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

Chapter 77 : Their Respective Circumstances (1)

After my regression, as I stirred up the past, the future changed.

So far, things have been flowing according to the future I knew, but I didn't know when that would break.

I thought that if I tried, I could predict the anomalous future to some extent, but I came to find the Demonic Brain, thinking, why should I do it when there's someone who's better at it than me?

And the Demonic Brain's work went better than I had thought. After talking with the Demonic Brain, I became more confident in this thought.

But looking back on my life, there was always something that got tangled up.

Recalling the events at the Heavenly Demon Cult this time, everything had flowed too smoothly.

A sense of unease keeps creeping up.

If a martial artist wanted to survive for a long time in the martial world, they should never ignore this feeling.

This was a warning from the experience I had accumulated, and it was my own crisis detection ability.

To use the martial arts realm of the Demonic Zenith as an example, it would be a super-sense, and to use the Soul Detachment Realm as an example, it could be called a sense of unease close to prophecy.

So, in order to survive, I should never ignore this feeling.

I looked around.

No one was in sight.

The Heavenly Demon Cult was still quiet.

Not even a single ant was visible.

I headed for the dog hole I had come in through, and the dog hole was blocked.

I felt the first sense of unease, but this was within the acceptable range.

Because the positions of the life gates of the three dog holes change in rotation.

I just had to move to the second dog hole.

I headed for the second dog hole, and the second dog hole was also closed.

The sense of unease is gradually becoming a reality and is suffocating me. And the third dog hole was also blocked.

There is only one case where the life gates of the three dog holes are closed.

When the original life gates are open.

I slowly headed for the main gate.

I still couldn't feel anyone's presence around me.

And when I saw the person standing at the wide-open main gate, I looked up at the sky.

No wonder things were going so well.

No! This was nothing more than my own pure delusion.

This is the Heavenly Demon Cult.

The Heavenly Demon lives in the Heavenly Demon Cult.

To think that I could avoid the Heavenly Demon's eyes while entering the Heavenly Demon Cult was too complacent.

"A rat has snuck in."

In the Heavenly Demon Cult where the Heavenly Demon is, there was no need for warriors to guard the place.

At that moment, the space was distorted.

To be more precise, the Heavenly Demon was taking control of the space.

The radius was at least a hundred zhang.

I couldn't even dare to guess how much enlightenment and internal energy were needed to make this possible.

This space now had to be seen as a new universe reborn by the Heavenly Demon.

There, the Heavenly Demon's two red eyes stared at me. I wondered if this was what a demon from hell would look like.

Right now, I couldn't see the Heavenly Demon's appearance clearly.

Only a blurry figure and the red light shining from it were faintly visible.

I was not yet given the qualification to see the Heavenly Demon's true form.

The fact that I was breathing in this space was a surprising development in itself.

If my realm had been even a little lower, or more precisely, if the yin energy from the Ice Soul Divine Art had not existed in my body, it would not have been strange for my whole body to be crushed and explode the moment I entered this space.

Fighting was a foregone conclusion of defeat.

I looked at the only life gate behind the Heavenly Demon.

Perhaps the given opportunity is only once.

If I miss it, I...

will die in this place today.

* * *

The Heavenly Demon had known of Yoo Jae-ha's existence since he had entered the Heavenly Demon Cult.

And he had watched everything he did, and in the end, he was feeling a sense of self-loathing for not having come to find him himself.

Is that so, I still couldn't give you my trust.

Just like with his older brother, and with his older brother's son.

His older brother had also left without saying anything to him. Now he knows. Why his brother had left him.

The reason was probably the same as the reason why Yoo Jae-ha, his nephew, was leaving now.

And it was a reason he himself now knew.

After that day, he had tried.

He had run tirelessly without a single day's rest to become a person worthy of being the Lord of the Heavenly Demon Cult.

Some called him the number one in the world, and some called him cruel and ruthless.

But such words were of no use now.

In the eyes of his brother, and his nephew, he was still a useless being.

If someone else had treated him like this, he would have been genuinely angry and would have killed them on the spot.

However, the child in front of him now was his brother's child.

It was the last legacy his brother had left.

And that legacy resembled his brother frighteningly, and just like in the old days, he was trying to leave him again.

He wouldn't be able to stop him.

Because that damn bloodline is thicker than water, and even if he were to stop him here, he would try to leave somehow.

Then what could he do for that child here?

Since all he had learned was martial arts and killing people, only these two things came to mind.

Surprisingly, his nephew, whom he had seen for the first time in a long time, had reached the Soul Detachment Realm.

