Instant-Death Cultivation: Surviving in an Immortal World with Instant Kill - Chapter 137
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Chapter 137: Black Spirit Blade Emperor (6)
Cheon Woo-jin felt his chest tighten with emotion.
Suddenly, memories from the game surfaced—when he had formed a master-disciple relationship with Guan Huang and ascended together.
As that touching memory revived, he felt something surge up within him.
But he couldn’t let himself be swayed by such emotions.
In this world now, Cheon Woo-jin and Guan Huang were merely passing acquaintances.
And Cheon Woo-jin had to keep moving forward.
“Thank you.”
Hiding his feelings, he clasped his hands together to express his gratitude.
“I will continue to remember you, Guan Huang.”
After calling him by his real name rather than his title of Black Spirit Blade Emperor.
Cheon Woo-jin added.
“So please remember my name as well. I am a person called Cheon Woo-jin.”
“Cheon Woo-jin….”
Guan Huang repeated Cheon Woo-jin’s name.
“I’ve heard of it. The Mercenary from Ghost Head City that the Taeul Yeokri Sect is targeting.”
To think his name had reached even Guan Huang.
It seemed rumors spread faster in the Cultivation World than he had thought.
“But you’re traveling with the rumor master of the Taeul Yeokri Sect….”
A small laugh escaped.
“You’re quite the scoundrel too, Cheon Daoist.”
“I won’t deny it.”
“Then….”
Guan Huang asked in a low voice.
“Would it be alright if I entrusted my only regret to you, Cheon Daoist?”
“Regret?”
“Originally, I came here to obtain a Magical Treasure.”
Use the time you have left.
Gwan Hwang spoke of his lingering regret.
“There’s a special magical treasure hidden in the imperial treasury on Nakyeong Island. I was supposed to receive that treasure in exchange for supporting the First Prince.”
The reason why someone like Gwan Hwang, who pursued his own martial way, participated in such a muddy fight.
It was because the imperial palace held something he needed to reach higher heights.
“A magical treasure with the potential of a Nascent Soul Spirit Material that allows Core Formation Realm cultivators to condense their Nascent Soul, and enables Nascent Soul Realm cultivators to advance their Nascent Soul’s stage.”
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Nascent Soul Spirit Material.
As the name suggests, it’s an essential spirit material for the Nascent Soul Realm.
However, there’s one difference from Foundation Spirit Beasts and Core Formation spirit materials.
Foundation Spirit Beasts were only needed when challenging the Foundation Establishment stage, and Core Formation spirit materials were only needed when challenging the Core Formation Realm.
But Nascent Soul Spirit Materials are needed not only when challenging the Nascent Soul Realm, but also when advancing through each stage.
A Nascent Soul Spirit Material is needed when advancing from Core Formation Great Perfection to early Nascent Soul Realm.
A Nascent Soul Spirit Material is needed when advancing from early Nascent Soul Realm to middle Nascent Soul Realm.
A Nascent Soul Spirit Material is needed when advancing from middle Nascent Soul Realm to late Nascent Soul Realm.
A Nascent Soul Spirit Material is needed when advancing from late Nascent Soul Realm to Nascent Soul Great Perfection.
In the end, one must secure at least four or more Nascent Soul Spirit Materials in the future.
This is related to the characteristics of the Nascent Soul.
The Nascent Soul is an existence that transcends the limits of the Material World.
Upon entering the Nascent Soul Realm, one becomes able to survive with only the spiritual body without a physical form, transcending the limits of living beings.
In the middle Nascent Soul Realm, one transcends the limits of space, and in the late stage, the limits of time.
This also means going against the laws of the world.
Therefore, in the process of growing as a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, a powerful backlash inevitably occurs.
Such backlash is commonly called Heavenly Tribulation.
Nascent Soul Spirit Materials are absolutely necessary items to overcome Heavenly Tribulation.
“That magical treasure is an item whose effects aren’t even known. But… I had an intuition that it could be helpful to me.”
Gwan Hwang said while looking at Cheon Woo-jin before him.
“How valuable that item is… I’d like you to verify it in my place.”
“Don’t worry, Gwan Hwang.”
Cheon Woo-jin answered in a calm voice.
“My ultimate goal was also to obtain that treasure.”
That’s right.
