Juhyeok first made thorough preparations.
Then he opened the fissure again and came from the White Tower to the Jianghu of Wi Cheonrak.
He raised the stats of the summoned ones and also picked up anti–Demonic Immortal divine weapons from the Comprehensive Offense and Defense Center.
And then, the Jianghu he arrived in.
He deliberately came at night.
An ambush should be a night raid.
In parallel universes, there are countless worlds of Jianghu.
This place was a land ruled by the Apostates.
"Of all things, I've lived long enough to even come to Murim."
Am I really about to become a Great Hero Bong?
"If you've come to the Jianghu, shouldn't you stop by an inn?"
An inn?
"Inn scenes are a representative Murim cliché. You sit at a table on the second floor of the inn, order hand-pulled noodles and five-spice braised pork, and while you're eating, a clean-looking noble young master shows up leading a group."
So?
"Then that noble young master says this. Fellow heroes of the Jianghu, I am Namgung So-and-so of the main line of the Namgung Family. I need to eat quietly here with my acquaintances, so everyone please go down to the first floor."
Hmm.
"Summoner Bong just sits still. With a benevolent heart, you endure the nonsense that little blood clot is spouting."
No, I'll just go down right away though?
"Then the guy says this. I don't know who you are, but you seem to be ignoring my words. Are you saying you want to drink a punishment cup? And then he goes shrring, and draws his sword."
So?
"Summoner Bong, while still sitting on the chair, uses Empty-Handed Disarm to snatch the sword, grabs his head and slams it onto the table, bang! and says this."
Oh dear.
"'For the sake of the Namgung Family's honor, I won't kill you. So eat quietly and leave.'"
The scene is vividly drawn in my head.
"Namgung So-and-so ends up wetting himself at Summoner Bong's presence. The daughters of the Zhuge Family, Sichuan Tang Family, Hebei Peng Family, and Murong Family who came with him look at Summoner Bong with enchanted eyes and…"
Let's stop there.
That's basically the same as having watched a whole wuxia movie.
"Shall we find a decent inn? Somewhere near Yueyang Tower overlooking Dongting Lake would be optimal."
Juhyeok said with a sigh.
"Haah, I'm disappointed, Mr. Kosak."
"Yesm?"
"It's such a trite cliché. It's not even fun."
Kosak was flustered.
Trite?
It's a setting that's used so often.
"… W-well, c-clichés are, um, b-by nature, t-trite."
"Then how about this instead?"
"W-what do you mean?"
"Low-ranking escort Wang Chunbok returns after three hundred years."
"Oh! Summoner Bong, are you a genius?"
Anyway, let's catch the Demonic Immortal first.
"Mr. Chunbok, you said this is Fujian Province, right?"
"Yes, yes, that's right. Hehe."
"About where is the headquarters of the Apostates?"
"I asked around and checked beforehand. If you go straight to the southeast…"
The direction was found.
Now, how to get there?
Let's take a plane.
"Mr. Crackerus, I'll have to rely on you again."
"What do you mean rely? It's my role."
Paaaat!
Crackerus transformed into his true body.
Ssshaaak!
Infinite turbo blink flight.
It didn't even take five minutes to arrive.
"There."
"There, huh."
"There it is."
"There…"
"Yes."
You could tell at a glance.
A huge estate.
Countless buildings.
And warriors standing guard.
The core of this operation was Transcendent Summon.
That's right.
You fight an immortal with an immortal.
Even if it was a Magic Immortal that had devoured a demon god, with all 355 summoned ones helping and himself joining in with the Judge's Hammer, it shouldn't be that difficult.
"It'd be nice if the Ruler of the Underworld came."
Well, Sword Immortal would be fine too.
The Great Sage Equal to Heaven would also be good.
But he couldn't use Transcendent Summon right away.
The manifestation time limit was the problem.
The manifestation limit of a summoned Transcendent (Beyond) being was ten minutes. After ten minutes passed, the summon would automatically be cancelled.
Of course, none of them had ever stayed for only ten minutes so far.
They stayed as long as they pleased and then left.
Still, let's check whether the Magic Immortal is here before using it.
What if he's not home?
It'd just be wasting the skill for nothing.
"Let's poke first."
"I'll go. I'll throw a ribbon party."
"Stay still… Mr. Rajiks?"
"Huh?"
"Let's take out the Gigants. And the split golems too."
"Huheng!"
A dark night.
When the moon came out from the clouds and slightly showed its face.
Ssssh! Ssssh!
Six giant Gigants raised their massive bodies.
Gigants in the moonlight.
Gigants attacking the Apostates in the Murim world.
Would that fit?
Why not?
It's a parallel universe world.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Gigants advanced.
Swoong, swoong, swoong!
