novelraw Chapter 174 : Towards the Honey Pot (10)
Chapter 174 : Towards the Honey Pot (10)
In the past, there was a martial artist who was more outstanding than anyone else.
He was a genius who, upon learning one thing, would understand ten, and with those ten, would create a new eleven. It was impossible to define him even with the word 'genius'.
It was perhaps natural that he became fascinated with strength.
Because it was the best indicator to show that he was superior to others.
And so, he became strong.
And from a certain day, people began to put him in a new category, not a human.
A monster.
Later, as if that were not enough, they called him a heavenly demon, a monster sent by the heavens, and even feared him.
On the other hand, there were those who were fascinated by his strength and became his followers.
Their numbers grew day by day, and they became a group, and eventually, a religion.
The Heavenly Demon Divine Cult.
A force that revered only one being, the Heavenly Demon, was created.
He, who had been wandering the martial world alone, naturally settled in the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult.
The problem started from then on.
The endless obsession with strength was the driving force that moved him.
Based on that, he became the strongest being under the heavens.
When he had finally achieved what he wanted, a sense of emptiness washed over him more than the reward of achieving his goal.
What should I do from now on?
What should I live for?
If, until now, someone stronger than him had been the driving force of his life, now no one could be his driving force.
Although he was the best under the heavens on the outside, was revered as a god, and seemed to be doing better than anyone else in this world, he was becoming isolated alone.
In the end, he came to decide to find a new driving force.
That was the reversal of heaven.
To be more precise, it would be more correct to say that it was a regression to himself.
To turn back his own time and return to the weak past.
Originally, it was an impossible thing, but it was possible for him, who was at the pinnacle of this world.
He made his great meridians into an infinite form and sent his internal energy in reverse.
After that, he spread a boundary and added one law.
With each reversal of heaven, time also flows back to the past.
The experiment was a success.
However, due to the reversal of heaven he had performed, causality, in order to correct a single flow that had suddenly appeared in the great flow of the original, caused an adversary to be born in the reversed world.
That was the being called the Dragon God Lord.
However, even that Dragon God Lord could not defeat him.
The reason was obvious. In the first place, he was the one who had defeated all his adversaries in one world and had risen to the pinnacle. In the end, he had created a new world, and had a status like a god. Therefore, the adversary born in the second world could not help but be pushed back in terms of status.
The Dragon God Lord had guessed that at this rate, due to him who had fallen into boredom just like in the previous world, another new world, that is, a third world, would be born.
The problem was that he had predicted that with each increase of a new world, a new adversary would be born, and in the end, these created flows would clash and the world itself would be destroyed.
Because there was no law that a new Heavenly Demon would not be born among the adversaries.
So the first Dragon God Lord made a decision.
That was to reverse time in reverse every time the Heavenly Demon turned back time.
If that happened, the reversed timeline would disappear, and the third world would not be born, and with each regression of the Heavenly Demon, the adversary would also repeat the regression, and he would be able to prevent the destruction of the world.
However, with each repetition of the regression, unlike the Heavenly Demon, the adversary's spirit, which had not achieved the completion of his status, began to be gradually exhausted.
The adversary was tired. He no longer wanted to do this crazy thing. He wanted to face death comfortably like this. But the causality that the world had bestowed on him urged him to save the world.
In the end, he decided to die by passing on his causality to a new adversary.
To do so, he also had to create a new timeline like the Heavenly Demon. Although this was contrary to saving the world, it was to keep the causality that had been placed on the adversary, 'to stop the Heavenly Demon'. Therefore, causality could only watch this happen.
He eventually created a third world. And he, who was in the second world, was killed by the Heavenly Demon.
And so, causality, in order to save this third world where the adversary had died, decided to kill the Heavenly Demon with the world.
But the Heavenly Demon had run away to the third world created by the adversary.
And this had been happening 28 times.
The first Heavenly Demon said.
"Loneliness is the greatest punishment that God has given to man. Do you know that? My descendants."
The 27th Heavenly Demon, Hyuk Sa-wol, asked about the nonsense he had just heard from his older brother.
"Older brother, that guy says he's our ancestor."
The 28th Heavenly Demon, Yoo Jin-sung, answered.
"It seems his mind has gone a little strange. He's a pitiful person, so let's be polite."
"Yes. I was too much."
"Yes."
"You don't believe me."
"Then would you believe you?"
"How about this?"
Hyuk Sa-wol and Yoo Jin-sung felt the true qi in their dantians resonating with each other.
"This is?"
"The Heavenly Demon Divine Art?"
"Do you believe me now?"
Hyuk Sa-wol and Yoo Jin-sung looked at each other. Although they didn't know how it had happened, the opponent knew the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
The Heavenly Demon Divine Art had been passed down only by word of mouth since ancient times. Looking at the revealed situation, the fact that he knew the Heavenly Demon Divine Art meant that he was their ancestor.
Although he didn't know which generation.
"Is it the 3rd generation? Older brother, as far as I know, the strongest Heavenly Demon so far is the 3rd generation."
"Younger brother, as far as I know, they say the 2nd generation was the strongest."
"Hehehe. Still, this world is fun. That interesting things like you have appeared."
"Younger brother. Whether it's the 3rd generation or the 2nd generation, what's certain is that if that guy gets out of here alive, our daughter will have a hard time."
"That's right. Our young leader has had such a hard time outside, so she should be comfortable at home now."
The two of them emitted hostility towards the first Heavenly Demon.
