A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation

“..Master.”

Hong Fan speaks as he throws Hyeon Rang’s head to me.

I catch the head Hong Fan throws.

From within it, I sense the powerful force of Origin Essence.

“Right now, the head is the passageway to the Seat. It would be best if you dealt with it.” “…Yeah, thanks.”

I place Hyeon Rang’s head inside my body and look around.

Glass Peacock, Azure Peng, Oh Hyun-seok…

Right now, all of them have collapsed in exhaustion after killing Hyeon Rang.

“For now…we’ve won, so come on in now.”

I draw Hong Fan and the Immortal Treasures into my body and then look up at the sky. Kugugugugu!

The Immortal Arts spread inside the Palace of Radiance unravel, and familiar presences begin to emerge from the rooftop of the Palace.

itis the Radiance Eight Immortals.

“I didn’t expect deep camaraderie…but still, betrayal right after the battle, is it?” Dudududut

The space around me quakes from the presence of the Eight Immortals, and the power of the Torch Candle Heavenly Lord resonates with the Heavenly Void Furnace, beginning to suppress me.

While I am not in as bad a state as the others, my energy is still significantly depleted. If they launch a full-scale assault, I’ll likely die.

.: Surrender. O Immortal Beast King. If you become a captive obediently, there will be no need for bloodshed. : :

The Great Forest Heavenly Lord looks down at me and speaks, and I shrug my shoulders.

“Don’t delude yourself. As long as I abandon my comrades, I can escape whenever I want.”

itis the truth.

, who can resonate with every domain of purity in this world, can quite literally go anywhere.

“Killing me is as difficult as killing a Heavenly Venerable who placed their Gandhara outside Mount Sumeru. Whether blood is shed or not, it doesn’t concern me.”

:: That is precisely the reason. We intend to capture you and seal you within a galaxy of the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain. : :

“Hah…2”

© We will not kill you. As long as you remain quietly within the galaxy as per our command, we will treat you as a distinguished guest. : :

“Why?”

. : The reason Enders are dangerous is because they constantly introduce errors into fate and cause troublesome incidents. And these beings endlessly emerge in the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain, each time with different powers, making them hard to get fid of… But even you Enders have a rule. Unless the direct previous generation is annihilated, the next one does not appear. : :

: : We have verified your ability. As long as you do not die, it does not activate, nor does it add strange variables. Therefore…we have decided to preserve your existence in the same way the Underworld does. Still, inside an entire galaxy, you will be able to roam freely, so you will be able to enjoy yourself. It is not a complete seal, and if you wish, we can even create a small Heavenly Domain and gift it to you. If you feel stifled, we wil allow you to travel to places outside the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain through a projection. : :

The Great Forest Heavenly Lord reaches a hand toward me, as if bestowing great mercy. : : So you, Ender, Immortal Beast King Seo Eun-hyun, do not make a foolish choice. Join hands with us and preserve your life. If you accept, Radiance Hall shall guard and protect you for all eternity… : :

After listening for a while, I grin.

“I refuse.”

:: For what reason? : :

“You think I don’t know your true purpose? To eliminate Immortal Cultivation and maintain only your eight Heavenly Lord positions while ruling the entire universe. Do you really expect me to believe you’ll never try to get rid of me?”

:: We swear on our lives that such a thing will never happen. : :

“Do you swear on the Origin Essence of Light?”

“Kukuk… See?”

I click my tongue and speak.

“You think I don’t know that you Radiance Eight Immortals are replaced every few trillion years? Maybe it won’t be in your lives, but who knows about the next generation of Eight immortals?”

:: Then we swear to have up to ten future generations of the Radiance Eight Immortals bind themselves to this oath. Ten generations of us would require up to one hundred trillion years to pass. Among those who are not Heavenly Venerables, few would even exist for such a length of time. And if by that point, the Immortal Cultivation system stil has not been eradicated, then even the Eight Immortals of that era will have no choice but to keep you alive. Even if the elimination of the Immortal Cultivation system succeeds by then, a hundred trillion years is surely enough time for you to find a way to survive on your own, is it not? : :

“Hmm…”

I sense that while pretending to persuade me, the Radiance Eight Immortals are having the Heaven Immortals outside the Palace of Radiance form a formation.

In the end, I grin and speak.

“So, are you going to let me and my comrades live forever, or not? If you don’t answer yes or no clearly…”

Kuguguguguk!

I draw out the Immortal Art of Sunlight Hunting and sneer.

