A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation Chapter 769: Chapter 765: Dreams and Growth (5)

::...Do you still suspect the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord? ::

A single remark from the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord rings in the ears of the other Eight Immortals.

:: Answer, Rain Dew. No matter that you are the executor of Radiance Hall and enforcement is your authority...just this once it must be questioned. As a result of suspecting Sword Spear, suspecting their statement to be a trap, only the blameless Law Protecting Immortals were massacred. ::

:: Calm yourself, Pearl Jade. You are agitated. Other than we Eight Immortals who choose to become parts of justice, even Law Protector Immortals are nothing but tools. Do not waste emotion on broken tools. ::

::...I admit it. But even if I am agitated, there is no error in my words. Even if they are tools, even if they are beings who someday, after the hunt ends, will be made rid of, right now they are useful available resources to us. It is indisputable that much resource has been consumed on what is unnecessary. ::

:: Agreed. Later, we shall convene the Eight Immortals Assembly...and I, taking responsibility for this matter, accept disposal. : :

The Rain Dew Heavenly Lord, with a somewhat cowed look, agrees with the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord's words.

However, their attitude toward the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord does not change.

:: However...this much is certain, Pearl Jade. Sword Spear's method is a stratagem of deception. It is a deception tactic to ease our suspicions and blend into the inside. : :

:: Explain that deception tactic logically. How is it a deception tactic, from the perspective of a cool- headed strategist, to request support of 30 Great Net Immortals or Sword Spear's main body. Was it not impeccable? I too am a strategist of Radiance Hall. Sword Spear gave an answer to win the war, and from this Immortal's point of view that request was reasonable. Even at this very moment we should not be doing this, but accept the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord's request and send one of the Eight Immortals, or at least 30 Great Net Immortals. : :

: : ...::

At the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord's words, the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord looks at them.

::...Sending an Eight Immortal is impossible. All of our main consciousnesses must watch the seal of the Sword Mountain Devil Lord. ::

:: Then...at least send the Great Net Immortals. This is the judgment of me, the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord, one of Radiance Hall's military advisors. :

However, the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord's words are blocked by the will of the Great Forest Heavenly Lord.

:: Apologies, Pearl Jade. For a short while, by the authority of the representative of the Radiance Eight Immortals, I shall temporarily freeze the military operational authority of Gyeong and Shin corresponding to Sword Spear and Pearl Jade of the Eight Immortals. Focus on the task you currently hold. ::

::...What? ::

:: Do not worry. If truly it does not work, it suffices to discard the entire Earth Boundary Heavenly Domain together with the Owner of Liberation. For the greater cause, discarding a single Heavenly Domain is acceptable. Right now it is more important to keep the Enders in check. ::

At those absurd words of Great Forest, Pearl Jade's body trembles.

: : ...Flower Plant, Great Sun, Torch Candle, Great Sea. I ask for your opinions; are you truly of the same judgment as Great Forest? ::

:: At present, you appear to be overcome by feelings toward the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord whom you have known since your mortal being days. ::

:: Pearl Jade. Remember the privilege handed down to us from the First Radiance Supreme Deity. : :

At the words of the Great Sun Heavenly Lord and the Torch Candle Heavenly Lord, the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord trembles even more.

:: Our privilege...yes, I remember. The majority judgment of the Radiance Eight Immortals is always unconditionally right. When the majority of the Radiance Eight Immortals resolve, fate unconditionally makes that resolution come true. : :

That is the reason why, though the Radiance Eight Immortals are weaker than the Heavenly Venerable of the Underworld, they have formed the faction called Radiance Hall up to now.

It is the great privilege the First Radiance Supreme Deity obtained by making a contract with this entire Mount Sumeru for the sake of later generations.

The entire fate of Mount Sumeru moves to realize the purposes of the Radiance Eight Immortals.

Thus they became those who rule life.

And...

Therefore, those whom their majority suspects unconditionally become as their suspicion dictates, and anyone whom their majority judges as evil unconditionally becomes evil.

By fate.

