Chapter 634: Golden Speed Heavenly King (金迅天王) (3)
"What do you an by that? That we have to defeat Hyeon Mu?"
When I ask in confusion, Kim Young-hoon speaks with goomy eyes.
"That is...hm!"
Just as he's about to explain sothing to us, Kim Young-hoon suddenly glares toward sowhere.
"Hyung-nim...?"
"..."
Glaring sharply into the distance, he spits out his words as if chewing them.
"...She is coming."
"...! Y-You an Hyeon Mu!?"
Reading a portion of Kim Young-hoon's intent, I recoil in shock and ask.
But Kim Young-hoon shakes his head and says,
"Yes, but she is not coming imdiately, so there's no need to worry. Most likely...she's trying to descend her true body inside. Only after descending the true body of the Heavenly Venerable into Mount Suru, will she try to fight , so the battle between us and Hyeon Mu isn't that imminent."
I nod, but then realize that Kim Young-hoon imdiately grasped both Hyeon Mu's presence, who must be unimaginably far away, and her purpose, and a question arises.
"There's sothing I'm curious about, Hyung-nim. Right now, are you—"
"And Seo Eun-hyun."
Just as I'm about to ask whether he has gathered all of Triple Divinity and reached Wuji.
"Do not call Hyung-nim."
"...Huh?"
"Back in our hotown, it was because of the difference in position that we used positions to address each other. And here, it was due to the age difference that you called Hyung-nim."
"Well, yes...isn't that natural? You said you've endured for 1.8 billion years, haha. At that point you're more like a grandfather than just Hyung-nim..."
"It wasn't 1.8 billion."
"Pardon...?"
"It's probably even longer than that. If any of you are in the Earth Immortal system, try reading my history."
"Understood."
Oh Hyun-seok reaches his hand toward Kim Young-hoon.
At the sa ti, he begins reading Kim Young-hoon's history, and after a short while—
His eyes beco dyed in shock.
"Uh, uhhh? One hundred...no, a billion...t-ten billion...!? T-T-Twenty billion!!?"
Oh Hyun-seok's face twists in shock as if his mouth might tear apart, and hearing his words, I also make a face of disbelief.
"T-Twenty billion years!? What in the world is going on!?"
Even Kim Young-hoon seems a little surprised by Oh Hyun-seok's words.
"Oh... T-Twenty billion? Was it that much...?"
"Pardon...?"
"If I were to tell you the process of how I arrived at Suru...I once said that fixing the coordinates of Suru, becoming accustod to swimming through chaos, and systematizing it took 1.8 billion years. And...from that point on, I no longer had the confidence to endure that infinite chaos, so I sealed my consciousness using Triple Divinity. In that state, I had only my spirit body 'set' to move toward Mount Suru like a rigid machine. So, while dreaming a long dream and falling into sleep, I ca close to Mount Suru. It was in that state that you all and the Naming Supre Deity received ."
"I see..."
I now understand why Kim Young-hoon's mind had been sealed using Triple Divinity.
"Twenty billion years is a number even I find a bit surprising, but...anyway, it's in that way that I've returned here to see you all."
"Hmm, in that case..."
Even more confused, I ask,
"Isn't it even more fitting to call you Hyung-nim?"
"Well, it's fine if Oh Hyun-seok or the others call that."
"What? Then..."
"But you don't need to call that."
"...Pardon?"
"Because among us, the one who is the oldest...is you."
At those words, my gazes of my comrades shift toward in confusion.
At the sa ti, I erase all expressions from my face and et Kim Young-hoon's eyes.
"E-Eun-hyun? What does...that an?"
"Ah, I think I get it...but don't try to understand. There must be a reason that guy's saying sothing like that."
Oh Hyun-seok blinks, and Jeon Myeong-hoon chuckles knowingly and stops Oh Hyun-seok.
I calmly look at Kim Young-hoon and speak.
"...Of course, I am sowhat older. But...I've never lived through sothing like twenty billion years like Young-hoon Hyung-nim."
"Twenty billion years...huhut. Seo Eun-hyun. I'm sorry to say this, but...isn't it possible that you've spent a great deal of ti that you don't rember?"
"..."
"There definitely must be. Days that you [cannot rember]...isn't that right?"
