The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 54

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

Episode 54. The Vanguard of Revolution (3)
Jeong Su-jin and Jeong Un-chan had found themselves sharing time together for the first time in ages.
The stretches of separation far outweighed the moments they’d spent side by side, and perhaps that was why the ache of missing each other cut deeper.
“Un-chan, are you really all right?”
Jeong Su-jin gazed at her younger sister with concern etched across her face.
“Yeah, I’m fine. Honestly, I’m doing great.”
Always composed, always dignified—that was her sister. Jeong Su-jin exhaled slowly, a half-remembered quality of Un-chan flickering through her mind.
— She possesses the traits of a Prophet. She hasn’t fully awakened yet, but it will begin soon.
Jeong Hyun-soo’s words refused to fade.
She couldn’t blindly trust everything that mysterious man said, yet neither could she simply dismiss it out of hand.
In the end, Jeong Hyun-soo had extracted both Su-jin and Un-chan from Seon Woo-hyun’s grasp.
Somehow—she still didn’t know how—he seemed to know the true face that Seon Woo-hyun had been hiding from the world all this time.
‘It doesn’t make sense.’
They’d had no connection whatsoever. How could he possibly know such a thing?
What troubled her most, though, was the sheer force Jeong Hyun-soo had demonstrated.
‘How does someone that young possess such overwhelming power?’
There was nothing about him that wasn’t shocking.
At that age, he stood against the Association’s elite hunters face-to-face without hesitation, and more—he killed them without flinching.
It felt like facing a seasoned killer.
And that was why Jeong Su-jin felt unsettled.
What exactly did Jeong Hyun-soo want from her?
“Sister… but how much longer do we have to stay here?”
The siblings were currently inside the Tower of Trials.
It was the only means they had to evade the Association’s pursuit.
But even this method couldn’t last forever.
Humans had to eat to survive, after all.
Unfortunately, the Tower provided only the most limited resources for human survival.
And yet.
[Entering Tower of Trials 10th Floor.]
The two of them had managed to survive all this time without ever leaving the Tower.
That too was thanks to Jeong Hyun-soo.
While the meals weren’t exactly lavish, he had taught them how to find food sufficient to get by.
The problem was that she had no idea when he would return.
They couldn’t stay in the Tower indefinitely.
What awaited them now was territory Jeong Su-jin had never ventured into before.
The 10th Floor zone where party play was mandatory.
It was the location she herself had chosen, a place where she’d been climbing solo, finally free from the Association’s surveillance.
And now she had her younger sister with her.
Un-chan hadn’t undergone a proper awakening, yet according to Jeong Hyun-soo, having partially awakened some of the Prophet’s abilities was enough to bring her this far—but now, just when Su-jin was beginning to think it might be too much,
[Hunter Jeong Hyun-soo of Garam Guild invites you to join a party.]
[Do you accept?]
That man had found her again.
* * *
Hunter Net had been churning with recent controversy.
[Is Jeong Hyun-soo a Hype Job? EU]
[Lucky bastard Jeong Hyun-soo lol so when’s he climbing the Tower again? ㅋㅋ]
[He just quit, didn’t he?]
It was because Jeong Hyun-soo, who had thrown all of South Korea into turmoil just last month, had been keeping an unusually low profile.
Garam Guild issued no official statement, released no announcements of activity.
There were no sightings of him at any Gates.
Particularly troubling to the guild was that their heir apparent—the one they should have been promoting—was nowhere to be seen, even as Garam Guild itself was accelerating its Gate-clearing operations.
[Climbed the 11th Floor, got a taste of the ‘real deal,’ and now he’s ghosting after failing lol?]
└Bullshit speculation — didn’t you see the exhibition match footage? He was manhandling Platinum Grade hunters. You really think he’d lose on the 11th Floor?
└└Yeah but he was drawing attention by hitting SSS Rank, then realized it wasn’t working out and disappeared. Seems like fact to me.
Hunter Net was ablaze with back-and-forth debate.
“What idiots they all are…….”
Kim Chun-sik shook his head in contempt as he read through the free board posts.
The man had launched a sneak attack against the Association itself. A cold-blooded hunter who’d dragged even his own guild master to ruin.
