A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation Chapter 778 Chapter 774: Will of Gold

Woo-wooong-

At the very top of the battlefield where countless divine spirits wage an all-out war.

There, a pair of gigantic Mountain Divine Spirits are in a brief lull.

Between the two divine spirits, a small, manifested Heavenly Domain exists, and inside that Heavenly Domain, the wills of the two divinities are felt. And at a certain moment,

Kuuuuuuu!

The massive bodies of the two Mountain Divine Spirits that have fallen in a lull begin to move.

It begins with the fist of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity.

Pakwakwang!

The fist of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity, imbued with dark-red light, lands a direct hit on the faceless, hazy pale head of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord. Then, the Sword Mountain Devil Lord likewise swings a colorless, faint sword made with a golden hilt, aiming for the shoulder of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity. Tiiing-

Kwajjijijik!

With a clear sword cry, from the Great Mountain Supreme Deity's shoulder blade down to the groin is torn away as-is.

The blade is exceedingly sharp, but because the target is the Great Mountain Supreme Deity, it only tears away rather than cuts.

And using that as the starting point, the two Mountain Divine Spirits start trading blows again.

Offense and defense go back and forth.

The Sword Mountain Devil Lord grips the sword and unleashes several thrusts.

Thrusts that transcend spacetime tear off the light of radiance overlaid upon the world, and shoot forth, overlapping within the same time point from the future to past.

The Great Mountain Supreme Deity's fist likewise takes all those thrusts with their bare body, and their whole body formed of dark-red light heats up even more, glowing a fierce red.

In an instant, the fist they throw starts pushing back the surrounding phenomena.

Rules are pushed back.

The world is pushed back.

Chaos is pushed back.

They pack all of it into a single strike and rend it apart.

Within the barrage of those countless wild strikes, the mere aftershock lacerates and rips apart the entire body of the Silver Nameless Heavenly King Oh Hyun-seok, who was aiming for yet another strike, and flings him away.

By the vibrations alone when they collide, the Radiance Seven Immortals and the Ender's party, who are fighting an all-out battle, enter a brief lull and look their way.

Not only the Ender's party, but the Radiance Seven Immortals as well, know that if they bring down their current opponents, they must join either the Sword Mountain Devil Lord or the Great Mountain Supreme Deity and kill the other.

However, in that brief moment, all of them can only think of one thing.

Even if they wedge themselves in among those wild strikes, no matter whose side they take, would it not be a dog's death?

Anyone who sees that terrifying exchange, where with every clash a Heavenly Domain is born and destroyed in each other's hands, can only have such a thought.

And, fascinated by the splendor of such exchanges, everyone except the Underworld fails to notice something.

Within the Heavenly Domains that are born and annihilated with each and every strike in the Great Mountain Supreme Deity and the Sword Mountain Devil Lord's exchange, a flash of radiance glitters. "Is the best you came up with merely dragging my main consciousness down with you to mortality?"

Gwak Am snorts.

Then right away, he stretches his hand into the void and clenches his grip.

At that moment,

Pakwagwang!

Heaven and Earth hum, and outside the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain, the main body of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity smashes my main body.

"Not even close. In the end, it is impossible to sever the link between my main consciousness and my main body. Even if my consciousness is jammed in here, I only have to remotely control my main body...!"

Kwrurururu!

From all over Gwak Am's body, an overbearing might that seems about to crush the entire Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain pours out.

And in that fleeting instant.

I stomp my foot as-is.

My new form, kicking off the nebula, shoots out and slams straight into Gwak Am's chest.

The sword will in my hand pierces straight through his chest, flinging the bastard all the way back to where the blue giant star is and slamming him into the star's surface. Severing Mountain Swordsmanship, the Thirty-Fourth Move.

Kunlun!

Hit by the strongest thrust, he coughs up blood in a gush, and for a moment the link of his consciousness wavers.

I seize that gap and move my main body to tear off the bastard's main body's shoulder blade.

