Instant-Death Cultivation: Surviving in an Immortal World with Instant Kill - Chapter 78

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Chapter 78: Snow Mountain (1)

 

 

The Snow Mountain Region of the 6th Floor is a place where blizzards constantly rage, and it’s where the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace, one of the Three Major Forces, is located.

 

However, the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace doesn’t control the entire Snow Mountain Region.

Most of the Snow Mountain Region is unsuitable for human habitation, with many dangerous zones where one could get lost forever if they carelessly venture in.

That’s why even the cultivators of the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace usually only travel between their Main Hall and a few cultivation sites.

 

The ruins that Oh Hwi-seong had headed to were also located in a place where no one usually approached.

 

“We still have a bit more to go before arriving. You can rest a little longer.”

 

While Wi Ju-seon piloted the flying vessel, Cheon Woo-jin and Seo Seol-ryeong left the perimeter watch to Ho Yeon-rin and took a rest.

They had engaged in intense battles, consuming a lot of spiritual power and physical strength.

 

After doing Qi Circulation Cultivation for a while, Cheon Woo-jin opened his eyes to see Seo Seol-ryeong sitting quietly.

Since she was covering her eyes as usual, he couldn’t tell if she was just sitting there or concentrating on Qi Circulation Cultivation.

 

“Why do you keep staring at me?”

 

Then Seo Seol-ryeong spoke in a cold voice.

It seemed she had just been sitting quietly.

 

“Seo Seol-ryeong, I have something I’m curious about.”

“Even with my eyes covered, I can feel it when someone stares at me with strange eyes.”

“That’s not what I meant.”

 

Cheon Woo-jin asked, recalling the scene he had witnessed earlier.

 

“What’s your relationship with the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace?”

“Why are you asking that?”

“Earlier, when we went to find the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner, I saw you running together with the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace.”

“We weren’t running together. If I had to put it precisely, the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace was chasing after me.”

“Why did that situation arise?”

 

The Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace is a place that cultivates ice attribute techniques.

And Seo Seol-ryeong had also learned ice attribute techniques.

Could there be some kind of connection?

 

“I stopped by the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace to gather information. But the talks didn’t go well, so I moved alone first, and the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace came chasing after me a step too late.”

“You stopped by the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace?”

“Since we have blood relations, we’ve been in contact from time to time.”

 

Blood relations.

This was information that couldn’t be obtained in the game.

 

“The blood of my relatives flows in the Palace Master of the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace.”

“Are you saying the blood of the True Human Race flows in them?”

 

When Cheon Woo-jin asked that, Seo Seol-ryeong made a cold expression.

 

“I’ve never told you about my bloodline, so how did you know?”

“…”

 

Cheon Woo-jin fell silent for a moment.

 

“I heard it from the Heavenly Dragon Tower Master recently.”

“You heard it from the Heavenly Dragon Tower Master?”

“Yes, she mentioned it in passing.”

 

Making that excuse, Cheon Woo-jin turned his gaze toward Ho Yeon-rin.

 

“If you’re suspicious, ask Cultivator Ho Yeon later. Cultivator Ho Yeon was also present at that time.”

“…”

 

Seo Seol-ryeong had a dubious expression.

Still, it was true that Oh Hwi-seong had actually said “Seo Seol-ryeong of the True Human Race” at that time.

 

“That person carelessly spreads around other people’s bloodlines.”

“She probably just said it without much thought. She doesn’t usually hide the fact that she’s from the Dragon Clan.”

“I don’t go around talking about my personal details.”

“It seems you told Tower Master Wi and Cultivator Ho Yeon though.”

“That’s… because we had a friendship.”

“Then I, who haven’t heard about it until now, must not have any particular friendship with you.”

 

Hearing Cheon Woo-jin’s words, Seo Seol-ryeong let out a sigh.

 

“Fine. I apologize for not telling you about my personal details.”

“There’s no need to apologize.”

 

Cheon Woo-jin also hadn’t told Seo Seol-ryeong about his own personal details.

There wasn’t really anything he could tell her in the first place.

 

“I’m asking because there might be something to reference for the fight with the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace.”

“…”

 

He had no intention of persistently prying into what Seo Seol-ryeong wanted to hide.

If it was something he really needed to know right now, Seo Seol-ryeong would tell him without him having to ask about every detail.

 

“There’s really nothing particularly worth mentioning about that part.”

“Then that’s fine.”

“However… I think it would be good to talk about Baek Sin-yeong, the Palace Master of the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace, who could be called my distant relative.”

