Chapter 82 – Day 82

Day 82

“Now then….”

Cheon Seoa, who had put the collected materials into the storage, smiled brightly and muttered.

From now on.

“I should find the children.”

The children who disappeared without a trace on that day 10 years ago.

Now it was time to find out ‘where’ those poor children disappeared to, and ‘why’ they disappeared.

For that purpose.

Step.

“Take a thousand-mile step forward.”

Step.

“Two steps to advance three thousand li away.”

Step.

“Three steps to arrive at the desired place.”

A total of three steps.

Cheon Seoa, who lightly took three steps, disappeared without a trace.

* * *

Bang-!

“Wh-what’s going on!”

“We don’t know!”

Space station.
A structure made for people to stay in space for long periods.

The people there rushed out, startled by the sudden impact.

How long did they run around here and there with confused eyes, trying to figure out the cause of the sudden shock?

“Confirmed! Section C! Impact occurred in Section C!”

“Section C? But that’s…!”

Someone shouted, and another person responded with a surprised voice.

Section C is not inhabited by people, but it’s not loaded with anything else either.
Also, since it’s oriented towards Earth, there’s no reason for it to collide with something else flying in from space.

Why on earth would an impact suddenly occur in Section C!

People with such questions all rushed to Section C, and what was reflected in their eyes was….

“Ah, I’m sorry.”

The fragments of the shattered C-sector were scattered like grains across the cosmic space.
There, a girl who appeared out of nowhere conveyed her apologies to those watching through the window.

“This wasn’t my intention. I made a mistake since it’s been too long since I last used it.”

Cheon Seoa, the cause of the impact in the space station’s C-sector, said.

What she used to move from Earth to space was the Three Steps Thousand Miles technique.

Originally, it was a movement technique created to cover a thousand miles in three steps, but reborn in Cheon Seoa’s hands, it now allowed the user to arrive at their desired location in just three steps.

However, this Three Steps Thousand Miles technique had one fatal flaw.

“I forgot that the method of arriving at the desired location is literally moving in a straight line.”

Cheon Seoa muttered.

It was exactly as she said.
The movement method of the Three Steps Thousand Miles technique was to advance in a literal straight line from where the user took three steps to the desired location.

Advancing regardless of what lay between the two points was the technique’s most significant feature.

Because of this, while there were cultivators in the Cultivation World who had learned Cheon Seoa’s improved Three Steps Thousand Miles technique, there were none who actually used it.

Using it without thinking, one wouldn’t know what might be situated between the starting point and the desired destination. Furthermore, due to collisions with whatever might be in the way, the cultivators who used it all met terrible ends.

The reason why the space station’s C-sector was now shattered was the same.

Moreover.

“It seems there was also some damage on Earth’s side.”

The place where Cheon Seoa used the Three Steps Thousand Miles technique was underground.
The place where Cheon Seoa arrived through the Three Steps Thousand Miles technique was space.

In other words, there was naturally ‘something’ between those two points, and that ‘something’ was completely destroyed due to the effects of Cheon Seoa’s movement.

Now, at the site of the damage, they are probably speculating about the cause of the damage, saying things like ‘an unidentified anomaly appeared’.

Still.

“This is my mistake, so I’ll restore it for you.”

Cheon Seoa’s voice, whispered as if murmuring, strangely echoed in the ears of everyone at the space station.

Simultaneously.

“Wh-What-!”
“This is impossible!”
“I-Is that even human?”

Everyone at the space station cried out in surprise.

Cheon Seoa floating in space without any equipment.
It was surprising enough that Cheon Seoa’s voice echoed in their ears.

But when such a Cheon Seoa made a light gesture, the sight of the shattered Section C returning to its original form was definitely not a human ability.

Meanwhile, Cheon Seoa, who restored the shattered space station to its original form with just a few hand gestures.

“Now, shall we take a look?”

She said, shifting her gaze towards Earth.

In her left eye.

“Imbuing omniscience.”

In her right hand.

“Imbuing omnipotence.”

Cheon Seoa-style magic technique, Omniscient Omnipotent Eye.

The magic technique created by Cheon Seoa herself, the Omniscient and Omnipotent Eyes, activated, and her two eyes changed.

