Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 575

Part 2, Chapter 284 – Special Side Story 1

He flinched. Opening his eyes, he involuntarily looked around at the world.

“…”

A gray city.

High-rise buildings dominated the landscape, and vehicles sped across asphalt-paved roads.

The modern city and its trappings were reflected in the man’s eyes.

City.

Cars.

Traffic lights.

Smartphones.

The conveniences of modern civilization registered instantly, transforming into data.

Quickly grasping the situation, the man turned toward the voice of his close friend, who was calling him with an emotionless face.

“Beom! What are you doing? Get in the truck!”

A truck was stopped on the road in front of Beom.

The man calling him was Yong.

Kim Yong.

Kim Beom and Kim Yong.

Like family, they had grown up together in an orphanage since childhood.

Beom understood and got into the truck, but he couldn’t shake off the strange sense of déjà vu.

“Hey, how’s it going with your girlfriend? You said you had a big fight last time.”

“…So-so. We’re doing okay.”

Girlfriend.

At his friend’s words, Beom blankly recalled her.

A kind person who had stayed with the insignificant him for several years.

However, they had argued several times, hitting the wall of marriage and reality.

‘I need to be more stable. No, I need money.’

But the reality was that he was a small business factory worker, and with his meager salary, he could barely afford to date, let alone get married.

‘But, this scene… I feel like I’ve seen it before….’

Déjà vu, they call it.

He felt like he had seen this exact scene somewhere before.

“Uh? Isn’t that your girlfriend?”

“Ah.”

That’s right.

It’s his girlfriend.

But she’s with another man.

“What…? Is that what I think it is? No, right? She’s not cheating….”

“No. It’s probably a company manager.”

“Ah… right?”

Strange.

He feels like he’s seen this scene before, too.

He should be angry.

But he’s not angry.

It’s familiar. Like a movie he’s watched over and over, he can see the scenes that are about to unfold.

‘And after that….’

“Hey, it’s your birthday. I prepared a birthday present….”

This is also a scene he remembers.

And after that….

Crash!!

An accident occurs.

Inside the car, rolling from the impact.

In his fading consciousness, a woman’s face is reflected.

His girlfriend, who was with an unknown man just a moment ago.

She was giving him a faint smile.

And then his vision went dark.

“Ah.”

Opening his eyes with a small exclamation, he was in a pure white hospital room.

He heard the news of his friend’s death and cremation at the same time.

Time passed, and when he was discharged and returned home, a book he had mentioned was hidden under the bed.

An old book.

A book that his friend, who knew his hobby, had obtained with difficulty.

“What a morbid taste,”

Beom said, as if muttering to himself.

And he immediately tried to tear the book.

But no matter what he did, the book wouldn’t tear. It wouldn’t disappear even when stabbed with a knife or burned with fire.

Beom stared at the ancient book, the Sanhaebalsango [a fictional ancient text], and began to read the characters one by one.

Whirring.

The beginning part is already known.

The protagonist displays his might in the lower realm, ascends to the Immortal Realm to achieve personal glory, and eventually rises to the Great Firmament [highest level of the Immortal Realm].

There are more pages left, but nothing is written on them.

Seeing that, Beom nodded.

And when he opened his eyes anew.

His pupils were dyed gold, his short hair grew long, and the clothes he was wearing changed into a classic robe.

Soon, the hand holding the Sanhaebalsango turned into golden flames.

However, even with his Golden Celestial Fire, the Sanhaebalsango did not disappear.

Cheonbeom marveled at the unknown mysteries contained within and twisted his lips.

“Only a being of the Great Firmament could achieve such harmony. Among them, it would be a being who has even surpassed the understanding of the laws and completely grasped them, achieving the Harmony of Laws.”

As he turned around and spoke.

The scenery of Kim Beom’s one-room apartment had disappeared like smoke, and a faint feather fell, replacing the answer to his question.

The aura surrounding the feather was something immeasurable.

It was something unfamiliar, but strangely, Cheonbeom thought it was familiar.

Of course.

In the vast scenery that formed the Outer Heavens, the single piece of feather that had fallen was carrying an overly deep blue.

“Was it you?”

Cheonbeom felt an immeasurable emotional tremor in his heart and realized that a strange sense of relief had taken root at the same time.

* * *

Swish.

When he opened his eyes anew, a giant Five-Dragon was coiled around him as if guarding him, and a pure white deer was lying demurely on the back of the Five-Dragon.

“How long have I been asleep?”

“Since you opened the sky of the Great Firmament, it has been a time that I dare not fathom.”

Hwadam, transformed into the appearance of a boy.

And Tamhwa, with the appearance of a girl, approached him.

“After that day… After Father said his name, the true Great Firmament opened, and the energy of countless True Immortals was embroidered in the sky.”

They endured and accepted all of their Celestial Laws.

“But in an instant, a blue aura consumed the sky, and we were swept away into an unknown space, and Master has been asleep ever since.”

Was that so.

But as he listened to the story, he felt his blurred memories gradually becoming clearer.

Feeling the foreignness of the land he was standing on, he looked around.

“This is no ordinary land.”

“Yes, it seems to be a land imbued with some special power, so I tried to take it….”

“You failed, didn’t you? It’s a land I’ve never felt before either. Your Absorption Divine Power would probably be insufficient to absorb the energy.”

Analyzing the energy it possesses, it seems to have the power of a nebula, and even the harmony of yin and yang is achieved in the land.

