Chapter 295: True Spirit Gon-ak
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Translated by Frog in the Well
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“Do you mean you are trapped in the Limitless Pure Land…?”
At the words of Gon-ak, whose soil gathered to form the shape of a massive face, Jin So-myeong nodded his head.
“Yes. It has become troublesome. Do you perhaps have any decent method?”
“…”
“If it truly does not work, I intend to cultivate until the Great Circle of the Void Refinement Stage and try to pierce the spatial barrier.”
Gon-ak, who was silent for quite a long time, let out a sigh and shook his head.
“Do not do that. Staying in the Limitless Pure Land for a long time is by no means a wise action.”
“…Is there perhaps another side effect besides aging rapidly?”
“If you are exposed to that person’s gaze for a long time, you might lose your reason and become a lowly creature like me.”
“Ah.”
“The restrictions engraved on the Limitless Pure Land are far more complex than you think. The warp in the passage of time is merely one aspect revealed on the surface among numerous phenomena. Do not let your guard down.”
“Can’t I hold out even for a moment? It does not seem it will take that long until the Great Circle of the Void Refinement Stage.”
“Well… I would not like to recommend it.”
Gon-ak, who trailed off as if pondering something, opened his mouth.
“I would rather help you. If it were elsewhere, it would be difficult, but since this place is the Limitless Pure Land, it will be possible.”
“You will help me, Senior?”
“Yes. If I overstrain myself, I should be able to awaken the power of my original body at least once.”
What did that mean?
Could it be he would rouse the Limitless Pure Land that was outside the sub-space to use an Integration Stage-grade divine ability?
“Will it be alright? Did you not say that you would lose your reason if you go out of the sub-space?”
“I should be able to hold out for just a very brief moment. In the meantime, I will rouse my true body to let you out. As long as my true body does not escape, that person’s gaze will not react either.”
He pondered for a moment, and it seemed to be the best method for now.
“I understand. I do not know what the result will be, but I thank you in advance.”
“Hmm. Then, my true body in the Limitless Pure Land. Gather as much soil as possible. To maintain my reason even briefly on the outside, more soil must be had.”
“Ah, perhaps if there is leeway on the way out, could you mine a mineral for me?”
“What mineral is it for you to ask so?”
“It is because I discovered an incredibly massive Heavenly Lifespan Life-Prolonging Stone. It would be a waste to leave it behind.”
“Heavenly Lifespan Life-Prolonging Stone…? That is not a mineral to be used carelessly.”
“Is there some kind of problem with the Heavenly Lifespan Life-Prolonging Stone?”
He asked because he had to know clearly if there was a serious defect, but the answer was a bit bizarre.
“A True Spirit is originally an existence that awakens by itself from heaven, earth, and nature, so it cannot be completely killed. As long as nature, which can be called the foundation, exists, it will awaken again no matter how many times it is killed.”
Although he wondered what he was suddenly trying to say, he listened quietly for now.
“The Heavenly Lifespan Life-Prolonging Stone is a mineral highly suitable for a True Spirit based on the earth, like me, to be born. Because of that, those people find it offensive.”
“Could it be they monitor each one so that the Heavenly Lifespan Life-Prolonging Stones do not leak out?”
“Monitoring? Haha…”
Gon-ak, who laughed bitterly, shook his head.
“It is not such a grand thing. Finding it offensive is literally just that. Merely due to that, numerous defects have arisen in the Heavenly Lifespan Life-Prolonging Stone. To the extent that if you take it carelessly, you will suffer a miserable fate.”
“Hah.”
Did he mean that merely because they found it offensive, all the Heavenly Lifespan Life-Prolonging Stones existing in the world turned into something like cursed objects?
Gon-ak, who let out a sigh, explained to him about the Heavenly Lifespan Life-Prolonging Stone, and it was a mineral with far more problems than expected.
“…Still, it means the possibility of a problem arising merely from taking it is considerably low.”
“If you isolate it in this mysterious space you call the sub-space, a problem will not arise.”
“Then I ask this of you.”
Although he did not know where he should use the Heavenly Lifespan Life-Prolonging Stone, he wanted to secure it for now.
“Understood. I will attempt it if there is leeway while letting you out.”
After finishing various conversations.
He recovered the consciousness that had resided in the clone and returned to the Limitless Pure Land.
“Everyone, wait a moment. A method worth trying has come to mind.”
“Fellow Daoist Jin?”
He spoke to the group members who were in discussion to escape from the secret realm.
“However, to use this method, a massive amount of soil in the Limitless Pure Land is needed.”
“Soil? Do you mean just ordinary soil?”
“It must be Spiritual Soil in the Limitless Pure Land, not just soil. I intend to use a powerful means, and a massive amount of Spiritual Soil is needed.”
“Hmm… Understood.”
Jeok Song and Ha Do-jin, who seemed to hesitate for a moment, agreed straight away.
To them, who had personally seen the figure of Jin So-myeong fighting Gwang-rim, the words that he would unfold a powerful means did not sound like empty talk at all.
