Little Demon Reversion to Youth

Chapter 183

"Aha!"

He could understand why the Demonic Advisor had said that only the Cult Leader and the Young Lord could enter the 'Heavenly Demon Cave'.

Because one had to have 'Heavenly Demon Qi' to operate the transparent sphere. Besides, the energy flowing from the darkness beyond the door was an energy that no one without 'Heavenly Demon Qi' could take even a single step into.

Baekji, as if he were being led by the energy, entered the door.

Ku-reu-reung.

The door closed on its own.

Beyond the door was a staircase leading down. Although it was in deep darkness, the stairs themselves shone faintly.

As Baekji was going down the stairs, they were cut off at some point. Below was a cavity whose end could not be seen.

"What?"

When he looked, there was a passage on the other side of the cavity. It was a distance of about thirty 'zhang'.

Pa-ang!

Baekji raised his internal energy and soared up. A wind blew from below the cavity.

'......?'

The moment he was enveloped in the wind, he felt his internal energy scatter, but the 'Heavenly Demon Qi' rose again, and he reached the passage on the other side, 'dudungsil', like a feather.

It was a structure that no one who had not learned the 'Heavenly Demon Divine Art' could enter in the first place.

When he entered the passage, stairs appeared again.

How far down did he go?

A huge square appeared, and on the other side was a stone gate about ten 'zhang' high. On the plaque above the gate, the words 'Heavenly Demon Flying Cave' were written.

In the 'New Sect', a being who had reached the heavens was called 'Tianmo' (Diven Demon), but in the Central Plains, it was disparaged as 'Tianmo' (Heavenly Demon).

On both sides of the stone gate were stone statues of 'Tianjiang' (Heavenly Generals) with four arms each. The 'Tianjiang' were glaring at Baekji as if they were guarding the gate, holding weapons such as swords, sabers, spears, and halberds.

"It's fearsome."

Although Baekji went in front of the stone gate and pushed, it did not budge. Then he saw a transparent sphere the size of a palm on the door handle part. He placed his hand on the sphere and circulated his 'Heavenly Demon Qi'. At that, the stone gate opened.

'Ah!'

Beyond the stone gate was a huge great hall. On the high seat of the great hall was a large stone throne, and on the left and right, attendant gods were standing.

Huge 'night-shining pearls' were embedded here and there on the ceiling of the great hall, and a faint light filled the space. In the center of the great hall was a round pond, and in the middle was a brazier made of jade. A blue sacred fire was burning in the jade brazier.

The pond, which shone with a milky light, was completely frozen. Nevertheless, a warm energy filled the great hall.

'It is a place where the 'cold vein' of the Heavenly Mountains and the 'fire vein' of the earth's interior meet to form a 'harmonious qi'.'

Baekji's gaze went back and forth between the two sides of the sacred fire. In the middle of the pond to the left of the sacred fire was an ice platform made of milky ice, and on it, a person was sitting in a meditative posture. The middle-aged man, who looked to be in his forties, had a transcendent appearance.

To the right was a large ice coffin, and inside it, a woman was lying.

In front of the ice coffin were two ice pillars the size of a person, and on top of the pillars, ice beads the size of a human head were placed.

Inside the ice beads, colorful auspicious energies of red, blue, and yellow were constantly moving.

Baekji went towards the middle-aged man who was sitting in a meditative posture on the ice jade platform.

'Father?'

The Cult Leader had said he had sealed himself in the 'Heavenly Demon Cave'. So the person on the ice jade platform must be the Cult Leader and his own father.

'Did my father also reincarnate? Why is he so young?'

When he looked, he seemed to resemble him a little.

Baekji approached and bowed.

Although he had no memory, he was his father anyway.

"You've come?"

At the voice that was heard in his bowed head, he almost fell backwards.

Baekji was startled and stood up.

"You were alive?"

"I couldn't die or live, waiting for you, you brat. Seeing your energy, it seems you have reincarnated safely."

Although the Cult Leader's eyes were closed, the energy of his soul, spirit, and ethereal soul was sealed. He was literally neither dead nor alive.

Baekji raised his hand and waved it in front of the Cult Leader's face.

"What are you doing?"

"Can you see me?"

"..."

"Because your eyes are closed..."

