Episode 415
“Rebirth?”
“To borrow a Buddhist expression, you could say it is reincarnation. “You can think of it as being able to live a new life with your memories intact.”
“her.”
It was an amazing story.
I expected it to be no ordinary object, but it was reincarnation.
[······Do you know what you have done?]
I thought I knew why the Demon Lord was glaring at me as if he was going to eat me.
How angry must he have been to have an object containing such great power shattered before his eyes?
“And just as the director guessed, there were two sacred objects sleeping in the secret wing of Muyeong Shintu.”
“······.”
“A ritual vessel containing the power of reincarnation, a dragon incense burner containing the power of return, and an oracle bone containing the power of wisdom. It is said that the demonic cult lords of the past referred to those three items as the Three Gods.”
Incense burner.
Like jegi or oracle bones, it was an object that could only be used in ancestral rites.
Perhaps the reason Muyeong Shintu made the key to enter Bi-dong in the shape of an incense burner, and the reason he called it a sacred object, was probably related to this.
‘Anyway, Samsingi-ra. ‘It’s good news to hear.’
In other words, doesn’t this mean that the total number of sacred objects that have been passed down in the Demonic Cult is three?
At least there was no need to worry about a fourth new object suddenly popping out and creating a troublesome situation.
“There’s one thing I’ve always been curious about. What is the reason why previous demonic cult lords did not utilize the power of such great divine beings? “Is there anything about him in the records left by Reporter Cheon?”
“I was going to tell you that now.”
Sima Yun took out a wad of paper from his pocket and handed it to me.
When I looked at the first page, I saw that the writing was written in a haphazard manner and was scattered in a haphazard manner.
“These are things I wrote down while interpreting the contents of the book. It will help you understand. “I will make a clear interpretation later, so please look at it even if it is inconvenient right now.”
Samaun scratches the back of his head with a sheepish expression and makes an excuse.
I nodded calmly and answered.
“All right.”
“After stealing the Samsingi from the secret vault in Cheonmagung, Muyeongsintu and Cheongija each shared the items they needed. Muyeong Shintu, who had regrets about the past, took a sacred object containing the power of return and foresight, and Gija Cheon, who wanted to gain insight into the future of cultural development, took a sacred object containing the power of reincarnation.”
This was the part where the difference in inclinations between Muyoung Shintu and Reporter Cheon was clearly revealed.
The contents of the handwriting that I had obtained after raiding Muyeongsintu’s secret temple in the past flashed through my mind.
『What am I in this life… I can’t protect…』
『Respect… my mother, my dear sister, and my lover.』
『Go back to the past… This time, save everyone…』
As Simaun said, Muyeongsintu was very obsessed with the past.
Wouldn’t he have thought of breaking into the palace where the Demon Cult lord resides and stealing sacred objects?
Even if you had five lives, it wasn’t enough. It was a dangerous task.
Even if it was the greatest sword in the world, it could not have guaranteed success.
As a disciple of the religious leader in my past life, I knew well how tight the security at Cheonmagung Palace was.
It is also true that the average inaction of the believers there is very high.
I didn’t think that the security level at Cheonmagung Palace would have been low in the past.
‘On the other hand, should Reporter Cheon be considered a college student?’
The reason he gave up a sacred object with the power of return to Muyeong Shintu was because he wanted to gain insight into the advanced civilization of the future.
Clearly, the way of thinking of great people who rose to the top of a field was different from that of ordinary people.
“Gija Cheon figured out how to use sacred water faster than Muyeong Shintu, and immediately created a space for the accumulation of water energy in the underground ruins that he used as a base when he was young. In addition, the entire ruins were covered with formations and traps in preparation for the attack by the cult leaders and other demonic cultists.”
When I was staying at the Zhuge family under the pretext of recovering from an injury, I heard a story about the ruins from Zhuge Hye, who came to visit me.
She said this:
Fortunately, since there was no owner of the ruins, it was possible to conquer it smoothly.
If even the traps that had to be manually activated had worked properly, he would not have been able to make it on time even if his younger brother and he had worked together.
‘I had similar feelings when I visited Bi-dong hidden in Seoldusan Mountain. I was wondering why they had made such excessive preparations for intruders.’
At the time, I thought it was because of the discord with Samasegawa.
But now that I look at it, it seems that wasn’t the case.
“One, it appears that Gija Cheon, like Muyeongsintu, failed to bring out the power of the divine being.”
“Why?”
“In order to use the power contained in each sacred object, there were several prerequisites that had to be met before accumulating magical energy.”
To briefly summarize Simaun’s explanation, it was as follows.
It is not that past religious leaders did not use the power of divine beings.
It did not meet the strict conditions of use.
Accumulating sufficient water energy was only the first condition.
Excluding the oracle bone containing the power of wisdom, the conditions attached to the other two sacred objects were as follows.
1. Must be a practitioner of Heavenly Demon Heart Gong (天魔心功).
2. Must be a suitable candidate.
My eyes lit up at the word “suitable person” that popped up again.
I was finally able to resolve the doubts I had always had.
“Master Ma said that I was a suitable person. “What exactly is that suitable person?”
“Even reporter Cheon couldn’t understand that part clearly. “I only learned of the existence of the suitable person by interpreting the secret words engraved on the bottom of the ritual vessel.”
“······.”
“However, whatever hypothesis he came up with, it was written down in the book.”
“theory?”
“Take a look at the bottom right of the third page of the interpretation sheet I gave you a moment ago.”
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I opened my eyes wide as I scanned the words I had written in haste according to Simaun’s instructions.
There was something written that was truly unexpected.
