The Great Heavenly Demon Sovereign - Chapter 751

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Chapter 751.
Crack. Crunch.
The thin legs, unable to bear the weight, began shattering like brittle candy.
With merely a glance from Bu Eunseol, the legs and bodies of the Masked Assassins filling the Reed Field were crumbling to pieces.
“This cannot be.”
Jee Yi Seong’s eyes widened as he witnessed the scene.
“She didn’t dispel the suggestion—she used it to bring everything crashing down?”
It was utterly incomprehensible.
Until now, Jee Yi Seong had wielded suggestions through ant-based illusions.
He had eliminated countless formidable opponents, and his suggestions had never once been broken.
Yet this young man had instead pushed the suggestion to an extreme reality.
Shattering the unbreakable formation of demonic insects.
“You…!”
Startled, Jee Yi Seong sent forth another massive swarm of human-sized ants toward Bu Eunseol.
But it was futile.
The moment they materialized, their legs shattered before Bu Eunseol’s eyes, leaving them writhing helplessly.
If giant ants the size of humans truly existed in reality, then so they must be.
“So there is a limit to the power of conviction.”
Bu Eunseol, regarding Jee Yi Seong, spoke with an intrigued expression.
“Which means, ultimately, suggestions can only function within the bounds of imagination that humans can rationally accept.”
If suggestions could enlarge anything or bring any existence into being at will—
A tiger the size of a fortress,
Or a legendary dragon, granting godlike power.
But if one were to conjure a tiger of impossible proportions, or a dragon no one had ever witnessed?
No matter how powerful the suggestion, the human mind would struggle to accept it as real.
Thus, Jee Yi Seong had employed only the most plausible.
Suggestions—insects enlarged to human size—to overcome his formidable opponents.
Metallic ring.
Raising the Muk Hon Sword, Bu Eunseol spoke to Jee Yi Seong.
“That grotesque power cannot be all you possess. Show me your other tricks.”
Yet Jee Yi Seong could not respond.
In truth, roughly half of those born with the power of Baek Pal Sung never learned martial arts at all.
After all, they possessed power that could crush any martial technique in an instant.
They felt no necessity in painstakingly learning martial arts.
Instead, they believed it wiser to spend that time cultivating their Baek Pal Sung power further.
But then,
“Impressive. To topple Jee Yi Seong so effortlessly.”
A Middle-Aged Man in crimson robes emerged from behind Jee Yi Seong.
With frost-white hair at his temples and a refined bearing, it was immediately clear he was no ordinary figure.
“At this level, you would certainly qualify as Man Wol’s key.”
“A weak point?”
“I wouldn’t know.”
As Bu Eunseol’s expression turned peculiar, the Middle-Aged Man let out a soft chuckle.
“Or did you actually believe that witch would help a complete stranger without any benefit to herself?”
Bu Eunseol’s eyes narrowed to slits.
Even as Man Wol was being hunted by someone.
I had never truly understood why she wandered the Gangho alone.
But listening to the Middle-Aged Man’s words, it seemed as though she had approached me with some ulterior purpose, didn’t it?
“So you really didn’t know.”
The Middle-Aged Man, observing Bu Eunseol’s expression, chuckled and spoke.
“That witch plays the role of luring young people like you into Hell.”
“As for an old man like myself, I appear directly and personally slaughter the young ones with my own hands.”
“Hehehehe. You do have a way with words.”
The Middle-Aged Man waved his hand dismissively.
“In any case, the weak points she selected must be eliminated. Otherwise, the Murim will crumble once more.”
“What do you mean?”
“We have no time for further conversation.”
The Middle-Aged Man smiled faintly.
“Once you die, everything ends. Everything.”
Then he extended his right hand.
Boom.
The entire landscape rippled like waves, and Bu Eunseol’s body became heavy as lead.
Realm.
Suddenly, the Middle-Aged Man began using the Mental World that In Bi In had wielded, not the power of Baek Pal Sung.
