Return to the Immortal’s Tale (回歸修仙傳) Episode 374
At sea (2)
“10,000 years later…!”
I took a deep breath.
Although ten thousand years may seem like a long time, for monks of the Sachuk period or higher, ten thousand years was not such a long time.
“Huh, why is the apocalypse happening?”
“Hmm, I don’t know the details… but from what I’ve heard, when the gravity of the universe reaches its peak, the constellation will contract and the end will occur.”
“yes?”
“The Holy Spirit called it the Great Collapse or the Great Collapse. My nickname and technique also originated from there.”
According to Jang Ik, the celestial realm we are in seems to be constantly expanding, but at some point it begins to contract, and eventually returns to a single point in the beginning.
“I don’t know the exact reason why this happens. And from what I know, even if the Great Sea occurs, the Junggye Realm will never be destroyed.”
“Are you saying that the Middle Realm will not be destroyed?”
“Yes. However, according to what the Holy One said, when the Great Sea arises and reaches the end, the Middle Realm will be fine, but this heavenly realm will be filled with intense heat and light, and no living being can survive. Everyone will become the light of the beginning and disappear. Unless you are of the highest level, you will die without being able to put up any resistance. Even the Holy Ones who have become one with the Middle Realm will be destroyed or endure depending on luck, so it is truly a terrifying thing.”
I shuddered at the horrible truth.
‘So, does that mean we have to grow enough to survive the apocalypse within 10,000 years?’
But I didn’t know if I would reach puberty even after ten thousand years.
“… I understand about the end. Then, I have one last question.”
“Okay. Ask me.”
“I know that to get to the next level, I have to let go of everything.”
“That’s right. Hoo, maybe you’ve found a clue to the next step?”
“No, I picked it up.”
“That’s also a skill. Well… that’s right. If you want to enter the same realm as me, you’ll have to quit.”
I asked with a serious look in my eyes.
“How do I quit?”
Jang-ik saw my thoughts and seemed to understand what I was trying to say.
“I see. Is this why you can’t quit?”
“Yes. In fact, this is the reason why I wanted to send a clone to the Brain Sea where the Venerable Ones are, passing through the middle zones of the high-powered world.”
I revealed my true feelings without hesitation.
“I came here to ask if there is an external method that can reach that state without cutting off everything. Or if it is a state that can be reached only by cutting off everything.”
“Hmm….”
Jang-ik said, stroking his chin.
“First, let me tell you the difference between a typical slaughterer and mine. Those guys are the ones whose affinity and emotions became useless after they ‘climbed to the slaughterer.’ On the other hand, I had to get rid of those things in order to reach this realm.”
I’ve been pondering the difference between the two.
‘When you’re promoted to the next level, it doesn’t matter if you have feelings or affinity, but once you reach that level, they naturally disappear. Does this state beyond the left-handed entrance mean that you have to completely cut off all feelings and affinity when you pass?’
But I felt strange and asked a question.
“But, Master Hamcheon… don’t you have feelings?”
“How do you know I have feelings or not? Are you saying you can read my thoughts just now?”
He chuckled and took out the golden apple he had thrown into the bonfire and took a bite.
Wow-
For some reason, even though it was supposed to be an apple, the apple was oozing meat juice instead of juice.
The apple topic had a protein smell to it.
Jang-ik met my eyes as he greedily bit into something that was either an apple or meat.
His mouth moved greedily, but his eyes were cold and empty.
Certainly, I found it very difficult to read Zhang Yi’s thoughts.
His ideas seemed so vain, so vague, and so questionable as to whether they even existed.
Perhaps, from the perspective of those who have reached the level of Samhwachwijeong or higher, Jang-ik was not a living being, but an elaborate meat doll.
Choaaaak!
It was after I had locked eyes with him for a while.
For a moment, I felt like I was sucked into his empty eyes.
When I came to, I was in space where all the stars were shining green.
Jang-ik’s pressure caused him to hallucinate.
Kuguguguk-
I felt like my mind was going to break.