“Is truly fine as long as we gather just soil?”
The Infinite Void Temple elder spoke as if slightly worried, but he could not tell them about Gon-ak.
“Since it is related to a secret transmission, it is difficult to explain in detail, but the possibility of success is considerably high.”
“…Understood.”
Shortly after, the group scattered in all directions, and began to gather a massive amount of soil by unfolding their respective means.
***
The deepest part of the Red Lotus Realm, the land of the Asura race.
The Avici Dao Sovereign, who stood blankly and stared at the cave where not a single speck of light entered, opened his mouth.
“Is the assembly finished?”
“Yes. We have prepared so that we can depart immediately at any time once you give the command.”
Although a great war between the races would soon begin, there was no fear on the face of the Asura who submitted the report.
Rather, he wore a smile as if ahead of a massive festival, and a strange heat even lingered in his eyes.
Windexing a glance at such a subordinate’s figure, the Avici Dao Sovereign turned his gaze again.
Gazing at the dark cave, he spoke.
“How does that cave look to you?”
It was a question whose meaning was difficult to grasp readily.
The faltering subordinate soon answered exactly as it came to mind.
“It looks like a Rank 7 spiritual vein that any cultivator dreams of.”
“In my eyes, it looks like a dried-up well.”
“…Yes?”
“This Rank 7 spiritual vein can be called the symbol and foundation of our Red Lotus Realm. Isn’t that so?”
“That is correct.”
“However, once just two thousand years pass from now, the grade of this spiritual vein will drop to Rank 6.”
“…!”
The subordinate’s eyes grew wide. At the shocking information he suddenly found out, he even forgot to breathe.
To think the Rank 7 spiritual vein, which was absolutely necessary to achieve the Integration Stage Dao Sovereign, would soon disappear.
This was top-secret information related to the survival of the Asura race.
“I and the other Dao Sovereigns have blocked it somehow, but now is the limit.”
“Ah.”
“Once the grade drops, it cannot be reversed. Starting with the Rank 7 spiritual vein, all the spiritual veins in the vicinity will decline.”
While he was out of his mind at the sudden bleak news, the calm voice continued.
“So tell all the Void Refinement Stage cultivators. That if we fail to occupy the land of the human race this time, there is no future for our Asura race.”
“…Yes!”
“If we do not want to dry up and die, we have no choice but to fight. That is our destiny.”
The Avici Dao Sovereign, who turned back with the cave behind him, smirked.
“However, fortunately, our Asura race does not fear fighting. Isn’t that so?”
“That is correct!”
When the Avici Dao Sovereign stepped out of the cave, the vast distance lost meaning.
The wide plain faced in that manner.
Heaven and earth. Wherever one looked, it was packed with Asuras.
They were many.
Tens of millions. No, a grand army exceeding hundreds of millions was lined up to the end of the horizon.
Watching the Asuras filling the plain, filled with a heat difficult to express, the Avici Dao Sovereign nodded his head.
“Set forth.”
At that low word,
BHOOOO…!
along with the sound of a horn that struck the heart, the grand army roused itself.
Over hundreds of thousands of warships. Massive vessels, huge enough to build a city on their decks, soared and covered the sun,
“Bwahahaha! Let’s go!”
“Excellent! The time has finally come!”
“Kuhahaha!”
and transcendents who could split a continent with their bare hands burst into laughter like crazy and traversed the sky.
In that manner.
The grand army that filled the plain marched toward the human territory beyond the Bright Blood Great Valley.
***
Meanwhile, the Limitless Pure Land.
Floating in the sky and looking down at the wide earth, the young man, Jin So-myeong, roused his spiritual power.
RUUUMBLE…!
A massive mountain range crossing the earth vibrated with a rumble, then rose into the air, defying gravity.
The moment Jin So-myeong, who caused a tremendous miracle with a calm expression, extended his palm.
Whoosh!
The mountain range that rose into the sky drew a massive spiral, then was completely sucked into a single small palm.
Just as he was sweeping and packing the soil of the Limitless Pure Land into the sub-space.
BOOM!!
The Primordial One Qi that had been asleep inside his dantian escaped control and dispersed, then caused a super-large explosion.
The reason why the perfectly fine Primordial One Qi caused trouble was…
【Jin So-myeong】
【Lifespan】: 281 / 9,502
【Realm】: Void Refinement Stage 6th Layer
【Supreme Great Ability】: 381.5 billion / 800 billion
【Spiritual Power Amplification】: +197%
【Divine Ability】: <Secret Realm of the Mind>, <Myriad Flows Restoration>
because his realm rose.
But in fact, this time was not the first. It was the second.
Just three hours after being trapped in the secret realm, he became Void Refinement Stage 5th Layer, and now, four hours further past that, he became Void Refinement Stage 6th Layer.
It was thanks to diligently swallowing cultivation pills even while gathering soil, and the speed at which his spiritual power accumulated was to the point of being goosebump-inducing.
‘To think my realm rose by two levels in just seven hours…’
It was not that truly only seven hours had passed.
