novelraw Chapter 68 : The Gansu Province Battle (4)
Chapter 68 : The Gansu Province Battle (4)
The situation was that only one step remained until the plan succeeded.
The energy felt from the Rakshasa Divine Maiden was gradually getting stronger.
If the Rakshasa Divine Maiden were to regain consciousness and open her eyes, the martial world would welcome a new master of the Profound Realm.
Just thinking about it sent a thrill down my spine.
Because I had finally gotten to screw them over in a big way.
The problem was that although I had almost succeeded, I hadn't succeeded yet.
A final, huge barrier was blocking my way.
In a different sense, a thrill ran down my spine now.
A lowered sword, half-closed eyes with a slightly bowed head, a mysterious atmosphere.
It was exactly the same as the appearance of my junior sister that I had known before my regression.
That's right. My junior sister was already complete.
At that moment, someone attacked my junior sister.
It seemed that the effect of the Liberation Pill had completely dominated his reason, and he looked as if he had lost his mind.
The familiar appearance of someone who throws away his life to carry out his mission.
Although he had lost his mind, the effect of the Liberation Pill was clearly showing.
The attack was fierce and fast.
Slice.
My junior sister swung her sword without even looking at him.
Crack!
The body of the one who was rushing was split exactly in half.
The blood splattered in all directions.
In the midst of that, my junior sister slowly approached me.
"Who are you?"
The same question as before came out of my junior sister's mouth again.
I looked back.
If there was anyone in this place who could face my junior sister... it would be the Rakshasa Divine Maiden.
But she was currently asleep.
'I just need to buy a little more time.'
I raised my energy.
30%.
This was the maximum I could maintain in a complete state.
If I were to raise my energy beyond this, the balance of my body, which was barely being maintained, would be broken.
It was an energy that had started to go off balance little by little while intervening in the fight between the Fist Demon and the Phoenix King. Although I had stabilized it once after that, the balance had collapsed again as I had forcibly used the sheep mask's energy.
If I were to use more than 30%, I would surely suffer an internal injury. And I couldn't be sure that I could stabilize it again.
I instinctively knew that I had to make a choice at this moment.
'Will I go further from here, or will I stop here?'
A drop of cold sweat ran down my face, which was hidden by the mask.
If I stop here, all my plans will go to waste. If that happens, they will kill the Rakshasa Divine Maiden and hide under the surface again.
Since I had been acting up, they would act more thoroughly than before.
Perhaps after today, I might never see them again.
If I do, it will probably be when they come to kill me.
It was a hard-won opportunity. It was a loophole I had barely caught after waiting for years.
Will I let it go like this?
As I reached the Demonic Zenith, I learned that I had to make a choice to move forward.
There is no pleasure without responsibility.
Pleasure exists because there is responsibility.
The frustration of failure.
On the other hand, the thrill of success.
The future is not set, so you can't know what's waiting for you without going forward and checking for yourself.
In the end, if you want change, you have to change yourself first. You have to move forward.
It was a recklessness to move forward even knowing that it would fail.
If it succeeds, it will be called courage, and if it fails, it will be called recklessness.
Do I have the courage, the recklessness, to choose between these two now?
If I were to raise my energy beyond 30%, the energy that had barely calmed down would run rampant again.
If that happens, my body might explode as if I had eaten the Liberation Pill.
On the other hand, if I stop here, I can protect my own safety, even if nothing else.
Am I satisfied with that?
Is that the truly honey-sucking life I pursue?
The Sword Emperor master had burned his own life to show me the last technique.
Why did he do that?
Even if he knew he was going to die soon, wouldn't it have been better to struggle to live even a little longer?
Why? Why on earth!
-If someone blocks your way, cut them down and move forward.
To uphold his conviction until the very end.
Because that was his life.
I raised my sword.
40%.
I raised my energy.
I could feel my insides churning.
50%.
Nausea washed over my whole body.
The internal force of the sheep mask, which had weakened with one use, cracked.
60%.
The sheep mask's internal force completely collapsed. The energies that had been reversed until now moved to regain their positions.
70%.
I swallowed the blood that was about to come up. The yang energy from the Heavenly Demon Divine Art and the yin energy from the Ice Soul Divine Art clashed. And they resisted fiercely.
80%.
It felt as if a fire had started inside. That fire was hot, cold, piercing, stinging, and had all the pain I knew.
It hurt like hell.
90%.
The pain disappeared.
100%.
I'm screwed. No lie, I'm really screwed.
* * *
The Chaotic Heavenly Society.
The name of the place that had killed my senior brother.
For the past three years, I had used all possible means to obtain information related to this.
I had become the Young Lord to get more information.
