Chapter 86 – The Last Day

The Last Day

“Two hundred and twenty-five true sages.”
“Thirty-eight Taeeul Gi.”
“Two Dara Gi.”

Hmm. Not bad.

Cheon Seoa nodded with a satisfied expression after confirming the level of the divine beasts, immortals, and sages surrounding her.

This should be enough.

“I can make plenty for myself and the children.”

Shiver-!

Cheon Seoa’s satisfied smile suddenly turned into a chilling one.
The divine beasts, immortals, and sages who faced that smile involuntarily shuddered and hesitated, feeling fear creeping up their spines.

However.

“However, there’s not enough time to deal with the true immortals…”

Cheon Seoa said, briefly peeking at ‘somewhere’ by transcending space.

Simultaneously.

“Come out.”

Swish-.

As Cheon Seoa drew her hand down through the air, space split open, and hundreds of other ‘Cheon Seoas’ emerged from beyond.

Their appearances varied, but it was undeniable that they were all created based on Cheon Seoa’s form.

“Well then, let’s all get moving.”

Clap clap-.

As Cheon Seoa spoke while clapping her hands, the ‘Cheon Seoas’ with their diverse appearances began to move.

Some Cheon Seoa charge towards the true immortals, shrouded in gloomy darkness all over their bodies.
Some Cheon Seoa charge in while unleashing violent lightning.
Some Cheon Seoa charge in leading hundreds of ghost spirits.
Some Cheon Seoa charge in gripping various weapons.

Seeing hundreds of Cheon Seoa charging in like that, the immortals of Daerachen groaned, “Kuk!”

“Don’t panic! They’re nothing but dolls after all!”
“True immortals, deal with the dolls! That mad woman, ‘I’ and Taeilgi-level will kill her!”

“Aha-.”

As two Daeragi-level immortals shouted angrily, Cheon Seoa nodded as if she understood.

For some reason, looking at those two Daeragi-level immortals, she couldn’t shake off the feeling that they were ‘the same’.

“You’ve separated spirit and flesh, becoming one yet two. For a kid, you’ve taken quite a novel approach.”

Two Daeragi-level immortals.
They took on different appearances, but their essence was one.

As Cheon Seoa said, they had separated their unified spirit and flesh once again, becoming one yet two, and two yet one.

However, that method…

“It’s that of us Mains, isn’t it?”

Main.
Cultivators who practiced magic techniques.
Beings who betrayed human ethics and defied heavenly principles.

The method these Daeragi-level immortals adopted was one that such Mains often used when they reached their limits and, furthermore, when they were facing the end of their lifespan. It was a method they sometimes employed to escape death.

Of course, the method it took wouldn’t be exactly the same as Mine’s.

“I didn’t expect that noble immortal to follow the method of the insignificant Mine.”

“Shut up!”
“How dare you wag that treacherous tongue at us!”

At Cheon Seoa’s mockery, the Daeragi immortal shouted angrily.

Simultaneously, war broke out in the peaceful Daera Heaven.

With thunderous sounds from all directions, various techniques run rampant.

Flames bloom.
Storms of cold air rage.
Thunder and lightning strike.
Darkness explodes.
Space collapses.

In the process, countless Cheon Seoas were destroyed, but at the same time, numerous true immortals also lost their lives and shattered in vain.

Meanwhile.

“Come here, little ones.”

“This bastard-!”

In the middle of the battlefield filled with death and screams, Cheon Seoa beckoned to the immortals.

At this, a Taeulgi-level immortal, enraged by Cheon Seoa’s behavior of mocking them to the end by calling them ‘little ones’, charged at him.

“Cheongeomsan-gong Taesan-!”

Crash!

The immortal who rushed in shouted while gripping the sword in his hand, and a mountain of a thousand blades rose from the ground, swallowing Cheon Seoa.

It was reminiscent of one of the hells in the Buddhist concept that exists on Earth, the Sword Mountain Hell.

However.

“How clumsy.”

Clang-!

As Cheon Seoa, who had been swallowed by the mountain of blades, lightly stomped her foot, an enormous pressure fell, crushing the mountain.

The blades broke and shattered, and the mountain that had been rising endlessly into the sky disappeared without a trace.

The immortal, shocked by this sight, flinched! At the moment his body trembled.

“First, one down.”
Thud-!

When did she move?

In a split second, split again, and split once more, Cheon Seoa appeared behind the immortal, holding a small bead gleaming with the unique luster of steel in her hand.

Simultaneously.

Thump-!

The body of the immortal that Cheon Seoa had brushed past collapsed lifelessly to the ground, crumbling into a handful of powder.

Seeing this, the other immortals flinched! Their bodies trembled.

A Taeulgi-level immortal had died far too easily.
An immortal who had transcended life and death had perished.

