Invitation to the Chatroom of the Gods - Chapter 127



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Episode 127 – The One and Only Way

【“Shut up!!!”】

Kwaaaaaaaah!

With the officer’s scolding, an enormous amount of magical energy burst out.

The once sparkling eyes of the officers had now turned pitch black, and now none of the disciples were standing upright.

A terrible demon whose only certainty is death.

That alone will sentence me to death.

‘······Can I do it?’

So a question crossed my mind.

But as expected.

I don’t feel confident.

I calmly closed my eyes. Of the five senses, sight was completely blocked, and the other senses became more and more acute.

As I concentrated my mind, Yeo Dong-bin’s teachings quietly echoed in my head.

The six basic properties of the sword.

Heavy, dominant, flowing, fast, strong, illusion.

-The process of completely understanding and breaking away from such basic principles and connecting them into one is the true state of the Cheon-dun Sword Technique, youngest.

And what it means to be connected as one.

-Knowing that all conditions, causes and effects are interdependent and interrelated.

Because this exists, that exists; because that arises, this arises; because that dies, this dies.

The interrelationship between this and that is not an independent and unchanging entity.

In this way, all things in the world are one and whole, and the whole is one.

-The next state of the true Cheon-dun sword technique is to put such principles into the form of a sword and unfold the technique.

Just a little bit now.

Only now.

It is the teaching of Yeo Dong-bin, and the meaning that Jang Sam-bong wanted to teach to shamans, and also the meaning that he wanted to teach to me.

I slowly opened my eyes.

* * *

······Something is strange.

The officer suddenly felt something strange.

It was the strangeness felt from the man in front of Janggyo Jinin, Cheongwoon.

The appearance seen with the eyes is clearly Cheongun.

But the oppressive feeling that made my skin tingle…

No, can you call this a feeling of oppression?

My skin was tingling, but I didn’t feel like my whole body was being crushed. It wasn’t a great sense of pressure, so I couldn’t say it was oppressive.

When you look up at the vast blue sky, you are overwhelmed by its vastness.

But it’s a strange feeling, like not feeling fear about it.

So this was definitely a type that could not be felt by humans.

It’s something you can only feel in Mother Nature.

That’s why the officer corps was just strange.

Can we really call this person a genius?

The visible form was clearly Cheongun. It was different from the Janggyojinin who simply had a human form.

Cheongun is a human being with a certain inner energy, and is a small part of nature.

But for some reason, Janggyo Jinin did not consider Cheongun as a human.

It was a strange feeling, as if I was facing the great nature itself rather than being a part of it.

This is something that even the officers cannot do anything about······.

‘gibberish!!’

······.Jang Gyo-jin couldn’t admit it.

Huruk, hurururuk!

The sight of the officers suddenly flared up. All things were engulfed in flames of the eons of fire, swallowing up even the blue clouds before their eyes.

Right then.

Into the center of the flames, the sword of Cheongun suddenly flows.

However, the blazing fire demon of the eons did not discriminate between targets. It simply burned everything that existed and all things.

The sword of Cheongun was inevitably swallowed by the fire demon.

With that, the Sword of Cheongun also turns to ashes and falls apart.

Surely······it should have been so.

The sword of Cheongun suddenly flows like water. Sometimes it is as solid as wood, as strong as earth, and as hard as iron.

Fire, water, wood, gold, and earth.

The five lines that represent the changes in all things in the universe.

A tree is born and rises.

Fire spreads and erupts.

Transform and harmonize the land.

Metal descends and converges.

Water condenses and binds.

Thus, all things exist in a relationship of ‘symbiosis’ where they help each other.

Wood (木) becomes fuel and burns, the burning fire (火) turns to ash and becomes soil, the soil (土) turns into iron in the ground, water forms on the cold iron (金), and the water (水) makes trees grow again.

This is the nature and cycle of all things in heaven and earth.

However, one energy can interfere with or suppress the other energy.

Trees put down roots and dig into the ground.

