Chương 770: Radiance (5)

Wol Ryeong.

The Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord who occupies Pal Jin's body.

The Sword Spear Heavenly Lord.

And everyone present holds some degree of confusion.

'What on earth... are they saying? Pal Jin, and... Master...?'

Wol Ryeong looks at the 'boundary' that differs by only a hair's breadth.

The 'boundary of the paper flower' she can enter if she takes just one more step forward.

The domain the Heart Tribe calls Heart Dao Blooming.

If she takes just one more step... no, if she merely leans her body a little more, she can enter this very close domain of paper flowers.

From the day she first came to know the existence of the Heart Tribe...

Wol Ryeong has wanted to reach the domain called paper flowers.

That domain of paper flowers... cannot possibly be unrelated to Wol Ryeong's fate.

Hearing the words Pal Jin spoke just moments ago, Wol Ryeong trembles.

'The paper flower domain... is the Sword Mountain Devil Lord's... domain...?'

It cannot be.

That beautiful realm of Martial Arts she dreamed of all her life is the domain of the wicked Mountain Divine Spirit who clung around her all her life?

No, even setting that aside...

'Master... tried to push me... into that place...?'

Her master.

Her guide whom she gained after Esteemed One Baek Geom...

Tried to push her into the Sword Mountain Devil Lord's domain.

And True Person Eun Geom's reaction, stiffening and stepping away from Wol Ryeong, is...

'Please say it is not so, Master!'

Proving those words are true.

'Please, tell me... that you are not the minion of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord who killed my former master, Esteemed One Baek Geom...!'

And True Person Eun Geom stretches out her hand.

"Master...?"

With a handful of hope, Wol Ryeong wants Eun Geom to deny Pal Jin's words, who seems to be in an abnormal state for some reason.

"Authority, wartime commander Sword Spear Heavenly Lord. I demand full descent of the over sixty thousand accumulated God-Killing Spears."

Tsuaaaaatt!

And Wol Ryeong's hope shatters to pieces.

For Eun Geom's touch before her eyes strengthens the Immortal Art of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord to the utmost while beginning to summon something.

"Mas... ter..."

Gritting her teeth, Wol Ryeong trembles all over.

Her arm holding the radiance halberd turns toward Een Geom.

"You... You all... killed my master..."

Recalling the day Esteemed One Baek Geom was ruthlessly killed by the Sword Mountain Devil Lord's hair clone, Wol Ryeong takes the stance to unleash the thrust at Eum Geom that was taught by Eun Geom herself.

"All of you! The wicked Mountain Spirit...! Killed my..."

"Ryeong-ah."

And at Eun Geom's voice that follows, Wol Ryeong freezes on the spot.

Why is it?

The voice coming from her mouth now is exactly the same as the voice of the being she remembers.

"I am sorry."

Clank...

True Person Eun Geom begins to remove the iron mask she has never once taken off until now.

The face hidden behind Eun Geom's mask reveals itself.

:: What are you saying... Sword Spear? No, more than that... what are you doing to the next Sword Spear right now...!?:: With the decision to discard Rain Dew Heavenly Lord made, and with Sword Spear's betrayal right before their eyes, the war clouds of the Second Bright Sword Great War completely die down.

No, perhaps the flames and anger of that warfare are condensing even further.

:: Your name is what the Radiance Supreme Deity bestowed upon you. Although since the day you came to be called Sword Spear, that name lost its meaning... that is the [name] that raised you up to Sword Spear! What on earth are you saying!? Answer me! Sword Spear!:: The Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord's painful outcry reverberates through the entire Heavenly King Heavenly Domain.

And, seeing such a pained reaction from the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord... the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord slowly...

... yet surely... treads the void and begins to approach Seo Eun-hyun.

:: I will say it again... My name... is not Yang Ji-hwang.:: Thus, having at last turned her back on her comrades and come to Seo Eun-hyun's side, the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord grips Seo Eun-hyun's wrist hard.

