How did it co to this?
"Deputy Seo, do you see that? My goodness, there's a fireball floating through the sky!"
Im sitting on the deck, looking at Kim Yeon, who is chattering away beside .
After receiving the order from Azure Tiger Saint,
I am currently on a Flying Ship from Azure Cold Island, headed towards the entrance of the Devil Realm with Kim Yeon.
The Devil Realm
I had heard about it.
According to what Ive heard, there was a great war 40,000 years ago called the Bright-Devil Great War, between the Bright Cold Realm and the True Devil Realm.
In the Bright-Devil Great War, the True Devil Realm was defeated by the Bright Cold Realm, and afterwards, it was said that the True Devil Realm had to cede so of its territories as colonies to various races of the Bright Cold Realm.
It was said that these races from the Bright Cold Realm would bring resources from these colonies in the Devil Realm to cultivate devilish arts for their cultivators.
Especially, the Human Race would buy devils from the Devil Realm as slaves and grind them into a pill called Devil Origin Pill, which was sought after by many races not only for reaching the Nascent Soul stage but also for cultivating in the Nascent Soul stage itself.
However, the Human Race, which made the pills, only provided a little rear support during the Bright-Devil Great War and could not get a share of the colonies when they were distributed. As a result, it seed that the Human Race Grand Alliance decided to use the previous incident as an excuse to invade the Devil Realm and create colonies.
...Is participating the right thing to do?
Even though the reason is to protect Yeon, I feel uneasy.
"Deputy Seo? Deputy Seo?"
While Im contemplating, Kim Yeon ca in front of and asked.
"Ah, what did you say?"
"Oh, I was just saying how astonishing the scenery is, but you were spacing out, so I wondered if you felt sick..."
"I'm not sick, just had sothing on my mind..."
"I see. Actually, I heard it from Chief Oh."
Kim Yeon brushes her hair back with a bitter expression.
"Youve... lost your mory?"
"...Yeah, I only rember bits and pieces, barely anything concrete."
"Hmm..."
She sits down next to , and together we look at the majestic landscapes of the Bright Cold Realm passing by.
"Deputy, no, Eun-hyun Oppa."
"Hm?"
"Ive talked about it with Chief Hyun-seok, but how about this?"
Kim Yeon looks at and begins to speak.
"Well tell you about what happened at the company, the things we rember about you, Eun-hyun Oppa."
"Ah..."
"Not that I know everything about Oppa, but I can tell you about my mories of you."
"...Before that."
I ask her, feeling a bit embarrassed.
"...First, can you explain to which world we ca from?"
"Ah..."
And then, her explanation continued.
Ah, I see.
So, I was born in such a country.
I absorbed the history of our country and the world history that Kim Yeon explained to into my mind.
Earth. So, I co from such a planet.
"...To us, who co from Earth, this world seems a bit... nonsensical. Sothing about the world being flat and all that... And that's not to ntion the complete lack of proper human rights..."
"It seems our holand did have sothing called human rights."
"Ah... well, not the entire Earth, but the country we lived in was more or less like that. At least it wasn't a place where people openly turned humans into puppets or where monsters that eat people existed."
She caresses her arm.
Her arm, which had been modified, reverted back to its original flesh and blood state.
She removed the puppet arm and regrew it.
Though she was dumbfounded by this absurd treatnt, her arm regenerated a few days ago.
"Well... that's roughly the history of our world and our country. Do you rember any of it?"
"Um, I don't really rember much, sorry."
"That's okay. Anyway, can I explain about you, Eun-hyun Oppa?"
"Sure."
She begins to slowly describe '.'
A person who supported her as a senior, who almost unconditionally helped with difficult tasks, who would patiently revise all the docunts she ssed up without showing a hint of annoyance.
A person who, despite occasionally being scolded by superiors, never passed that frustration onto his subordinates.
Soone who might seem foolish at tis, but nonetheless stubbornly and reliably completed his assigned tasks.
A person who liked quince flowers among flowers, and kimbap among foods.
This person, that person, such a person....
'That was ?'
Her descriptions leaned heavily towards positive aspects.
It seed that her fondness for had sohow made all the negative impressions fly away.
In any case, thanks to her, I was able to get a rough idea of what kind of person 'I' was.
'So, the Seo Eun-hyun before regression was that kind of person.'
Sadly, nothing more cos to mind.
No mories surfaced.
As if the pieces of mory themselves had been torn away.