This sight left a powerful impact on the minds of all the surrounding immortals who had forgotten about ‘death’ until now.

Meanwhile, Cheon Seoa burst into laughter at the shocked expressions of the little ones looking at her.

They transcend life and death? Death will never come to them?

This is too…

“Isn’t it funny?”

Puhahah-!

Cheon Seoa laughs hysterically, clutching her stomach.
The shocked expressions of the immortals gradually began to distort.

Of course, it was shocking to see Cheon Seoa kill an immortal of Taeulgi level.

But the implication that she could kill everyone here…

[No! You lunatic-!]

Kwagaga!

An angry voice echoes from high in the sky.

Simultaneously, a giant hand tore through the clouds and fell towards Cheon Seoa’s head.

The hand was enough to remind one of Pangu, the legendary giant that existed in ancient times.

“This is what we call gigantic.”

Puhwak-!

Cheon Seoa, who had been laughing, suddenly froze her expression and used a martial art technique.

It was.

Cheon Seoa-style magic martial art, Giant Devouring the Sky.

Kugugu-!
The magical energy that burst out in an instant engulfs Cheon Seoa, and soon begins to inflate her size.

That mass of magi grew larger and larger, endlessly expanding.

In a split second, the mass of magi reached the sky.
And in another instant, it became even larger than the falling hand.

“A giant race? Come to think of it, I used to hunt giants occasionally when I was in the middle realm.”

[Wh-What-!]

As if he hadn’t expected it to grow larger than himself, the giant immortal exclaimed in bewilderment and stepped back.

The giant immortal fled tens of thousands of miles in a single step.

But it was already too late.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

Grab-!

[Argh!]

Cheon Seoa’s enormous hand stretched out like lightning, grasping the fleeing giant’s head.
The giant, whose head was caught, let out a terrible scream due to the pressure pouring in from all directions.

“I’ve decided. I’ll turn you into a defensive magical treasure.”

Squish-!
As Cheon Seoa lightly clenched her hand, the giant’s head instantly burst.

Simultaneously, the headless body of the giant was sucked into Cheon Seoa’s hand, turning into a small dark blue bead.

“Now then, who will face me next?”

In an instant, two were taken down.
At this, the remaining six Taeulgi immortals looked at Cheon Seoa with distorted expressions.

* * *

“Kheuk-!”

Thud-.

A celestial who had conquered the upper realm with a spear during the state of True Immortality and ascended to the Great Luo Heaven.
Even after ascending to the Great Luo Heaven, he never let go of his spear and continued his training, eventually reaching the state of Taeul Ki as a spear immortal. He collapsed, coughing up a mouthful of black blood.

With trembling eyes, he looked up at Cheon Seoa standing before him. In her hand was a black spear.

Except for being ‘black’, it looked utterly unremarkable. The spear immortal couldn’t believe that this plain black spear had so easily pierced through his spirit and flesh.

No, what was even more unbelievable was…

“H-How…! How could someone like you possess spear skills surpassing mine, a spear immortal!”

“Oh, this? I learned it when I was young to survive. I hadn’t needed to use it much as I got older. But seeing you act so arrogant as a spear immortal was a bit annoying.”

Cheon Seoa said with a giggle.
The spear immortal continued to look up at Cheon Seoa with disbelieving eyes, but those eyes were now filled with nothing but the coldest and dampest death.

With this…

“All the Taeul Ki are dead.”

However…

“Why aren’t you moving?”

Slowly turning her back, Cheon Seoa spoke to the only Great Luo level celestial here.

One yet two.
Two yet one being.

It stared at Cheon Seoa with four heavily sunken ‘one’ eyes and said.

“I finally remember.”
“You… no, who you are.”

Oh my?

“Your way of addressing me has changed?”

Until now, she had been calling her with malice – crazy woman, villainess.

Monster, you wench, and such.

Why now suddenly address her as ‘you’.

Well, well.

“How embarrassing, dear.”

Though Cheon Seoa spoke somewhat jokingly, the four eyes of the Daeragi Immortal remained heavily sunken.

So.
“You know who I am?”
“Of course.”
“I know.”
“Then tell me. Who am I?”

“In the distant, far past.”
“The first demon cultivator to enter Daeracheon,”

When the Daeragi Immortal closed their mouth after saying that, Cheon Seoa flicked her hand as if telling them to continue.

At that, the Daeragi Immortal gulped! swallowing dry saliva and continued speaking.
“And, the demon cultivator who slaughtered countless immortals.”

“The demon cultivator who is now passed down only in legend. That demon cultivator, we call them this.”

It is a calamity and a disaster.
It is the final destination of all living beings.
It is the devourer that swallows everything in the world, and at the same time.
It is the creator of the black sky.

It is called the Lord of the Black Sky, the Apocalyptic Heavenly Venerable.

