Chapter 1175: Scorched World.

Jjeojeojeok–!!!

Something inside my body is breaking. Like a shattering vessel, the cracking and clanging sounds filled my ears.

“Kkeu-eu-eu…!”

I am engulfed.

My vision turned blindingly white.

It’s all white. And yet, it’s insanely hot.

As the heat rose higher and higher, making my whole body feel like it would burn up.

‘This is…’

Inwardly, I felt emptiness instead.

My dantian, which had been full, had emptied in an instant.

In the burning heat, the void felt only cold and chilling.

‘What is this?’

What is this?

It’s an unexpected situation.

My heart almost shattered from that blow to the chest, yet… I don’t even care about that anymore.

Not to mention my meridians expanding on their own.

Sa-ga-gak-

My skin and the bone and flesh within.

All of it reacted.

As if the Gi-che-beon-yeok-sul was forcibly triggered, my body changed.

Jjeojeojeok-!!!

The breaking is happening countless times.

‘This is.’

Amidst the innumerable changes, I figured out one fact.

‘……The energies are fighting.’

All the energies inside me.

Starting with the energy of Gu-yeom-hwa-ryun-gong.

Daoist energy and demonic energy. Along with sorcery power and the energy of White Flame.

All of them were colliding, causing friction.

This is the aftermath.

Kwang-! Kwang-kwang-kwang–!!!

“Keok.”

Vibrations burst forth from within. It wasn’t just vibration; at this point, it was an explosion.

The impact was such that I thought I might just explode and die.

Pain is pain, but my body was already shattered, so my mind was completely shaken.

‘Damn it-.’

My knees had buckled long ago. I was barely holding on, supporting myself with my hands on the ground.

Kwang-! Kwang-kwang-kwang-kwang–!!

The oblivious explosion showed no signs of stopping.

“Kke… Eu-eu-euk…”

What happened?

Why did the energies suddenly go berserk inside my body?

And why specifically in the middle dantian.

‘That’s near the heart.’

If it were just below the navel, maybe. But if this shock explodes like this, my lifeline is what’s going to get ruined.

I’m somehow enduring it, but even that isn’t easy.

“You look like you’re having a hard time.”

Pae-jon’s voice was heard. It was obviously a situation where I couldn’t answer.

“What did you eat to have such energies in your body? From the looks of it, you don’t even know yourself?”

Energies? What is he talking about?

‘No way…’

I grimaced. Was it because of that egg? I thought the scuffle I had with that guy might be the cause.

Since he was sucking out energy, I sucked it out too.

Fearing the vessel would fill completely, I consumed the energy while sucking it all out.

‘Is that the cause?’

If that became the cause for me ending up in this state, it would make sense.

The problem is…

‘How did Pae-jon know about that?’

I couldn’t understand how Pae-jon noticed this.

“This guy’s family… the clans are all abnormal, I tell you. Tsk tsk.”

Pae-jon uttered words I couldn’t understand. I wanted to ask what they meant, but…

Ku-gu-gu-gung-!!

“Kkeuk!”

Due to the bursting pain, that was impossible, naturally.

Holding onto my sanity was the best I could do for now.

“Endure. You’ll probably die if you can’t, but try to endure.”

That’s a nice thing to say. Who doesn’t know that?

‘I know that just by looking.’

If I can’t endure, I’ll die. I knew that the moment I felt it.

Several energies were colliding. If I couldn’t regulate them, it was over.

No matter how much my body transcended humanity, I had no means to endure being ravaged from the inside like this.

“Haaah…”

I curled up my body. Vast energies swirled within my contorted form.

This happened even after I had expended a certain amount in the fight with Pae-jon.

‘This is why you shouldn’t eat too much.’

Because I just took and stuffed whatever was given, this is the result.

It’s all my karma, but…

‘Why suddenly…’

After obtaining the energy of that seed, why are the energies that were holding up well fluctuating so wildly?

‘…Wasn’t Ma-do-cheon-heup-gong blocking it?’

What was blocking the collisions of all sorts of energies was none other than Ma-do-cheon-heup-gong.

Furthermore, it was said to be the power of Mu-jeo-gaeng.

‘Did that break down or something?’

It was bewildering that something that had been working so well suddenly turned out like this.

‘What are you doing?’

Trying to talk to Mu-jeo-gaeng is meaningless.

Now that I’ve come to this world, its words couldn’t be heard.

Ku-gu-gu-gu-gu-gung-!!!

The energies are endlessly tangled.

They seemed like they were trying to kill and devour each other.

“Keo… Heo-eo…”

I clutched my heart.

My meridians had expanded to their limit, and my veins bulged.

Why.

Why is it?

‘Why.’

Why on earth.

What’s the reason the energies are rampaging?

Ma-do-cheon-heup-gong. Mu-jeo-gaeng, which was inside.

It was said that guy was regulating the energies.

‘Is it because Mu-jeo-gaeng disappeared?’

No. Ma-do-cheon-heup-gong was properly activated.

‘Then what is it.’

The reason must be known.

The cause is swallowing that guy’s energy. There’s no answer besides that.

‘Did swallowing the energy become the starting point for the rampage?’

Was the energy of that seed the problem?

‘I didn’t really feel any particular characteristics.’

It doesn’t feel like some different kind of energy. There was no sense of foreignness when it seeped completely into my heart.

Just a large amount of energy.

It should be enough to consider it simply that.

‘…….’

Just as I was barely enduring the pain.

‘…This.’

A thought flashed through my mind.

That seed.

The seed became the key.

