Instant-Death Cultivation: Surviving in an Immortal World with Instant Kill - Chapter 83

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Chapter 83: Demonic Energy (2)

 

 

Woooooo!

An intense wave was felt from within the rift in space-time.

Nothing had crossed over yet, but just the opening of the door made it feel like his entire body would burst.

 

‘Is this the Upper Realm?’

 

A world different from this Lower Realm.

The place where cultivators who ascended to the Avatar Mirror and succeeded in Ascension go.

That place is filled with spiritual energy so pure and dense it cannot be compared to the Lower Realm.

 

The Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner was a magical treasure that opened a door leading to this Upper Realm.

It is said to allow one to obtain tremendous power by borrowing the strength of the Upper Realm.

Cheon Woo-jin didn’t know the specifics of what that entailed.

 

But Baek Gang-ryeon seemed to know the details.

 

“Ohhhhh…”

 

Baek Gang-ryeon let out an exclamation.

Though still in the form of a snow leopard, he raised his front paws as if shouting hurray.

 

“Yes, this is it, this is exactly the Upper Realm.”

 

Baek Gang-ryeon’s eyes gazing into the rift in space-time were consumed with intense desire.

A place that could originally only be glimpsed upon reaching the Avatar Mirror was now before his eyes.

At this fact, Baek Gang-ryeon was trembling with ecstasy throughout his body.

 

Woooooo!

A massive formation unfolded centered around Baek Gang-ryeon.

The enormous Water Spirit Energy accumulated in the Thousand Year Snow Leopard’s body was sucked into that formation.

Then the formation began rotating like a wheel.

 

What resulted from this was gravitational force.

It was trying to pull something from the Upper Realm visible beyond the rift in space-time.

 

“Oh, heavenly gods and spirits.”

 

Baek Gang-ryeon spoke words that were unclear whether they were exclamations or incantations.

Then he began muttering strange words that Cheon Woo-jin couldn’t understand.

 

The gravitational force generated by the formation became even stronger.

No, it seemed to become more precise.

It was as if adjusting the frequency to accurately pull exactly what was desired.

 

Kwaaaaaa!

Finally, with a roar that shook space-time, something long revealed itself.

 

It was a tentacle.

A body part possessed by invertebrates like mollusks flowed out through the rift.

 

However, this tentacle didn’t seem to have substance.

It felt as if not the tentacle itself had truly crossed into this world, but rather the tentacle’s shadow or afterimage had come over.

 

Most importantly, Cheon Woo-jin couldn’t see a status window.

If that were truly the tentacle’s main body, he should have been able to see a status window.

 

‘I mustn’t let my guard down just because it’s merely a shadow.’

 

Cheon Woo-jin endured while circulating his spiritual power.

Even though it was just a shadow without substance, he felt a greater presence than any being he had faced so far.

 

Right now, Cheon Woo-jin was feeling pressure as if being crushed by tremendous weight.

The ‘weight of existence’ that tentacle possessed was pressing down on Cheon Woo-jin from quite a distance away.

 

“Oh, Billion Sea Demon Lord!”

 

Meanwhile, Baek Gang-ryeon cheered while bowing his head.

 

“Lord of the Northern Dark who rules the dark sea! Black Demon Lord who raises great waves without wind in the vast boundless and endlessly deep sea!”

 

Was it coincidence or fate?

What Baek Gang-ryeon had summoned was a being deeply connected to Cheon Woo-jin.

 

Vast and boundless, endlessly deep… a sea with no end in breadth and no end in distance.

That had the same meaning as the pitch-black northern sea of the Manifest True Life Body.

 

Of course, this also connected to Baek Shin-yeong’s Northern Dark Body.

Perhaps Baek Gang-ryeon had been pursuing this Northern Dark sea from long ago.

Maybe Baek Shin-yeong being born with the Northern Dark Body was also a result of Baek Gang-ryeon deliberately intervening.

 

“This humble Baek Gang-ryeon begs you! Please grant me an opportunity…!”

 

To think that the mighty Baek Gang-ryeon would offer prayers in such a humble posture.

 

Cheon Woo-jin stared at the back of Baek Gang-ryeon prostrating himself defensively.

If his heart had its way, he would have liked to stab that back right then.

 

But he couldn’t do that.

