Instant-Death Cultivation: Surviving in an Immortal World with Instant Kill - Chapter 191

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Chapter 191: Immortal Treasure (2)

Originally, Cheon Woo-jin had been moving to rendezvous with Seo Seol-ryeong.

But midway, Mujung Soma followed after him and urgently informed Cheon Woo-jin of the situation.

After defeating Tan Lan Gu Ma’s Yaseoksiguongwi, he had detected waves spreading to explore the interior of the relic.

Mujung Soma immediately disguised his presence and reverse-tracked the waves to capture their owner.

The one who generated the waves was most likely North Palace Annihilation.

Then North Palace Annihilation must still be in a state where she hadn’t captured Seo Seol-ryeong yet.

Making that judgment, Cheon Woo-jin asked Mujung Soma to subdue North Palace Annihilation.

And he himself moved to another location.

While it wouldn’t be difficult for Mujung Soma to neutralize North Palace Annihilation, if it was North Palace Annihilation, there was a high possibility she would escape from Mujung Soma’s grasp and flee.

The place North Palace Annihilation would flee to as a last resort was right here… the workshop located in the relic depths.

‘I don’t know about other places, but entering this place isn’t too difficult.’

In the game, this place was a hidden secret room.

No matter how much you searched the relic, you couldn’t enter this place.

You had to obtain a specific password and input it into terminals existing throughout the relic for the teleportation array to finally open.

Since Cheon Woo-jin remembered the password he had seen in the game, he could easily enter this place.

Since North Palace Annihilation would definitely flee to the workshop at the last moment, he expected that waiting here would allow him to stop North Palace Annihilation.

And that expectation proved correct.

North Palace Annihilation, who had been defeated by Mujung Soma, appeared in the workshop in her Nascent Soul state.

If Cheon Woo-jin had moved together with Mujung Soma, he would have missed North Palace Annihilation.

Then North Palace Annihilation would have fled here… and even if Cheon Woo-jin had urgently pursued her, it would have been too late.

‘I was able to prevent the worst-case scenario from occurring.’

North Palace Annihilation, driven into a corner, awakening what was hidden in this workshop.

That was the worst-case scenario that absolutely had to be prevented.

Even while fighting Tan Lan Gu Ma, he had always been mindful of it, and fortunately things worked out well.

[Cheon Woo-jin, you bastard…!]

North Palace Annihilation’s Nascent Soul floated in the air and displayed anger toward Cheon Woo-jin.

[How did you get in here! No passage is connected to this place…!]

[Moreover, how do you know about that immortal treasure!]

Cheon Woo-jin didn’t answer either question.

Instead, he brought up a different topic.

“North Palace Annihilation, there’s something I want to ask.”

[What?]

“How much lifespan do you have left now?”

North Palace Annihilation’s Nascent Soul fell silent for a moment.

During that time, Cheon Woo-jin checked North Palace Annihilation’s status window.

[North Palace Annihilation ]

* Race: Human Race

* Age: 289 years

* Realm: Nascent Soul Realm Late Stage

* Constitution: Water Spirit Root

* Faction: Black Gate

* Affiliation: Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion

* Heavenly Mandate: Cruelty

Nascent Soul Realm Late Stage at 289 years old.

Excluding a few geniuses including Song Yu-hee, only North Palace Annihilation had reached Nascent Soul Realm Late Stage this early.

This was probably possible because North Palace Annihilation was a descendant of Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace.

However…

“About 10 years left?”

[You bastard…!]

“How unfortunate. An ordinary Nascent Soul Realm cultivator could live another 700 years.”

Whooom!

As North Palace Annihilation became agitated, energy waves burst from her Nascent Soul.

[Cheon Woo-jin! How do you know my age!]

“The general lifespan of the Nascent Soul Realm is originally a thousand years.”

Cheon Woo-jin spoke in a cold voice.

“It varies depending on race, but for the human race, living a thousand years is typical. Nevertheless, there’s only one case where lifespan is shortened.”