"..."
At those words, I gaze at Kim Young-hoon with deep eyes.
Then I speak.
"...You..."
Tap tap—
Kim Young-hoon pats on the shoulder and gives a faint smile.
"I'll explain in detail once everything is over. And...when we return to Earth, I'll make it up to you for blowing up your house last ti. So keep that in mind."
"Pardon...? Hyung-nim blew up Eun-hyun's house? Sothing like that happened? When did that...?"
Oh Hyun-seok scratches his head, and I stare blankly at Kim Young-hoon.
Kim Young-hoon waves his hand.
Pasasasasa—
With just a single gesture, the temporary Seoul and hospital room that Kim Yeon created are sliced at the molecular level and scattered.
At the sa ti, the Naming Supre Deity's guest chamber is revealed.
A massive, cozy space within a nebula, where ordinary True Immortals or divine beings can co and rest.
That is the guest chamber of the Naming Supre Deity.
Passing by everyone, Kim Young-hoon gathers a reasonable amount of dust clouds and sits on them, then speaks.
"First, let say this to everyone. I...have risen to the realm of Heavenly King. This is...a certain point that only us Enders can reach, and the rank of Heavenly King can be said to correspond to the Heavenly Venerable rank among Governing Immortals."
A certain radiance flows from Kim Young-hoon's eyes.
Simultaneously, a certain taenghwa appears, depicting an image of a Buddha with two wings and two arms making an abhayamudra.
That golden Buddha supports a golden divinity shaped like the sun behind its head, and the mont I see it, I imdiately realize that Kim Young-hoon has obtained all of Triple Divinity.
At the sa ti, I see 1004 shadows emanating from Kim Young-hoon.
As I look at those shadows, I can see familiar faces among them.
Yes, the one before my eyes...
Drip...
'Ahhh...'
Tears fall from my eyes.
"When we Enders reach a certain point in our cultivation and realize the principle that pierces through our lives, we all transform (化現) as beings known as the Seven Brilliances Kings."
Starting from the very first, a being ford by the fusion of each Kim Young-hoon from [every cycle].
Yes...
The one who understands my loneliness, my isolation, this vain regression.
It is my first comrade.
Drip...drip...
I cannot put into words the overwhelming emotion and gratitude. Tears stream down my face as I sob uncontrollably.
Yes.
That is what it is.
An Ender who reaches Heavenly King no longer becos influenced by regression.
Overwheld by a flood of gratitude and emotions that shakes my entire being, and unable to co to my senses, I collapse on the spot, gasping.
This single mont of emotion shakes far more intensely than any pain or torture the world has inflicted upon .
Kim Yeon supports and looks at with worried eyes, but upon seeing my intent, she smiles in relief.
Kim Young-hoon looks at briefly, then continues his explanation.
"There are a total of seven types of Seven Brilliances Kings.
"Golden Heavenly King, Red Pearl Heavenly King, Lapis Lazuli Heavenly King, Silver Heavenly King, Tridacna Heavenly King, Agate Heavenly King, and Obsidian Heavenly King. These seven Heavenly Kings have slightly different nas depending on the fate each Ender has realized. A representative example is the Tridacna Vast Cold Heavenly King.
"Previously, it is said that the na used to be almost fixed as Tridacna Love Heavenly King. However, after the appearance of the Vast Cold Heavenly Lord, the Immortal Title [Vast Cold] beca forcibly engraved throughout the entire universe, causing the na of Tridacna Heavenly King itself to beco twisted."
Wo-woooong!
Kim Young-hoon draws his saber.
His saber is dyed in golden light.
Shiiik!
He swings his saber, and a wave of golden saber light brushes past us.
"What I want to say is this. Depending on the 'interpretation' each Ender pushes forward, the titles of the Heavenly Kings change each ti. Of course, they are fixed to so extent, and the essence itself doesn't change since the essence of the seven Heavenly Kings is constant...but one thing is certain."
Within that golden wave, we can feel countless emotions.
Joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love, hatred, desire...
"[Interpretation]. If the Heavenly Venerables govern things like the Underworld, Reincarnation, Ti, and Nothingness...then the Seven Brilliances Kings are Heavenly Venerables that govern the very concept of [interpretation] itself."
