Instant-Death Cultivation: Surviving in an Immortal World with Instant Kill - Chapter 80
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Chapter 80: Snow Mountain (3)
A fierce blizzard swept through the Snow Mountain Region.
The cultivators of the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace surrounding the ruins maintained their positions without making a single sound.
Wi Ju-seon’s jiangshi were trapped in ice around them, but to Cheon Woo-jin’s eyes, even those who were perfectly alive appeared frozen solid.
Perhaps it was because they feared their Palace Master floating above their heads. They showed perfectly controlled behavior.
“So you’re Cheon Woo-jin.”
Sitting diagonally on the silver spirit beast, Baek Sin-yeong smiled with her red lips.
“Seeing you in person, you look quite ordinary. I thought you’d have distinctive features that would make you recognizable at a glance like the demons of the Shadow Scale Sunken Sect, but with this appearance, I’d believe you if someone said you were just a commoner.”
“Evaluating my appearance right after meeting me?”
Cheon Woo-jin stared at Baek Sin-yeong’s pale face as he replied.
“Usually, people who lack confidence in their own appearance are the ones who chatter about others’ looks.”
“Kehehehe…”
Baek Sin-yeong laughed, her shoulders shaking on the spirit beast.
“Your appearance may be ordinary, but you have an unusual personality. How dare you speak so insolently to this Baek Sin-yeong.”
After laughing like that, Baek Sin-yeong straightened up and changed her posture.
She sat in meditation position on the spirit beast’s back and leaned her head toward Cheon Woo-jin.
“Well, I suppose it’s because of that personality that you recklessly rampage around every time. It seems you’ve created many heroic tales on the lower floors. I even heard you recently killed Gi Sin-ryeo of the Ten Thousand Poison Six Evil Sect.”
“…”
“Of course, it seems you were able to kill Gi Sin-ryeo because luck was on your side. There are also stories that the Golden Wing Sect had already drained all of Gi Sin-ryeo’s power…”
Baek Sin-yeong had grasped all the rumors about Cheon Woo-jin.
It seemed she had been continuously paying attention to the situation not only on the 6th Floor but also on the lower floors.
“I heard you also rampaged wildly in Central Mirror Town this time. We of the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace could have secured the Ghost Spirit Radiance Domain Banner first, but your interference ruined everything.”
“It was Na Chwi-ryang of the Shadow Scale Sunken Sect who secured the Ghost Spirit Radiance Domain Banner first.”
Cheon Woo-jin spoke in a cold voice.
“Even without me, the Shadow Scale Sunken Sect would have taken it first. Or Seo Seol-ryeong would have gotten it. In the end, your Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace would never have claimed the Ghost Spirit Radiance Domain Banner.”
“Kehehehe…”
Baek Sin-yeong let out another laugh.
Then she extended her right hand downward and waved it.
Crack!
One of the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace’s Core Formation Realm cultivators waiting on the ground froze solid.
“That was the first time I heard that the lizard bastard had beaten us to it. To miss such information is no different from insulting me.”
“…”
She froze her own subordinate to death simply for not providing accurate information.
Her cruel nature was revealed in how she killed without even listening to excuses.
“Hmm, come to think of it, you worked together with Seo Seol-ryeong.”
Baek Sin-yeong asked.
“Are you perhaps in a Dao companion relationship with Seo Seol-ryeong?”
“No.”
“There’s no need to hide it. I heard that Seo Seol-ryeong has special affection for you.”
“I said no.”
“Hmm, really?”
At Cheon Woo-jin’s answer, Baek Sin-yeong tilted her head to the side.
“Actually, I’ve been trying to establish a Dao companion relationship… no, a marriage relationship with Seo Seol-ryeong for some time.”
“What did you say?”
“Why are you surprised?”
When Cheon Woo-jin looked incredulous, Baek Sin-yeong laughed.
“I also have True Person blood flowing through my body. Wouldn’t I match well with Seo Seol-ryeong, who is a pure-blooded Guye True Person?”
“Do you think that marrying Seo Seol-ryeong would allow you to have children with True Person qualities?”
“Children? What meaning would that have?”
Baek Sin-yeong spoke in a serious voice.
“Animals bear offspring because they have finite lifespans. Why should we cultivators, who will enjoy infinite lives, create children?”
“…”
It was a statement that subtly hit the core of the matter.
Living beings reproduce for the continuation of their species.
They can overcome the finiteness of life by leaving behind descendants who are their own reflections.
However, cultivators who walk the path of cultivation are beings who overcome the finiteness of life by extending their own lifespans.
Therefore, to remain true to a cultivator’s identity, it might be right not to create children.
“That’s a topic requiring philosophical contemplation.”
“Philosophy?”
“In any case.”
Cheon Woo-jin looked up at Baek Sin-yeong and asked.