Although the Young Lord, whom he had recently taken as a disciple, was said to have a talent that would not be seen again in a thousand years, to be honest, compared to his nephew, he was not without some shortcomings.

However, there was a huge difference between a realm reached with someone's teaching and a realm reached by oneself through trial and error.

If one were to ask which was more amazing between the former and the latter, one would choose the latter without hesitation, but if one were to choose which was stronger, one would choose the former without hesitation.

Suddenly, he had a thought.

Is the Soul Detachment Realm a realm that can be reached by trial and error?

If so, the Soul Detachment Realm would be common in this world.

The father, and his son, they're really good at surprising people.

Still, the uncle is the Lord of the Heavenly Demon Cult, and he is called the number one in the world. If he doesn't even pack a gift for the road, he didn't know what harsh words he would hear from his brother in the afterlife.

To say it again, all he had learned was martial arts and killing people.

These were the only two things he could give to his nephew, who was leaving on that arduous road to fight against the force called the Chaotic Heavenly Society.

Originally, a realm is a law that must be climbed by stepping on stages so that there will be no problems later.

A realm reached by a shortcut is bound to be shattered when it meets the real thing.

In the end, if it's a realm that will be broken, wouldn't it be better to be hit by me rather than by someone I don't know?

Going from the Transcendent Peak to the Demonic Zenith is simple. You just had to break the established framework you had learned so far and create your own new framework.

Then, when going from the Demonic Zenith to the Soul Detachment Realm, should the same method be used?

In a broad sense, it could be said to be similar in that it creates a new framework.

However, if you go into the details, you would have to say it's different.

Because the Soul Detachment Realm, simply put, can be said to be the creation of the rules of that world.

If the Demonic Zenith is said to create a world, the Soul Detachment Realm is said to be the tuning of that created world.

The created world just exists. This can be said to be the same as being there but not being there.

The Soul Detachment Realm is the pulling of this infinite world into the realm of the finite so that one can directly tune it.

In other words, it was the addition of rules to the world of 'infinity'.

The world is filled by the new rules.

The sky is filled, the earth is filled, the wind is filled, gravity is filled, and life is filled.

Therefore, in a fight between those who have achieved the Soul Detachment Realm, it is not easy to predict who will win.

Because the world each has achieved is different.

If you're lucky and you get an opponent with good compatibility, you'll win easily, but if you're unlucky and the opposite happens, you'll die.

Well, if you have enough power to ignore compatibility, you don't have to think about such complicated things.

Telling this child that much now is like teaching a baby who hasn't even learned to walk how to fly, so what I'm going to teach now is how to walk.

If it's my brother's child, if he only knows how to walk on his own, he will surely be able to fly in the sky.

So, try to walk out of this place.

If you can't even do this.

I won't be able to let you out of this place.

* * *

I feel the illusion that the space is distorted.

But it's not an illusion. In fact, the space I'm in now was distorted by the Heavenly Demon's high-density energy.

This space had to be seen as a third space newly born by the Heavenly Demon.

I see, so this is the true Soul Detachment Realm.

The Soul Detachment Realm I had known so far was nothing more than scratching the surface.

Fortunately, it seemed that the Heavenly Demon had no intention of killing me.

I tried to escape this space at once using the Reversal of Heaven.

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But nothing happened.

I tried to send the yang energy down and the yin energy up, but the energy in me didn't budge.

"That won't work."

Just then, the Heavenly Demon spoke.

"I've blocked it."

Hearing those words, I could understand the phenomenon that was happening now.

This space I was in could be said to have been created by the Heavenly Demon.

As if I were in a hell where a conflagration was constantly burning, I could feel a heat from all directions that made it difficult to breathe.

Even though my body had reached the state of being impervious to heat and cold, sweat was pouring down like rain, and my mouth was parched.

If my realm had been even a little lower, or more precisely, if the yin energy from the Ice Soul Divine Art had not existed in my body, it would have been impossible to even breathe here.

And that yin energy was also rapidly decreasing.

'If all the yin energy is gone, I will lose consciousness and collapse.'

The reason the Reversal of Heaven didn't work was probably because of the high-purity yang energy that filled this space.

Yang energy rises. This is the natural order.

This ridiculous amount of yang energy was not only being applied to the outside, but it was also being applied to the inside of my body.

In other words, the Reversal of Heaven was completely blocked.

I tried to use the Reversal of Heaven sideways.

'──'

And this was also met with silence.

"I told you it wouldn't work."

In this space, only movements that followed the natural order were possible.

Drip, drip.

Sweat dripped down.

The yin energy was rapidly disappearing.