‘Mu-jeo-gaeng is the master.’

One of the two masters of Man-gye.

Yet, that Mu-jeo-gaeng had warned me not to touch the egg.

Whatever that seed is, it’s something even Mu-jeo-gaeng would avoid.

‘Even before the energy of that seed.’

My grandfather and others have told me things.

‘I possess the same energy as the master.’

Whether that’s the White Flame or something else, I don’t know.

I possessed something that placed me on the same level as the master.

‘The fact that a change occurred when that seed entered…’

In other words…

‘Mu-jeo-gaeng’s power could no longer reach me.’

And this means…

‘My level rose, Mu-jeo-gaeng’s power was released, and the energies started colliding.’

This hypothesis was formed.

Ku-gu-gu-gung-!!

“Keuk….”

Saliva dripped as I focused my eyes.

The hypothesis: containing the seed’s energy in my body caused an advancement in my rank, releasing Mu-jeo-gaeng’s power. And as that happened, the energies regulated by Mu-jeo-gaeng started fighting to kill each other.

‘…Seems correct?’

For now, I can’t think of anything else.

The remaining question is…

‘Why did it react to Pae-jon’s blow?’

This is probably because my body went to the brink of death, and that’s when the energies started causing chaos.

I couldn’t see it any other way.

‘But then, did Pae-jon intend this?’

Why would he bother?

Is there really a need for that?

“Pull yourself together.”

Judging by Pae-jon’s reaction, it was correct. He seemed to have known my body would end up like this.

‘He picked a fight intending this.’

To consume the energies. Or perhaps…

‘To make the energies move.’

He intentionally provoked and stimulated me.

“…But… isn’t it a bit much?”

Even Pae-jon showed a flustered expression.

The number of energies occurring within my body must have been beyond imagination, that must be why.

“…How many is this? One, two… three… four…?”

As he counted, Pae-jon’s eyes narrowed.

“You punk. What on earth have you been eating? Even two is strange, but you’re still alive with several more contained?”

I’m amazed too.

It was fine, so I just ignored it and lived, but it’s true I have a strange body.

“…Can you endure this?”

A crazy human?

After stimulating it himself, what’s with questioning if I can endure it?

It’s absurd.

The problem is…

‘If I don’t endure, what choice do I have?’

The situation had already unfolded. If I can’t endure, I’ll die.

So what must I do?

‘I have to endure.’

I clenched my teeth.

“…Make it happen…”

“What did you say?”

Pae-jon lent an ear to my words.

“Disciple, what did you say…”

“If it doesn’t work… make it work…”

“……!”

Pae-jon’s eyes widened at my words.

He must be familiar with it. Because it was what he said to me every day.

“Ha.”

Perhaps because of that, Pae-jon laughed.

“You say something I really like.”

I ignored Pae-jon’s reaction.

‘Hey.’

I muttered while checking the fighting energies.

‘Now that the tiger has left the cave, you’re running wild?’

You’re acting cocky thinking Mu-jeo-gaeng is gone.

‘Crazy bastards.’

So I have to let you know.

‘The tiger is still here, you bastards.’

Hwa-reu-reu-reu-reuk–!!!

Mu-jeo-gaeng wasn’t a tiger in the first place.

The master of the cave is very much alive, so it doesn’t make sense for them to run wild.

I apply Ma-do-cheon-heup-gong.

If Mu-jeo-gaeng was regulating the energies with Ma-do-cheon-heup-gong…

‘What can’t I do?’

I could do it too.

Gi-i-i-i-ing-!!

The rampaging Gu-yeom-hwa-ryun-gong and Tu-a-pa-cheon-mu moved. According to my will, they created friction.

I apply Cheon-ma-sin-gong.

Their resistance was considerable, but…

‘Shut up.’

I forcibly pulled out the power. Thanks to that, I thought my meridians would tear.

Using that power, I grasped the other energies.

There’s resistance this time too.

But so what?

‘Whether I die this way or that way.’

Qi deviation isn’t scary. I wasn’t really afraid of anything in the first place.

What’s important is whether I can do it or not.

I captured all the energies.

But that didn’t mean they stopped fluctuating.

‘What should I do?’

What now?

Just holding onto this won’t solve anything. I had to use some method.

I pondered. How could I solve this?

“……”

From my rapidly spinning brain, I found a method.

No, it wasn’t really a method.

‘Let’s keep it simple.’

I don’t know difficult methods. I don’t know about regulating energies either.

So what should I do?

What else can I do?

‘Is there any human who knows this?’

Is there anyone else who has clumped other energies like me?

Even if I searched, I had to find it myself.

I was instinctively feeling it.

‘Anyway, even if I keep the energies separate…’

It’s obvious they’ll fight again.

I don’t have the confidence to live always regulating this.

If so…

‘Combine them.’

Combine all energies into one stream.

The moment I thought of that, I grabbed the energies and combined them.

Kung.

“Huh?”

Pae-jon’s eyes, who were watching me, widened.

“You lunatic.”

He seemed to have realized what I did.

I combined the energies in one place.

At that moment.

Ku-gu-gu-gu-gu-gu-gu-gung—!!!

As the energies rampaged inside, my vision flickered out.

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Ku-a-a-a-a—!!!

From a distance, energy surged, and a beam of light pierced the sky.

Deep within a formation. The lone egg. Originally crimson, the egg that had turned blue by Gu Yangcheon reacted.

Ji-ing.

Ji-ing

The subtly moving egg soon stopped moving.

At that moment.

Jjeo-jeok-!

A crack formed on the egg, and it began to break.