The Wizard Who Endured the World of Murim - Chapter 66

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Surviving in the Martial Realm as a Mage: Episode 66
The incident of Ilhyang’s movement into the Demon Immortal Realm became an enormous topic of discussion not only in the Immortal Celestial Realm but also in the Demon Immortal Realm.
“So someone opened the barrier and entered?”
[Remarkably, it appears to be a human.]
“Hm? Not an escaped slave?”
[No, it is said to be a human who ascended from the Lower Realm.]
A colossal wolf with a snowy white and luxuriant mane.
As he bowed his head quietly to answer, the blue-haired handsome young man before him tilted his head in curiosity.
“How intriguing. I’m not sure how a human managed to ascend to this side, but if it’s true, this could prove quite entertaining. After all, nothing like this has happened in the past fifteen hundred years.”
In this world, there is no such thing as coincidence.
Everything is inevitable.
Therefore, every result must have a cause.
And the outcome that appears on the surface is merely a predetermined phenomenon arising from all those causes.
“What are the reactions of the others? Wait—could that monkey’s movements from not long ago have been because of this? The timing overlaps somewhat, doesn’t it?”
[Indeed. The Celestial Great Sage moved first and controlled the phenomena in his vicinity.]
“Ha! I was wondering what wind had blown through that madman to cause such a disturbance. So there was a reason. Then that human must be under the Celestial Great Sage’s control?”
[I regret to say I could not obtain precise information, Your Majesty. Due to the Celestial Great Sage’s divine perception seal….]
“Ah, never mind. And I should avoid anything connected to that lunatic as much as possible.”
The blue-haired young man.
Father of all wolves.
King of the wolves.
The wolf that devours the heavens.
Gyumok Rang, the Devouring Celestial Beast.
In the Immortal Celestial Realm, he was called by another name: the World-Destroying Azure Wolf.
Like the Celestial Great Sage Sun Wukong, he occupied one of the twelve seats among the Twelve Demon Sovereigns.
“Hmm, it should be impossible for someone in the Lower Realm to pierce a hole through the barrier. What method could they have possibly used? I’m genuinely curious.”
In truth, there were several ways to circumvent the Dimensional Barrier.
The problem was that even if a being in the Lower Realm knew these methods, they lacked the ability to execute them.
Conversely, even if those in the Upper Realm attempted to exert force on the Lower Realm through underhanded means, any power beyond a certain threshold would dissipate midway.
Thus, it was impossible for them to exert proper influence on the Lower Realm.
“Sigh, there’s no help for it. I’ll have to go find that cunning fox.”
Gyumok Rang, the Devouring Celestial Beast.
With a reluctant expression, he rose from his seat and began cracking his neck, twisting it in ways that would be utterly impossible for an ordinary human.
At angles no mortal frame could withstand.
Crack—crack—
With a satisfying sound, Gyumok Rang’s expression brightened.
Though he had maintained human form for a long time, the habits of his beast nature still lingered in peculiar ways.
“Ugh, troublesome and bothersome as it is, I must move. I have a strong premonition that new changes are stirring in this stagnant world.”
At times like these, one had to keep their senses sharp and move with diligence.
By riding the current and moving with it, one would eventually find the answer and arrive at that place.
“Though I may be a few steps behind the Golden Monkey, if fortune favors me, I might discover the path even faster than that beast.”
A world without change stagnates and rots away.
Long ago.
After the Great Demon Immortal War.
Had the Upper Realm, where power structures had calcified in place, already begun to decay?
And now, change was finally stirring in that dying place.
“Then it’s time to cut away the rot and fill it with something new.”
Humming a soft tune to myself.
Gyumok Rang, with his azure hair, took a slow step forward.
In that instant, his form scattered like smoke, drifting across the continent toward someone’s base.
* * *
When humans ascend from the Lower Realm to the Upper Realm.
They naturally gravitate toward the place where their roots lie.
The disciples of the Man Si-jong Sect return to the Man Si-jong Sect, where they first created their world.
The Heavenly Demon Divine Sect likewise returns to the territory governed by the Celestial Demon Sect.
And all other Sundo Sects do the same.
When humans in the Lower Realm acquire sufficient enlightenment and resources to expand their vessels, they ascend to the Upper Realm and naturally permeate the place where their roots are anchored.
This holds true for demons as well as humans.
Such roots can be proven simply by sharing the same world.
But what most clearly reveals one’s roots is bloodline.
Among the humans of the Lower Realm.
The Imperial Court possessed the most prominent bloodline.
The Imperial Court had a great emperor who ascended to the Upper Realm ages ago.
Though not widely known, the first emperor had opened an entirely new world exclusive to the Imperial Court in the Upper Realm.
Though the Seventh Princess Yu Ga-ye did not know it.
Upon ascending to the throne, an emperor could receive the divine response of his predecessors descending from the Upper Realm.
The emperor was the only human in the Lower Realm to receive the Mandate of Heaven.
This Mandate descended through bloodline across generations in the form of divine response.
