Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 594

콰드드드득!

콰아앙!

The True Immortals stationed in the Grand Celestial Realm were horrified by the deafening noise that suddenly erupted, scattering in all directions.

“What in the world is that!”

“It’s, it’s Gu Young!”

“Gu Young! Has that monster come to wreak havoc here again!”

Those who didn’t recognize him were terrified, questioning what it could possibly be, while those who dredged up fragments of memory from the past were incensed that he was causing trouble again.

However, they only voiced their anger.

Few acted on it.

The sight of ten gigantic dragon heads razing the Grand Celestial Realm to the ground was a nightmare come to life.

“He’ll, he’ll be alright, right?”

“What’s the problem! The Celestial Emperor is there, and there are several Jade Immortals protecting him!”

As the True Immortal said while hastily fleeing, there were indeed several beings fiercely fighting Gu Young.

Jade Immortals guarding the Celestial Emperor.

The Celestial Jade Immortals were grappling with Gu Young.

With them and the Celestial Emperor present, there shouldn’t be much to worry about.

Gu Young’s rampage wasn’t a one-time occurrence; soon, they would subdue him and send him back outside the Great Firmament.

“But…”

Was it just a feeling? It seemed as though the dozen or so Celestial Jade Immortals were being pushed back.

* * *

[Kuhahaha! Even if a thousand of you appear, you cannot stop me, Gu Young!]

Kwaaaang!

Gu Young’s forelimbs shattered the ground of the Grand Celestial Realm, and his ten heads moved in various ways, devouring anything with their steel-like teeth.

In the world of the Great Firmament [a high-level plane of existence], it was a rather simple attack, but because it was Gu Young who was executing it, it couldn’t be ignored.

“Form ranks!”

“We must create a combined formation!”

The Celestial Jade Immortals, each wielding different laws [powerful abilities or principles], combined their powers to create a combined formation.

But at that moment.

Gu Young’s heads began to gather as if they were one.

Just as they found it strange that the heads, which had been moving separately, were merging into one.

The ten heads suddenly united into one, and its mouth opened wide.

“……!”

A chilling sensation, enough to raise goosebumps, swept past the neck of the Jade Immortal standing before it.

“W-wait. I need to dodge…”

Instantly.

His mouth slammed shut with a ‘꽈앙!’ sound, and a scream erupted immediately.

“Kkeuaaaaaaack!!”

The screams of the Celestial Jade Immortals burst out one after another.

“Surely the heads became one, but how can it achieve such harmony…”

There were a dozen or so Celestial Jade Immortals.

Even though the heads had become one and there was only one mouth, how could the Jade Immortals, who weren’t even nearby, be so battered as if they had been hit by multiple attacks?

One of the Jade Immortals lost an arm, another lost a leg, and some even lost their heads.

However, no blood came from the severed areas, and those who lost their heads didn’t fall and die.

They were alive without their heads.

It was as if they had been taken away as if they had never existed in the first place.

“You fiend! What have you done!”

To one of the Jade Immortals who couldn’t bear it and burst out in anger, Gu Young retracted his true form, transformed into a human shape, and replied.

“I don’t know the details either. From the moment I was born, when I chew and swallow, they just end up like that.”

Gu Young didn’t know the details either.

He was born in chaos and raised in chaos.

His mother was chaos, and his father was chaos.

His abilities were also unknowable, as was to be expected.

“I was quite badly beaten by you Jade Immortals last time, but I’m quite different now, so be prepared!”

The Celestial Jade Immortals who had attacked him had already been killed by Chunbeom, but Gu Young decided to vent his resentment on them.

It was quite an unfair situation, but even so, the Celestial Jade Immortals didn’t give up.

Behind them was the Celestial Emperor, who ruled over the Great Firmament.

“Step back.”

However, the Celestial Emperor moved the Jade Immortals who were blocking his path aside and stepped forward in front of Gu Young.

“Originally, the first step of the Dao [the fundamental nature of reality] is to know oneself. Gu Young, your comrade is fulfilling that, but why don’t you even try to understand yourself?”

“We simply have different paths. I am just walking my own path.”

And before him.

“It doesn’t matter who I am. I am simply myself.”

“I’ve been lenient up to this point. Any more disturbances are unacceptable.”

“Try to stop me if you can. If you think I’m the same as I was back then, you’ll be sorely mistaken!”

Just as he was about to transform back into his true form.

The Celestial Emperor’s hand drew a circle.

The opposite hand formed a mudra [a symbolic gesture] alone, drawing a semicircle, and he moved his lips.

Then, Gu Young’s movements stopped instantly, and he, who had been in the form of a sturdy man, turned into the form of a child.

“Oh! Celestial Emperor’s Divine Time Binding!”

The Divine Time Binding, which only those who had reached the pinnacle of the law of time could use.

It was a technique that only reversed the time of the body.

“You cowardly bastard!”

Even Gu Young’s body, which ignored most laws, was useless before the Celestial Emperor’s ultimate time law.

“I’ll shatter your laws!”

However, Gu Young didn’t care and transformed into his true form, gathering his energy.

“Kkeueueue…!”

However, perhaps because the Celestial Emperor’s time law was unexpectedly powerful, Gu Young’s true form, which encompassed the Grand Celestial Realm, could only manifest to be about four spans in size.

If he was originally a dragon with ten heads, now he was no different from a slightly larger snake.

Even so, his power was still strong, but not as much as before.

“Celestial Empereooooor!!”

