A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation

Chapter 634: Golden Speed Heavenly King (金迅天王) (3)

”What do you mean 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 something to us, Kim Young-hoon suddenly glares toward somewhere.

”Hyung-nim...?”

”...”

Glaring sharply into the distance, he spits out his words as if chewing them.

”...She is coming.”

”...! Y-You mean 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 immediately, 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 Sumeru, will she try to fight me, so the battle between us and Hyeon Mu isn’t that imminent.”

I nod, but then realize that Kim Young-hoon immediately grasped both Hyeon Mu’s presence, who must be unimaginably far away, and her purpose, and a question arises.

”There’s something 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 me Hyung-nim.”

”...Huh?”

”Back in our hometown, 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 me 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 same time, he begins reading Kim Young-hoon’s history, and after a short while—

His eyes become 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 Sumeru...I once said that fixing the coordinates of Sumeru, becoming accustomed 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 Sumeru like a rigid machine. So, while dreaming a long dream and falling into sleep, I came close to Mount Sumeru. It was in that state that you all and the Naming Supreme Deity received me.”

”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 me that.”

”What? Then...”

”But you don’t need to call me that.”

”...Pardon?”

”Because among us, the one who is the oldest...is you.”

At those words, my gazes of my comrades shift toward me in confusion.

At the same time, I erase all expressions from my face and meet Kim Young-hoon’s eyes.

”E-Eun-hyun? What does...that mean?”

”Ah, I think I get it...but don’t try to understand. There must be a reason that guy’s saying something 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 somewhat older. But...I’ve never lived through something 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 time that you don’t remember?”

”...”

”There definitely must be. Days that you [cannot remember]...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 me on the shoulder and gives a faint smile.