Earth blocks water, and water puts out fire.

Fire melts iron, and iron cuts down wood.

Mutual opposition.

A state of conflict due to lack of agreement between the two parties.

And in the world, there exist these two ‘ways of conflict’.

Right and wrong.

Janggyo Jinin believed that only the path of righteousness was right.

I thought that only the righteous will should be established in this world.

however.

If the righteousness is too strong, the way becomes too strong.

When the devil is too strong, the way becomes cruel.

Just as overly large trees deplete the nutrients in the soil.

Just as water dries up when the land is too large.

Just as too much water can put out a fire.

Just as if fire is too strong, iron will completely melt, and if you hit wood with metal too much, the wood will break.

That is why water suppresses fire before it becomes too strong.

Before the water overflows, the land blocks the water.

Before the soil grows too large, the trees absorb its nutrients.

Before the tree exhausts the nutrients of the soil, the metal cuts down the tree.

Just as fire melts iron before the metal can cut down all the trees.

The same goes for the right and the wrong.

Before the righteousness becomes too strong and overpowers, the devil restrains it.

On the contrary, before the devil becomes too strong and cruel, the righteousness restrains it.

Mutual prosperity is not the only way.

The mutual opposition is also a law of nature and a part of the cycle.

A state of balance that is not tilted to either side.

The Way always exists between the two extremes.

Jang Sam-bong realized this early on and established the law of Taegeuk (太極), the center of the delicate balance between two opposing forces, on this land.

And now.

The black clouds of blue and white unfolding before my eyes······.

It was not biased to either side.

I was walking the tightrope, trying to maintain balance.

In this way, even the black fire demon that burns all things in the sky, which conforms to reason, is accepted as a natural law.

The officer’s name was immediately recognizable.

That sword······.

It’s clearly a shaman’s sword.

The sword of a shaman that he wanted to establish on this land as the shaman’s ‘Jang Gyo Jin In’.

It is a shaman’s sword that contains the Taegeuk law that even a single ‘unmanned’ person wanted to reach so desperately······.

It means shaman.

But why is that?

Janggyo Jinin did not say that it was ‘a shaman’s thing’.

I didn’t think it was a shaman’s thing.

A very long time ago.

Before Jang Sam-bong made the principle of Taegeuk into a law and established his will on this land······.

There already existed the ‘Tao of the Supreme Ultimate’ in heaven.

How dare you say that the way of heaven belongs to a shaman?

Jang Sam-bong simply followed the way of heaven and established the laws of Taegeuk and established the will of a shaman······.

That is the essence and origin of shamanism.

There is only one way that encompasses heaven and earth.

“Cheondungeonbeop (天遁劍法).”

The Supreme Ultimate (太極) is itself.

【“······!!!”】

The officer’s eyes opened wide.

A cold wind blows beneath the trembling eyes.

With that, the officer’s white hair shook······.

The view is opened up.

All the entities of the universe pour down into the newly opened field of vision.

Sun, moon, rain, clouds, snow, sea.

Spring, summer, fall, winter.

Rocks, plants, bugs, rivers, earth, people.

All things in the universe.

The myriad of creatures in the empty space.

There is no beginning or end before this.

It is also impossible to know where it came from.

The Supreme Ultimate is the Ultimate Martial Ultimate.

It is empty and vague, and the essence is the body of energy.

A demon that turns the sky upside down.

It will turn to ashes before the fire demon of eons.

The fire demon of eons is back again.

In front of this great flow of the Supreme Ultimate, we are reduced to nature.

Heavenly Sword Technique.

True source – flow.

Hyuncheon Taegeuk (玄天太極).

* * *

The flow of the great Taegeuk.

The innate energy of the officers who had been running wild in front of him was restored to nature.

Damaged innate energy shortens one’s life, but lost innate energy means death.

As the center of gravity disappears, the vital energy of the Taoists that formed the strength of the Janggyo Jinin is scattered.

