Instant-Death Cultivation: Surviving in an Immortal World with Instant Kill - Chapter 175

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Chapter 175: Broad Cold Dark Realm (2)

What is a Nascent Soul cultivator?

They are called Nascent Soul cultivators because they have condensed a Nascent Soul, but in truth, the Nascent Soul itself is not the essence of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

The essence of a Nascent Soul cultivator is being an existence that seeks to transcend the laws of the world they have lived in until now.

Cheon Woo-jin had been living by utilizing the laws of the game world called Spirit Path Cultivation Chronicle.

By using his game knowledge to move ahead of others, he had acquired various resources and grown at ultra-high speed.

But gradually, that alone had become insufficient.

This was because Cheon Woo-jin had grown too quickly.

Moreover, as the world’s situation changed due to Cheon Woo-jin’s actions, it became difficult to predict what would happen in the future.

Then what should he do from now on?

Should he rely on his connections and grow step by step carefully, just as he had received Seo Seol-ryeong’s help when condensing his Nascent Soul?

No.

If he felt limitations in living by utilizing the world’s laws, then transcending those limitations was the answer.

He had to become an existence capable of changing the world’s laws himself.

Setting foot in this realm was Cheon Woo-jin’s first step toward becoming such an existence.

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“Th-this is impossible…!”

Snow Flower True Lord screamed as if going mad.

This was because a tentacle that suddenly extended had pierced through Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon’s sternum.

“How can a wretch like you command a being from the Upper Realm…!”

The tentacle Cheon Woo-jin had summoned belonged to Billion Sea Demon Venerable, a transcendent being from the Upper Realm.

A year ago, in the battle over the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner, Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace’s Baek Gang-ryeon had tried to summon the Northern Ming’s lord, Billion Sea Demon Venerable, to obtain that power.

As a result, a massive tentacle had crossed over through a rift in space-time, and golden eyes had gazed at this world from beyond.

While Baek Gang-ryeon had fallen to Cheon Woo-jin’s scheme and lost his life, Cheon Woo-jin had instead made contact with Billion Sea Demon Venerable and gained that power.

The energy that had entered Cheon Woo-jin’s inner being at that time still existed as demonic energy within his Golden Core.

Now Cheon Woo-jin had manifested that Billion Sea Demon Venerable.

Using the empty, vast, and cold space—the Broad Cold Dark Realm.

“Did you not understand properly, Snow Flower True Lord?”

Cheon Woo-jin shot back at Snow Flower True Lord.

“Just like you, I merely manifested a mental image. It’s the same kind of existence as the Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon you created.”

“B-but this overwhelming presence, this tremendous energy…!”

“I told you earlier.”

It was natural for Snow Flower True Lord to be so shaken.

Billion Sea Demon Venerable and Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon were beings of the same level according to their settings.

However, the Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon that Snow Flower True Lord had created could not withstand Cheon Woo-jin’s Billion Sea Demon Venerable.

Even though it wasn’t the main body that had appeared, but only a portion of a tentacle manifested.

Where did this difference come from?

“My world is simply more vivid.”

“That can’t be…!”

Snow Flower True Lord’s scream echoed through the air.

All this time, Snow Flower True Lord had constantly yearned for the Upper Realm’s Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon.

While feeling extreme terror, he also felt tremendous attraction and was obsessed with it.

He could manifest Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon in his Law Domain because of such obsession.

To the extent that he could manifest an Upper Realm transcendent through imagination alone, Snow Flower True Lord was completely immersed in Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon’s world.

“This world I manifested is real…!”

“No, it’s a fake. Both your world and mine are the same.”

Cheon Woo-jin hadn’t manifested the real Billion Sea Demon Venerable either.

After all, the tentacle Cheon Woo-jin had contacted last time wasn’t the main body of Billion Sea Demon Venerable but merely a shadow.

It was nothing more than imitating Billion Sea Demon Venerable’s power to the maximum extent possible within his current capabilities.

