Survival Guide for the Reincarnated - Chapter 183

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Chapter 183

I died at Ten Thousand Year Snow Mountain, and when the Heaven and Earth Origin Shadow embedded itself in my heart, the world would have been reconstructed.

Then when was it reconstructed?

It could have been 17 years ago when I was born, or it could have been before that.

Whenever it was, the entire world would have been reconstructed, and as time gradually passed to the point when I lived as the branch master of Seol-ap, that is, when I was seventeen years old, if I recalled my past life’s memories as if awakening.

Then I am indeed a reincarnator.

I had thought about it repeatedly.

Why was it specifically during my time as the branch master of Seol-ap, the moment I faced Ya Woon-sang?

The timing was far too appropriate. That was truly the last chance to correct what had gone wrong.

Regression and reincarnation are the same yet not the same.

It’s not simply turning back time to start anew, but even awakening memories that don’t exist in the world in a world that has already started anew cannot be the same.

The absence of the Heaven and Earth Origin Shadow before my eyes, this content left by Seol Heun, and the stories the Eminent Monk told me.

To combine all these things into one, this hypothesis would be the correct answer.

However, as is the way of worldly affairs, just when you think something is resolved, new problems are bound to arise.

Why reincarnation instead of regression? Why did the Thousand Year Demon Cult think of this as the final bastion beyond just protecting it?

I didn’t want to approach it as a simple philosophical problem.

There must be a reason to be called a reincarnator, but I don’t know.

My mind spun fiercely, but still nothing came to me.

I only thought this far for now.

Every phenomenon has a reason.

It will be revealed later. Or I’ll learn through clues from events that will happen in the future.

I wasn’t impatient.

I examined the manual again.

There was more content behind it.

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Heaven and Earth Origin Shadow Silently Gaze

O fundamental shadow of heaven and earth, gaze silently.

Space-Time Intersection Formless Transfer

Time and space intersect and transfer into formlessness.

All Laws Return to One Birth and Death Renewed

The laws of all phenomena return to one and birth and death begin anew.

Most Supreme and Secret Crimson of Life

O most supreme and profound light of life.

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This looked like poetry. Whether it was part of the Thousand Year Demon Cult’s scriptures or part of the enlightenment Seol Heun left behind.

I didn’t know the details, but I put it in my head first and then turned the pages of the manual.

It was empty.

So this is all there is.

Just as I was thinking that and about to close the manual.

I see writing at the end of the last page.

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I write this on the third day of the third month in the year of Gapjin.

Three hundred and fifty years later, on the first day of the twelfth month in the year of Sinmi, on the night when three stars align in a straight line and purple energy comes from the east.

At the third quarter of the hour of the rat, the moment a rooster crows once, a secret realm will open in Baekhueon Village of Daehwa County.

There, obtain the mental cultivation method and train in it.

If you miss this time, you will have to wait until the next opening of heaven.

When the year of Gapjin comes around again, on the first day of the twelfth month, at the same time, the door bearing heavenly energy will open for the second time.

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The moment I read this, I could only stand there dazed as if struck by lightning.

One day in my past life.

Manager Seong said to me with a serious expression:

-Young Master… please don’t ask questions and do exactly as I tell you.

His voice was truly serious.

-On the first day of the twelfth month in the year of Gapjin, a night will come when three stars align in a straight line and purple energy comes from the east. At this time, at the third quarter of the hour of the rat, a secret realm will open in Baekhueon Village of Daehwa County.

The content was also very serious.

-Today, Young Master, you will leave Snow Palace. I will make it so. Don’t worry about pursuers or anything like that. I will shake them all off.

He grabbed my shoulder with slightly reddened eyes.

-You must remember this. Young Master… you are not running away. You are simply walking your own path. I will watch over it even in death, so please become a man without shame and command the Murim. Young Master, you will surely be able to do it.

That’s right.

My father in my past life had ultimately found this secret realm.

Then why didn’t he use the Heaven and Earth Origin Shadow?

If he had used it, Father could have lived another life like me and changed many things.

But he didn’t.

Though that part was puzzling, for me who knew what kind of man Father was, coming up with an answer was as easy as moving a finger.

Whether making a deal with someone using the Heaven and Earth Origin Shadow, or using it himself.

Whatever he did, the reality of Snow Palace would never change.

Father accepted that he was not the one to use this Heaven and Earth Origin Shadow according to Seol Heun’s will, and decided to hide its existence.

And if there was someone who should use it.

He believed that it had to be me.

Whether he knew my potential, cherished me, or neither might be true. Realistically, I might have been the only one left to gamble on, so he had no choice.

Even so, it’s fine.

The fact that I received expectations, that was enough.

The results speak for themselves.

Father’s choice was right.

I put down the manual for a moment and closed my eyes.

My heart was warm.

Because I could feel Father’s heart.

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Woon-hwi now picked up the remaining manual.

If one of the two was about the Heaven and Earth Origin Shadow and a letter left for his descendant who would find this place, then what would the other one be?

Woon-hwi opened the first page and read the words.

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This is the original manuscript of the Ice Snow Heart Sutra.

Remember and remember again the three spirits recorded within.

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Ice Snow Heart Sutra.