If he harbored such thoughts, Baek Gang-ryeon would immediately subdue Cheon Woo-jin.

 

Surprise attacks don’t work on late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators who transcend the limits of time.

Whatever means Cheon Woo-jin tried to use, Baek Gang-ryeon reacting and subduing Cheon Woo-jin would be faster.

 

“Please bestow upon me the power of the Upper Realm!”

 

He didn’t know what Baek Gang-ryeon planned to do after gaining power.

But it certainly wouldn’t be anything good for the world.

Considering Baek Gang-ryeon’s character, who tried to devour his own child to reach a higher realm… he would surely commit very cruel and vicious acts.

 

“Ooooh…!”

 

At that moment, Baek Gang-ryeon let out an exclamation.

An unidentifiable black smoke was flowing out from the giant tentacle.

 

Then something flickered in the snow leopard’s abdomen.

A mental body in the form of a young child… Baek Gang-ryeon’s Nascent Soul was emitting light.

 

“I see! So this is what it means to change the laws of the world! To change the world with my mental image… Ah!”

 

At that moment, an unexpected change occurred.

The body of the Thousand-Year Snow Leopard that Baek Gang-ryeon was using began to crumble bit by bit.

 

“Cheon Woo-jin!”

 

Baek Gang-ryeon urgently raised his voice.

 

“Fulfill your role as an assistant! Bring me a human body!”

“A human body?”

“This energy is far more alien than I expected! This snow leopard’s body won’t do, so I need to transfer to a human body!”

 

The moment he heard those words.

Cheon Woo-jin realized that the opportunity he had been sensing all along had finally come.

 

“Heaven, Earth, and Human! Among the three major classifications that exist in this world, only the bodies of the Human Race, which stands between heaven and earth, can accept such alien energy! This snow leopard corresponds to the Earth Race, so it cannot accept this kind of energy!”

 

Baek Gang-ryeon was currently in a state where he couldn’t move from his position.

He had to move Cheon Woo-jin, who was acting as his assistant.

 

“Those two people over there also won’t work because they’re Dragon Clan and True Human Race, which correspond to the Heaven Race! You need to bring a Human Race body!”

“…”

“Hurry up and move!”

 

Cheon Woo-jin did as he was told.

 

He simply passed by Oh Hwi-seong and Seo Seol-ryeong, who were unconscious nearby.

Oh Hwi-seong was Dragon Clan, and Seo Seol-ryeong was True Human Race, so they corresponded to the Heaven Race in the Heaven-Earth-Human classification.

 

Outside the ruins, Wi Ju-seon and the Decisive Realm Cultivators from Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace were also collapsed, but he didn’t go that far out.

The place where Cheon Woo-jin stopped was the passage he had passed through earlier.

There, Ho Yeon-rin lay unconscious and collapsed.

After checking her pulse just in case, he carried Ho Yeon-rin on his back and returned to near the altar.

 

Then Baek Gang-ryeon showed his irritation.

 

“Damn it, she’s Foundation Establishment! This means I have to lower my level considerably!”

“Lower your level?”

“To enter a Foundation Establishment body, I have to temporarily lower my level to Foundation Establishment level! You should have brought a Decisive Realm cultivator instead!”

 

Hearing those words.

Cheon Woo-jin thought of Yu Gi-ryeong, the Foundation Establishment Cultivator he had fought in the Dark Soul Secret Realm.

Originally, only Qi Condensation Cultivators could enter the Dark Soul Secret Realm, but Yu Gi-ryeong had entered by lowering his realm using the Scatter Retreat Secret Submersion Technique.

And inside the Dark Soul Secret Realm, he had recovered his Foundation Establishment power again.

 

This case was similar.

When a Nascent Soul enters another body, it must lower its realm to a level matching that body’s condition.

After entering that way, it can then recover its Nascent Soul Realm power again.

 

“There’s no choice!”

 

Right after Baek Gang-ryeon clicked his tongue.

Various spell formations unfolded on the Thousand-Year Snow Leopard’s body.

And as that body stiffened, a whitish light emerged from it.

 

It was the Nascent Soul, proof of the Nascent Soul Realm.

The white light was taking the form of a young child, and if you looked closely, it even had eyes, nose, and mouth.

