The Great Heavenly Demon Sovereign - Chapter 594

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Chapter 594.
Bu Eunseol’s eyes narrowed with a tremor.
Beok Goong Ryung—was he not a friend whose bond transcended age and station, a companion whose years held no sway over their deep affection?
‘Why would the name of an elder still living appear here?’
Bu Eunseol gazed once more at the characters beneath the glass chamber, her expression clouded with confusion.
‘Could it be a coincidence of names? No, that cannot be.’
In all the annals of Murim, there existed but one person bearing the epithet Tan Wang.
Only Beok Goong Ryung, who had cultivated the Tan Qi with such fervent dedication, could claim that singular distinction.
‘The elder…’
Bu Eunseol’s eyes trembled with a fine, sharp light.
Had Beok Goong Ryung already perished, his body dissected and preserved?
Or had the Great Technique already been unfolded upon another possessing the same essence?
‘No, he may yet live.’
The glass chamber inscribed with Tan Wang’s name differed from the others—it contained no liquid whatsoever.
‘I must investigate this place with urgency.’
Originally, Bu Eunseol had intended to cremate the corpses remaining in the glass chambers, then immediately destroy this entire Underground Fortress and depart.
But if Beok Goong Ryung had fallen into the hands of Sam Gye?
Then I must rescue him with all speed.
Whoosh.
Bu Eunseol stepped outside at once and surveyed her surroundings.
All those within were dead, leaving no one to interrogate about the truth.
Moreover, this Underground Fortress was vast—impossibly vast.
Furthermore, rather than mechanical devices, great techniques and sorcery permeated this place, creating regions even my Beast Sense could not penetrate.
In such a location, there would surely be mechanisms designed to destroy the facility as a precaution.
Should I search haphazardly, I might trigger such a device and seal this place entirely, without ever confirming whether Beok Goong Ryung lived or died.
‘I must find where documents are kept.’
A repository for vital records would be situated at the center, in a place with minimal foot traffic.
Given the vast expanse of this Underground Fortress, the highest leadership would dwell at the center, managing operations from there.
Figures of such rank would rarely meet with others, leaving scarcely any traces of passage.
Zing.
Drawing upon the Hollow Heart Passage Technique, Bu Eunseol sought out a building among the many at the center where human traffic was virtually absent, and entered.
Inside lay only silence and emptiness.
Not a single ray of light penetrated the darkness.
A broad corridor, perhaps twenty paces wide and ten paces high, stretched before me, lined with doors on both sides.
Creak.
As I cautiously opened a door, I glimpsed a stone chamber shrouded in darkness, containing a single bed.
The opposite door revealed the same sight.
‘Breathing.’
Bu Eunseol opened the door at the far end of the corridor.
Within that stone chamber lay a figure swathed entirely in bandages.
The bandages were soaked through with blood, and he lay in deep slumber, motionless as a corpse.
‘So it was him.’
Bu Eunseol could discern the truth.
This Strange Being wrapped in bandages was none other than the Disheveled Man she had glimpsed at the Inn.
Despite the wrappings, that coarse hair remained unmistakable.
‘Did he fail the grand technique?’
The man’s breathing was so shallow it seemed his life could cease at any moment, and his fingertips trembled with a faint quiver.
It was evident he was suffering relentlessly from some unknown affliction.
“May you be reborn as an ordinary commoner in your next life.”
Bu Eunseol extended her finger.
She intended to press the death point to grant him swift release from his torment.
Clang.
But at that moment, a metallic sound echoed faintly, accompanied by the presence of someone approaching.
Bu Eunseol immediately concealed her aura and hid herself in the shadows of the Stone Chamber.
“Hmm.”
The ones who entered the Stone Chamber were none other than a very young boy and a Young Man.
‘Was there a hidden mechanism in this place?’
Bu Eunseol’s expression grew puzzled.
Surely she had not left the external passage unblocked?
‘Is there a separate passage that leads directly from outside?’
Even if there were a mechanism allowing direct entry from the outside,
they could not possibly be unaware that all personnel inside had been slaughtered.
Why then did they enter so leisurely and examine the patient with such composure?
‘It matters not.’
In any case, she had secured someone who could provide information about Tan Wang’s whereabouts.
Bu Eunseol remained hidden while carefully observing the appearances and bearing of the two visitors.
‘Even younger, it seems.’
This boy who had suddenly appeared looked six or seven years younger than Dae Bo.
Yet despite his youthful appearance, his eyes burned with such gravity that he resembled an eighty-year-old elder.
‘I see. In this place, the younger one holds the higher position.’
As Bu Eunseol fell into deep contemplation,
“Wrong.”
The boy, who had been examining the bandaged man lying on the bed from various angles, shook his head.
“He is beyond saving. Dispose of him immediately. And,”
The boy turned and spoke with cold indifference.