“Your fake is simply far inferior to mine.”

“Shut your mouth…!”

Boom!

Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon, with its destroyed sternum, soared high into the sky.

The sight of the massive skull flying up into the distant heavens felt unrealistically sublime.

“A brat who just set foot in the Law Domain… your delusions cannot be superior to this Snow Flower True Lord’s ideals!”

Clatter, clatter, clatter!

The bones composing Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon’s skeleton twisted grotesquely.

In that state, Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon formed hand seals with its two hands that had seven fingers each.

Then, a chilling light flashed between the restructured skeleton.

[Mad Bone Snow Night White]

Kukukukuku!

An eerie white beam burst forth.

Though called a beam, it was actually a baptism of bone-chilling cold energy.

The white beam poured toward Cheon Woo-jin, freezing even space itself.

An attack similar to the pure yin cold energy Cheon Woo-jin usually deployed, yet far more high-dimensional.

If he failed to defend properly, even a Nascent Soul Daoist would freeze solid and meet death in an instant.

Even his Nascent Soul would freeze, making escape difficult—truly a killing blow.

But Cheon Woo-jin didn’t focus his consciousness only on that attack.

Because he knew the real attack was something else.

[Mad Bone Red Lotus White]

Grotesquely distorted eye sockets.

From there, a gleam of light briefly flashed.

At first glance it seemed like nothing much, but Snow Flower True Lord’s real killing intent was contained in that gleam.

It wasn’t an attack using visible rays of light, but a power that transcended the constraints of space and time to instantly freeze and burst its target.

In the Eight Cold Hells, there is a place called Red Lotus Hell.

It punishes sinners by freezing them cold, causing their skin to tear and creating a scene like red flowers blooming.

That gleam was the power to freeze opponents in that manner.

Soon Cheon Woo-jin’s body would also burst and bloom red flowers.

Of course, that was only if Cheon Woo-jin did nothing.

‘Now I can see it.’

Currently, Cheon Woo-jin was feeling the ‘signal’ of Mad Bone Red Lotus White approaching him within the split time.

This was possible because Cheon Woo-jin had also reached Won Yeong-gyeong and begun challenging the limits of space and time.

‘So I can respond to it.’

Cheon Woo-jin spread both arms in the space filled with pitch-black sea.

It wasn’t just the surrounding space that had changed.

Even Cheon Woo-jin himself had transformed.

Patterns reminiscent of Billion Sea Demon Venerable’s tentacles were carved all over his body, and massive demonic energy writhed in his dantian.

This was the result of creating the most suitable form to control Billion Sea Demon Venerable’s world.

At this moment, Cheon Woo-jin was no different from a Junior Disciple serving Billion Sea Demon Venerable.

[Vast Dark Boundless]

Kwaaaaang!

Billion Sea Demon Venerable’s tentacles writhed as black waves burst forth.

They were enormous waves that seemed endlessly vast and immeasurable, as if they would swallow the world.

That massive volume swallowed up Mad Bone Snow Night White’s rays.

Even the gaze of Mad Bone Red Spirit White, which should have transcended the limits of space and time to freeze Cheon Woo-jin, scattered futilely within the pitch-black seawater.

‘Yes, now I understand.’

Perceiving that scene, Cheon Woo-jin felt his spine grow cold.

‘If I had used Instant Death Heaven Eye against someone at late Won Yeong-gyeong or higher, they would have responded in exactly the same way.’

Instant Death Heaven Eye was the power to kill opponents in an instant.

But Won Yeong-gyeong cultivators who transcend the limits of space and time can split even that instant into pieces and move within it.

Just as Cheon Woo-jin now responded to Mad Bone Red Spirit White with consciousness much faster than before, responding to Instant Death Heaven Eye was also possible.

Whether that could completely nullify the instant death effect of Instant Death Heaven Eye was still unknown… but it was certainly possible to unleash a fatal attack and hit Cheon Woo-jin before Instant Death Heaven Eye could take effect.

