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Dad Is the Demonic Cult Leader – Chapter 65

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Chapter 65

Good heavens.

Is there anyone else in the world who has realized, learned, and practiced the word ‘extreme’ as deeply as I have?

I can say with certainty that there is no such person.

Whether the manifestation of that ‘extreme’ is voluntary or involuntary.

Because from the beginning, no one but an ‘expert in pain’ like me can endure it.

Of course, depending on the situation, one might experience short-term ‘extremes’.

But who can sustain such extremes?

What’s there to say?

If that were possible, everyone in the world would be a sage and a master.

In other words, I am the ultimate authority on ‘extreme’, the ultimate researcher, the ‘expert in extreme’ who can fully understand and practice it.

Because of that……

Having entered the ‘Three Emptinesses Training’, I pushed myself to the extreme for twelve hours a day.

When I first started the Three Emptinesses Training, the disciples and nearby officials who sparred with me for five hours all cursed and became pale.

It’s only natural since I shattered 50 people while blindfolded and without raising my internal energy.

Not to mention our disciples, I had already asked for understanding from the heads of other clans, so the other officials also beat me mercilessly. Because of that, Master Dongbyeok had a hard time treating the injuries.

However.

When such extremes lasted for about ten days, the disciples and officials did not blame my actions.

That’s because they started to be truly impressed.

「Sect Leader.」

「Why don’t you eat something while you train?」

「If you continue like this, you’ll really collapse. You’ll die before the duel…… no, you’ll pass away.」

I……

As the disciples said, I stopped eating since the Three Emptinesses Training began.

Of course, there’s a good reason why I stopped eating.

It was to restrict my desires and make my body as sensitive and sharp as possible before the duel with Yuk Gwang.

This is a part of training to awaken a kind of ‘intuition’ and ‘senses’.

Fasting is the fastest way to make the body sensitive.

But does fasting make you lose energy or lack stamina?

Not at all.

Humans are originally born as beings with a microcosm .

However, as they live, they become distant from their original selves due to cooked food, lifestyle habits, experiences, and intellectual ego. By controlling my desires and pushing my body to the extreme of sensitivity, I was getting closer to the original purity.

And the direction of my training started to shine on the fifteenth day.

「Go…… Good heavens!」

「How can he defend all eight directions while blindfolded?」

「He’s not human, he’s not. He’s like a beast with eyes all over his body!」

On the fifteenth day, I became a human ‘explosive’ that could detonate with a slight touch.

What does this feel like? It’s like I can clearly see the movements of someone swinging a real sword behind my back even though I’m blindfolded.

Could this be the ‘Mind’s Eye’, the lamp of the heart and the eye of the heart that Buddhism talks about?

Anyway, I succeeded in becoming an untouchable ‘Grandmaster of Sensitivity’ in just fifteen days after starting the ‘Three Emptinesses Training’.

When I finished training and descended the mountain, it felt like even the origin of a single breeze blowing on the mountainside was drawn in my mind, and even the movements of insects crawling in the forest were engraved in my senses.

“Elder. I’m planning to enter closed-door training for fifteen days starting today. To be precise, it’s not closed-door training, but rather solitary mountain training. Anyway, please take good care of So-yun during that time.”

I asked Master Dongbyeok to take care of So-yun and then went into the mountains, intending to start the second part of my training in earnest.

The second part of the training will be a lonely training conducted completely alone.

It’s about sitting in a waterfall for twelve hours straight without sleeping, fasting, and even holding back excretions while meditating. During meditation, I will absorb as much of the ‘Force’ attribute and ‘Thunder’ attribute breaths as possible, cleanse my body of impurities, and only fill my mind and body with combat senses. It’s a mental training.

Through this, I will aim for the unification of mind, energy, and body and create a physical state where I can exert my maximum capabilities in any situation.

Based on that belief, I sat cross-legged under the pouring waterfall and contemplated each and every drop of water with my ‘Mind’s Eye’.

“Hooooo……”

I absorb the breath using the principles of the Nature Meridian, but I don’t use internal energy.

The moment I raise my internal energy, my body will be free from all hunger, sleepiness, cold, and pain, so I endured the training solely with the perseverance of my physical body and the arousal of my spirit.

Shiver━.

While I was sitting in the waterfall, continuing my breathing and meditation……

At times, my body was tormented by unspeakable cold.