“I’ll shoot.”

Then, the Eight Immortals begin to form hand seals.

The symbol of the [Black Snake Biting Its Tail] begins to strike down upon me and everyone present.

“Kim Yeon!”

Kududududuk!

Crushed under the light of the Radiance Supreme Deity, I call out to Kim Yeon.

:: It is useless. We have already severed the authorities of beings outside the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain. : :

: : Foolish. You likely thought if she were summoned within the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain, she would be captured alongside you. : :

. : But that is a miscalculation. Instead, you and the current Enders will be taken down one by one. : :

Tstststs—

I raise the Impermanence Sword and slash through the void.

“Kim Yeon!”

As I slash through the void, I attempt to move at least outside the Palace of Radiance, but I realize my body doesn’t move.

When I look toward the sky, I see the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord gripping half of my Nascent Soul.

—Ji Hwa

I send a heart message to the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord, but she doesn’t respond. Instead, she only squeezes my Nascent Soul even tighter.

“Kuughh…Yeon-aht”

Helpless, I have no choice but to call Kim Yeon again.

: Even if she is the successor of the Tridacna Vast Cold Heavenly King, there is nothing you can do this time. : :

: : No matter if one is a successor of Vast Cold, if the one who wields that power is of such a level… : :

: : Even if she manifests the past of Vast Cold for a fleeting instant like last time, it is useless. : :

:: Did you think we would just sit and watch while the Heavenly Void Furnace fell here? : Through the winged garment, I sense the authority of the Torch Candle Heavenly Lord engraved upon the Heavenly Void Furnace.

I see. When Hyeon Rang called the Heavenly Void Furnace here, the Torch Candle Heavenly Lord infused it with a prophecy.

it seems the prophecy that the Torch Candle Heavenly Lord embedded is one of [manifestation of the dead is forbidden].

The past of those already dead or annihilated can no longer be projected here.

itis both a prophecy to ensure Hyeon Rang is thoroughly Killed and one that forbids the power of Vast Cold, who died here, from being manifested to rescue us.

:: You will regret rejecting our offer. : :

“Do I have to use that?’

I grip the Impermanence Sword while looking up at the Radiance Eight Immortals.

I didn’t want to use it anywhere other than the Great Mountain Battle…

If Kim Yeon is delayed, this single sword might still be able to break through the current situation.

“I’ve refrained from using it because the Great Mountain Supreme Deity could devise a countermeasure from seeing it even once…but is there no other choice now?” Tstststststs—

Just as the Impermanence Sword begins to glow white-hot—

Click—

Se

The corpse of Hyeon Rang, whose three dantians have been lost, rises from where it lay. At that moment, the Radiance Eight Immortals flinch in shock, but soon, they glare at me as if in disbelief.

: : Have you turned the body of a Supreme Deity into a puppet? Foolish. Do you truly not understand why puppets were abandoned in the world of True Immortals? : :

However, I simply smile faintly.

“…t’s done now.”

Kim Yeon begins to exert her power.

Kurung, kururururung!

The “circuit’ I had first implanted into the Naming Supreme Deity to turn him into a body through Mysterious Bizarre Star Body gradually begins to shift control over to Kim Yeon. And now,

Kang Min-hee overlays laws onto Hyeon Rang’s corpse, lending power so that Kim Yeon can take control, and the moment Kim Yeon connects the navy-blue threads of law from Kang Min-hee to Hyeon Rang’s body and turns it into a Supreme Deity puppet, she begins her play.

That play is a reenactment of the scene from just moments ago.

Simultaneously, hastily assembled puppets from the inorganic materials in Ascension Path begin to appear around us and act out the previous scene.

Click, click, click, click-click—

An Immortal Art that summons a moment from the past using a puppet play as the medium.

Yeon’s Play activates.

Spacetime reverses, and Oh Hyun-seok’s unconscious body recovers, while energy surges back into the bodies of Glass Peacock and Azure Peng.

The Naming Supreme Deity cannot be manifested due to the Torch Candle Heavenly Lord’s prophecy of “manifestation of the dead is forbidden’, but we are all restored. Though more precisely, it’s merely that the power of the past is being overlaid onto reality.

“I expected you’d betray us from the start.”

Though to be exact, it’s thanks to Ji Hwa’s discreet warning.

And in any case, the one who prepared in order to escape immediately after dealing with Hyeon Rang, based on Ji Hwa’s tip, is none other than Kim Yeon.

