Finally, I reached the foot of Mount Kunlun.
Of course, this isn’t the area where Taoists live, but where people live.
If I pass through this area where people live, an area where beings in an intermediate form between humans and immortals called Taoists live will appear, and if I go even further inside, a place where immortals live will appear.
And the higher you go, the structure makes it difficult for a person to enter alone.
Even thinking about it now, I don’t know how I can enter, so let’s think about it when I get there.
I want to.
If there weren’t soldiers spread out in front of me right now, I could think about it when I get there.
Dozens of people. All on horseback, pointing spears at me. Among them, the person with the most distinctive armor and helmet came forward.
“The Emperor wants to have you. Come along.”
No self-introduction, just a tone saying it’s natural for you to obey my orders when I speak.
“I don’t want to.”
So I stated my thoughts. If I had met a little earlier, I would have followed immediately. To create automatic harvesters among people sitting in high positions as I had planned, I should go now.
Create a system to automatically harvest warmth by making them harvesters. That plan is still ongoing.
But that’s only if there are no natural enemies. If I make the Emperor a harvester this time, immortals will come again to oust the Emperor and make another Emperor.
If I were an immortal, that’s what I would do.
Looking at the memories I’ve gained so far, most of the Kunlun-side immortals are righteous people. They didn’t stand by and watch monsters make the people of this world unhappy, but stepped forward directly.
The Murim Alliance and the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult.
Comparing these two, from a human perspective, the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult is indeed an ugly villain. It’s the kind of evil where you should kill all living Heavenly Demon Divine Cult people first, and then regret that you shouldn’t have done that.
They’ve already lived forming a society that’s too culturally and socially heterogeneous, and each and every part of it is insulting to human ethics, so they can’t be assimilated.
Let’s say that obeying power is how most societies are structured.
But there are things that humans should never tolerate.
They implant parasites in people.
If you don’t obey the words of someone higher than you, you suffer from insects.
This is a society where that’s natural.
It’s twisted to an excessive degree.
If they had just killed the leaders and let the rest live, the culture of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult would have changed its form and reappeared in that place.
Because the people who learned that culture are in that place, changing the shell on top doesn’t change the inside.
Once a culture is born, it doesn’t easily disappear.
So it’s the right choice to remove them all and regret it later, and that’s what they did.
I’m heading to Kunlun not because the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult was destroyed.
It’s because I have a goal.
The Primordial Heavenly Lord.
The Great Kraken was a mass of enormously valuable information.
However, the basis of his special techniques is premised on using it himself by consuming numerous sacrifices.
Yes.
He’s knowledgeable about techniques he uses himself. If you say you’ll give this knowledge to harvesters, I wonder if it’s even possible to reach the stage where they can use it.
To use an analogy, it’s like useful skills that can only be used by characters of level 100,000, but it’s impossible to raise levels to that point.
Or would a being like the Great Kraken become a harvester and bow its head to me if given the chance?
Of course, it’s a technique I can’t use.
But the Primordial Heavenly Lord’s side, who was his opponent, is different.
They’re closer to technological civilization. They handle unique tools and use them, and it’s especially good that they’re made of knowledge.
If you acquire that, you can copy and paste it, right?
If there’s technology that moves the world there…
“So I warn you for the last time. Monster. If you don’t come along obediently, you’ll be dragged in an unsightly state.”
“I said I don’t want to.”
I was thinking about other things while ignoring the noisy sounds proclaiming the Emperor’s authority, the power he received from it, and his own greatness, but he uses the word ‘last’.
“Then, be dragged.”
As soon as the words ended, they took out strangely shaped wooden boards from their saddles and aimed them at me.
As the wooden boards shine, pure white chains made of metal shoot out from the air and bind me.
Judging by the color, it doesn’t seem to be steel.
It looks difficult to break with Choseol’s strength.
Hmm.
As I felt when Heavenly Demon first restrained me when we met, it seems simply restraining or sealing isn’t considered an attack.
Originally when I’m attacked, I feel like they collide with my body, but there’s none of that now.
Thud.
I kicked the lamp as if to say ‘What are you looking at?’
The lamp emits a pale blue light.
A few of the people riding horses staggered, then fell from their horses. Those who fell to the ground crawl towards the lamp with dazed expressions.