For several days, she stayed by my side, telling about the tis before we ca to this world, and Oh Hyun-seok also joined in to share his mories of ''.
Thus, as we flew on the ship, we spent days talking about what kind of person 'I' had been.
[The Flying Ship from Azure Cold Island has arrived at the entrance to the Devil Realm. Everyone, please disembark.]
The voice of the Flying Ship's captain echoed throughout the ship.
"Wow... it feels like it's been almost a month since we last touched land."
"Indeed."
Oh Hyeun-seok and Kim Yeon spoke as they stepped onto land.
I too savor the feel of the earth under my feet for the first ti in a while as I look around.
"This is... the entrance to the Devil Realm."
Whooooosh....
A black fog-like substance is swirling in the wind, coming towards us.
Wriggle, wriggle....
Reddish tendrils are creating a massive crack in the air, maintaining a gap in space.
It looks like the tendrils themselves are interfering with the space to create a hole.
The hole created by the tendrils is wide enough to be about five li in radius, with thick black fog-like substances densely packed beyond it.
"It's called the Devouring Space Grass, lent to us by the Blood Shark Race. It's one of the Blood Shark Race's treasures capable of creating holes in the void to pierce through dinsions."
As we are gazing dumbfoundedly at the gigantic tendrils, a man in a black robe approaches us.
"I thank you for sending reinforcents from Azure Cold Island to the Devil Realm expedition force.
The man in the black robe looks around at us and the people who just disembarked behind.
From Azure Heaven Creation Sect, 202 disciples besides , Oh Hyun-seok and Kim Yeon.
From other sects on Azure Cold Island, a total of 1024 disciples were sent, making a total of 1229 people sent by Azure Cold Island to the Devil Realm expedition force.
"The representative sect of Azure Cold Island was... West Spirit Gate, was it?"
"It has changed to Azure Heaven Creation Sect."
"Ah, when I visited 200 years ago, it was West Spirit Gate. It seems it has changed since then. Well, anyway, glad you could co. I am Hyeon Woon, the Chief Advisor of the expedition force. I co from the Mystical Scaled Fish Commanding Sect of Black Scale Island. I'm looking forward to working with you."
"Pleased to et you. I am Oh Hyun-seok, direct disciple of the founder of Azure Heaven Creation Sect, the representative sect of Azure Cold Island.
"Likewise. I am Seo Eun-hyun, also a direct disciple."
We each greet Hyeon Woon, who then informs us of where we will be going.
"First, inside that spatial rift you see in front of you. That pitch-black fog is protecting the dinsional barrier of the True Devil Realm. Our mission is to break through the barrier protecting the True Devil Realm, enter the interior of the True Devil Realm, and erode its inner regions with the spiritual energy of the Bright Cold Realm."
Wo-woong!
Hyeon Woon shows us a brightly shining golden jade orb.
"With this Vast Cold Jade, go to the Devil Realm, find the devil veins, plant the Vast Cold Jade, and deploy the formation. Gradually, the Vast Cold Jade will contaminate the devil veins with spiritual energy, converting them. The places where the Vast Cold Jade is buried will soon be transford into areas where the spiritual energy of the Bright Cold Realm flows, just like our realm. Our main mission is to gradually erode the True Devil Realm, creating regions for the follow-up teams to operate."
"I see..."
Wo-woong!
I nod as I look at the brightly shining golden jade orb.
The golden jade orb illuminates brilliantly, stabilizing the surrounding spiritual energy and slowly enhances cultivation just by looking at it.
Such a trendous treasure.
Of course, the cultivation enhancent effect seems to only work on soone at the Core Formation stage like , and not much on those Nascent Soul stage and above..
"For now, until all the other expedition teams arrive, everyone should stand on the formation in front of the dinsional barrier and work on breaking through the dinsional barrier. There's nothing special to it, just stand on the formation, supply it with spiritual power, and the formation will do the rest."
"Yes, thank you for the explanation."
We listen to Hyeon Woon's explanation and climb onto the respective parts of the formation in front of the dinsional rift.
Well, since it'll be several months before the dinsional barrier is breached and the expedition starts, I should recover the cultivation that fell to the late stage of Core Formation.
During my escape from the Mad Lord, I used my cultivation foundation to power the Flying Escape Technique, causing my cultivation to drop a level.
My cultivation had reached the stage of Grand Perfection of Core Formation but had fallen to the late stage, so its a good opportunity to recover it.
As I stand on the formation, supplying a bit of spiritual power and absorbing the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy through my cultivation thods, soone approaches .