The Mechanic Goliath battle golems split and followed behind the Gigants.
Most structures built in the Murim world were wooden buildings.
Just from the vibrations caused by the Gigants walking, the halls were shaking violently.
The headquarters of the Apostates.
A huge estate with more than a hundred halls packed together.
Among them, the most gorgeously built hall.
A restricted area even the elders of the Apostates couldn't enter freely.
That was the residence of the Magic Immortal.
The Magic Immortal, wearing an orange tracksuit set, pressed the button on the espresso machine on the sink in a room decorated like a studio apartment.
Whirr!
Grrrk!
Chrrr.
Ding-dong!
After brewing the coffee, the Magic Immortal crossed his legs on the plush sofa and took a sip.
"Mm."
As expected, Ethiopian beans are the best.
What a wonderful world.
"This is what you call playing around like an immortal."
The Immortal Realm?
That's a prison.
He didn't even want to think about it.
Just hearing about it made him annoyed.
The memories of being trapped in the Immortal Realm, unable to move an inch.
Fortunately, that praiseworthy Wi Cheonrak summoned him with the Apostates' sorcery.
If it weren't for that guy, he wouldn't even be drinking coffee, and would have just been bullied by other damn immortals without ever seeing the outside.
But he must not let his guard down.
Hundreds of years had passed since he escaped the Immortal Realm, but pursuit hunters sent from the Immortal Realm could arrive at any time.
He might even have to deal with the Heavenly Realm and the Netherworld.
To stop that?
He absolutely had to become a complete god.
He had to become on the level of the Primordial Heavenly Lord or the gods of heaven and earth, and wipe out Taishang Laojun, the Sword Immortal, and all of them.
That's why he devoured a demon god.
On the other hand, he couldn't devour the chief god due to limitations in his power.
The Magic Immortal knew.
That the event in the main Earth would fail.
No matter how much they weakened its power and put it into a Vessel of Deification, a god is still a god.
It's not something an AI machine can eat.
But there was no need to worry.
There was Plan B.
"It should be about time."
It would come soon.
Wi Cheonrak?
No, the moment when the Heavenly Peach would be delivered to him.
That's right.
The Magic Immortal had read the heavenly providence.
Heavenly providence told him.
That the Heavenly Peach would come soon.
In what form would it come?
Two possibilities.
It would either come as it is.
Or someone who had eaten the Heavenly Peach would come.
Either way, it was the same.
He had the authority of predation.
Actually, after devouring the demon god.
He had suffered side effects for a long time.
Digesting divinity.
That's not an easy thing.
Of course, the digestion was already finished.
The problem was that side effects still remained.
A clash of divinities.
They were not harmonious.
The only way to resolve this disharmony was the Heavenly Peach.
And it would be delivered here soon.
One thing that bothered him slightly.
Heavenly providence only showed that the Heavenly Peach would come.
It didn't tell him whether he would obtain it or not.
"Hmph! As long as I know it's coming…"
Once it comes, it's over.
He would definitely take it.
And right at that moment!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Kraaaash!
A huge noise from outside.
As if a war had broken out.
"It's here!"
The Magic Immortal had a hunch.
The Heavenly Peach.
At last, the Heavenly Peach had come.
Juhyeok and his party were watching the Gigants' brutal destruction from outside the Apostates' headquarters.
Kwa-jik!
Kwa-drdeuk!
Kraaaash!
"It's refreshing. Since they're wooden buildings, they break just from touching them."
"The sound is nice too. This is ASMR."
"Huh? Old man Gwang, you're using trendy words. How do you know ASMR?"
"Do you think this old man is some out-of-touch geezer? I know a few MZ generation buzzwords too."
"No way. Then try saying something."
"Hmm, our Gigant form is insane! It's totally hard-carrying!"
"… Huh?"
"To think even the summoner found the Magic Immortal's location in one go, that's totally lucky-vicky, the whole package."
"Oh! MZ certified!"
Hmm.
Our Lord Mad Demon.
You've gotten much younger.
Anyway, the Apostates' headquarters was a scene of utter chaos.
All kinds of spell formations were deployed to counter the Gigants, but they were useless.
Murim-style death knights and undead warriors poured out, but they were just trampled.
They're big.
And there are six of them.
There are also split golems.
Apostate disciples screaming as they were crushed under collapsing buildings and falling pillars.
But there wasn't much pity.
The Apostates who had massacred a hundred villagers to summon the Magic Immortal.
And the ones who had ruled the Jianghu while committing every kind of atrocity with the Magic Immortal backing them.
Even though the reason for coming to this Jianghu was to catch the Magic Immortal, this was a good chance for the Apostate bastards to get a proper beating too.
Right at that moment!
Something caught Juhyeok's eye.
