Survival Guide for the Reincarnated - Chapter 182

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Chapter 182

“…Hyeon Seol-rin-nim… Don’t tell me…?”

“Yes. We are now going against the very essence of Snow Mountain.”

Hyeon Sim rubbed his face.

This was a direction no one had ever thought of before.

“So… you’re saying that because we’re too strong, we actually failed to find the treasure?”

Woon-hwi nodded.

“‘The true meaning originally lies within the white snow’ – this might not simply mean something is hidden in the snow.”

Woon-hwi slowly stopped circulating his internal energy. Immediately, bone-chilling cold wind began penetrating his body.

Hyeon Sim cried out in alarm.

“Hyeon Seol-rin-nim! It’s dangerous!”

“It’s fine.”

In this brief moment of speaking, Woon-hwi’s body began freezing, but he still didn’t draw up his internal energy.

“This is a treasure no one has found. Over time, it was eventually dismissed as legend and everyone stopped searching, but when I cut Snow Mountain, I knew. The treasure truly exists.”

“…What…? You cut… Snow Mountain…?”

He had no intention of explaining.

Gritting his teeth, he spoke quietly.

“There are no phenomena without reason in this world. If that treasure’s value surpasses that of ancient times, naturally discovering it must require an extraordinary method. If it were easy to find, how could it be a treasure?”

Woon-hwi’s skin began turning blue, and his breathing gradually slowed. His consciousness grew hazy, but he opened all his senses to feel Snow Mountain.

His breath became labored. It felt like his lungs were freezing. More unbearable than the body’s coldness was the thin air. For an ordinary human unprotected by internal energy, this altitude was death itself.

The wound on his right hand worsened, and now even sensation was fading.

Hyeon Sim, who had decided to watch for now, shouted with a pale expression.

“You’ll die at this rate!”

He rushed over to inject energy, but Woon-hwi raised his arm to stop him.

“Don’t.”

“…Hyeon… Seol-rin-nim…!”

Woon-hwi couldn’t even hear Hyeon Sim’s voice. His consciousness began to fade. His body trembled violently, then even that stopped. It was so cold that he could no longer feel the cold.

That’s when it happened.

The world before his eyes began to change.

Within the white blizzard, he saw strands of blue light.

At first they were blurry, but gradually became clearer.

“…Ice Snow Energy…”

A type of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, yet primordial energy that had dwelt in this Snow Mountain since the beginning.

Whether North Sea Ice Palace or Ten Thousand Year Snow Palace, the words referring to Snow Mountain’s essence had never changed for even a moment.

In that brief moment when his body froze, Woon-hwi’s soul seemed to become one with Snow Mountain.

He saw it.

Not seeing with eyes, but an experience of sensing with his very existence.

Ice Snow Energy enveloped the entire massive Snow Mountain.

A flow that couldn’t be felt with internal energy, natural energy, or even Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy became visible.

It was a flow visible only to pure humans who had let go of everything, yet paradoxically, energy that could only be seen by those who understood everything.

Woon-hwi began following those strands. His consciousness left his body and swam through the white snow.

It was truly a special experience.

Even Woon-hwi, who had already reached the realm of Primordial Sole Existence in his previous life, felt this way.

His body remained on Snow Mountain, but his mind moved through another world…

Perhaps it should be called the separation of body and soul.

Woon-hwi followed the flow of Ice Snow Energy with his soul’s vision.

It circulated throughout Snow Mountain in lines, naturally converging at a place about 3 li away from Snow Mountain’s peak.

Most likely, that was where the peak of Ten Thousand Year Snow Palace was located before Cheon Nyeon Ji Ran.

Since it was such a high Snow Mountain, being 3 li away didn’t mean a low position, but this phenomenon seemed to reveal the true meaning of the phrase ‘the true meaning originally lies within the white snow.’

They soon began boring into the center, penetrating deep into Snow Mountain’s interior.

Woon-hwi’s consciousness, wavering on the boundary between life and death, thus reached Snow Mountain’s center.

What was there was.

‘…A cave…?’

It was clearly an artificial cave.

A space someone had intentionally created, located at the very center of the massive Snow Mountain. But how? Boring to Snow Mountain’s center in this harsh environment was nearly impossible.

Moreover, it wasn’t simply bored through, but had space carved out inside.

A completely enclosed place where some artificial energy resided – the moment Woon-hwi’s consciousness clearly settled there.

Brilliant blue light filled the world.

The world swayed. And the next moment, Woon-hwi realized he was standing in a completely different place.

A circular room with walls made of blue-glowing crystal. Here, Woon-hwi’s body no longer froze, and he even felt moderate warmth.

It truly couldn’t help but be a strange occurrence.

Throughout all of Woon-hwi’s lives, this was the first time for such a case.

It was definitely that cave he had seen with his soul’s eyes just moments before.

He looked at his right hand.

The pain remained, and though it had warmed with the warmth, the extreme cold he had felt just before still lingered.

Surely, this was reality.

He had found it.

The legend.

* * *

He looked around.

The cave was massive. The ceiling soared so high its height couldn’t be gauged, and the walls were filled with intricate patterns as if carved by a master craftsman.