But I couldn't find any information.
They had thoroughly hidden their identity and had taken root deeper in the martial world.
And at a completely unexpected moment.
Right now, they had come to the surface again.
The moment I saw them, anger surged.
Although three years had passed, I had not forgotten that day for a single day.
It was definitely different from the mask in my memory. But it was certain that it was related.
The only thing that came to my mind was revenge.
I could feel a thick killing intent that surprised even myself.
It was a meeting after waiting for three years.
'Kill the opponent' filled Yoo Su-a's mind.
And she could tell instinctively.
That the opponent was a strong person.
She calms her excited heart.
Then, as reason gradually returned, she was able to look at the situation objectively.
For now, subduing the masked man is the priority.
The momentum that the masked man was emitting was strong.
But she didn't think she would lose.
For the past three years, she had spent her days vomiting blood and carving her bones so that she would never experience that day's events again.
Yoo Su-a, upon reaching the Demonic Zenith, had made the great meridians, which were arranged in a row, into a single ring shape.
She had named it the 'wheel' herself.
She rotated the energy in the wheel.
The energy made one rotation and formed the 1st wheel. Yoo Su-a's time became a little faster than the world's. On the other hand, the world flowed a little slower than before.
Yoo Su-a moved.
In the slowed world, only Yoo Su-a was moving at her original speed.
There was no one in the Heavenly Demon Cult, except for the elders and above, who could face her in this world.
Clang!
The sword that Yoo Su-a had unfolded was blocked.
'The speed hasn't slowed down!'
The opponent was also moving in the same time as her. It didn't matter. Yoo Su-a formed the 2nd wheel. The world slowed down a little more.
From the 2nd wheel, the pressure on the body changes. Yoo Su-a was now feeling a resistance as if gravity had doubled.
And yet, her speed was unchanged compared to before. On the other hand, to the opponent's eyes, Yoo Su-a's movement would seem to have doubled in speed compared to just now.
'He won't be able to block this!'
Clang!
This time too, the opponent parried the sword.
At that moment, Yoo Su-a's gaze changed.
She decided that she would no longer underestimate the opponent.
'At least the elders or higher.'
In an instant, the internal energy in her great meridians rotated. It surpassed the 3rd wheel. It surpassed the 4th wheel. It surpassed the 5th wheel. The rotation did not stop.
And at the 10th wheel.
This was the highest value Yoo Su-a had reached in the past.
In Yoo Su-a's vision, the world was almost stopped.
11th wheel.
And she went one step further from here. For this one rotation, she had to spend the entire past three years.
-From the 11th wheel, even you have to be careful.
The Heavenly Demon's advice came to mind.
Yoo Su-a moved. It was a day of pain for this day alone. It didn't matter if her body was shattered. Gravity became 11 times stronger. Even for Yoo Su-a, her movement had no choice but to slow down.
Every time she took a step, she felt as if her joints were collapsing.
If her body had not been stronger than others, she would not have been able to move by now.
The Heavenly Dragon Saintly Bones.
The heavenly treasure that the heavens had bestowed upon her.
At this moment, she was grateful for it.
The strength of the bones, like that of a heavenly dragon, allowed her to withstand a gravity 11 times stronger.
Yoo Su-a intended to end the opponent for sure with this attack.
'Twice is impossible!'
Therefore, she unfolded the strongest martial art she was currently learning.
The first technique of the Three Swords of the Heavenly Demon, the Heavenly Kill.
A thrust that concentrates the yang energy of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art at one point and explodes it.
Its speed is so fast that it is difficult to follow with the human eye.
And that was also true for the person who was performing the Heavenly Kill.
But in Yoo Su-a's world, where gravity was applied 11 times, she could see the Heavenly Kill that was moving forward.
Originally, the Heavenly Kill was a thrust that was difficult to follow with the human eye. Therefore, even if she performed it herself, it was impossible to control it after performing the technique.
But now, Yoo Su-a was accurately recognizing the Heavenly Kill. And Yoo Su-a's strong body was also able to create the mystery of bringing an impossible realm into a possible realm.
The first technique of the Three Swords of the Heavenly Demon, the Heavenly Kill, 2nd layer.
Her body's internal qi explodes again.
For a moment, a shock as if her arm would be torn off was transmitted, but it didn't matter. And her hard bones, muscles, tendons, and membranes withstood the shock.
The thrust, which had been moving slowly, moved at the same speed as when the wheel was not formed.
It was a speed that even Yoo Su-a, who had formed the wheel, could not control.
Just then, Yoo Su-a's eyes, which were moving forward with the sword, widened.
Because something that could never happen was happening.
