Chapter 73 – Day 73

Day 73

Kugugoo-.

As the rift grew larger, and the ‘something’ approaching from beyond it drew closer, deep ripples spread through the quiet universe.

The stars drifting in the universe couldn’t withstand the waves of that powerful force and burst into pieces.

Cheon Seoa, who had been silently watching this scene.

“Moogungmoae Monghwan Gucheonjin (Boundless Dream of Nine Heavens Formation).”

Cheon Seoa muttered softly while drawing in the air.

At that, strange words spread out in all directions from Cheon Seoa, and eventually, a massive formation engulfed the Earth.

Due to the effects of the Boundless Dream of Nine Heavens Formation, the sky of Earth was divided into nine parts.
The Earth disappeared into one of the nine divided skies, vanishing without a trace.

■■■■■■-!

“It’s noisy.”

From beyond the rift, a roar composed of strange language… no, will, that mortals could neither understand nor comprehend, burst forth.

However, Cheon Seoa only showed an ice-cold expression in response to such a roar.

“This place is mine.”

■■■■-!

“No, this is not yours.”

■■■■■■■■-!

“The contract you made with that child is none of my business.”

■■■■■■■-!!

“If you keep being so stubborn…”

Jjeong-!

As the Earth disappeared, a powerful pressure poured down on Cheon Seoa, who was left alone in the empty universe.

Even as the space that couldn’t withstand that powerful pressure bent, distorted, and shattered into pieces, Cheon Seoa simply existed in the empty universe as if nothing was wrong.

However.

“The Infinite Dreamlike Heavenly Formation can’t hold up anymore.”

It was a formation created using materials brought from the Cultivation World, but perhaps it was because the existence beyond the crack was an entity outside of specifications.

The Infinite Dreamlike Heavenly Formation that had hidden Earth shook, unable to withstand the pressure caused by the existence beyond the crack.

Already, three skies had been shattered to pieces.

Despite the pressure targeting only Cheon Seoa, its influence couldn’t be completely shaken off.

If this continues, the Infinite Dreamlike Heavenly Formation will eventually be shattered to pieces.
And when that happens, the hidden Earth will reappear.

So.

“Let’s move to a different location for a moment.”

Kiiing-!

As Cheon Seoa formed a strange seal with both hands, the crack, which served as a passage, entrance, and exit for ‘something’ to cross over, was pushed back.

It was the act of peeling off and moving the very space where the crack was located.

In this way, Cheon Seoa and the crack traveled across the vast universe in the blink of an eye, eventually leaving even our Milky Way where the solar system was located, and arrived outside.

Simultaneously.

Jjeoeoeoeng-!

The peeled-off space burst open.
As even the crack completely collapsed, the ‘something’ that had been crawling from beyond finally revealed itself.

It was darkness.
It was a predator.
It was a concept.

Someone might have called it a god.
Someone might call it a demon.
Someone might depict it as death.

However, Cheon Seoa, at least, called it.

“I thought you were such a great being, but you’re just a mere beast. Just an old, ancient beast that came to be called great.”

Cheon Seoa muttered with a somewhat eerie and grotesque sneer.

Beast.
Can that truly be called a beast?

Each of the thousands and tens of thousands of eyeballs embedded in its body, looking down at the tiny Cheon Seoa, is dozens of times larger than the sun.

Between the thousands and tens of thousands of eyes, each strand of hair sprouting has countless sharp fangs that gnash and devour the darkness of the universe.

In its mouth, attached to a body so enormous it can’t be measured by the concept of ‘numbers’, dozens of ‘galaxies’ were already melting away.

Something so overwhelming and beyond scale that no mortal would dare even think of resisting.

If another mortal were to glimpse even a fragment of it, their mind and soul would be consumed by rising madness, melting away without a trace.

Or they would be corrupted beyond recognition.

Yes.

“It’s disgusting.”

Cheon Seoa muttered, furrowing her brow.

The debris flowing from the mouths nestled in the ancient beast’s fur rushes towards Cheon Seoa in a terribly disgusting form.

As the debris swarms like flies gathering on a rotting corpse, for a moment, a wave darker than darkness ripples through the empty universe.

Cheon Seoa, watching the wave crushing towards her, raised her hand and whispered.

