novelraw Chapter 132 : Learning the Correct Way to Use the Profound Other (19)
Chapter 132 : Learning the Correct Way to Use the Profound Other (19)
At the point when Yoo Jae-ha fell into the world of the mind.
The Sword Demoness and the Mad Demon approached the old monk.
The old monk, who had entrusted everything to the heavens and was sitting carelessly on the floor with his legs crossed and humming, saw the young brats approaching him and shifted his gaze back to the sky.
In the end, the old monk had no choice but to shift his gaze. Even if he tried to ignore them, if someone kept staring at him, even the most insensitive person would be bothered.
Especially if they were thrusting their faces at him from just a finger's breadth away.
"Why are you two like that?"
The Sword Demoness and the Mad Demon said almost simultaneously.
"I want to help Jae-ha."
"I want to keep playing with the Captain!"
The old monk, having lived for a long time, was used to this kind of nonsensical conversation.
"In short, you two want to keep going with this guy, is that what you're saying?"
"Yes!"
"That's right!"
"Hmm."
The old monk, although there were many words to describe him, his favorite was the dharma name Hyeonjang.
Hyeonjang was now looking at Yoo Jae-ha, who was sitting still in the lotus position.
To have reversed the heavens meant that he had done something that could twist the heavens.
To say how great this was, it was more difficult than a beggar becoming the king of a country.
Unless that beggar turned out to be the abandoned bloodline of an emperor.
Of course, such things are only possible in fairy tales.
In other words, if they were ordinary people, they would surely be swept away by the flow of the reversal of heaven if they were with that child.
There was also a 'what if' to this.
Because no one knows what will happen in the world.
On the assumption that those children were born with the destiny of a hero.
Of course, if that were the case, they would have been showing off their yellow sprouts long ago. In other words, the conclusion was that those children were ordinary.
Hyeonjang, as a senior in life, gave them sincere advice.
"If you are with this child, you will surely die."
Because that's what the reversal of heaven is.
A destiny that leads everything around it to ruin.
And Hyeonjang knew. That those children would not back down even with his advice.
"Alright."
"To be able to die on the same day and at the same time as the Captain! That's actually good."
Being young has clear advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage is that there is no fear.
This does not mean that there is nothing to be afraid of. Fear is ultimately a cause and effect that arises the moment you realize what you have.
A person develops fear as much as they have lived. As the flimsy thing called time increases, what you have in your hands can only increase.
As you keep looking at what you have in your hands, you finally realize that you have also grown old.
Although experience is accumulated accordingly.
Unlike those children, Hyeonjang was old. He had already gained much as much as he had lived, and he also had the experience of losing everything.
Therefore, he chose to run away in fear.
Unlike in the old days when he challenged the impossible.
"They're similar."
One was similar in being cunning, and one was similar in being ignorant.
Hyeonjang said to the two.
"Sit down."
They wouldn't listen even if he tried to stop them anyway.
Even if he helped them, nothing would change much.
In the first place, what he was doing now did not have much meaning. It was nothing more than something he had done out of desperation, like grasping at straws.
So, adding two more straws to it would not change anything.
"What I am about to do for you is very simple. I have always been a person who could not do much. The only thing I was better at than others was walking. So I walked. At the end of walking and walking the world, I was finally able to master something called enlightenment. This enlightenment has two main abilities."
Hyeonjang pointed to himself.
"To look into myself."
He saw just an old and tired old man.
Hyeonjang this time pointed to the two children.
"To look into others."
He saw two blazing fires.
They were burning with their own bodies as candles.
Someday, those fires will burn out and only ashes will remain.
That's what the reversal of heaven was.
Hyeonjang asked one last time.
"Do you truly have no fear of death?"
The two children answered.
""Yes!""
In the past, there were people like this.
-I'm going.
-I'm going too.
-Then, me too.
In the past, the three had said to Hyeonjang.
-So show us the way.
The old monk who had dreamed of being a hero closed his eyes tightly at the repeating past.
