Chapter 78: Do Not Look Down on Me (2)

I ran quickly.

To where my disciples were.

From there, an immense wave emanated.

'It's a transcendent.'

I felt it instinctively.

A transcendent had descended.

They clearly said there were no transcendents.

In that case, this is also a phenomenon created by a variable.

'Can they withstand it?'

I thought deeply, but no matter their realm, they couldn't withstand those who had reached transcendence.

The best move would be for everyone to stick together.

And the transcendent's disposition must be vicious.

'Only then can they withstand it.'

If the transcendent's disposition is cautious, then they'll kill them for the sake of the plan.

"Hu, huhu! Are you heading towards the main body? If you quickly beg to become this body's servant, I will speak well to the main body!"

"…"

Seeing this bastard, it's certain that the main body's disposition is not good either.

Was it because I ran quickly using the Wind God's Step?

I was able to reach the destination quickly.

Thump.

My heart pounded.

All senses that had been screaming danger calmed down.

'Ah.'

And I realized how the transcendent being had descended.

Regression.

This space had the power to restore one to one's prime.

Terrifying, divine energy formed the domain, and everyone who entered here regained their prime.

Thus, a fallen transcendent could become a transcendent again.

One step.

I walked forward.

"…Huh, huh?"

I grabbed the clone with telekinesis.

I moved forward.

All my senses began to cheer.

Just before death.

The point when the damned righteous sect members tried to kill me by combining their forces.

'No.'

Much earlier than that.

Right before I got injured by a certain 'incident.'

I quietly opened my eyes.

My senses heightened. The inner energy coiled around my body began to surge.

I could see everything in the world.

Crack.

I clenched my hand.

I felt the strength to shake the world as the surrounding space distorted.

'I'm back.'

I was sure.

My prime body had returned.

In my second life, I realized the power of destruction through magic.

In my third life, I learned martial arts and rebuilt the power I had awakened in my previous life.

Han Seojin took in his surroundings with his eyes.

A quiet space.

The domain of the transcendent that dominated this place began to fade.

'It's not a proper transcendent.'

I could tell at a glance.

That it was a form of transcendence achieved by offering sacrifices.

'Pathetic.'

My interest quickly waned.

But I was interested in this space.

A space that restores the prime body.

I understood its structure at a glance.

I could tell it was the power of authority.

'If it's now.'

The moment I saw it, I understood its structure and could shape it into my own form.

But this power is not good.

Because.

I felt it instinctively.

To gain this power, I would have to sacrifice my Unique Trait, Eternity.

'And this power can only be used once.'

It's a shame.

Han Seojin, however, quickly shook off the regret.

'There are more urgent matters.'

A divine artifact that restored the prime.

But there was a time limit.

For a transcendent of that level, it could be maintained all day.

But the moment I entered, the divine artifact's depletion speed accelerated.

'About one minute, I guess.'

It's fine.

I drew all the magic around me.

The qi of the Great Sky.

[Unique Trait, Eternity, activates.]

[The user becomes eternal.]

Even so, there was a limit to how long it could be maintained.

'One minute is enough.'

Han Seojin looked ahead.

It was a fox human form.

Everything about her was human except for the tail coming out from the buttocks and the ears protruding from the head.

Her magic power is different, too.

Demonic energy was wrapped around her.

'White-Faced Golden Fur, was it?'

I laughed.

"You, fox."

「Wh-Who are you!!」

"Do not look down on me."

You lowlife.

Dare not look down on me.

White-Faced Golden Fur understood the meaning behind those words.

Her movements were swift.

White-Faced Golden Fur immediately crawled on the ground.

Bang!!

Something exploded.

White-Faced Golden Fur trembled in fear. Her transcendent senses sensed it.

Right above her head, the space was distorted entirely.

Just a moment ago, she might have died from that strike.

'What.'

Could such a monster exist?

A transcendent being.

She had transcended the laws of the world.

