The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 2

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Episode 2. Setting Things Right (1)
He’d returned to the past.
The implications of those four words were staggering.
He’d gone back twenty years—to nineteen years old, to a time before the Three Disasters threatened to devour Earth itself.
In this era, “it” did not yet exist.
The so-called Byproduct Industrial Revolution.
It was before Earth’s final golden age—before Byproducts would pour into the world as spoils from properly clearing the Tower’s upper floors, before those materials would be refined to unlock countless advances.
An era when people simply cleared Gates and climbed the Tower to slow the countdown to global annihilation.
Even then, the so-called Hunters reaped tremendous wealth and honor, but the true era of prosperity had not yet begun.
“But that wasn’t even the biggest thing…….”
For Jung Hyun-su, the implications ran far deeper.
He’d been framed by the Association Chairman, falsely accused of colluding with Gate-invading forces, and his family and guild had been destroyed as a result. Now he had a chance to save them.
And he could finally have his revenge against Seon-u Hyeon, who had exploited him until the day he died in that other life.
Crack.
For a moment, Jung Hyun-su wondered how regression was even possible, but he quickly set the thought aside.
A matter like returning to the past—it was beyond his comprehension.
There was no point dwelling on it. If he truly had come back, what mattered now was correcting the past and taking his revenge.
“Before all that, though…….”
Before he could protect his family, exact his vengeance on the Association Chairman, and establish Garam Guild at the forefront of the coming Byproduct Industrial Revolution, Jung Hyun-su knew there was something else he had to do first.
He had to atone for his own mistakes.
When he was a student at Yonam, he’d admired a certain delinquent gang and had sought their approval, becoming one of them.
But because of a scheme orchestrated by the Eldest Son of Song Gwang Guild—one of Seon-u Hyeon’s subordinates—Garam Guild had suffered catastrophic damage.
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The media had unleashed a barrage, and his father had made a public apology.
But it hadn’t ended there.
Garam Guild was ostracized by organized campaigns, and as similar incidents accumulated, they fell under suspicion of being falsely implicated, eventually branded as collaborators with the invasion forces and purged.
Though the guild’s collapse wasn’t caused by this single incident alone, Jung Hyun-su had no intention of overlooking such a blemish.
‘I’ll handle this properly.’
It was a situation that demanded immediate action, yet even so, everything had its proper order.
Though it was his own body, Jung Hyun-su honestly knew nothing about himself at nineteen.
“Status window.”
Jung Hyun-su naturally summoned his status window.
[Name: Jung Hyun-su]
[Affiliation: None]
[Stats: Vitality (10), Strength (5), Agility (4), Spirit (3), Endurance (5)]
[Skills: Five Kings Martial Art—Heavenly Defeat Return King Martial Art (1st Tier), Harmonic Heavenly True Qi (1st Tier)]
…….
Seeing it laid out before him, he found himself at a loss for words.
‘Merely 1st Tier?’
The Five Kings Martial Art was the family’s signature technique, passed down from his grandfather upon awakening.
Garam had become one of South Korea’s top ten guilds on the strength of a single guild master who’d mastered the Five Kings Martial Art—a discipline so difficult and profound that such mastery was rare…….
‘But 1st Tier? That’s just pathetic.’
But what good was complaining? At the end of the day, this was who he was.
Jung Hyun-su rubbed the back of his neck for a moment, then settled into a seated position.
The Heavenly Defeat Return King Martial Art, one branch of the Five Kings Martial Art, was a combat technique that unleashed tremendous power.
Though it was originally paired with the Defeat Heavenly True Qi, that practice was so complex that he’d instead mastered the Harmonic Heavenly True Qi—a cultivation method that was easier to learn and more balanced, and that was where the current Jung Hyun-su stood.
‘Easy and balanced, yes, but achieving mastery in Harmonic Heavenly True Qi is the hardest part. Still, achieving mastery right now isn’t what matters most…….’
The Harmonic Heavenly True Qi had one crucial function—because it prioritized harmony, it excelled at normalizing the body’s internal condition.
It was all he’d known, and he’d pursued it relentlessly until he was called the Dark King.
Ding!
[Harmonic Heavenly True Qi proficiency increased!]
[Harmonic Heavenly True Qi proficiency increased!]
