Chapter 372: Calling Forth
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The Divine Martial Sword operated a total of ten supreme cultivation techniques, including the ones for the Heavenly Demon, Sword Emperor, Evil Emperor, Martial Immortal, and Blood God.
When he had earlier absorbed the energy the divine being had exerted…
It was something just anyone couldn’t do.
It was an attempt possible only because he possessed an unprecedented body.
He was confident of success.
And
He achieved the expected result.
However, that was merely the starting point, and the real thing begins now.
The expression of the Divine Martial Sword, whose body had twitched, became even more distorted.
A fierce horse is running.
DUDUDUDUDU-
In other words, it was the power generated by the vibrations of energy coursing through the body.
The celestial divine force that had been absorbed was resisting.
As if mocking him, asking if he thought he could easily possess this power.
Soon the pain rapidly increased.
It felt as if countless blades were hacking at every part of his body.
On top of that, shocks also occurred.
KWANG… KWANG… KWANG…
It was a sound that couldn’t be heard, yet its force made his body sway back and forth precariously.
‘Kkeuuuk!’
Even so, he firmly grasped his mental state.
‘I must endure! And I must… forget this! Absorption within absorption… To a samadhi transcending limits…! You cannot… block… me!’
Having shouted inwardly, the Divine Martial Sword harmonized his existing divine power with his cultivation and proceeded down the path of single-minded focus.
Suddenly.
HOOOONG… HOOOONG… HOOOONG…
Transparent ripples spreading roundly while making strange wind sounds.
A strange phenomenon occurring centered on the Divine Martial Sword’s frame.
Cheol Ryu-heun knew what it was.
‘The maximization of soul energy…’
The true nature of the strange phenomenon was a spiritual wave within the mental realm.
PAPAK.
The complexion of Cheol Ryu-heun, who had stepped back, hardened.
‘Ugh! It’s ferocious!’
Tremendous power was felt.
DEUDEUDEUDEUDEU, DEUDEUDEUDEUDEU, DEUDEUDEUDEUDEU…!
The widely spread transparent ripples wildly shook the entire mental realm.
In the midst of that, Cheol Ryu-heun’s entire body tingled.
A powerful energy that even affected spiritual bodies.
Suddenly, the story of the god he served came to mind.
-I shall grant you a portion of my authority. Go. Go and reinforce the walls of the mental image space. So that the Divine Martial Sword can focus solely on enlightenment.
He retreated even further while clicking his tongue.
‘What astounding concentration!’
It was a force that shook the entire mental realm as if ignoring even the arrangement of reinforcement.
Accordingly, the pain assaulting the Divine Martial Sword’s body must be at a level unimaginably severe.
Yet his posture was unyielding.
While showing precarious bodily movements, he was enduring and enduring again to fall into samadhi.
Thus, he couldn’t help but be impressed…
That appearance was not something to be explained simply as the domain of a superhuman.
Divine being.
That’s right.
It felt like facing some divine being striding through the mortal world of the surface.
No.
A divine being and pioneer.
He was creating, through his power alone, a path no one had ever traveled.
While continuously raising the goals and standards of completion by one level at a time.
Thus, he challenges to enter a divine realm above a divine realm.
Moreover, he had not yet failed until now.
The body had been nothing special.
Cheol Ryu-heun’s had been.
Therefore, he had put in double the effort to repay the grace of his master, White Gate Sword Gentleman Sagong Woon.
But the Divine Martial Sword had completely transformed the ordinary body.
Literally, he had created a body that displayed unprecedented mystical applications.
A body that no one in history had ever possessed…
He was a remarkable existence.
Who in this land could imitate him?
Cheol Ryu-heun suddenly recalled what the Divine Martial Sword had said earlier.
-Did I live another life before becoming the Divine Martial Sword?
-I had a strange dream for it to be my own memory. And it wasn’t related to your memories either.
He had answered that he didn’t know anything about that either.
It was the truth.
Since the god had not mentioned anything related to it.
He too was curious about the Divine Martial Sword’s previous life.
Had a human-like self just naturally formed?
Or…
Had he actually been a person in the distant past?
