A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation Chapter 775: Chapter 771: My Friend

Kugugugugung-

The world moves quickly.

As countless seas of stars and galaxy clusters rush by, repeatedly condensing and expanding under attraction force, the sight looks as if blood is circulating through the veins and a heart is beating within some beast.

Seeing that sight, we can tell that this entire Heavenly Domain is alive.

We all are living inside the body of a colossal animal called the universe.

:: Time...is accelerating...? ::

The Great Forest Heavenly Lord looks at me as if they cannot understand.

:: Even the Source River...no, even if the Heavenly Venerable of Time personally drags down their Gandhara and descends...they cannot accelerate all of Mount Sumeru to this level. What...what have you done...!? ::

However, no matter what Great Forest says, I pay it no mind and keep strengthening the Radiance Mantra.

Fragments of the God-Killing Spears that Ji Hwa brought charge the power of light and provide the foundation for the Radiance Mantra to activate.

Time in the True Immortal Realm slows even more, and as a reaction, the True Immortals must feel the Saha World is rushing by like mad.

On the Underworld side, because the speed of reincarnation becomes insanely fast, screams and wails are heard.

Moreover, as the Eastern Heaven Flower Field collapsed and all the workload of the flower field was dumped onto the Underworld side, the Reapers of the Underworld are practically on the verge of going mad.

Still, since all True Immortals possess at least the cognitive ability of instantaneous perception(), no matter how fast time flows in the Saha World, there is no problem interfacing with the Lower Realm.

But the problem is the living beings of the Lower Realm.

Because a time gap has arisen between the True Immortal Realm and the Lower Realms of the Three Planes of Qi, Soul, and Fate, no mortal being in the Lower Realm can undergo True Immortal advancement right now, and they are struggling.

In particular, the Sacred Masters who have been cultivating normally inside the bodies of True Immortals, or those carrying out missions in various places under the orders of Radiance Hall, all have their connections to the True Immortals and Radiance Hall severed and fall into confusion.

At least those who possess Nether Perception, Star Vein Eye, Fetal Movement, and Void Perception still retain some linkage to the Upper Realm, so they can push their minds into the True Immortal Realm in accordance with the slowed time of the True Immortal Realm.

Such existences, even amidst this chaos, at least possess the qualification to undergo True Immortal advancement.

Both the Netherworld and the Source River are dimensions in which True Immortals dwell.

Therefore, even now, those places become the connection between the Lower Realm and the True Immortal Realm.

Since each Gandhara is, in the end, within the body of each Heavenly Venerable, it is practically no different from the True Immortal Realm.

And...

Kugugugugugu-

In this moment, I watch spirits as they rapidly undergo birth and annihilation, cross to the Netherworld, and then come to the Saha World again from the Netherworld to be reborn.

They go back and forth between the Netherworld, a kind of True Immortal Realm, and the Saha World...

And they look upon the scenes we are watching.

Time passes in an instant, the universe narrows, fills with light and heat, and contracts to meet its End.

And the next moment, borrowing the power of the Seat of Radiance, the universe is reborn in an explosion within light.

In countless Heavenly Domains, such a phenomenon repeats, and the spirits repeating life and death behold that majestic spectacle together with us as they move to the Gandhara of the Underworld.

The creation and annihilation of the universe.

The swift flow of stars.

The movements of Heavenly Domains like living organisms...

All of it engraves itself upon them, and begins to engrave upon them the essential principle of the Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra.

If they reincarnate in the Saha World, they will end up forgetting those principles, but the principles of the universe will remain in their unconscious, and they will spend their entire life thinking about what repentant enlightenment is.

That's right.

Right now, I...

By applying the Radiance Mantra, joining hands with the Underworld, and engraving the principle of the Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra upon the souls of all mortal beings who go in and out of the Netherworld, am teaching them repentant enlightenment.

:: Are you watching, Gwak Am? ::

Woo-woooong-

I bring my two hands together and begin converging Yin-Yang and Five Elements to One within my hands.

:: Watch closely. This is...my interpretation of the Mountain. : :

With the True Immortal Realm slowed, and the Saha World of Mount Sumeru currently perceived as endlessly accelerating, it is the optimal situation to unfold the Phenomena Extinguishing Mantra.