‘Is this man also from the Inbi Organization?’
Even amidst the pain, questions surged through Bu Eunseol’s mind, yet I could not open my mouth to ask.
Seon Woo Jin has had no contact with the Inbi Organization until now.
An careless question could raise suspicions about my identity.
“Did you know that if the person who created a Mental World dies… everyone trapped within it dies as well?”
The Middle-Aged Man gazed at Bu Eunseol with a faint smile.
Squelch.
Then he suddenly extended his right hand and pierced through the belly of Jee Yi Seong, who stood beside him.
Trembling.
Unable even to cry out, Jee Yi Seong collapsed to the ground, his body convulsing.
Whoosh.
With a casual motion, the Middle-Aged Man retrieved a small, transparent orb from Jee Yi Seong’s possession.
It was the Gyeongseong Jade.
“Jee Yi Seong was unworthy of possessing it. Trembling in fear simply because a suggestion was broken.”
The Middle-Aged Man, sighing, spoke to Bu Eunseol while gripping the Gyeongseong Jade in his hand.
“Fall together into Hell, peacefully.”
Whoosh.
A crimson aura surged from Jee Yi Seong’s body, and with a crackling sound, hairline fractures appeared across the sky.
The Middle-Aged Man was using the dying Jee Yi Seong to collapse the Mental World.
‘Is this hypnosis? Is this truly the Mental World?’
Bu Eunseol, staring at the sky fractured like a spider’s web, immediately unsheathed her blade to strike down the Middle-Aged Man.
But her body was no longer merely heavy as lead—it had hardened completely, rendering her utterly immobile.
“Hehehehe. Savor death slowly.”
The Middle-Aged Man, observing Bu Eunseol’s petrified form, let out a contemptuous laugh and turned away.
Whoosh.
As the Middle-Aged Man vanished, the fractured sky began to crumble.
The heavens shattered like broken glass, fragments cascading down, while the earth transformed into a viscous liquid.
If this entire world collapsed completely?
Whether hypnosis or Mental World—
Bu Eunseol, trapped here, would surely meet death.
‘Impossible.’
Zing.
Five-colored radiance erupted from every fiber of my being.
I had already experienced reconstructing a Mental World crumbling under Yeon Wol’s assault.
‘If this force is indeed the Mental World, all the better. I can rebuild it.’
Zing.
Channeling my full power, I unleashed my strength.
As if time itself reversed, the collapsing world began to restore itself.
The viscous earth solidified once more, and the fragmented sky began reclaiming its original form.
‘Just a little more.’
With just a bit more restoration, I could completely repair the crumbling world’s structure.
Once accomplished, I could immediately escape this Mental World.
Zing.
Yet something felt wrong.
As I reconstructed the collapsing world, unfamiliar memories began flooding into my mind.
‘These memories…’
Astonishingly, they were not the memories of the dying Jee Yi Seong.
They belonged to the mysterious Middle-Aged Man who had created this Mental World.
‘Did he truly seize control of another’s spirit to construct the Mental World?’
The Middle-Aged Man had retrieved the Gyeongseong Jade from Jee Yi Seong’s possession.
Using its power, he had cast a potent hypnotic suggestion upon me, then unfolded the Mental World.
The Middle-Aged Man had indeed killed Jee Yi Seong, and I had witnessed it with my own eyes.
Therefore, I had completely accepted and believed the notion that he had manifested the Mental World through the dying Jee Yi Seong.
―Aaaahhh!
Suddenly, my vision blurred, and screams erupted from all directions.
In an instant, my heavy body felt light, and my hazy vision sharpened.
Then the burning Sa Ha Manor began to come into view.
Each time the Black Shadows moved swiftly through the manor’s interior, endless screams echoed without cessation.
The Sa Ha Manor from memory.
That memory was unfolding before my eyes once more.
‘Why?’
Bu Eunseol could not comprehend it.
I was aware of the hypnotic suggestion and was breaking free from it. So why had the memory of Sa Ha Manor surfaced?