=And it is also my companion.

Gasp-!

As soon as the Daeragi Immortal finished speaking, light rushed in from all directions, pushing away all colors and darkness.

From beyond the haziness of that light, a voice tinged with innocence leaked out, to which the Daeragi Immortal knelt down in shock, bowing his head and shouting.

“I, I behold the Heavenly Venerable!”

Heavenly Venerable.
Lord of the Heavens.
The beginning of the Cultivators, and the being who created this Daerachen.

At the sudden appearance of the lord of Daerachen, Cheon Seoa’s expression contorted.

“Ah, I guess I got too excited. I didn’t expect the face I least wanted to see to pop up.”

=Haha, don’t hate me that much.

“I never gave you permission to speak to me.”

=Are you still upset? I told you I’m sorry about what happened then.

As the innocent ‘boy’s’ voice beyond the haziness became clearer, all other sounds disappeared.

No, it wasn’t just the sounds that disappeared.

Somehow, even the immortals disappeared.
The immortal-level celestials who were waging war against numerous celestial children also vanished without a trace.

The countless celestial children who were at war stood motionless, their functions suspended.

“Ah, how nostalgic. You were certainly quite fresh back then.”

Crack-.

At the boy’s words, a cross appeared between the celestial child’s brows.

“Are you saying I’m not now?”

“Haha, no, no. You’re still plenty fresh now. It’s just that…”

“Enough-!”

Boom-!

Interrupting the boy’s words, as the celestial child shouted angrily, ‘darkness’ flowed out, pushing away the light.

Ah, really.
Why did that burst out?
Or perhaps it’s natural for that to burst out.

‘I got too excited and wasted too much time.’

I should have quickly harvested and left for the Great Demon Realm….

“Don’t tell me you’re planning to go straight to the Great Demon Realm? After meeting after so long…”

“Leaving your husband behind?”

“Who are you calling husband!”

A boy appeared as light gathered.
Seo-a Cheon shouted “Bwak!” at the words of the boy with rainbow-colored hair and eyes, who gave off an undeniable mischievous vibe.

The boy smiled sweetly at Seo-a Cheon’s reaction and said,

“So, how long are you going to stay in that form? There’s no one else here. It’s okay.”

“Tch.”

At the boy’s words, Seo-a Cheon’s body melted into darkness, dissolving fluidly.

The darkness spread across the floor stickily, eventually converging into a single point and transforming into a girl with pure darkness in her hair and eyes.

“Cheon-jon.”

“No, not that.”

“Haah-.”

As the boy shook his head, Seo-a Cheon let out a deep sigh.
With an expression of extreme dislike, she muttered as if whispering,

“Cheon… Tae-ryeong.”

Cheon Tae-ryeong.

That was the true name of Cheon-jon, the master of Daera-cheon, and at the same time, the name of Seo-a Cheon’s ‘other half’.

Meanwhile, Cheon-jon Cheon Tae-ryeong beamed with a bright smile upon hearing his name from Seo-a Cheon’s lips.

“Ah, it’s been so long. You could have just lived in my sky all along. Why did you create that unpleasant sky…! Oh, no! It’s not unpleasant! Really!”

When the word ‘unpleasant’ slipped from Cheon Tae-ryeong’s mouth, Seo-a Cheon’s eyes turned fierce.
Cheon Tae-ryeong hurriedly denied it in panic.

Seo-a Cheon just looked at Cheon Tae-ryeong and let out a deep sigh, “Haah…”

And so, some time passed.

A second that feels like an hour passes.
A year that feels like a minute passes.
A thousand years that feel like ten thousand years pass.

“But… do you intend to return ‘those’ children…?”

“No. They’re mine.”

“T-Then! Of course, they’re Seoa’s! Yes! Certainly!”

Cheon Taeryeong let out an awkward laugh at Cheon Seoa’s firm response.

And so, time passes once again.

“Ah, it seems it’s time for me to go back.”

Cheon Taeryeong said, as if regretful.

Even without seeing, it can be felt.
Even without touching, it can be felt.
Even without smelling, it can be felt.
Even without hearing, it can be felt.

The sky he created, Daerachen, is collapsing, unable to bear the presence of his other half.

By now, unexpected natural disasters must have occurred throughout Daerachen.

Moreover, disasters beyond what the beings living in Daerachen can endure.

Meanwhile, Cheon Seo smirked and said to Cheon Taeryeong, who was looking at her with regretful eyes.

After all.

“We’ll be able to meet again later. Yes….”

This time, the ‘fate’ that ‘we’ have directly woven will lead ‘us’.

As she said this, Cheon Seoa’s figure melted into darkness and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Cheon Taeryeong looked at the place where Cheon Seoa had been standing with sad eyes, and then….

“Goodbye. And, see you again.”

Seoa.