He did not doubt that the sky where he was standing belonged to the Great Firmament.

Even ordinary land possesses such sacred energy, so if this is not the sky above the sky, then where else could be called the heaven above heavens?

“That’s enough. You seem to be quite burdened, so you can rest now.”

“Then, without being impolite….”

“I’m sleepy too now.”

Even the atmosphere of the Great Firmament was burdensome for Tamhwa and Hwadam.

They had somehow endured until now, but they had reached their limit.

He knew that and told them to hide in his embrace.

As Tamhwa and Hwadam became a handful of light and permeated into his body, he unhesitatingly began to walk through the bizarre forest that unfolded before him.

It was an unfamiliar place he had never been to before, but he walked without a moment’s hesitation.

Not too fast, not too slow, with plenty of leisure and dignity. There was a reason why he walked in such a way.

‘I’m being watched.’

Someone is watching him.

He couldn’t feel any divine power or energy, but he knew.

Just because he felt it.

The gaze of someone unknown.

How long had he walked like that?

Suddenly, a strong peach scent tickled the tip of his nose.

Then, Cheonbeom, who discovered a giant peach tree standing there, stopped walking.

The peach trees of the Great Firmament were worlds apart in terms of the energy and fragrance they exuded compared to the peach trees of the Lower and Upper Realms.

The energy was clear and intense.

The fragrance was like a potent liquor, so dizzying that even a small whiff could cloud the mind.

And the most amazing thing was that there was a faint golden light lingering in the opened Celestial Peach.

He was unknowingly drawn to the scent and reached out his hand to the Celestial Peach, but stopped.

Immediately after smelling the fragrance.

Cheonbeom’s blood flowed backward, his qi [life force] and blood became taut, and the blood vessels throughout his body swelled as if they would burst.

“It’s fortunate that you stopped your hand at that point. Foolish Great Firmament Immortals cannot resist the temptation, touch the Golden Celestial Peach, and become nutrients for the Celestial Peach tree, tasting their first and last ecstasy.”

“You are….”

“I am Sanghee, the Celestial Peach Immortal of the Western Phoenix Realm, who manages the Golden Celestial Peaches. May I ask for your esteemed name, Noble Immortal….”

“I….”

His mouth, about to say something, was blocked as if by something, and he couldn’t utter a word.

It was strange that he couldn’t even utter a word as if his throat was blocked by some kind of suppression.

“Judging from your appearance, it seems that you have not been in the Great Firmament for very long. It seems that you do not know the Celestial Law of your True Name….”

The Celestial Law of the True Name.

At the easy-to-understand name of Celestial Immortal Sanghee, Cheonbeom recalled one memory.

‘Is that it.’

It was what he had answered when asked his name after opening the sky.

“No matter what name you used before, here you can only use the name you offered when ascending. Until you receive the recognition of the heavens and obtain a new True Name, you can only say that name. That is the Celestial Law of the True Name.”

At the answer of Celestial Peach Immortal Sanghee, he calmly nodded, thinking that was indeed the case.

“Wolf Immortal.”

“…Pardon?”

“A True Immortal who has just ascended to the Great Firmament. I am called Wolf Immortal.”

“……I see. That’s a unique True Name. I will never forget your True Name, Noble Immortal, from now on.”

“That’s a relief then.”

Wolf Immortal obtained a new name to use in the Great Firmament and felt troubled.

But what could he do.

That was the law of the Great Firmament.

“Then now it’s my turn to ask.”

“Yes.”

“How did you happen to appear in the Golden Celestial Peach Territory of the Western Phoenix Realm that I manage?”

“Have I been a hindrance?”

“No. Rather, it has become a pleasure. But since it is my duty, I have no choice but to ask.”

If so.

“Does my relationship with Celestial Peach Sanghee also change depending on the nature of my answer?”

There is little he can say.

How did he arrive here?

There was no way he could say anything about it.

Listening to the story of Sanghee, it seems that this place is a forbidden area of the Western Phoenix Realm that no one can enter.

Otherwise, there was no way she would say that.

He was not afraid of fighting, but somehow he did not want to become enemies with the Immortal Sanghee.

He had only just met her and exchanged a few words, but he felt her goodness and untainted purity in each word.

“Please call me Hee. Somehow, I feel like Noble Immortal and I will have a good relationship. Even though I’m like this, my sense of relationships is never wrong.”

“That’s good.”

“Why?”

“Because I feel the same way.”

Soon, a deep curve was drawn on Sanghee’s lips.

Her cheeks were flushed red, making her look like a well-ripened peach.

“You, you haven’t answered my question yet. Wolf Immortal.”

“Um, I….”

He hesitated for a moment.

But there was no reason to hide it.

“I came for truth and truth.”

“Truth and… truth?”

“Yes.”

To find the truth of his existence.

To find the truth that would lead him to the heavens.

He opened the Great Firmament.

“But for now, truth would come first.”

He said, taking out an old book from his chest.

“I’m looking for the one who made this.”

Then Sanghee answered with her eyes wide open like a rabbit.

“Sanhaebalsango?”

“Do you know this?”

“Of course, I know it! Did you say you came to find the one who made this, Noble Immortal?”

“Yes. That’s right.”

Sanghee, nodding as if she knew it all, greeted him with a satisfied smile.

“Then you’ve come to the right place. The Sanhaebalsango is one of the Celestial Ship Poetry Books created by the Western Phoenix Mother of our Western Phoenix Realm.”