It was natural for the extreme cold to come, as I was in the mountains in February, without sleep and having fasted for over 20 days.

But around that time, I no longer felt hungry.

And this was evidence that all the impurities in my body had been purified.

But as the hunger disappeared, another pain came.

That pain, like the cold, usually struck my mind and body at dawn. It was the onset of a ‘hallucinatory state’ like ‘auditory hallucinations’ and ‘visual hallucinations’.

To be honest, I didn’t know exactly why I was suffering from hallucinations.

I had suffered from hallucinations during the Three Emptinesses Training in my past life, so I just accepted it.

But, if I were to guess……

I think hallucinations stem from my own ‘imagination’.

Why?

Because most of human fear, anxiety, and nervousness stems from ‘imagination’.

For example, ‘animals’ that live solely by ‘intuition’ and ‘senses’ lack ‘imagination’, so they only feel ‘fear’ based on phenomena or instincts.

But, because humans have imagination, they fall into unnecessary worries and anxieties, and don’t those swamps of thoughts bury the mind?

Anyway, the ‘hallucinations’ that came tormented me thoroughly, incomparable to the hunger, sleepiness, and cold I had experienced so far. Every dawn, I had to face the faces of the Heavenly Demon Sword Squad members and the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demonic Path who tried to kill me, and I shuddered at the illusion of the Cult Leader cutting off my head with a giant glaive.

However……

Even so, I kept my ‘mind’ completely intact in the hallucinations.

First of all, I had experienced this hallucination in my past life, and the Demonic Cult figures were no longer ‘fear’ but just a ‘mountain’ to overcome.

Only then did I realize that I had become completely free from the shackles of my past life.

That’s right.

I am no longer the Demonic Cult’s Assassin Guild Leader, Jin So-cheon, nor am I the reincarnated Jin So-cheon who was killed by the Heavenly Demon Sword Squad and the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demonic Path.

Now, I am……

So-yun’s dad, the Sect Leader of the uneducated but loyal Dawn Heaven Sect disciples, Yeon-u’s reliable older brother, and a spiritual son-like existence to Master Dongbyeok.

Furthermore, the employer of the kind Ye-rin, the parent of the writing teacher, and the younger brother of Master Ju Yeong-cheon are my identity, Jin So-cheon. The current me had to endure the illusions of the past life well, and I could endure it well.

Thus, another five days passed……

At that time, I no longer felt hallucinations, hunger, or cold. Rather, my mind became clear as a crystal, and my heart was as light as a feather.

It’s not that I gained enlightenment like a tiger-riding Taoist priest who cultivates in the mountains, like ‘Ascending to Immortality’.

However, my mind and heart were extremely stable, but my physical senses were so sensitive that even a slight touch would make me unleash 1000 Praying Mantis Chestnuts in an instant……

‘Finally……’

Finally, I had achieved the state of a ‘human weapon’ optimized for ‘fighting’, born to ‘fight’, only for ‘fighting’.

Flash━.

I opened my eyes like that.

Looking at the waning moonlight at dawn, I put an end to the hellish ‘Three Emptinesses Training’.

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“Daddy?”

“You……”

“Sect Leader?”

“Brother!”

When I returned home.

People’s reactions were unusual.

Especially So-yun, she kept touching my face with blank eyes for a while. I felt something strange and only understood their reaction after looking in the mirror.

“Daddy, why did you lose so much weight? And what’s with your appearance…… Sob !”

That’s right.

During my mountain training, I had become incredibly thin.

Moreover, my complexion, the glint in my eyes, and my overall energy flow had changed without me knowing. If the previous me was the owner of a partially bulky body with a lively face, the current me was skinny but with muscles all over my body as if there was a drought, and my eyes were filled with a ferocious, venomous energy reminiscent of a ‘beast’.

“So-yun. I lost weight because of the training. I’ll be back to normal in a few days, so please bear with me.”

“Hee━ Okay, Daddy.”

Fortunately, So-yun quickly adapted to my thinner appearance, while the Dongdong brothers, Master Dongbyeok, and Yeon-u still had worried looks in their eyes.

“You. Come to the medical hall first. I think I need to check your pulse and give you acupuncture.”

“Elder, I’m fine. My physical condition is actually much better, so you don’t have to worry.”

Then, Il-dong asked again.

“Brother, are you really okay?”

