A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation Chapter 807 Chapter 803: A Regressor's Tale of Cultivation

16th cycle.

If he splits his complete body into three aspects and clings to the Enders, then should an existence equal to or greater than Hong Fan Gu Ju attack him in the meantime, he would be completely defenseless.

Creator Gods who create worlds.

Or great divinities at the level of Creator Gods who possess Divine Arts.

If they are beings of a rank beneath that, they can be dealt with even if Hong Fan is split into three aspects, but if an attack at the level of Divine Arts comes in, it is dangerous.

Of course, even so, Hong Fan Gu Ju is confident that he can respond, and he has made various arrangements so that, should such a situation arise, he can immediately launch a counterattack or buy time to return to his complete body.

The most representative among them is the Future King's Three Heavenly Treasures.

Through those, he has prepared so that, when he becomes incomplete, they can use, in his stead, the Future King's three Great Mantras-Radiance, Immortal Cultivation, and Splitting Heaven-allowing him to block divinities that attack from outside.

The Sumeru Three Heavens Great Thousand World wields the mantra of Immortal Cultivation.

The Heavenly Void Furnace wields the mantra of Radiance.

The First Light wields the mantra of Splitting Heaven.

Through the Three Heavenly Treasures, he made arrangements so that, if an external existence assaults the Gestation World, they can buy him time.

These three mantras, from the time when Hong Fan first created them, are mantras he created and evolved with the assumption that, should the existences called the Three Daos be personified gods that oppose him, they will be used to confront it.

The power that, resisting connection, becomes complete in solitude, and at the end reaches the formula of Primordial Chaos in order to confront the unreasonable and imprecise Miracle.

Immortal Cultivation.

The power that endlessly turns the timeline backward and creates it anew, twisting and reversing existing history so that, with the darkness of Heuk Sa, it can devour and subdue the light of explosions.

Radiance.

The power that, in direct opposition to attraction force whose nature is to condense, splits and separates all things, so that, with the light of a will resolved to die, it can tear apart the darkness of the heavens.

Splitting Heaven.

Just as the Three Absolutes combine to become the Creator God's will and authority of omnipotence,

The combination of the mantras of Immortal Cultivation, Radiance, and Splitting Heaven-each meant to oppose the Three Absolutes of Miracle, History, and Fate—is in itself a means of resisting omnipotence.

With these three mantras, he can resist a Creator God, and when combined, they can become equal to the ultimate technique [Hope].

Therefore, even if the faces of Hong Fan Gu Ju are split so that he cannot properly use his power, as long as his arrangements of the three Great Mantras simply activate...

That then is a defensive system that can neutralize at least one strike from great divinities of otherworlds and Creator Gods, and thereby open a gap in which he can return to his complete body.

They also serve as help that allows him to clean up even when the aspects of Hong Fan Gu Ju occasionally make mistakes while dealing with Enders.

For example, to clean up the matter of the Ender named Seo Eun-hyun having taken Hong Fan Gu Ju's body and to take back the Radiance Mantra, he could guide him into the Heavenly Void Furnace and very easily re-exchange the Radiance Mantra and Seo Eun-hyun's Absolute Fragment.

Regaining the Radiance Mantra itself is not difficult as long as he regains his reason, but it is something that takes a bit of time.

Therefore, by shoving Seo Eun-hyun into the Heavenly Void Furnace and finding the chance to immediately take back the Radiance Mantra, Hong Fan Gu Ju thought he passed the critical juncture.

'When my authority was stolen by Seo Eun-hyun and my memory and reason flew away for a moment, it was quite dangerous.'

If, in that state, a great divinity of another world or an external Creator God came to attack, it would have been unknown whether the Radiance Mantra among the three Great Mantras would have activated properly or not.

Even if all three Great Mantras safely activate, they can only cancel out about one strike.

From the second strike on, unless the main body directly handles them, they can be grasped by the opponent, and the opponent can find an opening and invade Mount Sumeru.

And if, in that state, Hong Fan, who lost his memory and reason, was captured or attacked by an existence of another world, quite a troublesome incident would have occurred.

It is hard even to imagine what kinds of variables might have run wild.

Even if he was kidnapped or received a fatal wound, he could in the end come back again or, after he recovers, take revenge, but he would have wasted an enormous amount of time, and in the meantime, Miracle could have created variables.

Yang Hwe might have noticed that something is wrong with him, quickly went to the Audience Chamber, advanced to Life Supreme Deity, and then ran away to some other distant otherworld.

Even her simply running away is not the worst scenario.

If she first resurrected the Salt Sea Supreme Deity using the power of life and then ran away, when Hong Fan Gu Ju finished all his recovery, he might have ended up having to face Salt Sea, who would have become the true Owner of Miracles.

That span of time up to the 15th cycle, when his self was briefly stolen by Seo Eun-hyun, was a moment that could have brought about countless worst results.

By incredible good fortune, no major problem arose until Hong Fan Gu Ju regained his reason and self.