It was that he felt that way subjectively, and on the outside, more than twenty years had already passed.
Of course, even if it took twenty years, it was true that his realm rose rapidly. It was so fast that even his soul could not keep up.
Indeed, a problem also arose.
His Divine Sense became unstable due to his realm having risen rapidly, and since it seemed trouble would occur if left alone, he had to pour the Supreme Great Ability to stabilize his Divine Soul.
In any case…
although the rise in realm was good, as time passed, his anxiety also grew.
‘I must get out quickly.’
He poured hundreds of billions of points of the Supreme Great Ability to stabilize his spiritual power, and pulled out and scattered transmission talismans.
He was about to gather the group and leave now, but there was no response.
His wonder was brief.
“Fellow Daoist Jin!”
Jeok Song, the only late Void Refinement Stage cultivator among the group, personally came instead of answering.
“You have come. How much soil did you gather?”
“I gathered quite a lot. Perhaps if I pour the soil I gathered into the sea, an island will be created.”
He examined the storage pouch held out proudly, and indeed, it was just as he said. A tremendous amount of soil was contained inside.
“Thank you for your hard work. However, the other members do not receive contact. It seems some kind of problem has arisen.”
“Oh no…”
Jeok Song, who frowned as if worried, went to the Infinite Void Temple elder, and Jin So-myeong went to look for Ha Do-jin.
Since there was no time, they decided to scatter respectively and bring them back, but when he went to find Ha Do-jin, an absurd scene was visible.
“What are you doing right now?”
“…Huh?”
Ha Do-jin, who should be gathering soil, was absorbed in cultivation on an isolated mountain, and he was so focused that he even forgot about the transmission talisman.
Of course, Jin So-myeong had also cultivated, but since he digested the pills using the Chaos Origin Wheel, he did not particularly spend time on it.
In contrast, Ha Do-jin was throwing away all matters and absorbing himself in cultivation.
‘Wow, really.’
Although he was dumbfounded, his curiosity was larger than his anger.
It was because the Ha Do-jin Jin So-myeong knew was a person with clear judgment.
There was no way a loose cultivator who rose to the Void Refinement Stage after undergoing countless trials would be foolish.
‘He must know better than anyone that there is no time to be relaxed…’
Instantly, his gaze was drawn to the sky despite himself.
It felt as if the blazing sun was peering in here.
‘…Could it be that his judgment was clouded because of that?’
The saying that there was nothing good about staying long in the Limitless Pure Land was indeed true.
Although it was difficult to grasp precisely in what manner, there seemed to be a restriction of the sort that ruined one’s reason in that sun as well.
“I am sorry. I meant to replenish my spiritual power briefly, but I fell into cultivation despite myself.”
“In my view, you do not seem to be in your right mind now. It seems to be due to the secret realm restriction, so be careful.”
“Restriction?”
Ha Do-jin, who flinched, frowned, and he seemed to feel something strange only now.
“Anyway, we must get out quickly. How much soil did you gather?”
“Ah, do not worry about that. Since I gathered quite a lot.”
Examining the storage pouch held out, a considerable amount of soil was contained inside.
Should it be called fortunate? It seemed that falling into cultivation was not very long ago.
After a short while.
He joined up with Jeok Song who went to the Infinite Void Temple elder, and the situation on this side was also similar.
The Infinite Void Temple elder, who had fallen into cultivation while trying to replenish his spiritual power, held out the storage pouch containing soil with an embarrassed expression.
“Can we unfold the secret technique with this much soil?”
“Just a moment.”
Leaving behind the group members whose tense expressions were obvious, he deployed a clone to visit Gon-ak in the sub-space.
Gon-ak, who only had a head, had recovered his entire body, including arms and legs, before he knew it, and it was because they gathered a tremendous amount of soil that could be compared to a continent.
“Senior. Will this much be enough?”
“Although it is slightly lacking… since there is no time, let us attempt it. Open the passage leading outside. I will rouse my true body to let you out.”
“Thank you. I will not forget that you helped me this time. If there is some kind of spiritual object you need, please speak. I will try to obtain it if I have leeway.”
It was a word spoken in the spirit of repaying, but Gon-ak merely shook his head.
“Well… it would be better to have this conversation again after you reach the Integration Stage.”
“Let’s do that.”
After recovering the consciousness that resided in the clone.
He told the group to please stay inside the Beast-Taming Pouch for a moment. Since he could not show them Gon-ak, there was no choice.
“Ummm… Understood. Ah, these are the Rank 6 Boundary-Breaking Talismans remaining for us, so please use them.”
“Thank you.”
“I truly hope it succeeds.”
Receiving the two Rank 6 Boundary-Breaking Talismans held out by Jeok Song, he wrapped the Beast-Taming Pouch the group entered with spiritual power and sealed it.
After finishing all preparations in that manner.
He opened the sub-space and awakened Gon-ak.
An instant.
All noise was simultaneously erased. In a strange world where the very concept of sound vanished,
“Ah.”
the endlessly spread-out earth, the Limitless Pure Land, raised its body.
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