Jang Dal is a figure who achieved a rise in status through demonic arts, ultimately reaching the rank of a Demon God.
At the sa ti, he is a cowardly coward who, fearing the martial arts of the orthodox faction, closed off all martial arts leading to the transcendental state.
Seol-Hwi was clearly aware of that.
Therefore, he was not afraid at all in front of the gate created by Jang Dal.
He had ascended to a Demon God after experiencing the tedious process of trying to impose restrictions using the system.
Thus, he was confident in overcoming whatever restrictions he might impose.
“That’s what brainwashed mories are like. It only makes sense if I’m a being who uses heinous demonic arts.”
However, the reaction from Earth Demon due to the Justice Faction martial arts was purely coincidental.
In Earth Demon’s mory, Seol-Hwi was only a user of demonic arts.
Neither he nor Jang Dal could have predicted Seol-Hwi displaying orthodox martial arts.
“Then the mories in my head are really…”
Earth Demon’s voice wavered.
“I told you. They were fabricated. You are a person who shouldn’t exist in the first place.”
“A person who shouldn’t exist?”
Seol-Hwi’s response was cold and firm.
At such an attitude, Earth Demon showed an overtly flustered expression.
Seeing him react now to words he had previously ignored, it seed the situation had beco too complicated to dismiss any longer.
Seol-Hwi continued, eting Earth Demon’s eyes directly.
“Yes. And there is soone who brainwashed you with false mories. Soone who manipulates the world as they please and traps people in the system. And when you disappear, he is the one who will appear before my eyes.”
“…Who is he?”
“Jang Dal. The one who possesses absolute power in this world.”
Earth Demon remained silent for a mont.
His expression still appeared calm, but deep within his eyes, complex thoughts seed to be swirling.
“My emotions are becoming unstable.”
Seol-Hwi sensed a subtle stirring of energy around Earth Demon.
Thus, he instinctively knew that what Earth Demon needed now was not just simple truth, but sothing to quell his inner turmoil.
“I, I am…”
“Earth Demon. I have seen you in the past.”
Earth Demon’s gaze fixed on Seol-Hwi. His face showed a mix of complex emotions, but most prominently, intense curiosity.
“Back then, you were twenty years old. You were delaying the manifestation of your constitution with potent spiritual pills. Would you like to hear more?” ᚱ𝐚ꞐőВΕꞩ
At Seol-Hwi’s words, Earth Demon nodded.
“The you I t then chose to conform rather than resist. Upon entering the cult as a disciple, you must have realized that the power struggle among the disciples was maintained by your Heavenly Killing Star.”
Seol-Hwi unraveled mories from the past one by one.
Earth Demon still didn’t drop his doubtful gaze but clearly listened intently at tis.
Especially when it ca to stories about his subordinates, he seed to focus even more.
“Your goal wasn’t to win the successor battle. You simply wished for everything to end without major uproar and to leave quietly.”
As Seol-Hwi explained Earth Demon’s past thoughts and aspirations, a peculiar light appeared in his eyes.
With a look that seed to understand yet not fully grasp.
“Whether you believe it or not, that was your choice. I’m rely sharing what I know as soone who had the deepest connection with you.”
“Deep connection…”
Earth Demon mumbled as if chewing over those words. After a mont of thought, he looked at Seol-Hwi and asked.
“Why did I consider you close?”
“Well, maybe because I catered to your whims better than others?”
“…Heh.”
A small smile spread across his lips. He seed to catch on to Seol-Hwi’s joke.
anwhile, Seol-Hwi briefly glanced around.
A completely enclosed space, and the gateway before them. It felt sowhat unnatural to be saying this to this virtual Earth Demon created by the system.
Nevertheless, Seol-Hwi continued to speak.
“You never told the reason directly. Now that I think about it, I recall sothing soone in a similar situation to you said.”
“…?”
“They said it seed romantic. Watching carve out an impossible life, they said such things.”
Earth Demon’s eyebrows slightly raised. He listened intently to Seol-Hwi.
“Perhaps, like that person said, to soone like you who lived in conformity, I might have seed a bit special.”
Earth Demon fell into a deep silence at those words.
Perhaps it was an unexpected answer, as the playful smile disappeared from his face.
After being lost in thought for a while, he suddenly burst into loud laughter.
“Ha ha ha ha!”
Earth Demon’s laughter echoed through the space.
Whether that laughter was in agreent or disagreent was unclear, but it seed to reveal his confused inner self.
Earth Demon spoke.
“Yeah. I might not have chosen power, after all. The reason I ca to the Demon Sect in the first place was…”
“You said you were abandoned by Wudang Sect.”
Suddenly, Earth Demon’s eyes widened.
He appeared surprised to realize that the other person knew about such a part of his past.
‘As expected. Jang Dal didn’t change the detailed mories.’
All Jang Dal did was implant new mories into Earth Demon.
Earth Demon still retained his past mories.
Thinking about it, that made sense too.
To have the characteristics of the Fourth Disciple and the Heavenly Killing Star, the previous mories had to remain untouched.
“No wonder, the more we talked, the stranger it felt…….”
The look in Earth Demon’s eyes had changed from before.
The mories of considering him a villain, the perception of Seol-Hwi as a being trying to destroy the world, were being shaken.
Perhaps that’s why he asked first this ti.
“What was I doing there?”
As he began to think, he started to recall his own mories.
As if trying to compare his own mories with the Seol-Hwi in front of him, he was asking about the ‘past Earth Demon.’
