A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation

With the hand holding his shoulder, he pulls Hong Fan toward him, and with the other hand he places his palm on Hong Fan’s chest.

”Is this what you spoke about in the Heavenly Void Furnace...? Fine. In respect for the fact that you have, in the end, escaped from the Heavenly Void Furnace, I will give you a chance.”

Seeing Seo Eun-hyun, who is about to send something flying toward him with blazing eyes, he honors that resolve

And decides to take that strike.

”Prove it. That you truly are not a bug.”

From Seo Eun-hyun’s hand placed on Hong Fan’s chest, a cluster of green light begins to burst forth.

Present.

As I read through the end of the memories of the 16th cycle, I pour with all my strength the feelings and memories

Of that time into the tip of my sword.

And the moment that heart fills this sword completely.

”Yang Su-jin!”

Kwarururung!

Yang Su-jin grabs me and transforms into lightning.

Receiving that signal, Jeon Myeong-hoon steps forward.

He looks at the Future King and trembles.

It is only natural.

Because he is one whose soul generated when, upon entering the Audience Chamber, his presence was

Suppressed by the aura of the Future King.

However, despite trembling in fear, he looks at the Future King.

”I am afraid of you...but...precisely because I am a coward, I know it well.”

Kurung, Kurururururung!

Centered on Jeon Myeong-hoon, the Origin Essence of Heavenly Punishment howls.

At the same time, centered on him, Indra’s Net becomes dyed with thunder and lightning.

”You too... Just as I am afraid of you, there is something you fear.”

The Future King looks down at Jeon Myeong-hoon.

Under that distant gaze, even while trembling in fear, he opens his mouth, grips the Lightning-Tipped Spear in his

Hand, and shouts.

”Immortal Cultivation takes Indra’s Net, that is, the threads of connection, as Heavenly Tribulation. And as one becomes a transcendent, it is completed by making it so that the heart is no longer needed. In that case, O Owner

Of Immortal Cultivation, are you not seeing connection as a punishment, as a Heavenly Tribulation that must be

Overcome!?”

Even while trembling, he moves forward.

In order to keep the words he has said to Seo Eun-hyun.

”You...are afraid of connection. Am I wrong!?”

Seo Eun-hyun has Seo Eun-hyun’s logic.

Just as a child has a child’s logic,

A petty man and a coward has a coward’s logic.

Jeon Myeong-hoon knows that his own vessel is not that large.

He knows that he is afraid of more things than expected, and that he has many weak sides.

And precisely because of that...

He can faintly feel that the giant of darkness before his eyes in fact has a childlike side similar to his own.

”Take it to your heart’s content! This is the connection you are afraid of!”

Kwarurururung!

Toward the Owner of Immortal Cultivation, Heavenly Tribulations begin to crash down like mad.

Innumerable Heavenly Tribulations crash down towards the Owner of Immortal Cultivation, and his movements are

Sealed for the span of an instant.

Then, in front of the Future King whose movements are sealed, lightning flashes as Yang Su-jin transmits Seo Eun-

Hyun over.

Kwarururung!

Seo Eun-hyun, having finished preparing his upward slash, begins to swing the Impermanence Sword upward.

It is at that moment,

Kigigigigik-

Praying at the Future King’s side and wishing for his happiness with the power of the Five Blessings, Vast Cold’s

Body starts to burst apart.

It is because Yu Hao Te’s projection, forgetting to help Vast Cold, looks instead at Emptiness Supreme Deity Myeon

Woon, who is floating in a far-off place.

A certain woman’s scream that arises from deep inside the Head Realm as if tearing apart.

It is because the sound of pain of Yu Hao Te’s only blood relative tugs at his concentration.

”Connection truly is a cumbersome thing. Look at that. Even that sacred devotion that holds back a great story,

Because of a single connection, gains a gap.”

Vast Cold is swept away by the energy of the Divine Art.

Jjeooong!

The Heavenly Tribulations and the restraints of countless Enders that surround the Future King burst apart all at

Once.

Sarak-

With a gentle movement, he takes his stance to respond to Seo Eun-hyun.

The technique the Future King unfolds to counter Seo Eun-hyun’s technique.

-Emptiness Sword.

-Linked Profundity.

-Future Radiance

In a single moment, he re-accelerates with the speed of Undying and counters his upward slash with a Reversing

Heaven () attack.

And, as a matter of course, that counterattack is imbued with Divine Art.

It is gentle.

It is archaic and refined.