I looked up with a creepy feeling, and saw a green nebula with Zhangyi’s face looking down at me.
‘This is… the size of the spirit possessed by Hamcheonjonja… .’
It wasn’t just about the size of the new model.
The very meaning he had been pushing for his entire life was something that was that huge.
‘Are you going to… cook my brain like this…?’
I couldn’t come to my senses under that pressure.
But, I knew.
Jang-ik has feelings!
And he also cherishes relationships!
“I heard that from someone a while ago.”
I opened my mouth without yielding to his pressure.
“I heard someone mocking me for saying that the mind is nothing more than a metallic function, and when I told him that mockery, he said,
Jang-ik’s response to Seo-hyul’s words mocking Gyu-ryeon’s heart.
“If the mind is iron, then in the monks’ classification, gold corresponds to dryness, so the mind is like the sky, something that never disappears.”
I shouted out the words of Jang-ik from my previous life in front of Jang-ik from this life.
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“Isn’t that right, Venerable One? Isn’t it true that the human mind can never be destroyed?”
As I was reprimanded and my consciousness was refined, I had already come back from the pressure of Jang-ik and was back in front of the campfire.
“This is… an object.”
Jang-ik looked at me, folded his arms, and smiled.
“That’s right. Emotions can never be eliminated. That’s why even the Venerables have emotions, greed, fear, and so on. I said that other Venerables also lost their karma and emotions, but in reality, they didn’t really disappear. It’s just that there’s a difference in perspective…”
“…! Then, is it possible that the way to reach the next level is not to truly abandon the mind, but to properly acknowledge and refine the mind and emotions!?”
“Huh… No?”
He bit into the golden apple as if to ask what was going on.
“You have to get rid of what can’t be gotten rid of. Do you understand? In order to get here, you have to do that.”
“Then how do we get rid of it?”
“I told you. I can’t get rid of it.”
He laughed and muttered something unintelligible.
“You must be able to eliminate what you cannot eliminate in order to enter here. So how do you eliminate what you cannot eliminate? Finding that will be your way of cultivation in the future.”
“… … .”
“Strictly speaking, I have accepted you as my disciple, but there is not much I can teach you. As someone who has gone before, I can only give you advice. Each and every one of our Sim clan members is different.”
He said, pointing somewhere.
“When you entered the brainwashing zone, you must have landed in an area where you couldn’t even use the prayer ritual. Isn’t that right?”
“That’s right.”
“How did it come out?”
“I raised the Sword of Heavenly Sword to the level of Ming and cut through the space.”
“When I first got there, I stimulated my body to increase my detection range, pulled in the energy outside of that space, and broke the space and escaped. In this way, you and I have different methods for leaving just one place. I could just recite my enlightenment, but that would not suit you or help you.”
Sling-
Jang Ik said, getting up from his seat.
“So, even among my disciples who are my disciples, there are none who can truly be my successors, even if I have helped them. All I can do is assign training tasks that seem to suit them well.”
I listened to him with a serious expression.
“Then I will now assign you a training task. This is your first training task.”
He said with a grin.
“Go outside the Thunder Sea and bring me a star. You can use your powers from the Celestials and the Earthlings, or use the Dharma treasures, or even the help of others. Use whatever means necessary to destroy a star. Oh, by the way, I mean a star where no life exists. Don’t invade a planet for no reason and destroy its civilization.”
Boohoo!
He swung his sword, and Jang-ik’s sword became a ray of light that pierced my soul and became embedded in my mind.
Kwak!
As before, on one side of my sword is the long-winged sword.
Pfft!
As Jang-ik swung his arms, I was pushed far away from the campfire and passed through countless times and spaces.
Choaaaak!
Countless sights passed by me, and before I knew it, I had arrived in a constellation illuminated by countless stars.
Kookookookookook!
And, in front of me.
Where I came out, there was a huge dimensional sea surrounded by a dimensional curtain.
‘Those are the remains of Yang Su-jin.’