It must have been because the place the Gestation World where Mount Sumeru resides is infamous among otherworldly existences as a Devil Lair that things have been alright so far.

And...

Since he has passed the critical juncture, it will surely be all right from here on as well.

So he thought.

'Ah...'

Apex of Life-Saving Arts, Formless.

The moment he takes a direct hit from it, Hong Fan keenly realizes what a miracle truly is.

'O Miracle. I really...hate you.'

Tsuaaaaaaah!

Green light bores deep into Hong Fan's chest and, through the power of Life-Saving, begins to split his heart apart.

Present.

"In the name of Life, I command."

Bong Hwa puts her hand into the Heavenly Void Furnace.

I, at that sight, even briefly forget about getting my comrades back, and look at that figure.

"Live."

Kuuuuung!

Life blazes up.

Countless powers and histories and the principles of explosions are applied, but...

In the end, the result is but one.

They come back to life.

"Death is fixed, so it is but a temporary revival."

Kuung!

It is pure white.

"I know."

Given the situation, their tone sounds stiff and even a bit urgent.

However, the two of them look quite close.

Cheok, cheok!

I know that pure white existence standing ahead.

They do not show their face.

They only show their back that seems to be made of a Salt Mountain.

The two existences block the space between me and the Future King and stand firm before me like immovable

Guardian Kings, protecting me.

They both know that they cannot be any match before the Future King, but...

I can feel their will to let me advance even at the cost of their lives.

I want to run forward right now.

I want to run, see that person's face, and offer a bow.

To meet in true body...

For this is the first and also the last time.

That person is the one who half-seized Miracle and succeeded in becoming the Heavenly Venerable of Miracles.

Therefore, unless a new Owner of Miracles is born, they do not die even if they are killed.

But that means...

If I advance, that person now shall really, truly...

Be eternally annihilated.

If not now, then I really, truly can never see him again.

What should I do?

Squeeze...

I clench my fist tightly.

Then I turn my gaze away from them and look at Kim Yeon, who meets my eyes.

She smiles.

The next moment, she becomes a single sword and flies toward me.

Wiiiiing!

Jjeoong!

She, along with my other comrades, fly toward me and lodge themselves in me as single swords.

I feel Silver Basket's gaze.

Eyes that seem unable to understand me.

No, I can feel that they do not understand not just me, but all of us.

'I see.'

For them, it is something incomprehensible.

Why we, who are already all at the level of transcendents, with this level of power, are simply sacrificing ourselves?

Why we do not just choose battles we can win?

Why we must stake everything here and now?

They seem unable to understand that.

Perhaps it is because they are, by birth, an undying and a transcendent.

Born with a rank that lets them see even an existence like the Swallowing Heaven Supreme Deity as a mortal being,

they cannot understand existences like us.

I am not the strange one.

In truth, every mortal lives like this.

They simply live their whole lives giving everything with all their strength.

Then, when they collapse, they pass everything on to the next person.

In that way, endlessly continuing inheritance after inheritance is the essence of life.

It is a sorrow and a blessing that only mortal beings can understand.

This is the will of mortality.

The martial heart of Kim Young-hoon.

The resolve of Jeon Myeong-hoon.

The protective heart of Kang Min-hee.

The determination of Oh Hyun-seok.

The loving heart of Kim Yeon.

It is a light that only those who know that mortality and mortality link together and are passed on can know.

I turn my gaze away from Silver Basket and look up at the sky.

"The Formless Poison...is deep, so very deep."

Formless Poison.

It is the poison Hong Fan has always used whenever he tried to help me until now.

That's right.

He interpreted the Apex of Life-Saving Arts, Formless, that I breathed into him during the 16th cycle as poison...

And it is the power with which he, by any means, tried to return that grace to me to expel it.

"It is difficult to obtain a human body, and it is difficult still to realize the Dao..."

As I watch the green light continuously spread from within his body, I slowly put into my lips again the teaching I

received from him.

"Following the human heart, one seeks the root of the Dao..."

My whole body begins to shine.

"If this body cannot achieve transcendence in this life...

"When shall I wait again to transcend this existence?"

Dudududu-

At the same time, the pressure surging toward me begins to grow even stronger.

It is Hong Fan pressing down on me as he watches the advancement ritual I am trying to carry out.

As if he cannot possibly allow me to reach it.

However, I do not care about such acts of Hong Fan.

I only, while recalling my sincere gratitude toward him, simply convey what he must know.

"Heavens Above. That is not poison. I know that from the sixteenth cycle onward, you have continually expelled it

and have struggled to return it to me...but that is not something I have forcibly shoved into you. It is merely something that has always been inside you.

"Just as the existence called the Heavens is absolute in this world and thus cannot be denied, what is called the

heart likewise is not something you can deny just because you wish to deny it.

"It is simply...nothing more than awakening what has been within you."

And, the moment I speak those words,

The green light in Hong Fan's chest activates to the extreme, and Silver Basket begins to react in some way.

Hong Fan presses me, who is stirring his heart, even more, but that power is blocked by Salt Sea and Bong Hwa.