[Shut your mouth, Cheon Woo-jin!]

“When one makes a very fatal mistake due to wrong cultivation methods.”

Many cultivators including Yowon Gyeon had made such mistakes and had their lifespans shortened.

In the old days, there was a separate term for this phenomenon.

“Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace called it Dao Meridian Severance and considered it the worst failure.”

[That’s not true!]

North Palace Annihilation screamed.

[Our Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion’s method was never a failure!]

Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion.

A faction that existed within Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace.

They created new cultivation methods and achieved great accomplishments, but… it was revealed that those methods caused Dao Meridian Severance and they were ostracized.

[What’s the problem with lifespan being shortened a little! Rather than that, you just need to grow faster…!]

Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion claimed that shortened lifespan was never a problem.

But Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace thoroughly suppressed Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion.

Ultimately, they even stripped away the qualification to participate in sect ascension.

North Palace Annihilation was a descendant of the Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion forces that had been excluded from sect ascension.

[I actually reached the Nascent Soul stage faster than others! Is there anyone else in Ghost Head City besides me who reached the late Nascent Soul stage at 247 years old?! This proves that Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion was right!]

“What’s the use if you can’t reach the Avatar Mirror stage, North Palace Annihilation.”

Cheon Woo-jin shot back coldly.

“Reaching the late Nascent Soul stage at 247 years old is certainly quite remarkable. But if you only have about 50 years of remaining lifespan, that changes things. It’s exactly the same as others reaching the late Nascent Soul stage at 950 years old.”

[No! It’s not the same…!]

“It is the same, North Palace Annihilation.”

Whooom!

Energy waves burst forth from North Palace Annihilation’s Nascent Soul again.

But Cheon Woo-jin continued speaking without concern.

“There are various causes for meridian blockage. When there’s a problem with the physical body, it can be solved by replacing the body through possession. But that wasn’t your case. The problem was that your Nascent Soul’s nature was becoming increasingly violent.”

Normally, the Nascent Soul is stored in a stable state within the Golden Core.

But North Palace Annihilation’s Nascent Soul had the fatal problem of becoming unstable as time passed.

Upon reaching 300 years old, the Nascent Soul would fluctuate so violently that the Golden Core wouldn’t be able to withstand it and would rupture.

“That’s why replacing the physical body would have been meaningless. Even if you stole another human’s body, it was obvious that your Golden Core would burst when you turned 300.”

While the body could be changed, the Nascent Soul could not be replaced.

Only by reaching the Avatar Mirror stage could you find a way out, but that was impossible with the remaining lifespan.

“So… you targeted Seo Seol-ryeong, who is from the Jinren Clan.”

The Jinren Clan possessed abilities far superior to ordinary humans.

Among these, the most special was their Golden Core.

The Jinren Clan’s Golden Core is called the True Human Golden Core, and it possesses strength that cannot be destroyed by attacks from beings of the same level.

Therefore, even if a Jinren’s entire body is shattered to pieces, only the Golden Core remains intact, and they can regenerate the Jinren body from the Golden Core and revive countless times.

“With the Jinren Clan’s True Human Golden Core, it could withstand your Nascent Soul no matter how much it rampaged. That’s why you absolutely had to obtain Seo Seol-ryeong.”

North Palace Annihilation probably didn’t know of Seo Seol-ryeong’s existence until recently.

She only noticed when Seo Seol-ryeong began establishing herself and operating on the 6th floor together with Cheon Woo-jin.

Perhaps information had leaked from the upper levels of Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace, who knew that Seo Seol-ryeong was from the Jinren Clan.

“To ascend to the Upper Realm and take revenge on Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace… obtaining Seo Seol-ryeong’s body to extend your lifespan was the only way.”

Taking revenge on Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace.

That was North Palace Annihilation’s goal.

Though she claimed to be a descendant of Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace, she was actually dreaming of taking revenge on Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace.