“Then you want marriage simply because you want to use Seo Seol-ryeong as a Dao companion?”
“Yes, that’s right. If we actually marry, I could also keep her confined to the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace.”
Baek Sin-yeong seemed to have no interest whatsoever in Seo Seol-ryeong’s own wishes.
“As I mentioned earlier, Seo Seol-ryeong and I have many things in common. If we stay together constantly and circulate yin-yang to maximize our cultivation effects, we could achieve great accomplishments.”
“….”
“So I’ve been constantly persuading Seo Seol-ryeong to stop her wandering ways and marry me to stay at the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace… but she wouldn’t listen.”
Saying this, Baek Shin-yeong stared intently at Cheon Woo-jin.
“So I was suspecting she might have a lover or something. Are you really nothing to Seo Seol-ryeong?”
“How pitiful.”
“Hm?”
Baek Shin-yeong blinked his eyes.
“What did you just say?”
“I said pitiful, Palace Master Baek.”
Cheon Woo-jin shot back with a cold voice.
“You must have been truly frustrated that you could never reach the Nascent Soul Realm through conventional methods. So as a last resort, you thought of the method of forming a dao companion relationship with Seo Seol-ryeong.”
“What…”
“I truly feel sympathy for Seo Seol-ryeong. To receive marriage proposals from a man who can only come up with such pitiful ideas.”
Baek Shin-yeong’s eyes widened as he was hit right on target.
Baek Shin-yeong had used the Northern Dark Divine Body to artificially raise his realm.
Thanks to that, he was able to reach the Core Formation Great Perfection at the young age of only about a hundred years.
However, problems arose because he forcibly raised his realm without properly following the steps.
It became impossible for him to challenge the next realm, the Nascent Soul Realm.
He still had about three hundred years of lifespan left, but could no longer advance his realm.
This was a desperate situation for a cultivator walking the path of immortality.
In such a situation, Baek Shin-yeong tried to find a way out through marriage with Seo Seol-ryeong.
He was trying to break through the barrier by utilizing a dao companion relationship with Seo Seol-ryeong.
“To keep pestering and forcing marriage on a woman who says she dislikes it, aren’t you ashamed as a man?”
“….”
Baek Shin-yeong’s face, which had only been pale, turned red.
Even his lips were trembling.
“A rootless mercenary dares to run his mouth carelessly. Do you want to die?”
“Finally your composure has disappeared, Baek Shin-yeong.”
Cheon Woo-jin shot back coldly.
“You brought a bunch of subordinates and acted like a big shot, but now you’re finally starting to show behavior befitting your level. Such petty villain-like attitude suits you.”
“You bastard…!”
Whoosh!
Baek Shin-yeong leaped down from his spirit beast.
Standing on two legs in the snowfield, he matched eye level with Cheon Woo-jin.
Glaring at Cheon Woo-jin with murderous eyes, Baek Shin-yeong gritted his teeth.
“Everyone stay out of this. I’ll personally educate this arrogant bastard…!”
It went as planned.
Cheon Woo-jin was relieved that Baek Shin-yeong reacted according to his plan.
The reason Cheon Woo-jin had been provoking Baek Shin-yeong until now was to create this situation.
‘I needed to guide him to say he’d fight one-on-one.’
If Baek Shin-yeong had his subordinates charge first, it would become quite a troublesome situation.
He would have to fight Baek Shin-yeong after consuming energy dealing with the subordinates.
Therefore, it was necessary to provoke Baek Shin-yeong and guide him into a one-on-one fight.
“I’ll make you regret being born, Cheon Woo-jin.”
Whiiiiing.
Eerie cold energy swirled around Baek Shin-yeong.
It was the cold energy of the Ten Thousand Night Ice Snow Art that only the palace master of the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace and his direct lineage could learn.
“I’ll freeze your entire body leaving only your head. Then I’ll slowly break your frozen body bit by bit starting from your toes, killing you slowly and painfully. This is our Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace’s death by a thousand cuts.”
“Not interested, Baek Shin-yeong.”
Cheon Woo-jin also circulated spiritual power within his body.
Following the incantation of the Thunder Spirit Great Evolution Art, he collided Heart Fire and Kidney Water to fill his entire body’s spiritual meridians with lightning energy.
“You should punish yourself with such extreme punishment for being an unfilial son.”
“Arrogant…!”
Flash!
Complex patterns spread across the surrounding snowfield centered on Baek Shin-yeong.
It was a visualization of snow crystal structures, identical in form to the magic arts that Seo Seol-ryeong had deployed.
It would be evidence that the True Human Race’s teachings had been passed down to the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace.
Immediately, extreme cold energy that froze the entire surrounding area swirled forth.
However, that cold energy only grazed Cheon Woo-jin’s feet.
