Invitation to the Chatroom of the Gods - Chapter 86



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Episode 86 – A Sense of Generational Difference (2)

Heavenly Sword Technique.

Long ago, when Yeo Dong-bin was a monk and wandering the world, he met the Fire Dragon True Man who lived in Lushan and learned the swordsmanship.

With the help of this Cheon-dun sword technique, Yeo Dong-bin accumulated virtue by eliminating countless monsters and demons, and eventually became a sword immortal by cutting down the great evils that threatened the world.

The unrivaled divine technique, Cheon-dun-geom-beop (Heavenly Sword Technique), that no one can match even in the celestial realm.

└[Sword Immortal Yeo Dong-bin]

: As I said last time, the Cheon-dun Sword Technique embodies the six basic principles of the sword to their utmost. But what were these six basic principles?

To Yeo Dong-bin’s question floating above the table, I wrote down the answer without hesitation.

└[Cheongun]

: Illusion, weight, pleasure, flow, hegemony, and strength are like that.

└[Sword Immortal Yeo Dong-bin]

: That’s right. The ‘sword technique’ that exists in the world is simply derived and developed from these six basic principles. The Cheon-dun sword technique contains these six principles to the utmost extent, so it cannot be learned without mastering each of the basic principles.

In simple terms, it meant ‘crazy martial arts’.

That would be the case, because generally speaking, mastering a martial art meant realizing and mastering the ‘true meaning’ contained in the martial art.

Therefore, in order to master the basics, one had to fully understand and master the true meaning of the martial arts, but the problem was that the level of that one skill was comparable to the ‘secret technique’ of the Nine-Tailed Swordsman who commanded the world.

It is impossible to realize and master all of that. However, only by achieving that impossibility can you be ‘qualified’ to learn it, so it was at a level where nothing could be said other than that it was a truly crazy martial art.

It was not for nothing that Yeo Dong-bin’s disciples could not exist for so long.

However, the Taeeulseonmu Sword (太乙仙武劍) that my father created and Yeo Dongbin personally improved upon. All six basic techniques of the sword were incorporated into it.

So, it wasn’t easy to learn, but thanks to the teachings of the various sect leaders, including Gucheonhyeonnyeo, I was able to learn it.

And last time, by reaching the state of Hwagyeong (化境), I was able to fully understand the true meaning of Taeeul Seonmu Sword, and I could say that I had ‘greatly achieved’ the six basic principles of the sword.

└[Sword Immortal Yeo Dong-bin]

: I’m finally going to teach you the real Cheon-Tun Sword Technique!lalalaranglalala!?!?!?!

That was the reason why Yeo Dong-bin’s eyes in the portrait suddenly turned upside down.

Somehow, I thought it was going well, just like usual.

But, as expected, Yeo Dong-bin was unable to control his excitement and started foaming at the mouth.

I was worried that he might faint again, but upon closer inspection, I began to wonder if the Taoist title of ‘Sword Immortal’ was not a sword, but rather a fluke.

Fortunately, Yeo Dong-bin did not faint and quickly regained consciousness.

└[Sword Immortal Yeo Dong-bin]

: Okay, then! I will tell you the core truth of the Cheon-dun Sword Technique!

I listened to Yeo Dong-bin’s teachings with a pounding heart.

The true meaning of the Cheon-dun sword technique, which is a peerless divine skill that even the immortals of Dae-ra-cheon cannot learn, and which is not at all inferior to the famous Je-cheon-dae-seong when fighting.

└[Sword Immortal Yeo Dong-bin]

: It is ‘cutting and stabbing’.

······huh?

He tilted his head in confusion. Of course, it was a stabbing and a stabbing.

As someone who had expected an incredibly lofty path and truth, I was extremely bewildered.

As if he knew how I was feeling, Yeo Dong-bin immediately recalled a phrase.

└[Sword Immortal Yeo Dong-bin]

: The youngest one, the illusion, weight, speed, flow, hegemony, and strength you learned are the ‘basic principles’ of the sword. And cutting and stabbing are the basics of the ‘sword’ itself.

Yeo Dong-bin emphasized that one must master the fundamentals of the sword itself and reach the state of oneness between the body and the sword, the state of unity of body and sword.

To be exact, he added that the true beginning of the Cheon-dun Sword Technique is from the day of the Shin-geom-hap-il.

In other words, I could say that I was now in the process of taking my first steps in the Cheon-dun Sword Technique······.

└[Sword Immortal Yeo Dong-bin]

: So, ultimately, the goal is to throw away the form of the sword and the formula of martial arts.

Yeo Dong-bin expressed this as, ‘Once you’ve crossed the river, abandon the boat.’