Even though she was not of the orthodox path but a demonic one, the level of transcendence suppressed everything.

The fact that she easily subdued Seon Woohyeon, who was quite strong among the High Realmers, before his regression is proof.

But if she fought a transcendent, she'd lose.

But the person in front of her wasn't at that level.

They far surpassed that level.

"It looks good."

Arrogant.

Yet, it was a man to whom that arrogance suited infinitely well.

White-Faced Golden Fur urgently grabbed Seon Woohyeon by the neck.

「St-Stop.」

"Are you thinking of taking a hostage?"

「I cannot defeat you.」

She felt it at a glance.

He was a disaster.

A natural disaster that should not exist.

Thus, she could tell.

If he acted properly, she'd die instantly.

Then.

'At least.'

Even if she died, she was still a yokai. She harms people and feeds on their emotions.

In a sense, she was like a demon.

So she would rather die with everyone here.

That was the murderous intent she harbored.

"That's a bit troublesome. I haven't finished teaching him. He may lack talent, but he's still my disciple."

"D-disciple…? N-no way…."

Yoo Eunchae said something in the middle.

"Well, not that you could harm him."

Before Han Seojin's words even finished, White-Faced Golden Fur moved.

Seon Woohyeon.

The moment she tried to take this man's neck,

The Great Shift Between Heaven and Earth.

「Huh?」

Heaven and earth turned upside down.

Literally.

The sky and the ground were reversed.

She was definitely standing on the ground.

'What!'

But at some point, she was falling from the 'sky.'

No, that's not it.

She doesn't know what that trick was.

Falling from the ground, it was crashing into the sky.

Because of that, she lost Seon Woohyeon.

White-Faced Golden Fur quickly scanned the surroundings.

There was only one thing she could see.

A man with black hair.

Not Seon Woohyeon, butㅡ.

"You yokai."

Eyes shining blue as the sky.

Long, unkempt hair.

Eyes that stood out clearly.

They did not show any emotion towards her.

Even seeing a transcendent, those eyes merely looked at an inanimate object.

Not an enemy.

Just an obstacle to be removed.

It seemed to think of it as just that much.

Seeing that made her determined.

No matter the opponent's strength, she couldn't just die like this.

So she counterattacked.

White-Faced Golden Fur gathered golden mana.

Mana, materialized like clouds, was drawn and gathered before White-Faced Golden Fur.

She compressed it.

And made it into spheres.

The condensed spheres reached dozens in number.

An immense amount of evil qi was drained all at once.

Heavenly Calamity.

The condensed spheres were fired.

A simple but potent attack with immense condensed mana.

Han Seojin looked at it indifferently.

'How boring.'

Thinking that far, he smirked.

Well, she didn't even qualify for transcendence, and they forced her into transcendence.

Such beings wouldn't do anything interesting.

He swallowed a sigh and clenched his fist.

Crack.

The strength to grip space grabbed everything around.

The space around Han Seojin was distorted entirely.

'Ah, ah…!'

White-Faced Golden Fur despaired.

She instinctively knew what caused this phenomenon.

Strength.

Just by clenching a fist, he was twisting space-time.

ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!!!

The space distorted, and White-Faced Golden Fur's body was flung away.

Boom!!

White-Faced Golden Fur crashed into the ground.

A crater as if hundreds of bombs had exploded formed.

「Ugh!! This is absurd!!」

She screamed in despair.

Unlike the beginning, she had prepared several things.

She had been wary of the opponent. She had set up barriers everywhere.

Mana materialized like clouds blocked the opponent's attacks.

'With just one hit.'

Everything was destroyed.

His lightly thrown punch.

It rendered a transcendent being like herself near death.

All barriers were torn apart.

A single barrier was equivalent to a mountain range.

But all of them were torn apart by a light punch, and her body was damaged.

'Ridiculous.'

Thinking that far, she felt a chill.

At some point.

A man in black martial arts attire was in front of her.

