Chapter 38

As Jowoo arrived at his bedroom, cutting through the darkening night, the voice of Masin echoed in his mind.

"Let's talk a bit."

Since Masin himself had been waiting for this, Jowoo sat cross-legged on the bed and replied.

"Speak."

As Jowoo responded, Masin's voice, now highly animated, continued.

"I want to see the martial arts of that Sword God in more detail."

In fact, Masin had been greatly shocked by the sword technique, Tianxia Kongkong Dao, that Jowoo had displayed when attacking the Black Heaven Sect's headquarters.

Sword God's Tianjianliu can be divided into four major categories.

The first three moves, composed of the starlight and the force of the Milky Way.

The next three moves, composed of the force that swallows space.

The two defensive sword moves represented by the Absolute Sword Wall.

And the ultimate group control technique, Absolute Sword Spirit, born from the combination of Jowoo's modern knowledge and the experience of Sword God.

Jowoo was slowly unfolding Tianjianliu by raising his mental energy.

Of course, he was demonstrating it in a simplified manner, reducing its power to a fraction to allow only the subtleties of the sword techniques to be felt.

The starlight clusters scattered like an illusion.

The point that compressed space in an instant.

The sword wall that seemed capable of blocking everything.

The grand spectacle of the sword spirits that ruled the world.

After thoroughly observing Jowoo's sword moves, Masin let out a heavy sigh.

"Hmm..."

Masin, the first god of the martial world.

He was a person who had lived hundreds of years before the era of Sword God.

For him, this was the first time encountering the martial arts of another god.

"Now I am certain. The sword of this junior, Sword God, is undoubtedly the trace of 'that person'."

Jowoo immediately understood who Masin was referring to by 'that person'.

"When I saw the stone tablet inscribed with the principles of the Three Heavenly Demon Swords, I immediately realized it."

"Your Three Heavenly Demon Swords were far more perfect than mine, which I studied for a lifetime. That is something impossible for a martial artist who has just left his youth."

This was something Jowoo had already experienced once in the sword cave.

The starlight that Sword God had realized after seven years of wall meditation in the sword cave, he could feel it immediately upon seeing it.

"So when I examined your memory, I found that you are not from this Central Plains. Therefore, I ask, are you... with 'that person'...?"

Jowoo answered immediately.

"Yes, that's correct. I come from the world where the person who left the stone tablet of the Three Heavenly Demon Swords lived."

"Indeed, that must be the case. There was no other way to explain it."

As Masin, he knew nothing about the sword traces on the stone tablet.

He had studied them for a lifetime, but the characters that described the sword traces were impossible to trace their origin, and the strange diagrams were the same.

"It seems that both 'that person' and you have experienced the calamity of rebirth."

However, Jowoo immediately denied Masin's words.

"No, he is not a reborn person."

"What do you mean? Then how could he come to this distant past?"

Jowoo's voice became very serious.

"He seems to have the ability to reverse time."

"Reverse time?"

"Because the stone tablet of the Three Heavenly Demon Swords was created much later than the sword cave of Sword God."

"What...?"

Jowoo's words made no sense.

Sword God was from a later era than Masin.

How could the stone tablet be created after the sword cave?

For Jowoo's claim to hold true, 'that person' must have had the ability to reverse time.

"Even if one's martial arts reach the level of a god, it is impossible for a mere human to do such a thing!"

Of course, Masin's claim was something Jowoo also fully agreed with.

How could a human reverse time? If such a thing were possible, they should be called a god.

But didn't he see it with his own eyes?

"The Three Heavenly Demon Swords are a martial art that elevated the techniques established in the sword cave to a higher level. Moreover..."

Jowoo's voice further surprised Masin.

"The stone tablet of the Three Heavenly Demon Swords felt as if it was created with the knowledge that someone who had experienced the sword cave would see it."

Masin's voice was highly animated.

"Is that true?"

"Yes, it was clearly written on the stone tablet."

"What was written on it?"

Jowoo's eyes were infinitely calm.

"Come to the Divine Seat."

"Divine Seat? You mean the stone tablet had the word 'Divine Seat' written on it?"

Jowoo nodded silently.

"Yes, it said to come to the Divine Seat."

Masin was extremely surprised.

"The Divine Seat was 'that person'...?"

Because the vague assumptions he had made were revealed through Jowoo.

The follower of the Divine Seat, Jinchong, whom he met at Shaolin Temple.

The mysterious person who defeated him, known as the first god, Masin, in the martial world.

He did not choose to kill and eliminate him.

Instead, to prevent his soul from accumulating karma and calamity, he used the great spell, Sealing of the Living Spirit, to make him neither alive nor dead.

The reason he was sealed with Masin's power while in a normal state was precisely because of this.