Then those who are conscious get off their horses and stick something like long needles into the bodies of those crawling awkwardly towards the lamp.
“Huk!”
They immediately came to their senses.
“An object that bewitches people. Could it be used even during the day?”
“To shatter the mental protection barrier instantly, a bizarre entity of at least lowest unranked level…”
“Use the Chaos Heart True Spear!”
They recover from their disarrayed state extremely quickly. The confusion soon subsides and they quickly finish regrouping.
And those who weren’t doing anything from behind come forward and take out grotesquely shaped spears from their saddles. When they point them at the lamp, even though no beam-like thing came out, the lamp shattered into pieces.
They all deal with it familiarly.
It means they’ve experienced such situations many times.
Well, in a world with monsters, it would be strange if there weren’t organizations in the human world to deal with them. Especially in places where human rulers are, there’s no way such organizations wouldn’t exist.
If there aren’t?
It means the ruler isn’t human, or there’s something controlling the human ruler.
“It’s useless to struggle.”
The boastful human man is saying something. So I need to quickly arrive at Kunlun and meet the Primordial Heavenly Lord…
Then let’s struggle as much as possible.
I grabbed the pure white chains and pressed down on reality.
Clink.
A thin, long, clear crack appears in the air.
The chains turned to dust.
“The binding chains should be restraining it, yet it uses such superhuman powers?”
“General. In the air, that. That, crack. Isn’t it, that? When monsters from outside appeared.”
“The Shadowless Monster. Could this thing also be a monster that came from another world? I’ll be able to report the reason we couldn’t bring it to the Emperor.”
As if this crack stimulated them, they took out weapons different from the equipment so far from their saddles.
They’re trying to kill me holding weapons resembling a crescent moon blade.
Yes.
They’re trying to kill me.
Then, I just need to push once, right?
“Humans. Do you mistakenly think you can kill me with such things?”
Provocation.
At that, the man hardened his expression and got off his horse. Other people also got off their horses and aim those weapons at me.
And when he gave a hand signal, immediately three subordinates behind rushed towards me. In between, I see the man who looks like a general carefully observing me.
He’s very cautious.
Perhaps because they’ve trained in martial arts, they closed the considerable distance in an instant. The three soldiers who approached me slash me with their weapons.
With a sound like static from a broken TV, my body was cut and dismembered. Black powder scatters from the wounds instead of blood.
Is it me?
No, it’s not.
I thought they might have cut my true body, but they just treated the wounds in a different way. Like when some hero cut off the heads of a multi-headed snake monster and cauterized the wounds with fire.
I guess it’s probably a function to make regeneration difficult.
And I gained the warmth of three people.
In an instant, three people swell up like foam, and parts of the body that shouldn’t come out of their original places, or organs that don’t exist in humans, protrude.
Hmm.
I’m getting a bit of a sense for this too.
The light turned black and shrank, but the form still remains. Like a crushed plastic bottle.
The Great Kraken’s was enormously large, so he could push me inside and move.
To use an analogy, it’s similar to entering a mascot costume and moving.
Containing me with the contract text is like filling the cotton inside a mascot costume with me as a liquid, and this is strictly speaking moving from outside the mascot costume.
I controlled the three to shoot spears at the leader of this group.
Just one motion.
With that alone, the blackened light ruptured like a plastic bottle forcibly filled with water. The bodies with their light gone were embedded in the ground, then shrink.
Crunch, crunch, crunch
No. They didn’t shrink.
In the place where their corpses were, very small holes are floating in the air. Like an alien in some SF movie from the faded man’s memories being sucked out from a spaceship into the vacuum, they were sucked into that.
Ah.
Come to think of it, the Great Kraken died like that too. A huge crack appeared and he was slowly sucked into it. I know because the crack was connected to me.
“Unranked, bizarre entity?”
“Raise it two more levels. At least emergency level.”
“General. But we’ve already subjugated it, is there a need to raise it two more levels?”
The general who deflected all three flying spears glares at me. That’s right. My body is still dismembered and just leaking black powder from the wounds.
“If it had put on human skin, the true body would pop out and the human flesh would remain. If it had transformed into a human, the true body would be revealed. But that just stays in that state. It means it hasn’t been injured at all. Isn’t that right, monster?”
Crack.