He rushed at him, venting his frustration, but it was useless.

The Celestial Emperor took out a staff from somewhere and tapped Gu Young, then turned him into a necklace made of ten pieces.

At the sight of Gu Young, who had turned into a necklace in an instant, the Celestial Jade Immortals were once again deeply moved by the Celestial Emperor’s divine power.

“Hoo…”

The Celestial Emperor sighed deeply and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

No matter how much of an owner of the ultimate time law he was, it was difficult to subdue Gu Young without any effort.

The necklace made of Gu Young floated in the air, and the ten pieces that were strung together emitted light without rest.

The Celestial Emperor formed a mudra with one hand and moved his lips incessantly, pouring his power as if trying to seal him.

But then.

The energy he had missed in a brief gap stealthily approached and snatched the necklace away.

“……Have you already finished your contemplation?”

“Yes. Thanks to you.”

The one who snatched Gu Young was none other than the man who had been looking into his heart.

It was Chunbeom.

The tiger looked as if he had shaken something off, with a face that looked much more relieved.

He seemed to have gained some enlightenment, and his energy had become much purer, as if he had achieved a higher realm.

‘The prickly energy like needles has disappeared.’

His energy, which seemed to be there and not there, had undergone some kind of change. The Celestial Emperor didn’t bother to say it out loud and calmly watched what he was doing.

“…….”

Chunbeom simply returned Gu Young, who had turned into a necklace as a type of sealing technique, to his original form as if breathing.

“Oh!”

“Gasp!”

Gu Young, whose seal had been released, was bewildered, and the Celestial Jade Immortals who watched the scene swallowed hard.

“You were hit by the time law.”

“Hmm, it’s quite a powerful time law…” As soon as he muttered those words and moved his lips, Gu Young’s youthful appearance changed to that of a sturdy man.

At that point, the Celestial Emperor’s eyes narrowed like needles.

“To so easily undo the Celestial Emperor’s law…”

To undo the Celestial Emperor’s ultimate time law so easily.

It was no different from saying that the power he possessed was comparable to the Celestial Emperor.

“Th-thank you! I knew you would shake it off and appear soon!”

“How long has it been, and you’ve already caused this commotion. You couldn’t even bear that little bit.”

“Cough, cough.”

Gu Young coughed awkwardly at the rebuking tone.

“What did you see?”

“I saw what I hadn’t seen before.”

“Do you still want to see your truth, your roots?”

“Unfortunately, yes.”

What he saw was the trace of someone who had intervened in his life. And he had learned the identity of that someone.

But that didn’t solve all the questions.

Doubt begets doubt.

One was solved, but that created countless more questions.

‘That guy.’

The hunter who shot him in the back.

His identity was none other than Chunbeom.

‘It was definitely me.’

It was himself.

There was no way he could mistake the appearance he had faced in the mirror all his life, and there was no way he couldn’t recognize the energy he had used to load the arrow on the bow.

It was a situation that he couldn’t understand at all.

But he had to understand, and in the end, the tiger had to realize how the mismatched cause and effect had come to be.

So he had realized nine out of ten, but he hadn’t realized the last one.

But even with that, it could be said that he was greatly different from before.

“It’s become more certain.”

Unlike before, when he didn’t know where to start or what he didn’t know. Now, he had found a clue. It was a small but significant change.

“What did you see?”

At the Celestial Emperor’s question, Chunbeom smiled and replied.

“A little.”

A very little.

“I saw a path.”

Why his past self was in the memories of the past. Moreover, why he was in the part where everything started.

Why he was in a time that didn’t match, hiding his identity. Thinking about it wasn’t a difficult task.

‘Because I had to.’

Why did he have to do that?

Why did he do such a thing at the time when everything started?

‘If I hadn’t been shot in the back.’

And if his life hadn’t been in danger? Could he have possessed the dying tiger?

If he hadn’t possessed the tiger?

What would he have possessed?

If he thought about it, he could easily understand what was going on.

‘I had failed once.’

To make up for the failure.

He had returned to the beginning.

He must have sacrificed a lot.

But even so, he had to do it.

And for that.

‘I am here.’

That was Chunbeom’s answer now.

It was the path.

“Ah…”

At that, the Celestial Emperor exclaimed.

The lost Dao.

Chunbeom’s energy was now as calm as the night sky and as firm as Mount Tai. That appearance was what he had been expecting for a long time.

“Have you stopped wandering?”

At the Celestial Emperor’s question, which seemed full of anticipation, the tiger shook his head.

“I wasn’t lost.”

It was just a path that didn’t look like a path.

That path that no one walked was.

“My path.”

“…….”

The Celestial Emperor’s expression, which had been unable to hide his anticipation, cooled down.

“That path must be different from mine.”

“Perhaps it will be.”

A bitter smile flickered across his face.

“What you desire is change.”

“What the Celestial Emperor desires is harmony.”

Change and harmony.

It was a short exchange, but it made it clear what their positions were.

The Celestial Emperor wants the sky created by the Celestial Venerable and his will to harmonize.

To keep the stem as it is, to remove the leaves and let new leaves grow.

But the tiger is different.

He intends to uproot even the stem and the roots.

So there’s no way their paths can be the same.

They both agree that the existence of the Celestial Venerable is a wall, but since the paths they aim for are different, their existence cannot be welcome to each other.

“How far did you see?”

It was a statement that cut off the beginning and the end, but the tiger easily understood.

“To your death.”

Soon, the corners of the Celestial Emperor’s mouth drew an arc.