At that moment, Masin suddenly seemed to realize something and let out a deep sigh.

"Hmm... Indeed, the Sealing of the Living Spirit is a sealing spell that manipulates time. If someone can use such a great spell, it might not be impossible to reverse time."

"What is the Sealing of the Living Spirit? What is it?"

Masin briefly explained the follower of the Divine Seat, 'Jinchong', whom he had met.

"Ha... A spell that stops time? And it broke when I met your Yitian Xueyu?"

"Yes, as soon as the Sealing of the Living Spirit broke, my life finally ended due to the law of cause and effect."

But isn't it incredible that the ability of the follower of the Divine Seat is so great?

Then how strong must the Divine Seat be?

"But there is an error in your words. The relics of the Divine Seat have existed in various places in the Central Plains, and if only the era in which they were discovered by me and Sword God was different, the logic that the Divine Seat is a being that can reverse time would not hold, right?"

Jowoo nodded silently.

In fact, when Jowoo first saw Masin's stone tablet, he had the same thought.

But as he integrated and reconstructed the martial arts of Sword God and Masin, Jowoo's thoughts changed.

"Look."

As Jowoo raised his iron sword and focused his mental energy, a small point appeared in the air.

However, the texture of the mental energy was different from the spatial compression of Tianxia Kongkong Dao.

"What is this...?"

The mental energy technique Jowoo was displaying.

It had a different quality from Tianxia Kongkong Dao.

Masin, who had no talent for expressing this strange phenomenon, had seen this mental energy technique before.

"Isn't this the Heavenly Demon Annihilation Dance you displayed before?"

A chilling feeling as if some natural law was being violated.

This was the same feeling that made Masin shudder at the time.

"Do you feel it?"

"What do you mean?"

"It may seem like only space is being distorted, but no. Feel the waves carefully. It will definitely be different from Tianxia Kongkong Dao."

Jowoo was slowly demonstrating the true meaning of the Heavenly Demon Annihilation Dance several times to allow Masin to feel it.

"Unbelievable!"

Jowoo slowly nodded and brought the point containing the principles of the Heavenly Demon Annihilation Dance to a pot in the corner of the bedroom.

The orchid withered rapidly before being sucked into the point!

While the principle of Tianxia Kongkong Dao is to distort and compress space, the principle of the Heavenly Demon Annihilation Dance is...

"Yes, that's right. The 'Annihilation' in the Heavenly Demon Annihilation Dance contains the principle of distorting both space and time simultaneously."

Masin, who seemed to be greatly shocked, could not continue speaking.

The stone tablet of the Three Heavenly Demon Swords was the culmination of his entire life and all his hard training.

But he never imagined that the first move of the Three Heavenly Demon Swords contained such an unprecedented principle of time distortion.

"All matter that comes into contact with the Heavenly Demon Annihilation Dance leaves no trace. Time flows rapidly, causing everything to decay or erode. With the addition of the principle of spatial compression, no trace can remain."

"Black magic! That's not human martial arts!"

Jowoo smiled naturally and nodded.

"Yes, I think so too. Such a mental energy technique cannot be human martial arts. Now, I have a question for you."

"What...?"

"How does my current martial arts compare to your prime?"

After a moment of silence, Masin finally spoke.

"Even though your martial arts have reached the later stage of the Absolute Realm, the Wuji, they cannot compare to the Natural Realm, which has achieved the harmony of heaven and earth and understood the laws of nature."

Jowoo smiled slightly, as if acknowledging.

"Indeed, that is correct. I have clearly seen the power of the Natural Realm. However, there is a common point between Sword God and you."

"Common point?"

"Yes. I think the Natural Realm is a level where the laws and principles of nature are understood. But no matter how strong my martial arts become, I don't think I will reach the Natural Realm."

"What do you mean?"

At an age just out of youth, he had reached the absolute Wuji.

It was hard to find a similar example even if one searched the long history of the martial world with clear eyes.

Perhaps he could achieve the Natural Realm before the age of forty and rewrite the history of the martial world.

"There is an error in your words. The relics of the Divine Seat have existed in various places in the Central Plains, and if only the era in which they were discovered by me and Sword God was different, the logic that the Divine Seat is a being that can reverse time would not hold, right?"

Jowoo nodded silently.

In fact, when Jowoo first saw Masin's stone tablet, he had the same thought.

But as he integrated and reconstructed the martial arts of Sword God and Masin, Jowoo's thoughts changed.

"Look."

As Jowoo raised his iron sword and focused his mental energy, a small point appeared in the air.

However, the texture of the mental energy was different from the spatial compression of Tianxia Kongkong Dao.

"What is this...?"

The mental energy technique J