I Became a Mythical Hunter After Killing the Golden Goblin - Chapter 149

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Chapter 149. Heavenly Demon Flying Cave
I moved my steps to explore the surroundings and reached a conclusion.
“I’m trapped.”
Where on earth had I been transported to? I’d thought I would at least end up somewhere near my Younger Sibling’s vicinity, if not directly before their eyes. Yet here I was, cast into what felt like a prison.
I exhaled a long sigh and pushed myself up from the ancient cavern floor. But I couldn’t simply remain here, trapped and idle.
Moving forward was what mattered. And there was something peculiar about this aroma and presence I sensed.
“A cavern filled with demonic energy?”
As Solomon’s power—the progenitor and true master of demonic energy—was inherited by me, and through the authority of the Demonic Divine Body, my mastery over demonic energy had become absolute and flawless.
I moved my steps and walked toward one end of the long cavern. Beyond the walls, I felt a thick, tyrannical demonic energy. One might think it orthodox, but they would be wrong.
Yes, this was a familiar yet unfamiliar attribute.
“The power of the Heavenly Demon.”
I exhaled a breath of relief. So I had been transported to a place related to my Younger Sibling after all. At least it seemed to be somewhere in that vicinity.
I placed my hand against the wall and sensed the demonic energy more deeply. It differed somewhat from my Younger Sibling’s Heavenly Demon Divine Energy. It also differed from the Heavenly Demon energy I possessed. Yet the fact that it was the power of the Heavenly Demon remained unchanged.
The Heavenly Demon Divine Art—the original—was ultimately the Heavenly Demon Divine Art with no difference in its roots. In other words, it could embrace any Heavenly Demon energy.
I drew forth the Heavenly Demon energy. And I gathered a small amount of demonic energy that seeped through the wall into my palm.
“It’s quite potent.”
If my Younger Sibling’s Heavenly Demon Divine Energy could be described as supreme, absolute, perfectly balanced, and flawless—
Then this Heavenly Demon energy was simply aggressive. Tyrannical. Overwhelming. One could tell just from sensing the aura what kind of martial art its master possessed. They would have discarded defense entirely and instead perfected a martial art of overwhelming destructive force and violence, crushing enemies beneath absolute power.
‘Not bad at all.’
I didn’t mean it was bad. If an absolute being possessed such martial arts, they could truly become a supreme tyrant. If they had perfected an attack powerful enough to render defense unnecessary, that Heavenly Demon Divine Art would surely be extraordinary.
Its rank and grade would be high as well.
I wanted it. I was still hungry. Though I had 128 Heavenly Demon Divine Arts—127 existing ones and one I had created—all imprinted in my mind, I desired more.
I consumed the Heavenly Demon energy held in my hand. The demonic energy absorbed into my body offered no resistance whatsoever to my Heavenly Demon energy and was assimilated.
That was the nature of it. The reason I hadn’t bothered to change the name was precisely because of this—the ability to absorb the Heavenly Demon power derived from the original essence.
It was nothing short of predation.
I removed my hand from the wall and stared at the cavern wall for a moment before opening my mouth.
“Should I destroy it?”
I had to get through. By any means necessary. I couldn’t afford to waste time trapped here.
But a cavern like this couldn’t possibly exist without reason. Surely there had to be some connected passage remaining?
There were also traces of someone having lived here. The existence of traces meant there was definitely a way out of this place.
I considered solving it through force, but then thought better of it—I might damage something important. Besides, it would be embarrassing if my power couldn’t break through.
Though I wouldn’t match my Younger Sibling, called the Heavenly Demon Emperor, this place was clearly connected to the Heavenly Demon that existed in the Supreme Martial Realm, so there might be formidable barriers or mechanisms in place.
In the end, there was only one method: find the secret mechanism or passage that led out of here.
My body turned black as horns sprouted from my head, and the demonic energy within me surged. Simultaneously, the demonic energy beyond the wall trembled. It had sensed the power of the Demon God.
I didn’t know what Solomon actually looked like, but every time I used the Demonic Divine Art, I instinctively felt myself becoming like Solomon.
Well, it didn’t matter. It caused no problems. I unleashed the demonic energy within my body.
In an instant, the vast cavern filled with demonic energy. But the cavern remained silent. Then I realized my mistake and transformed the Demon God’s demonic energy.
I operated the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, adding the Heavenly Demon power to the Demon God’s strength. I shaped the Heavenly Demon energy to resemble the tyrannical Heavenly Demon power I had just consumed as closely as possible. Then came an immediate response.
Clang. Rumble.
I heard something click into place, and as a minute amount of Heavenly Demon energy was sucked away somewhere, the cavern wall opened as if this had always been its natural state.
And so the wall, which had left no trace of its existence, opened. Anticlimactically easy.
And what lay beyond it was….
Eight pairs of eyes stared at me in shock as I suddenly appeared—each wielding their weapon, murderous intent radiating from their forms.
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The Supreme Martial Realm. The Ten Thousand Great Mountains.
The headquarters of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult, known as the Demonic Cult, and the dwelling place of the one and only absolute being of this Supreme Martial Realm.
After those immortals—who called themselves holy beings, who had achieved transcendence while living arrogantly in their self-proclaimed celestial paradise above the heavens, who deified themselves—all knelt before her, the absolute being, finding no one left to capture her interest, had confined herself to the peak of these Ten Thousand Great Mountains.
Three figures had arrived at this place, which dominated the greatest mountain range in the entire Supreme Martial Realm, where the highest peak allowed one to gaze down upon the world.