Thud, thud.
Though the reason remained unclear.
Bu Eunseol instinctively walked slowly toward the center of that manor—a place as hellish as Hell Island itself.
Finally, upon reaching the manor’s courtyard, a massive wooden pillar stood erected, and beneath it burned a roaring inferno.
‘Mother.’
And bound tightly to that pillar was a woman of exquisite middle-aged beauty, her eyes shut firmly.
It was my mother.
Murmur, murmur.
Strange incantations echoed from all directions around my ears.
Looking around, it was the landscape I had seen in Yeon Wol’s Mental World.
‘Am I recalling the memory I witnessed in Yeon Wol’s Mental World?’
Around my mother bound to the pillar, mysterious sorcerers clad in black robes.
Still chanted incantations while weaving strange hand seals.
‘Wait.’
Suddenly Bu Eunseol sensed something amiss.
The perspective from which I was now viewing my mother.
It was not the angle from which I had observed through Yeon Wol’s vision before…
Rather, was it not the viewpoint of a new organization positioned at some distance from that place?
‘Could this possibly be within that Middle-Aged Man’s memory?’
If so, then my entry into the burning Sa Ha Manor was not of my own volition.
But rather, I had moved from the Middle-Aged Man’s perspective?
‘If that is the case, then this Middle-Aged Man was also present at Sa Ha Manor.’
This would confirm that not only In Bi In but also the Jung Sun Ga were involved in the Sa Ha Manor incident.
Whoosh!
At that moment, a radiant light surged forth from my burning mother’s body, shooting up to the very end of the sky.
Since it was a space quite distant from where Yeon Wol had been chanting incantations before.
Bu Eunseol could see the light rising from the Distant Sky far more clearly.
―Waa! Waa!
Then the low cry of a child echoed out.
When Bu Eunseol turned her head to look, not far away stood a large metal box.
And within it lay an infant of the most adorable appearance.
‘Why the child?’
The metal box bore strange characters written in blood, and magical artifacts and treasures were densely affixed to its surface.
Even the metal box itself was no ordinary object—it seemed to be a treasure imbued with some mysterious force.
Whoooosh!
Astonishingly, the colossal beam of light that had soared into the heavens now descended back toward the earth.
Crash!
The radiance that threatened to consume the entire land fell into the metal box, and simultaneously, characters engraved upon it and symbols on the seal began to emit an ethereal glow.
Hum.
That light seeped into the Infant’s body.
‘So that’s what this was.’
Only then could I comprehend the entire situation.
Their purpose was not to incinerate my mother.
They were transferring the vital energy that dwelled within my mother’s body into this Infant.
‘Man Wol.’
I was struck with the force of a blow to the back of my head.
‘She inherited my mother’s abilities.’
Now I could finally understand why the mother in my memories possessed such mystical power.
Why she had spoken to my father with words that seemed to predict the future.
‘Then my mother was also a Shaman.’
In her conversation with my father, my mother had sworn that she would wield the Muk Hon Sword herself.
And that was possible because my mother was a Shaman.
‘Was she a Shaman of Inbi Organization? Or did Inbi Organization steal her power?’
Inbi Organization is an evil sect that inflicts countless calamities upon the world.
Could my mother have been a Shaman of Inbi Organization?
Or did she meet her end after having her power stolen by them?
If neither of those…
‘Could it be that my mother grew weary of Inbi Organization’s tyranny, fled that place, and was discovered?’
As I sank deeper into thought,
Rumble. Crash crash crash.
The landscape of Sa Ha Manor began to crumble.
‘No.’
Snapping back to awareness, I exerted my power to restore the collapsing landscape of Sa Ha Manor.
I had to reconstruct it to escape from this layered Mental World.
Grrrr.
But the landscape of Sa Ha Manor was crumbling beyond my control.
If this continued, my spirit would be dragged along with the collapse of the Mental World.