The essence of the spirit, which was returning to its natural state, was returning to the Taoists, where it should have been.

Janggyo Jin-in raised his vain gaze.

The shaman’s hall in sight was engulfed in flames and reduced to ashes.

The fire that spread to Mt. Mudang was burning the surrounding mountains black.

It was nowhere to be found.

The tranquility of nature and the clear spirit of the soul that can only be seen at Mt. Mudang.

A shaman with hundreds of years of history engraved on it.

It······was no longer visible.

The shaman that Janggyo Jinin knew was no longer here.

······That’s how it ended.

The shaman who had reigned as the Bukdu of the martial arts world for hundreds of years had finally collapsed.

It didn’t require much.

Although he was a shaman who had reigned as the Bukdu of the martial arts world for a very long time, it didn’t take an army of a million to break him.

Just one person.

Hundreds of years of history were destroyed by just one person.

The two soulless eyes of the officer looked down.

Thus, the shaman’s will was broken, and the righteousness that was to be established in this world was broken.

Janggyo Jinin could feel death slowly approaching.

To be honest, I wasn’t afraid of death.

But in the end, I was afraid that the shaman’s will would not be established in the world.

I was afraid that the world would fall into sorrow because of this.

In the end, she was so afraid that the shaman lineage that had lasted for hundreds of years would end in her generation.

Saaaaah-.

A cold wind blew, scattering the ashes here and there.

The swirling ashes fill the officers’ field of vision.

And so, the view of Janggyo Jinin turned into a pile of ashes.

Suddenly, someone else’s figure appeared beyond it like an illusion.

Janggyo Jin-in slowly raised his head.

And when I raised my head, there was an unidentified ‘white-haired old man’ standing in my field of vision.

The officers also have a lot of experience.

But the old man I saw before my eyes now was far beyond the years of Janggyo Jinin.

This is an old man I’ve definitely never seen before.

He is an old man whom I have never seen before and whose identity I do not even know.

But for some reason it felt familiar.

Looking at him… Jang Gwang-jin felt like a grandson standing in front of his grandfather.

【”you are······?”】

When the officer asked, the old man smiled kindly.

But unlike his warm smile, the old man’s eyes looking at Janggyo Jinin were filled with regret.

-The past several hundred years.

And then I hear the old man’s voice.

It was somehow warm and affectionate like my grandfather’s, but at the same time, it was also heartbreaking.

-What do you think is the reason why our shamans have been able to continue their tradition throughout the world?

Janggyo Jinin did not answer that.

-Some say it is because our shamans’ teachings are excellent.

It was something that didn’t really need to be answered.

-Some say that it is because the shaman’s will is closest to the Tao.

As a shaman’s officer, this was a fact that I knew better than anyone else.

-So someone else said that the shaman’s will is the only right one.

That is why Janggyo Jinin thought that only a ‘shaman’ could set the twisted world right.

I thought that only the shaman’s will and teachings could purify this rotten world.

However, in today’s world, power, not justice and righteousness, determines all laws, so it was thought that shamans should go beyond the old guard and become the most powerful force in the world.

So the officers came this far.

Since fighting in the mud meant getting covered in mud, he accepted the magic even though he knew it was a special power.

-However, this old man wants to say something.

But the old man in front of me says.

-I’m saying not all of them.

That’s not true.

It could be said that it was a remark that dared to disparage the shaman’s intentions.

It was like a remark that looked down on shamans as a whole, beyond the meaning and teachings of shamans.

It was a crime that could have been punished immediately by being executed for the crime of destroying the knights, but for some reason, Janggyo Jinin could not be punished for it.

It would be more accurate to say that I just can’t do that.

I don’t know why.

It was as if······a shaman was speaking.

It seemed as if the history of the past several hundred years was speaking to the officers, teaching them.

It seemed like it was waking me up.

-The reason why our shamans have been able to continue their tradition for so long is······.

The old man’s head turned to one side.