Through this great upheaval, Cheon Woo-jin was trying to bring down the Taeul Yeokri Sect while also growing as a Core Formation cultivator and preparing a foundation to challenge the Nascent Soul realm.
That ultimate goal was to obtain Nascent Soul spirit materials.
The magical treasure in the imperial palace was the only Nascent Soul spirit material he could obtain at this point.
At least four or more Nascent Soul spirit materials were needed.
But they were incomparably rarer than Foundation spirit materials or Core Formation spirit materials.
Although Cheon Woo-jin couldn’t challenge the Nascent Soul realm right away, he had to obtain Nascent Soul spirit materials whenever there was an opportunity.
“Watch from that world. I will definitely take that magical treasure from the treasury and confirm its value.”
“Is that so.”
A faint laughter could be heard from the Nascent Soul.
“As expected, you were also a remarkable villain, Cheon Daoist…”
Leaving those words behind, Guan Huang’s Nascent Soul disappeared.
And the countless blades that had been stuck around like a reed field also slowly began to vanish.
The Black Spirit Blade Emperor Guan Huang thus exited from the Cultivation World.
Without challenging higher realms, satisfied with this very moment.
That might be an ideal death for a cultivator.
Most cultivators meet their death lamenting that they can no longer climb to higher places.
‘Farewell, Guan Huang.’
Watching the nameless garden of blades disappear, Cheon Woo-jin finally prayed for Guan Huang’s peaceful rest.
While accepting into his body the qi pill that Guan Huang had given him at the end.
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When Cheon Woo-jin emerged from outside the Law Domain, it was already dawn.
But the surroundings were in complete chaos.
The Hwanghae bamboo that had formed a dense bamboo forest was all broken and uprooted.
“…?”
Not knowing what had happened, Cheon Woo-jin was looking around when.
He spotted Song Yu-hui sitting slumped in a corner of Jukrim Island.
She was covering her face with both hands, existing alone in solitude.
“Sect Leader.”
“…!”
Startled!
Song Yu-hui hastily stood up and turned her head.
“Xiao Wu…?”
Song Yu-hui looked at Cheon Woo-jin with an expression of disbelief.
“You came back alive? How?”
“The Black Spirit Blade Emperor destroyed himself.”
Cheon Woo-jin explained coldly.
“You must have seen it too, Sect Leader. The sight of him cutting his own Nascent Soul with his sword.”
“Ah…!”
“In that state, he tried to deploy his Law Domain. The Black Spirit Blade Emperor seemed to be attempting a Domain for the first time, but it appears he couldn’t endure it in the end.”
If it had been someone as suspicious as Song Mu-jin, he wouldn’t have believed it so readily.
Even with the National Road True Person, he had returned alive due to his opponent’s self-destruction, so if the same thing happened again, suspicion would be inevitable.
But Song Yu-hui was different.
She was naturally someone who didn’t think deeply, and right now her reason was paralyzed by the joy that Cheon Woo-jin had returned alive.
“Haha…!”
Song Yu-hui rushed toward Cheon Woo-jin.
She seemed ready to embrace him tightly and rub against him, so Cheon Woo-jin raised his hand to stop her.
“Sorry, but please let me do Qi Circulation Cultivation first.”
“Qi Circulation Cultivation?”
“I may look fine on the outside, but my condition isn’t good right now either.”
“Ah…!”
Leaving Song Yu-hui to swallow her breath, Cheon Woo-jin sat down heavily in that spot.
“Understood. I won’t disturb you.”
Saying this, Song Yu-hui surveyed the surroundings with sharp eyes.
“I’ll stand guard. Practice your Qi Circulation Cultivation without worry.”
“Thank you. And….”
“I’ll be far enough away, so don’t worry. I won’t spy on whatever techniques you use.”
Song Yu-hui wanted to know everything about Cheon Woo-jin.
But it seemed she didn’t want to secretly spy on him without his permission.
“….”
Cheon Woo-jin took out several elixirs and put them in his mouth.
But these only played a supplementary role.
The important thing was to melt down the energy he received from Gwan Hwang in the Law Domain and make it his own.
And if he could use that power to grow his Golden Core to a higher stage….
‘I can reach the middle stage of Core Formation Realm.’
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A cold and harsh sea wind blew in.
Because she had gone on a rampage alone and broken all the bamboo forest, she had to receive the wind of the True Yellow Sea directly with her body.