“This place as well.”
“Understood….”
The Young Man standing behind him lowered his head to respond, but in that very instant,
Thud.
He collapsed without finishing his words.
At that very moment, a shadow with blood-red light flickering in its eyes slowly emerged from the darkness.
It was Bu Eunseol, having reversed her form into Xiao Zhen Tian.
Just as the two seemed about to escape this place, she severed the Young Scholar’s neck in one swift motion and revealed herself.
“Ho, deceiving my perception, are you?”
The Young Boy showed no surprise upon seeing Bu Eunseol emerge from hiding.
“So there was another moth-like creature who came to spy on this realm.”
It was curious indeed.
The Cheon In Sect had only created the Demon Sword Fortress within the span of a few years.
Yet the Young Boy spoke as though many had come to spy on Lengyue Island until now.
“So this was not the first time.”
Bu Eunseol’s eyes flashed with intensity.
“We have been conducting experiments here for a long time.”
“Hehehehe. Throughout the generations, there have been many flies attempting to spy on this realm.”
The Young Boy spoke with a smile.
“And each time, we quietly crushed them to death.”
The Young Boy’s innocent appearance and youthful voice spoke such brutal words that his visage became all the more grotesque.
“It seems you wish to ask something.”
“You read it well.”
The Young Boy’s eyes gleamed mysteriously.
“It is not reading.”
The Young Boy shifted his gaze toward the man lying on the bed and smiled faintly.
“I detect and interpret everything transmitted by the body—the light in one’s eyes, expression, body temperature, all of it.”
In that instant, Bu Eunseol’s gaze became razor-sharp.
‘Is this the person Hyuk Ryeon Eung spoke of—one who can perceive the Three Treasures?’
Hyuk Ryeon Eung, who had attempted to recruit her into the Infinite Realm, had said that to enter the Three Realms, one must perceive the Three Treasures that compose the human body.
That is, essence, qi, and spirit—and there existed a supreme method to perceive such things.
Perhaps this Young Boy had mastered such a supreme method and could discern one’s inner nature simply by facing them directly.
“What is the purpose of doing such things?”
“Purpose, you say.”
The Young Boy chuckled and opened his mouth, gazing at the man wrapped in bandages on the bed.
“Does it end when one dies?”
“….”
“Or does everything remain unchanged, and this boundless universe sustain itself endlessly?”
As the Young Boy continued speaking, he reached out his hand toward the man lying on the bed.
Flash!
A cold star flickered through the air, and the Young Boy’s left hand fell to the ground.
Bu Eunseol had drawn the Moonlit Shadow Sword like lightning and severed his wrist.
“Do not play foolish games.”
“A formidable swift blade. Truly formidable.”
Was it because he could unfold a supreme method capable of transforming the entire human body?
No blood flowed from the severed wrist, and the Young Boy, as if he had simply dropped something he was holding, continued speaking with an unconcerned expression.
“The answer is the latter.”
The Young Boy spoke in an unhurried voice.
“People seem to be born anew, but in reality, they are born infinitely and repeatedly.”
“….”
“In the past, there must have existed someone with an appearance and temperament very similar to yours. And in the future, a human very much like you will be born again.”
Crack, crack.
At that moment, bone-cracking sounds echoed from the body of the man lying on the bed.
“Huff, huff.”
Simultaneously, the breathing of the man who had been dying began to grow rough like that of a beast, and thick blood vessels bulged across his skin.
It was as if he had received a supreme technique that ignited latent potential.
Bu Eunseol raised her inner energy, wondering what was happening, but there was no further movement.
“Upon reaching the Infinite Realm, one can not only slow the passage of time but also control the flow of time itself.”
At that moment, the Young Boy said something rather unexpected.
“By that point, a martial master no longer obsesses over martial arts, but instead contemplates deeply the exploration of life and death, truth and falsehood, and the karmic deeds accumulated thus far.”
Bu Eunseol narrowed her eyes.
Could it be that this Young Boy had reached the Infinite Realm?
“Are you the Sect Master?”
“Hehehehe. That cannot be.”
The Young Boy shrugged his shoulders as he spoke.
“It’s simply been a long time since I’ve seen someone who perfectly controls their spiritual essence. I found myself rambling without realizing it.”
Based on his manner of speech and demeanor,
this Young Boy seemed to hold a considerably high position not only on Lengyue Island but also within Gui Il Gae.
Swish.
The demonic blade Bu Eunseol gripped unleashed a brilliant silver radiance.
Thinking that the Young Boy’s martial prowess might surpass her own, she immediately seized the initiative.
Screech.
Simultaneously, the frost-sharp blade tip halted near the Young Boy’s carotid artery, separated by the thickness of a single hair.
“Where is Tan Wang Buk Gung-ryeong?”
“Hmm. That doesn’t seem to be it.”
