Heavenly Demon Cultivation Simulation

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With a cold look, Earth Demon said,

“It is always like this.
Skimming through books will not help anything.”

“The Heavenly Killing Star body is an incurable disease which kills nine out of ten and even if one survives, one is bound to die the next year.”

Seol-Hwi interrupted the Earth Demon and spoke, which made the entire crowd turn to him.
Even the Earth Demon had to stop talking.

“If the person is alive then it wouldn’t have been a normal method at all.”

“…Is that so?”

The Earth Demon frowned.
It was like asking “as if you know,” an annoyed feeling.

However—

“I am guessing you used something.
The first would be a pill or an elixir.
So one must have tried to delay the point at which the body flares up by using the pill to further increase the capacity of the body, which can be controlled by extreme methods.
The second one is the way to burn life through martial arts through blood.
It is a way to slowly take away life and die before the power which cannot be controlled flares up.
In that case, you can extend the life until 20 years but then after that, it would be a body which can die at any time.”

“…”

Seol-Hwi looked at him and said it.

Like—

He had a face asking if it was alright to say all this.

“I do not know how the best pills are made, but I am sure that martial arts of the Bloodbath All over the World were used.”

“….”

The Earth Demon was silent.

Regarding the pill, it was something Seol-Hwi had past experience with.

The Purple Spirit Grass—

The pill which Choi Sang-seung used for the highest cultivation.
It was judged that this was probably related to lifting the curse of it.

Next was the Bloodbath all over the World.

Among the many books the Earth Demon wrote, it was the only martial art which spoke of spirituality.
It was not known if it had anything to do with the Heavenly Killing Star, but judging from his reaction, it seemed like he was right at some point.

“Then I will ask again.”

The Earth Demon’s eyes changed.

Now, they looked menacing as if this was no longer a test but a fight against a criminal.

“What do you think it will take for me to get rid of all the other disciples and gain power?”

“Fourth disciple…?”

“Lord…!”

The entire hall turned into a mess.

This was no longer a question to test him.
It was a plan to consider the future.
It was a question which should not be asked now.

Naturally, his men were shocked, and Seol-Hwi could not speak right away like before.

“Why aren’t you answering? So far you spoke out in a valiant manner to the questions given.
If so, you will also understand my troubles.
How the inevitable future is baring its teeth at me.
right?”

“…!”

“…!”

Suddenly, the conversation flowed to a dangerous place.

Ahead, the future—

What the Earth Demon is mostly concerned about.
It was to the extent that it was an excessive push to get an answer.

Naturally, those hearing this were on the edge.
They did not understand why he did this or what he was expecting from Seol-Hwi.

And at this moment—

It felt like everyone would get up right away.

Because the Earth Demon, who rarely spoke out honestly, suddenly expressed his emotions, in order to find a way to overcome the curse and see a future.

“For the future of the Earth Demon’s…”

Seol-Hwi’s mouth, which was firmly shut till then, slowly opened.

“Of course, you have to kill the other three disciples.
But they are all ambitious.
The First Disciple will draw the knife first.”

“…!”

The Earth Demon was shocked.
What Seol-Hwi said was what he expected countless times.
But he never had the confidence to be sure of it.
With an attitude of being certain of the future, for the time being, he spoke right in front of the man.

“I will tell you what will happen in the future.
With the battle to take power increasing, the easiest target, the Third Disciple, will be the target.
At that time the Second Disciple will ask for an alliance with the Earth Demon.”

“Look here.”

A masked man suddenly intervened.

“He will tell you this ‘Since you are a lord who cannot get the position, if you want to save the lives of your subordinate then cooperate with me’ and the Earth Demon will not refuse this order.”

“You!”

“Fucking brat!”

A few masked men jumped up at this.
Seol-Hwi’s actions were pure rudeness.

“…”

But the Earth Demon, who was the target of this, waved his hand and stopped them.

“He speaks of an interesting story.
Did you see the future?”

“Yes.”

“…”

“I am foretelling the future.
Just like the Fourth Disciple did.
The future will come.
A fate which cannot be escaped.
A hell which we know is coming but not escaped from.
To get tired because of that and to sit down after trying for a long time, right?”

“…”

The Earth Demon shut his eyes.
His eyes were twitching which made everyone silent.

“You…”

The Earth Demon did not speak, but it looked like he would.

All this while, the countless disappointments—

The Earth Demon tried to see every possible outcome in the future, assess, predict, everything.
But the future that could be seen was all darkness.

He had more talent than everyone else, he tried harder than everyone else, and it was also he who fell down in frustration.

The loneliness, this kid who suddenly appeared and spoke of the difficult times he went through like everything was known.

Guessing the inside of it was a ghost.
This guy who carried out impossible missions one by one and carried them out like a lie.

“You… what will you do next?”

Apparently it looked like he wanted to say a lot.
Thinking so, the Earth Demon wanted to hear the end.
But—

“I intend to make you the winner in this power struggle.”

“…”

“…”

Silence passed.

Everyone went stiff.
No one had ever said such a thing to the Earth Demon.
Even his own advisor who knew everything in the world and the ambitious warriors with complete loyalty had never said such things.

“Why?”

Because of that the Earth Demon was not confident.
There was no frown, no nonsense, no smile of being reassured.

For some reason, Seol-Hwi, it felt like his words were ones that could be turned to reality.

Why was he doing this to him?

“Don’t you have a bit of romance left in you?”

“…”

“You have the goal to protect your subordinates, rise to the top, and live happily without regrets.
Later when the chance comes, sneak into Hangzhou and have a pint.”

“…”

The Earth Demon’s mouth opened wide before he realized.
And to him,

“Same here.
I still have it.”

Seol-Hwi smiled brightly and said,

“The romance within.”