It was the scene where the destructive Gigants were walking.
There were more than a hundred split golems packed densely.
But among them, without receiving any interference, an old man was leisurely walking.
An orange tracksuit.
On his feet, three-stripe slippers.
"… Huh?"
It was so natural.
If he weren't moving, even Juhyeok wouldn't have noticed.
Their eyes met.
Thump thump.
His heart was beating nonstop.
Juhyeok just stood there with his mouth open.
The old man's eyes, the old man's smile.
At the same time, an extremely faint energy pierced into his chest.
Is it killing intent?
"No."
His stomach felt uncomfortable.
It felt like he had indigestion.
"Over there…"
"What is it, Summoner?"
"There's an old man walking over there."
"Huh? What old man?"
"There, see?"
The summoned ones focused their gaze in one place.
They didn't notice at first either, but as the old man came closer.
"Gasp!"
"T-this!"
"… How?"
"It's a perception-obstructing technique. And an extremely profound one."
An old man alone, free in this chaos.
There was no need to think about who he was.
It was the Magic Immortal.
In that instant!
Tss-pit!
The old man's figure vanished.
Chill!
A creepy killing intent felt from the top of his head.
"Summoner! Avoid it!"
Juhyeok raised his eyes.
A huge mouth in the sky.
That's right.
It was a mouth.
He could see enormously large teeth and a tongue.
It wasn't an illusion technique.
It was the real mouth of the Magic Immortal.
"Trying to eat me?"
Spirit!
Juhyeok escaped with Gale Acceleration.
"You bastard!!!"
The Mad Demon charged at the Magic Immortal in the air like a madman.
But.
Bang!
Without even being able to get close, the Mad Demon was blown away, spraying blood as he fell.
"Lord Mad Demon!!!"
"Young master! Do not come any closer. Do not worry about me—just escape!!!"
Spit! Splurt splurt splurt splurt!
Juhyeok staggered backward in a daze.
Now that he had eaten the Heavenly Peach, he understood.
Just how powerful that Magic Immortal truly was.
Could he fight?
Maybe he could try, but—
Why fight?
He had Transcendent Summon.
Use it right now.
'But before that…'
Juhyeok's mind raced faster than light.
The Magic Immortal was stronger than any Transcendent he had ever encountered.
Even higher-ranked than the Sword Immortal or the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
At first, he thought anyone would do.
But now, his thinking had changed.
To face a Magic Immortal who had devoured a demon god, someone of even higher rank than an immortal had to come.
Who could that be?
The Ruler of the Underworld.
Of course, Transcendent Summon was random.
You couldn't designate the target.
You couldn't call a specific one.
'But if I sincerely wish for it, won't it happen?'
Please let the Ruler of the Underworld come.
With that earnest wish—
"Transcendent Summon!"
Juhyeok activated the skill.
But—
'What?'
Why was nothing happening?
…..
He definitely shouted it.
But it was empty.
He felt nothing at all.
It was just a sound that left his mouth.
'… What the?'
Was it blocked?
A sudden thought struck him.
When he made eye contact with the Magic Immortal, he must have done something to him.
'I've been placed under a restriction.'
Sppiiit!
The black, abyss-like mouth above his head was still chasing him.
'Then…'
Survive first.
That wasn't selfish.
If the summoner lived, the summoned ones lived.
"Enter the White Tower!"
Silence.
"E-enter! To the White Tower!"
Juhyeok's body didn't move.
This was blocked too.
Panic flashed across his face as the massive mouth of the Magic Immortal closed in on him.
Spirit! Spit!
He was barely managing to dodge.
'Damn it…'
Even then, the summoned ones were charging desperately.
Kwa-bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
They were being blown away helplessly, completely outmatched.
His mind went blank.
What do I do?
The hole in the void that pursued only Juhyeok.
The gaping mouth of the Magic Immortal.
That was when it happened.
Sssshaaaaaaak!
A green bomber flying through the sky.
"Hoooeeek!"
Rajiks, opening his subspace from above.
Susususususuk!
Bombs rained down.
…..
They detonated in the void where the demon's mouth was.
Kwa-bang! Kwakwakwakwakwakwa!
A massive explosion of intense holy power.
The holy-type ultimate mana bomb manufactured by Dr. L.
A Magic Immortal who had devoured a demon god.
Then his natural enemy would be holy power.
But that wasn't all.
"Light!!!"
Hwaaaaaaaat!
Baghisa charged forward, scattering dazzling radiance.
And then—
Hwaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
The light grew stronger and stronger.
"Huh?"
Wait, is this—
"Bardin, no!"
"Light!!!"
A self-sacrifice spell.
The ultimate technique a holy knight could unleash.
"Baghisa!!!"
Bardin's body burned up in holy power.