The Sword Demoness and the Mad Demon fell into the abyss.
The old monk looked at the sky and opened his mouth softly.
"This damn history repeats itself again."
The old monk had failed.
-I'll leave the rest to you, Samjang.
"Wukong, Wujing, Wulong. I should have followed you."
* * *
The Sword Demoness opened her eyes. What she saw was a huge wave that could sweep the world.
She instinctively realized that she had to cut that wave. And that if she couldn't cut it, she would be swept away by the wave and die.
* * *
What the Mad Demon saw when he woke up was a huge cliff. Even if he looked up, even if he looked to the side, he couldn't see the end of the cliff.
Rumble.
The cliff was gradually approaching.
Grin.
The Mad Demon smiled. He didn't know what was going on, but he knew very well that he had to break that to survive.
* * *
It was unknown how many days had passed.
The Sword Demoness just cut and cut again.
Slice!
The wave she thought she had cut attacked her again.
The Sword Demoness was swept away by the wave as it was.
The Sword Demoness got up, touching the ground.
She tried to lift her sword, but her arm would not go up anymore. She had been ignoring it until now, but honestly, she didn't think she could cut that wave.
The arm that was barely trying to go up was coming down again.
* * *
The Mad Demon, who had been throwing punches without rest, was just staring at the cliff with his arms hanging down.
"Hehe."
The Mad Demon was smiling, but his body was trembling.
* * *
What Hyeonjang had done to the two children was nothing more than showing them something that they would never be able to pass among the many trials he had experienced.
Because they had to give up at that point.
And there were only two people who had passed that trial.
"Dragon God Lord, Wukong."
The two beings with the most shining destinies among those he had seen while living for many years.
One of them had died and his soul had gone up to the heavens, and the existence of the other had become unclear.
The reason why Hyeonjang had not given up on life and had repeated the reversal of heaven was only one.
This world, which looked peaceful at first glance, was filled with great chaos. The saying 'the calm before the storm' would be a perfect fit. Soon, the world would rush into chaos, and it would experience an unprecedented war. The events in Tianzhu were nothing more than the beginning of it.
And to quell this chaos.
"We need a hero who can even twist the destiny set by the heavens."
-Let's go, Samjang. To save the world.
"Although I couldn't find him in the end."
Wukong was dead. So he had repeated the reversal of heaven and waited for reincarnation, but in the end, Wukong's soul was so huge that a mere 300 years was not enough.
In the meantime, the Dragon God Lord was missing.
"Is it about time?"
Hyeonjang felt the backlash from what he had done to the three children. Well, since it was something he had done because he had no hope left, Hyeonjang humbly accepted himself. Even if he were given another chance, he wouldn't have time now, and he would fail again anyway.
Just then.
Blink.
The guy who was the cause of all this incident opened his eyes.
In Hyeonjang's view, the guy hadn't changed much.
'A failure.'
It seemed the last gamble he had made was a bust.
Thump, thump.
The guy walked towards the two children who were fighting the trial he had given them.
What is he trying to do? He won't be able to do anything anyway.
Moreover, the two children needed absolute rest right now. Well, he must know that much.
The guy looks at the two children and tilts his head.
It seemed he had noticed the phenomenon happening in the two children's bodies.
After all, the guy was also in the Profound Realm.
And that's why he had made the gamble.
'He probably doesn't know exactly what state they're in.'
The mind's eye can be said to be the crystallization of what one has accumulated over time.
What Hyeonjang had accumulated was the experience he had seen and felt while living longer than anyone else.
If fully realizing the mind's eye is the 3rd stage of the Profound Gown.
Materializing the mind's eye could be said to be the 4th stage of the Profound Gown.
And what Hyeonjang had performed now was to put the materialized mind's eye into another person's mind's eye.
This was an infiltration into the unique domain that each person possessed.
The ability of the 5th stage of the Profound Gown.
This was something that that guy could not realize even if he died and came back to life 10 times.
