I Will Become a Phoenix More Noble Than the Emperor - Chapter 96

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96.

Strictly speaking, the Immortal before their eyes seemed to be living eternal life.

Bu So-yoon, who had almost eaten the peach, felt chills run down her spine.

“Wow.”

Chaegyo, with her arms crossed, examined the Fairy Immortal’s horrific face closely. While the face of the Immortal who had rushed at her earlier was completely rotted and melting away, the Fairy Immortal’s face was half intact.

It seemed like she was desperately struggling to prevent decay.

“So what, is this some kind of trap? It doesn’t seem like what you want is peach fruit?”

Chaegyo raised the corners of her mouth as if finding it interesting.

Her words were correct. Flower Cloud Island itself was a massive trap. Moreover, what they wanted wasn’t something like peaches.

“Listen well! You cannot take a single step out of this Flower Cloud Island!”

The General Immortal, who appeared in front of Gwak Gi-rim with half his head crushed, made a threatening declaration.

“We bear no ill will toward you, but we have been trapped here for far too long. You are gifts sent by heaven that took pity on us, so please understand.”

What appeared blocking Seon-o’s path was the Young Immortal. He was missing one arm and his mouth was completely crushed. At his words about being trapped, the Candidates’ expressions contorted in various ways.

In front of Chaegyo and Bu So-yoon as well, the Bald Immortal and Shaman Immortal appeared respectively. The Immortals were all in terrible condition.

Bu So-yoon let out an excited exclamation.

“Ah, now I understand. What you did on this land. Right? That’s why you ended up like this and were trapped. Yeah, I figured it out long ago. Immortals, my ass.”

When Bu So-yoon, who had made quite an accurate guess, mocked them, anger flared on the Immortals’ faces.

“Such insolence. I’ll kill you first, you wench. Even God would forgive killing an arrogant bitch like you!”

The Shaman Immortal’s neck was half-severed and about to fall off. It was unbelievable that she was still breathing in that state. However, when she fiercely swung her hand, purple flames shot up from beneath Bu So-yoon’s feet.

“Ha, you’re using fire on me?”

When Bu So-yoon laughed as if dumbfounded, the flames immediately reversed and attacked their owner. As the purple flames engulfed the Shaman Immortal, she let out a piercing scream.

“Kiyaaaaaaaaak!”

The moment satisfaction flashed through Bu So-yoon’s eyes at having repaid the humiliation she had suffered, the purple flames suddenly died down, revealing the intact form of the Shaman Immortal from within.

“Kyahahak, hahak, hahahak!”

As the agonized screams gradually changed into seductive laughter, the Candidates’ faces contorted. The Fairy Immortal was laughing with her mouth split wide.

“Do you think you can kill me, who lives eternal life, with something like this?”

It was just like the original work after all. Now that he had confirmed everything was the same as the original except for the slight deviation at the end, there was no time to delay further.

“Pluck the flowers.”

Seon-o murmured quietly, just loud enough for the Candidates to hear. At his words, the Candidates’ gazes turned toward Seon-o without being obvious.

“You need to pluck the flowers to kill the Immortals and get out of here.”

“How does Master Kang know that?”

It was Wi I-ryeong who asked in a quiet voice. Seon-o turned his head to look at Wi I-ryeong. Wi I-ryeong’s cool gaze was directed at Seon-o. Seon-o met his gaze without backing down.

“Because just as Flower Cloud Island is a trap, the Divine Oracle is also a trap.”

Flower Cloud Island was a land that had fallen long ago.

These selfish Immortals had monopolized the peach tree that granted eternal life among themselves, and tried to amplify their power by gathering all the Yin Power from the entire continent. They harbored the ambition to descend back to the world and rule it when they finally became the only ones possessing Yin Power.

However, power always required a price.

The mysterious peach tree demanded something greater in exchange for granting eternal life.

First Yin Stones, then the more precious Yin Stones of the rifts, and finally humans.

By the time the Immortals, who had even killed and offered Superhumans for eternal life and power, realized something was wrong, it was already too late. On the day they planned their escape, the gates of Flower Cloud Island had closed.

The closed gates would not open, and they, who had gained eternal life by eating peach fruit, had been trapped on this rotting Flower Cloud Island for three thousand years, dead yet unable to die.

Desperately waiting for the day when the gates of Flower Cloud Island would open and sacrifices would appear to take their place…

‘…That was the setting described in the original work. For that purpose, they gathered all the Yin Power to create hallucinations.’