“Not leftovers, but mere crumbs that have fallen while being eaten.”

Whoosh-!

As Cheon Seoa’s hand slowly rises, a blazing white flame blooms.
The white flame that blossomed before Cheon Seoa’s eyes might have started as a mere weak spark.

But soon it swells up madly.
At the same time, it becomes another white wave, colliding with the wave of crumbs crushing towards Cheon Seoa.

□□□□-!

At the collision of the two waves, the universe shattered.

There is no sound in it.
It couldn’t even be seen with the gaze of mortals.

It was just shapes and forms colliding and entangling.
Concepts devouring each other and disappearing.

■■■■■■■-!

“It’s noisy.”

■■■!

“Why do I need someone else’s permission to be in my ‘hometown’?”

■■■■■-!
■■!
■■■■■■■■■-!

“Speaking of which, did you get permission from ‘them’ to do such things? You, who are just an old beast, shouldn’t have the right or authority to commit such acts.”

■■■■-!

“Oh, is that so? I see. Then I too.”

I’ll take you without hesitation.

As Cheon Seoa muttered this and took a step forward, her form became a single line stretching forward.

Leaping billions of light-years in a single step, Cheon Seoa traverses the empty universe.
Every time Cheon Seoa gestures towards the beast, bright supernovas are created and explode in the empty darkness.

□□□-!

Where nothing exists.
That’s why the place called ‘Outer Universe’, beyond the known universe, trembled violently, and silent explosions occurred in succession.

Each one was a supernova explosion powerful enough to become a star-class event.

A single explosion had enough power to erase Earth without a trace, but….

■■■■!

“Indeed, you’re right. Such ‘physical’ actions wouldn’t work on a being like you.”

Whoosh-!

No sooner had Cheon Seoa finished speaking than the space where she had been standing disappeared without a trace.

Moving at an imperceptible speed, a single strand of the beast’s fur had devoured the space.

However.

“Please don’t eat too much, okay? It’s troublesome to restore it later.”

Cheon Seoa, who appeared right next to the space that had been consumed without a trace, spoke as if scolding a young child.

In response, the mouths attached to the beast’s fur all opened at once.

□■□■■□□□■□■■-!

A roar that shook even concepts erupted.

The roar echoing in the middle of the empty universe resonated with itself around Cheon Seoa, maximizing its power.

However, for Cheon Seoa, it was simply.

“Noise pollution.”

Boom-!

As Cheon Seoa clapped her hands together, frowning as if it was too loud, the space around her was pushed away and compressed, completely isolating the beast’s roar.

“This might be useful as a grenade later.”

Writhe-.

In response to Cheon Seoa’s consistently dismissive attitude, the beast’s enormous body writhed.

A beast that openly displays its displeasure without hiding it.
If this were not the outer universe, that expression of displeasure alone would have erased dozens of dimensions without a trace.

Of course, for Cheon Seoa.

“Go throw your tantrum to your master.”

When did she move?
Cheon Seoa, who appeared next to the beast, muttered as if whispering and stretched out her fist.

The moment the lightly, too lightly extended fist touched the beast’s body.

Boom-!

With an intense ripple that shook the outer universe, the beast’s body caved in.

Cheon Seoa showed a surprised expression at the sight.

“Oh? Now that I look closely, you weren’t a beast? Then you are…”

Cheon Seoa, who muttered like that, closed and opened her eyes.

The color of Cheon Seoa’s eyes, once closed and opened, was so different from before.

In the left eye, dyed pure white.

“Containing omniscience.”

In the right eye, holding the darkness of the abyss.

“Containing omnipotence.”

Combining the two.

“It is called omniscience and omnipotence.”

Cheon Seoa-style magic technique, Omniscient and Omnipotent Eyes.

Thus, Cheon Seoa, who was looking at the beast with her all-knowing eyes, let out a low exclamation, “Ah!”

“You, how can you be here? You are…”

Whoosh-!

Before Cheon Seoa could finish her words, the beast’s swinging paw shattered the space as it fell.

Cheon Seoa, looking at the beast’s enormous paw falling above her head, said,

“The forest with 1000 offspring…!”

Crash!

Before Cheon Seoa could finish her sentence, she disappeared without a trace along with the space as the beast’s paw passed through her.