:: My name is Ji Hwa (紙花).:: Ji Hwa, after removing the mask covering her face, forcibly pulls Seo Eun-hyun's wrist and sets it on her own shoulder, then declares toward the remaining Radiance Eight Immortals.

:: The one who decided... to become the sword of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord Seo Eun-hyun.:: At that declaration, the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord, who thinks they have been robbed of the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord whom they believed without doubt to be their lifelong friend, begins to howl madly.

:: Let go of that hand... of that dirty, filthy hand!!!:: From behind the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord's back, a gigantic image of pearl jade that evokes the sun rises up. The light of that pearl jade emits a flash that divides Heaven and Earth and flies toward Seo Eun-hyun, and in that instant, red lightning cuts across between them.

Kwarurung!

It is Jeon Myeong-hoon.

:: Give it up. She now... belongs to Seo Eun-hyun.:: Kwarururung!

Jeon Myeong-hoon raises a single banner.

:: Just as the Heavenly Lightning Banner in the end fell into my hand, was humiliated, and became loyal to me... just as it became mine in the end... she too shall become the Sword Mountain Devil Lord's and become loyal only for his sake.:::: N O!!!:::: Face reality. She belongs to the Sword Mountain Devil Lord.:::: Do not speak of Sword Spear... like an object!!!:: Kwarururung!

Jeon Myeong-hoon laughs as he looks at the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord, who has gone mad with rage.

:: It seems your poison has worked quite well. Seo Eun-hyun, Kim Yeon.::::... Yes.:: The Sword Spear Heavenly Lord, without releasing her fierce grip on Seo Eun-hyun's wrist, who tries to pull his arm away because of the numbness, looks at her 'former' comrades with a bitter gaze.

:: You all... succeeded in learning the heart. In one form or another...:: Though Vast Cold died, his spiritual successor Seo Eun-hyun germinated the foundation for Vast Cold's curse to sprout the bud of the heart through Heart Dao Blooming.

Although all of the previous generation upon whom the curse was placed perished, the Underworld steadily projected the power of history repetition onto Radiance Hall and has been transplanting the sprouts.

And... Kim Yeon, Vast Cold's authority successor, at last watered those sprouts.

Lastly, with the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord Ji Hwa opening her heart to Seo Eun-hyun for the first time as the trigger, the other Heavenly Lords likewise began to let their hearts grow, like bamboo shoots after the rain.

It is not only the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord.

Great Forest, Flower Plant, Great Sun, Torch Candle, Great Sea, Rain Dew. All of them, knowingly or not, have become poisoned by the venom that Seo Eun-hyun and Kim Yeon deliberately sowed.

Deeeng— Kuuuuuuung!!

And at last, from the Source River, a sound like a brahma bell resounds through Heaven and Earth.

Flash!

The sky shines bright.

As if the black cosmos brightens, a phenomenon begins in which the entire universe seems to fill with the light pink afterglow of sunset.

The arbiter between Heavenly Domains, the Great Sun Heavenly Lord, and the administrator of the Inner Sea of Mount Sumeru, the Great Sea Heavenly Lord, flare their eyes red and roar with rage.

:: Northern Dipper!:::: Have you betrayed us too!?:: Beyond that Source River. Yeong Seung and, with tears of blood and looks of agony, the Northern Dipper Seven Heavenly Lords who control the Source River by Yeong Seung's order come into the sight of the Radiance Eight Immortals.

Those who descended to the Earth Boundary Heavenly Domain, by the Immortal Art Vast Cold left behind... came to recognize at last that they are wrong, agreed with Yeong Seung's view, and are throwing themselves in to help the entire Source River be eroded by something else.

And the name of that something else eroding the Source River is the Artificial Gandhara.

Deeeng— It is the work of Kim Yeon, the holder of the Liberation Law Talent that was created by the Heavenly Craftsman yet surpasses the Heavenly Craftsman.