It worked.
The Magic Immortal's mouth was closing.
Ding!
[Catalog-affiliated summoned being Lucius Bardin has died.]
[Due to death, designated summoning of Bardin is unavailable for 100 days.]
[Because the death was caused by a higher-tier attack, the Resurrection Rune cannot be applied.]
[The summoned being's soul is forcibly transferred to the White Tower.]
And then—
"Die!!! Take this girl's flesh!"
A single talisman thrown by Gyeon Dallae.
It was a curse.
A curse cast by a supreme shaman.
Flinch!
The Magic Immortal's mouth completely shut.
And then Gyeon Dallae too—
"Princess!!!"
[Catalog-affiliated summoned being Gyeon Dallae has died.]
[Due to death, designated summoning of Gyeon Dallae is unavailable for 100 days.]
[Because the death was caused by a higher-tier attack, the Resurrection Rune cannot be applied.]
[The summoned being's soul is forcibly transferred to the White Tower.]
Snap!
Something broke inside Juhyeok's chest.
At the same time, the restriction placed on him by the Magic Immortal was lifted.
"You fucking bastard."
Juhyeok raised his hammer.
Now it would work.
Thanks to the sacrifices of Bardin and Gyeon Dallae.
The Judge's Hammer, bearing the touch of the Ruler of the Underworld.
Come.
Ruler of the Underworld.
I need your power.
Pajijik!
Crackling lightning energy coursed through the hammer.
"Please! Ruler of the Underworld!"
After making one more desperate wish—
"Transcendent Summon!"
In that instant!
Tststststst!
Jiiiiiing!
"Huh?"
What is this?
It's Transcendent Summon—so why a fissure?
He didn't even swing the hammer.
No Transcendent appeared.
Only a fissure formed.
And it was so small that not even a newborn baby could crawl through it.
'Another Heavenly Realm?'
That place should be empty, with all the minor angels having already fled to Earth.
"Damn it!!!"
Jjeo-eok!
The massive mouth of the Magic Immortal lunged at Juhyeok again, already recovered.
Srrrk!
The restriction was applied once more.
Spipipipip!
He had no choice but to run.
He had to survive.
And where Juhyeok fled—
Wooooong!
The fissure remained, not disappearing.
And its size was slowly, steadily growing.
The Immortal Realm.
As always, the Wine Immortal staggered along with a thoroughly drunk expression.
Earlier, he had begged Guigok and traded twenty jars of Immortal Peach Wine for a bottle of 30-year Valentín.
A hard-earned drink.
He meant to savor it, but couldn't resist and downed it all.
It went down far too smoothly.
Ahhh!
That precious 30-year Valentín.
When would he ever taste such a fine liquor again?
The Wine Immortal sighed in dejection.
He had only his own greed to blame.
Then—
Something caught his eye.
A small hole in the void of the Immortal Realm, right at eye level.
"Huh?"
Am I drunk?
Is this a hallucination?
He stepped closer.
"… A fissure."
It looked similar to the one that Sword Immortal bastard had made.
"That bastard left a fissure lying around—where did he go?"
He had bragged endlessly about being a dimensional traveler.
Did he go to the auction house?
'Hmm.'
Suddenly, temptation stirred.
'Why not take a look at the auction house myself?'
He sneaked closer, glanced around to see if anyone was watching—
Then stretched out his hand and forcibly pried the small fissure open.
Jijijijik!
And stepped straight inside.
Swoosh!
The Wine Immortal of Taebaek vanished.
A short while later—
Someone else appeared.
Ring-ring. Ring-ring.
The Talisman Immortal, Danju, was out riding his cute little bicycle.
"Huh?"
He too noticed the fissure.
"What is that?"
Why is that there—
'Wait.'
A fissure meant a gateway to another world, didn't it?
Hmm.
Danju parked his bicycle to the side.
He looked around carefully.
Jijijik!
He pried the fissure open with force—
Swoosh!
And slipped inside.
The hole was now noticeably larger.
Who was next?
A little more time passed.
A white-haired immortal appeared, hands clasped behind his back, reciting poetry aloud.
"The spring breeze scatters, plum blossoms fall, echoing through the Immortal Realm. Ah, yet I walk alone, not with another. In the mortal world, in the Immortal Realm as well—hm? Gah!"
The Plum Blossom Immortal of Mount Hua rubbed his eyes furiously.
Then he stared at the fissure again.
"Hooh!"
Gulp.
His throat swallowed on its own.
Just like the others, he looked around.
Jijijik!
Swoosh!
The Wine Immortal entered.
The Talisman Immortal entered.
The Plum Blossom Immortal entered.
Yet the fissure remained open.
It continued to persist.
For a very long time.
Slowly growing larger and larger.
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