"Hmm... the energy is right... but are you, you brat, really Ya-hu?"

The Cult Leader asked, flustered.

"Probably... I think so."

"But... it's a little strange. Your way of speaking is also."

Baekji, 'ah', said, "That's... I lost my memory while reincarnating. Am I a little strange?"

"Am I strange?... You are very strange. Did you not hurt your head? It seems you have become a fool..."

He's talking freely because he's my father.

"Explain what happened."

Baekji said that he had broken the shrine while reincarnating and had woken up far away in Shaanxi.

"Hmm... then has it already been a year?"

"It seems you don't know the passage of time."

"In the world of the spirit... time is meaningless."

"I see. In the past year... I have suffered a lot."

The Cult Leader clicked his tongue.

"The Hyuk-ryeon family... those brats are holding on to my ankle until the end. Even if you have lost your memory, it is enough that you know who you are. Have you completed the 'Heavenly Demon Divine Art'?"

"Yes? The 'Heavenly Demon Divine Art'? Did I learn that?"

"Tsk, tsk... you made such a fuss for the past ten years, learning the 'Heavenly Demon Divine Art'... it seems you have forgotten everything. Did you also forget that you threatened me to give you the 'Heavenly Demon Divine Art' after you missed the Blood Cult Leader at the 'Jade Spirit Mountain'?"

"Threatened? Surely that couldn't have happened."

"No... it was a real threat."

Hmm. This father-son relationship is a little strange...

"I have no memory. I think you'll have to teach me again."

"Hmm... the 'Heavenly Demon Qi' exists... it seems you have forgotten the 'divine art incantation'."

"When I woke up, I had even forgotten my name. If my master hadn't given me dumplings... I might have starved to death."

"Master? You have a master? Who on earth can teach you?"

"A master doesn't just teach martial arts. It's about character, right? I learned something like that. So... I quit being the Young Lord."

"What? Then who will succeed to the position of Cult Leader?"

"You should have passed it on sooner... does a fifty-year-old Young Lord make sense? Since we are in a situation where we are getting old together, let's retire together."

"Keung... you are clearly crazy. Then are you going to stop chasing the Blood Cult Leader too?"

"That's... not right."

Baekji's gaze turned to the ice coffin.

"Tsk, tsk... a brat who has lost his memory and is not in his right mind... to think he is still wandering in the 'sea of affection'..."

Baekji, without answering, looked at the woman lying in the ice coffin.

He had been feeling an energy that was pulling him since he had entered.

'Yun-seol...'

The woman in the ice coffin was Bi Yun-seol.

"You brat, you are also persistent. It has already been fifty years..."

"You said time is meaningless in the world of the spirit..."

Baekji went to the ice coffin.

Bi Yun-seol, who was lying in the milky ice coffin, had a mysterious beauty.

"...You brat! Get a hold of yourself!"

Baekji, who was staring at Bi Yun-seol's face as if he were possessed, came to his senses at the Cult Leader's 'mind language' that echoed in his head.

And he went to the ice pillars in front of the ice coffin. On top of the two pillars, transparent ice spheres were placed, and inside them, colorful lights were flickering.

"What is this?"

Baekji was feeling that there was a spirit inside the transparent sphere with his energy.

"Why are you asking when you know? Isn't it Yun-seol's spirit and your soul? You pestered me so much to perform a 'soul division', saying Yun-seol's spirit would be lonely... and you've forgotten everything?"

Baekji examined the transparent sphere containing Yun-seol's spirit and then said, "Hmm... this is Yun-seol's spirit... there is no soul."

"Didn't the Blood Cult Leader take it? You said you would spend your whole life looking for it, and it seems you have even forgotten that. The affection of life is so futile."

"There's no reason to look for the soul, right? If there is a spirit, it's the same Yun-seol anyway..."

"But it won't be the Yun-seol you know. Because she won't remember you."

"It doesn't matter. Since the spirit is left... she won't hate me, right?"

The spirit is the mirror of the soul. It is also the foundation where the soul, which contains the memories, emotions, and will of a lifetime, resides. Although the soul has disappeared... if there is a spirit, a new soul will be created.

Baekji caressed the transparent sphere.

"What? Are you going to wake Yun-seol?"

