The entrance to Mount Kunlun.
This is still the human realm.
However, unlike the cities I’ve seen so far where stone walls surround the city, there are wooden walls here.
But you can guess that it has durability similar to stone walls.
Immortal characters are engraved in the middle of sparse pillars. According to the memories of immortals and Taoists, there are magical techniques cast on those.
Such security facilities increase as you go deeper inside.
Therefore, it’s better to enter as quietly as possible.
First, I went to the entrance and quietly lined up at a place similar to a checkpoint.
The gazes of people passing through the entrance are focused on me. To be more precise, they’re gathered on the one flower in my hand.
It does look strange at first glance.
The 9 petals of the flower bud are made of arms, and the calyx has writhing flesh with eyeballs attached. You can see the stem extending long is a transformed spine.
It looks quite dangerous.
In other words, wouldn’t it look like something not related to humans to anyone who sees it?
And as I expected, as soon as I arrived at the entrance, tense people came forward holding spears.
“What business do you have here?”
See? They ask politely, right? And contrary to my half-doubts, they don’t just grab people with purple hair in a place so far from the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult.
My hair is purple.
Originally, the outermost border is the most strict, and it gets duller as you go inside. Moreover, this isn’t a world where information is quickly shared through developed SNS, so the annihilation of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult is someone else’s business to people so far away.
“I’ve come to reach the Primordial Heavenly Lord.”
It’s not a lie.
Strictly speaking, it’s the truth.
But this is enough. If a strangely-shaped person says they’ve come to meet the Primordial Heavenly Lord, how will humans react?
I’m not sure, but many people make expressions of not wanting to be involved.
When it’s not their business, people usually want to push it aside and think about it later. Occasionally, diligent people might try to strictly adhere to standards, but…
Most try to pass it on to a position where they can deal with it appropriately.
“May I ask whose name I should relay as having come?”
Hmm.
What should I do? Normally, I would have reassured the cautious person here by saying I have no relationship but have come.
But that method is used when slowly seeping in.
To quickly meet a high-ranking person like now, it’s much easier to sell out a high-ranking person.
I know a high-ranking person.
“Please relay that the one who fought Supreme Leader Tongcheon, the Great Kraken, has come.”
Though an enemy. Because he’s an enemy, there were many who fought him once, so they’ll surely remember. Though it was a war that ended in Kunlun’s victory, it was a war where many immortals died on both sides.
Given the characteristic that there are many long-lived beings, there will be few people who can easily ignore the name of Supreme Leader Tongcheon.
In addition, I mentioned the name of Supreme Leader Tongcheon, which ordinary people wouldn’t know.
Few people know the name.
This will show that I’m not someone who simply heard myths from somewhere.
I carefully lower the thread and wait for the bait to be taken.
We’re almost there.
I’ve already pressed down on the glass bottle several times, so it would be a loss if I fall to the bottom without even seeing the Primordial Heavenly Lord while fighting people.
Everyone knows that you should act more carefully when you’re in a hurry.
I don’t know how many people can actually follow that, but that’s the fate of proverbs. It’s because we can’t do it that such sayings come out, right?
“Can I wait here?”
“Ah, no. Please wait inside, and we’ll call for you.”
When I ask politely, they also answer politely. Now their eyes have completely changed to those looking at a high-ranking person who came from a completely different place.
The eyes looking at immortals or Taoists.
So I was guided by them into a small space near the entrance. It seems to be a space used for purposes like a rest area, and I was left alone in the room with one person guarding in front.
Oh. How disappointing.
If someone had come in, I would have tried saying various things.
I sat down and organized what I had seen through others’ eyes while walking here so far.
First, Cheon Baek of Mount Tai Sect.
This side had things go the best.
Yes, past tense. The Mount Tai Sect accepted the surviving Cheon Baek. And after hearing his words, they sympathized with his situation and were indignant. But luck only went that far.
The Mount Tai Sect demanded a strict investigation of Jung Chiljin from the Murim Alliance.
But Jung Chiljin, who had returned to the Mount Song Sect first, was one step ahead. He rather bundled Sa Mabaek of the Mount Song Sect together and declared the Mount Tai Sect an evil sect that had fallen to the demonic cult.
It was the moment when they were immersed in the elation of having just destroyed the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult.
But the story spread that there were traitors, not even remnants.
From ancient times, people have been more cruel to traitors than enemies.
Although Taoists and immortals were absent, the remaining Murim Alliance people attacked the Mount Tai Sect as they were.
And it wasn’t properly planned operations under command. Many people went to the Mount Tai Sect recklessly.
From Cheon Baek’s perspective, who remained in the Mount Tai Sect, it’s very fragmentary, but there are also people who came simply to ask about the truth.
But there are always people who rush forward anywhere. Someone slashed a person, and once blood was seen, it flowed uncontrollably.