The Young Boy murmured leisurely.
“Looking at your expression… it seems there’s something else you’re truly curious about?”
As the Young Boy mocked her, Bu Eunseol pressed the demonic blade against his neck with force.
The sharp blade edge should have cut through skin and pierced the artery, causing blood to spurt forth.
Yet the Young Boy’s skin was deeply gouged, but no blood flowed out.
“How unfortunate. Your martial arts seem quite formidable.”
Now she could see that the Young Boy’s body was hollow inside, like a puppet made of human skin.
But Bu Eunseol was hardly surprised.
Everything Gui Il Gae had done thus far was far from ordinary. Even if the Young Boy’s body scattered like smoke and flew into the sky, it would be no cause for astonishment.
“I asked where Tan Wang Buk Gung-ryeong is.”
“Think carefully before you ask.”
The Young Boy’s smile turned sinister.
“Are you truly curious about whether Tan Wang lives or dies, or is there something else you wish to know?”
Then he spoke with a spinning, mocking laugh.
“From my lips, you can only receive one answer.”
In that instant, Bu Eunseol’s eyes wavered.
It was as though he had peered directly into her innermost thoughts.
The place where her grandfather Bu Chanyang’s remains lay at rest.
And the life or death of Tan Wang Buk Gung-ryeong.
These two pieces of information were absolutely critical to uncover. Yet this Young Boy claimed he would answer only once.
‘Then this creature….’
A cascade of thoughts flickered through Bu Eunseol’s mind.
“You’re forcing me to ask the same question multiple times.”
Finding her grandfather’s remains was important, but the fate of the living took precedence now.
Moreover, having seen through the Young Boy’s insidious scheme, she asked without hesitation about Tan Wang’s fate.
―From my lips, you can only receive one answer.”
If she had changed her question upon hearing those words?
The Young Boy would have instantly grasped why she came here and what she truly desired.
“So you truly came to rescue Tan Wang.”
The Young Boy’s eyes gleamed, and he let out a soft chuckle.
“Unfortunately, Tan Wang has already been captured and dissected. No matter how hard you search, you will never find him.”
A despairing answer came in return.
Yet Bu Eunseol only bared her white teeth in a smile.
“Ah, is that so.”
“….”
“Why not simply say you killed him because you couldn’t capture him alive?”
Bu Eunseol spoke coldly, her lips curling in a faint smirk.
“Then I might have believed you.”
The Young Boy’s thin eyebrows twitched.
He was curious how Bu Eunseol had seen through his deception.
“How did you know?”
“Perhaps my words are beyond your comprehension.”
Bu Eunseol laughed coldly.
“Or perhaps everything you said before was a lie.”
―Eye gleam, expression, body temperature… I detect and interpret everything transmitted from the body.
The Young Boy had claimed he could glean vast information merely by observation.
Yet now he could not even distinguish truth from falsehood in Bu Eunseol’s words.
“You grasped my weakness from just that single phrase.”
“If you could truly perceive everything, you would never have cast such a transparent bait—a question designed to reveal one’s true intentions.”
Bu Eunseol spoke with perfect composure.
“It seems he can only read bodily reactions. In reality, he’s inferring information through the opponent’s answers.”
Even a master of the Heart-Piercing Technique like Hyuk Ryeon Eung, who could easily peer into an enemy’s mind,
had repeatedly lied to confuse Bu Eunseol, and required extensive preparation to unleash the Divine Method.
If this boy from Gui Il Gae could employ such a wondrous technique? And if he could truly extract information from bodily responses as he claimed?
He would never have asked a question that could reveal his purpose in a single exchange.
“Hehehehe. How clever.”
The boy shrugged and readily admitted the lie.
“That’s right. We haven’t captured Beok Goong Ryung yet. But news will come soon.”
Bu Eunseol exhaled a breath of relief in her heart.
If Tan Wang hadn’t fallen into Gui Il Gae’s hands yet, there was still ample opportunity to save him.
“There’s no need for further questions.”
A crimson light blazed forth from Bu Eunseol’s eyes.
Capturing the boy was impossible anyway, and even if she asked about her grandfather’s remains, he would never speak.
There was only one thing left to do.
Whoooosh.
In that instant, black mist swirled around the boy’s body, and a sword aura of infinite darkness bloomed forth.
The Blood Dew Seven Techniques.
She unleashed the absolute death-dealing swordsmanship that brought demise to all life, intending to strike down the boy’s shell and,
with equal impartiality, death upon the one who controlled it.
―Roooar!
But then something unexpected occurred.
The man lying on the bed suddenly roared and sprang up like a coiled spring, then rushed toward Bu Eunseol without warning.
It seemed he had set some mechanism in place from the moment she broke his bones.
“Good luck.”
Seizing the opportunity, the boy vanished like a phantom in an instant.
