The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 37

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Episode 37
“It’s been a while.”
[Seeing you speak like that, at least you’re still in your right mind. That’s a relief.]
Yi Gang-han nodded at the Divine Priestess’s words.
“Yeah. Truth is, something unexpected happened, so I got here a bit earlier than the two weeks I’d estimated.”
[Something unexpected? What happened?]
Yi Gang-han answered her question
by recounting what had occurred earlier.
When he mentioned touching the Drawer Cabinet and a portal opening,
[A portal opened just from touching a Drawer Cabinet? That is peculiar indeed. Heavenly Demon, could it be that you’re of the Tian surname?]
“Tian surname?”
[Yes.]
“No, I’m Yi. But what does the Tian surname have to do with anything?”
[The Tian surname was the family name of those who once ruled as the Heavenly Demon in the Heavenly Demon Sect. I wondered if a descendant of the Tian family had discovered a way to enter Heavenly Demon Valley.]
So the Heavenly Demon’s entire bloodline used the surname Tian?
Taking the heavens themselves as their family name—how remarkable.
“I’m Yi, and in Korea, Yi is one of the most common surnames after Kim. I’m hardly one of the Heavenly Demon’s lineage. Still, the Drawer Cabinet is suspicious, I’ll grant you that.”
[I see…….]
Though they couldn’t determine exactly how he’d arrived here,
Yi Gang-han resolved that when he returned, he’d thoroughly search his room from top to bottom.
“So, will you teach me the Heavenly Demon Divine Art?”
[The Heavenly Demon Divine Art? Of course. Shall I recite the incantation again for you?]
“The incantation? I’ve already memorized all of it.”
[Really? All of that long chant?]
“Didn’t you do something special for me? Implant it somehow?”
[No, not at all! If such a method existed, I would never have had to recite this incantation a hundred times, a thousand times over when I was alive…….]
What?
He’d assumed the Divine Priestess must have used some special method to plant it directly into his mind.
So she didn’t know about it either?
[Hmm…… then would you like to try reciting it? Starting with the Heavenly Demon Divine Fist section.]
“All right.”
The true incantation of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, which he’d already recited countless times at home.
As Yi Gang-han fluently recited the Heavenly Demon Divine Fist portion, the Divine Priestess gasped.
[Wow…… you really have memorized all of it?]
“Yeah. I’ve been reciting it whenever I’m bored at home.”
[I could never memorize this, and the previous Divine Priestess beat me with a rod for it so many times……. It seems you have a sharp mind as well, Heavenly Demon. I’m jealous…….]
“No, my mind’s just ordinary. It’s strange—the Heavenly Demon Divine Art alone simply sticks in my memory.”
[Is that so? Then you were truly born to become the Heavenly Demon completely.]
Does it work that way?
Yi Gang-han tilted his head in puzzlement,
then asked a question that had been nagging at him while reciting the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
“But I still don’t have a feel for how to cultivate inner power. Could you explain that to me?”
[Of course! Ah, since we’re on the subject, shall we head to the Magical Power Training Hall? It’s an excellent place for practicing inner power cultivation techniques.]
“Sure. Let’s go.”
Yi Gang-han went with the Divine Priestess to a portal located in the south of Heavenly Demon Valley.
Then,
[Will you train in the Magical Power Training Hall?]
[This is a training hall you have yet to enter even once.]
[Player death count: 0]
A message like the one he’d seen before materialized before his eyes.
“Hmm. So you can die in the Magical Power Training Hall too?”
[Of course. Well…… if the difficulty is high, I imagine overwhelming Magical Power will pour down and crush your body. But if you endure there, your Magical Power will grow significantly.]
“So it’s high risk, high reward.”
[Want to try challenging it on a harder difficulty? To cultivate inner power through the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, that would be more efficient anyway.]
“All right.”
The moment the Divine Priestess finished speaking,
[Will you set the difficulty for the ‘Magical Power Training Hall’?]
Along with a message asking if he would set the difficulty,
a scale ranging from very easy to impossible appeared,
displaying six tiers of difficulty settings in a line.
‘If I’m going to do this anyway, might as well go for the impossible.’
If I’m taking a high-risk path, I might as well push it to the limit.
Click.
Yi Gang-han selected the bottom difficulty: ‘Impossible’.
The Divine Priestess’s ghost tried to stop him.
[Ah, no, I really don’t think you should start with impossible difficulty right from the beginning…… Do you?]
“I’ll give it a shot. If it doesn’t work, I’ll dial it back.”
[I warned you?]
“I know.”
Yi Gang-han stepped into the portal.
A brilliant flash of light——!