Kugugugugugu!

Kim Yeon's whole body seems to blaze with light pink flames, and she steps forward.

Unlike when both Kim Yeon and Oh Hye-seo engaged the single Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord, she, receiving the power of the Artificial Gandhara, now looks different.

And at a certain moment, Hwarurururuk!

Kim Yeon's body, blazing with light pink, rosy flames, begins to grow gigantic.

:: Th-This is...!:::: Nonsense... You are saying she... inherited Vast Cold's Seat? You say she reached that Origin Essence!? It cannot be!:: But whether the Radiance Eight Immortals are aghast or not, Kim Yeon unifies the authority that originates from her own Seat and from her own fate.

Her innate authority.

She could only come to know of it after she directly met the lingering thoughts of Vast Cold.

'So this is my authority.'

Until now, except for the Liberation Law Talent, Kim Yeon has never once ever wielded anything that could be called her own 'authority'.

It is not because Kim Yeon lacks talent as an Ender.

It is because Kim Yeon's authority itself is an authority which cannot be wielded until she completely seizes it.

It is a contradiction.

One must wield an authority and grow accustomed to it to master it, yet this is an authority that she can only wield after mastering it.

But only now, that she completely controls her authority, can she fully accept its meaning.

—My successor. Your authority is... weaker than anyone's, yet is an authority stronger than mine.

The lingering thought of the Vast Cold Heavenly Lord she met in the Peach Blossom Garden marveled at Kim Yeon's authority and spoke such.

—That authority being expressed as a consciousness domain at the Plane of Qi... must be because that authority can be explained only as a broad heart that recognizes others. Remember. Your authority is... solely for others.

'I want you all... to know it too.'

Praying for the Radiance Eight Immortals, Kim Yeon keeps growing vast, goes beyond the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain, and assimilates with the whole of Mount Sumeru.

She loses her form and becomes a single 'will' that drifts across all of Mount Sumeru.

—Yes... that is a power that guides people to heaven.

Authority.

Paradise Guidance (樂圓引導).

What is called heaven, what is called paradise, is not in some far place.

If one believes a place to be paradise, then that place is heaven, is paradise.

Just as Kim Yeon felt she was saved by Seo Eun-hyun and felt his side to be paradise, arriving at the place one desires, at the side of the person one desires, at the time one desires—that is paradise.

Her authority does not apply to herself, but exists solely to realize others' ideals.

Those who are by her side someday all arrive at the ideal land they 'truly' desire.

Just as the Mad Lord obtained salvation.

Just as Bong Myeong, the source of her Liberation Law Talent, regained his name...

Under the Artificial Gandhara, feeling that the predecessor Radiance Eight Immortals obtained a seed of the heart due to Vast Cold's curse, and that the current Radiance Eight Immortals are making it sprout, Kim Yeon prays with all her strength.

'Please, may the peace of heart come to them as well...'

Deeeng— At last, the sound of the brahma bell rings thrice.

And... at last, not only Pearl Jade but the other Radiance Eight Immortals too begin clutching their chests.

The most primal function of the heart is affection.

That power of love settles fully in the Eight Immortals.

That affection will manifest from each of the Eight Immortals in its own form.

For someone as joy, for someone as anger, for someone as sorrow, for someone as pleasure, for someone as the same love, for someone as hatred, for someone as desire.

They will become confused, but one thing is clear.

Now that they have come to have a heart...

Compared to up to now when they were used as tools, they will draw much nearer to salvation.

And the moment she plants a heart in the Radiance Eight Immortals, Kim Yeon's consciousness becomes light.

The light pink afterglow of sunset spreads over all of Heaven and Earth.

All Heavenly Domains are dyed by her.

Tsuaaaaaaaat!

Kim Yeon feels the lingering thought of a being from the distant past look at her and smile.

—My successor. Please... you must succeed. I pray for you. Please... obtain freedom.

Deeeeng— Once more, the great sound of a brahma bell resounds.

