajectory of his sword, his forms, and his breathing were just a misunderstanding. But the more we exchanged swords, the more it wasn't a misunderstanding."

Cheon Mubaeck also could not easily be sure.

The fact that the Heavenly Demon in front of him was Gun Cheon-ak, who he had thought was dead.

If Gun Cheon-ak were alive, he would be over a hundred years old now.

He had not thought of it. He had not imagined it. It wasn't just the sword that was the same. The distance between his two legs when he swung his sword, the movement of his muscles, his breathing, his persistent gaze, and even his very trivial habits were all the same.

It was familiar. It was familiar.

He was sure it was Gun Cheon-ak, whom he had clashed with countless times.

But how could he be sure?

The Heavenly Demon in front of him was not the same as Gun Cheon-ak in any part of his appearance.

Cheon Mubaeck knew well that the concept of returning to youth was just a legend.

But let's say there was a secret method of returning to youth that Cheon Mubaeck did not know.

Then shouldn't at least some of the features of Gun Cheon-ak's appearance have remained?

But the Heavenly Demon in front of him was a completely different person. His bone structure itself was different.

So he had asked. Are you Gun Cheon-ak? The reaction was shocking.

The moment he had mentioned the name Gun Cheon-ak.

The Heavenly Demon's body had stopped.

The colorful halo of light beyond the Heavenly Demon's face began to flash crazily in red, as if it were exploding.

Seeing that reaction, Cheon Mubaeck's expression became even more incomprehensible.

It was certain. He was Gun Cheon-ak.

"Gun Cheon-ak. What on earth have you done?"

On the other hand, it was the same for the Heavenly Demon.

His pupils shook violently.

"You... what are you?"

The Heavenly Demon asked in a voice that he had barely squeezed out.

Cheon Mubaeck let out a hollow laugh.

"This bastard, seeing that you're not well-mannered, you must be Gun Cheon-ak. It's the same as before, answering a question with a question?"

"..."

The Heavenly Demon, Gun Cheon-ak, made a confused expression. But not long after, his face hardened to a frightening degree. His brilliant gaze burned like fire, and his low, deep voice was heavy.

"How do you know? How do you know that this one is Gun Cheon-ak?"

"How do I know what? Looking at the way you use your sword, you're clearly Gun Cheon-ak. Have I fought you once or twice?"

The Heavenly Demon's body shook once. The colors beyond his Seon-an flashed in all sorts of colors. The Heavenly Demon, with a look of clear bewilderment, stammered.

"Fought once or twice...?"

"What. Don't you have a clue? Don't you get it by now? I knew it just by looking at the way you use your sword. Shouldn't you have realized it too?"

At Cheon Mubaeck's words, the Heavenly Demon's face contorted bizarrely.

His mind was greatly shaken by a dull shock, as if he had been hit on the head with a blunt instrument.

Even if it was a familiar opponent, could he be sure who it was just by the movement of the fight?

His face was different, his age was different, a completely different person?

'There is.'

Gun Cheon-ak's body trembled as if he had been struck by lightning.

There was just one person.

A person who had looked down on the sword he had swung with his fierce heart with an arrogant gaze.

A person he could not defeat no matter how much he swung his sword.

A man who had nevertheless challenged and had fought countless times, and had only given him defeat in the end.

The figure that came to mind was, without a doubt, the only one.

"Azure Sky... Sword God?"

His voice trembled slightly.

In fact, Cheon Mubaeck's sword was familiar, and he had recognized what his martial arts were at once.

It was a matter of course.

Because he had fought with the Azure Sky Sword God countless times. Because he had been frustrated, had been defeated, and had despaired every time.

How could he forget that sword, that gaze, that martial art, that internal energy!

But who would have thought that it was the Azure Sky Sword God just by looking at that?

Wasn't he the one who had offered wine in front of his grave and had lamented his death?

The opponent was using the martial arts of the Azure Sky Sword God?

Well, because he had learned the martial arts of the Azure Sky Sword God.

Whether he had learned it from the Sword Venerable or not, because he was the successor of the Azure Sky Sword God.

He had not thought it was that strange.

Even seeing him use the martial arts of the Azure Sky Sword God so perfectly, he had just thought that he had learned it properly.

But thinking about it carefully, there were more than one or two strange things.

'It's the same. It's so creepily the same.'

No matter how much the same martial arts were passed down, they could not be the same.

An individual's physical condition and trivial habits were bound to be reflected in the sword.

Gun Cheon-ak felt a chill run down his spine.

'Everything is the same. Everything.'

All those things of the Azure Sky Sword God.

There would be no one in this world who had hated the Azure Sky Sword God as much as Gun Cheon-ak, and yet had dug into everything about him.

Gun Cheon-ak had analyzed every trivial element and had put it in his head in order to win somehow.

Gun Cheon-ak's body trembled.

That's right. The man in front of him, although it was unbelievable, was clear. Gun Cheon-ak's heart felt as if it were overflowing with heat.