“Since the preparations are all complete…’m not particularly afraid of you.”

Though the overwhelming power sent from Kim Yeon is no longer present, the Immortal Art Yeon’s Play, activated by the combined powers of both Kim Yeon and Kang Min-hee, is activated to some extent.

And within that Immortal Art, Oh Hyun-seok rises with ragged breaths.

He is able to once again prepare the fist he had manifested just moments ago to strike down Hyeon Rang.

The silver momentum gathered in Oh Hyun-seok’s fist causes the Radiance Eight immortals to fall silent.

: : Even so, it is but a single strike. And even if you roughly stitched the past and manifested over reality…you cannot erase the fatigue as if it had never occurred. : :

The Radiance Eight Immortals simultaneously extend their hands toward us.

:: Light-Speed Enforcement. : :

Clang!

Our speed is forcibly capped at the speed of light.

:: You will not be able to hit us. : :

“If you do get hit, it seems you understand it’ll be dangerous for you as well.” Tstststststss—

in both my hands, the jade of Yin-Yang and Five Elements begins to gather. Tududududu—

My true body emerges, and attraction force activates.

Kugugugugu!

The Heavenly Domain contracts.

Numerous Heaven Immortals try to prevent the contraction of the Heavenly Domain through prophecy, but none can stop it.

“Since I’m standing atop the Heavenly Void Furnace…I feel it even more clearly.’

I think I now understand the original purpose of the Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra. .:PHENOMENAEXTINGUISHINGMANTRA::

The Immortal Art that brings about the End compresses the Heavenly Domain, pulling the Radiance Eight Immortals toward us.

Now, they can no longer escape.

:: Foolish. : :

But the Radiance Eight Immortals show no panic, and instead even more calmly prepare their attack.

The light of the Radiance Supreme Deity grows ever stronger.

As the Heavenly Domain contracts further, the universe becomes filled with light and heat, reverting to its primordial state—thus, the power of light also strengthens.

:: Filling the Heavens Azure Arrow. : :

+ Filling the Heavens Flower Garden. : :

From behind the Great Forest Heavenly Lord, a rain of azure arrows capable of destroying the universe falls. From in front of the Flower Plant Heavenly Lord, flowers of light that can devour the cosmos begin to take root and surge toward me.

+ Filling the Heavens Great Sun. : :

+ Filling the Heavens Torch Candie. : :

Huarurururuk!

A blazing fire that could burn Heaven and Earth spreads throughout the world and begins to scorch me.

Hundreds of billions of stars are born through the Great Sun Heavenly Lord, and quintillions of explosions crash over us like a tidal wave under the Torch Candle Heavenly Lord.

:: Filling the Heavens Sword Rain. : :

The familiar downpour of Sword-Guided Star Rain begins to fall from the sky.

And then…

+ Filling the Heavens Shattered Pearls. : :

Jjeok, jjeojeojecjeok!

At the Immortal Art of the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord, the ultimate techniques of the Eight immortals begin to shatter all at once.

The rain of blue arrows, the garden of flowers, the suns and explosions, even the downpour of Sword-Guided Star Rain—all scatter into pieces.

And then, they begin to mix together.

.: Filling the Heavens Returning to One. : :

The Rain Dew Heavenly Lord reconfigures the intermingled fragments of light, creating a new ultimate technique woven from the ultimate techniques of the Eight Immortals.

It takes the form of a spear.

“This is dangerous.’

Cheok, cheok, cheok, cheok!

The Radiance Eight Immortals each grasp eight spears in both hands.

The spears of divine light, forming a spear array, are aimed directly at us standing above Ascension Path at the center of the Palace of Radiance, and as I see the massive force condensed within those spear tips, cold sweat trickles down my back.

“This is really dangerous.’

This isn’t the usual attack from the Radiance Eight Immortals, where they simply toss out the symbol of Heuk Sa or shoot a few light beams when things get tough.

This is a properly formed Immortal Art linked attack.

It should be considered a proper mantra at the level of Supreme Deity.

Whoooong—

Then, beginning with the Great Forest Heavenly Lord, all eight Heavenly Lords simultaneously throw their spears of light.

“I have to dodge this no matter what…”

+ Filling the Heavens Annihilation Sea. : :

The Great Sea Heavenly Lord creates the form of rain across the sky surrounding the falling spears of light.

The Immortal Art of “Hiding in the Rain’, which I had obtained when I once perceived them, begins to conceal those spears of light within the downpour.

