Chapter 359: Myriad Forms Dharma Sea Mirror

Thud!

Looking at Yu Cheon, who collapsed without being able to leave a single word of testament, he deployed the Lightning Insight Spell-Breaking Eye.

The Yang Soul that manipulated flames had exploded, and the Yin Soul had its neck severed and even its heart and dantian clove.

After thoroughly checking that Yu Cheon was completely dead and taking his storage pouch, he turned his gaze.

‘What should I do with this?’

He pondered as he looked at the golden bead he had pulled out of Yu Cheon’s dantian.

He properly felt how great of a treasure this bead was while dealing with Yu Cheon.

Because of that, he could not help but feel greed.

If he could only handle it properly, he would be able to obtain tremendous results…

His worry was short.

As it was speculated to be an item touched by a Great Ascension stage cultivator, taking this seemed like it would have more loss than gain.

Crunch!

He clenched his palm. Just as he was about to make it into powder completely.

Ah.

Something went wrong.

His stomach churned. A nausea that felt like vomiting surged, and all the fine hairs on his entire body stood on end.

Dust fluttering in the wind, the earth charred black from being hit by dharma spells, the clouds scattered into pieces with only remnants remaining…

It was the scenery after the battle ended.

The ordinary scenery, with nothing special about it, began to slip slightly out of alignment.

This was as if…

it felt as if the empty space was being filled with something colossal.

His mouth went bone-dry. Out of an unknown anxiety that made him feel he should not stay still,

he threw the bead he was holding. As far as possible, with all his might.

Why he did that, he did not know himself.

It was a judgment made by his instinct, which had been forged while crossing numerous lines between life and death.

And,

he soon learned whether that judgment was right or wrong.

The golden bead, which had been pouring out vast energy while split in half, merged into one again and then began to swell.

Around the time he narrowed his eyes at the sight, which was like cells dividing.

The lump, which became larger than an ordinary building in an instant, was compressed into a disc shape, and the change was so rapid that it could not be blocked.

However…

the shape into which the golden bead transformed was all too familiar.

‘A mirror?’

The ruined battlefield was reflected on the smooth surface.

His eyes met with the entity reflected in the mirror…himself standing while holding a sword.

And he sensed death.

In that instant, he entered the Blood Wings into the sixth circulation.

Beeeep…!

Tinnitus echoed, and his dantian, let alone his meridians, collapsed in real time. Beyond the level of being severed to pieces, it melted away as if evaporating.

Amidst the pain that bleached his mind pure white,

he gathered his fading consciousness and struck down his sword.

………!

Striking his sword toward something approaching at an imperceptible speed…death itself…he was certain.

That this right now was the sharpest sword throughout his entire life.

The blade struck down with all his heart and strength drew a straight line, and…

the sword broke.

‘Ah.’

The half-broken sword bounced and flew away.

The snapped blade brushed past his cheek. Around the time his torn skin split wide open.

Thump!

Strength drained completely from his entire body.

In the world flowing sluggishly, he realized that a hole as large as a head had been pierced in his flank.

‘I almost died.’

If he had not swung his sword just now, his dantian would have been blown away as a whole instead of his flank.

Forcibly grabbing the thread of consciousness right before snapping, he thought.

What on earth was he hit by?

Although a huge hole was pierced in his flank, he could not even grasp what he had been hit by.

While forcibly managing his staggering body, he gripped the half-broken sword.

As he put strength into his brow, his vision, which was turning black, became slightly clearer.

He examined the place where the mirror had been, and a strange figure was standing there.

Should he call it a wooden doll made of gold instead of wood?

The fact that it had two arms and two legs seemed to model it after a human, but it had no facial features at all.

There was only a smooth surface like a mirror in the place where the eyes, nose, and mouth should be.

The moment the doll, which awkwardly resembled a human, looked toward him.

The part assumed to be the face squirmed, and then eye sockets were hollowed out.

Looking at himself reflected on the smooth surface like a mirror, a chilling thought suddenly flashed past.

‘Don’t tell me it is copying my appearance…?’

At the sign of the facial features, including the pupils, beginning to form, he discarded all hesitation.

The Moon-Deducing Dao Scripture.

A single blink’s worth of time, an instant.