Cracks appeared, and I regenerated. I carefully examined the junction areas in case the cut surfaces might open again or something strange might happen, but there’s nothing like that.
This time too there was no resistance, so I suspected it might collapse after regenerating, but surprisingly, this is weak to forcing reality.
Anyway.
“Yes. I’m fine.”
I walk forward.
Time is being delayed, so it might be better to let them attack. I can change everyone each time.
Trudge, trudge
The frightened humans aim their weapons at me. But the man who looks like a general raised his hand to stop his subordinates.
“You all fall back. Use that.”
“General! If we use that, this area will disappear!”
“It’s better to retreat and let it clash with Kunlun. If the non-aggression treaty with the Heavenly Religion is broken, we’ll be at a disadvantage.”
“They won’t punish us for failing to capture an unranked or higher bizarre entity! We should retreat one step here!”
Then the subordinates grab him and push him back. Among that, there are a few words that concern me. The area will disappear. This means there’s a weapon with powerful destructive power like a bomb.
And the non-aggression treaty with the Heavenly Religion. I wondered if Kunlun might be unexpectedly weak with soldiers gathering right in front of it, but there was such a treaty. In other words, if I enter Kunlun territory like this, they can’t act recklessly.
He makes a complicated expression at those words. In the end, even when I arrived between them, they only aimed their weapons but didn’t thrust.
I greeted in front of the man called general.
“Thank you for stepping aside.”
This is sincere. We fought briefly and time was delayed, but it’s better than continuing to fight here. And above all, the durability of the glass bottle is becoming uncertain.
The glass bottle must not break before I reach Kunlun and get my hands on the technology. Among these countless worlds, how many worlds are there where someone can go back and forth to other worlds?
Among them, what are the chances of having such a close opportunity within my reach?
Now is the chance.
As I move a few steps away, the sound of horse hooves recedes behind me.
They seem to have run away.
Still, if the Emperor wants me to this extent, it’s not bad. If things go well in the future, I might go to the Emperor.
Considering that there was a Murim Alliance spy inside the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult, there’s a high chance there was also a government army spy inside. They would have heard rumors that I can heal people.
Regenerating lost limbs and curing diseases.
And that includes the disease called aging.
It’s quite a good ability.
It’s an ability a ruler would want. Seeing how much they really want it like this, I’m confident that I’ll be able to create an automatic harvesting system as I think later.
There’s something to do before that.
So I want to meet the Primordial Heavenly Lord quickly.
While thinking that, there was a sharp sound cutting through the sky, then thud.
A pitch-black harpoon protruded through my stomach.
At the same time, I gained his memories and learned what had happened just before. He said that if I entered Kunlun like this, something terrible would happen.
Because he had seen many bizarre entities that cause unbelievable things when certain conditions are met, his instincts told him that I shouldn’t be sent to Kunlun when he saw me.
I turned my gaze back.
Far away, I see a man smiling with satisfaction as if he succeeded, between bodies swollen with abnormally proliferating flesh and bones.
This spear is an object from the memories of the three, and it’s an object known to the person who just licked the light.
The Extreme Yang Spear. A spear named Son of Xi Hua, and when its power is controlled to the maximum, intense heat waves cover the surroundings.
Immediately after gaining that memory, the spear instantly turns blue…
I pulled the spear out of my stomach.
Yes, so what if it’s a bomb?
Crack!
Cracks are spreading everywhere, but I thought of a more fun way. I took it and approached the man who had already gone mad with 9 arms grown and eyes sprouted all over his body.
And I inserted that bomb into its chest.
You know what? The monsters I create by stealing warmth are similar to harvesters. It’s difficult with humans, but I don’t know about now when it’s just starting to change.
I just learned it, but I have a chance to control the monster once.
Hoping for them to fuse into one, I shattered the light.
It became an object that looks like a flower with 9 hands wrapped around like flower buds.
Hmm.
I learned one thing.
Monsters where the concept comes first become objects when you steal their warmth.
For humans, if you place an appropriate object and steal their warmth while fusing them, they become objects.
Wait. Using people like this is from somewhere…
Ah! Supreme Leader Tongcheon’s alchemy method!
It must be possible because I have the Great Kraken’s memories! The Great Kraken really gives generously. Then how much more abundant will the Primordial Heavenly Lord be?
Hehehehe.
Holding one flower, I arrived at Kunlun.