The torrential downpour of indigo light, created by the Great Sea Heavenly Lord, lashes down upon us, making the true attack of the Radiance Eight Immortals impossible to see. I want to dodge, but because I am in the middle of compressing the Heavenly Domain with the Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra, the rain is all being drawn toward me—and perhaps because the mantra originates from the Radiance Eight Immortals, I don’t even believe I could avoid those spears.

The rain made of light begins to pierce into my body.

And the eight spears of light hidden within the rain…

This is.”

I let out a bitter laugh at the immense force engraved upon those spears.

If I dodge, Oh Hyun-seok and the others will definitely die.

Even if I halt the Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra and deflect them, the residual explosion will kill my comrades.

I can’t cancel it out.

Each of these spears is an unimaginable and deranged strike at least on par with the Annihilation Advancement Mu of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity, my own Sword God Dance, or the Void Dance of Hyeon Mu.

And then, I hear one of the spears of light speaking to me.

—It is the decisive strike that brought down the Jade Pivot Forty-Eight Lightning Heavenly Great Immortals of the Heavenly Punishment Supreme Deity, leaving the Supreme Deity in a near-death state and sealing them in the Horse Ear Heavenly Domain.

it’s Ji Hwa’s heart language.

She is speaking to me through the light spear she had thrown.

—Even if it couldn’t Kill the Heavenly Venerable of the Underworld, this mantra was created to inflict a fatal wound upon the Gandhara if landed directly… The decisive reason the Radiance Eight Immortals were able to escape from Vast Cold during the Vast Cold Great War even though only one member survived… It is the mantra of the Radiance Supreme Deity, God-Killing Spear. (#3818).

God-Killing Spear Mantra!

It is the terrifying pinnacle of attacks that links and amplifies the greatest ultimate techniques of the Radiance Eight Immortals.

—If it’s your conceptual Severing Mountain Swordsmanship Thirty-Sixth Move, the strength might exceed this, but you won’t be able to sweep all eight spears at once. It’s better to continuously unleash Sword God Dance.

The spear of the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord, who has given me a counter-strategy in her own way, pierces into my chest in an instant.

At the same time, I smile.

Because the spear she threw doesn’t contain the power of destruction, but is filled with my Nascent Soul and her own heart.

“While maintaining the Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra…

I raise the Jade of Yin-Yang and Five Elements above my head and swing the impermanence Sword.

Ji Hwa’s heart divine descends.

Sword God Dance!

The sword glows white-hot and connects with Ji Hwa’s heart.

And as I connect with her heart, I am able to detect all the hidden spears of light within the Immortal Art of the Great Sea Heavenly Lord.

The spear of Great Forest.

Whoooong—

The spear of the Great Forest Heavenly Lord and my Sword God Dance collide and cancel each other out before my eyes.

Next, the spear of the Flower Plant Heavenly Lord targets me.

I can do this.”

Sword God Dance.

Second Strike.

Shukwak!

I use the authority of the Immortal Beast King to re-summon Ji Hwa’s heart that I had just spent, and I cancel out the second spear of light.

“Please!’

The third spear of light.

The spear of Great Sun.

Sword God Dance.

Third Strike.

Tsuaaaat—

Light infuses into my sword.

With the reckless and forceful consecutive slashes of Sword God Dance, the blood veins all over my body burst, and the Pangu True Blood I received from Hyeon Rang begins to spray wildly.

And I finally succeed in blocking the third spear.

[Heheok… Heok…]

Erupting with mental speech, I gasp and exhale Heaven and Earth spiritual energy.

My Twilight True Energy is completely dried up.

My entire body trembles.

In a state already completely exhausted from facing Hyeon Rang, I forced out three consecutive strikes of Sword God Dance!

It feels like my soul is being shaved away.”

I can’t endure to the fourth strike of Sword God Dance.

“The fourth one is…

Kurung, kurururung!

The scattered Pangu True Blood around me begins to resonate with my will.

Pangu’s Genesis.

The innate authority of the Pangu True Blood stirs Primal Chaos and Primordial Chaos, beginning to create an immense space.

Though at my current rank of still a mere Heaven-Earth Great Net, forming a Heavenly Domain is difficult…

I am also the Immortal Beast King.

With the authority of the Immortal Beast King added to Pangu’s Genesis, a small Heavenly Domain is formed.

The explosive force of that domain launches with precise direction, guided by my Martial Pinnacle-level senses.

Tukwaaang!

