"What do you an?" Yeon-woo's eyes glead coldly. 'What the hell is this guy saying? Is he saying that I won't succeed in the end and just die?' The Snapping Turtle, the Tortoise's incarnation, seed to emphasize the second part of its statent more than the first part, as though implying that Yeon-woo had already died. "Are you saying I'm not a living person?"
Yeon-woo released a bloodthirsty aura that raged like a storm, and it seed that he might pull out Vigrid at any mont. Instantly, Yeon-woo felt watchful eyes peering behind himKiku. He was giving Yeon-woo a warning that he would not stand idly by if Yeon-woo drew his sword. This was the palace where the Jade Emperor, the supre deity and king of the heavenly world, was resting. It was absolutely forbidden to take out a weapon.
Still, Yeon-woo did not seem to care. He had to know what the exact aning of the Snapping Turtle's enigmatic words were, instinctively feeling that they would affect whether or not he would achieve his goals.
"I don't know either. I only understand as much as you do." The Snapping Turtle looked at Yeon-woo's hand, which had opened his subspace, and then shook his head. "If you were destined to die, especially if it were to happen soon, I would see it right away. Bong-Le Mountain would have shown you how you die as well. But you didn't see anything, nor did I." The Snapping Turtle's eyes penetrated into Yeon-woo's soul. "If you ask if you're dead, I can't really say that you are. If you were truly dead, you wouldn't have seen anything on Yung-Ju Mountain. The Three God Mountains are like a mirror that only shows the reflections of the living. The dead are under the jurisdiction of the Underworld, not here."
"Then maybe I"
"You're going to ask if it's because you've inherited the Throne of Death, right? Even a god or a demon who has divinity related to death cannot avoid the all-knowing reflection of the Three God Mountains. Gods and demons cannot avoid reincarnation and fate. In fact, since gods and demons are supre beings, they have a harder ti breaking the law of causality." The Snapping Turtle confird that the Three God Mountains, which occupied a crucial role in the law of causality, would not misread his fate.
In the end, Yeon-woo could only keep his mouth shut. How was he supposed to accept the words of the Snapping Turtle? What was the aning behind the pitch-black darkness that he saw at the Three God Mountains? Of course, Yeon-woo did have a theory: 'The Black King's darkness.' Yeon-woo thought that the darkness he had seen was not necessarily a lack of existence, although he couldn't be sure. Even transcendent and cosmic beings feared the Black King. If he were the Black King's successor, wouldn't he already stand outside the wheel of reincarnation and the law of causality?
"No. That's not it either." As if reading Yeon-woo's thoughts, the Snapping Turtle smiled gently. "You're not him, right?" He crushed Yeon-woo's theory.
In the end, the only answer that Yeon-woo could co up with was: 'Is there nothing?' But Yeon-woo thought this was acceptable, too. He would not be chained to his fate. His future was unreadable. In other words, he could pursue whatever he wanted and go down any path he wanted to achieve his goal.
"You're not a normal human being, are you? Most humans would be frustrated or feel grim at this discovery. However, you're accepting it so easily. It's hard to figure out if you're good at rationalizing, if you're comfortable with yourself, or if you have that much self-confidence." The Snapping Turtle had the power to see through everything in the Three God Mountains, which ant that he could not only view the sa things that those who passed the three spiritual mountains did, he also accessed their thoughts, feelings, and subconscious.
For this reason, many gods and demons did not easily visit the Three God Mountains. Although the flow of ti and space was also a difficult barrier to cross, these supre beings were afraid that the Snapping Turtle would read their entire fate. The more divinity one possessed, the more one would be bound by fate. Exposing their fate would also reveal their weaknesses and faults.
The Snapping Turtle relieved his boredom by drifting around the Sea of Ti and Space, and occasionally, when guests visited, he would spread the word about their fates. To him, Yeon-woo was a strange visitor.
Although he'd experienced many traumatic events, Yeon-woo accepted them all nonchalantly. His emotions were dull, as though he were disconnected from the past rather than simply strong. It was as if his past belonged to him but was also not his. 'It's as if he's ceased to exist in this world but has also co back to life. So, it's like being dead but not dead at the sa ti.'
As Shanon had once comnted, Yeon-woo saw many things as tools to be used as needed and thrown away when unnecessarythis even included his body and his soul.
'What does one endure in life to beco this way?' Although the Snapping Turtle had lived for a long ti, he could not understand Yeon-woo's thinking. Yeon-woo took the idea of tools to the extre, and it was strange for the Snapping Turtle to see soone consider his own life and death as unimportant. However, the Snapping Turtle did not put his thoughts into words since he wasn't sure, and Yeon-woo was probably quite self-aware, anyway.
In fact, Yeon-woo's strange perspective was perhaps the reason why he'd been chosen as the Black King's potential successor. The Snapping Turtle thought the two were very similar in many ways. Both were clearly intelligent, but they were also shrouded in mystery.
"Anyway, let's discuss your existence later. You ca here to finish an errand, right? Well, hand it over then."
After a mont of deep thought, Yeon-woo took out the book and handed it to the Snapping Turtle. As the Snapping Turtle said, he probably would not gain much from reflecting on what he saw at the three spiritual mountains. He would have to find the answers he wanted himself.
"Laplace, that silly bunny. He dragged his feet for so long since my request. What does he expect from if he gives such a late response? In any case, it seems that he's finally made up his mind." The Snapping Turtle sulked and grunted lightly. Yeon-woo thought that it was a rather unbecoming expression, even though it technically didn't look out of place on a child's face.
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