The Azure Sky Sword God was dead. He had believed so.

But now, he had appeared with a completely different appearance, a completely different age, a completely different person.

Just like himself.

Just as he had done, the great Azure Sky Sword God must have also done.

He threw his waist back and burst into a mad laugh.

"Hahaha! Is that so? Did you also perform a reverse heaven? Did you finally go to the old monsters of Kunlun! Hahaha! You were also just a mere human who was afraid of death, just like me!"

"......?"

"The great Azure Sky Sword God, the Azure Sky Sword God of the supreme realm who could even cut down a demon with a single stroke, was he also afraid of death and had performed a reverse heaven, and had finally forcibly taken a new body? Hahaha. To think I would feel a sense of kinship with the Azure Sky Sword God in my life. And in this vile and dirty act."

Cheon Mubaeck let out a hollow laugh.

'He seems to be seriously mistaken about something.'

A reverse heaven. The old monsters of Kunlun.

He was just living a new life after ending his past life.

Well, would he think of reincarnation?

'He must be thinking it's the same reason why he has his current appearance.'

Although a madness was lingering in Gun Cheon-ak's bloodshot eyes, what was bigger than that was joy.

"I didn't even know that and I went to your grave and bowed. In fact, I decided then. Seeing that even the Azure Sky Sword God who had looked down on the world was powerless before death. I felt empty. Then if I could overcome death, wouldn't I be able to surpass even that Azure Sky Sword God? That's what I thought."

Cheon Mubaeck was silent. Through the Heavenly Demon's words, he could guess how things had progressed.

'The old monsters of Kunlun, who were just prolonging their lives in the spiritual Kunlun Mountains after performing a reverse heaven. The old monsters of the previous generation, the generation before that, or perhaps there were even monsters who were hundreds of years old, there were many rumors. I had gone to find those old men.'

The Five Disasters of the Central Plains.

The old monsters of Kunlun were the most mysterious beings, and at the same time, a disgusting bunch.

All of them were masters of the previous generation, the generation before that, and even before that.

Those who hated death and had performed a reverse heaven and had gone into seclusion in Kunlun.

If they were at a level where they could maintain their bodies by performing a reverse heaven, they were masters who were counted among the best in their generation.

When such masters occasionally came down from Kunlun and showed themselves in the Central Plains, terrible incidents would occur, and so they had become one of the Five Disasters of the Central Plains.

Of course, they rarely showed themselves to the world.

Because a reverse heaven was, after all, a matter of forcibly maintaining the body and holding on to life with internal energy.

If they came out to the martial world and used their strength improperly, they would not be able to stop the collapse of their bodies and would eventually lead to death.

"The old monsters of Kunlun must have created a strange evil art. So you took a new body? You prolonged your life like that?"

"It is not a prolongation. This one has just been reborn, Gun Cheon-ak is dead, and this one is purely the Heavenly Demon. The peak of the demonic path, which does not need any name."

Cheon Mubaeck clicked his tongue. Seeing his eyes, which were glittering with madness, he could guess what had happened.

"What's the point of living so long like that?"

"The Azure Sky Sword God, the peak that had given me so much frustration and despair. I needed time to surpass that peak. But now I can prove it. Isn't this also a joyful thing?"

"Bullshit."

Although Cheon Mubaeck shook his head, Gun Cheon-ak's eyes were still glittering.

"Look. This one was not pushed back a single bit against you. Moreover, I no longer feel the insurmountable wall of the Azure Sky Sword God that I had felt in the past."

It was not a wrong statement.

The current Gun Cheon-ak's realm was a realm beyond human that had literally broken the limits of a human.

It was almost on par with the realm that Cheon Mubaeck had reached as the Azure Sky Sword God in the past.

Cheon Mubaeck acknowledged it.

"You've worked hard. Sometimes, a sense of frustration and inferiority becomes the fertilizer for growth."

But Cheon Mubaeck sneered.

"I've only been fighting as the Azure Sky Sword God until now."

Cheon Mubaeck's low voice spread quietly.

"So it's good for you to be proud that you've reached the same level as the Azure Sky Sword God. It's excellent. To have reached that realm in one person's life is truly something to be congratulated for."

Cheon Mubaeck respected that point. But that was it.

"Now, I will fight not as the Azure Sky Sword God, but as Cheon Mubaeck."

Not as the Azure Sky Sword God of his past life, but as Cheon Mubaeck of his current life.

His whole body slowly boiled.

All the vital energy of his whole body roared roughly and resonated with the surroundings.

The Sun and Moon Qi of Cheon Mubaeck, which had been created by the numerous realizations and fortunate encounters until now, burned brilliantly as if it were burning the Divine Iron Ancient Sword.

Gun Cheon-ak's face hardened, feeling that something was unusual.

He was already full of confidence.

Hadn't he confirmed with his own two eyes and two hands that he had surpassed the lifelong enemy he had feared and had hated?