A massive black waterfall blasts upward toward the sky, colliding head-on with the spear of the Torch Candle Heavenly Lord.

Three spears remain.

They are the spears of Torch Candle, Great Sea, and Rain Dew.

If it’s only three…”

Having exhausted all strength from maintaining the Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra, I lose the last of my energy. In the end, I have no choice but to be struck by the remaining three spears.

Tukuaaang—

The spears of Pearl Jade, Great Sea, and Rain Dew pierce through my face, chest, and lower dantian respectively.

Is this also Retribution?”

For some reason, ever since I came to wield the Impermanence Sword…

It feels as if the Retribution of the Impermanence Sword applies to me as well.

With all three dantians pierced by the spears of light, I throw my entire body into blocking the shockwaves of the spears.

The spears of light explode.

Flash!

With the explosion of light…

I grit my teeth and use every bit of my strength to postpone death.

Tstststst—

It feels like all of Heaven and Earth is engulfed in radiance.

“I blacked out for a moment.’

The explosions of the spears of light were so immense that even I, who is used to pain, briefly lost consciousness.

“But even so, it’s just a fleeting instant within Araya’s speed.’

Though the time wasn’t enough to be a threat, it’s certainly a deadly ultimate technique. itis quite literally, a mantra made solely for destruction.

“..If Ji Hwa wasn’t on my side…this would’ve been the end of this cycle.”

Trying to block all eight of those would have torn my body apart with nothing left. Tuaaaaaa—

As the light fades from the sky, the arrogant figures of the Radiance Eight Immortals appear above the sky.

They have every reason to be arrogant.

Because…

The God-Killing Spear Mantra is activating once more.

Grasping the eight spears of light again, the Radiance Eight Immortals look down at me and speak.

. : This is our final warning. Immortal Beast King who bears the lineage of the Mountain Divine Spirit, heed our counsel. : :

Then, I grin.

“…As I’ve said again and again, but…”

I now have only enough energy left to maintain the Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra, but it doesn’t matter.

“I will not join hands with you.”

This isn’t simply a matter of my own safety and self-preservation.

To follow them would mean throwing away all hope.

“For the sake of your so-called ideals, you treat everything in between like garbage. In the end, even those ideals are hollow. I will never bow beneath something so empty.” ::Sobeit.::

The Great Forest Heavenly Lord nods—and that is the end of it.

The eight God-Killing Spears come flying once again.

“Radiance Hall…truly a powerful group.’

Having exhausted myself from fighting Hyeon Rang, I stand no chance against them within the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain, the territory of Radiance Hall.

But thankfully, it seems I have bought enough time.

“…Yeon-ah.”

“Yes, Eun-hyun Orabeoni.”

As I collapse in my Transformation form, Kim Yeon approaches and pours energy into me.

My three dantians regenerate, and I glance around.

immortal Art Yeon’s Play.

Due to the Yeon’s Play spread across Ascension Path, the past of when we first arrived in Ascension Path is manifested.

Even though our main bodies have not all arrived in the dangerous Heavenly King Heavenly Domain, we have all been able to gather here through Yeon’s Play, using that scene from the past as a medium.

Me, the projection of Kim Young-hoon,

Jeon Myeong-hoon, Kang Min-hee, Oh Hyun-seok, Kim Yeon, Oh Hye-seo.

All of us have gathered in this place, gazing up at the sky.

Kwarururung!

Jeon Myeong-hoon swings the Heavenly Lightning Banner, activating his authority.

The causality of Zhengli, who has previously been struck by the God-Killing Spear, begins to forcibly invoke judgment upon the God-Killing Spear and block it.

However, perhaps because even that causality—which once caused the Heavenly Punishment Supreme Deity and the Jade Pivot Forty-Eight Lightning Heavenly Great immortals to suffer a major defeat—is still only a part of the God-Killing Spear’s might, the attack is blocked but not canceled, and the spear merely halts in the sky.

And the Radiance Eight Immortals, unconcerned, begin forming a third God-Killing Spear.

Once again, the eight Heavenly Lords grasp their spears of light.

“Do something before that one flies. That one can’t be blocked.”

At Jeon Myeong-hoon’s words, I nod and look at Oh Hyun-seok.

“Hyung-nim, are you ready?”

[Yeah]

Oh Hyun-seok, having completed all preparations, raises his arm, and I release the Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra I was using to restrain the Radiance Eight Immortals until everything is ready.