An extremely brief time that could not be reached even if split into thousands of pieces.

Along with the flame of burning lifespan, he entered an unknown domain.

An instant.

The Blood Wings entered the sixth circulation, recovering his broken body,

and he deployed the Genesis divine ability.

At the same time as the Supreme Great Ability, which reached 10 trillion, disappeared as if evaporating.

Heaven and earth. All the space within his vision was filled with swords.

They were more than the grains of sand on a beach, more than the stars in the night sky.

A scenery that the nest of Limitless could only reach in the very distant future descended upon the present world.

Hummm…!

The swords filling heaven and earth resonated in unison,

and his entire vision was dyed with flash.

The sword array deployed by countless slashes, the Limitless Sword Heaven.

A silver wave, beautiful to the point of ecstasy, swept over the world.

Amidst the remoteness where everything was finely split,

he felt a goosebump-inducing shudder, and twisted his upper body while simultaneously throwing his head back.

Slash…!

He saw a blade brushing right past his eyes.

Avoiding by a hair’s breadth the sword swung by the golden figure that appeared after piercing Genesis,

he swung the half-broken sword.

Slash!

In a moment where his life was in danger, he took a step forward and blew away its head.

It was an instinctive response that occurred before his reason could even make a judgment.

Clang!

He lightly deflected the sword of the golden figure, which moved even though its neck had been severed.

‘It has slowed down.’

Was its strength exhausted from enduring Genesis?

Looking at it now, its state was a mess.

Its right leg and left arm were gone somewhere, and its body was tattered like rags.

Holes were pierced here and there to the point that the opposite side was visible through them.

It was literally a wreck, but he never let his guard down.

Just maintaining a normal form under the Genesis divine ability made it an absurd monster in the first place.

Slash!

He swung his sword and split it into thousands of pieces entirely.

‘…It is still moving?’

The golden lump, smaller than a fingernail, squirmed and tried to gather into one again.

To think its function was still alive even though it had been split into thousands of pieces.

It was to the point of being absurd, but fortunately, the speed at which the fragments moved was very slow.

As he did not feel the same intimidation as at first, it seemed its strength was indeed exhausted.

Looking at the golden fragments slowly gathering, he pondered.

‘No matter how I look at it, it doesn’t seem like a living creature… Is it a combat weapon like a puppet?’

How on earth should he handle this?

Even though he examined it with his reinforced Lightning Insight Spell-Breaking Eye, he could not get a grasp on it.

He wanted to cleanly eliminate it so there would be no aftermath if possible, but it was difficult.

Since even the Genesis divine ability could not completely destroy it, an ordinary method would not stand a chance.

‘Should I swallow it with the Chaos Origin Wheel?’

If he could only digest it completely, he would be able to obtain a considerable benefit…

Honestly, he was worried about the side effects.

As it was an item related to a Great Ascension stage cultivator no matter how he looked at it, he needed to be careful.

Should he just discard it and leave?

Yet it was too wasteful to do so. Since it was a treasure with considerable potential, he did not want to give up on it just because it was unsettling.

‘Let’s take it for now.’

After separating sub-spaces to create thousands of isolation spaces, he stored the golden fragments one by one separately.

He squeezed out his dharma power to envelop the golden fragments, and sealed them using various other means as well.

‘This level should be fine…’

Since a problem might arise, he entrusted the management to his clone.

It seemed he could store it like this until he found out information about the golden bead.

‘This is done.’

He examined the surroundings, and it was quiet. There was nothing moving.

Finally, the situation was over.

The three Dao Sovereigns who had lured him here were also not visible; it was unknown whether they were dead or alive.

He had seen them vomiting blood from being swept up in the aftermath of the battle, but he had not been able to pay attention to them after that.

‘Did they flee?’

Pondering whether he should track them, he just shook his head.

It might be a slightly harsh thing to say, but they were not even worth spending time on.

Sorting out what he had realized while fighting and preparing for the battle that would soon follow came first.

“Phew…”

While managing his mind and body with a light, deep breath, he examined the half-broken sword and the Limitless.

***

A certain ruin.

On the earth devastated as if a huge typhoon had clawed and passed by, a middle-aged man whose entire body was covered in blood lay collapsed.