"Was this your doing, old man?"
It seems he's curious.
The longing for a distant realm that one cannot reach is the most fundamental desire of a martial artist.
It wasn't bad to express that.
At this, Hyeonjang suppressed the backlash coming to his body as much as possible and answered.
"Yes. They said they wanted to follow you, or something. It seemed they wouldn't give up on their own, so I took a bit of a strong measure."
Cold sweat was constantly flowing from the faces of the two children who had fallen into the mind's eye.
At that moment, the guy wiped his eyes and shed tears.
"Why are you crying?"
"Because I'm proud of my children."
Unfortunately, it seemed that his mind had become strange because he had made a little mistake while touching the guy's mind's eye.
What he had done to that guy was different from what he had done to those two children, it was to awaken the part that was sunk deep in the mind's eye that the child originally possessed, the abyss.
And this was the first time he was performing this on another person.
Since it was revealed to be a bust anyway, Hyeonjang did not feel particularly sorry.
'It's not a substitute, but I'll die with you.'
Making an excuse for himself, Hyeonjang answered.
"I-Is that so."
"Yes. This father has no regrets even if he dies now."
So that's what happens when a person goes crazy.
Just then. The guy put his hands on the two children's heads. Hyeonjang, seeing that, was startled and tried to move to stop him, but he couldn't move his body now due to the backlash.
"What are you trying to do! Take your hands off right now!"
"Why?"
"Just take them off!"
"I don't want to."
It's common sense not to talk to a crazy person!
Currently, the two children's mind's eyes are in a state of being exquisitely mixed. If they received even a little shock there, they might wander in the world of the mind's eye forever.
"They will wake up on their own after a certain amount of time! So take your hands off right now!"
"I said I don't want to."
Hyeonjang had set it up so that when the trial he had given them completely consumed the children's mind's eyes, they would fall off on their own.
Drip.
The guy finally caused an accident.
Blood flowed from the two children's mouths and noses.
* * *
The Sword Demoness closed her eyes to humbly accept the huge wave that was attacking her.
"Open your eyes."
A familiar voice.
"And look carefully."
The Sword Demoness opened her eyes.
Slice!
A single blow that split the world.
The huge wave that she couldn't do anything about no matter how hard she tried was split.
The one who had done this looks back.
Grin.
Jae-ha smiled and said.
"How about it? Easy, right?"
* * *
The Mad Demon thought that dying like this was not bad. But he wanted to see the Captain one last time.
And his wish came true.
The Captain had suddenly appeared.
"Look carefully."
Then he even spoke to him.
The Captain lightly threw a punch.
Rumble.
The huge cliff was shattered as it was.
As expected, the Captain was amazing.
The Captain looked back and said.
"How about it? Easy, right?"
* * *
The two children woke up. But their eyes were hazy, and it was certain that their minds had not yet returned.
Soon, when the backlash hits, those children will live as idiots forever!
That guy is not my fault but those children are different!
Hyeonjang suppressed the backlash as much as possible and used his final enlightenment. At that, a lotus flower with petals that could not be compared to what was seen in the Divine Monk appeared in Hyeonjang's pupils.
"Huh?"
The two children's mind's eyes were too peaceful.
A feeling as if looking into a calm lake.
This meant one thing.
That those two children had now gained a new enlightenment.
I don't know how it happened, but for now, one thing was resolved.
Hyeonjang still didn't feel any guilt, but he decided to look into the state of the guy who was just a little unlucky with his final enlightenment.
"As expected!"
Nothing was visible.
This meant two things.
One was when the opponent's mind had completely collapsed.
Most of the time, when the mind collapsed due to qi deviation, it looked like that.
And when the opponent had reached a realm that he could not fathom.
Of course, the latter was definitely not it.
"I've finally found a way to solve this damn fate. Kakakakaka!"
How can that be a normal person!
The backlash washed over his body.
Now he would return to being an ordinary being.
Everything was over.
(End of Chapter)