It is not a sound from the Artificial Gandhara.

At the base of Mount Sumeru.

The Black Sky.

One among the Heavenly Seats begins to be engraved.

Kim Yeon germinated and brought to sprout the seed left by the predecessor, Vast Cold.

And Kim Yeon, having reached the peak of the Immortal Dao of Acceptance at Fate's End, finds the path she must take.

'I see.'

She feels, however faintly, how Vast Cold was defeated.

And she feels she knows what Vast Cold desires.

For the sake of granting at least Vast Cold's prayer, Kim Yeon suppresses her own potential.

Until now, she received everything from Vast Cold.

From the position of one who always only received, she suppresses herself to repay Vast Cold's grace.

Her name as a Governing Immortal, which should originally be engraved upon the Heavenly Seat, becomes distorted by that self-suppression.

Originally it should rightly be a name bearing her own symbol, but Kim Yeon forcibly maintains the predecessor's name and puts it upon herself.

Tridacna Vast Cold Heavenly King (硨磲廣寒天王) Kim Yeon.

'This... is the possibility that can save the Vast Cold Heavenly Lord as well.'

In the state where she has become consciousness itself that blankets Mount Sumeru, Kim Yeon senses beyond the summit of Mount Sumeru and thinks.

Now that she bears the name of Heavenly King, she sees clearly.

Above the summit of Mount Sumeru.

The being in the Audience Chamber...

And the things that being hides...

'I will fulfill... your deepest wish.'

Thus, having become a Heavenly King by preaching heart to the heartless, Kim Yeon falls into sleep to digest the memories from other timelines that she obtained upon becoming a Heavenly King.

And those who remain begin to be at a complete loss over the 'blessing' she has given.

Great Forest glares at Sword Spear.

Flower Plant glares at Sword Spear.

Great Sun glares at Sword Spear.

Torch Candle glares at Seo Eun-hyun.

Great Sea glares at the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord.

Rain Dew looks at everyone.

:: What... what is this... what is this pain...!?:::: What have you done to us!? You accursed breed... why is it so...:::: I hate you... Sword Spear. If you had not betrayed us... if you had not sold us to that accursed breed... we would not even have to suffer such pain...:::: Sword Mountain Devil Lord... it is you! It is you!!! It is you!!! You are that wanderer in the dream!!!:: Great Forest, Flower Plant, Great Sun, and Torch Candle howl like mad.

Oh Hye-seo sneers.

"Yeah... cry. You cannot escape from it anyway. You cannot even avert your eyes away. Even I, who was born with it only faintly by nature... could not get out of it..."

:: Rain Dew... get a hold of yourself, Rain Dew...! I am sorry, we doubted you. I am sorry...!:::: Ah, no... do not apologize, do not worry. Do not hate. Do not panic. Do not be angry... aaaah, aaaaaah...:: Rain Dew, whose life was saved when the falsity of the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord was revealed at the moment they were about to be executed, sobs even more bitterly than when their execution was finalized.

:: So it is in my generation that Radiance Hall perishes!! Aaaaaaah!! O Mountain Divine Spirits!:: Seeing Great Sea and Rain Dew with panic mixed with rage, Oh Hyun-seok bitterly gives them advice.

"Just be honest instead. Doing so is rather the path to be freed from that pain."

:: Shut up!! I do not listen to the likes of you. I hate you! I hate you filthy Ender accursed breed bastards! Among you I hate you the most, Sword Mountain Devil Lord!! You... you took my Yang Ji-hwang... you took my Gyeong-i away!!:: The Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord screams like the mad.

:: I... I was with Gyeong-i first! From our mortal being days! Until we became Sword Spear and Pearl Jade, until we took charge of Yang and Yin of Radiance Hall's martial force, we were always together! You who appeared later, you dare... dare...! You dare defile my friend!!:: Watching Pearl Jade, who loses their mind with rage and goes mad, Jeon Myeong-hoon shakes the Heavenly Lightning Banner and smiles bitterly.