:: How pitiful. The strike that felled Hyeon Rang was strong, but if it doesn’t hit, then it is meaningless. A mere thrust slower than the speed of light… : :

Then, Kang Min-hee pulls something out from her bosom.

Chwarak, chwarak, chwarak, chwarak!

itis taenghwa.

A total of seven tanghwa rise behind Kang Min-hee.

Tsuaaaaaaatt!

Mantra.

Unorthodox True Martial Arts.

Heart and Heaven Taenghwa.

Shiver!

The enlightenment of the Heavenly Venerable of the Underworld activates through Kang Min-hee.

And among the attributes of the Heart and Heaven Taenghwa, the strongest attribute— The attribute of Certain Hit imbues into Oh Hyun-seok’s fist.

Tsuaaat!

The world turns silver, and Oh Hyun-seok stretches out his arm.

Regardless of speed, it hits without fail.

Zero Wing.

Nameless One Fist.

Hwooong—

Oh Hyun-seok’s One Fist!

The fist pressure released from the silver world burns through the sky and directly strikes the giants of light.

Tukwaang!

With that blow, the Great Forest Heavenly Lord explodes.

Because the star of prophecy exists, resurrection will surely occur, but in the immediate battlefield, the Great Forest Heavenly Lord instantly drops out, and the Radiance Eight immortals visibly falter.

: : Do not be shaken. At best, it is a single fist… It cannot be used more than once in succes—::

The Rain Dew Heavenly Lord tries to calm the Radiance Eight Immortals, but Oh Hye-seo sneers.

The authority Truth Manipulation and my Wheel move simultaneously.

The truth where Oh Hyun-seok just used his One Fist and squeezed out all his strength is undone, and Oh Hyun-seok regains his energy.

Once more, Oh Hyun-seok loads up his Nameless One Fist.

Hwoooong—

Next is the Flower Plant Heavenly Lord.

ENDER:

The Rain Dew Heavenly Lord screams, and again, Truth Manipulation and the Wheel turn as Oh Hyun-seok loads his fist.

Nameless One Fist, Third Strike.

Tukwaaang!

The Great Sun Heavenly Lord dies.

Nameless One Fist, Fourth Strike.

Kwagwaaaang!

A torrent of silver fist pressure crashes forward, and the Torch Candle Heavenly Lord dies.

Nameless One Fist, Fifth Strike.

Next is the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord.

Their gaze, filled with blazing light, continues to pierce through us until the very end. Nameless One Fist, Sixth Strike!

The Great Sea Heavenly Lord bursts apart.

With each strike released, Oh Hyun-seok’s eyes grow ever clearer.

Then, at some point—

Tsuaaaaaa—

I begin to see something.

itis the dharma form of a colossal warrior.

Behind Oh Hyun-seok, the taenghwa of a giant Benevolent King rises.

I feel as if I finally understand the condition to awaken as Heavenly King.

To risk one’s life in order to truly feel one’s fate.

To avoid becoming cowardly.

To face oneself head-on.

Even while forcibly squeezing out his strength through my Wheel and Oh Hye-seo’s Truth Manipulation, he is throwing his whole body forward.

The realm only those with the courage to burn away everything of themselves can reach.

That is—

The domain of Heavenly King.

Seventh Strike!

Only then do the third set of God-Killing Spears begin to fall, but even so, Oh Hyun- seok’s One Fist is faster.

In an instant,

Oh Hyun-seok tears apart the Immortal Art of Light-Speed Enforcement with his very body and begins to “fully’ enter a new domain.

Kwaaaaaaaang!

The Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord bursts apart and dies, reaching toward the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord, but vanishes entirely in the end.

Across the Sumeru Three Heavens Great Thousand World—

The name of a new Heavenly King begins to resound.

However—

Kwaaaaaaaang!

Oh Hyun-seok slams his fist into his own chest, blocking the spreading resonance of that name from within himself.

“… don’t need some grand name.”

Is it an enlightenment gained from killing the Owner of Names?

With a bitter expression, Oh Hyun-seok suppresses his new Heavenly King name and begins to rename it by his own will.

Is it an Immortal Art he learned from the Owner of Names, or something Hyeon Rang gifted him in his final moment?

Oh Hyun-seok’s Heavenly King name rings out in a low voice from his own lips, so only we can hear.

“A Silver Heavenly King without a name is enough.”

Silver Nameless Heavenly King (REESE TE).

Thus, the nameless Silver Heavenly King, who erased his own name, is newly born in the stillness after all the turmoil has subsided.