The world of the 11th wheel was, without exaggeration, a world where everything was stopped.
The opponent's pupils moved and looked back at her.
After that, his arm moved, and his sword was raised.
Yoo Su-a, who was moving forward, was actually moving at a speed that was not visible to the eye.
Of course, it was too short a time to feel the weather. But it was cold.
Goosebumps rose on the arm that was thrusting.
Crack.
Frost settling on the sword came into view.
And the sword that had been raised was falling.
Yoo Su-a could see what the opponent was cutting.
It was the grain.
Yoo Su-a, who had reached the Demonic Zenith, also vaguely knew about the existence of the grain. And that there were countless grains in this world.
The grain that the opponent was cutting now was the heat.
Her heated body was cooling down.
The circulation of her internal energy was slowing down.
On the other hand, the world was regaining its original speed.
Only her own world.
Crack.
It was cracking.
At this moment, Yoo Su-a read the future with her ability of future sight.
She saw a scene where her sword was blocked by the opponent's descending sword.
Will she stop here?
-Any more than this, and even you will find it difficult.
When she had first performed this, she had to lie in bed for a month without being able to do anything.
She asks herself again.
Will she stop here?
She had returned to the starting point of three years ago.
Will she just watch, unable to do anything, as she did then?
The powerlessness of that time once again engulfs her whole body.
The efforts of the past three years are turning into bubbles.
Will she repeat the past again?
Yoo Su-a made a decision.
She moves forward.
The Reversal of Heaven.
It was impossible to use the Reversal of Heaven while the wheel was formed.
Of course, that was natural. Because reversing a rotating energy, not a stationary one, would be impossible even for a god.
But Yoo Su-a made the impossible possible.
The rotating wheel.
She twisted the 'ㅇ'-shaped great meridian once.
The shape thus created was '∞'.
The yang energy on the left went down.
The yin energy on the right went up.
A form that uses the Reversal of Heaven while maintaining the wheel.
Infinity.
The rotation became faster.
Crack.
The frost on the sword fell off.
Her broken world was returning.
No!
What was being constructed was not the existing world.
A much denser, much slower world.
A new world that had never been experienced before revealed itself.
At that moment, the symbol of infinity (∞) was displayed on Yoo Su-a's pupils.
Yoo Su-a became light itself and was shot out.
Such a future... was still unchanged.
* * *
When I had raised all 100% of my power, I had genuinely sensed that I was screwed.
The energy lost control and ran rampant in all directions.
I experienced hundreds of bombs exploding in my body every second.
My consciousness also went in and out every second.
I knew that if I left it like this, my body would not be able to withstand it and would explode.
For a moment, I felt resentful that I had to go this far just to live a honey-sucking life.
What did I do so wrong!
Looking back, I had committed quite a lot of wrongs in my past life.
But I've lived a good life in this life!
It's unfair. And I already knew the answer to that unfairness.
I just hadn't made a choice.
People pretend not to know, but everyone knows the answer to their own future.
I also knew that if I used all my energy, it would be like this.
And I also knew that I would face a moment of choice again.
I had just been ignoring it.
Will I explode here, or will I move forward?
I chose.
I created the 12th great meridian.
Still, it was impossible to handle all the power.
Then the 13th great meridian... there was no more room to create a great meridian.
This time, there was no escape route, no way to live.
At that moment, I saw the pattern in my junior sister's pupils.
It was a mark that only appeared on those who were given the qualification to rise to the Soul Detachment Realm.
I see, junior sister.
You always surprise me.
To go one step further in a situation like this.
As expected, you are amazing.
And you are showing me the way again.
The finite could never contain the infinite.
The Soul Detachment Realm is a realm that accepts the infinite.
I made the great meridians into a circle, and then twisted it.
I created infinity.
The energy that had lost its way stabilized.
The huge energies in my body followed my control for the first time.
Swish.
I moved one step to the side and dodged the sword. I was about to subdue my junior sister.
At that moment, I could see the person who had clearly died getting up.
A strong killing intent was felt from him.
At the same time, he kicked the ground and rushed towards the Rakshasa Divine Maiden.
His speed was almost the same as, or even faster than, the thrust my junior sister had shown just now.
There was no time to delay.
I immediately kicked off the ground.
"Oh-ho! You're following this? I'll have to kill you first!"
He changed his course towards me in the middle.
I put all my energy into my sword and swung it.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Huh...?
The opponent, who had been in front of me just now, had disappeared.
Just then, my head suddenly spun, and a nausea I had never experienced before washed over me.
It was the price for using a power that was not allowed without going through enlightenment.
I thought it was going well.
It seemed this was really the end.
Thud.
I lost consciousness.
(End of Chapter)