"Wouldn't it be painful to be frozen solid in an ice coffin like that? To be locked up for decades... you are truly cruel..."

"You brat... didn't you do that? Did you forget that it takes forty-nine years to heal the wounds and to gather the scattered seven ethereal souls? It has not been long since she has been able to wake up."

"Ah... so that's how it was..."

By any chance, did he reincarnate, risking danger, to marry Yun-seol after saving her?

Not the great cause of catching the Blood Cult Leader? He thought that could have been the case.

"Take care of your own soul. Since a soul will also be dwelling in the 'soul division', a little bit of your memory might come back."

"Yes...?"

Baekji looked at the transparent sphere on the ice pillar next to him.

The sphere containing Yun-seol's spirit was flickering beautifully with green and blue light... but the sphere containing his own soul, with a bright red light that was exploding from moment to moment, felt somehow ominous.

Unlike Yun-seol, the spirit and the soul coexisted.

"Is that my soul?"

Baekji shook his head.

"I don't feel like it."

"What? It's your soul... and you don't feel like it...?"

"It looks somehow brutal."

"This brat? You have become a completely soft Baekji!"

"Please say I have become a human-like human. Besides... if the point of the 'soul division' was fifty years ago... it doesn't seem like it will be of much help."

The dream of a sea of blood and mountains of corpses came to mind. What if the soul of the past came in and he did such a thing again? He was worried.

"Are you going to continue living as a half-wit?"

"Hmm. I'm saying I'm living like a human. Just give me the 'Heavenly Demon Divine Art' incantation."

"..."

"That brat, the Blood Cult Leader, seems to have gone beyond the 'natural realm' and has entered the 'harmony realm'. To deal with him, I need the 'Heavenly Demon Divine Art'."

"..."

The Cult Leader was silent for a moment and then said, "What will you do after you learn the 'Heavenly Demon Divine Art' and catch that brat?"

"You may not know... but it seems there is a possibility that that brat is not one, but two, three, or four. I have to catch them all."

"Ahem... didn't you already know? Ah, right. You said you lost your memory."

"Oho. You knew that?"

"It's frustrating. A brat who went to reincarnate has come back as a Baekji..."

The Cult Leader grumbled and then said, "You came and said it. You said the Blood Cult Leader had performed a 'soul division' and was hiding... and that you had to reincarnate."

"Aha. So that's how it was. By any chance, did you say how many brats there were?"

"I don't know that. You didn't know at that time either. Anyway, what will you do after you catch that brat, the Blood Cult Leader?"

"Ahem... I haven't thought about it..."

Baekji looked at Bi Yun-seol and said, "...I'll have to eat well and live well."

"What about the sect?"

"There are one or two brats who are trying hard to become the successor now. One of them will become one."

"Hmm... are you not interested in the safety of the one hundred thousand sect members?"

"I will set up a proper brat as the Cult Leader, so don't worry."

"..."

Silence fell again.

Baekji, unable to wait, urged, "By any chance, did you forget the incantation?"

"...Hmm. A brat who has always been ill-mannered... has now become a brat who has completely lost his concept."

"Ah... I'm sorry. Since I have no memory... but I am feeling the affection between a father and a son deeply. To think you waited for me to reincarnate and to come back in this cold place, I am just moved..."

"Alright... sit in a meditative posture in front of the sacred fire."

Baekji sat in a meditative posture in front of the sacred fire.

"Enter meditation!"

At the Cult Leader's shout, Baekji entered a state of meditation.

Hwa-a-a-a...

As if his soul were opening its eyes, an infinite space unfolded in his mind.

In the space of black darkness, the incantation of the 'Heavenly Demon Divine Art' slowly passed by. As Baekji read the incantation, the 'Heavenly Demon Qi' that was inherent in his entire body awakened.

'It was just the second stage?'

Baekji, while reading the incantation, realized that the 'Heavenly Demon Qi' that was ingrained in his body was only at the second stage. He had said he had trained for ten years... then how many decades would he have to train to master it?

―Concentrate!

The Cult Leader's voice was heard.

At the same time, a sound of 'peok' was heard.

The 'soul sphere' of So Ya-hu, which was in front of the ice coffin, exploded, and a light shot into Baekji's 'yintang' point.

―Keu-heuk! What are you doing

(End of Chapter)