The meaning was that the sword and martial arts were merely ‘tools’ for crossing the river, and after crossing the river of realm, they were no different from mere burdens.

However, just as a good boat can cross a river faster, a good sword and ascending martial arts can help you reach a higher level faster.

In any case, Yeo Dong-bin said that ultimately, escaping the principles of martial arts is the true meaning of the Cheon-dun sword technique.

Therefore, if you fully understand the true meaning contained in the Cheon-dun Sword Technique, you can change the principles of all things by projecting your mental images, and you can also do things like traveling to heaven with your mind, and you can even do things like manipulate the spirits of nature.

······So, I didn’t understand a single word of what was being said.

I roughly understood the meaning, but it was a contradictory understanding that didn’t quite hit home. To be honest, if it weren’t for Yeo Dong-bin’s words, it would have been dismissed as nonsense.

└[Sword Immortal Yeo Dong-bin]

: So from now on, youngest, you will practice cutting and stabbing countless times.

That’s why I wondered if it was really necessary to do it that way.

I wondered why I had gone through all that trouble if all I was going to do was practice cutting and stabbing.

I had been training for eight hours under the guidance of the Nine Heavenly Women and other sect masters every day, and I was worried that my lifespan would be insufficient and my virtue would be insufficient, but when I thought about all the hardships that had resulted from all this ‘cutting and stabbing’, I felt somewhat disillusioned.

But what can I do?

└[Sword Immortal Yeo Dong-bin]

: What are you doing! Hurry up and grab the sword! Hurry up!!

I pulled out the dragon’s fang that was tightly tied to my waist.

* * *

The head of Sacheondangmun, Dangbaekgun, stood at the entrance of Okhwasan Mountain and quietly looked at the towering peak.

Just as the rumor that the three immortals of Samcheong were sitting and playing was not false, there was no other breathtaking scenery, but perhaps because of that, Dang Baek-gun’s expression became increasingly serious.

The shaking that occurred just now due to the torrential flow of internal energy.

The immense power of internal energy that was impossible to even imagine was generated right there.

And this place is not far from the missionary center where Dang So-hyang resides.

“What on earth is going on over there···..”

Tang Baek-gun had to confirm its identity.

The mountain was extremely rugged.

The expression “mountains of deep layers” was a perfect fit, but searching the entire Okhwasan Mountain seemed quite a long way off.

However, Tang Baek-gun was able to find the source of strength without difficulty.

“What, what is this···!”

It was a landscape that naturally brought to mind the word ‘scorched earth’.

The ground was turned upside down as if it had been scratched by the claws of a huge beast, and solid rocks and trees were shattered and broken into pieces.

This created a wide ‘plain’ on the mountainside, making it all the more surprising that it went unnoticed.

Above all, this tremendous pressure that can be felt on the skin.

Tang Baek-gun’s two eyes naturally turned to the center of the plain, and in the center he could see a man swinging a sword.

‘Hwa-ryong-dae-hyeop···?’

He was none other than Cheongun.

Dang Baek-gun’s eyes suddenly opened wide as he confirmed Cheong-un’s identity.

That would be the case, because this meant that the identity of that terrible power was Cheongun.

This means that it was not a natural phenomenon, but a single ‘human’ that caused such an absurd thing.

That meant that a mere human possessed the same power as Mother Nature.

‘Uh, how······?’

A look of shock filled the wide-open eyes of Dang Baek-gun. And Cheong-un was standing in the center of the plain, swinging his sword.

Are you practicing?

It seemed that way, but something was strange. There was no special skill or technique felt in the swinging of the Cheongun Sword.

Practicing martial arts meant the process of interpreting and learning the ‘true meaning’ contained in martial arts. Therefore, it was bound to come out in the training.

Tang Baek-gun was also at the edge of his peak and was knocking on the door of the realm of transformation, so he knew very well what martial arts training was.

But Cheongun just stabbed the sword.

Cheongun simply swung his sword.

Just ordinary movements like cutting and stabbing. It seemed like he was practicing the ‘sword’ itself, not martial arts.

So Cheongwoon just kept repeating seemingly meaningless actions as if he was carving them into his own body.

But why is that?

“······!!!”

There was an indescribable ‘something’ in that simple movement of swinging and stabbing the sword.

All religions return to their original form.

There are countless streams and waves in the world, but their flow eventually flows into the sea and becomes one, so when they reach the extreme, they all look in the same direction.

The true meaning and secrets contained in martial arts are ultimately expressed through the sword.

All roads lead to a single sword, and those simple, infinitely simple cuts and thrusts contained the true meaning of ‘extreme’.

