Chapter 443: Reaching

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The boy shouted with a wondrous expression.

“Woooow!”

The aged villager’s cry of shock followed.

“Eoeok! th, that……!”

The Mo Ye Sword that had soared high into the sky instantly disappeared into the distance like an extreme-fast flash.

“Grandfather, grandfather! did you see? the Sword went flashing up into the sky!”

“Y…… Yes. I… saw it too.”

The stammering old man’s mind went blank.

It was truly a shocking strange phenomenon.

What on earth was this?

A sword flying up into that sky while madly spewing light as if alive.

‘Good heavens……’

For a brief moment, he thought perhaps he had seen an illusion.

But that roof with a large hole gaping through it told him it had really happened.

Besides, his young grandson’s excited reaction also supported that it was a clear fact……

Soon he pinched one cheek lightly.

It hurt.

It wasn’t a dream.

That being so, the feeling of shock was even greater.

‘I’ve lived nearly eighty years, But this is the first time something this astonishing……’

Then he suddenly realized.

That today’s events must be quietly buried.

It was a kind of intuition born from experience.

That is, a warning sent by instinct.

‘Hmmm, this is something that won’t be beneficial to us.’

Thus the old man diverted his excited grandson’s attention.

“Aren’t you hungry? Shall we grill some rabbit meat and eat it?”

At that sound, the boy’s expression changed.

“Ah! can we eat it? But that rabbit meat is……”

“Heo-heot. good Lad, you’re already worrying about money? it’s fine. grandfather can later catch a few more and sell them. nothing is too precious for your mouth. come, without any worries, go to the kitchen and bring it.”

“Okay! But grandfather, that Sword……”

“I think maybe your mother and Father who are in Heaven suddenly missed your face and sent it.”

At the old man’s words, the boy brightened greatly.

“Ah! R, really?”

“Yes, heo-heot. they must be saying Thank you Because we held a memorial service for them not long ago.”

“Wow, Wow! that’s amazing!”

“So don’t tell anyone about it. understood? if other people find out about today’s events, the God in Heaven might get angry and it could become hard for Mommy and daddy to visit again. it’s a miraculous secret just for our Family. do you understand?”

“Okay, okay! Yes, grandfather!”

“Now, today this old grandfather will stop working too, and after we eat until we’re full, I’ll play with you until evening. how about it?”

“Yay! Heehee! then let’s play hide and seek later!”

“Alright, alright. ah-heo-heot.”

* * *

The entrance to darkness opened in the center of the sky.

Currently, Cheol Ryu-heun was shuddering as he gazed at it.

Wang-ryu, approaching while parting through the energy Divine Wind was emitting, was completely unaware of the series of visions.

In that midst, conviction coiled in Cheol Ryu-heun’s heart.

‘The Great Universe! certainly!’

A change occurred in an instant.

Everything entering his eyes was suddenly slowing down.

How to describe it… it was as if an energy that transcended the laws of time and space was at work.

There was one phenomenon similar to this.

The so-called domain called hyperperception.

Indeed.

The extreme awakening of senses belonging to the superhuman realm.

If one awakens that ability, the flow of time within space noticeably slows down relative to reality.

But it was merely similar, that was all.

Extreme hyperperception belongs to physical ability.

Yet this right now was qualitatively different.

It felt as though space and time themselves were being dominated by some unknown mysterious energy.

In other words, it was an absolute power difficult to resist.

It was surely a kind of mysterious supernatural force emitted from beyond the entrance to the Great Universe.

That was guiding Cheol Ryu-heun.

No, to be precise, it meant the spiritual body, not the physical body.

‘Let’s go up!’

He surrendered his body as it was.

It was hard to resist, but he had no such intention in the first place.

Because he well knew this was another process of achievement.

Right then.

-This old man is…… Gan Jiang.

A voice reaching Cheol Ryu-heun’s ears as his body left and floated up.

It was the voice uttered by the old man, who had appeared through the Gan Jiang, as if through a magnificent Sound Transmission.

‘Gan Jiang!’

He was startled inwardly.

To think that old man was the soul of the legendary swordsmith Gan Jiang himself, who had crafted the Gan Jiang in ancient times.

-I’ll be going for a moment.

At those words of Cheol Ryu-heun, Gan Jiang nodded.

-Do so. I shall wait with her.

Cheol Ryu-heun’s gaze, floating up into the sky, shifted to somewhere on the ground.

Toward the being Gan Jiang had just referred to as ‘her.’

Divine Wind…… no, Cho-hui.

Suddenly, memories of past days flashed by.

Previous life.

The last memory with Cho-hui.

-Sob…… If we go like this, everyone will die. So from now on, please think of me as dead……

-No, he must be stopped. His tyranny has reached its extreme.

-But how……

-Don’t cry. There is one way to end everything.

-Pardon……?

-I’ll make a sword and put my soul into it.

-What does that……?

-A secret art I learned during the period when I was presumed dead as a fallen soldier…… I’m going to use that. It’s the final means to set everything right.

-Wait! That thing about putting in your soul, what does it mean?

-……

-Please tell me! Hurry!

-My…… Death.

-Oh, no……!

-I have steeled my heart. What you said earlier…… I think I must say it instead. Now…… Think of me as dead.