And in the next moment, when I see him about to strike Hope down upon us,

Kugugugugu!

The opportunity arrives.

Perhaps, as Silver Basket watched me, he gained something.

:: Will you stop the birth of the Owner of Miracles, or...will you stop the materials for the [Absolute of Hope] you

are trying to create from scattering to pieces!!! ::

They use their Divine Art and blows the souls of countless Enders out beyond Mount Sumeru in an instant.

To innumerable otherworlds, to their homelands...

The Enders return.

Of course, there are also some who are wicked enough or twisted in thought enough to be somewhat worrying, but

it is not something I can do anything about right now.

One way or another, by awakening countless Enders again and sending them back to their home worlds...

Silver Basket gives us a chance.

Wo-woong!

The Future King grabs hold of Silver Basket and briefly turns his gaze outside the Audience Chamber.

In the meantime, I reach out my hand toward Oh Hye-seo.

She seems to hesitate.

A hesitation over whether she is truly allowed to join us as a comrade.

She...

Harbors such agonies.

But in the next moment, I clench my fist tightly and pull her toward me.

Because no matter what she thinks...

No matter what wrongs she has committed against us.

'We have received her apology.'

Before entering the Audience Chamber, she already gave us her apology.

And also at the time of the Great Mountain Battle, she sincerely apologized to me.

Though I have not completely forgiven her.

She will just have to continue paying for her sins from now on.

Together with us!

She alone, as the price for revealing her fate to the Future King, is seized by an attraction force stronger than

anyone else's.

However, Oh Hye-seo looks at the hand I hold out and puts her agonies in order.

She takes one step.

Toward our side.

One step. Two steps. And when at last she takes the third step...

Master stretches out his hand.

The light of Salt Mountain covers her in pure white.

Is she perhaps hearing some sort of will conveyed from Master?

She seems to hear something within that pure white light, and then tears start to fall from her eyes.

Immediately, Bong Hwa stretches out her hand and covers her in golden flames.

The light of Salt Mountain and the light of Life refine her and, for a moment, sever the Future King's attraction force

that holds her.

In that moment, she once again becomes a sword and embeds herself in my body.

Thus, at the moment when all six Enders become one with my body.

Kuguguguung!

My eyes meet Hong Fan's.

I see what Silver Basket is doing, and with the insight of a Supreme Deity I realize what it means.

I also realize that Hong Fan is momentarily restrained by his Divine Art right now, and I understand as well that he

will return once more.

Kuuung!

He, who in an instant destroys Obsidian's home and draws in Obsidian's spirit, now lastly heads toward the place

Vast Cold has returned to.

Earth.

Our...

Home.

He looks at me.

And, as he looks at us, he raises the Emptiness Sword toward Earth.

The fragment of desire is still within him, and in the current situation, a normal advancement is impossible.

But in this very moment when all the Enders have entered into me and become completely linked in heart with me.

I finally realize what Master has given to Oh Hye-seo.

Its name is shame.

It is the pain that allows you to look back at yourself...

And the driving force that allows you to move forward afterward.

It is what Gwak Am once lost, and the salt that the existence called Salt Sea uses when healing.

And, ironically, it is a pain that can hold both Salt Sea's and Vast Cold's answers.

-Pain cannot be denied. But...

Oh Hye-seo, who has awakened shame, looks back at herself.

And all the comrades together feel her shame with her...and reach out their hands so that she can move forward.

-You can perhaps deny the cause of the pain. So go forward. At times, also look back, and do not completely

deny what has only been painful. The world is surely pain...but because of pain, there are also things you can hold

dear.

16th cycle.

Pain.

Hong Fan Gu Ju endures the pain of seeing his own history itself, no different from his own soul and flesh, melt

away before his eyes, and looks at the human who transmits to him everything he has accumulated.

Only an attack on the level of a Creator God or a great divinity can affect Hong Fan, who has been split into three

faces and become incomplete.

Conversely, an attack of that level can strongly enough affect the incomplete Future King.

Up until now, he has thought that such existences exist only outside.

Tsuaaaaatt!

He has thought that the only ones who can make such an attack are external existences he cannot grasp.

'You...Seo Eun-hyun. What in the world are you?'

Without the slightest hesitation, he exhausts all the history and memories he has accumulated over a long and

longer time inside the Heavenly Void Furnace.

That process is bound to be painful.

However, he is enduring the pain.

Even though he barely escaped the Heavenly Void Furnace and found his main body, he does not use it for himself,

but is sacrificing all of it and pouring all of it toward Hong Fan.

Countless green lights surge into Hong Fan's chest.

The being who has lived for trillions of years inside the Heavenly Void Furnace, watching Hong Fan's story and

honing his heart solely to comfort Hong Fan...

Sacrifices all his memories and history and lands a single strike to Hong Fan.

And that, clearly, with regard only to the existence called Hong Fan...

Is no different from a great divinity level blow.

He has thought that he can defend against and respond to anything from the outside as much as he pleases.

But the dagger stabbing from within is something even the Future King could not foresee, and he le