"Ah, are you a disciple of the Azure Heaven Creation Sect?"
"Hm?"
Soone seems to recognize .
Hes a young boy wearing a golden robe, with his left hair white and his right hair black, a peculiar hairstyle.
"Do you know who I am?"
"Ah, not personally... I am a disciple of the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect. I've volunteered for this Devil Realm expedition. I heard that the Azure Heaven Creation Sect is also from the sa Head Realm."
From his words, it seed he wasn't directly ascended from the Head Realm but rather a newly recruited disciple from where the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect is based.
"...I just wanted to say let's get along as fellow Core Formation cultivators...."
"...Well, there's no harm in being friendly. My na is Seo Eun-hyun."
"Ah, so its Cultivator Seo. I am Yeon Jin (Abyssal Quake). You can just call Yeon whatever you want."
As I start talking to Yeon Jin, I suddenly rember sothing.
"Does your sect, by any chance, have soone nad Jeon Myeong-hoon?"
"Ah! Are you talking about the direct disciple of the Supre Sect Master? Yes, Senior Brother Jeon is quite famous in our sect. He has mastered all the techniques of our Founding Ancestor and is already looking beyond the Nascent Soul stage.
Ha ha, Senior Brother Jeon is truly amazing. All the elders in our sect are praising him, saying that in another 100 to 200 years, perhaps there will be another Integration stage cultivator in the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect. He's an unparalleled talent compared to soone like ."
Yeon Jin seems to admire Jeon Myeong-hoon, his eyes sparkling.
"...If I may ask, how old are you, Cultivator Yeon?"
"Ah! I am already ninety this year."
"Ninety... You're young. Reaching the mid-stage of Core Formation at that age ans you're quite talented, why are you so disheartened?"
"Ha ha, talented..."
Yeon Jin looks at the ground with a bitter gaze.
"In the Bright Cold Realm, reaching the Qi Building stage is sothing anyone can achieve with a certain age, and anyone with a bit of enlightennt can reach the Core Formation stage as well. But that's as far as it goes. From the Nascent Soul stage onwards, it's a domain of absolute talent. Those without talent cannot reach it even if they use up all the lifespan gained from the Core Formation stage."
"..."
"I was fortunate to enter the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect and reach the mid-stage of Core Formation from the Qi Building stage. But, it seems that might be my limit. No matter how many elixirs I consu or how much I seclude myself for cultivation, the progress of my cultivation is slow, and I doubt whether I can reach the Grand Perfection of Core Formation in this lifeti."
He speaks with a bittersweet smile, looking at .
"It seems you've achieved a high level of cultivation in the late stage of Core Formation, Cultivator Seo. Reaching the Nascent Soul stage in this lifeti shouldn't be difficult for you. I'm truly envious..."
"...Well, you know..."
It took more than 2,000 years to reach this point.
But I don't bother to ntion that and instead offer Yeon Jin so encouragent.
"I may look younger than I am, but regardless, grinding your teeth and persisting in cultivation will not betray you. Cultivator Yeon Jin, you ntioned you are 90 years old, but reaching the mid-stage of Core Formation before 100 is indeed a sign of blessed talent. Don't be too disheartened, and it will be good to continue your diligent practice."
Touched by my words, Yeon Jin looks at with moved intent.
"Thank you, Cultivator Seo! Hearing those words, sohow, I feel energized!"
"Haha, I'm glad to be of help."
As we exchanged so encouraging words, I continued to practice my cultivation thods slowly.
As a result, I was able to regain the level of Grand Perfection of Core Formation within a month.
"No, Cultivator Seo... to reach the Grand Perfection of Core Formation in just one month, how on earth..."
"Well, this is..."
Of course, I had a bit of trouble clearing up Yeon Jin's misunderstanding.
Anyway, I've reached the pinnacle of Core Formation and have gained enough enlightennt over 2,000 years.
The Devil Realm expedition force hasn't fully assembled yet, and the formation to breach the dinsional barrier hasn't been completed, so there's still ti before we depart.
With plenty of ti and being above the formation for breaching the Devil Realm barrier, it's relatively safe with the surroundings being guarded.
I decide to take this opportunity to aim for the Nascent Soul stage.
I've lived for 2,000 years and have gradually grasped an understanding of planes with the Formless Sword.
Enlightennt isn't sothing to be underestimated.
So... before we depart for the Devil Realm, shall I attain Nascent Soul?
Sitting on the formation, I settle my energy and close my eyes.
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