This was the name of the scripture from the North Sea Ice Palace that had been destroyed during the Thousand Year Catastrophe.

However, Woon-hwi’s eyes sparkled at the mention of it being a draft. Everyone knew that the Ten Thousand Year Snow Palace was the organization that succeeded the North Sea Ice Palace.

But it was said that the past influence of the North Sea Ice Palace far exceeded what it is now, though no one knew whether this was just glorification of the past or not.

The Ten Thousand Year Snow Palace had simply been compared to the North Sea Ice Palace at every moment.

This aligned with the logic that latecomers cannot surpass the pioneers, but if they could get their hands on the draft of the North Sea Ice Palace’s scripture, it would be tantamount to preparing the foundation to surpass that very North Sea Ice Palace.

Above all, wasn’t the Ice Snow Heart Sutra the foundation scripture for the Complete Records of Ten Thousand Snows that only the bloodline of the current Ten Thousand Year Snow Palace could learn?

Woon-hwi quietly read through the scripture.

Countless characters were densely written, and they were certainly similar to the Complete Records of Ten Thousand Snows in many aspects.

However, it was clearly martial arts of a higher dimension, and there were several ways to develop the current Complete Records of Ten Thousand Snows.

Especially seeing that the recorded sword techniques, palm techniques, and movement arts seemed similar to those of ‘Kunlun,’ the legendary sect that was their greatest enemy before the Thousand Year Demon Cult.

It seemed that the original North Sea Ice Palace had multiple exchanges with Kunlun.

He turned page after page.

There was no end.

As Seol Heun had said, the Ice Snow Heart Sutra was divided into three chapters.

The important thing was that these three chapters had no ‘titles.’

It was a natural flow.

Woon-hwi judged that it would be appropriate to give each of these three chapters a title.

While there were some contents he couldn’t understand, there were more that he could perfectly comprehend.

That would be sufficient for creating titles.

Woon-hwi named the first chapter the Spirit of Void Eternity, the second chapter the Spirit of Condensed Heavenly Magnificence, and the final third chapter the Spirit of Penetrating the Great Void.

Then.

Characters began to be carved into the previously empty pages.

This was truly an amazing experience.

(Before yin and yang were divided, primordial unified energy).

Before yin and yang were divided, primordial unified energy.

(Above the primordial, before the supreme ultimate).

Above the primordial, before the supreme ultimate.

(Neither existence nor non-existence, yet both existence and non-existence).

Neither existence nor non-existence, yet both existence and non-existence.

(Neither emptiness nor form, yet both emptiness and form).

Neither emptiness nor form, yet both emptiness and form.

(This is called beyond the three realms, also called the realm without boundaries).

This is called beyond the three realms, also called the realm without boundaries.

(When snow melts and ice dissolves, return to the origin and to the source).

When snow melts and ice dissolves, return to the origin and go back to the source.

He rubbed his face.

What is this?

Woon-hwi’s knowledge regarding martial arts was truly abundant.

From Woon-hwi’s perspective, these contents were excessively philosophical and mixed Buddhist teachings, ancient Taoist teachings, and Confucian teachings in a chaotic manner.

Yet there was a feeling that they were connected, one might say.

This was undoubtedly ascending martial arts.

Martial arts at a level that even the martial artist of Primordial Sole Existence ‘could not understand.’

Then, finally, brief characters appeared at the end.

(This scripture is incomplete, but the enlightened shall obtain it).

This scripture is incomplete, but the enlightened shall obtain it.

What exactly would one obtain?

What was Seol Heun trying to convey through this draft?

Although Woon-hwi had never seen Seol Heun in person, he could roughly guess what kind of personality this man had.

Beyond meticulous, one might say he was ruthless.

Seol Heun only gave rewards to those who exceeded the standards he had set for himself, and gave nothing to those who couldn’t surpass those standards.

Even though he was an ancestor, it seemed a bit harsh.

Woon-hwi immediately put the Ice Snow Heart Sutra into his storage bag.

Just when he thought he had obtained everything there was to get.

Really.

Is this all there is?

As he had discussed with Cheon Do-ja during their game of baduk, Woon-hwi played baduk not just to defeat his opponent but to understand them.

Whether it was fighting or anything else, everything became clear only when you understood your opponent and looked from their perspective.

Even in this secret chamber, Woon-hwi tried to understand Seol Heun.

He hadn’t figured out what kind of man he was for no reason.

Woon-hwi’s intuition was crying out.

That there was more.

He slowly moved his steps.

He looked around, searching for anything strange.

First of all, for such a cave to be created, there must necessarily be something like an entrance, but no entrance was visible.

Beyond having to find a hidden entrance or anything like that, Woon-hwi already knew how he could exit this place.

From the moment he entered, he naturally felt it.

This was a structure where if you knew how to enter, you would naturally realize how to exit.

He just needed to flow his energy in reverse order, like when he came.

Then he could leave.

That’s what made it even stranger.

How exactly was this cave created?

No entrance? That could be possible. But why this place specifically? The location was in the lower part of the very center of Snow Mountain.

Questions settled in his mind about how this place was found and why it had to be this specific location.

It was certain.

There must definitely be an intention behind it.

Woon-hwi carefully examined the cave walls.

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