“Uuuugh…”

Just as he was writhing on the ground to somehow get up.

An old man who was sipping wine from a gourd, Gok Man, approached and stretched out his hand.

He took away the storage pouch hung on his waist, but the man could not resist.

“Ugh.”

Glaring with grit teeth was the entirety of what he could do.

Gok Man, who glanced at the rendered-powerless man, lightly tapped the storage pouch, and a gray bead popped out.

“No!”

Simultaneously with the scream, the entire area was enveloped in a bizarre silence.

The flow of air, which was considered like a background because it was so natural, and all the wind existing within the nearby hundred thousand li stopped abruptly.

Even though he did not particularly inject any energy, the wind disappeared just by the bead appearing.

Although it was a strange phenomenon, Gok Man was indifferent.

“As expected, it was a counterfeit. The name Heaven-Stabilizing Life-Preserving Bead is a waste on it.”

“…Did you come because of the rumor that I possessed a Heaven-Defying Treasure?”

“Indeed.”

At the indifferent answer containing no emotion, the devastated man dropped his head.

This was because he realized that what he struggled with using all his might was merely a routine chore to the old man.

Crunch!

Gok Man, who made the Heaven-Stabilizing Life-Preserving Bead into powder with a light gesture, flung the storage pouch onto the ground and turned around.

At the sight of him trying to leave just like that, the man who had prepared for death hesitated.

“Don’t tell me you intend to spare me? Why on earth?”

“Haha. Are you complaining even though I spared your life? If you wish to die, just say the word. I shall end it cleanly.”

“…”

“Turn your attention away from things like Heaven-Defying Treasures and just enjoy the rest of your life. That will be beneficial to you as well.”

The man, who stared blankly at Gok Man sipping from the gourd, opened his mouth without realizing it.

“Why does someone as strong as you not aim for the Great Ascension stage? If it is you, it should be possible.”

“…”

Gok Man, whose footsteps slowed down for a moment, shook his head.

“Because I saw it.”

“What…?”

Gok Man did not answer. He mounted a giant crane and departed just like that.

A moment later.

Gok Man, who was lying on the back of the crane traversing the sky and drinking from his gourd, paused.

News was delivered through a sound transmission talisman, and it was a strange piece of news that made his brow furrow.

“Yu Cheon is dead?”

An incomprehensible thing happened.

According to the news delivered, he went to test Jin So-myeong and his soul tablet shattered just like that.

Could he have been defeated by Jin So-myeong?

Of course, since Jin So-myeong was also not an ordinary being, he might be defeated; that much was fully possible.

But Yu Cheon, who had obtained the opportunities of the Heavenly Law Palace, was dead? That was an impossible matter.

Even.

“To think he even lost the Myriad Forms Dharma Sea Mirror…”

The Myriad Forms Dharma Sea Mirror, which normally existed in the form of a golden bead, was a treasure harboring vast energy.

Because it was an absurdly large amount of energy, it was even possible to revive a damaged soul, but this was actually merely a side effect.

The true ability of the Myriad Forms Dharma Sea Mirror was revealed when the bead was broken or the owner died.

The death of the owner meant that he had not performed the mission of the Heavenly Law Palace properly.

When the Myriad Forms Dharma Sea Mirror returned to its mirror form, it erased everything existing in the entire area.

And then it returned to the Heavenly Law Palace on its own…

It was said that not only was Yu Cheon’s soul tablet shattered, but even the Myriad Forms Dharma Sea Mirror had disappeared.

Did it mean Jin So-myeong was strong enough to overcome the Myriad Forms Dharma Sea Mirror?

“…”

Gok Man, who was so absorbed in thought that he even forgot to drink wine, let out a deep sigh.

In any case, it had become troublesome.

Yu Cheon, whom he had spent hundreds of years painstakingly teaching, had died.

Although achieving success at a young age made him strong-willed and arrogant, which was a flaw, his talent was decent.

Since he had also developed some attachment in his own way, he could not help but feel bitter.

Splash!

Gok Man, who was silent in mourning while spraying wine in the air, turned his flight direction.

As a commotion would have broken out by now, he headed toward the headquarters of the Heavenly Law Palace.