"Try controlling it well."

Recalling one of my masters as I fell down to mortality, I look at Gwak Am, in whom a gap forms in controlling his main body.

"A master of mine is the Mad Lord."

I may not like it, but my puppetry originates from the Mad Lord.

"A main body of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity that moves only by remote control, I can beat it as much as I like!"

"You do have many masters, you loose bastard. I have only one master...! If it is that one, it is enough!"

Kwaaaaaang!

With Gwak Am's shout, his kick pushes my chest away.

And main body to main body.

Consciousness body to consciousness body, a great battle begins.

"Guaaaaaaa!!!"

Gwak Am and I charge at each other and compete in strength.

Grabbing each other's hands, in the very middle of the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain, we roar like beasts.

In a contest of strength, his victory is only natural.

Uduk, ududududuk...!

My hand starts to crumple, and once he seizes the upper hand, Gwak Am starts absorbing the surrounding stars and nebulae as if to crush me outright. [Hear me, stars of the nations. By the command of the Mountain Divine Spirit, attend to me.]

That single utterance is the end.

All the star veins and starlight of the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain start pouring into Gwak Am.

His divine might overwhelms me and starts directly crushing my whole body.

Tut tuk, tuk!

I sheathe the Impermanence Sword over my leg and kick at Gwak Am's leg that is standing on the nebula, severing the spiritual vein within his body.

His leg, whose spiritual vein is suddenly severed, wobbles, and using that break in balance I grab Gwak Am's body and flip him over.

Tududukk!

Right after, I tear off the arm caught by Gwal Am and regenerate it, nd activate the power of the Impermanence Sword. Impermanence Sword.

Authority.

White Orchid!

Chuhwaaaaak!

Upon Gwak Am's body, which is drawing in the power of all the star veins, the power of blessing overlays, and I drive the surging blessing into an explosive rush. Unable to withstand the power amplified by blessings, Gwak Am's upper body directly bursts apart.

But instantly regenerating within the shock of his upper body exploding, Gwam Am extends his hand toward me.

"Hear me, stars of the nations."

Kugugugu!

All sorts of stars are summoned around us.

A neutron star spinning with mad speed appears behind me, to the point it seizes me with attraction force as if to tear me apart.

"In the name of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity, I declare."

In that instant when I am caught by the neutron star.

Gwak Am carries on his decree.

Oooooooo-

The stars answer.

"I shall drive nails into a fourth of the night sky."

Wooo-woooong!

In Gwak Am's left hand, the dark-red light of Annihilation Advancement Wu becomes a spear that he holds.

In Gwak Am's right hand, the dark-red light of Annihilation Advancement Wu congeals and emits an ominous vibration like an evil spirit.

"In that nailing, the stars shall collapse, and a tidal wave shall rise to the heavens." Impermanence Sword.

Authority.

"The fool shall have his chest caved in, and his mountain shall be broken in the same quarter."

Hwoong!

Gwak Am throws the spear of Annihilation Advancement Mu toward the sky of the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain.

Yin Soul Flower()!

Immediately after, his fist sends a fist strike toward that spear as if hammering a nail.

Jjeojeojeojeojeong!!

"He shall dare not oppose the true Owner of the Mountain!"

The sky of the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain collapses.

Countless stars and star veins collapse, and a quarter of the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain is swept clean away.

A corner of the Heavenly Domain blows open, and all the stars and attraction forces of the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain begin to be sucked toward the ruptured part.

And, at the cost of one quarter of the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain, the curse Gwak Am laid upon me through Impermanence Sword slams down on me, and a hole pierces my chest open. With that, I of course realize that a quarter of my Entering Nirvana stage cultivation has evaporated.

Worse, along the hole in my chest, my cultivation is being lost in real time.

"You want to move the battlefield, is it?"

I quickly clamp down on my entire body's spiritual veins to stop the loss of realm, drive out the curse of the Impermanence Sword, and grip my sword.