Because of the accelerated creation and end of the universe, the present Mount Sumeru becomes the best battlefield for Mountain Divine Spirits.

On the battlefield I lay out for the decisive battle with Gwak Am, I feel the power of the Yin-Yang and Five Elements gathered in my hands and, with Ji Hwa's help, begin to fuse them.

Now, the crazed Radiance Eight Immortals no longer even enter my sight.

Woo-woooong-

The Yin-Yang and Five Elements gathered in my hands intertwine and return to the primeval form of Yin-Yang and Five Elements.

The primeval state of Yin-Yang and Five Elements is none other than Radiance.

Just as the Radiance Ten Heavens divide the Five Elements into Yin and Yang as Great Forest, Flower Plant, Great Sun, Torch Candle, Castle Wall, Field Garden, Sword Spear, Pearl Jade, Great Sea, and Rain Dew,

In the end, if one converges Yin-Yang and Five Elements to One, what emerges is their essential form, Light.

Even now, the light held in my hands, thanks to the power of the Radiance Mantra and the help of Ji Hwa, who was one of the Radiance Eight Immortals, strongly resonates with the Seat of Radiance itself.

The realm formula for Immortal Lord is Yin-Yang and Five Elements Returning to One (—).

The existences who preside over the Immortal Lord's realm formula are the Emptiness Supreme Deity and the Radiance Supreme Deity.

Originally, the Radiance Eight Immortals might have interfered with my Immortal Lord advancement ritual.

However, having seized the Radiance Mantra and turned the Radiance Eight Immortals all into that state, I can now begin the Immortal Lord advancement ritual without anyone's interference.

Tududududududu-

From the realm of Heaven and Earth Dual Cultivation Great Net Immortal, I begin to step toward Immortal Lord.

I push my interpretation against the Great Mountain Supreme Deity, who currently holds the Seat of Repentant Enlightenment.

The words of Radiance Hall that say 'the Origin Essence of the First Light is the Third Absolute' is blatant false propaganda.

However, at least the statement 'the First Light is the beginning of all Origin Essences' is true.

The Immortal Lord's realm formula, Yin-Yang and Five Elements Returning to One, is, ironically, to feel the power of Radiance and to fill the Origin Essence one seizes with their own [light], or [wisdom], thereby filling the whole Origin Essence.

And the method by which a Great Net Immortal advances to Immortal Lord by usurping a Seat () is likewise the

same.

Either breathe the light and wisdom formed by your interpretation into an emptied Seat, or with that light and wisdom push away or kill the Immortal Lord, or Supreme Deity, who sits in that place.

I relentlessly pressure the Great Mountain Supreme Deity, who is seizing the chaos of the Outer Sea, by sending the light of the Radiance Mantra and my wisdom and interpretation.

'Anyway, he cannot descend before he seizes the Outer Sea. And since the deceleration of the Radiance Mantra also affects him, he too will only descend after a hundred thousand years in the decelerated time of the True

Immortal Realm.'

Within that time, while pretending to usurp the Seat of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity through the Immortal Lord advancement ritual, I will send my interpretation to his Corpse Mountain Blood Sea and inspire them.

And, through Wol Ryeong, I will grant the Radiance Eight Immortals the same fate of beginning, development, twist, and conclusion as the Enders, and I will make that beginning, development, twist, and conclusion undergo history repetition for all future candidates of the Radiance Eight Immortals who are to be born.

Lastly, I will also overlay that beginning, development, twist, and conclusion upon the Great Mountain Supreme Deity who is wearing the mask of the Castle Wall Heavenly Lord and partially recover his identity of light, and force upon him the same beginning, development, twist, and conclusion as ours.

If I can do so...

Only then can we fight on equal terms with the Great Mountain Supreme Deity who activates the Splitting Heaven Mantra and has seized the Outer Sea.

My grand plan is complete.