The buhae system was in the shape of a giant ring finger, each joint almost as large as the Earth.
Judging from the shape, it seemed to be the left ring finger.
‘Is Yang Su-jin’s gift a ring?’
On the left ring finger, there was a circular indentation on the inside of the finger. It was a mark where a ring had been worn.
It also seemed like it had been on for quite some time.
That little finger called the Brain Sea was said to be the entrance to the space where his vision was, so I thought that if I went through the Brain Sea and reached another space, I would be able to find a giant ring.
‘I’d rather have a star than that…’
Contrary to what I thought Jang-ik would do, it seemed like a training method where he would just give assignments and not touch them too much.
‘It’s a star… .’
I remembered Jang-ik splitting the planet in half.
‘With my current power… even if I mobilize the Samtaegeuk, I could probably destroy the continents on the planet’s surface and cause a crack in the planet…’
That was my limit.
It was also a limitation of the general combined machine unit.
‘If I raise all of the practices of the Left-handed Man and the Heavenly and Earthly Tribe to the level of the Great Perfect Man of the Unified Period… and borrow the power of the Dharma Treasure and the power of the formation… .’
It seemed like things would work out somehow.
I thought I knew what Jang-ik was talking about.
‘Are you telling me to first raise my performance to the highest level possible?’
Although in the early stages of the Left-Left Entrance, I was imitating the combined body and consciousness of the Heavenly and Earthly Tribe, but in reality, my realm is that of the Four-Legged Tribe.
‘Okay, good. Let’s go back and raise our level as much as possible before coming back.’
With that determination, I went to find my descendant, Hamjin.
Woohoo!
Since I originally came to Seonggye through Hamjin, Hamjin and I were connected, so it wasn’t difficult to find him.
Phew!
Ham Jin fell to a planet where nearby life forms could survive.
The guy is on one side of the Star Continent.
He established a primitive tribal state there, became the chief of the tribal state, and worked hard to ensure the prosperity of his descendants.
“…Ham Jin.”
“Gasp, gasp, gasp… Huh!”
The guy sensed my presence and came out of his stone hut to greet me.
“Oh, Mugeuk Gwi-wang! Have you come? I have been spreading the doctrines of the Mugeuk Gyo-dan here for your sake! I have also distributed the Mugeuk Gwi-wang Je Sa-sa, the ritual for offering sacrifices to Mugeuk Gwi-wang!”
“… Phew, okay. Good job. Thanks to you, it’ll be a little easier when I come back. Let’s go now.”
“Oh… I actually have 13 wives here, but I have only been able to give love to 3 of them, so can’t I give love to them all equally…?”
I burst out laughing in disbelief and then said:
“Come back later when you reach the cattle ranch.”
“Oh. Okay. Then let’s say goodbye to our wives a little bit…”
After calling the chiefs and saying something, the guy received bows from dozens of chiefs and their wives, and received a bunch of gifts including the star’s spirit stone, special products, and strange items before flying to me.
Somehow he looked a little gloomy.
“… No one is stopping me. Everyone says I’m so good, so they greet me with open arms and even bow to me as they send me off… They’re going too far. My hometown is really good. I want to go back to my hometown and see my wives again.”
“… It’s noisy. Let’s go.”
I entered Ham Jin’s body.
“That Jang-ik guy told me that the star that has the high-power transmission line is that star.”
“okay.”
I moved my force and landed on a star with a high-energy mid-zone.
‘It was said that all worlds with a middle ground are on the bodies of true people.’
That is, it meant that this was a separate truth.
‘And… the world where Ham Jin exists is also a true person disguised as a world of wealth.’
I was curious as to how the world was in perfect condition despite the fight between the mortals, but it seemed that there was no problem because it was the body of a true person.
‘Jang-ik told Ham-jin the location of the high-powered middle zone, so he must have told me to use it. And if he told me to use it, it must mean that the true man who was reaching out to catch us has fallen asleep again.’
That meant there was no problem going back.
Woohoo!
I began to cross countless spaces and times again with Ham Jin.