Whooshㅡ.

Ashen.

An ashen form dyed in black began to appear.

"For you, this is a bit excessive."

Han Seojin truly thought so.

It's excessive.

This martial art was not created to deal with such a creature.

Even so, Han Seojin used the Heaven-Surrendering Godly Technique.

'It will serve as an example.'

Heaven-Surrendering Godly Technique.

He couldn't show its true form.

A martial art that could only be mastered in the High Realm.

Thus, even Han Seojin couldn't show its full power while in the Middle Realm.

When he faced the Sword Saint, he couldn't show it properly.

'There are other guys too.'

Seon Woohyeon.

That guy used something similar to the Heaven-Surrendering Godly Technique.

His nature was like that.

Originally, it would have been unrecognizable, but now it was different.

In the current state where everything could be seen, it was easy to recognize.

'He reminds me of that guy I taught.'

That guy.

Someone followed me in my third life after I taught him a few moves.

If I taught him a few moves, he absorbed them as they were, which was quite fun.

However, there was one thing he couldn't learn.

Heaven-Surrendering Godly Technique.

It wasn't something that could be imitated just because one wanted to.

It had the nature of destroying everything.

Furthermore, it required talent and power to reach a high level.

Han Seojin smiled and looked ahead.

So.

He had to show it now.

Whoosh.

Wind blew in a windless place.

An ashen sphere appeared.

To others, it was an ashen sphere that felt like nothing.

But White-Faced Golden Fur felt a terrifying power from that sphere.

'…Can such a thing exist?'

An ashen sphere.

That thought came to mind as soon as she saw it.

Could such a destructive power exist?

And simultaneously, she thought.

'Can a living being dare to wield such power?'

That is dangerous.

The power she used, Heavenly Calamity.

Even if a transcendent being tried to receive it head-on, it had confidence it could inflict a fatal blow.

But that guy was on a different level.

Even if a transcendent being were touched by that.

It would probably be the end.

"Limitless."

Limitless.

It doesn't mean the extreme of nothing.

It means nothingness.

The end of the peak.

The beginning of the primordials.

The beginning of everything.

And the end of everything.

Destroying the opponent's mind.

The power to collapse the rank one has built up.

The power that everyone would think of as the most dreadful.

That is the Limitless.

Whoosh!

Heaven's Calamity.

The power White-Faced Golden Fur had activated manifested.

From the sphere, an immense amount of evil qi condensed into a point and slashed through the air.

Dozens of flashes.

They targeted Han Seojin.

Clack.

The ashen sphere started to move.

'When I met the Sword Saint.'

I couldn't use it properly.

So I had to use it clumped into a fist technique.

Thud.

All the flashes stopped.

No, they seemed to stop.

The flashes began to bend.

They were drawn into the ashen sphere.

The ashen sphere swallowed everything.

Heaven-Surrendering Godly Technique.

Limitless.

Crunch.

The ashen sphere engulfed White-Faced Golden Fur.

「Ah, aaaaaah!!」

The fox screamed.

This did not just destroy its body. The karma she had accumulated until now. And the rank she had built up.

It destroyed all of those.

When transcendent beings reincarnated after death, they were born with even greater talent.

Even for Yokai, it was the same.

They could be born as demons with great talent in hell.

But this.

This was a punishment worse than death. A power that even transcendent beings fear.

Screaming and wailing in the ashen world, White-Faced Golden Fur soon perished.

And now.

Han Seojin looked down.

There were students there. Not just students. Others were there, too.

'The problem is how to clean up.'

Well, it will work out somehow.

Even if a bit coercive in the current state, it wouldn't be a problem.

"All of you…"

"Pl-Please spare us!!"

Zeronis immediately knelt. Simultaneously, he thoroughly raised his palms upwards.

The posture of a subordinate serving a superior.

And the students quickly caught on and followed.

"…"

'Was I that scary?'

Han Seojin chuckled.