[How on earth…]

A telepathic message filled with bewilderment came from North Palace Annihilation.

Unlike before, it was a thought that reflected confusion more prominently.

[How on earth do you know all of that?]

[Don’t tell me you’re also a descendant of Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace?]

From North Palace Annihilation’s perspective, she had no choice but to be perplexed.

He knew even information that couldn’t be known unless one was an insider.

“I have no connection whatsoever to Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace.”

[I can’t believe it. Then how exactly…]

Though North Palace Annihilation had been bewildered, the emotion carried in her thoughts began to change again.

[No… it doesn’t matter. Whatever your identity is, what I must do remains unchanged.]

[I will activate the Immortal Treasure to eliminate you and obtain Seo Seol-ryeong.]

[As you pointed out, if I activate the Immortal Treasure in an incomplete state, major problems will occur. But it’s much better than being defeated by you like this.]

[To ascend to the Upper Realm and take revenge on Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace… I will do what I must do now.]

North Palace Annihilation’s thoughts carried a sense of mission.

She was no longer bewildered, nor did she emotionally display anger.

She was trying to take the best course of action for the mission of taking revenge on Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace.

“But, North Palace Annihilation.”

Toward such North Palace Annihilation.

Cheon Woo-jin posed a question.

“Is that really something you must do?”

[What?]

“Why do you need to take revenge on Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace?”

North Palace Annihilation’s Nascent Soul wavered in the air for a moment.

“It was Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion that was abandoned by Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace. It would be natural for the members of Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion left in the Lower Realm to harbor revenge, but why do you, their descendant, harbor revenge?”

[What are you saying…]

“Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion was left behind a thousand years ago. It happened seven hundred years before you were born, so is taking that revenge really such an important matter?”

This was abnormal.

It would be one thing if it was something he had directly experienced, but harboring revenge for something that happened seven hundred years before his birth was strange.

“In the first place.”

Cheon Woo-jin continued to raise doubts.

“Why did you insist on Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion’s cultivation method?”

[What…]

“During all this time, you must have witnessed your seniors dying earlier than others. You must have noticed that Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion’s cultivation method causes meridian blockage, so why did you continue to stick with that approach?”

[That’s because, to prove that Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion wasn’t wrong….]

“Why do you have to be the one to prove that?]

In the void, North Palace Annihilation’s Nascent Soul trembled again.

“North Palace Annihilation, taking revenge on Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace and proving that Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion wasn’t wrong—these have nothing to do with you. They’re merely your seniors’ lingering resentments.”

[That is….]

“Those who walk the path of cultivation are all selfish beings. The fact that you’ve devoted your life to resolving your seniors’ grudges is abnormal.”

Having a sacrificial heart for juniors like Yowon Gyeon was understandable.

Originally, living beings have the instinct to leave behind their own offspring, so it could be accepted as an extension of that.

But doing this for seniors was unnatural.

This was especially true for someone with thoroughly selfish tendencies like North Palace Annihilation.

“North Palace Annihilation, did you truly act according to your own will?”

[I am….]

North Palace Annihilation’s telepathic communication kept cutting off.

Since she was in Nascent Soul state, things like facial expressions weren’t visible.

However, since the Nascent Soul was trembling faintly in the void, her psychological state could be inferred.

“North Palace Annihilation.”

Cheon Woo-jin spoke to North Palace Annihilation again.

“It’s not too late even now. Break free from Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion’s brainwashing.”

Before Cheon Woo-jin who was giving such advice, North Palace Annihilation’s Nascent Soul slowly rippled.

[Cheon Woo-jin, I am….]

But just then.

A thought that wasn’t North Palace Annihilation’s echoed out.

[North Palace Annihilation, do not be deceived. That cunning bastard only thinks of tricking you to steal all of Ghost Bone Crescent Pavilion’s legacy.]

Gooooo!

A chillingly evil cursed lightning bolt fell toward Cheon Woo-jin.

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