Kiiiiing-

Leaving the collapsing Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain behind, I charge straight at Gwak Am.

Gwak Am wildly grabs and throws the debris of the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain toward me, but I let them flow past very softly as I take a step forward. Severing Mountain Swordsmanship.

Fourth Move.

Flowing Ridge!

A thrust like the winding ridgeline of a mountain reaches Gwak Am's neck again in an instant.

Kicking off space, I press the very tip of Gwak Am's neck with the sword tip and shoot toward the far-off land I see in the distance.

We fall like meteors onto a stretch of land.

A Sword Mountain Hell, where countless swords of glass stick up in jagged spikes!

That place is where my main body is in the midst of battle with the main body of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity.

Jjeoooooong!

My main body extends a single sword imbued with cosmic authority.

The main body of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity extends a single palm imbued with the authority of Annihilation Advancement Mu and flicks the sword away. Between those shockwaves, yet another Heavenly Domain is born.

And Gwak Am, whose neck is briefly pressed by my sword tip while falling, lets out a lion's roar.

"Do not be mistaken."

Jjjeong!

At his lion's roar, the spiritual veins throughout my body rip apart, and I am flung straight off the forearm of my main body.

Tuwung!

Gwak Am's mortal body stomps off my forearm and shoots toward at me.

I try to evade, but with the Impermanence Sword and Retribution Enforcement wrapped over his whole body, dodging is impossible. Tukwaaang!!

He thrusts his shoulder and body slams me, hurling my body into the newly formed Heavenly Domain far away.

That Heavenly Domain, born from the collision of the main body of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity and my main body.

The dimensional veil of that Heavenly Domain directly pierces open and easily accepts us.

'This place...'

I realize the newly created Heavenly Domain is familiar.

Amazingly, the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain collapsed by Gwak Am's hand.

Yet the new Heavenly Domain is likewise identical to the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain.

'Did Kang Min-hee's Fallen Flower fix all the Heavenly Domains born and annihilated during our battle into the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain...!'

But without a moment to grasp the situation, Gwak Am, who pushed me into the new Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain, moves his giant frame, spins once, and drives his elbow down onto my face. Kwachangchang!

I bounce off to the red giant star behind my back, and even after I smash apart the red giant star, I keep shooting forward.

"Even if I fall into a mortal body."

Impermanence Sword.

Heavenly Shatter!

The starlight of the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain seems to settle into Gwak Am's arm.

Corpse Mountain Blood Sea (UÚÐ)

Authority.

Reprimand ().

The dark-red blood robe covering Gwak Am's body, sprouting with painful faces, vomits glaring red light and defiles the starlight the Impermanence Sword gathers.

"The enlightenment of a transcendent alone remains unchanged!!"

Heaven and Earth rumble.

A trajectory of dark-red light smashes spacetime, chases me down, and directly strikes my abdomen.

My whole body literally folds in half, undergoing the experience of my own lips pressing my thighs, and as I get hit by Gwak Am's single punch, I once more pierce through countless stars as I fly and spit blood.

"Immortal Cultivation is repentant enlightenment..."

Gwak Am starts chanting the Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra.

I also spread both hands and begin to recite the same mantra.

"Immortal Cultivation is repentant enlightenment..."

Wo-woooong!

The attraction force of the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain reaches its peak.

Normally, mere bugs at the Entering Nirvana stage reciting a single mantra would not affect the universe, but when two Mountain Divine Spirits-whose are only Entering Nirvana in weight class, yet each possesses Governing Immortal level enlightenment and understanding of the mantra-recite the mantra, the situation changes.

The entire Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain resonates.

"Like tiny grains of salt gathering to form the sea."

"Build mountains through repentant enlightenment."

"Build mountains through repentant..."

The attraction force amplifies to its peak, and the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain, which has been gradually expanding, begins to contract.

"Each to one another holding hands.

"With everyone at the sea, drink salt."