From the moment they reached the loftiest summit, they pressed their foreheads to the ground, holding their breath as though they were not permitted even to breathe, waiting for permission to be granted.
How much time had passed?
For a long while, only the sound of tea being sipped echoed through the air, and when the cup had been completely drained, at last a voice reached their ears.
“Rise.”
There was no complaint, no objection. The three immediately sprang to their feet, bowed their heads, and averted their gaze, waiting for the next command.
“Report.”
At those words, the man on the far left—one of the elders of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult, known as Ma-noe—stepped forward and began his report.
“As commanded, we have opened the Heavenly Demon Flying Cave. We filtered out the riffraff and sent in those disciples of the Demonic Cult with genuine talent, and we have also accepted those coming from outside the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult, placing them within.”
“A most useful whetstone shall be forged.”
“…The Heavenly Demon Flying Cave was created alongside the birth of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult. It is a place where all the knowledge accumulated by dozens of successive Heavenly Demon Emperors lies hidden and embedded. It may well be that the next Heavenly Demon Emperor, concealing truly sharp claws rather than a whetstone to be used, shall be born.”
At those words, an absolute aura erupted from the Heavenly Demon Emperor’s body. As though displeased, as though offended by the presumption of instruction.
“I beg your pardon!”
Ma-noe, the strategist and mind of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult, hastily bowed his head and sealed his lips.
Feeling this aura, he understood once more. Who the being before him truly was.
The First Among All Ages. The Heavenly Demon Emperor.
An incomprehensible existence that had never existed once in the history of the Supreme Martial Realm and never would again. Yes, what did it matter if a whetstone-forged Heavenly Demon Emperor possessed sharp claws?
The being before him was an absolute existence who would not suffer even a scratch from being raked by those claws.
As Ma-noe, weighed down by the aura, trembled, a man and woman observing from behind, hoping for his clemency, suddenly surged forward, pressed their foreheads to the ground once more, and cried out.
“Please forgive us. Great Heavenly Demon Emperor.”
Only then did the Heavenly Demon Divine Art fade. Ma-noe, who appeared to have aged a full decade in an instant, also hastily pressed his forehead to the ground and begged for forgiveness.
The woman looking down upon them, the Heavenly Demon Emperor, opened her mouth.
“Create a new Heavenly Demon Emperor.”
At those words, the bodies of the three trembled. Two suns cannot exist beneath the heavens. Much less when one of those suns is so vast that it renders the other nothing more than the light of a firefly.
Yet that vast sun commands. Create a new sun.
“We shall obey your command.”
“Strength is not necessary. Greatness is not required. Magnificence is not needed. Noble bloodline is unnecessary. Righteous sect, unorthodox sect, Demonic Cult—I care not. What I desire is but one thing.”
The woman rose from her seat and stood upon the loftiest peak, gazing down upon the world.
“My successor.”
At those words, the bodies of the three trembled. The position of her successor was something every being in this Martial Realm desperately desired.
“Is it…possible something has occurred?”
Though Ma-noe had not forgotten the agony of moments before, a question he absolutely had to ask burst from his lips. It was a matter of such importance. The absolute being who had raised the eternally declining Heavenly Demon Divine Cult to such heights—she was disappearing?
The righteous sects, unorthodox sects, and even the imperial court that had been oppressed beneath the Heavenly Demon Emperor all this time would surely rise up and seek vengeance for the humiliation and insults they had suffered at the hands of the Demonic Cult.
This was an extraordinarily critical matter.
But I was mistaken. The great absolute being does not die. So supreme and magnificent that it cannot bring about its own annihilation, death itself is not permitted.
“I do not die. Therefore, forge me a blade with even the slightest possibility of killing me. Elevate the existence with the sharpest and most formidable claws as the Lesser Heavenly Demon Emperor.”
At those words, the three martial masters pressed their foreheads to the ground once more and cried out.
“Eternal glory to the Heavenly Demon. Ten thousand demons bow in reverence. We receive the command of the supreme divine being.”
The three cultists, having spoken, began descending the mountain to fulfill the Heavenly Demon’s command. How far down the path had they gone?
At last, Gwon-ma—the large man with the most impatient temperament and inability to suppress curiosity—opened his mouth.
“Ma-noe? What could the Heavenly Demon possibly be thinking?”
“How could insignificant beings like us ever comprehend the thoughts of such a great divine being?”
At that, Gwon-ma let out an incredulous scoff and regarded Ma-noe with a long stare. In terms of martial prowess alone, Ma-noe was so feeble that he would lose if compared to any random cultist passing by.
The strong reign. The weak perish. Survival of the fittest. In the Demonic Cult where only strength was the product of evolution and the essence of power, his genius intellect had played the most crucial role in his ascension to the position of elder.
In essence, he was the one who directly issued commands in place of the Heavenly Demon, who had entered seclusion, and interpreted the divine will to spread it throughout the world.
And yet he claims ignorance?
Upon receiving such a look, Ma-noe exhaled a sigh and gazed toward the mountain peak before shaking his head. The divine being’s ears are everywhere and nowhere.
Much less to speak such words about the absolute being in such close proximity?
He might lose that being’s trust. That brainless fool who only possessed physical strength did not understand this.
But Ma-noe understood the hidden intention behind the Heavenly Demon’s words.
‘She desires death.’
Knowing she cannot die, she yearns for it. An absolute being without a worthy opponent is lonely and isolated. All the more so if that being is a possessor, not a native inhabitant of this world.
Only he alone knew the true secret she concealed, which made his concern all the deeper.
Ma-noe exhaled a sigh and began organizing his tasks in his mind as he descended the mountain.

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