Pure white radiance blazed across his vision.
Yi Gang-han found himself standing in a new space.
No floor beneath him.
No ceiling above.
Only a world of pure white light.
[Wow. Such a dense concentration of pure Qi crystallized together……!]
In this luminous realm, the only solid matter was
Yi Gang-han and the Divine Priestess’s ghost.
And then.
[‘Magical Power’ training commences.]
[Difficulty Setting – Impossible]
A message flashed before him.
Crack——!
From all directions, pure white light
began surging toward Yi Gang-han’s body.
[If you can anchor this energy stably within your body, it will greatly increase your Magical Power…… but if you cannot, your body will tear itself apart from the inside!]
[Recite the inner power incantations of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art as you accept the Qi. Make yourself conscious of receiving it!]
[For now, focus your awareness on the lower Dantian, and gradually expand your capacity like you’re growing a vessel!]
[It will be agonizing, but you must endure it!]
The Divine Priestess’s ghost then unleashed a barrage of instructions at Yi Gang-han.
Do whatever it takes to persist, accept the Qi.
She cried out desperately.
But.
“……Hmm.”
The one actually receiving the luminous energy was
“I’m fine.”
So untroubled that it made the excitable Divine Priestess’s flustered concern seem almost embarrassing.
Perfectly at ease.
* * *
[Y-you’re fine?]
“Yeah.”
[No, that can’t be right. You said you don’t know anything about Cultivation Methods, didn’t you?]
“Right. I don’t.”
I just recited the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, that’s all.
Yet the luminous energy now flooding through his entire frame
contrary to the Divine Priestess’s warnings, was settling calmly into his body and
[Magical Power increased by 1.]
[Magical Power increased by 1.]
steadily raising his Magical Power.
“My Magical Power’s already at 9? Is this right?”
[Well, asking me won’t…… Ah. Can you sense where the energy that’s entered your body is settling?]
“It seems to be distributed evenly throughout my whole body. It’s not concentrating in any one place.”
[Distributed throughout? That’s a stage far beyond the lower Dantian’s accumulation process…… That’s the Heaven-Earth Correspondence, the No-Dantian Realm!]
“What’s the No-Dantian Realm?”
[It’s when your entire physical body can gather and serve as a Dantian. Normally, one would need to rigorously cultivate the upper, middle, and lower Dantians, then integrate all three energies to reach this state.]
“I don’t follow. Explain it simpler.”
[…… It’s simply the stage where you can gather and release Qi throughout your entire body without needing a Dantian. Every martial artist yearns for this realm.]
The Divine Priestess continued with various supplementary explanations.
But Yi Gang-han let it all go in one ear and out the other while
He became aware of a shimmering light flickering within his body.
‘So this is how Inner Power moves. When I use the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, there’s that moment when my strength surges—I think this was the same sensation.’
He’d simply never noticed it before.
It seemed he had been channeling Inner Power all along.
As Yi Gang-han cultivated his Magical Power and became newly aware of how his strength had been flowing, a realization dawned on him.
[Your Magical Power increases by 0.1.]
His Magical Power had already reached 10, and from that point forward it began climbing by 0.1 increments.
The gains continued steadily upward.
[Wow!!! This is absolutely insane! Do you know how much I struggled to reach the No-Dantian Realm?! And here this Heavenly Demon is absorbing all this energy without even understanding what she’s doing! On top of that, the purity of the energy here makes Ten-Thousand Year Snow Ginseng look like garbage!]
Watching Yi Gang-han build up his energy layer by layer,
the Divine Priestess’s ghost grew more aggrieved than ever.
From what she was saying, it sounded as though she herself had once reached the No-Dantian Realm during her lifetime.
“Have you eaten Ten-Thousand Year Snow Ginseng before?”
[Yes! Do you know how vile it tastes? I actually cried eating it, forcing it down bite by bite—and here someone just stands there absorbing light and finishes cultivation in no time…. This is….]
“If you’ve eaten that stuff, you must have been incredibly skilled.”
He posed the question to the aggrieved ghost of the Divine Priestess.
[I, I was! I was the Divine Priestess! Number two in the Heavenly Demon Sect! Of course I could eat Ten-Thousand Year Snow Ginseng!]
“Really? But you said you weren’t strong in combat. You were just a religious figurehead who didn’t measure up to the Four Great Guards, right?”
[W, well! We had plenty of Ten-Thousand Year Snow Ginseng back then! It was my turn to have some!]
She seemed to be getting flustered now.
Was there some reason the Divine Priestess shouldn’t be skilled in martial arts?
[No, you said my head was ordinary! Yet you remember so well!?]