Developing a complete Mana Circuit throughout the entire body was inevitable.
A Hunter’s ability to face down ferocious monsters in direct combat rested upon this Mana Circuit.
[Harmonic Heavenly True Qi proficiency increased!]
[Harmonic Heavenly True Qi proficiency increased!]
[Harmonic Heavenly True Qi proficiency increased!]
He heightened his concentration.
His lower abdomen—the space known as the Mana Hole—began to swell and distend.
[Your proficiency with the Harmonic Heavenly True Qi has increased!]
[Your proficiency with the Harmonic Heavenly True Qi has increased!]
From that swollen lower abdomen, a gentle yet weighty surge of Magical Power concentrated and flowed along the Mana Circuit.
[Your proficiency with the Harmonic Heavenly True Qi has increased!]
His heart swelled as though it might burst, then the sensation spread to his shoulders and neck, extending down his forearms and to his fingertips.
[Your proficiency with the Harmonic Heavenly True Qi has increased!]
His skin darkened to the color of rotting tomato. The tight pants he’d shortened in a misguided attempt at style began to tear at the seams.
Pop!
At the same moment, blood vessels ruptured in Jung Hyun-su’s eyes, thin streams of blood seeping out.
The same symptoms appeared in his nose and ears as well.
Unlike the rest of his body, when Magical Power concentrated with such intensity in the delicate capillaries of his head, the fragile vessels couldn’t withstand it and burst—a symptom born of that rupture.
Dizziness descended upon him, but Jung Hyun-su didn’t stop. He had to push harder from here.
[Your proficiency with the Harmonic Heavenly True Qi has increased!]
Seasoned by old experience—though it felt no different than doing this with a new body, it was ultimately his own flesh and blood, and when he finally succeeded in breaking through, a faint blue-black radiance leaked from his form.
[An incomprehensible result!]
[The Harmonic Heavenly True Qi has ascended to the 10th Tier through an inexplicable phenomenon!]
[Bodily waste has been expelled, and your Mana Circuit has been cleansed.]
[Magical Power circulation efficiency increases by 10%!]
“At least the fundamentals are in place now.”
Jung Hyun-su surveyed his body once more—having brought the Harmonic Heavenly True Qi to its 10th Tier pinnacle.
His immediate physical strength and total Magical Power hadn’t increased, but the Mana Circuit had opened wide and the microscopic pathways that had been blocked were now clear.
He possessed the basic requirements needed for his body to function in combat.
‘All things considered, I’d barely be able to clear a single Gate at this level.’
To go from nearly an unawakened state to a Hunter capable of entering Gates in a single night was an enormous difference, yet the man once called the Dark King had no reason to be satisfied with it.
‘This is where it truly begins.’
The rapid growth necessary for the impending war ahead, and before that, the fight with the Association Chairman whom he intended to destroy.
To raise the floor and maximize the ceiling, he would need to move with urgency.
It was just as he was about to wash up when it happened.
The door burst open, and Jung Hyeon-a came rushing in—or rather, tried to.
“Haengbok-i, what do you even see in a guy like him? I need to tell you to stop—kyaaaaaah!”
Jung Hyeon-a, holding the leash of Haengbok-i, the household’s pet Magical Beast, let out a shriek when she saw the grotesque figure before her eyes.
In her brother’s room wasn’t a hated blood relative, but a monster with a face caked in blood and clothes torn to shreds in multiple places!
“A-a Magical Beast! A Magical Beast ate my oppa! Dad!!!!!”
Jung Hyun-su, in the process of bringing the Harmonic Heavenly True Qi to its 10th Tier pinnacle in one explosive surge, had undergone the Seven Orifices Bleeding.
From every opening in his face—eyes, nose, mouth, ears—dark crimson blood mixed with bodily waste flowed freely. He bore an uncanny resemblance to the Magical Beasts one might see at a Gate.
“A Magical Beast!”
“Hyeon-a! What’s happened!”
Jung Cheol, the leader of one of South Korea’s ten Guilds, appeared on the second floor as if he’d teleported.
A bloodied grotesque figure in his son’s room.
“Miss, are you alright? Huh! What are you!”
The Old Butler, arriving a step behind, sent a wary glare toward the figure.
“That monster ate Jung Hyun-su!”
“That’s not it!”
