Episode 510 Damcheonwoo (3)
body.
Eyes and nose, mouth and ears, arms and hands, legs and feet, flesh and skin, muscles and bones, etc… … .
The moment when you perceive the world with the five senses that come from a living body, rather than perceiving objects and phenomena trapped in a cold object made of metal.
The man, Dam Cheon-woo, realized that after a long period of patience, he had finally escaped the swamp of death and succeeded in being revived as a new vessel.
As a ‘resurrector’.
also… … .
Excited, Excited… … .
As an ‘ancient deity’.
Excited, Excited───.
Hierarchy of divinity.
Going beyond becoming the subject of a concept through divinity and becoming the subject of the concept itself.
Thus, as a part of the universe and a member of nature, a being that possesses immortality is called an ancient god.
The man had already seen in person the day when a being named Han Seong-yoon, who was comparable to the three ancient gods, first became an ancient god, and engraved it in his memory.
That’s why I realized it with difficulty.
‘Right… … .’
Just like Han Seong-yoon in the past, he is also on the verge of reaching the highest level of being an ancient god.
‘this… … . To become one with the concept of divinity by becoming divinity itself. Are you saying you will be reborn as an ancient god?’
‘Blood (血)’.
The subjective concept of blood, which can be said to be a man’s life itself, goes beyond the level he achieved during his lifetime and goes beyond.
In the past, the concept of divinity of a man who could not even become a formal deity and only died, was now transforming into that of an ancient deity, beyond the formal deity and higher deity.
As time passes, the heartbeat becomes lighter and it becomes clear that we are breaking away from the bondage of the body.
In it, the man let go of his fading consciousness without holding on, and sank deep into unconsciousness with his eyes closed.
Gooooo-!
and.
‘I am… … .’
I thought about it.
‘In the end, what did you hope for and what did you want to see?’
About his old wish that he wanted to achieve even at the cost of his own life.
***
Blood Demon Religion.
An enormous martial force that is not only considered one of the four sects, but is also mentioned along with the right sect’s Murim League and the Heavenly Demon Religion.
Dam Cheon-woo, who was the child of the previous leader of the Blood Demon Church and his concubine, had the weakest power base among the cult’s successors and was also very young.
━That’s wrong. Confucius Cheonwoo… … . This is true. Well, they’re so incompetent, it looks like they won’t even be able to survive the blood system ceremony. Isn’t that right?
━Tsk tsk. That’s true. Confucius Tianwu, I heard that you have just entered martial arts. Isn’t it obvious that even if you train to the point where you live and die, you won’t be able to become even a second-rate warrior? It’s strange that he doesn’t die.
━Tsk tsk. What a pity. Even if he survived, there was a high chance he would be crippled. I was designated as the successor to this church for no reason… … . Too bad.
Heavenly.
fallow year.
Absence of support.
━Hmph. Well, no matter what, you either die or become worse than alive. One of the two is the ending of Confucius Tianyu.
The signpost, formed by numerous adverse conditions, pointed the road to death.
However, despite this, the passage of time was fair to everyone, and the time for resolution had arrived.
Blood system type.
In a life-and-death battle disguised as a military martial arts battle to determine the next leader of the Blood Demon Church, the successors displayed typical Sapa martial arts with a focus on murder.
In the bloody struggle, everyone thought that at least one person would definitely die.
On the day the bloodshed ceremony began, everyone’s expectations were overturned and only one person remained on the stage.
Pop… Pop… Pop… .
The boy, Dam Cheon-woo, looked down at his blood-soaked, red uniform and his hands, which were sticky with someone else’s blood, and muttered calmly.
━It’s boring.
that day.
A total of eighteen successors who had honed their murderous martial arts skills to become the next leader of the Blood Demon God Cult, one of the four sects of the Jungwon martial arts sect, lost their lives.
He was unilaterally defeated and his life taken away by the heir of heaven, whom no one was wary of and no one recognized.