Cheol Ryu-heun quietly gazed at the Divine Martial Sword while thinking about such questions.
Meanwhile,
The Divine Martial Sword strove to create a new mental realm while enduring extreme pain.
The situation was initially easier to focus on the goal he had set than he expected.
Because.
The divine being of heaven had provided an unexpected arrangement.
If not for that, he would have struggled amid those waves.
KWANG… KWANG… KWANG…
Successive intangible shocks caused dizziness.
It was a critical juncture.
If he let go of the string here, it would be the end.
‘Patience and concentration…!’
He thus blazed his goal consciousness with indomitable tenacity.
The entrance to enlightenment lies in forgetting through meditation.
KWANG… KWANG…
At some point, the sounds became distant.
The spirit of the Divine Martial Sword, who had been regulating his breath with eyes closed, finally gathered and clumped into one.
It was the process of gathering essence to transform the spirit.
If he performed that well, he would overcome the initial critical juncture.
SEUUP, HUUU, SEUUP, HUUU…
Stable breathing sounds followed.
The intermittent inhalations and exhalations were finally organized.
Now he had to gather the mental techniques that were connected in principle.
Single mind and will, mind without obstacle, combining qi to respond to spirit, mind without dual use…
It felt as if he stood alone between heaven and earth.
That meant things were going well.
The key was maintenance.
The mental techniques gathered thus ultimately head toward the selfless absorption of whole-body concentration.
However,
It was difficult.
The time required for that process was different from before.
It had been easy back then.
Still, there was no need to panic.
Since it was already within the scope of expectation.
After advancing to whole-body concentration comes refining essence to transform qi.
To reach that path, the Divine Martial Sword exerted extreme concentration and continued his regular inhalations and exhalations.
Time passed once again.
He couldn’t know how much time had passed.
Disconnection from the outside.
That was the beginning.
The mental realm is the inside.
It is a space within the physical body.
Therefore, the present world naturally becomes the outside.
However, he was in the middle of changing that mental realm into the outside again.
That’s right.
By giving birth to yet another mental realm within the mental realm.
The Divine Martial Sword stood at its entrance.
In other words, it is the intersection heading toward ultimate oblivion.
He walked and walked again.
The mental power that gathered the mental techniques devotes itself to an infinite orbit.
Using the power of the physical body whose dantian had disappeared, endlessly…
He had done it like this that time too.
In the forbidden area of the Mount Heng Sect.
However, the difference was that it took more time.
It was the influence of the mysterious power possessed by the Ten Directions Ghost Road Lost Soul Formation.
Everything is within the power of that great nature.
Dongbang Ya’s soul energy pieces, and the Divine Martial Sword’s own mental image.
It seemingly appeared that the mysterious power possessed by the Ten Directions Ghost Road Lost Soul Formation had grown even stronger as the years repeated.
Before long, the Divine Martial Sword, who had rushed into refining essence to transform qi, reached the final destination.
He reached the completion of a new mental realm that placed the existing mental realm as the outside.
Due to that, the celestial divine power gradually melted in.
The energy that had fiercely run wild coursing through his body had calmed down.
Now he advances to the next step.
Refining qi to transform spirit, governing qi to transform it into spirit…
He forgot.
Everything.
Amidst the stoppage of time, uniquely the spirit alone flows.
A state of utmost extreme.
As he broke through yet another limit, a path appeared.
Transcendent concentration guided the Divine Martial Sword himself.
Now the mysterious power of great nature configuring the Ten Directions Ghost Road Lost Soul Formation had to acknowledge him.
Only then could he wholly call forth those external soul energy pieces.
It was the exact same principle as the enlightenment obtained at the Heaven and Earth Demon Buddha Secret Pool.
The Divine Martial Sword, situated in the mental realm within the mental realm, finally unified it into one.
Essence, energy, and spirit.
It was the completion of refining qi to transform spirit.
Next was the path of refining spirit to return to void.
He advances again without even a moment to rest.
To shorten the time.
However, it was different from last time.