All that remains is to wait for Wol Ryeong's completion, guide the mad Radiance Eight Immortals for the remaining hundred thousand or so years and make them undo the Northern Dipper Sealing Immortal Flag, defeat the Liberation Supreme Deity immediately after they awake and undo the final Northern Dipper Sealing Immortal Flag, and fuse all the powers I have gathered so far into 'one'.

'The moment all powers perfectly fuse into one...'

I will properly reach the domain of Divine Arts.

If only it happens as so...

Victory will be visible in the fight against the Great Mountain Supreme Deity.

'I have finished all the preparations I can make. Seize chaos, and let us clash properly. Gwak Am.'

The comrades of the Wuji Religious Order who died back then.

And Yeon Wei and Hon Won, whose entire lives were toyed with by the Great Mountain Supreme Deity, and the life

of their descendant, Hon Jin.

Holding all that resentment and retribution in my hands, I grasp Ji Hwa's arm and greatly activate the Radiance

Mantra once more.

Jjeoooooong!

The Origin Essence of Light seems to tremble, and then around the Origin Essence a total of ten Imperial Thrones

begin to shine.

Among them, two Imperial Thrones are dim, having lost their light.

They are the Imperial Thrones of the Castle Wall Heavenly Lord and the Field Garden Heavenly Lord.

And with the Radiance Mantra activated, I yank Ji Hwa's hand sharply toward me and begin to sever the principle.

:: The Fifth Seat of the Radiance Eight Immortals, Sword Spear Heavenly Lord...as of today, I proclaim your departure from the Seat of the Radiance Eight Immortals. ::

Jjeooong!

With my proclamation, the light of the Imperial Throne of the Sword Spear Heavenly Lord grows faint and becomes

the same as the Seats of the Castle Wall Heavenly Lord and the Field Garden Heavenly Lord.

:: Mountain Divine Spirit!!! ::

At last, I finally achieve with my own hands a feat equal to the Mountain Divine Spirits of the past generation.

:: Your light is...now mine. : :

From Radiance Hall, from the Owner of Light...

I have stolen the light.

If Ji Hwa had remained in Radiance Hall as a spy, this would not be necessary, but now that she is exposed, there

is no longer any reason to leave Ji Hwa and her light in Radiance Hall.

The white light tinged with silver flies into my hands and transforms into my light of all of heaven's natural colours.

Just as the yellow light my master stole was contaminated into a salt-like white, now the light that symbolizes Sword Spear becomes defiled in my hands and begins to shine with all of heaven's natural colors.

I pass that light to Ji Hwa.

Since Ji Hwa, unlike my master, does not abandon the power of light itself, she does not completely lose her Immortal Title and realm as the 'Sword Spear Heavenly Lord.'

However, perhaps because she loses the power supplied by the Seat of Radiance, which is ten times greater than

other Origin Essences, she now cannot, as before, produce Supreme Deity-level power with the power of a single Immortal Lord.

Ji Hwa is no more than an ordinary Immortal Lord of Quasi-Supreme Deity rank.

Of course, since I do not tear out the Origin Essence itself, unless Ji Hwa throws away her realm entirely and

accumulates anew in a new Immortal Dao, she cannot become a Supreme Deity.

What I tore out is merely one of the lights of Seat of Radiance.

Now, from the Seat of Radiance, that silver-white light of Sword Spear will never shine again.

:: You are now...the Radiance Seven Immortals (t). : :

I, who has changed the very concept of the Radiance Eight Immortals, only mutter toward the Radiance 'Seven

Immortals' glaring at me with terrifying eyes.

:: Maintain...your reason. ::

And, because the rage toward me condenses far too greatly, in the end they manage to regain their reason.

:: Do not panic...! Panic is what the Mountain Divine Spirit desires... Never let it go their way... : :

Ooooo-

The Radiance Seven Immortals place their palms together and Rain Dew, who ironically regained their reason the

fastest because they hold my paper flower in their chest, commands them.

In this very situation, the fact that the executor Rain Dew leads Radiance Hall in place of Great Forest is practically

proof that their system has completely collapsed.

But even collapsed, they are the Lords of Light.

The snake's tail that commands the Radiance Seven Immortals, Rain Dew, shouts.

:: We lost Sword Spear, but there is no problem in deploying the Eight Immortals Formation. Unfold the True Title

(MBA).....! : :

Kugugugugu!