After being designated as the successor to the Blood Demon Church, the boy learned martial arts for the first time, and he also honed his martial arts skills for a period of about two years at most, which is not a very long period of time.
The superiority relationship between them was clear enough to be seen at a glance.
Differences in physical development levels between adults and children are inevitable.
The overwhelming difference between the time and capital spent on learning and honing one’s martial arts skills.
The difference is that growing up alone without a teacher inevitably results in the lack of improvisational experience to respond to the gap between theory and practice.
however… … .
Nevertheless, the boy won over everyone.
Overwhelming talent.
Even if you look at the entire history of the Jungwon Martial Arts, it was truly an exceptional talent of over a thousand thousand people.
It doesn’t matter how long or how hard the turtle crawled on the ground in front of the bird of prey flying in the sky.
same here.
In front of a boy born with over a thousand talents, it didn’t matter how long and diligently other successors had been honing their technical capabilities.
Death.
The eighteen successors, who had focused on honing their murder skills for over a decade, all lost their lives before even having a cup of tea.
The blood ceremony ended in just one day with an unprecedented disaster, and the next leader of the Blood Demon Church was decided through unanimous consent.
━… … I congratulate you. The head of the church, the elders of the church, and other decision-makers of the church unanimously agreed to the succession to the next church leader. Blood Demon Church. The 7th leader is Dam Cheon-woo.
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Damcheonwoo.
It was when he was 14 years old.
Dam Cheon-woo, the 7th blood demon of the Blood Demon Church, began everything in a life made of someone else’s blood.
***
Time passes.
spring Summer Fall Winter.
Flowers bloom, the sun’s heat rises, fleeting abundance and tranquility come and go during the harvest season, and the leaves of trees dry out and cover the ground with snowflakes.
How many times was that repeated?
The flow of time continues without interruption, like a river with no end in sight.
and… … .
The time has come.
“The ‘Tower of Trials’ has selected all suitable candidates in the martial arts dimension.”
“Please select a level of difficulty.”
“The reward increases depending on the difficulty you choose.”
「… … .」
Tower of Trials.
That transcendental structure appeared in the Jungwon martial arts world, and many martial artists were reborn as challengers.
Among them was Dam Cheon-woo, the 7th blood demon of the Blood Demon Church, and using the upheaval as an opportunity, the Jungwon martial arts community was in an uproar.
This is because, beyond the white sword, the black sword, and the magic sword, even the Philbu, who is not related to the powerful, gained strength and returned from the Tower of Trials.
‘strength’.
In front of him, a person suffers from impulses and thirst that can never be quenched and sinks into a swamp of desire.
‘Power’ comes from wealth, ‘strength’ comes from martial arts, and ‘strength’ comes from power.
‘Buoyancy’, ‘powerlessness’, ‘power’.
Whatever it is, overwhelming power itself stimulates the essential and primal desire for life.
Those seeking power entered the Tower of Trials as if possessed by something, and many things changed.
Almost half of the main power structures of the central martial arts group were replaced, and new strong players naturally emerged.
However, despite this, there were many existing strong players who had once again gained strength in the Tower of Trials, and Dam Cheon-woo was also like that.
Luxurious people talk with a sense of joy, worry, and anticipation.
Dam Cheon-woo, the 7th Blood Demon of the Blood Demon Church, is a person who enjoyed fighting to the death while searching for peerless masters even before the Tower of Trials appeared. This time, he may have the power to discuss who is the best in the world at the Tower of Trials and start a great war in Wulin. .
However, contrary to the predictions of the magistrates, Dam Cheon-woo was more interested in the Tower of Trials than in the Jungwon martial arts team, just as most of the existing strongmen refused to return from the Tower of Trials and suddenly disappeared.
It was only one achievement that Dam Cheon-woo and the existing strongmen pursued, even refusing to return from the Tower of Trials.
‘Being strong’.
strength.
Achieving that power by cultivating it to a higher level.
Becoming stronger than anyone else and rising to the top of the food chain with no rivals.