『Perhaps a suitable person may refer to a person who has inherited the blood of the first religious leader.』
‘I am a descendant of the blood of the first religious leader?’
I thought of my parents, whose faces I can’t even remember anymore, who sold me for a small amount of money to reduce the number of people I had to eat.
It was hard to believe that one of them was a blood relative who continued the lineage of the first religious leader.
The first sect leader, who created the current Demonic Church, and the slash-and-burn people who live in a shabby house barely scraping by.
Anyway, isn’t this a combination that doesn’t really suit you?
‘It’s not that it’s entirely unlikely, but…’
According to records, the first religious leader left no children.
Of course, it meant that it was officially known that way.
Even though he did not have a separate wife, the number of women he took was not small.
He is said to have wandered throughout the central plains and engaged in various eccentricities, and had affairs with various women, both righteous and evil.
It wouldn’t be surprising if one of the dogs was pregnant with his child.
[Should I really call him a suitable person? It hasn’t been long since he reached the absolute level, but he would have already pioneered his own path.]
‘I see.’
If Reporter Cheon’s hypothesis is true, the meaning of Ma’s past remarks could also be understood.
Perhaps this was meant to mean that he had inherited the martial arts skills of the first religious leader?
“It is only a hypothesis, but I think its persuasiveness is quite high. If this speculation is true, we can understand why the new items have remained unused until now.”
I nodded and agreed to Sima Yun’s words.
Basically, the Demonic Church was an organization that was far from a hereditary system.
The motto raised by the Demonic Cult is strong self-respect.
Only those with power could get what they wanted.
The position of a religious leader was no exception.
At least the Demonic Cult I knew was that kind of group.
‘The reason the first Cheonma did not appoint a separate successor was to personally practice the banner of strong self-respect that he had set forth.’
Of course, the second sect leader was not even a distant relative of the first sect leader, let alone his blood relatives.
There was no way it could have met the conditions for using the new product.
The same was true not only for this generation but also for all past religious leaders.
‘No matter how many practitioners of Heavenly Demon’s Heart Gong there are, there are never more than ten in one era.’
The only people who can learn Heavenly Demon Heart Gong are the Demon Cult’s leader and his disciples who have followed the leader’s progress.
What is the likelihood that among that small number of people, there were blood relatives who inherited the blood of the first Heavenly Demon?
Even if it exists, what is the possibility that the subject will win the successor competition, ascend to the position of Sogyoju, and be told the secret of the Three Gods?
It was truly a terrible probability.
The history of the Demonic Cult is not short, but even taking that into account, it was not at all strange for sacred items to remain unused.
“However, it is said that the conditions for use were not particularly strict for sacred items containing the power of wisdom. “It’s not even a one-time thing, it’s something that can be used repeatedly.”
“Do you mean this is a reusable item?”
“That’s right.”
“However, the oracle bone discovered in Muyeongsintu’s nasal cavity had lost all of its strength, leaving only a shell.”
“Just because it can be used repeatedly doesn’t mean it can be used permanently. “I think the reason why Hao Wen-ju only sees fragments of the future regardless of his will is because he has little power left in his body.”
“······.”
“For your information, it is said that those who were granted the power of wisdom through divine objects were the former priestesses of the Demonic Cult.”
As its name suggests, the Demonic Church was an organization with a strong religious flavor in its early days.
Basically, the Majin people were arbitrary and self-centered.
This was the same even for believers who consumed demonic dan (魔丹) and achieved reverse blood circulation.
Although there was only a difference in degree, those who were originally intoxicated had a hard time adapting to the group and conforming to the organizational system.
That’s why the first religious leader thought.
There is a limit to controlling and oppressing demons with force alone.
Another element is needed to maintain the unity of the group until the foundation of power is solidly established.
Religion was adopted as that element.
That is how the existence of a priestess was born.
A member of the demon god revered by all demons.
Although it is a symbolic being, it is a being that was supported by believers because it sometimes showed insight into the future.
‘Was it actually a demonstration of the precognitive ability obtained through divine objects?’
As time passed and the foundation of its power was firmly established, the Demonic Cult gradually shed its religious character.
The existence of a priestess naturally disappeared into the back of history.
‘perhaps.’
The removal of the symbolic being of the priestess may not have been simply to strengthen the authority of the religious leader.
In fact, wasn’t it inevitable that the religious coloring had to be removed as the power of wisdom contained in sacred objects was exhausted?
“According to what Reporter Cheon has figured out, there are two main conditions for using divine objects of wisdom. The first is energy based on the Heavenly Demon Heart Gong.”
“Are you saying that previous priestesses learned the Heavenly Demon Heart Gong?”
“no. My guess is that when the priestess gained the power of wisdom, the religious leader would have been present and flowed energy into her body.”
“understand. “The conditions are definitely simpler than the other two new items.”
[The person who killed Future Day is a man you know well.]
[Are you the leader of the Demon Cult?]
[You’re quick to notice. At the time, I was gathering information about Muyeongsintu’s secret identity and was killed by his hands without even knowing what was going on.]
Now it’s clear.
How did Hao Wenju come to have the power of foresight?
His body, which was killed by the Demon Cult Master, must have been filled with a lot of energy based on the Heavenly Demon Heart Gong.
“And the second condition. In fact, this was the most surprising to me than the things I mentioned earlier.”
“······?”
“The second condition is gender. “Only women can gain the power of wisdom through sacred objects.”
“What does that mean? Then what about Hao Wenju…”
I stopped speaking and just froze.
Sima Yun nodded as if he understood that feeling.
Only women can draw the power of foresight from sacred objects.
And Hao Wen-ju awakened the power of foresight.
It didn’t take long to understand what that meant.
‘uh?’
martial arts,