[Thunder Movement]
Wrapping his entire body in lightning energy, he shot up into the sky.
After instantly escaping from the effective range of the magic arts Baek Shin-yeong had deployed, he gathered the energy of Heaven-Earth Yin-Yang.
Making eye contact with Baek Shin-yeong who reflexively looked up, he dropped black lightning energy toward his head.
[Black Lightning Descent Strike]
Kwa-kwa-kwang!
The Black Lightning Descent Strike at maximum output exploded.
He was able to unleash tremendously powerful lightning strikes because he drew upon the abundant Water Spirit Energy surrounding the area to its fullest extent.
However, Baek Shin-yeong did not go down easily.
He simultaneously deployed multiple layers of ice defensive barriers above his head, deflecting the Black Lightning Descent Strike.
Thud!
The snow piled on the ground was deeply carved out as Baek Shin-yeong’s figure disappeared.
Baek Shin-yeong, who shot up at a speed surpassing Cheon Woo-jin’s, raised his right arm.
Ice the size of a house formed from the empty air, attempting to crush Cheon Woo-jin.
Cheon Woo-jin thrust forward the Silver Spirit Steel Defense he had hidden in his left hand.
A protective barrier formed from the small shield in his palm, blocking Baek Shin-yeong’s ice.
However, he could not completely offset all that impact.
The massive weight sent Cheon Woo-jin flying backward.
Even while falling toward the snow-covered mountain, Cheon Woo-jin fluttered his sleeves to deploy the Heavenly Armor Flying Spirit.
Six automatically moving Flying Daggers aimed at Baek Shin-yeong, but he sneered and froze all six at once.
However, it was merely meant to buy time anyway.
During that brief moment, Cheon Woo-jin recovered his posture in the air and landed on the snowy mountain.
“Not bad!”
Baek Shin-yeong sneered as he raised both hands.
Then countless ice swords formed in the air.
The sight of Baek Shin-yeong reigning in the sky while commanding numerous ice blades was quite a spectacle.
“Let’s see how long you can endure, Cheon Woo-jin.”
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pat!
Ice swords fell like a torrential downpour.
It was a wide-area attack that unleashed the full power of a Core Formation Realm master, capable of sweeping away this entire area.
Amidst the merciless assault, Cheon Woo-jin unleashed Lightning Energy to create an escape route.
Watching Cheon Woo-jin desperately search for somewhere to flee within the downpour of ice swords, Baek Shin-yeong laughed loudly.
“You’re running around like a little rat!”
However, Cheon Woo-jin remained calm.
Even in a situation where the slightest carelessness would result in his entire body being pierced by ice swords and suffering fatal wounds, he was observing Baek Shin-yeong’s Magic Arts within his Spiritual Domain.
‘Yes, this is it.’
He expanded his Divine Consciousness to observe the downpour of ice swords.
This was both to break through the attack and find an escape route, as well as to understand Baek Shin-yeong’s Magic Arts.
‘As expected, it’s more flawed than Seo Seol-ryeong’s.’
Cheon Woo-jin’s insight had grown even more since he first arrived on the 6th Floor.
It saw through the spiritual structure composing Baek Shin-yeong’s Magic Arts.
Unlike Seo Seol-ryeong’s Magic Arts, which seemed to be clad in thick armor, Baek Shin-yeong’s Magic Arts were completely transparent inside.
Cheon Woo-jin instantly understood how Baek Shin-yeong’s Magic Arts were established. He even grasped where the vulnerabilities lay.
While certainly overwhelming in terms of power and scale, there were far too many flawed aspects in its structure.
Understanding the spiritual structure of Magic Arts like this makes three special techniques possible.
Cheon Woo-jin was now planning to attempt the first of those techniques.
“Hmm?”
Baek Shin-yeong wore a puzzled expression.
This was because Cheon Woo-jin, who had been breaking through the ice swords, drew a sword from his Storage Bag.
Seeing that precious sword wrapped in white cloth, Baek Shin-yeong showed a surprised expression.
“You bastard, that is…”
Swish.
Cheon Woo-jin unwrapped the silver silk cloth.
Then a spine-chilling aura spread from the Soul Devouring Spirit Flame Sword.
“Why do you have a Magical Treasure…”
Before the flustered Baek Shin-yeong, Cheon Woo-jin released the Spiritual Energy stored within the Soul Devouring Spirit Flame Sword.
The first of three techniques made possible by understanding spiritual structure.
What Cheon Woo-jin had repeatedly practiced and attempted since arriving on the 6th Floor with a Qi Accumulation Stage mid-level body.
To deploy the technique of ‘Destruction’ that nullifies Magic Arts themselves.
[Earth Spirit Orb Release]
[Yellow Lightning]
A new Thunder Method shook heaven and earth.
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