━That’s fun.
Envy of power.
The joy I gain from becoming stronger becomes poison and sows seeds to the deepest part of my heart.
Secretion of neurotransmitters. Within this, the neurotransmitters involved in pleasure engrave that intense memory of pleasure into the learning part of the brain through emotions.
Memory continues to generate impulses through the emotion of pleasure and urges specific actions that lead to pleasure engraved in the learning area.
Since pleasure, the emotion itself, is used as a medium for memory, the retrieval intensity of the corresponding memory is strengthened compared to memories without strong emotions, and the number of retrieval times of that memory also increases proportionally.
At the same time, in the deepest parts of the hearts of those who are absorbed in the joy of becoming stronger, the seeds of poison quietly bloom.
A flower bud named addiction.
If there is a lack of not having it in the envy of power, addiction develops quickly.
This is because an individual’s deficiencies in the pursuit of pleasure or the elements necessary for survival act as huge firewood that is directly connected to the practice of behavior.
so that… … .
━Okay… … . This throne can still become stronger. Well, we can’t stop here.
The Tower of Trials pushes the challenger to the brink of death, then stimulates his survival instinct and continues to fuel his thirst for power.
The most basic operating principle of living things is based on ‘survival’, and it whispers to us to continue to pursue what is necessary for ‘survival’, which is the basis of the genetic design principle of living things.
A reasonable compensation system of high risk and high return.
If this happens again and again and again, the challenger will not be able to stop even when the time comes when he no longer has to risk his life to fight.
This is because the desire for power has been engraved into the deepest part of my mind as a fire mark called addiction.
That’s how hunting dogs are raised.
Suddenly!
“Congratulations, you have surpassed the 10th floor of the Tower of Trials.”
“As a reward for breaking through… … this … … to … … all.”
“As a reward for breaking through… … cast … … all.”
━… … .
Kkwajiik-!
“Congratulations, you have surpassed the 15th floor of the Tower of Trials… … .」
“As a reward for breaking through… … this … … to … … all.”
“As a reward for breaking through… … cast … … all.”
━Hot… … .
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
“Congratulations, you have surpassed the 20th floor of the Tower of Trials… … .」
“As a reward for breaking through… … this … … to … … all.”
“As a reward for breaking through… … cast … … all.”
「… … .」
━Puhahaha!
Pleasure.
Instinct resulting from envy for power rather than reason takes precedence, and the swamp of addiction created by pleasure leads to actions without thought.
The envy of power soon becomes a chain that binds one’s freedom and existence, engulfing one’s spirit and twisting even the direction indicated by life’s milestones.
‘I want to become stronger. I want to reach the end of that power that no one can reach. I want to reach that absolute power.’
‘I would like to know. How strong you are and how weak your opponent is. ‘I want to confirm my superiority as a strong man.’
‘I want to feel it. Who is superior and who is inferior. I want to feel again how valuable it is to become stronger.’
why.
Why should it be like that?
That kind of thing has now turned into a good thing.
From the moment you pursue becoming stronger, learn the meaning of power, and realize its value, the cycle of addiction made up of pleasure rolls endlessly like a treadmill.
Things like Blood Demon Shinkyo or martial arts disappeared from his interests, and he continued to move forward, becoming a pleasure-filled killing machine that only sought to become stronger.
All abilities increase, new skills are gained, and weapons increase one by one each time you advance to the next floor.
‘this… … .’
Laughing comes out automatically.
‘It feels good.’
The hound became a pleasure-filled killer and continued to climb the Tower of Trials, advancing to the next floor.
He was even designated as one of the ‘candidates’ by the Tower of Trials and was able to become even stronger.
Time passed like that.
step… … .
━… …
At some point, he felt an alien emptiness in moving forward.
No matter how strong you become as you climb the Tower of Trials, your thirst for power is never quenched, and only greater impulses urge you to go out on a limb.
Again and again and again.