:: However, such a thought comes to me. Perhaps the order is reversed... It is not that the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord is a traitor and so you all suspect them...but that because all of you suspect Sword Spear, Sword Spear becomes a traitor... Such a thought... : :

:: Groundless speculation, Pearl Jade. Your thought is a dangerous ideology that the will of an existence can change the world. ::

:: Do not cross the line, Pearl Jade. If you continue to harbor such doubts...we have no choice but to execute you as well. Continue your mission. In any case, if Sword Spear is truly not a traitor, fate shall reveal Sword Spear's innocence. But if Sword Spear is indeed a traitor...that fate reveals itself as fact. ::

... Understood. I shall continue the mission. Since military operational authority is temporarily frozen...sending support to the Earth Boundary Heavenly Domain is for you all to handle. ::

Having finished speaking, Pearl Jade disappears on the spot.

Watching this, Great Forest speaks to Rain Dew.

:: How is Pearl Jade, Rain Dew. ::

:: Not yet. But they have reached a dangerous level. If they cross the line, we may have to discard Pearl Jade as well... ::

::...Rain Dew. You know it too. : :

The representative of the Radiance Hall.

Agent of Mount Sumeru's fate, ruler of life.

The Great Forest Heavenly Lord, a component of the philosopher-king governance system, sends a sharp gaze toward the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord.

:: When Sword Spear's original sin is revealed, Pearl Jade's treatment is decided, and the generational change is completed...you too, Rain Dew, must be disposed of. ::

::...I know. ::

Ududuk...

The Rain Dew Heavenly Lord bows their head, recalling the memories of past timelines transmitted through the Seat of Radiance.

I too...have begun to break. As one gazes into the abyss, one too becomes the abyss... After the generational change, I ask for my disposal. Great Forest. : :

:: Understood, Rain Dew. ::

:: For the purity of the Eight Immortals... : :

:: Glory to the Radiance Supreme Deity. : :

The Eight Immortals Assembly ends.

And, although they froze all operational authority of the Radiance Hall strategists, the Eight Immortals Assembly nevertheless resolves, with reference to their opinions, to deploy new forces into the Earth Boundary Heavenly Domain.

:: We cannot let the forces of the main sector of the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain leak out. The Sword Mountain Devil Lord will only wait for such an opening. : :

:: We shall deploy the strength of our allies. ::

:: Contact the Northern Dipper Seven Heavenly Lords. Northern Dipper Seven Heavenly Lords, main bodies. Deploy the Seven Immortal Lords to suppress the Sword Mountain Devil Lord's hair clone. ::

They are not experts in war.

Therefore, the Eight Immortals gather their opinions to project not forces for efficient combat, but excessive forces intended to overwhelmingly subdue the Sword Mountain Devil Lord's hair.

::...The Northern Dipper Seven Heavenly Lords, you say...? ::

Receiving the operation plan handed down from the main session of the Eight Immortals Assembly, Sword Spear feels dumbfounded.

:: Pearl Jade, a war expert, must have protested... Are you telling me a plan that empties the strength of allies and the home base with such excessiveness truly comes from the Eight Immortals Assembly? ::

She feels stupefied not as 'Ji Hwa', who has the heart of a person, but as the Fifth Seat of the Radiance Eight Immortals, the 'Sword Spear Heavenly Lord'.

:: Even though there is the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord, who has battle experience with the Enders of previous generations, even though there are those who have experienced Yang Su-jin, this was the result...? Did they completely forget the time of Yang Su-jin? ::

Sword Spear recalls the operation where Radiance Hall excessively projected the main strength of their ally, the Eastern Heaven Flower Field, to catch Yang Su-jin.

At that time, it was the fault of Sword Spear and Pearl Jade.

The Sword Spear Heavenly Lord and the Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord were chicks who had not even inherited the Eight Immortals position for a million years, and since Vast Cold, they had not faced a true Ender.

At the time when, at the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord's request, the forces of the Eastern Heaven Flower Field set out to capture Yang Su-jin and the Enders of Yang Su-jin's faction, Yang Su-jin, with that bizarre Ender authority, slipped into the Eastern Heaven Flower Field whose home base was briefly emptied, burned a considerable number of its flowers, and stole the flowers he needed.