Forever lost in an abyss from which there was no return.
Crack crack crack.
Thick veins bulged across my body.
Simultaneously, white energy began to envelop my form.
‘This is the only way.’
Five-colored radiance bloomed forth from my entire body.
unleashing harmony.
I would completely erase this layered Mental World and attempt to escape from it.
Crack.
As I drew upon all my strength, the form I had borrowed from Seon Woo Jin dissolved, and I returned to my true appearance as Bu Eunseol.
Whoosh.
The light radiating from my entire body grew even more intense.
This was a gamble.
Because I myself did not know what would happen if I unleashed harmony within the Mental World.
However, since they said that phase was not an illusion but grounded in reality,
I had no choice but to attempt it.
Zing.
But then the entire world trembled faintly, and an unfamiliar yet somehow familiar aura was felt from an extremely close distance.
‘What is this?’
Just as Bu Eunseol was about to be startled,
Roooar.
Suddenly, a sphere of crimson radiance began to form before my eyes.
[Escape through that place.]
At the same time, a mysterious resonance spread through Bu Eunseol’s mind.
It was not as though I had heard a voice, but rather as though the ‘will’ of a certain person had been conveyed to me.
If Bu Eunseol had been an ordinary person, I would have thrown myself into the sphere without hesitation.
‘If I cannot escape on my own, how could I possibly face them in the future?’
Crack, crack, crack.
Because this Mental World was one where illusion overlaid reality, my power did not align perfectly.
With the sound of bone, my skin began to crack like brittle candy.
Zing. Zing.
Then my body suddenly flickered like a star, and blue and black light began to pour forth.
As my body reached the point of destruction, an incomprehensible power suddenly spread from within me.
But Bu Eunseol found that power rather bothersome.
“If I had desired such an unknown power….”
Flash!
A yellowish radiance exploded from Bu Eunseol’s eyes.
“I would not have risked my life to cultivate martial arts!”
Flash!
Finally, my power aligned perfectly, and harmony surged forth.
Boom!
In that instant, I felt a pain as though my head were splitting in two.
Boom, booooom!
Countless points of light poured before my eyes, and my entire body seemed to be sucked into a small opening visible in the distance.
Flash!
The entire world turned white, and in that same moment, the peaceful landscape of the Reed Field unfolded before me once more.
‘It worked.’
I had gambled my life on deploying Harmony, and fortunately, it had succeeded.
I had wielded the martial art known as Harmony to escape the crumbling Mental World.
As I surveyed my surroundings, my eyes widened.
To my left lay the lifeless body of Jee Yi Seong, and beside it stood a Masked Woman in crimson robes, her composure unshaken.
“You…”
I realized that the Masked Woman was the one who had saved me, and I respectfully clasped my hands together.
“Esteemed heroine…”
“What exactly did you do?”
The woman’s voice was peculiar.
Her voice itself seemed quite youthful, yet she deliberately spoke in a low, solemn tone.
“What could you have possibly done to cause your Phase to crystallize and vanish?”
Her expression held not merely shock, but something akin to fear.
‘Phase.’
The word “Phase” was terminology that, until now, only the Three Families or members of the Inbi Organization had used.
In other words, the woman before me was no ordinary member of a Murim sect.
“Did Man Wol send you?”
Even before the Masked Woman transmitted her voice, I had sensed a very familiar aura from her.
And it was strikingly similar to the aura I had detected every time Man Wol appeared.
“Yes.”
The Masked Woman admitted it readily.
“She sent me here.”
It was astonishing.
Man Wol had always wandered the Gangho alone. Yet it turned out she had an ally?
‘And this woman’s martial prowess…’
I sensed no inner energy or exceptional technique emanating from her body, yet I could instinctively perceive it.
Among all the young masters I had encountered, she was undoubtedly among the very finest.
Moreover, had she not just transmitted her voice using a method similar to Hyeol Hwang’s Heart Seal?
―Could it be that the witch would help a complete stranger without any benefit to herself?