"Are you going to fight? Seeing this gap?"
"Sometimes, there are things you must protect even if you die."
"Whether you're the first or an ancestor, you'll die here."
"Hehehe. Interesting. You are the first since the first Dragon God Lord to make me reveal my true form. So I will specially plant a driving force in you two. Because the driving force is the greatest power that moves this world."
The first Heavenly Demon spread his arms wide. The two Heavenly Demons flinched and were wary, but nothing happened. The first Heavenly Demon, seeing that, continued with the next words lowly.
"If you don't kill me here."
The many worlds he had passed through.
The two figures in front of him had also existed. And they had the name of the strongest, regardless of the era.
This era was also the same.
What was surprising was that in the previous eras, there was only one being, but in this era, two existed at the same time.
"I will kill your son and daughter."
The moment the words ended, the first Heavenly Demon felt a huge pressure weighing him down.
The Heavenly Demon's Reigning Steps.
And a mature realm that had reached the 12th victory.
"Perfect!"
The first Heavenly Demon, with admiration, looked ahead.
He was definitely in a 4-dimensional space until just now. But now he existed in a 1-dimensional space.
Boom.
The person standing on the opposite side extends his fist.
An infinitely clean and perfect one fist.
"Excellent!"
The first Heavenly Demon crosses his arms and blocks. On top of that, Yoo Jin-sung's all-out fist reaches. Crack, the first Heavenly Demon's arm is broken.
At the same time, he raises his head at the huge heat felt from above.
The sun was falling from the sky.
Blink.
When he closed and opened his eyes, what he had thought was the sun was a single sword.
Boom!
The sun swallows the first Heavenly Demon.
"Older brother!"
"Yes!"
Although the attack had successfully entered, the two of them were preparing for a second attack. Because the opponent they felt was not a monster that would die from just this one attack.
Before the smoke had even cleared, Hyuk Sa-wol and Yoo Jin-sung raised their Heavenly Demon Divine Art at the same time and deployed a boundary.
A technique that was coming out for the first time in the world.
It was a joint boundary.
The boundary created by one Heavenly Demon Divine Art was the world of yang.
The boundary created by another Heavenly Demon Divine Art was the world of yin.
It embraced the first Heavenly Demon.
And as the world of yin and yang reached harmony, a new single world was about to be created.
The moment they faced that, Hyuk Sa-wol and Yoo Jin-sung's eyes half-opened.
The two of them could instinctively feel that they were about to advance to a new realm that was different from before.
And the moment that sphere was completed, a new miracle that had not existed in this world was about to happen.
At that moment, the sphere shattered.
"Cough!"
"Cough!"
Hyuk Sa-wol and Yoo Jin-sung vomited blood at the same time.
"Amazing!"
The first Heavenly Demon appears from inside the sphere.
Creak.
His broken arm returns to normal.
Rustle.
New flesh is growing from his burned skin.
"Is he a monster?"
"Damn it."
Hyuk Sa-wol and Yoo Jin-sung each spat out their current feelings. The first Heavenly Demon laughed lowly.
"Hehehe. I've heard that after a long time. It's strange. In this world, it's not the Dragon God Lord, but you guys who have come to stop me."
These words of the first Heavenly Demon were sincere.
Because what these two had shown just now was by no means inferior to the Dragon God Lord.
"A pity. If your enlightenment had been a little higher, you could have harmed me."
The first Heavenly Demon raises his energy.
Then the eyes of the two widen. Because with the small enlightenment just now, the two of them could guess what was happening now.
The small sphere held in the first Heavenly Demon's hand.
It had the power to even explode a star.
"It's called a black hole."
A form that swallows everything that exists in this world, like a shape with nothing left after a star has exploded.
"I pay my respects to you two who have made me feel interested. Farewell. There will be no pain."
The black hole approaches.
The two of them could not move due to the power emanating from the black hole.
Just before the black hole reached the two of them.
The moment the two of them sensed death.
A white sphere with a different, pure white light blocked the black hole.
At that moment, the black hole grew in size.
Its size was so huge that it was ridiculous to swallow a single house.
A huge gravitational force was created from there and swallowed everything that existed around it.
"Soma! Move the two of them, even if you have to risk your life!"
At the sound from somewhere, Soma's eyes, who had been lying as if dead, flashed open, and without a moment's hesitation, Soma hugged the two Heavenly Demons and ran away.
And of course, the first Heavenly Demon was not one to just watch that.
"How dare you think I'll just watch!"
The moment the first Heavenly Demon was about to kick off the ground, he stares blankly ahead.
The white sphere, which he had thought would surely be swallowed by the black hole, was still existing. And the white sphere was gradually offsetting the black hole.
Soon, the black hole was completely offset, and the white sphere also disappeared.
"Who are you?"
The first Heavenly Demon, while moving through a total of 28 worlds, had seen the scene of one of his true powers, the black hole, disappearing for the first time.
He was genuinely interested in the being in front of him.
"Haa. Fuck."
The opponent who suddenly spits out a curse.
The first Heavenly Demon searched his memory.
If there were such a being, he would surely know.
But there was nothing in his memory.
"I thought I was finally going to live a life of honey!"
Yoo Jae-ha was genuinely pissed off.
"You're going to get hit a little. Because I'm really pissed off right now."
"Haa!"
It was definitely the first time in all 28 worlds that an opponent had spoken to him so rudely.
Is this guy just crazy?
(End of Chapter)