“How is it not! Don’t you feel it? That power!”
“Miss speaks true—there is an extraordinary Magical Power flowing from it. Something about it feels familiar as well…”
At that very moment, as the Old Butler and Jung Hyeon-a faced off, Haengbok-i suddenly bolted forward—
“Wait! Haengbok-i! No! It’s dangerous!”
Jung Hyeon-a tried desperately to grab the leash, but Haengbok-i nimbly spun through the air and evaded her grasp.
The small, fluffy creature with its peculiar footwork suddenly leaped forward, launching itself into the air.
It landed in the grotesque figure’s arms and began licking that blood-covered face earnestly with its tongue, and gradually the features became clear.
“J-Jung Hyun-su??”
“No, Young Master!”
Jung Hyeon-a stared blankly at Jung Hyun-su as his features became visible once more.
“Now, put that blade away, will you?”
Jung Hyun-su flicked the flat of Jung Hyeon-a’s thin short sword with his fingertip, causing it to ring slightly as he spoke.
“What is the meaning of this?”
At Jung Cheol’s question, Jung Hyun-su broke into a grin.
It was a question that could carry many complex meanings.
He might be asking about the reason the Harmonic Heavenly True Qi had matured so suddenly in Jung Hyun-su’s body.
Perhaps the Jung Hyun-su of an earlier time, when his relationship with his father had been strained, would have interpreted it that way.
One thing became clear now.
Worry.
He hadn’t believed his son had been devoured by a Magical Beast, but watching blood pour from him, all that stood before him was a father consumed by nothing but concern.
“I achieved an awakening and was operating the Harmonic Heavenly True Qi when a small complication arose.”
Jung Hyun-su answered as though it were nothing serious. But Jung Cheol could hardly dismiss it so easily.
“If you don’t believe me, see for yourself. I’m in perfect condition.”
“Is that what you’re calling an explanation?”
Jung Cheol was no fool.
No—with his own strength, he stood as a top-tier Hunter in South Korea, and he could see Jung Hyun-su’s transformation clearly for what it was.
‘The Harmonic Heavenly True Qi has reached mastery.’
Even now, Jung Hyun-su was concealing the fact that he’d reached the 10th Star.
The mere sight of him displaying mastery at around the seventh tier was shock enough.
“Explain yourself properly.”
“The wall that was blocking me gave way, and I got a bit greedy trying to push through.”
An audacious answer.
“A bit greedy?”
If blood was pouring from the Seven Orifices Bleeding, it simply meant he’d forcibly torn open every Mana Circuit in his head.
“But the result is good, isn’t it?”
…….
Had his eldest son always been like this?
From the start, he’d shown little aptitude for the martial arts, and had always been counted among those of poor character—a worry that knew no bounds.
From this strangely refined demeanor to the sudden deepening of his Harmonic Heavenly True Qi mastery.
“Tell me the truth.”
“What else is there…….”
“What do you mean ‘what else’? When you start acting all considerate, we all know you’ve pulled some disaster or other—or have you forgotten that?”
At Jung Hyeon-a’s interjection, Jung Hyun-su found himself recalling the past.
“When you forged those Yonam cadet credentials, you fumbled around like you’d lost your mind. And when you tried to sell off Gate hunting permits under the table, same thing, right?”
As for Jung Hyun-su, he could only hold his tongue.
“…I have no excuse.”
At Jung Hyun-su’s answer, not only Jung Hyeon-a but even Old Butler’s eyes went wide as lanterns.
“…Just what trouble have you gotten yourself into, young master…….”
“See? Normally he’d get defensive about why you’d even bring that up, but look—he’s cowed and backing down. Something’s deeply, deeply wrong.”
That was true.
Facing a memory filled with longing was one thing; for them, it was reality.
They had always lived dealing with the accidents of a reckless heir—not merely a troublemaker, but a scoundrel.
“Since things have come to this, would you teach me the Defeat Heavenly True Qi? I was hoping you might.”
The Defeat Heavenly True Qi was, true to its name, the Mana application method that paired best with the Heavenly Defeat Return King Martial Art—and so Jung Hyun-su, having encountered Jung Cheol, decided to probe gently in that direction.
Continued in the next episode ▶
The Sole-Devouring Regression Martial Saint
Author
Cheon Ya
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Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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