And to the real Azure Sky Sword God himself, not just a successor of the Azure Sky Sword God.

'And, I will finally cut him down with my own hands.'

He would now cut down the enemy who had made him live as a loser his whole life.

Gun Cheon-ak's sword swirled intensely. An enormous demonic qi was concentrated, and was emitted in an instant. Cheon Mubaeck's Divine Iron Ancient Sword clashed slowly.

"......!"

But, surprisingly, nothing happened.

There was no intense shockwave, no clash of vital energy and vital energy that overturned the ground, no fierce explosion.

There was nothing.

The demonic qi that Gun Cheon-ak had swung with all his might had disappeared without a trace.

On the other hand, Cheon Mubaeck's Sun and Moon Qi was burning. No, it was burning even more fiercely.

As if it were using Gun Cheon-ak's demonic qi as fuel and burning more.

At that moment, Gun Cheon-ak surprisingly recalled the past.

The memory of having crossed swords with the Azure Sky Sword God.

The instinct of that time was revived and screamed like crazy. The unique sense that had saved his life every time whispered.

'I have to run away.'

Gun Cheon-ak's body soared.

At this moment, Gun Cheon-ak was seized by the fear of the past. The familiar feeling that his neck might be cut if he made a mistake was revived after forty years and was poking his instincts.

But unfortunately, Gun Cheon-ak could not escape.

The moment he thought he had escaped and had crossed a mountain peak in an instant.

"You bastard, your old habits are coming out, right? You still haven't fixed your habit of running away whenever you get a chance?"

He was already in front of Cheon Mubaeck.

Gun Cheon-ak's body chilled.

Cheon Mubaeck, at that reaction, smiled with a joyful look.

"Did you think the formation I set up was just to show the demonic people an illusion?"

"......!"

"I missed it every time. In the opportunity to kill you, you were damn good at running away. So I couldn't kill you, and the demonic path was revived. After having such an experience, did you think I would just let you go?"

The Dream Soul Demon Luo Light Formation was not just a formation that confused the senses and showed illusions.

"This is a prison."

"Ha..."

"And it's also a grave."

Gun Cheon-ak's pupils shook.

"A grave where you and all the demonic people you have brought will die. A prison from which not a single person can escape. The moment you entered here, you all will die."

No one could escape. Because the stepping stone of this formation was Cheon Mubaeck himself.

The conclusion was simple.

If Cheon Mubaeck died, this prison would open. He had deliberately waited. For the Heavenly Demon and all the demonic people who followed him to finally gather.

He had activated the formation when they had all gathered.

To annihilate them without leaving a single one. If he annihilated all of them, wouldn't only the demonic path that Cheon Mubaeck had let live remain in this world?

Gun Cheon-ak's body trembled slightly as he realized that all of this was Cheon Mubaeck's plan.

Cheon Mubaeck aimed his sword.

"I have lived countless times. As the Three Talents Sword Saint, as the Hevean Shattering Sword Demon, as the Dark Heaven Sword Emperor, as the Shandong Sword Hero, as the Sword King."

He had lived numerous lives.

In all his lives, he had struggled, had fought, and had swung his sword.

"As the Three Talents Sword Saint, I opened the martial world."

The sword slowly vibrated.

"As the Hevean Shattering Sword Demon, I punished the Heavenly Demon and reached the peak of the demonic path."

A heat haze rose from the sword body as if it were burning.

"As the Dark Heaven Sword Emperor, I held the demonic path in the palm of my hand and mocked it."

The tip of the sword glittered pure white.

"As the Sword King, I swung my sword my whole life."

A faint smile formed on Cheon Mubaeck's lips.

"In the continuous terrible fate, I did not forget the fate that continued through the repeated past lives. I lived with only one, my will, the desire to reach the end of the sword. The Azure Sky Sword God you saw was such a person. A ghost who was just crazy about the sword, who only looked at the sword's end. That's me."

Cheon Mubaeck's slow voice echoed clearly. It was not an intense oration, nor was it a lion's roar. He had just spoken, but it was heard most clearly.

Through all those past lives, all those lives, all that history, all those moments.

Although he had discussed the number one under heaven, and had been proud of being the number one of all time.

That was a wrong thing to do.

"But now, this one's name is Cheon Mubaeck."

The Divine Iron Ancient Sword cried with a rough metallic sound.

Cheon Mubaeck's indifferent gaze looked down on Gun Cheon-ak.

"More than any other moment, I am the strongest."

Now he is number one of all time. Through all his past lives, Cheon Mubaeck was the strongest now.

So all the number ones of all time he had discussed until now were all lies, and slips of the tongue.

The number one of all time, Cheon Mubaeck.

The very end of the blade that a swordsman could reach, which was not even visible.

Now, he declared.

"I have now, reached that end."

The sword's end.

Cheon Mubaeck's sword cut through the darkness. Gun Cheon-ak's head floated in the air.

(End of Chapter)