 

Baek Sin-yeong.

When she spoke that name, Seo Seol-ryeong’s voice became slightly stiffer than usual.

 

“Baek Sin-yeong is a person with great ambitions. She even directly killed her father, the previous Palace Master, and usurped the position of Palace Master.”

“She killed her father?”

“It’s something that happens often in the Cultivation World.”

 

This place is the Murim World, full of betrayal and conspiracy.

Even patricide, where a son kills his father, could easily happen here.

 

“Actually, Baek Shin-yeong killed his own father not for the palace master position, but to steal something more important. He tried to steal his father’s power.”

 

Seo Seol-ryeong spoke in a stiff voice.

 

“Baek Shin-yeong possesses the Northern Dark Divine Body. By combining it with the Six Yang Snow Melting Technique, he can absorb others’ spiritual power to elevate his own realm.”

“….”

 

Northern Dark Divine Body.

That was a constitution Cheon Woo-jin knew well too.

It was one of the constitutions you could randomly obtain when creating a character in Spirit Path Cultivation Chronicle.

 

The Northern Dark Divine Body was a constitution specialized in absorbing others’ power and making it one’s own, like the so-called ‘Star Absorbing Great Technique.’ If utilized well, it was a powerful innate constitution that could make game progression incredibly easy.

 

“As a result of absorbing the spiritual power of many people including his father using the Northern Dark Divine Body’s power, Baek Shin-yeong reached the Core Formation Great Circle at the young age of only about one hundred years old.”

“….”

“But Baek Shin-yeong soon hit a wall. Because he had only raised his realm through shortcuts without proper enlightenment, things got twisted along the way. It was concluded that in his current state, even if he continued cultivating for three hundred years, he would die without reaching the Won Yeong-gyeong realm.”

 

He committed patricide, diligently built up his power for a hundred years to reach Core Formation Great Circle, but after that he couldn’t grow at all and would have to stay in the same place for three hundred years?

It was a desperately maddening situation.

 

“So that’s why he wants the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner?”

“Yes, if he uses the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner to borrow power from the Upper Realm, such limitations become meaningless.”

 

It could be said to be a more cultivator-like ambition than Jongli Un, who only thought about revenge against the Jongli family’s main house.

 

“But even if he gains power through shortcuts like that, he’ll hit another wall later.”

“Actually, I pointed that out too. I said if he had great aspirations, it would be better to find another method even now.”

“If he were someone who would listen to such words, he wouldn’t have committed patricide in the first place.”

“That’s true, but… it seems he took it as me spouting nonsense to get the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner for myself. Since that wasn’t entirely wrong, I had nothing to say in rebuttal.”

 

In the end, negotiations with Baek Shin-yeong failed.

Seo Seol-ryeong moved alone to secure the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner, and Baek Shin-yeong ordered his subordinates to chase after Seo Seol-ryeong and bring back the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner.

 

After various twists and turns, Seo Seol-ryeong managed to secure the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner, but Baek Shin-yeong probably hadn’t given up yet.

He would try to get his hands on the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner somehow to overcome his limitations.

 

“We are now trying to destroy the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner in none other than the Snow Mountain Region. There’s a high possibility that Baek Shin-yeong will show himself directly, so it would be good to prepare mentally in advance.”

“Mental preparation.”

“You shouldn’t think he’s on the same level as the Core Formation Realm Cultivators you’ve faced so far. Especially since the Snow Mountain Region is advantageous for ice attribute techniques, you need to be careful.”

 

That was true.

But Cheon Woo-jin was more concerned about another aspect.

 

‘Northern Dark Divine Body.’

 

The Northern Dark Divine Body had similar properties to the Manifest True Life Body.

The ‘Dark’ in Northern Dark Divine Body had virtually the same meaning as the ‘Dark’ in Manifest True Life Body, and the term Northern Dark also referred to the dark northern sea.

Because he was born with a body like such a sea, Baek Shin-yeong could devour large amounts of energy and make it his own, just like Cheon Woo-jin.

Moreover, since he had even learned the Six Yang Snow Melting Technique specialized for the Northern Dark Divine Body, Cheon Woo-jin could potentially have his power absorbed if he wasn’t careful.

 

‘I need to be careful.’

 

Even while thinking that, Cheon Woo-jin felt anticipation in a corner of his heart.

 

Cheon Woo-jin had been handling the Manifest True Life Body for less than two years.

But Baek Shin-yeong had been with the Northern Dark Divine Body for a hundred years.