From Cheon Woo-jin’s perspective, even if he succeeded in instantly killing his opponent, it would be meaningless if he died in the process.

‘But it will be different from now on.’

Feeling his consciousness speed much faster than before, Cheon Woo-jin controlled Billion Sea Demon Venerable’s waves.

The tattoos that appeared on his body glowed as demonic energy pulsed.

Each time Billion Sea Demon Venerable’s tentacles writhed greatly, black currents tore through space.

“Aaaaah!”

Snow Flower True Lord howled before those waves.

The Law Domain Gwangsul Baekrim-gyeong that Snow Flower True Lord had created was collapsing under the black waves.

Not only that, but even Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon was being attacked by tentacles extending from within the waves.

If it had been the real Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon, it could have resisted by freezing and crushing each tentacle, but Snow Flower True Lord’s Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon was ultimately a counterfeit.

And it was nothing more than a counterfeit far inferior to Cheon Woo-jin’s.

Each time it collided with the massive tentacles, the bones composing its skeleton were being crushed one by one.

“This is impossible…!”

Along with Snow Flower True Lord’s shout, Mad Bone Snow Night White’s white rays burst forth once again.

But Billion Sea Demon Venerable’s tentacles didn’t avoid them.

Because Cheon Woo-jin was controlling them that way.

The white rays only froze the glistening black seawater on the tentacle surface, having no effect whatsoever on the tentacles themselves.

Finally, massive tentacles struck Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon’s lower body simultaneously from two directions.

From that impact, everything below the pelvis shattered to pieces.

“No…!”

It was useless to try to gather the broken bone fragments.

Because the bursting seawater swallowed up and erased all the bone pieces.

Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon, left with only its upper body, twisted its body desperately.

“Fl, flowers…”

Then Snow Flower True Lord’s desperate voice was heard.

“Make the flowers bloom…!”

At that moment.

Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon’s skull exploded, and enormous light burst forth from its empty interior.

[Mad Bone Great Red Lotus White]

Great Red Lotus Hell, the final stage of the Eight Cold Hells.

The eye light to manifest it covered the world.

But it was useless.

Cheon Woo-jin had already lifted up a massive wave and blocked all attacks with the mass of the sea.

The eye light that should have created the Great Red Lotus Hell melted away futilely into the seawater.

The tremendous wave controlled by Cheon Woo-jin surged straight up to the sky, completely swallowing even Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon’s upper body.

“Aaaaah…!”

And finally, Snow Flower True Lord himself revealed his form.

Perhaps because he had been inside Yehwa Gwang-gol Dae-jon, he was still not dead.

But his entire body was melting away, and the red flowers that had bloomed in his eye sockets had all their petals fallen off.

“Explode…!”

Then Snow Flower True Lord took extreme action.

He exploded his own body.

It wasn’t simply an explosion, but magic arts that used his body as a sacrifice.

The energy that burst forth like red flowers temporarily blocked the black wave.

And beyond that, something grayish-white could be seen flying up.

Snow Flower True Lord had escaped as a Nascent Soul.

[Cheon Woo-jin, I will definitely return and kill you…!]

Now Snow Flower True Lord would flee from his Law Domain in Nascent Soul form.

Catching a late-stage Won Yeong-gyeong Nascent Soul fleeing with all its might was impossible for the current Cheon Woo-jin.

However.

“I will not allow it.”

Cheon Woo-jin had no intention of letting Snow Flower True Lord escape.

“Instant Kill.”

The Instant Death Heaven Eye activated.

Snow Flower True Lord must have sensed some power targeting him.

But right now Snow Flower True Lord was trying to flee without looking back.

Therefore, he couldn’t even attempt a counterattack and was helplessly struck down.

“…”

The surroundings became quiet.

In the silence as if time had stopped, Snow Flower True Lord’s Nascent Soul was frozen in place.