After that, not only did the Immortals of the Eastern Heaven Flower Field come to hate Yang Su-jin, but the alliance between the Eastern Heaven Flower Field and the Radiance Hall also became rather loose.

As the final person responsible for that operation, the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord even came close to

being disposed of.

Ji Hwa, whose emotional suppression was released with the help of Seo Eun-hyun, gnashes curses inwardly as she recalls Yang Su-jin.

'That mad Yang bastard. Running away and wreaking havoc was his greatest talent and achievement...but

there was no one who could stop him.'

And now, the situation is the same as then.

Kurururung-

In the Earth Boundary Heavenly Domain, the main bodies of the Northern Dipper Seven Heavenly Lords, receiving the order of the Radiance Eight Immortals, begin to descend.

Though protests are lodged from Bong Myeong's side, asking whether they intend to turn the Earth Boundary Heavenly Domain into a wreck, no one answers.

'Since the Source River's home base is empty...it's obvious. Seo Eun-hyun's friends will all sneak into the

Source River and then execute a surprise drop from the Source River onto Radiance Hall. Kim Yeon will start ripping apart the Source River and remodeling it into an artificial Gandhara. If I inform the Eight Immortals Assembly of this intel, they could respond, but then it would be immediately exposed that I

colluded.'

Ji Hwa lets out a sigh, and within countless thoughts realizes something.

'...I see. The reason Radiance Hall is this irrational. The reason they foolishly do not remember the mistake

from the time of Yang Su-jin and only obsess over holding Seo Eun-hyun and me in place. It is that already...Seo Eun-hyun's poison is eroding the Radiance Eight Immortals.'

She looks toward the inside of the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain.

She looks at Seo Eun-hyun, who pretends to be asleep but is ceaselessly turning the Wheel, weaving fate

and history.

'...From the standpoint of the Radiance Eight Immortals, you are the worst Ender, even beyond the Vast Cold Heavenly Lord. You dragged me in, corrupted and defiled me...and in the end even succeeded in

staining all the other Eight Immortals with the five impurities... After the Salt Sea Supreme Deity, you are he only one to achieve such a thing.'

Even the former Castle Wall Heavenly Lord, the Salt Sea Supreme Deity, managed to corrupt only one

Field Garden Heavenly Lord.

But what Seo Eun-hyun is now doing goes beyond planting the poison of 'emotion' in all the Radiance Eight Immortals, it is planting poison even in every Eight Immortal to come.

'You revive the dead seed left by the Vast Cold Heavenly Lord, plant it as poison, and defile us...

Excellent, Seo Eun-hyun.'

Ji Hwa wears a human smile and, beyond the silver mask, looks at Seo Eun-hyun's hair clone and at her

own successor standing against it in front.

'With your poison...lead us to an even more righteous place.'

Already defiled to the utmost by Seo Eun-hyun, the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord Ji Hwa, whose great sense of justice of the Radiance Eight Immortals has been twisted...

Now sincerely hopes the ideals of light and salt will unite, and begins to support her disciple Wol Ryeong.

::...I understand the decision of the Eight Immortals Assembly. However, since the next Sword Spear and the next Pearl Jade are in danger, I will transmit the power of the main body to the next Sword Spear candidate using a split soul as a relay. I hope at least this much is permitted. ::

Fortunately, that much is granted.

Inside the internal Middle Realm of her main body in the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain,

The Sword Spear Heavenly Lord reconnects Wol Ryeong to the 'Sword Spear Realm' in which she had

made Wol Ryeong perform Sacred Master cultivation, and begins to turn her gaze toward the end of this

fight.

[Receive it, disciple.]

Hoo-woong-

Wol Ryeong receives something that flies in from behind her.

It is a silver-white stele with someone's [name] written on it.

On that stele is written the name [Sword Spear].

Wol Ryeong immediately understands what it is.

It is the symbol of the Sword Spear Realm in which she performed her Sacred Master cultivation.

[Master...]

