Chapter 85 – Day 85

Day 85

Daeracheon.
A heaven so perfect that calling it a paradise would not be an exaggeration.

It is.

“I have no intention of denying it.”

Cheon Seoa muttered while looking around at the beautiful scenery of Daeracheon and stretched out her hand.

Swoosh-!

Cheon Seoa’s slowly extending hand suddenly accelerated, showing snake-like intricate movements as it grasped the neck of the Gwangcheon Manrae Dragon King who was trying to slink away.

[Guk-!]

The Dragon King, whose neck was gripped by Cheon Seoa’s hand, let out a suppressed groan.

Was it the effect of stepping into Daerachen?
The Dragon King had already returned to his original form from his half-human, half-dragon state.

A long, slender body stretched out smoothly like a snake.
Covering that body were beautiful blue scales.

The size of that body alone reached a staggering 300 meters, yet this enormous body was caught by Cheon Seoa’s tiny hand.

“Ah, it brings back memories. I once operated in Daerachen too.”

[What nonsense is that!]

At Cheon Seoa’s muttering, the Dragon King shouted in disbelief even while choking in her grip.

Daerachen is a sky not permitted to mages who have mastered magic arts.
Even if one has built up the level and rank to ascend to the sky, Daerachen itself rejects mages trying to cross over.

However.

“It’s not a lie, little one.”

Cheon Seoa said, looking into the Dragon King’s enormous eyes.

Indeed, it was not a lie that Cheon Seoa had operated in Daerachen.
However, the meaning of that ‘operation’ was quite different.

Certainly, Daerachen is a sky not permitted to mages.

By chance upon chance, and yet another chance, Cheon Seoa had barely managed to step into Daerachen, but the Daerachen she entered was hell itself for her.

The dense spiritual energy that filled Daracheon, incomparable to Earth, was like poison to Cheon Seoa, who had built up magical energy through magical cultivation techniques.

Each breath taken in Daracheon was like inhaling a lethal dose of deadly poison for Cheon Seoa.
As a result, Cheon Seoa had to endure soul-searing pain with every breath.

But that wasn’t all.

The numerous divine beasts, immortals, and celestial beings roaming Daracheon did not tolerate Cheon Seoa, a mage who dared to set foot in their heaven.

At that time, Cheon Seoa did not yet possess the ‘overwhelming power’ she has now.
Therefore, Cheon Seoa had to repeat her life in the lower realm once again, avoiding the eyes of those who sought to kill her.

Excluding breathing.
Killing her own body and soul.

For Cheon Seoa, whose spirit and flesh had already become one, such an act was tantamount to throwing away her own life.

But that wasn’t all.

Cheon Seoa suppressed and concealed her magical energy as much as possible, deep within herself.

Of course, such actions were not entirely without benefit.

Thanks to this, Cheon Seoa came to understand ‘death’ more perfectly and naturally, reaching a higher level and class.
She became able to conceal her power so discreetly that even beings of equal status couldn’t notice.

However.
Even so.
That life back then.

“It wasn’t enjoyable.”

Grr-!

Wham! Seoah Cheon, with a face twisted like a malevolent spirit, suddenly snapped the Dragon King’s neck without warning.

The Dragon King, with his neck shattered, died without even uttering a short death cry, and Seoah Cheon discarded his corpse onto the land of Daracheon as if throwing away trash.

Thud-!

As the Dragon King’s enormous body, measuring three hundred meters, crashed to the ground, thick dust rose into the air.

Seoah Cheon looked down at the Dragon King’s corpse indifferently and said,

“I don’t need you anymore. Because.”

Swish-.

Seoah Cheon, taking her eyes off the Dragon King’s corpse, scanned her surroundings.
Her eyes caught sight of numerous divine beasts, immortals, and celestial beings rushing towards her, having noticed her presence.

“More useful materials are coming to me on their own.”

Seoah Cheon muttered these words and grinned.

Red blood trickled down from the corners of her mouth, which were twisted and torn.
At some point, Seoah Cheon’s eyes had also changed, filled with vivid, fresh, and thick ‘blood’.

And simultaneously.

Rumble-.

With a thunderous roar, dark storm clouds began to gather above Seoah Cheon’s head.

Seoah Cheon looked up at the storm clouds containing lightning, the crystallization of powerful energy, and said,

“It’s starting now.”

Those storm clouds were not the magic of the divine beasts, celestial beings, or immortals targeting her.
They were simply a kind of autonomous defense system created along with Daracheon.

But, that power was real. It was because of this that the Mains could not cross over to Daracheon.

Thus, lightning writhed in the thunderclouds covering thousands of kilometers in radius.

Just as what the Underworld’s Repairers commonly called ‘Lightning Fear’ was about to fall.

“You all go ahead first.”