Suddenly, the Middle-Aged Man’s muttering echoed in my mind.
Perhaps Man Wol possessed formidable power and influence?
Then why was she being hunted and tormented by various forces?
“I have a question.”
I carefully organized my swirling thoughts and spoke respectfully.
“The one who just attacked me said something.”
After taking a deep breath, I continued.
“That Man Wol was trying to make me a Weak Point.”
The Masked Woman’s eyes narrowed for a moment, but she offered no immediate response.
“What exactly is a Weak Point?”
“Literally speaking, it’s a key.”
The Masked Woman, who had maintained her silence, spoke in a low voice.
“A key that allows one to contain the power of any Baek Pal Sung.”
“The power of Baek Pal Sung.”
Bu Eunseol’s eyes widened.
“Does that include the power of Cheon Gang Sung or Cheon Am Sung?”
Reflecting on it, Man Wol had revived the power of Hyeol Hwang, one of the Eight Emperors and Three Stars, across four hundred years of time.
If that were true, then her purpose was…
Could it be to create a Baek Pal Sung that has yet to manifest? The thought consumed me.
“I cannot know that far.”
As the Masked Woman turned to leave, Bu Eunseol spoke.
“What of Man Wol? Is she safe?”
The Masked Woman, who had maintained a composed and subdued atmosphere throughout,
revealed a flicker of emotion in her eyes when Bu Eunseol expressed concern for Man Wol.
“Yes.”
After a brief silence, the Masked Woman spoke with a soft sigh.
“If you worry for her, then you must become stronger. So strong that no one in this world can touch her.”
Bu Eunseol’s eyes opened wide.
Were her words not the same as what Man Wol had once told me?
“I offer you one piece of advice.”
The Masked Woman spoke again in her composed voice.
“The Mental World is not invincible. Depending on the level of Jungheon, counterattacks are entirely possible, and it can also be nullified by Mujik power.”
“Jungheon? You mean there are stages?”
“That’s correct.”
“Who exactly are you? Where do you come from?”
The Masked Woman did not answer and gazed toward the Distant Sky.
And she spoke briefly.
“I’ve said too much. I shall take my leave.”
Her body gradually became transparent.
By the time the tree behind her became visible through her form,
a flash of light erupted.
She vanished completely with a brief luminescence.
“Man Wol.”
Bu Eunseol’s eyes, as she gazed at the spot where the Masked Woman had stood, were as dark as the sky at dawn.
The words Man Wol had spoken before came to mind.
―What does that matter? In this world, there are no eternal enemies or allies.
―Everything changes and transforms with time.
“I know not what purpose you harbor, but I pray we never clash.”
I genuinely hoped she would not become my enemy.
She must surely be connected to my mother somehow. If possible, I wished to remain on good terms with her.
Bu Eunseol, who had been staring blankly at the sky for a moment,
Whoosh!
Unfolding the Ethereal Escape, I leaped into the void and vanished into the distant sky in a single breath.
The Reed Field, now emptied of their presence, was filled only with a silence as profound as death itself.
A faint rustle.
Yet suddenly, a shadowy figure materialized within the Reed Field.
An elderly man dressed in a diviner’s robes.
It was Mu Jon, disguised as Shin San Ja.
“Hmm. This matter is becoming increasingly complicated.”
His eyes narrowed as he stroked his chin.
“Moreover, it appears the power came not from the Baek Ri Family, but from martial arts themselves.”
Mu Jon, too, could not fathom how Bu Eunseol had escaped from her crumbling Mental World.
The answer eluded him entirely.
“I had hoped to rescue her from danger and build a measure of trust in return.”
Yet the appearance of the Masked Woman had derailed all his plans.
“It seems I must employ a variety of methods.”
Mu Jon’s eyes grew sharp and calculating.
Bu Eunseol had not yet fully matured, and time was running short.
If all else failed, I would resort to stratagem and bring her to Byeol Bu by force if necessary.

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