‘He’s not nineteen. He’d have to be ninety-one for any of this to make sense.’
Knowing why Jeong Hyun-soo had refrained from hunter activities all this time, Kim Chun-sik could only shake his head at how pathetic all of it looked.
Tap, tap!
Kim Chun-sik typed out a single post.
[Expect something big coming soon. G.G.’s J.H.S. looks like he’s about to make his comeback.]
Comments flooded in immediately, but Kim Chun-sik decided not to engage.
Buzz—
“Yes, honey….”
—What the hell are you doing!
“Well… as I reported….
—Get your ass over here right now, you bastard! Were you trying to sabotage my business? Huh?”
Knowing what was coming, Kim Chun-sik squeezed his eyes shut and sighed.
* * *
To join hands with Han-ul and deal Song Gwang a decisive blow, Jeong Hyun-soo needed the Knight King’s cooperation.
Only if the Knight King threw his weight behind the rising faction opposing the Association could the path forward remain solid.
To commit fully to that aim, the safety of Jeong Su-jin—the lynchpin of the Magical Revolution that Jeong Hyun-soo envisioned—was crucial,
and that required clearing up to the twentieth floor in the shortest time possible.
“Stay close behind me and watch your step.”
“Is there… nothing I can help with?”
“Your help is desperately needed. Just not here.”
Jeong Hyun-soo surveyed the landscape before him.
Tower of Trials 11th Floor Desert Corridor—a stage spanning all the way to the twelfth floor.
‘It’s been ages. Was it back then, when I nearly died fleeing from that red-ranked fugitive?’
He’d fled up the tower as a last resort while being hunted by a red-ranked fugitive whose name he never learned.
Gravely wounded, unprepared to ascend the eleventh floor, Jeong Hyun-soo had chosen the tower as his escape—choosing survival.
‘Of all places… it had to be the eleventh floor.’
A barren wasteland, as one could see. Cruelly harsh to a dying, weak fugitive.
An endless expanse of dunes and maze-like corridors. Sand-laden winds that scrambled one’s sense of direction.
The parched environment itself was the enemy.
It tested survival and endurance. The young fugitive, clinging to life’s last thread with his vitality drained, crawled across the sand to avenge himself.
Through thirst and exhaustion, he pushed forward. That was the nature of this place.
‘Which is why the reward for clearing it is generous.’
Jeong Hyun-soo moved forward without hesitation.
Truthfully, his memories from the previous life were hazy.
Yet how to proceed and what to avoid were crystalline.
How long had he been walking?
“An oasis…?”
An oasis appeared before Jeong Hyun-soo and the siblings Jeong Su-jin and Jeong Un-chan, who had been following behind.
Despite her thirst, Jeong Un-chan stood with composure.
A Prophet’s inborn intuition told her she must follow Jeong Hyun-soo’s guidance.
“To the eye it looks like salvation’s waters, but it’s poison.”
“I know that already.”
The trap was already infamous—saltwater that only intensified thirst the more one drank.
“Remember this: in this desert corridor, you suffer the extremities of survival, but for that very reason, you will never die of thirst or hunger.”
“What? What do you mean by that?”
“It means the place was designed with that intention. Cruelly so.”
Back then, Jeong Hyun-soo had been neither strong nor wise, nor experienced.
He merely wandered, desperate to live, hiding like a weakling, holding his breath.
He should have lost his will. He struggled through pain and hunger, but only to a point.
He didn’t die.
He’d been aware of the oasis’s danger and hadn’t touched it, so Hunters passed by the vicinity without a second thought.
“The mana poison these plants carry has accumulated in the water. That’s why these ones have no toxin.”
Jeong Hyun-soo tore off a stem and handed it to Jeong Un-chan.
“Eat. It’s quite sweet.”
The nameless plant’s characteristic sweetness and moisture, tasted for the first time in ages, slid down her throat.
Jeong Un-chan cautiously followed his example.
Her eyes widened, and she began eating eagerly.
“Oh? It’s actually delicious?”
It was decent food—nothing like what had come before.
“How on earth do you know something like this?”