Crash!
As Bu Eunseol sidestepped, the charging man burst straight through the wall and out into the open.
Bu Eunseol ignored the man and unfolded her divine technique to track the fleeing boy.
Boom!
In that moment, an invisible wind force pierced into Bu Eunseol’s back.
The man had unleashed a tremendous gale.
‘No need to engage him.’
Pap pap pap!
Bu Eunseol lightly evaded the wind and rushed outside without confronting the man, pursuing the boy.
Boom!
But the earth force extending from the man’s hands curved again, blocking Bu Eunseol’s escape route.
Whoosh.
Bu Eunseol spun her body again to evade the earth force.
By then, all trace of the boy had completely vanished.
‘I let him slip away.’
Boom. Boom.
Meanwhile, the man approached Bu Eunseol slowly, his bloodstained bandages wrapped tightly around his body.
His eyes burned with madness, and a tyrannical aura that seemed capable of tearing the very heavens flowed through his entire being.
His pupils were consumed with the rapture and killing intent of a beast that had discovered its prey.
“Is this what it takes?”
Bu Eunseol sighed.
This man too must have been born with a spiritual constitution and possessed exceptional talent in martial arts.
Yet in the end, the great technique had failed, and now he had become little different from the Shil Hoon In created by the Infinite Realm.
“Why do those of the Murim grasp for things they can never possess?”
“Uuugh.”
When the man met Bu Eunseol’s compassionate gaze, he seized his own hair.
Then he released a cry filled with sudden rage.
“Kaaaaah!”
With a roar, the man thrust all five fingers forward with tremendous force.
Whoooosh!
Red lines carved through the empty air as razor-sharp finger strikes poured forth.
The Red Blood Demon Emperor technique was incomparably more formidable than before.
Clang clang clang!
As Bu Eunseol swung her blade to deflect the strikes, the sword sang endlessly with metallic resonance.
‘To channel such experience through finger wind…’
Though the Moonlit Demon Blade’s properties remained enigmatic, its hardness and sharpness rivaled even the Divine Sword Scripture.
Yet the man’s finger strikes were as if hundreds of masters had simultaneously unleashed their techniques, layered upon one another.
They shook the Moonlit Demon Blade without ceasing.
If she continued to collide with such strikes, the Moonlit Demon Blade would eventually shatter.
Tap.
Bu Eunseol deployed her movement technique to immediately escape the range of the strikes.
“Kaaaaah!”
But each time, the man moved his fingers in rapid succession, unleashing finger winds of varying directions and speeds.
From a distance, it appeared as though he was continuously drawing blood-red lines across the space.
Clang clang clang clang! Crack crack.
As Bu Eunseol continuously blocked the strikes, cracks began to form along the blade of the Demon Sword, exactly as she had anticipated.
“Hmm.”
Bu Eunseol, who had been deflecting the endless Red Blood Demon Emperor technique, suddenly leaped into the air.
Flash!
Soaring toward the ceiling, Bu Eunseol unleashed a succession of enormous sword qi from the Waning Moon Luminous Star technique.
As she continuously poured forth brilliant cross-shaped sword qi, it resembled dozens of colossal shafts of divine light descending upon the earth.
“Whoosh!”
Yet the man, though his mind was fractured, had perfectly inherited the Red Blood Demon Emperor’s martial arts.
Whoosh! Whoooosh!
As the man waved all ten fingers, the blood-red lines embroidering the empty air formed into a colossal net.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The rain of sword energy from Jang Han’s technique dissipated. Bu Eunseol had deployed successive layers of earth force to annihilate the blade energy.
Boom!
The man did not pause, unleashing hundreds of blood threads toward Bu Eunseol as she landed on the ground.
‘Direct confrontation is impossible.’
The Red Blood Demon Emperor had transcended the limits of finger techniques, leaving lingering afterimages of energy suspended in the air for extended periods.
He was filling this vast corridor with crimson blood threads.
Whoosh.
Bu Eunseol immediately deployed her movement technique to evade, and the Red Blood Demon Emperor’s threads that grazed past left deep gouges in the metal floor.
This extraordinary finger technique could be unleashed in singular bursts or extended continuously like a whip.
The Red Blood Demon Emperor—it was not merely a finger technique, but a demonic art that created a new weapon capable of transforming into dozens of forms.
“Formidable.”
Bu Eunseol felt a chill run down her spine.
Witnessing this man’s power, I could understand something.
Why Gui Il Gae had sought to inherit the strength of the ancient masters.
If a man lacking clarity of mind could manifest the Red Blood Demon Emperor’s avatar through such techniques to this degree—
What if he could perfectly master and unleash the abilities of those supreme powerhouses of old?
If they could command such individuals according to their desires?
Then Gui Il Gae would be—
unstoppable by any force in existence.

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