The officers’ gaze also naturally turned to follow the old man.

When I looked there, I saw a man and many other Taoist monks lying unconscious.

Lay disciples who are not direct disciples of the main temple.

There were people like the ‘sinners of the shaman’s destruction’ who pointed out that the shaman’s teachings and intentions were wrong.

However, there was an ‘oath’ there to stay with the shaman until the end, even when facing death.

So, the old man says.

-That’s because there were such Taoists.

They are soon to be called ‘Mudang’.

-If there were no Taoists who protected the righteousness and justice in their respective places, even if they were not on Mt. Mudang, there would be no shamans today.

Saaaa …

Suddenly, the old man’s figure collapsed into a pile of ash.

The sight of the old man, shattered and scattered, seemed like a glimpse into the future of a shaman.

One day, after infinite time had passed.

A future where the shaman’s name has disappeared and been forgotten even in history.

When there is excitement, there is ruin, when there is nature, there is iron, when it leans, it becomes cold, and when it is cold, it leans. This is the law of all things and the natural order.

But Janggyo Jin-in did not want to accept such logic. He was too afraid.

Looking back now······ it may have been an excuse.

An excuse for thinking that only the shaman’s will is right and just in the world.

But in this world, power, not justice and righteousness, determines all laws, so the excuse is that shamans must go beyond the old guard and become the most powerful force in the world.

It may have simply been that the shaman did not want to accept a future in which he would disappear and be forgotten.

Perhaps it was the fear of a future where shamans disappeared that was so frightening.

So it seemed like she didn’t want to accept or admit that the shaman was wrong.

So, in this land, only the shaman’s will is the right value.

The name of the shaman is the only justice under the sky.

So, Janggyo Jin-in said, I was not wrong.

Maybe I was so greedy for power that I was just trying to make excuses.

With the overwhelming power to reject order, I want to establish the will and name of the shaman on this land forever.

But now.

-Even if time passes and there is no trace of the shaman anywhere on Mt. Mudang.

The old man, who disappeared into ashes, said:

-Even if the entire Mt. Wudang burns down and turns to ashes.

Soon, the old man’s form completely disintegrated and disappeared.

With that, the old man’s last words were never heard.

now.

There are no shamans here.

Even the history of shamanism has completely burned down, leaving only a space filled with ashes.

But why is that?

The place where the old man disappeared, and on top of the pile of blackened ashes.

A young man is standing.

He was not a shaman’s disciple.

He wasn’t even a shaman.

That is why there were no more people who followed the shaman’s will.

But it was strange.

He is clearly neither a shaman’s disciple, nor a Taoist, nor a follower of the shaman’s will.

But on the ashes he stands.

“As long as there is even one person who remembers the shaman’s will.”

The shaman’s teachings, the shaman’s name, the shaman’s meaning······.

“A shaman will never fall.”

Thus, ‘the one and only shaman’ stands firm.

The vision blurs again.

Once again, the scenery of reality, the shaman’s temple and the shaman mountain burned to ashes, was visible.

“iced coffee······.”

Tears welled up in the wrinkled corners of Janggyo Jinin’s eyes.

The eyes that were filled with tears were no longer stained with evil.

It was no longer swallowed up in the right.

His eyes were filled only with regret and remorse.

Below that, the officers’ bodies break apart and turn into ashes.

“I······ What on earth have I······.”

And so, the last appearance of Janggyo Jinin, who was completely destroyed and disappeared into ashes.

Janggyo Jinin, who rejected the laws and order of nature, was never permitted to exist in this world and disappeared without even leaving a trace of his body.

Only wet teardrops fell to the floor.

That was the only thing that left behind was the last trace of what he had felt.

* * *

Hubei Province, the region where the non-partisan faction is located.

There was an ominous rumor going around there.

Rather than being ominous, it could be said that it is just ridiculous nonsense.

“What? The shaman’s officer Jin-in is dead?”

It’s really nonsense that the shaman’s officer Jin-in died.