 

That Baek Gang-ryeon lowered his realm to enter Ho Yeon-rin’s limp body.

The Nascent Soul itself was maintained, but its presence became much weaker.

The soul’s level had dropped to Foundation Establishment level.

 

This moment was exactly.

The moment Cheon Woo-jin had been waiting for all along.

 

“Baek Gang-ryeon, wait a moment.”

 

Until now, Cheon Woo-jin had not used Instant Death Heaven Eye even while watching Baek Gang-ryeon’s atrocities.

This was because there was a high possibility that Instant Death Heaven Eye wouldn’t work on late-stage Nascent Soul Realm cultivators who had transcended the limitations of time.

 

There was a possibility that he could react within the extremely short time that existed between the moment Cheon Woo-jin decided to use Instant Death Heaven Eye and the moment instant death actually occurred, and take Cheon Woo-jin’s life.

Until now, Cheon Woo-jin had instantly killed Nascent Soul Realm beings like Black Mist Dragon and Sama Moon, but they were all mid-stage Nascent Soul Realm or below.

 

If Cheon Woo-jin acquired equivalent speed, he could kill late-stage Nascent Soul Realm cultivators without problem, but he wasn’t at that level yet.

 

So Cheon Woo-jin waited for the right time to come.

The moment when, in the process of obtaining the power of the Upper Realm, Baek Gang-ryeon would exist in the same time as himself.

 

That moment was now.

 

‘Instant Kill.’

 

While making eye contact with Baek Gang-ryeon’s Nascent Soul, who looked at him after being called by name, he used Instant Death Heaven Eye.

 

Normally, the instant death effect would occur and Baek Gang-ryeon would meet his death in his Nascent Soul state.

But then something completely unexpected happened.

 

[What is this?]

 

Suddenly, a voice could be heard.

To be precise, the voice echoed inside his head.

 

[What’s happening?]

 

Was it because his Divine Consciousness had grown after reaching the late Qi Accumulation Stage?

He could hear Baek Gang-ryeon’s inner voice muttering in his Nascent Soul state.

 

[Why can’t I do anything? It’s natural that I can’t use Spiritual Power since I’ve left my physical body, but why can’t I even move my Nascent Soul?]

 

[Don’t tell me I’m dead?]

[Not that my heart stopped or my Golden Core was damaged, but that the Nascent Soul itself has met death?]

[Why did this happen? Did the억해마존’s power go out of control?]

[That can’t be. The procedure was perfect. Nothing went wrong, so this outcome is impossible.]

 

[Wait a minute.]

[Don’t tell me this bastard?]

[Don’t tell me that bastard Cheon Woo-jin killed me?]

[But how exactly?]

 

[No, wait.]

[Wait a moment.]

[At this rate, I’ll really die.]

[Isn’t there some way?]

[A way to survive even if the Nascent Soul dies, isn’t there one?]

 

[There isn’t.]

[No matter how much I think about it, there isn’t.]

[There’s no way to survive in this current state.]

[I’m going to die like this.]

 

[I don’t want to die.]

[I don’t want to die.]

[I don’t want to die.]

[I don’t want to die.]

 

A flood of soliloquy flowed into Cheon Woo-jin’s mind.

Though it was actually a very short time, in that brief moment, Baek Gang-ryeon seemed to have thought a great deal.

 

[I said I don’t want to die…!]

 

At the same time as the final death throes could be heard.

With a pop sound, the Nascent Soul burst.

Grayish light scattered around, leaving not even the smallest trace behind.

 

Those at the Won Shadow Sect stage can maintain their existence as long as their Nascent Soul remains, but once the Nascent Soul dies, that’s the end.

Even if the heart is still beating, even if the Golden Core remains intact, they simply meet death.

 

The Old Monster Baek Gang-ryeon of the late Won Shadow Sect stage met his death like that.

 

“…”

 

However, Cheon Woo-jin had no time to feel a sense of accomplishment.

The gate to the Upper Realm was still open.

The transcendent being’s power that Baek Gang-ryeon had tried to obtain was still continuing to flow out.

 

He had to close the gate somehow.

As Cheon Woo-jin turned his gaze toward the space-time Rift with that thought.

 

His eyes met with golden pupils that were peering at him from beyond the giant tentacles.

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