Kwarurung—

"Vent. Other than venting all that rage and releasing your anger... there is no path to salvation."

:: Yooouuuuu!!!:: Driven mad by the Mountain Divine Spirit's stratagem, the Eight Immortals stagger to their feet and begin to draw on the power of the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain.

However, immediately after, Chwararararak!

From the direction of the Vast Cold Realm of the Earth Boundary Heavenly Domain, summoned rays of light pierce the sky and appear.

They are sixty thousand-some God-Killing Spears.

Using the Immortal Art of the Vast Cold Hall White Jade Pavilion Beam-Raising Ritual embedded in the Head Realm, the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord smuggled off all the God-Killing Spears accumulated in the Head Realm.

Kwaching— And the authorities of those God-Killing Spears so painstakingly smuggled...

Are crushed and turned into powder by Sword Spear's single hand.

Without even a gap to reclaim control over the God-Killing Spears, the Eight Immortals see their efforts of past days shatter and turn to powder, and once more fly into a rage.

Tsuaaaaaaat— Because the 'power' of some sixty thousand God-Killing Spears, powdered and returned to the essence of light, begins to be absorbed into Seo Eun-hyun.

:: Sword Spear... Sword Spear!!! Sword Spear!!! You cannot be forgiven!!!:: Kugugugugugugu!

In the end, driven completely mad by Sword Spear's provocation, the Eight Immortals rampage and begin to commit taboos.

The Heavenly King Heavenly Treasures summoned by Sword Spear are absorbed 'into' the bodies of the Eight Immortals and begin to infuse them with bizarre authorities and powers, strengthening them.

"..."

Wol Ryeong cannot grasp what is happening right now.

After True Person Eun Geom pulled out sixty thousand some terrifying things called God-Killing Spears from the Vast Cold Realm, she transported them to another Heavenly Domain.

Immediately after, the suddenly crazed Pal Jin attacked Eun Geom.

Eun Geom and Pal Jin thus perished together.

Wol Ryeong stares blankly at the corpses of her dead master and her dead senior brother, not knowing what to do, and can only stare vacantly into the void.

And then, when Eun Geom's corpse transforms into a nebula and Seo Gyeong's body emerges from inside it, Wol Ryeong now cannot understand anything at all.

"... Rather, if everything... is all a dream... that would be good. A terrible nightmare. Please..."

Wol Ryeong clutches her head and, with trembling hands, strokes the shell of Seo Gyeong from which no 'soul' is felt inside.

"Please... someone tell me this is a play. Please..."

Wol Ryeong, in a confused state...

Recalls Eun Geom's bare face.

The face she saw for the first time that day resembled the face of Baek Geom far too much.

Though she has never seen Baek Geom's face, Wol Ryeong can tell instinctively.

Eun Geom and Baek Geom have been one and the same from the very beginning.

"Aaah... Aaaaaagh..."

What is truth, and what is falsehood.

Wol Ryeong, unable to know anything, buries her face in Seo Gyeong's body that has become a shell with the split soul gone out.

It is then, Woo-ooong— Something familiar shimmers behind her.

It is the apparition of Sword Mountain.

::... want it?:: And at last Wol Ryeong explodes at that one sentence.

"I do not want it... Even if you give that filthy power of yours for a hundred days I absolutely do not, want it!! Just disappear!! Please disappear!! Please, please leave me alone!!! Please!!! You! I hate you!!! You took away everything of mine, you kept toying with my life using your subordinates, and now you even took Seo Gyeong's soul, didn't you!? I hate it! I hate it now!! Please get lost! Please, please just leave me alone!!!"

Wol Ryeong turns around and pours all her pain into a scream toward that apparition of Sword Mountain.

"Please, disappear!!"

And the apparition of Sword Mountain speaks.

:: If you do not want power... then how about this?:: The apparition of Sword Mountain begins to change.