"...!"
"The mindset to declare how to interpret all beings of this world, and how to live...that is our unique right and authority."
It sounds almost arrogant and prideful.
But none of us can dare rebuke him as arrogant.
Because the golden wave emitted by Kim Young-hoon is showing us [all possibilities] itself.
And at the sa ti, that golden wave filled with countless possibilities is displaying an [absolute] power that no one can resist.
We all tremble, because we recognize where we've felt this [absoluteness] before.
Fate and history.
It's from the power known as the three great absolute laws of Mount Suru.
"A Heavenly Venerable is one who reaches [the absolute]. And...as I rose to Heavenly King, I realized that what we Enders, Heavenly King designates, gained is...to be precise, what we gained as we beca Enders...cos from this power known as the [third absolute]."
Kugugugugu!
The golden wave that sweeps over us soon takes on a form, and that form is Mount Suru shaped like an inverted cone.
At that mont, the true structure of Mount Suru appears before our eyes.
I can recognize it imdiately, as it matches the structure I have sensed since reaching the realm of Great Net Immortal.
The Mount Suru Kim Young-hoon created takes the shape of an inverted cone.
And inside that inverted cone are countless worlds and living beings, nine universes, and [outside] Mount Suru, the power of eleven mighty presences can be felt.
The structure of Mount Suru created by Kim Young-hoon inverts and normalizes.
At that mont, we co to understand.
We realize the 'positions' of the eleven mighty presences [outside] Mount Suru.
"As you can see, the six Supre Deities all succeeded in leaving Mount Suru, but they are only at the bottom. However...the four Heavenly Venerables are different."
Heavenly Punishnt, Great Mountain, Liberation, Emptiness, Swallowing Heaven, Naming.
The six Supre Deities reside at the base of Mount Suru, the beginning of the mountain, so to speak.
And Underworld, Ti, Void, Sal Tree.
The four Heavenly Venerables...
They are at the midsection of Mount Suru!
There, they encircle Mount Suru like a belt, and devour more of the Radiance emitted from the summit than anyone else.
That radiance is golden.
Among the Heavenly Venerables, Underworld, Ti, and Sal Tree are condensing the golden radiance flowing from the summit.
However, upon closer look, the radiance emitted from the summit actually consists of eight kinds.
Aside from the golden radiance,
There is a pure gold light, subtly different from the golden hue.
A red light like a red pearl.
A blue light like lapis lazuli.
A distant silver light like the galaxy.
A soft pink light, beautiful like tridacna.
A mottled dark-red light like agate.
A pitch-black light like obsidian.
These are the seven types of light.
"Among the four Heavenly Venerables, three—Underworld, Ti, and Sal Tree—are devouring that golden light. But...one of them is different."
He points to soone.
"The Heavenly Venerable of Void, the True Martial Great Emperor Hyeon Mu."
Where he points, among the belts encircling Mount Suru, is a pitch-black band.
"Those seven types of lights, excluding the golden light...are precisely the identity of [our] authority. And..."
The pitch-black band.
It holds the exact sa energy as the Interdinsional Void.
"Only Hyeon Mu, the one called the God of Martial Arts, unlike the other Heavenly Venerables, absorbs [our] authority."
It is so.
Unlike the other Heavenly Venerables, only Hyeon Mu devours the seven lights.
"As long as Hyeon Mu exists, we cannot return ho through the summit of Mount Suru, through the Audience Chamber. Because Hyeon Mu exists as a Heavenly Venerable by feeding on our authority. Ultimately, we are practically caught within Hyeon Mu's attraction force. Therefore...in order to return ho, we must first destroy the bridle that is Hyeon Mu!"
Kim Young-hoon declares as his eyes gleam with golden light.
"The interpretation of my power is speed. Only speed that transcends all things is my true authority. Thus, I interpreted myself as the Golden Speed Heavenly King."
Kugugugu!
The taenghwa that floats behind his back spreads its wings and begins to overlap with Kim Young-hoon.
"As the Golden Speed Heavenly King...I ask you all. I...must go ho. So all of you...please help subjugate Hyeon Mu."
That day, we co face to face with the will to hunt a Heavenly Venerable, one who holds the worst possible compatibility with our very authority.
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