“I’m fine.”

“Then…… why don’t you come to the reception hall?”

“Why the reception hall?”

“Do you know how many guests have gathered in Chang’an during that time? There are many important guests in the main sect as well. The duel announcement that you wrote yourself has spread throughout the Central Plains, and martial artists from nearby Xingping, Hanyang, Mei County, Fufeng County, Gaoling County, as well as from Weinan, Lushan, Dongcheon, and Shangzhou have come to see your duel with the Sixth Guardian.”

“Really?”

“Really? Of course it is.”

“You…… why are you so arrogant……”

“Forget it.”

“???”

“Seeing you talk so rudely…… you seem to be in good shape. Then let’s go to the reception hall quickly.”

“Ha……”

“People from the Mount Hua Sect and the Mount Zhongnan Sect have come too!”

Alright.

Alright.

Why is he so arrogant today?

◈ ◈ ◈

“Sect Leader Jin.”

“Sect Leader Jin. It’s been a while.”

As I entered the hall……

As expected, Clan Head Seok and Cheongmun Sword Master greeted me. Some unfamiliar martial artists were also staring at me with meaningful eyes.

I bowed to Clan Head Seok and Cheongmun Sword Master and then greeted the unfamiliar people.

“Thank you for visiting the Dawn Heaven Sect. I am the Sect Leader, Jin So-cheon.”

Then,

“Nice to meet you. I am Won-il of the Mount Zhongnan Sect.”

“Nice to meet you. I am Baek Jung of the Mount Hua Sect.”

“So you are the famous Sect Leader of the Dawn Heaven Sect in Chang’an. Nice to meet you. I am Im Jong-ho of Mount Zhongnan.”

The three of them introduced themselves as well. The oldest of the three was Master Won-il of Mount Zhongnan, who was a martial brother of the current Mount Zhongnan Sect Leader and a renowned figure I had heard of. Im Jong-ho of the same Mount Zhongnan Sect and Baek Jung of the Mount Hua Sect seemed to be around my age or a few years older, so they appeared to be first or second generation disciples of their respective sects.

“Huh-huh. Sect Leader Jin. I heard about you and personally visited Mount Zhongnan to invite Master Won-il to come with me. Also, Baek Jung is a disciple of our sect, and I brought him along to broaden his horizons on this journey, so please understand.”

At that moment, Cheongmun Sword Master laughed heartily and said.

“Don’t mention it. I’m grateful that you came all the way here.”

As I was exchanging words with Cheongmun Sword Master.

Master Won-il of Mount Zhongnan spoke again.

“Sect Leader Jin. To be honest, this duel is like an event for the martial artists in the Shaanxi region. So, originally, many elders, including my senior martial brother, the Sect Leader, would have come to watch the duel. However, the Martial Alliance is currently confronting the Demonic Cult, so everyone is busy going back and forth to the main headquarters. Still, I came to represent Mount Zhongnan, so please don’t be disappointed and show us a good duel.”

I was inwardly impressed by Master Won-il’s humility.

Actually, both Cheongmun Sword Master and Master Won-il……

They are elder-level figures from large sects, so there’s no need for them to be humble to me, who is not even 30 years old.

However, whether it was sincere or superficial, both of them, as befitting figures of the Righteous Path, treated me, a young man, as the Sect Leader of a sect.

But……

“Sect Leader Jin. I don’t know if this is an impertinent question to ask upon first meeting, but…… is it true that you really fought and won against Noh Jeong-ju of the Noh Family Assassin’s Guild?”

Even though they’re from the same Mount Zhongnan Sect.

Why is this Im Jong-ho guy so different?

“That’s right.”

“Really?”

“It’s true.”

“……You don’t look like it.”

“???”

“That’s strange. Does that mean Noh Jeong-ju’s martial arts were that much of an illusion?”

“……”

What’s with this guy again?

Really……

Does he want to die?


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(🇰🇷)Dad Is the Demonic Cult Leader

🇰🇷)Dad Is the Demonic Cult Leader

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Status: Ongoing Type: Author: Released: 2021 Native Language: Korean
The commander of the Great Heavenly Demon Holy Cult’s assassination unit, the best assassin of all time, Number 7! Opening his eyes after he met his end… “Pa, papa?” Suddenly, he became a dad?! The strongest assassin commander’s difficult parenting journey begins now!

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