“When you barely survive long enough to nearly die in a place, you learn everything about it.”
“What are you even talking about?”
Jeong Hyun-soo’s vast knowledge troubled her. Where did it come from?
“If you don’t want to tell me, just say so.”
“Fine. I don’t want to.”
No point pressing it. Only wear out her own throat. They needed trust between them, but prying might push him further away instead.
Jeong Hyun-soo promptly began snapping tree branches nearby.
That wasn’t enough—he drove the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art through his feet and struck the ground hard.
Bang!
“…What are you doing?”
“Clearing a path.”
Jeong Su-jin couldn’t fathom what this man meant.
“Isn’t this floor about finding the right way and locating the exit?”
“The exit is rough, sure, but if we want the shortest route through, we need to trigger it here. Something’s coming. Step back.”
Rumble-rumble-rumble!
Jeong Su-jin felt the ground twist beneath her feet.
Her eyes widened in an instant.
“Wait…a tremor?”
She’d never cleared this floor herself, but she’d picked up enough from Hunter Net chatter to recognize the signs.
Vast desert map. Hunters losing their bearings, wandering in circles.
An exit appearing just as thirst and confusion clouded their minds.
Was it mere chance that the infamously dangerous 11th Floor Boss rose from beneath those who approached that exit?
“Hey! Watch out!”
But Jeong Hyun-soo ignored her cry entirely, gripping the Demon-Slaying Sword reverse-handed as he vaulted upward instead.
“Whatever happens, don’t interfere.”
His single command delivered, explosive force surged across Jeong Hyun-soo’s entire body.
Riding a cerulean wind, his eyes gleamed with merciless precision.
Drawing upon the Earth Star Instant Energy of the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art, he readied the single killing stroke—a slash of purest instant.
Paecheon Naknyeol-cham.
Rising explosively through Cheongryeong Mansang’s Stepping Method, Jeong Hyun-soo fell vertically with the wind at his back.
At the apex, all force concentrated.
Gravity and inner strength converging, the shadow cast by the sun behind him seemed to freeze in absolute stillness for a moment.
Crash!
A scarlet lightning-like force clung to Jeong Hyun-soo’s Demon-Slaying Sword.
“That’s…Blade Aura…?”
Only those who reached Platinum Grade could manifest such power.
Martial artists who crossed into the realm of mastery and enlightenment—their concentrated magical force taking tangible shape.
The falling Paecheon’s weight forged the instant of Naknyeol-cham.
Shrieeek!
Screeeech!
The 11th Floor Boss, the Scorpion King, erupted from the earth’s surface with a piercing wail.
The moment it sensed the tremors destroying its domain, the oasis it ruled, and emerged to strike down the transgressor—its brow was already shattered.
Utterly helpless.
“What in…?”
How could any Hunter have known the Scorpion King would emerge here, measured the exact location and timing with such precision, and landed such a blow?
Rip!
Jeong Hyun-soo dragged the embedded Demon-Slaying Sword downward, splitting the Scorpion King’s skull in two.
“Tch.”
Yet his expression showed no satisfaction—only displeasure lingered there.
He immediately began rummaging through the Scorpion King’s corpse.
A Glass-like Gem emerged.
That wasn’t enough—Jeong Hyun-soo expertly dismantled the Scorpion King’s carapace and tail, then hoisted them onto his back.
“Now we’ve got work to do.”
“…Uh…yes?”
“Stack Weight Reduction Magic and Speed Enhancement Magic. Both. Now run.”
Not long after, the Tower of Trials issued a global notice.
[Announcement!]
[We hereby inform you that Jeong Hyun-soo, a Hunter of the Garam Guild from South Korea, has cleared the Tower of Trials 11th Floor at SSS Rank.]
To be continued ▶
The Returning Martial God Monopolizes All
Author
Cheon Ya
Publisher
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
Published by
Grae Publishing
Inquiries: [email protected]
Publication Date
May 26, 2026
UCI
G720:N+A327-20260515012
※ This e-book is protected by copyright law. Unauthorized reproduction and duplication are prohibited.
Violation may result in criminal and civil legal liability.
※ Pentagram welcomes your precious manuscripts.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————