“No, it’s just. I’m more surprised that you’re panicking like this. You could have eaten it, couldn’t you?”
[I, I could! Because I was the Divine Priestess!]
The Divine Priestess’s ghost still showed traces of fluster.
Yi Gang-han found it curious why she was reacting that way,
‘but let me focus on Magical Power for now.’
He decided to concentrate on absorbing the luminous energy.
Besides, his growth was already beginning to slow,
and the world that had been stained pure white was gradually losing its radiance.
And as the light faded away,
the true form of the Magical Power Training Hall was revealed.
When it was filled with light, the space had seemed endless,
but in reality it was just a small studio-sized chamber walled in on all sides by packed earth.
‘This looks similar to the Strength Training Hall.’
The Strength Training Hall where massive boulders used to fall from the ceiling—
now that the light was gone, it did seem to resemble it somewhat.
And when the final shimmering light was absorbed into Yi Gang-han’s body and vanished,
[You have succeeded in ‘Magical Power’ training.]
With that message,
he returned once more to the Heavenly Demon Valley.
Standing motionless, his Magical Power had shot upward, and the training session was complete.
When he opened his status window,
the Magical Power that had been at 7 had somehow already entered the 10+ bracket.
“Wow…… I’ve benefited greatly ever since becoming the Heavenly Demon, but this kind of windfall? This is a first even for me.”
Since becoming the Heavenly Demon, he’d taken his share of one-sided gains,
but even Yi Gang-han had never experienced anything quite like this.
“What’s my Magical Power at? Can you give me a precise measurement?”
[Yes.]
The Divine Priestess’s ghost, able to conduct precise measurements as his guide,
delivered the results.
Magical Power: 10.9
His Magical Power had broken through 10 and climbed 0.9 points higher.
Standing stock-still in the training hall at impossible difficulty, he’d gained 3.9 in total.
“This is too good to be true. Can I challenge it again?”
[You should be able to.]
“Let’s go. Time to push that Magical Power higher.”
[Yes.]
With that, he entered the impossible difficulty once more,
and stood motionless in the heart of the light.
[Your Magical Power increases by 0.1.]
The message began to appear repeatedly.
Pure energy accumulating steadily within Yi Gang-han’s body.
Let’s see where this goes.
[Wow. I’ve never envied anyone for their martial prowess, but I actually envy this……. Why did I even bother training my inner power? All that suffering for what…….]
The Divine Priestess’s spectral murmuring grew more frequent.
Was she truly so envious of Yi Gang-han reaping unilateral gains?
‘But if she’s never envied anyone for their martial skill, that means she must have been an absolute master, right?’
The Heavenly Demon Sect was originally the strongest single force in the martial world, wasn’t it?
If she’d reached a level where no one could compare, she must have been a formidable expert.
‘The Divine Priestess doesn’t seem ordinary at all.’
Yi Gang-han thought this to himself
and continued drawing in Magical Power steadily and without restraint.
“Only went up by 1 this time.”
[Wow. 1 is a lot of progress! And you were just standing still!]
“Let’s go one more time.”
[I really envy this. I really, really envy watching inner power accumulate like that. Wow, truly…….]
How many times did he go in and out of the Magical Power Training Hall, earning the Divine Priestess’s envy with each visit?
‘The growth rate is slowing down now.’
Around the time Yi Gang-han began to sense a plateau in his advancement.
Whoosh!
“Huh?”
His body suddenly seemed to be engulfed in light.
And began to swell violently.
‘What is this? It…… hurts?’
Until now, the Magical Power had been absorbed smoothly.
But now it suddenly began to surge out of control within his body.
What was happening?
[Master! Concentrate! Focus and apply the heart method……!]
The Divine Priestess’s voice echoed in his ears,
but before he could follow her words,
Boom-boom-boom……!
Yi Gang-han’s body swelled in an instant
and then exploded outright.
And then.
Whirrr…….
At the center of Heavenly Demon Valley,
Yi Gang-han revived at the respawn point.
“Wow…… that hurt. So this is what it’s like—dying and coming back to life.”
Since becoming a Player,
as Yi Gang-han examined his body in the aftermath of his first conscious brush with ‘death’,
Ding.
[‘Magical Power’ training has failed.]
[You have qualified to challenge the First Tower. Stop training and proceed to the tower.]
[All training halls will now be sealed.]
Along with this message,
Whoooosh……!
the portals that had been hovering in four directions—north, south, east, west—vanished.
Then,
Rumble-rumble-rumble!
the ground cracked open,
and a black staircase revealed itself beneath.
The Heavenly Demon Shatters the Tower (Serialization)
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