Wol Ryeong suddenly realizes something.

"You are..."

:: Do you want... the truth?:: It is a colossal and tyrannical black mountain that seems to crush the entire universe.

That mountain is piled up with countless corpses, and the corpses accumulated up in that place weep tears of blood with faces stained with pain and resentment.

Those tears of blood gather and gather and fall as red waterfalls in places all over the black mountain.

Wol Ryeong realizes that the being that truly reveals its essence before her eyes...

... is the one who all this time pretended to be the Sword Mountain Devil Lord while asking whether to lend her power.

"... The... truth...?"

Wol Ryeong, even though she is relieved that the being before her eyes is not the Sword Mountain Devil Lord, shakes her head.

"I hate it... I know who you are. You are the God of Great Mountain, aren't you...? You are an evil god too. There is no guarantee you will not toy with me as well. You too... will tease and toy with me!!"

::... Why would I further toy with a pitiful plaything... whose entire life is already toyed with and ruined by that fellow? O defective Sword Spear who does not even know you are broken. Whether being told the truth will be greater pain for you... decide. Will you accept pain and truth, or... will you keep spacing out here knowing nothing at all?:: Pain and truth.

Wol Ryeong feels as if she is being bewitched by those words.

It is as if those words are drawing her in.

:: This is the last time. With today as the last, I will no longer ask you whether you want power. So... answer. Will you know pain, or will you turn away.::

"..."

And to the question from the being on the summit of that mountain of corpses, Wol Ryeong slowly opens her mouth.

"... The price... is...?"

:: None. Nothing at all.::

"Lies...!"

:: I...:: Flash!

However, Wol Ryeong cannot help but freeze before the golden radiance standing before her eyes.

:: The former Fifth Seat of the Radiance Nine Heavens Heavenly Lords, swear before the name of the Field Garden Heavenly Lord. Unless you desire it... I will take no price from you.:: It is light.

A light so very similar to the light that came from her master.

Before that light so very similar to the light she followed all her life... Wol Ryeong at last completely collapses.

For even if the being before her eyes is false, this light at least seems true.

For at least the warmth and comfort this light gives seem true...

"Tell me... the truth...!"

At those words, beyond the golden light, figures she sees for the first time, other than 'Seo Gyeong' and 'Baek Geom', are confronting each other.

The Great Mountain Supreme Deity Gwak Am carefully adjusts the rank of wisdom so that their far distant junior does not go mad, and begins to pass on cruel truths to Wol Ryeong.

The transmission of wisdom is instantaneous.

And...

Paaat!

"Ah... aaah..."

Receiving all the wisdom and truth, Wol Ryeong looks up at the sky.

"Aah... Aaaaaaaagh...!!!"

A scream begins to burst out of Wol Ryeong's mouth.

She wants to have that truth confirmed by the Great Mountain Supreme Deity, but the Great Mountain Supreme Deity who approached her has already disappeared.

No, so are the Northern Dipper Seven Heavenly Lords.

At some moment, the beings of the True Immortal Realm can no longer be felt.

Survivors among the Entering Nirvana Quasi-Immortals who were used for the subjugation of the hair clone begin to awaken and panic.

[The connection with the Immortal Realm... is cut...!?] The connection between the True Immortal Realm and the Saha World is severed.

All demigods at the Star Shattering stage and above feel that abnormal phenomenon, and Wol Ryeong resolves herself.

This world is all false.

Therefore...

"... I cannot trust even this that Great Mountain has given... I will, with my own hands... verify it directly..."

She sheds tears of blood, rises from her place, and looks to the sky.

Looking up at the True Immortal Realm whose connection is suddenly cut, Wol Ryeong grinds her teeth.

"I will become a True Immortal... and come to you. So... wait. I will surely... surely reach the truth. Surely...!"

Thus, even after confirming all truths, Wol Ryeong denies the last possibility and vows to herself that she will become a True Immortal and verify all the truths herself.