The maximum time I could endure was now only one ke.

As expected, the Heavenly Demon was the Heavenly Demon.

To be able to subdue me without even lifting a finger.

Now that the Reversal of Heaven was blocked, it was as if I had returned to the Demonic Zenith.

Of course, with the power of the Demonic Zenith, all I could do here was move my fingers and toes.

If this continues, all the moisture in my body will dry up, and all I can do is wait for the fate of dying a parched death.

Did I regress for this?

I haven't even had a taste of the honey yet.

It's unfair. I'm going crazy with how unfair it is.

If I had at least had a little taste of the honey, I wouldn't have had such regrets.

When I try to smell the honey, someone takes the honey pot away, and when I try to put my tongue to the honey, someone sprinkles salt on it.

For Yoo Jae-ha's life to end like this is too unfair. In my past life, at least I lived as I wanted. If it was going to be like this, why did you let me regress and even have a dream?

Thud.

The Heavenly Demon was approaching.

His movements were extremely slow. It was no different from the movements of a hunter who had hit his prey with an arrow and was coming to collect the corpse.

In the end, to do something in the current situation, I had to follow the natural order, not the Reversal of Heaven.

It felt as if the Heavenly Demon was mocking me for having reached the Soul Detachment Realm through a shortcut.

Do you think I wanted to do it that way?

I also wanted to reach the Soul Detachment Realm completely.

But if that were possible, would he be a human, not a transcendent being?

Two people who had reached the Soul Detachment Realm on their own came to mind. Of course, those two were no longer human.

One was the Heavenly Dragon Saintly Bones, and the other was the Heavenly Martial Body.

Both were monsters wearing human skin.

For reference, I was a 100% pure human.

Haa... fuck.

Is there a way to go from the Demonic Zenith to the Soul Detachment Realm right now... huh?

Suddenly, a good idea came to mind.

I think I can do it if I try.

Lightning falls from the sky to the ground.

This is the natural order, just like water flowing from top to bottom and an apple from a tree falling to the ground.

It's so obvious that you can't even ask, why doesn't lightning strike from the bottom up, and why doesn't an apple soar from the ground to the sky?

Energy is no different. It flows from yang to yin.

This is also a very obvious logic and natural order, just like lightning, water, and an apple falling.

The principle of how this lightning strikes is simple.

Normally, the sky is in a state of harmony between yin and yang.

This is the appearance of the clouds we normally see.

But on a day when it rains or a typhoon comes, the clouds form vertically.

A form where the harmony of yin and yang is broken.

It is called a cumulonimbus cloud.

In that cloud, the yang energy is located at the top, and the yin energy is located at the bottom.

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In this form.

The yin and yang energies, which should have been side by side, are standing vertically.

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And energy also flows on the surface of the earth.

In a very stable state, like a normal cloud.

Originally, the sky and the earth would never meet. Because they are extremely far apart.

But due to the mystery of nature, when the harmony in the sky is broken and a cumulonimbus cloud is formed, the large amount of yin energy that has gathered at the bottom is attracted to the yang energy on the surface of the earth.

We call this the light that falls from the sky, lightning.

And the clouds regain their harmony.

In other words, lightning falls from top to bottom.

Therefore, it is the natural order.

But lightning has a flow from yin to yang. This is the Reversal of Heaven.

Then is lightning the natural order? Or the Reversal of Heaven?

If it's the natural order, it will go as I think, and if it's the Reversal of Heaven, Yoo Jae-ha's life will end today.

I send the energy from yin to yang.

Of course, the energy did not flow.

Because this was the Reversal of Heaven.

But what if I reverse the Reversal of Heaven?

I switched the positions of the yin and yang energies.

The yin energy that wouldn't go up, goes up.

The yang energy that wouldn't go down, goes down.

Finally, when the yin energy was completely at the top and the yang energy was at the bottom.

Just as lightning strikes from a cumulonimbus cloud in the sky to the ground.

The energy began to flow from yin to yang.

Flash!

I looked back.

I could see the Heavenly Demon standing there blankly, looking at me. It must be my own delusion that his expression seemed extremely proud.

At this moment, I had survived from the Heavenly Demon, but my heart wouldn't stop pounding because I had created something that was solely my own in this world.

It was the birth of the fourth form of the Reversal of Heaven, the Reversal of the Situation.

* * *

The Heavenly Demon looked at the receding Yoo Jae-ha and opened his mouth.

"As expected of my nephew!"

His brother was not human, and his nephew was not human either.

For a moment, he had a question.

Then what kind of being is he?

Just an amazing being.

(End of Chapter)