At the time he visited the Mount Heng Sect’s forbidden area, he gathered Demonic energy and Celestial energy, compressed them like an inner elixir, and transformed them.
However, here, he had to go through a new process.
Namely, the external soul energy pieces.
The matter of calling them forth and combining them with the celestial energy remained.
To do so… he had no choice but to fight a large-scale battle.
None other than with each of the agonies left behind by Martial Immortal Dongbang Ya.
It was a kind of gateway that would unfold ahead of the final destination, refining spirit to return to void.
Suddenly, the mental realm shook.
KUREUREUREU, KUREUREUREUREU…!
Simultaneously with that sound, the Divine Martial Sword’s eyes opened.
‘Come! Incarnations of agony!’
* * *
Namgung Sang-rin, who was quietly gazing at Cheol Ryu-heun, was startled.
‘Uht!’
The others were the same.
It was because the pillar of light that seemed to connect heaven and earth suddenly vanished.
Immediately after.
The ancient trees positioned like a massive circular formation in the surroundings emitted energy light.
CHWACHWACHWACHWA, CHWACHWACHWACHWA, CHWACHWACHWACHWA-
Beams of light spewing out like clumped lightning.
That series of energy lights was soon drawn to Cheol Ryu-heun.
And
Floatingly.
Cheol Ryu-heun’s body rose up into the empty air.
Looking at that, Hae Su-yeon asked quietly.
“Ah, has it begun?”
Simultaneously with her words, Namgung Sang-rin nodded his head and said.
“Yes, it seems so. Let us also try beginning now.”
The guest retainers as a whole, rapidly exchanging gazes, immediately pasted the talismans onto their chests.
After doing so, they sat down, crossing their legs simultaneously.
They were about to operate some kind of mysterious mental technique arranged by Cheol Ryu-heun.
To shorten the time for achievement.
Meanwhile, Seol Pan-gyo showed a thoroughly nervous complexion.
Hae Su-yeon, observing him, smiled a bright smile and said.
“Huhut, relax your tension.”
At that, Seol Pan-gyo answered with an embarrassed expression.
“I am worried because I am still lacking.”
At that, Mae Yak-bang on one side additionally spoke with a nervous expression.
“I am too. Because I am still lacking, tension naturally…”
“Oh my, what are you saying? While both of you already possess the skill enough to lightly bring a decent expert to their knees. If the other rising stars heard those words, they would probably get angry. Huhut. Please believe in yourselves.”
At that, Cui Lan also sent encouragement.
“Of course! You can do it.”
Next, Namgung Sang-rin, grinning broadly, spoke in a quiet voice.
“Sect Master Cheol selected the guest retainers through trust. So don’t worry. Since there won’t be a possibility of failure.”
Only then did Seol Pan-gyo and Mae Yak-bang, their minds relieved, smile beamingly.
Thus the guest retainers as a whole, closing their eyes, operated the essence of the mental technique and fell into meditation.
* * *
The mental realm outside the mental realm.
The two eyes of the spiritual body Cheol Ryu-heun standing there grew wide.
It was because countless silhouettes surged from all directions of the bright mental realm.
Their number exceeded an astounding several hundred.
‘No…!’
Repeated amazement.
The surging silhouettes were swordsmen possessing the grace of a Daoist immortal.
Moreover, their external appearances were all exactly the same.
The true identities of the silhouettes intruding into the mental realm were Martial Immortal Dongbang Ya.
To be exact, they were incarnations of agony.
Furthermore, without exception, they all gave a brutal feeling.
Regardless of who, one couldn’t find even a speck of a Daoist immortal’s bearing or energy Aura/Aura/bearing.
It was because the dark facets of the mind, each of the agonies, had transformed into Dongbang Ya’s external appearance.
Cheol Ryu-heun was thrilled while watching all of them who came running disappear one by one into the Divine Martial Sword’s body.
‘Don’t tell me… he plans to call them inside and engage in battle? Yes! It’s certain! He’s truly amazing! What an unpredictable method of enlightenment! If this finishes successfully, the Divine Martial Sword, he…!’
Perhaps a new type of divine being unprecedented until now would be made.
On this surface rather than heaven…