…Does this make sense.

It was truly a strange phenomenon.

Clearly, body and soul had separated.

His body remained at Snow Mountain’s peak, while his soul separately emerged and moved along a path someone had prepared.

And now, his body had moved to the space his soul had seen.

This sounds easy, but in reality it’s beyond difficult – nearly impossible.

For this to be possible, what level of knowledge would be required?

At minimum, Primordial Sole Existence would be the baseline.

This isn’t simply talking about realm. This is talking about knowledge.

I wielded the sword.

I reached Primordial Sole Existence as a swordsman, and in wielding the sword, I can overwhelm all those below that level.

This isn’t arrogance or conceit. That’s simply the truth.

I accumulated knowledge in areas other than the sword as well, but not all of it reached the level of Primordial Sole Existence. While completeness may be possible, perfection cannot be.

The phenomenon I just experienced would be similar to a type of Formation Technique.

If so, the knowledge level of that Formation Technique must reach at least Primordial Sole Existence, and furthermore, the level of energy that can be deployed must be at least that of the supreme masters of Seoncheon Samgyeong who existed before Cheon Nyeon Ji Ran.

This was puzzling.

Seol Heun, the first Palace Lord of Ten Thousand Year Snow Palace, was the last Palace Lord of North Sea Ice Palace, and his realm was ‘Primordial Sole Existence.’

This can be naturally known by examining Ten Thousand Year Snow Palace’s history and investigating the traces and information about him spread throughout the world.

When Cheon Nyeon Ji Ran occurred, Seol Heun withdrew from the battlefield and later returned to Snow Mountain to establish Ten Thousand Year Snow Palace.

And after establishing the basic framework, he is said to have died at Ten Thousand Year Snow Mountain’s peak.

Even bringing all the existing information I knew, this Formation Technique cannot be explained.

I rubbed my face with my left hand.

Nevertheless, to draw a conclusion.

There are three possible cases.

First, if there was a figure from Seoncheon Samgyeong who was with Seol Heun.

Second, if the person who created this place was not Seol Heun.

Third, if the information about Seol Heun was incorrect.

Personally, I considered the third possibility most likely.

Seol Heun was a master of Seoncheon Samgyeong and had created this place with ‘some intention.’

And he had certainly made various preparations so that the bloodline of Seol Palace would be able to notice it.

Looking at it from every angle, the third possibility seemed most probable.

Then what exactly had Seol Heun left behind?

Was what he left here truly that jewel that had sent me back in time?

Whatever it was, this cave was far from ordinary.

Something was bound to emerge, and my gaze was fixed on the small table placed in the center of the cave and the two manuals on it.

I slowly moved forward.

Neither of the two manuals had anything like a title.

As if time had stopped flowing, these two books looked as if they had just been written.

They were peculiar in many ways.

I quietly picked up one of the manuals.

It was a relatively thin manual, but what could be written inside?

I opened it as it was.

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My descendant.

If you have found this cave, you must surely be of my bloodline.

This jewel I have named Cheonji Wonyeong is the final secret of the Thousand Year Demon Cult and the only hope our North Sea Ice Palace managed to protect from the destruction of Cheonnyeon Jiran.

You must already know.

What a terrible price Cheonnyeon Jiran paid.

Countless lives were sacrificed and the fundamental order of Murim collapsed. This jewel is the only key that can set all of that right.

I don’t know how you will use it, but you must never let it fall into their hands.

The descendants of the Thousand Year Demon Cult, the traitors of the Martial Alliance, the rebels of the sects.

You must not reveal the existence of this jewel to any of them.

You must know. This jewel is not a simple tool. It is a medium for the fundamental desire of heaven and earth that transcends time and space.

Only one can exist in this world, and once used, it cannot exist anywhere else.

The power that forms the foundation of the Thousand Year Demon Cult and the final bastion they sought to protect.

That is this Cheonji Wonyeong.

If you are truly my descendant, you will realize the truth of that power.

My descendant who reads the qi of Snow Mountain and possesses a pure and clear mind.

I hope you will make the right choice.

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It truly contained a great deal of content.

It is said that the Thousand Year Demon Cult has three divine objects.

The Heavenly Demon Divine Sword, the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, and Cheonji Wonyeong.

Cheonji Wonyeong is a divine object whose true nature is unknown – some say it’s a weapon, others call it a scripture, and some simply refer to it as the teachings of the Heavenly Demon Cult.

And though they are few, there are those who say it takes the form of a jewel.

They were right.

Cheonji Wonyeong is a jewel.

I shifted my gaze to the side for a moment.

Between the two manuals placed on this small table, there was something like an empty stand.

From what I could see, the size of what had been mounted here was roughly half the size of an adult man’s fist, and wouldn’t be any larger than that.

Thinking about it carefully, it was roughly similar in size to what had been embedded in my heart just before I died.

I stroked my chin.

The Eminent Monk had called me a ‘person of previous life.’

Why a person of previous life and not someone who had regressed?

I had thought roughly half a year had passed from the moment I died on Ten Thousand Year Snow Mountain until this moment today, but if I’m a person of previous life, then this half year is wrong.

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