-Sob……! I don’t want to. No, I won’t listen. If I’m left alone, how am I supposed to live……

-I’m sorry. I devoted my body and mind and protected the country…… But I couldn’t protect you. But the sword I’ll trade my life for…… Will be able to protect you.

-Sob…… Please……

-It was my dream to leave with you for a quiet place and live there…… Why did it come to this? Yes, cry. For today only, cry to your heart’s content. And when dawn breaks…… Don’t show your tears anymore. So that he won’t notice……

It was a memory from over a thousand years ago, from when he was Bai Chu.

From that time when he was called the Military God bestowed by Heaven……

He was curious.

When had she been reincarnated as Divine Wind?

Yesterday, the divine being had said.

-A god is also a being belonging to the order established by great nature. Therefore, one cannot freely come and go between heaven and earth. If certain conditions are met…… Only then does intervention become possible.

Then was Cho-hui’s reincarnation also an arrangement from Heaven like his own?

To prevent the collapse, the signs of destruction of this world?

The last conversation he recalled followed.

-Why was it you among the various divine beings said to be there who connected with me? This is an entirely natural question, isn’t it? You said causality. Could it be my previous life and……

-If there is something you’re curious about, find out for yourself. I have no more to say. I shall quietly watch the outcome from this sky.

‘Probably they’re watching from that sky right now too?’

Such Cheol Ryu-heun observed the situation on the ground.

The energy that Cho-hui, having become Divine Wind, was emitting was very powerful.

Wang-ryu was approaching while parting through that with his strength.

Slowly, slowly.

A scene of time that was almost as if frozen.

Everything looked sluggish enough to make one yawn.

For Cheol Ryu-heun himself, it was a golden opportunity to reverse the tide of battle.

By entering the Great Universe as is and achieving a new martial attainment……

He soon withdrew his gaze and cried out inwardly.

‘You were…… my precious dream! Cho-hui! wait just a little!’

The moment he neared the entrance to the Great Universe, light burst forth.

FLASH!

A space of vision compressed into a strange form.

It felt like he was passing rapidly through a corridor made of light.

Then.

CHEUCHEUCHE UCHEUCHEU……

The great light that had filled his eyes hazily scattered and cleanly vanished.

Only then did Cheol Ryu-heun survey what lay ahead.

Five people standing on a desolate land with nothing.

The sky was brilliant.

Unfamiliar constellations were embedded countless in the air.

It was a different background from the human world.

How could there possibly be that many stars in the night sky?

Besides, moons were visible too.

Not just one.

Fully ten or so.

Of course, their appearances also differed from the moon of the human world.

Also, some appeared large and some small.

Cheol Ryu-heun felt it again and again.

That he had reached the so-called Great Universe, where infinite space, endless order, and unobstructed principles are harmonized.

Right then.

SEUK.

One person took a step and quietly approached before him.

It was a movement where one couldn’t tell if he was walking on the ground or floating lightly.

The remaining four were positioned behind and not moving.

Cheol Ryu-heun, gazing closely at the face of the one who had approached, quietly asked.

“Is this place…… the Great Universe?”

“Hut, you must have already felt it. it’s been a truly long time Since we’ve had a conversation.”

The one who answered with a faint smile was Blood God Mu-wol.

“Did you come here right after your life in the mortal world ended?”

“It wasn’t immediate.”

“You all are…… Divine beings, I take it?”

“Yes. we oversee the order of the galaxy that includes the human world.”

“Galaxy……?”

“Don’t try to know too much all at once. someday you too will have a day When you access information recorded in the Great Universe like us……”

“It’s not yet time?”

“Correct.”

“Good, then let me ask again. did you call me? or…… did I call you?”

“Both.”

Cheol Ryu-heun’s question continued after hearing Blood God’s answer.

“Did the path naturally open as I reclaimed my name?”

“Correct.”

“Looking at it, you already know about my previous life?”

“Of course. the mysterious supernatural force of this Great Universe conveyed part of the information of all creation.”

“Do I come to realize a new power here?”

Thereupon Blood God smiled and quietly shook his head.

“No.”

“Then?”

“After first receiving the power…… that achievement depends on your will.”

“Receive…… power?”

“Divine energy.”

“……!”

“You…… obtained the qualification by operating Divine energy in a new way. the qualification to communicate with us, I mean. Hu, Honestly, I was surprised. I didn’t expect we’d meet again like this in just one day. Anyway, the time has come to reward that accomplishment with Divine energy.”

“Wait, so you’re saying you’re going to give me your power?”

“Come, there’s no time. receive it.”

No sooner had Blood God’s words ended than he explosively released a great ray of light from his eyes.

SSWAAAAAAAAAA… !

Cheol Ryu-heun, enveloped in that ray of light, instantly felt as if his entire body was becoming powder.

Simultaneously, he intuited.

That the third Pulverizing the Void Realm was beginning.

The moment the entire ray of light was absorbed into his body, Cheol Ryu-heun’s consciousness faded away.

In that midst, he had the feeling of falling toward the ground.

‘Ah…… am I being sent back to earth…… like this?’

His vision turned black.

Right at that moment, Blood God’s voice was heard.

Like a faint echo.

-You will surely be able to awaken even the portion of divine energy permitted by the creator god of the Great Universe.