[With that, you can draw up the power of the Sword Spear Realm. With that power, face that thing.]

Behind, beyond the bodies of dead Upper Immortals, somethings begin to descend.

Seven entities, vast enough to overturn the principles of the entire Earth Boundary Heavenly Domain,

descend.

Pal Jin looks at them and feels confused.

[Master, is there any need for us to be here!? If it is those existences, they can trample the Sword

Mountain Devil Lord's hair clone!]

[Enough, Pal Jin.]

But Wol Ryeong stops the confused Pal Jin and steps forward.

Wo-woong-

The owner of the Sword Spear Realm.

A Heaven Immortal whom she has not yet even seen the face of begins to support Wol Ryeong with

power through the symbol.

[With my will...I shall cut the enemy.]

[Wol Ryeong...?]

[If it is me, I can do it. I can pierce those terrifying techniques of that existence before my eyes, reach its

heart, and inflict a fatal wound.]

[What kind of madness is that, Wol Ryeong!?]

Then Pal Jin bursts out in anger.

[You saw Upper Immortals dying one after another! No matter if you, as a Sacred Master, borrow the

power of a Heaven Immortal, you can't beat that! There is a gap in power! And with even seven

overwhelming existences descending, why are you at the front!?]

[... You know it too. It is our fate. To fight evil existences...to fight the unright.]

[Our fate is to keep the unqualified from abusing the weak!]

[Right. Therefore...all the more we must face that existence.]

[What...?]

[By fighting far more mighty opponents, and by fighting and fighting those to whom the name devil is

attached...we will come to learn even more what that qualification is.]

Wol Ryeong shakes off Pal Jin's attempt to stop her, receives the power of Sword Spear, and begins to

step forward.

The power of a Sacred Vessel Sacred Master has no average.

The variance is too great depending on the existence that lends that power.

Woo-woooong-

Wol Ryeong feels something like a silver-white snake, biting its own tail, rise up behind her head.

The existence lending her power is divine descending immense power.

[I'm going. I will win and come back.]

Wol Ryeong endures the Heavenly Immortal's power pushing into her body to the utmost limit she can bear, and moves away from Pal Jin.

Pal Jin, as if unable to understand, bites his lip while looking at Wol Ryeong.

[...Master...what are you doing!? Please stop Wol Ryeong! This is madness!]

However, Eun Geom only gives a faint laugh.

[It does not matter. It is that child's choice.]

[Pardon...?]

[You will not understand yet, but watch carefully. For that is precisely the way to approach true strength. That child must one day become the representative of martial might. That method is what can draw out true martial strength.]

Pal Jin does not understand Eun Geom's words, and only looks at Wol Ryeong as she goes ahead.

Outside Mount Sumeru.

Toward the Gandhara of the Source River.

There, six clusters of light are gathering energy outside the Source River.

[The Northern Dipper Seven Heavenly Lords have gone out to the Earth Boundary Heavenly Domain.]

[We waited on standby because of the message from Sword Spear saying there is a faint possibility, but I really didn't expect it to turn out like this.]

[Looks like Seo Eun-hyun and Yeon's poison works well.]

Jeon Myeong-hoon, Kang Min-hee, Oh Hyeon-seok, Kim Yeon, Oh Hye-seo.

And the first seat of Seo Eun-hyun's Five Desires Chain, Hong Fan, are there.

Each and every one is a Devil God of a Heavenly Seat who can make the world tremble in fear.

And at their head, Jeon Myeong-hoon takes from his chest a red device shaped like a celestial globe.

[Golden Shaking Bird. Communicate with Yeong Seung.]

Wooooong-

Golden Shaking Bird, dwelling in Jeon Myeong-hoon's Immortal Treasure, the Great Desolate Path, trembles and communicates with the Source River, and then one side of the Source River begins to open.

[Please come, O Heavenly Kings.]

And inside, Yeong Seung, who, after receiving the coordinates of the Southern Heavenly Venerable, the True Ultimate Eternal Life Great Emperor Cheon Woon, and began communication with the Heavenly Venerable of Time, greets them politely.

[I received the Lord's word