[You bastard…]

Snow Flower True Lord’s thoughts were transmitted to Cheon Woo-jin.

Had he escaped from his previous madness?

Unlike before, these were rational thoughts.

[Did you possess the power to kill me from the very beginning?]

Snow Flower True Lord already understood that he had met his death.

To such Snow Flower True Lord, Cheon Woo-jin answered honestly.

[That’s right.]

[Then why…]

Currently, Cheon Woo-jin had become able to respond even to late-stage Won Yeong-gyeong speed.

If he had used the Instant Death Heaven Eye strategically, he could have instantly killed Snow Flower True Lord early on.

But Cheon Woo-jin didn’t do that.

He continued the offense and defense against Snow Flower True Lord while sealing the Instant Death Heaven Eye, and only used it when Snow Flower True Lord tried to escape as a Nascent Soul.

The reason was…

[Because I needed an opponent to practice with.]

His power after reaching Won Yeong-gyeong.

He needed a worthy opponent to practice it with.

Snow Flower True Lord was the perfect opponent.

He possessed a Law Domain that reproduced Upper Realm beings while using the power of pure yin.

Through the battle with Snow Flower True Lord, who was a similar type to himself, Cheon Woo-jin was able to clearly understand how strong his power was.

[You treated me… this Snow Flower True Lord as a mere practice opponent?]

Snow Flower True Lord was dumbfounded.

[Arrogant, truly arrogant…]

That voice gradually grew smaller.

The Nascent Soul frozen in mid-air was already losing its form and about to scatter.

[But… that very arrogance might be what’s necessary to reach the supreme realm…]

After leaving those words.

Snow Flower True Lord’s Nascent Soul scattered into pieces.

Like old, dried flower petals crumbling and scattering.

“…”

Soon, Gwangsul Baekrim-gyeong was dispelled.

Because Snow Flower True Lord had completely vanished, his Law Domain also disappeared.

But the atmosphere outside the Law Domain was far from normal.

Many cultivators including Yo Eun-hui and Na Chwi-ryang were kneeling on the ground and groaning.

“Ahem, so it has come to this.”

“Snow Flower True Lord, after all that showing off, this is the result?”

A high mountain peak in the mountain region.

From above, Daoists with their hands clasped behind their backs were looking down below.

Cheon Woo-jin could recognize who they were at a glance.

They were the Won Shadow Sect Daoists, members of the Ghost Bone League.

They had secretly descended to the 6th floor without Snow Flower True Lord’s knowledge, waiting for an opportunity.

If Snow Flower True Lord failed, they would claim Cheon Woo-jin and Seo Seol-ryeong for themselves.

Even if Snow Flower True Lord succeeded, they planned to backstab him and steal Cheon Woo-jin and Seo Seol-ryeong.

“However…”

The White-Bearded Daoist stared at Cheon Woo-jin and asked.

“You, what are you deploying around yourself right now?”

Black waves were still rippling around Cheon Woo-jin.

Snow Flower True Lord’s Gwangsul Baekrim-gyeong had been dispelled, but Cheon Woo-jin’s Broad Cold Dark Realm was still swirling around him.

“Wait, that couldn’t be… a Domain?”

“What nonsense are you talking? There’s no way a Domain could be deployed in normal space…”

The Daoists leaned forward in amazement.

Originally, Domains are deployed in subspaces isolated from the surroundings.

If one tries to manifest the laws of a Domain in normal space, the laws of the external world would erode it and cause it to collapse immediately.

But Cheon Woo-jin’s Broad Cold Dark Realm was different.

It was a power created to become an existence capable of changing the laws of the world itself.

“Huu…”

Cheon Woo-jin took a deep breath and spread both arms wide.

Then once again, tentacles extended along with the waves, and the Won Shadow Sect Daoists’ eyes filled with horror.

The practice was already over.

Now it was time for full-scale practical application.

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