The Regressed Young Master’s Guide to Living on Easy Mode

Chapter 16 : Why Am I the One Getting Pierced? (1)

There are largely two types of enlightenment.

Conscious enlightenment and unconscious enlightenment.

Conscious enlightenment, as the name suggests, is an enlightenment that occurs while one is conscious. Naturally, it has the advantage of being aware of the entire process of enlightenment and even being able to obtain clues about the next stage.

On the other hand, unconscious enlightenment is an enlightenment that occurs in an unconscious state, and it has both clear advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that because it occurs in an unconscious state, one can obtain an enlightenment that leaps over several stages beyond one's perception.

The disadvantage is that it can also be a meaningless enlightenment. One has realized something, but because it occurred in an unconscious state, there is not much difference between before and after the enlightenment.

Before my regression, I had experienced both conscious and unconscious enlightenment, and I knew all the pros and cons of both.

After reaching the Transcendent Realm, I had ten enlightenments.

Usually, with about ten enlightenments, one would have broken through the wall, created a new one, and still have time to spare, but in the end, I was just treading water, so I guess I'm just really unlucky.

Anyway, the reason I'm organizing my thoughts on enlightenment after a long time is to pass this enlightenment on to my hyung-nim.

A week had already passed since I started living here.

During that time, my hyung-nim's daily routine was to spend all his time training in the training ground, except for eating, sleeping, and going to the latrine.

Thanks to that, I also had to spend all day in the training ground because of my hyung-nim who came to find me every day.

It started because of my hyung-nim, but the past week was a rewarding time for me as well.

After waking up from using the Reversal of Heaven in the tournament with the Blood Cult, my body's meridians, blood vessels, and dantian had become twice as strong and wide as before.

So much so that I suspected I might have undergone a complete transformation.

Just in case it was something strange, I took the risk and went to the medical hall to show my body to the old Demonic Doctor.

The old Demonic Doctor spouted some nonsense about whether he could perform an autopsy on me again, so I never went back after that.

But that Demonic Doctor said that there was nothing particularly wrong with my body.

For now, I just let it go, thinking that what's good is good, but I hadn't really thought about my body's condition until now, so I was just letting it be. But I felt the need to fully understand it this time, so I was spending my time experimenting with various things.

Today was the last of that time.

When I went to the training ground, as expected, my hyung-nim was training again today.

My hyung-nim was already focused on his training and didn't notice that I had come.

What my hyung-nim was training now was a sword art, the Six Demon Sword Art, which could be commonly learned in the intermediate class of the Little Demon Academy.

As the name suggests, the techniques were divided into six, and each technique was a sword art that brought out the extremes of speed, defeat, illusion, flexibility, weight, and strength.

You could simply think of it as a higher-level sword art of the Demonic True Sword Art.

The Six Demon Sword Art that my hyung-nim was performing now had a very good level of proficiency. He was making very good use of the advantages of each technique evenly, without any shortcomings.

However, the lack of anything beyond that could be considered a shortcoming if you were to point one out.

Well, that can be solved gradually.

Before I teach my hyung-nim, I need to properly grasp my own condition so that there will be no problems when I teach him later.

I had grasped all the physical aspects during this time, and today, I just needed to confirm the last internal energy aspect, and it would be over.

I drew up all the internal energy settled in my dantian. Then, I felt the internal energy fill up to the fifth of the nine great meridians at once.

The internal energy was trying to extend to the sixth great meridian, which I had not yet pierced, but with the internal energy I possessed, the fifth was currently the limit.

Since it usually takes ten years' worth of internal energy to pierce one great meridian, my current internal energy could be considered to be fifty years' worth.

My current age is nine.

The amount of internal energy I possess is about one cycle.

Considering that I didn't even have half a cycle of internal energy at this time before my regression, this is almost at a fraudulent level.

'Though in the end, internal energy wasn't the important thing.'

Before my regression, my internal energy exceeded two cycles.

This was an amount that was by no means inferior even when compared to a master of the Demonic Zenith.

But even with over two cycles of internal energy, I couldn't become a Demonic Zenith master.

In the past, I would have been excited about my faster growth than anyone else, but because I knew where my limit was, my head was coldly calm.

For now, drawing up the internal energy was smooth.

'It might be easier because it's a path I've already taken once.'

At this rate, it seemed I would be able to reach the sixth great meridian without much trouble in a few years.

Finally, I decided to check the current limit of my meridians and blood vessels.

I knew the best way to do that.

Reversal of Heaven.

I was currently learning the Three Demon Heart Method, which is commonly learned in the intermediate class of the Little Demon Academy, a step above the basic heart method, the Demonic True Heart Method, which can be learned at the Little Demon Academy.

However, only a very few people in the Little Demon Academy had learned this Three Demon Heart Method, because many of them had already learned a heart method far superior to the Three Demon Heart Method from their families.

Even my hyung-nim, who is training over there now, is learning the Ten Demon Heart Method.

It is a lower-level heart method of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, and it is also a heart method that must be learned in order to learn the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.

However, my hyung-nim was not properly utilizing the Ten Demon Heart Method.

'The true power of the Ten Demon Heart Method comes out from the Peak Realm.'

My hyung-nim's current martial arts level is first-rate.

'He is more than qualified to go to the Peak Realm, but he still lacks enlightenment.'

I observed my hyung-nim in detail and circulated the Reversal of Heaven with the Three Demon Heart Method.

Then, I felt a pressure in my body that was several times greater than when I had performed it with the Demonic True Heart Method.

'I'll probably never get used to this feeling.'

I can already feel my body being overloaded.

It's like this even when I perform it just once, so I couldn't understand how my junior sister could perform it every moment.

The yang and yin energies reversed, and soon, a tremendous motion sickness washed over me.

Fortunately, unlike last time, the unfortunate incident of my body not being able to withstand it did not happen.

'My sense of direction and vision are much better than before at this level.'

In this state, I tried to perform a sword art.

Originally, I was going to perform the Six Demon Sword Art, which is learned in the same intermediate class as my hyung-nim, but if I performed that now, my body might not be able to withstand it and explode like in the old days, so I decided to perform the lower-level sword art, the Demonic True Sword Art.

As I slowly performed from the first to the tenth technique, sweat poured down my entire body.

This too could be said to be a great improvement compared to before.

'In the tournament with Soma, I fainted right after performing the first technique.'

The confirmation was all over. I opened my eyes.

The maximum amount of power I can exert at present is the entrance of the first-rate.

The judgment was that it was sufficient to help my hyung-nim's training.

My hyung-nim seemed to have finished his training and was resting.

"Little brother, come here and catch your breath. Training is something you have to do while resting."

"Yes."

I sat next to my hyung-nim and secretly observed him. At a glance, he looked calm, but I could tell that there was a hint of anxiety. And I even knew the reason.

'He must be very worried because of the Divine Demon Great War. And that's why he's training like this every day.'

My hyung-nim's age is twenty. And to be a complete first-rate at the age of twenty, to be honest, he could be said to be in the top one percent in the martial world.

This was not much different even regardless of age. Because the first-rate is a realm where you can be treated with respect wherever you go.

However, among the participants of the Divine Demon Great War, the first-rate was only about the top thirty percent.

'All the demonic path factions participate in the Divine Demon Great War.'

The representative participating factions would be the Four Northern Demonic Cults, including the Heavenly Demon Cult,

(End of Chapter)