The debate at Hwawoon Palace and the peach fruit were all just traps.

Those Guys had been buying time, waiting for the peach tree to awaken.

And Chaegyo had fallen into the trap and awakened the tree.

‘These Seven Immortals are Immortals who survived the war of the Immortals and are holding on without losing their self-consciousness. And the reason they could do that is…’

So now it was time to destroy the final trap.

“So we need to pluck and eliminate the flowers instead of Blooming. I won’t stop anyone who wants to stay here if they don’t like it.”

As Seon-o finished speaking and blocked the attack of the Prince Immortal who had seized the opportunity, black rotted water splattered in all directions. Seon-o didn’t stop there and gathered the black water to smash it into the Immortals’ faces.

“Now!”

At Seon-o’s signal, the Candidates simultaneously sprang up from their positions like released springs. Seon-o also leaped up with all his might, jumping over the Immortals and heading toward the precarious Swaying Bridge.

The flower Seon-o was targeting was a white bloom that had sprouted on an island right next to Peach Tree Island. And as expected, one Immortal each attached themselves to pursue each Candidate.

From all directions, fire and light, wood and water surged as fierce battles erupted. The Immortals’ Yin Power was still formidable, but the Candidates’ skills were by no means inferior. Since this was a fight between the living and the dead, it was natural that the living would be stronger.

Most importantly, in the original story, all the Candidates had succeeded in plucking flowers. So it would be the same this time.

As proof of this, a brilliant white light could be seen flashing and bursting from Gwak Gi-rim, who had succeeded in plucking a flower blooming on the cliff of Peach Tree Island.

The light that burst forth from Gwak Gi-rim’s heart gathered into a large mass, then that pillar of light turned dark brown as vines extending from it began weaving together solidly. In an instant, the clustered vines formed the shape of a qilin, the legendary divine beast.

Even while fending off the Immortals’ attacks, the Candidates’ eyes widened as they watched Gwak Gi-rim’s triumph.

“A divine beast…?”

Like someone’s dazed murmur, what had manifested from Gwak Gi-rim’s heart was a Wood Qilin. A legendary divine beast that only a few First Generation Superhumans had possessed long, long ago.

The very divine beast that was said to be granted only to Superhumans chosen by heaven.

Only then did the Candidates fully understand what the third trial meant.

“101 days from now, the Land of Immortals will open, so if you enter there and succeed in Blooming, then brilliant flowers will surely bloom on the Hawthorn Trees of this land as well.”

Blooming.

Blooming meant the divine beasts.

They had to pluck flowers to obtain divine beasts!

‘Because we can only kill Those Guys by stealing the Immortals’ divine beasts!’

The Seven Immortals were those who possessed legendary divine beasts, and it was through that power that they could maintain their sense of self without losing it even in Flower Cloud Island, which had become hell. Of course, their Yin Power had become corrupted and decayed, so they could no longer summon their divine beasts.

That divine beast had been summoned for the first time in thousands of years through Gwak Gi-rim.

When Gwak Gi-rim’s Wood Qilin rammed its horns into the Fairy Immortal, crushing her bones and tearing through her clouds, joy and despair crossed the faces of the Superhumans and Immortals respectively.

Immediately, the battle intensified between the Candidates trying to pluck flowers to steal their divine beasts and the Immortals trying to stop them. Since there was no longer any leisure to observe the other Candidates’ situations, Seon-o stepped on the Swaying Bridge, leaped up, and landed on the island across.

A few steps ahead, a white flower swayed seductively.

And behind him, the Prince Immortal was fiercely pursuing, extending streams of rotten water. Seon-o also tried to condense Water Element to create a Water Wall around himself, but even that Water Element was easily absorbed by the Prince Immortal’s water streams.

The Prince grinned wickedly and snapped his fan, causing a wall of rotten water to rise up in front of Seon-o, who had the flower right before his eyes. If he tried to break through that water wall, his entire body would surely rot away, so Seon-o couldn’t take another step forward and looked back.

“Did I not tell you? That I have mastered everything about Water Element!”

And finally, That Bastard’s Water Element came rushing with its maw gaping wide. Seon-o looked directly at that rotten Water Element without even blinking. Just as they boasted, the Immortals’ Water Power was marvelous, but it definitely had a clear weakness.

‘It’s been stagnant and festering for 3,000 years, rotting away!’

When Seon-o, who had planted a trap utilizing this beforehand, faced him head-on, the Prince Immortal’s eyes hardened.

“Wait…”

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