Her left eye, imbued with omniscience, held pure white.
Her right eye, imbued with omnipotence, contained the darkness of the abyss.

Thus, Cheon Seoa, looking down at Earth with her somewhat ‘special’ eyes.

“Huh?”

She tilted her head as if she couldn’t understand.

It was strange.

Why.

“Why can’t I see them?”

Cheon Seoa muttered.

No matter how much she scanned the Earth, she couldn’t see the poor children.

Even looking thousands of meters underground.
Even peering into the depths of the deep sea.
Even scanning the sky thousands of meters above the ground.

No matter where she looked, she couldn’t find any trace of the poor children.

This was impossible.

Considering the level of those poor children, there was no way to avoid Cheon Seoa’s Omniscient and Omnipotent Eyes.

Even if they had figured out a method, they couldn’t have avoided it.

For a method to work, the gap between opponents had to be somewhat similar.

“Huh…?”

Come to think of it.

Cheon Seoa, who seemed to have realized something, began to scan the Earth once again.

“The Ascension Gate has disappeared.”

It’s not that the Repairers themselves have vanished.
Clearly, Repairers were still active in various parts of the Earth.

Whether they were Repairers corrupted by the influence of the Beast.
Or Repairers who were lucky enough to avoid the influence and remain uncorrupted.

The important thing is that the Ascension Gate, which was meant to return to the Repair World from Earth through ascension, has disappeared.

This means.

“Did the Ascension Gate know from the beginning that the Beast was coming?”

In other words, were they planning to return to the Repair World through the crack created by the Beast to cross over to Earth?

Certainly, if that method were used, they could return to the Repair World through ascension even from Earth where spiritual energy is scarce.

However.

“Even if the Ascension Gate ascended, it has nothing to do with the poor children disappearing without a trace.”

The Ascension Gate ascending is one thing.
The poor children disappearing is another.

Then why did Cheon Seoa connect the two?

The reason was simple.

“Why are your traces mixed in with the last traces of those children?”

The Ascension Gate that escaped Earth through ascension and.
The poor children who disappeared without a trace.

If you trace back their trails, you’ll find that at the end, the two trails are intertwined.

However.

“Why?”

Cheon Seoa tilted her head again, expressing her incomprehension.

Of course, in the Repair World, Mains are common enemies to all Repairers.

But that only applies within the Repair World.

For those who were planning to leave Earth through ascension anyway, Mains weren’t necessarily targets that had to be killed.

Especially not these poor children, who were Mains with the potential to jeopardize the entire ascension plan if provoked carelessly.

Therefore, the Ascension Gate wouldn’t have approached the poor children just to fight.

There must be another reason.

What could that reason be?

Perhaps….

“Even if they use the rift opened by the beast, is the ascension uncertain? So they need the help of those poor children?”

If so, how were they able to get help from the poor children?

With these questions in mind, Cheon Seoa increased the output of her Omniscient Eye and looked at the final trace.

As she did so, the last trace materialized in Cheon Seoa’s eyes and began to flow like a video.

The video reflected in the Omniscient Eye showed the poor children confronting a man.

The poor children were tense, and for good reason.

“I never expected to see a Repairer who reached the realm of Cheoneon on Earth.”

The Cultivator facing off against the poor children.
That Cultivator’s level was precisely that of a Celestial Immortal. Moreover, with just a slight trigger, they could immediately advance to the level of a True Immortal.

Why on earth was a Cultivator of that caliber on Earth?

No, more than that, at the level of a Celestial Immortal, they should have been able to use the cracks to lead the entire Ascension Gate to the Cultivation Realm, so why did they approach these poor children?

It was while Cheon Seoa was pondering these questions and continuing to watch the scene unfolding before her eyes.

[Thank you, you stupid girl.]

Suddenly, the Cultivator in the scene looked at Cheon Seoa and muttered those words.

Simultaneously, as if affected by something, the scene distorted and disappeared without a trace.

Even after the scene vanished, Cheon Seoa stood still for a while…

“Ha, haha. So that’s how it was. Well, well.”

Crack-.

In an instant, the universe around Cheon Seoa twisted, compressed, and began to explode.

At the same time.

“You used me, didn’t you?”

Crackle-!

As Cheon Seoa muttered those words while staring into empty space, countless cracks appeared all over her body.