He achieved victory in a struggle to the death, killed people, killed monsters, and sacrificed his life without any hesitation in seeking power.
He has raised all his abilities, gained new skills, and is now looking beyond the power of a high-dimensional realm called divine power.
In that case, the desire for power still remains.
‘Where is the end of the road?’
Wandering without promise.
It was a journey without a destination.
As a strong man, he just wanders around, trapped in the bondage of pleasure and desire to find his way to power and become stronger than anyone else.
In the end, isn’t there a single being that has reached the end of its power beyond that, and is trapped in the bondage of that pleasure and desire?
‘… … How far do you have to go to reach the end of your power? Why is the desire for power not resolved? why-‘
It’s not even just that.
‘Is it this painful?’
A sense of futility.
In the end, even if you continue your endless wandering in search of a source of strength, you will not be able to reach the destination.
However, despite this, the strong feeling of pleasure engraved in his memory becomes a spell that he can never forget, binding Dam Cheon-woo.
Becoming stronger. Thus reaching beyond. It seemed to whisper that that was the only purpose of life.
Is it just an illusion that it looks like a breeding farm built to raise small animals?
━Haha, ha… …
Dam Cheon-woo smiled helplessly and closed his lifeless eyes.
━This… … Are you really saying that this is the path that I want? … . Something like this… … ? really?
In his skepticism, Dam Cheon-woo thought that everything was meaningless, but it was too late to turn back now.
The thirst for power could no longer be ignored when the pleasure was engraved into a memory deep within.
Pleasure. When you stop pursuing power, pain proportional to the pleasure you have experienced gnaws away at your body and mind, as if in compensation.
can’t stop
‘Is this a curse?’
A land stained with blood.
Standing on top of it, Dam Cheon-woo raised his head, opened his two lifeless eyes, and looked at the sky.
I continued my thoughts as I looked up at the sky where the evening sunset seemed to be stained with blood.
‘Envy of power. If pursuing power and obtaining its fruits is a sin, is this a punishment given to those who gain power? ‘Is it a curse placed on the strong?’
strength.
That is life.
Because life basically has no choice but to pursue desires for survival and for the prosperity of the species as long as it lives.
Pursuing power related to wealth or authority rather than personal force also has no destination, and in the inertia of that desire, someone will inevitably be destroyed.
so.
━Quuk.
Suddenly, Dam Cheon-woo realized how ridiculous his situation was and burst out laughing.
I abandoned the Blood Demon Religion, came out of a small well called Jungwon Murim, and came here in pursuit of power.
If so, it turns out that it was made out of a desire for power, completely regardless of the person’s will.
Even if I realized it later now, it wouldn’t have meant anything, but I thought it wouldn’t have meant anything if I realized it a long time ago.
If life itself is a sin and the bondage of pleasure and desire is punishment, then he was guilty and punished from the moment he was born.
Everyone is like that.
‘It’s amazing.’
He narrowed his eyes and let out a self-mocking laugh.
‘Does this mean that from the moment of gaining life, all living things are reduced to beings that have no free will and are simply dominated by pleasure and pain by the inertia of desire…? … .’
and.
━… … .
In the midst of this, Dam Cheon-woo thought over and over again, and a new wish sprouted in his heart.
Assuming that being born with life is a sin and that the punishment for it is the perpetuation of desire for pleasure and pain, is it also possible to escape from the cycle of such endless cycle?
Is there a way for the strong, who pursue power and continue their endless wandering in hopes of reaching the end, to be relieved of their thirst for power?
I thought, pondered, and answered myself.
‘I do not know.’
There is no way the answer will come easily.
Isn’t the reason why the Tower of Trials chose the bondage of pleasure and desire as the way to raise hunting dogs also because the answer to this question is not easily derived?
It is not possible that, with just a moment’s thought, he could come up with a way to acquire free will from the perpetual bondage of desire.
First, Dam Cheon-woo’s wish to see the end to his thirst for power was an earnest wish without any lies.