"Each to one another holding hands.

"With everyone at the sea, drink salt."

As the universe contracts, the world gradually becomes hot.

Heaven and Earth begin to fill with light and heat.

"And with the wind, soar."

I recall the moment I realized this maxim of the Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra.

That was exactly when the Wuji Religious Order was massacred by Gwak Am.

Gwak Am also seems to know it as in his eyes lies an intent as if to say, 'Bow down in prostration'.

As if someone like me does not even deserve to recite the mantra.

We begin to recite the mantra aloud, but our mantra, resonating with the entire universe, gradually takes on spirituality and becomes mental speech.

Thanks to that, even as the universe is perishing, we can still hear each other's voices distinctly.

[For that is how one reaches the peak of the mountain.]

[Like combining all intents turns them colorless.]

Gwak Am chants the orthodox Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra, and I chant my Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra that I partially altered, and as our mantras diverge, we begin to recite slightly different

maxims.

However, even as we do so, the feeling of the universe being sucked into our hands does not diminish at all.

The resonant phenomenon of our mantras ringing together does not end either.

[Like combining all intents turns them colorless.]

[Embrace all connections and become impermanence.]

Kiiiiiing!

The Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain perishes, by no more than two whose weight class is only Entering Nirvana stage.

Jjeojeojeojeojeok!

The Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain that contract splits cleanly into two, and are sucked into my and Gwak Am's hands and contract to a single point.

[Embrace all connections and become impermanence.]

[For that is how one reaches the stars.]

The Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain held in my hand becomes a star.

The Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain held in Gwak Am's hand becomes a vortex of impermanence.

Kururururu!

Through that vortex, Gwak Am draws a golden spiraling dragon and coils it around his right arm.

I bring my sword down on the star in my hand and directly shatter it.

The starlight made by compressing half of the universe scatters at a single sword strike and becomes a pale mist.

Kururung!

Gwak Am spreads five fingers.

Seeing that, I recall a claw method.

And the next moment,

Gwak Am's bizarre claw method, wreathed with the golden spiraling dragon, shoots at me with its maw opened.

Kwarurung!

To me who reached the Ultimate of Martial Arts, many openings are visible, but the power contained within is at a level I cannot take lightly.

An overwhelming tyrannical force that does not even allow the thought of piercing into the grain of power!

At his single strike that contains power that cannot even be offset by a matching thrust, I can only endure.

The golden trajectory envelops me as is.

In the golden storm, I take all the storm's power with my body and, with breathing, I let those spiritual energies flow into my spirit veins and compress them.

'Return it!'

But I realize where this golden dragon has led me and flinch in surprise.

'This place is...'

Just as I rammed Gwak Am onto the arm of my main body,

Gwak Am's strike drove me straight down onto the shoulder of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity's main body.

Kugugugung!

Instead of sending the power of the golden claw infused into my sword through Echoing Valley back at Gwak Am, I must use it on the corpses of the Corpse Mountain Blood Sea that sweep over me.

Shukwaang!

The golden sword energy slices clean through the peaks of the Corpse Mountain Blood Sea.

[Guaaaaaaa!]

Yet I frown as I block the massive body of Gwak Am that plunges down at me in the fleeting gap.

'If even a single drop, a single fragment of the Corpse Mountain Blood Sea of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity's main body touches Gwak Am, Great Mountain Pressing Down will be immediately

nullified.'

Huuup-

I steady my breath.

Before Gwak Am returns his consciousness to his main body.

I, with all focus, stomp my foot.

Kwaaang!

Impermanence Sword.

Mysterious Bizarre.

A new circuit, the combination of the Impermanence Sword's circuit and the Imperial Throne Circuit I received from Bong Myeong, spreads out from my foot.

The circuits erode a part of the Corpse Mountain Blood Sea in an instant.

The greatest ability of this circuit that began from the Mad Lord is erosion.

The pale white mist I created by shattering the star I compressed from the Heavenly Domain is a