A sacred artifact that manifested the Mandate of Heaven visibly before mortal eyes.
Its name was.
The Imperial Extreme Heavenly Seal.
This sacred artifact, shaped like an imperial seal as its name suggested.
When certain conditions were met, pressing it upon paper would imprint the answer from heaven itself.
It was a prophetic sacred artifact of the Imperial Court.
Of course, Yu Ga-ye knew nothing of its existence.
The Imperial Extreme Heavenly Seal was a bloodline artifact that appeared only before emperors who had proven themselves worthy when the time came.
Naturally, even Ilhyang could not discern this.
He had only managed to read.
Specific coordinates marked within Yu Ga-ye’s eyes.
‘When I arrived in the Upper Realm using Geum-ok’s coordinates, the coordinate error was far greater than I anticipated.’
Ilhyang’s method for ascending to the Upper Realm was remarkably straightforward.
He traced the imprints deeply carved into bloodline and lineage.
By reverse-tracking those traces, he ascended to the Upper Realm.
Ascending to the Upper Realm without any coordinates or compass was hardly a wise approach.
It consumed an enormous amount of mana, and the failure rate was far too high.
One misstep could leave him trapped in the Space Between Worlds.
‘When I ascended to the Divine Realm from the Seven Continents in the past, I did so through the High Priest’s coordinates.’
At that time, the High Priest shared the same world as the Goddess Aonia, making him an excellent guide.
Of course, having coordinates didn’t guarantee landing precisely where one desired.
This was evident even when I ascended to the Upper Realm this time.
I followed Geumok’s coordinates, yet I landed at the outermost edge of a place called Dongseung Divine State.
I had fallen to an entirely wrong location.
‘It seems the spatial position becomes considerably distorted when passing through the barrier.’
Still, having coordinates that provided at least a sense of direction was immensely valuable.
‘I can reach the Immortal Celestial Realm.’
Until now, I had been considering forcibly ascending to the Upper Realm by using those from the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect or the Man Si-jong Sect—those who hadn’t yet transcended and thus lacked the qualification to ascend.
But now a far more reliable guide had appeared before me.
‘Tracing the bloodline to ascend is the most certain method. The only problem is…’
Just as it had been with Geumok, I would need to ascend to the Upper Realm together with this person’s coordinates.
Yu Ga-ye flinched and recoiled as a faint madness flickered across Ilhyang’s expression.
The danger-sensing signal inherent in her bloodline had sounded a sharp warning.
‘What… what was that just now?’
While Yu Ga-ye wore a puzzled expression.
Ilhyang spoke to her with the most benevolent smile he could muster.
“Good. So what is it you need?”
“”
Yu Ga-ye pressed her lips firmly together and hesitated in her response.
The nature of the danger emanating from this young man had suddenly changed.
“How strange. Didn’t you say earlier that you would grant whatever I desired? It would be troublesome if you hesitate now.”
Yu Ga-ye pondered what the nature of this ominous feeling gripping her heart could be.
This ‘premonition’ that had kept her alive even in the Imperial Palace, where schemes and conspiracies ran rampant, was something Yu Ga-ye could never ignore.
‘If I make a request… the price for it must be enormous.’
Yu Ga-ye bit her lower lip.
What the Namgung Clan could help with ended here.
They had deliberated among themselves before sending the Seventh Princess to this place.
Even this much had already earned them the deep enmity of the Fifth Prince, Yu Woo-jae, the current emperor’s sole heir.
Yet the Namgung Clan had aided the Seventh Princess’s escape despite bearing this cost.
It was because they owed a debt of gratitude to the former princess’s mother.
‘There is nowhere left for me to flee beyond this point.’
There were no naval forces on the Liu Chang River.
There used to be one.
But when the state stopped disbursing salaries, it naturally dissolved.
Or more precisely, officials in the middle embezzled the soldiers’ pay, and eventually the Naval Forces simply deserted and vanished.
It sounds like a joke, but it actually happened.
Of course, the outposts, naval bases, and ships were recorded on paper.
They existed only in documents, though.
Given such circumstances, the Water Bandits naturally rose to dominance on the Yangtze River.
They collected tolls and maintained order through their control.
Thus, the Liu Chang River had become a place beyond even the Emperor’s reach—
one of the few safe havens in all of Tianxia.
Princess Yugaye, who had been lost in thought for a moment, then spoke quietly.
Picturing the faces of her siblings who still lived and were in hiding somewhere, she opened her mouth.
“Yu Woo-jae. Could you kill the Fifth Prince for me? By now, he might have already become Emperor.”
Kill the Emperor?
At such a violent request, General Go and Ma Scholar, who had been listening from behind, turned deathly pale.
“Your Highness!”
Before they could speak,
Yugaye raised her hand to silence them.
In that moment, Ilhyang spoke.
“That’s not particularly difficult. But the price must be paid upfront.”
“What do you want?”
There wasn’t much Yugaye could offer right now.
Seeing her expression tinged with fear, Ilhyang pointed his finger calmly toward the sky.

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