“You resisted silently. Waiting for the right mont might be a more fitting expression. I think you t around that ti.”
“…….”
“That’s when the changes began. At tis you had bold goals, sotis you held your breath. Occasionally, you even drew your sword against your fellow disciples.”
Earth Demon’s eyes widened.
“Occasionally?”
“Yes. I t you several tis, and each ti the situation was different. Ah, I almost forgot to ntion this.”
As Earth Demon’s expression turned confused, Seol-Hwi continued.
“For your information, I am a person who has returned countless tis. And the turning points of my returns were centered around you. That’s why I was able to et you each ti.”
“What……?!”
A surprised exclamation burst from Earth Demon’s mouth.
His eyes widened in disbelief, and his body montarily froze.
Seol-Hwi’s words seed to completely shake his perception of reality.
“…….”
“…….”
Silence enveloped the two. Only Earth Demon’s heavy breathing filled the quiet space.
Then a smile slowly spread across his face.
“At least I can admit that you’re as complex of a being as I am.”
Earth Demon slowly lifted his head to look at Seol-Hwi.
In his eyes now lay a new determination.
Earth Demon closed his eyes briefly and then opened them again to speak.
“So, what do you plan to do next? It seems like you’re fighting against the being who made us this way… Do you think you have a chance?”
Earth Demon’s voice carried weight. His gaze was now imbued with seriousness, unlike before.
He seed to have started accepting so part of Seol-Hwi’s words.
Seol-Hwi blinked as if pondering for a mont, then answered.
“We’ll only know by trying.”
“What happens if you kill him?”
“I’ll beco a true god.”
“What happens when you beco a god?”
“I’ll be able to wield absolute power. If I’m lucky, I might gain a few abilities.”
“Is that all?”
“Yes, that’s all there is.”
Seol-Hwi’s tone was nonchalant, but a deeper intention was hidden within him.
From the choices first proposed by the Siming Star, he chose to fight him.
It was only later that he realized how desperately he needed his abilities.
The true reason Seol-Hwi ca here.
It wasn’t simply for victory, but for the acquisition of power.
“A god, truly a complex world.”
Earth Demon muttered.
A mont of silence passed, and he spoke again.
“Is there a way to win this? You can’t even stop my current power, can you?”
“Well…”
When Seol-Hwi hesitated, Earth Demon asked again.
“Then why did you co here? If you didn’t co because you had a chance of winning?”
“I originally had enough power to defeat you. But coming here imposed restrictions.”
“What kind of restrictions?”
“I can’t regress like before, and I can’t use my previous power.”
“…I see.”
As Earth Demon nodded, Seol-Hwi’s gaze deepened.
“If there’s any hope, it’s that the realizations from the past are still in my mind. That’s why I could grow rapidly despite many restrictions.”
“So, can’t you grow any more now?”
“It takes quite a bit of ti. No matter how important realizations are, if the mind and body can’t keep up, it’s all in vain. Maybe if there were countless absolute spiritual pills..”
“So there’s no way.”
“Well…”
Seol-Hwi trailed off.
Hearing this, Earth Demon pondered for a mont before speaking.
“It might not be the way you want, but I can give you sothing with the effect of an absolute spiritual pill.”
“What?”
Seol-Hwi asked again, thinking he might have misheard.
In response, Earth Demon spoke calmly.
“I can transfer my internal qi to you. Of course, accepting it is another matter.”
“Then… could it be that thod…”
“Yes. The final power of the Heavenly Killing Star. You absorb the life force.”
Seol-Hwi felt a chill run through his body. Before his eyes, the fourth power, the realm of the Demon God, flickered.
Beyond the Taiji, the chaos power he would pass on.
“As I said before, the part where you might be swept away by my power is sothing you have to solve. You know my power can’t be controlled, right?”
There was a warning in Earth Demon’s voice.
Seol-Hwi nodded his head.
If he could control that power, he would have beco a Demon God, not a celestial killer in the first place.
“It’s your choice. Whether to accept my proposal.”
Earth Demon’s voice quietly resonated.
Seol-Hwi answered without a mont’s hesitation.
“How could I refuse? That’s the only way for now.”
“Consider that I might suddenly change.”
As Earth Demon’s eyebrows slightly rose, a bitter smile spread across Seol-Hwi’s lips.
“Anyway, the chance of dying because I can’t handle your power is about the sa.”
“Indeed.”
Earth Demon laughed along.
Their eyes t.
Although the conversation wasn’t long, there was an oddly comfortable atmosphere between them.
“How do you plan to transfer the internal qi?”
Seol-Hwi asked.
“Through the vital points, I plan to transfer all my internal qi to you.”
“……Understood.”
With a short answer, this ti Earth Demon asked back.
“A trendous force will likely descend upon you. I don’t think you can control it.”
“Don’t worry. It’s a bit different, but I’ve done it once in the past.”
“……Really?”
“Yes.”
Earth Demon found it hard to believe, but Seol-Hwi’s words were true.
The mory of challenging himself by consuming absolute spiritual pills to escape the system ca to mind.
Swoosh.
As Seol-Hwi sat in a lotus position, Earth Demon sat behind him.
When a strange tension filled the air, Seol-Hwi closed his eyes.
After a while, Earth Demon’s voice quietly resonated.
“If you survive here, in the next life…….”
Earth Demon paused for a mont.
However, Seol-Hwi already knew what he was going to say.
“Sure, let’s have a drink.”
Earth Demon hesitated for a mont, then lifted the corners of his mouth.
And soon, he spoke in a determined voice.
“Let’s begin.”
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