If it had only been up to this point.
If someone at the sect leader level had come out to mediate, there might have been a chance to settle the situation somehow. But at that moment, Cheon Baek, who was hiding and watching the situation unfolding in the Mount Tai Sect, was discovered.
In a place where the scent of blood was thick, indisputable evidence appeared.
Now the martial arts world as a society is too straightforward to determine right and wrong.
Mount Tai Sect people are slashed, and Mount Tai Sect people draw swords for self-defense.
How would martial artists who encounter this situation judge?
They would think that the Mount Tai Sect was in collusion with the demonic cult, and drew swords because they were caught. And if Jung Chiljin’s influence touches that, lies become disguised as truth.
A massacre occurred in the Mount Tai Sect.
A great massacre killing everyone even slightly related to the Mount Tai Sect.
Cheon Baek struggled. Whether the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique compressed into one stroke by Heavenly Demon helped, he fought for a long time while scattering dark purple sword energy.
For so long that much warmth came in.
The funny thing is that the more he fought to protect the Mount Tai Sect, the more the Mount Tai Sect fell into ruin.
He fought for days.
But humans are humans.
It seems even if my power is supplied infinitely, fatigue can’t be prevented. And time had passed for masters who heard that a powerful person was struggling in the Mount Tai Sect to fly in from afar.
For various reasons like that, Cheon Baek died fighting on the mountainside burning with the Sea of Blood on Purple Mountain.
Seeing that Jung Chiljin appeared when Cheon Baek died, it was worth my trusting people.
Cheon Baek died with his neck cut off while shouting at Jung Chiljin with an expression full of resentment and grudge.
Probably Jung Chiljin appeared at this place to confirm whether he had properly dealt with someone who could threaten him.
I examine Jung Chiljin through Cheon Baek’s blurring eyes.
There’s anxiety mixed in, but he looks relieved. He seems to think it’s almost over.
But now Jung Chiljin will be the one being chased. This isn’t about Sa Mabaek who somehow escaped from the Mount Song Sect and went feral in an uninhabited cave.
Rumors would have spread far enough.
Jung Chiljin has the Demon-Suppressing Sword.
Human greed is endless. There’s the example of Jung Chiljin, right?
No matter how well you try to block it, no matter how you try to suppress the truth with force, even if you succeed in doing so…
The truth doesn’t disappear.
Moreover, rumors soaked in blood will be even harder to erase. Judging by Jung Chiljin’s behavior patterns, someday an enemy will point out that part.
And that will burst when Jung Chiljin feels at ease.
While organizing what had happened so far in my head like that, as if the conversation upstairs had ended, the door opened and two people came in.
One person is the one who was here earlier, and the other person is wearing different attire from this place. Clothing similar to the color of clouds.
The man wearing that approached me and greeted.
Introducing himself as a Taoist of the Kunlun Sect, he politely said that an immortal wants to meet me directly and asked me to follow him.
Seeing that they don’t mention the demonic cult even after seeing this purple hair, the story of eradicating the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult really was only for people who go far away.
Or they might think I’m not human after seeing the one flower.
Among the locals that the Great Kraken gathered when he first came to this world in the early days, there were many called monsters. There were types like the one I made into a lamp, and there were those who gained power and intelligence from beasts or objects and became monsters.
Monster immortals.
As long as there are such beings, it’s easier to mistake me for a monster rather than seeing me as a demonic cult person.
I made it easy to make such a mistake by mentioning Supreme Leader Tongcheon’s name. It’s very effective.
Of course, they might take me away like this and imprison me, saying I stupidly crawled in without knowing it was enemy territory.
But I don’t have the luxury to choose another path thinking there might be such a worst-case scenario.
Sometimes you have to take risks.
I followed the Taoist, passing through the human village and entering the area where Taoists live. Of course, entering didn’t mean I could meet immediately.
We walked up the mountain for a long time.
A mountain where the fog gets thicker as you go up. But I know this was deliberately made like this.
In the memories of immortals I’ve obtained, it says this is a device for defense.
However, it doesn’t say how to break through it and only remembers the correct path. Well, for things like this, you just need to remember how to use it.
Come to think of it, the Great Kraken also knew how to use similar techniques, is it exactly the same? Or is it a completely different technique but with similar results?
Thinking that while following the path up the mountain, suddenly the fog disappeared and a wide village appeared. People who look like Taoists are walking around here and there, and far away at a high place, several islands are floating in the air.
Kunlun.
Those islands are not the Kunlun where immortals live. The Kunlun where immortals live, the Heavenly Religion, is a completely different space that can be entered through those islands.
It’s the most difficult place to enter.
I looked at the Taoist.
He’s taking me to where those islands are. In other words, it seems I’ll be able to go up safely.
The Taoist seems to have roughly passed me.
Finally, the time has come to enter the immortals’ nest.