That’s why Dam Cheon-woo stepped on the blood-stained ground and went to where he needed to go.
━Then, I guess I should go find the answer.
Thirst for power.
How is the free will of an intelligent being that has gained life proven, and where is the final destination of its life, intelligence, and power?
In order to find out the destination and the answer that exists beyond it, he once again set out on an endless wandering in search of a source of strength.
***
In order to make my wish come true, I looked for people qualified to provide answers.
There are also many religious and spiritual practitioners who pursue Buddhism and Seondo in the Jungwon Murim.
Most of them are far from the qualifications of spiritual practitioners, but a very small number have reached a high level as spiritual practitioners.
The head of Shaolin Temple, Hyeseung, was also like that.
━Tree Amitabha Buddha. It was truly an interesting story, Sir. You said that sentient beings and all living beings cannot prove their freedom and existence by themselves, right? That’s a good question.
Hyeseung, the old monk who was over 200 years old, answered with an empty smile.
━Hehe. In Hinayana’s view, the doctrines of Buddhism seem to be helpful for the suffering suffered by the Lord. In the end, doesn’t the Lord believe that the greed of sentient beings is punishment for the sins of life?
Tong- Tong- Tong-
━’I(我)’. The desires of the world arise because they are not ‘me’ and they want to be ‘me’. In the end, it is you who sees the world.
━Among the oldest doctrines of Buddhism, there is something called ‘selflessness.’ Since the donor is also a martial artist, he must have some vague knowledge about this. It is important to forget ‘me’.
━’My’ things. Something that ‘I’ have to do as I please. When you think like that, desires that cannot be fulfilled come across as the pain of lack. The pain of lack soon degenerates into a more powerful impulse to pursue pleasure.
Hyeseung grinned.
━Again. That’s why I feel afraid of change. As I see things that belong to me also changing, I suffer from loss and the pain of lack. Even though the only truth is that everything changes and the things that do not change change.
━In the end, we need to look at ‘me’ again. Confining ‘me’ in a narrow well degenerates into desire and pain. Smoke (緣起). It is necessary to know the fundamental cause of suffering through deeper acts of perception and to broaden the scope of perception.
━Do not confine ‘me’ in a narrow cage, but look at it broadly. In the end, the meaning of everything is not determined until ‘I’ think and judge. However, anything can have meaning depending on how ‘I’ view it.
Tong- Tong- Tong-
━Isn’t that true? Everything is given meaning through my thoughts and judgment, creating possibilities. Until someone gave them meaning, the sun, the sea, mountains, and rivers did not have a fixed or static meaning. That’s why I say, don’t confine ‘me’ in a narrow cage.
━Confining awareness within the narrow conceptual category of ‘I’ causes wrong desires and pain. It is beneficial to see everything as something that can change and become anything rather than something that is static.
━So. Empty. Rebirth is about finally finding a vessel of possibility that can contain anything. In Hinayana thinking, this would lead to free will for sentient beings.
Hyeseung spoke with a strange smile, with her narrow, narrow eyes slightly open.
━How did you get the answer?
The man, Dam Cheon-woo, heard those words, stayed still for a moment, stood up, and answered.
━No. That could also be another answer. However, this is not the case for me.
━Tree Amitabha Buddha. I see. Still, I hope this was of some help to the donor.
Time passes again.
The journey continued again without a destination and I found another answerer.
I met Jang Mun-in and Gyo-yeom at the sacred site of Taoism, where the Jinjeon Bridge, Hwasan School, and Jongnam School are rooted.
━Ahaha! This is true. When I asked why the blood cult leader had come to visit me, he told me a very interesting story. You have an unusually cute side. Hehehe.
━Let me tell you. If you add any more unnecessary words, I will interpret your words as a request to personally kill you.
━… … .
━Let’s just talk.
Unlike Hye-seung, Gyo-yeom was a woman who did not seem mysterious at all on the outside, but as soon as we started talking, we could see that this was not the case.