······That’s why Dang Baek-gun couldn’t bear to look at it.

I could not see how great, how huge, how splendid it was, and I could not see at all the realms that Cheongun had reached and the realms that Cheongun wanted to reach through it.

The feeling of ‘shock’ gradually disappeared from Dang Baek-gun’s eyes as he watched Cheong-un.

The awe felt when facing an entity that cannot be escaped no matter how much one struggles.

No, the emotion that Dang Baek-gun felt right now was not awe······. It was heavier and more immense than awe.

This indescribable feeling can only be expressed as ‘something’.

Hurrruk!

The sword of the blue cloud that slashed from left to right was filled with flames. It was not a large flame, but it was so fierce that it seemed as if it would burn anything it touched.

indeed.

Even if it is said to be one of the ten best swords in the world, can I receive that sword?

Dang Baek-gun was not a master ranked among the ten best in the world. However, as the head of the Sacheon Dangmun, he had experience meeting them.

That is why Dang Baek-gun was able to confirm it.

Whoosh whoosh!

There is no one in this world who can receive the sword of Cheongun.

* * *

······It was a crazy martial arts.

This could only be described as a truly crazy martial arts feat.

To be honest, I thought it was just ‘cutting and stabbing’ at best. I wondered why I had gone through all that trouble to learn something so trivial.

But when I learned it, I was able to understand it.

What I am saying is that the ultimate swordsmanship technique, the ‘Destruction Fire Dragon Slash’, was the first step of the Cheon-dun Sword Technique.

The next chapter of the Cheon-dun Sword Technique contained the extreme of ‘stabbing’, and this could be described in just one word.

“······Shit.”

It was really fucking crazy.

How can you call and define something like that as ‘martial arts’ and ‘herbalism’? This wasn’t martial arts, herbalism, or anything else.

“What the heck······.”

It was literally nothing but ‘bullshit’.

So I was sure. There was no more doubt.

Yeo Dongbin’s ‘Sword Immortal’ title was not something he had gotten for nothing. I could see why Yeo Dongbin had never had a disciple before, and why my talent, ‘Heavenly Limbs Body’, the only one who could learn the Heavenly Sword Technique, was something the heavens could not help but fear.

Thus, respect for Jecheon Daeseong grew and grew.

Even with this kind of sword technique, Jecheon Daeseong was not at all pushed back, so he could be said to be a monkey who was not only crazy but also a monkey who had been beaten to death.

In any case, you could say that the Cheon-dun Sword Technique was a martial art that was a total mess.

“······My internal energy has completely run out.”

It was a situation where I could no longer practice. Even now, my whole body felt as if it had been squeezed out of me, and I had no strength at all.

The elixir of immortality (仙丹) purchased by using 100 years’ worth of merit (功德). Even after taking it, I still lacked the internal energy to learn the Heavenly Sword Technique.

There were several reasons for this. Firstly, there was a crack in the ‘vessel’ that contained my innate energy, so it could not properly absorb my internal energy.

Secondly, it was because the cost of public goods increased and the price of ships soared through the roof.

So, the ship purchased with 100 years of merit was called ‘Seongsin Dan (聖神丹)’ and had internal energy equivalent to ’40 Gapja (四十 甲子)’, which was inferior to the previous Taewon Dan (太元丹).

Fortunately, since the level of the Youngbo Pilbeop was in the lower realm of the Jiseon Gong, I was able to absorb a considerable amount of internal energy even in the cracked situation.

The internal energy I absorbed in this way is approximately fifteen years.

In this way, my body was able to accumulate internal energy equivalent to ‘thirty gapja’ or 1,800 years.

Perhaps······now, there would be no one who could keep up with me in terms of internal energy. Even the ‘Great Prince of Martial Arts’ armed with the wealth and treasures of the imperial family, I thought it would definitely be difficult now.

That is, if we only consider my internal energy, I could say that I am the best in the world······.

“It’s true that this isn’t enough.”

It was truly crazy to think that I was still lacking in learning the Cheon-dun Sword Technique properly.

The expression “it’s not just lacking, it’s lacking without a reason” was just right.

“But how can you use the Cheon-dun sword technique without the innate energy?”

Even though I had to use it once and throw it away, it felt like a world apart compared to before.

In any case, in order to cover the skyrocketing fleet costs, he had to continue to earn merit.

But, one thing.

“You said that was too much.”

Even the Supreme Lord said that it was strange that the consumption was soaring to this level.

So, His Majesty the Grand Prince conducted various investigations regarding this matter······.

“Someone deliberately intervened in heaven.”

What the Supreme Lord said was that someone unknown was manipulating the will of heaven without permission and was pressuring me.