 

If he saw how Baek Shin-yeong used the Northern Dark Divine Body, Cheon Woo-jin might be able to advance his ability to handle the Manifest True Life Body by one level.

 

“Fellow Daoist Seo, Cultivator Cheon.”

 

Then Ho Yeon-rin’s voice was heard.

 

“I can see many footprints in the snowfield below. They’re footprints going in the same direction as us, but there are no footprints returning from that direction.”

“….”

 

Looking down below, there really were many traces left from stepping on the snowfield.

It seemed like there were at least forty to fifty people.

 

“It seems we’re too late.”

 

Wi Ju-seon, who was holding the steering wheel at the front of the flying vessel, spoke in a serious voice.

 

“I can see the blizzard of Ice Flower Blood Night beginning in the distance.”

“Then….”

“The ruins are already surrounded by Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace.”

 

Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace had noticed Oh Hwi-seong’s scheme and moved to suppress the ruins.

Fortunately, the battle was still ongoing.

 

Oh Hwi-seong, who had entered first, was fortifying the ruins and holding out.

 

“It’s not the worst situation.”

 

Seo Seol-ryeong stood up and spoke.

 

“If we attack Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace from behind to collapse their encirclement, enter the ruins, and hand over the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner to the Heavenly Dragon Tower Master, it will be our victory.”

“Mm, that’s right.”

 

Ho Yeon-rin nodded.

 

“Once the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner is destroyed, Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace won’t have the will to fight anymore either. After that, the Tower Master will negotiate well and wrap everything up.”

“I hope it wraps up that nicely.”

 

Wi Ju-seon, holding the steering wheel, spoke with a smile.

 

“While we’re at it, it would be nice if you gave our Corpse Ghost Hell Gate some compensation too. I think we’ve helped quite a bit.”

“That’s… Tower Master will surely take care of it. I’ll mention it once too.”

 

After answering like that, Ho Yeon-rin looked at Cheon Woo-jin.

 

“I’ll tell them to give Cultivator Cheon a generous amount too.”

“You don’t need to worry about it. Seo Seol-ryeong here will handle the negotiations.”

 

At Cheon Woo-jin’s words, Seo Seol-ryeong nodded, and Ho Yeon-rin made a troubled expression.

It seemed she was already worried about how much Seo Seol-ryeong would extort from Heavenly Dragon Tower.

 

“We’re getting close now… What should we do? Should we stop the flying vessel first and approach stealthily from the ground?”

“No, if those bastards enter the ruins in the meantime, it’ll be troublesome. Let’s jump right in.”

“Then charging at full speed would be right…!”

 

Receiving Cheon Woo-jin’s answer, Wi Ju-seon formed hand seals while gripping the steering wheel.

Then the entire flying vessel was enveloped in light and began rapid acceleration.

 

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwang!

Unlike before, it advanced with explosive momentum, not caring about the loud roar that echoed.

 

The cultivators of Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace who had been surrounding the ruins could be seen turning around in surprise.

They looked flustered by the flying vessel that suddenly appeared and charged at them with terrifying momentum.

They needed to seize the initiative before those people could understand the situation and respond.

 

Cheon Woo-jin drew out the mental image that had now become familiar within his spiritual domain.

 

Black spiritual energy that leads everything to death.

He forged it into deadly blades. Again and again, until this Manifest True Life Body was completely filled.

Then he drew it out and made it descend into this world.

 

[Black Lightning Annihilation]

 

Hundreds of black lightning swords pouring toward the snowy field.

Pure black lightning energy stretched across the pure white snowfield, creating an achromatic spectacle.

Immediately after, miserable screams echoed, even providing background music.

 

Despite creating such a scene, Cheon Woo-jin’s spiritual power consumption wasn’t very high.

This was because he minimized his own spiritual power consumption by drawing as much as possible from the water spirit energy abundant in this snow mountain region.

 

‘The water spirit energy is cold.’

 

Even though it was the same water spirit energy, there was a big difference between the water spirit energy of a sweltering dense forest region and that of a snowy field region like this.

The water spirit energy he took into his body with deep breathing pierced his alveoli like cold ice fragments.

Feeling that eerie stimulation spread throughout his body, Cheon Woo-jin realized that a cool inspiration was beginning to rise within him.

 

‘Ice attribute, I think I can grasp it.’

 

The flying vessel plunging into the hellish scene created by Black Lightning Annihilation.

On its deck, receiving the bitterly cold wind with his entire body, Cheon Woo-jin felt a premonition of new growth.

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