Kugugugugugugu!

Abnormal phenomena appear all across Mount Sumeru.

The Planes of Qi, Soul, and Fate.

And the Plane of True Immortality that transcends all of them.

The True Immortal Realm is cut off from the lower realms.

For mortal beings at the Integration stage and below, it is of no concern that a little bit of celestial energy is severed, but all those at the Star Shattering stage and above who aim for True Immortality fall into despair.

"What is going on!? The True Immortal Realm... the True Immortal Realm...! The True Immortal Realm is severed!"

"How are we supposed to advance to True Immortality!? Aaaaah!"

Countless beings of demigod rank and above sob and wail.

However, the True Immortals are just as taken aback.

Kugugugugugugu!

The Radiance Eight Immortals, feeling the sudden disconnection from the Saha World, glare at the ferocious Sword Mountain Devil Lord who ravenously devours the God-Killing Spear fragments.

:: Sword Mountain Devil Lord. What wicked deed is this...!?:: Woo-wooooong!

Their eyes fix on the emblem of the [Black Snake Biting Its Tail] that rises proudly behind the Sword Mountain Devil Lord's back and intensifies the Heart Demon of the Radiance Eight Immortals.

:: I asked, what you are plotting!!?:: The seven Heavenly Lords, having absorbed the remnants of former Enders to strengthen themselves, vomit rage at the Enders and likewise summon the emblem of Heuk Sa.

The two symbols of the [Black Snake] begin to face off against each other.

And then...

Seo Eun-hyun, from within the Three Circles of the White Three Great Ultimates, the Wheel of Starlight, and the [Black Snake Biting Its Tail], raises a hand wrapped around the Swallowing Heaven Supreme Deity.

Attraction force begins to converge into his hand.

:: The great plan is already complete.:::: Yooouuu!:: The Artificial Gandhara, which until now did nothing but amplify Kim Yeon's power, finally begins to move.

The Artificial Gandhara that eroded the Source River that is the domain of time and the Radiance Mantra that suppresses space-time resonate.

And only then do the Radiance Eight Immortals suddenly notice [how] the world has become strange.

:: Th-This is...:: The galaxies belonging to the Saha World, excluding the True Immortal Realm.

All the 'phenomena' of the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain begin to [speed up].

I notice the Great Mountain Supreme Deity interfering with the arrangement of Wol Ryeong in the Earth Boundary Heavenly Domain.

'The sinister light might have been pointing to the Great Mountain Supreme Deity. A Sinister Mountain God indeed...'

But it does not matter.

The arrangement of Wol Ryeong is already complete whether the Great Mountain Supreme Deity interferes or not.

With his power alone he cannot twist it now.

He too must have only realized that after intervening.

I only ended up feeling sorry to Wol Ryeong.

'I am sorry. But I too... have something I must accomplish even if I must use you. When everything is over... I will reveal the entire truth to you and apologize.'

I turn my gaze back to the flustered Eight Immortals and begin to properly activate the power of the Radiance Mantra.

The Northern Dipper Seven Heavenly Lords of the Source River, whom I pre-emptively won over through Yeong Seung and who completely submitted with the proof I showed this time, and everyone else begin to help me.

Kugugugugugugu!

The movement speed of galaxies to galaxies accelerates.

Attraction force gradually strengthens and the world contracts.

The Heavenly King Heavenly Domain draws ever faster toward the End.

The important point here is that I do not use the Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra.

Time...

... speeds up.

And the world becomes the optimal state for Mountain Divine Spirits to exert their greatest power.

All of this...

... is for the decisive battle with my senior brother.

Radiance Mantra.

Authority.

True Immortal Realm Deceleration (眞仙界減速).

Kiiiiiiiiing!

As I madly accelerate the time of the Saha World, I slightly twist the explanation of the power of the Radiance Mantra that affects the entirety of Mount Sumeru for the Radiance Eight Immortals.

:: From now on...'time shall accelerate'.::