But Song Yu-hui didn’t feel the cold at all.
Rather, she felt something warm spreading from deep within her chest.
‘He saved my life.’
When she closed her eyes, she could remember that scene.
Just before being sucked into Gwan Hwang’s Law Domain, she could vividly recall the sight of that man pushing her far away and being sucked into the Domain alone.
‘He sacrificed himself to save me.’
It wasn’t like with Master Guk where she just carried him out while he was collapsed.
He threw himself forward to save her from danger.
Into the Law Domain deployed by the Black Spirit Blade Emperor, who was at the middle stage of Nascent Soul.
‘While being only at the early stage of Core Formation Realm.’
Every time she reflected on that fact, hot waves spread from within Song Yu-hui’s chest.
It was something of a completely different nature from yang energy or Flame Shadow Energy.
‘For me.’
Caught up in a passion she had never experienced before.
Song Yu-hui felt the world’s priorities shifting.
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How many days had passed?
Cheon Woo-jin slowly opened his eyes.
‘Success.’
The refined power that Gwanhuang had transmitted was properly absorbed into his Golden Core.
It had been refined through the Thunder Spirit Great Evolution Art and had already become part of Cheon Woo-jin.
And Cheon Woo-jin used that power to reach the middle stage of the Core Formation Realm.
Though invisible to the eye, Cheon Woo-jin’s Golden Core now had a single pattern formed on it.
This is called a Core Pattern, and a Golden Core with one pattern is called a Single-Pattern Golden Core.
There are various methods to develop a Golden Core.
Among them, forming Core Patterns like this is the most excellent method.
‘Core Patterns serve to amplify the Spiritual Power drawn from the Golden Core.’
As he advanced through each stage, the Core Patterns would gradually increase.
And as the Core Patterns increased, the output of Spiritual Power would also rise.
It could be called a build for maximizing the power of Attack Magic.
‘Now I just need to triple the number of these Core Patterns as I progress.’
Core Formation Realm middle stage is Single-Pattern Golden Core.
Core Formation Realm late stage is Triple-Pattern Golden Core.
Core Formation Realm perfection is Nine-Pattern Golden Core.
He needed to develop his Golden Core in this manner and establish the foundation to challenge the Nascent Soul Realm.
“Xiao Wu, are you finished?”
Just then, Song Yu-hui’s voice could be heard.
Song Yu-hui was approaching Cheon Woo-jin, crossing through the bamboo forest that was left with only stumps.
“It seems you didn’t just recover, but also achieved something.”
Despite standing guard for several days while waiting.
Song Yu-hui showed no signs of fatigue whatsoever.
Rather, she had an expression of joy over Cheon Woo-jin’s achievement.
“But… Xiao Wu.”
Song Yu-hui turned her head.
“Look across the sea.”
“…”
Since all the bamboo had fallen, they could see from here what was happening to Pyeonghwang Island across the sea.
Black smoke was rising from various places on Pyeonghwang Island.
That wasn’t all.
Smoke was also rising from the distant direction of Gongryeong Island.
“It seems to have finally begun.”
“Begun?”
“The true great upheaval where cultivators kill each other has begun.”
Cheon Woo-jin rose from his seat.
While staying on this Jukrim Island, the situation would have progressed.
“Sect Leader, please lead the way.”
“Where are you planning to go?”
“We must go to Pyeonghwang Island first.”
“Ah, I see. Then via Pyeonghwang Island to return to Gongryeong Island…”
“No, we’re not going to Gongryeong Island.”
There, the Taeul Yeokri Sect would be engaged in fierce battle against the Gwangmyeong Sect and Jongli Family by now.
But joining that fight at this point would be too late.
“We’ll seize a ferry at Pyeonghwang Island and head directly to Nakyeong Island.”
“To Nakyeong Island? Then…”
“That’s right.”
Cheon Woo-jin, having already finished his calculations, spoke coldly.
“Our destination is the Imperial Capital.”
The Imperial Capital.
The place where the Magical Treasure that Gwan Hwang desired is located.
The location where the Emperor of Wei Jin Kingdom, who will decide the successor to the throne, resides.
“That is where this ugly gambling game will come to an end.”
After cleaning out everyone at that gambling table.
Cheon Woo-jin would leisurely leave the game alone.
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