At the center of the symbol of Heuk Sa that rises above them,

The name Radiance Supreme Deity appears.

:: True Title...huh? So you could use it too. : :

True Titles are the true Immortal Titles of Supreme Deities.

Because the rank and authority of Supreme Deities have grown far too vast, an ordinary Immortal Title cannot

contain their authority and rank.

Therefore they always receive Immortal Titles from the Naming Supreme Deity that are much longer than other

True Immortals, such as the 'High Spirit Grand Dao Nine Heavens Overseeing Fate Preserving Life Celestial Great Emperor (£ƒƒ@ôk‡)' or the 'Red Summit Great Mountain Life Phenomena Extinguishing Great Emperor (★@ƒ_ƒ±X)', or the 'Nine Heavens Origin Responding Thunderous Sound Universal Transformation Great Emperor (九天應元雷聲普化天帝).

These long Immortal Titles are otherwise called 'True Titles ()' among the Supreme Deities, and they serve to the role of assisting and managing all beings who receive the grace of the Supreme Deities' authority.

When those True Titles are compressed to contain only simple symbols, the resulting Immortal Titles are the

ordinary ones like 'Naming Supreme Deity', 'Great Mountain Supreme Deity', and 'Heavenly Punishment Supreme

Deity'.

As I look at the Radiance Eight Immortals who release their True Title, I begin to prepare countermeasures against

the True Titles.

For those at Immortal Lord and below, the Immortal Titles bestowed by the Naming Supreme Deity serve as usable Immortal Treasures to True Immortals.

But for those at the Supreme Deity level, Immortal Titles do not help much in battle and the like.

Since they are already far too complete as beings, the power of an Immortal Title does not add to their combat

strength.

Therefore, Supreme Deities all use their True Titles for only one purpose.

:: True Title Unfolding. : :

As the voice of the Rain Dew Heavenly Lord resounds, the Immortal Title of the Radiance Supreme Deity at the

center of the Black Snake Biting Its Tail begins to change.

Most Supreme who Illuminates Dawn, Wielder of Seals, Ruler of Brightness, Truth Embracing Dao Embodying Black

Heaven Radiance Supreme Deity (太上開曉執符御明含真體道玄天光明上帝).

Kugugugugu!

As the True Title of the Radiance Supreme Deity activates, the Seat of Radiance begins to tremble.

:: We...shall reclaim Sword Spear. : :

And the true authority of Supreme Deities begins to activate.

:: Debt Enforcement (). : :

Kugugugugu!

Just as Hyeon Mu tried to exact the payment with interest from all of the Heart Tribe who used the

Interdimensional Void,

The Radiance Seven Immortals, through the authority of the Radiance Supreme Deity, begin to exact payment from

all who have received the grace of 'light' until now.

'As expected...the Radiance Mantra can't block that.'

Since the legitimacy over the Seat of Radiance itself lies with the Seven Immortals, it is impossible even for me to

block the debt enforcement of light.

Chwaaaaa-

We all have a portion of our power taken by the Seven Immortals.

However, we pay it no heed and breathe our authority into them even more strongly.

As it is, to face us, the Seven Immortals took the Heavenly King Heavenly Treasures into their bodies and become

all the more deranged.

The more they accept our power, the faster their madness will seize them.

Perhaps they realize this fact as well, as they try to accept our power as late as possible and pour their main effort

into sucking in the power of others.

All the powers of light across the Saha World converge upon them.

And the greatest of these are...

The Heaven Immortals of the Heavenly King Heavenly Domain, who have been using the Immortal Crown of the

Radiance Supreme Deity all this time.

:: No!!! ::

:: O Radiance Supreme Deity!! How can you do this to us!? ::

:: This cannot be. Then what has all our loyalty to Radiance been for...!? ::

Countless Heaven Immortals scream and begin to have their authorities stolen by the suction power emitted by the

Radiance Seven Immortals.

At least the Envoys of the Final Age of Dharma and the Thirty-Three Heavenly Resplendent Treasure Immortals, by

communicating with them and not fleeing but rather joining them, do not h