Cheon Seoa transports the ‘poor’ nine children, who were used as the core to weaken the pressure of the passage, to Damacheon.

Simultaneously, as if it had been waiting, a massive lightning bolt fell from the thunderclouds onto Cheon Seoa’s head.

Bang!
Kwagakang-!
Kwagagagakang-!

The lightning bolt fell, tearing through space.
With a roaring sound spreading in all directions, Cheon Seoa, engulfed by the fallen lightning bolt, shuddered.

Haa-.
This too….

“It’s not bad, quite thrilling to experience this after a long time?”

As Cheon Seoa muttered softly, a red flush rose on her torn cheek, and a strange sensuality overflowed from her two eyes made of her ‘blood’.

However.

“I don’t like this.”

Chwak-!

As Cheon Seoa, who had been savoring the lightning bolt, waved her hand, space tore apart and the unprecedented power disappeared without a trace.

The unprecedented power that Cheon Seoa tore apart, along with the lightning bolt, was one of the trials called ‘Infinite Loop’ that Repairers commonly encounter when trying to surpass the ‘realm’.

It is a terrifying ordeal that infinitely repeats the ‘most horrific memory’ of the repairer, eventually weathering their mind, soul, and body into a handful of dust.

The infinite loop was a trial that Cheon Seoa had experienced a few times in the past, and her impression of it was…

“It was quite filthy.”

Kwaaah-!

The moment Cheon Seoa muttered while reminiscing about the past, a massive pillar of lava erupted from beneath her feet and swallowed her whole.

Simultaneously, an immortal appeared before the lava pillar that reached hundreds of meters in circumference and several kilometers in diameter.

“How dare a worm-like human set foot in the forbidden sky.”

With a bushy beard covering the lower half of his face.
The gaze boasting a muscular physique that was more than just well-built spoke with an angry voice.

“However, now that you’ve encountered me, your insignificant life is about to end…”

[Oh my-? What’s the little one saying?]

Flinch-!

The body of the immortal, who was speaking while stroking his bushy beard, flinched.

From within the lava pillar he had created, a voice that shouldn’t be heard emerges.

A voice so beautiful that it stimulates the seven emotions and five desires of humans, and further, makes one think of ‘death’ which no living being can defy.

No way-!

“You’re still fine even inside that pillar…!”

Cough-.

The immortal, who cried out in shock, suddenly spat out red blood as vast as the ocean from his mouth.

“Wh…, at….”

The immortal muttered with trembling eyes in disbelief, staggered, and eventually collapsed with a thud.
There was a hollow hole pierced through the immortal’s chest.

“The flesh and soul of a mature true immortal. Not bad for the first harvest.”

Cheon Seoa sat down on the corpse of the immortal who had lost his life and spoke.
In Cheon Seoa’s hand was a red bead, inside which the soul of a being who was once an immortal of Daerachen was screaming in terrible agony.

So.

“Who’s next?”

Cheon Seoa asked, tossing the bead beyond Daemacheon.
Before Cheon Seoa’s eyes, numerous divine beasts, immortals, and sages had already gathered.

* * *

=How noisy.

Woong-.

A faint voice leaked out as the space filled with purely innocent light, not allowing even a single speck of darkness, trembled.

Startled by this, the group of immortals positioned in front of the ‘light’ hurriedly knelt down, bowed their heads, and shouted.

“We, we’re sorry! It’s said that a lowly demon, not knowing its place, has set foot in Daerachen and is causing a disturbance.”

=A demon…?

“Yes.”

=Oh. To think a demon would set foot in ‘my’ sky. This makes it the ‘second time’.

‘Second time…?’

An arrogant voice that dared to call this Daerachen its own sky.
However, the group of immortals questioned not this arrogance, but rather the ‘second time’ mentioned by the voice.

It’s no wonder, since that ‘voice’ was originally.

“However, you need not worry too much. Although I don’t know how they dared to enter Daracheon, I’ve been told that countless children have already moved to punish that Mein. So, ‘Heavenly Lord’, you don’t need to be too concerned.”

Heavenly Lord.
The master of the heavens.
The beginning of the修仙者 (cultivators) and the being who created this Daracheon.

That was the owner of the ‘voice’ flowing from the ‘light’.

The Heavenly Lord chuckled at the military official’s words.

They moved to punish the Mein who dared to set foot in his heaven for the second time?

Indeed.

=Would that be possible?

“Pardon…?”

=No. It’s nothing.

To the military official who asked back in confusion, the Heavenly Lord muttered and closed his mouth.

Only the military official seemed unable to understand the meaning of the Heavenly Lord’s words “would that be possible”.
He just had a confused look on his face.

Meanwhile, the ‘light’, the ‘Heavenly Lord’.

=Ah, it’s been truly a long time.

Remembering ‘someone’ buried in the endless flow of time, existing in the distant past, he only utters a voice that lingers within the light.