Childhood Friend of the Zenith – 342 (Part 1)



342 (Part 1)

”'<Chapter 343: The Return. (2)

Crack.

A harsh sound reaches my ears.

Truly a violent noise.

If it were just the sound it would be a relief.

But the pressure follows in waves compressing my body.

Should I say it feels like being tightly squeezed?

‘Ughhh.’ As the pressure intensifies pain sets in.

I can’t bear to open my mouth so I have to scream in agony internally.

How long has it been like this?

I don’t know. I can’t measure it in time.

‘This is ridiculous. Seriously.’

I had to regret for a long time amidst the crumpling pain.

When I entered my insides had twisted.

It was at a level that accompanied motion sickness.

But isn’t the level now vastly different?

Especially compared to my previous life the difference is incomparable.

Back then it was a level of mild motion sickness similar to when I entered.

Why does the sensation I feel in this life differ so much?

If not could it be the price I pay for ignoring the warning I heard just before returning?

– It will be painful when you return.

After finishing all the stories the World Tree told me.

– Be careful; the pain of returning will be great.

– I’ve already experienced it once. What’s the big deal?

I had chuckled and said that in response to the World Tree’s warning.

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Now I had to regret that moment.

‘I’ve experienced it damn it…!’

It’s absurd.

The level is different from back then.

Why is the time to return so long?

As I pondered that I suddenly shook my head internally.

‘Is this all my Karmic Retribution?’

Among the words I heard from the World Tree I felt I vaguely understood the reason for this situation.

The world where the World Tree existed was said to be a false world.

A demonic realm created for the World Tree which had sinned to suffer alone.

Originally it was a place where one could not freely enter and exit.

I didn’t know that precisely but…

In any case the reason I headed there was partly because I wanted to hear truths I didn’t know.

I also wanted to deal with Jang Seon-yeon.

But the most important essence was the time difference between that place and this one.

I needed that.

After all a few years in the demonic realm would turn into mere days in the real world.

I needed that difference.

Moreover once I stepped outside I could never set foot in that demonic realm again.

Having stepped in I had to do everything I could.

Especially.

If I was in a state like now struggling against the wall.

Even more so.

To put it precisely I needed time to train.

After finishing my conversation with the World Tree.

After hearing everything I needed to hear.

What I did was ask the World Tree for a favor.

That I needed to train a bit in this place.

The inner arts I had raised by gathering all kinds of energy.

The proficiency built on experiences from my previous life.

!

..

Even my body which had been restructured like a reconstruction.

Everything was in place but for some reason I couldn’t break through the wall and was stuck tight.

This time I felt the need to raise my level solely through training.

So I decided to utilize the demonic realm.

Using the time here.

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That was my intention.

The World Tree upon hearing my story did not particularly object.

I immediately began my training.

No matter how false the world was the five senses were vivid.

Of course the pain. I also felt hunger.

Almost everything was the same as reality.

The sensation when I stretched out my arms was the same.

The feeling of energy moving in the qi center.

Even the sensation of handling heat.

Everything was the same so if I wanted to train I could do so as much as I wanted.

All kinds of information swirled in my head.

Leaving behind the moments filled with despair.

Moving my body while gaining a sense of time was a decent experience.

As a day passed.

Then two days.

Soon a year had passed.

Around the six-month mark I had stopped counting out of annoyance.

It was the World Tree that informed me.

Before I knew it a year had passed.

I didn’t feel much excitement.

I was just disappointed that I hadn’t properly broken through the wall after a year.

When it was time to listen.

I stretched out my arm once more.

If there was one thing that was different about the demonic realm compared to the real world.

It was that the growth of the body was a bit slower.

It didn’t matter.

Right now the growth of the body wasn’t important.

The body was strengthening but I wasn’t growing taller.

Was there some difference?

Or had my growth completely stopped?

That might be the case.

But I thought it probably wasn’t.

I wasn’t particularly tall in my previous life but I was taller than now so that couldn’t be it.

Moreover recalling that my growth rate had increased after experiencing regression.

I thought that once I fully grew I might be taller than I was then.

In any case.

What mattered wasn’t the growth of the body.

It was the stability of the mind and overcoming the wall through it.

And time flowed again.

Now the World Tree no longer told me the time.

Night came and soon it became day.

Perhaps because I was training around the World Tree.

The demonic beasts didn’t bother me.

It was quite strange.

What could be the identity of the demonic beasts lingering in this false world?

I was briefly curious about that.

But I decided not to dwell on it.

Right now.

I stretched out my foot once more.

Refining my qi focusing on how to breathe was more important.

The compression I learned from Shin Noya.

Using that to handle my body.

And.

Reducing the mental backlash from the changed methods of use.

For a moment I forgot about the piled-up tasks behind me.

I solely focused on moving my body and refining my energy and mind.

As I momentarily forgot the thoughts filling my head.

Surprisingly my qi seemed to move much more freely.

Perhaps that’s why.

Honestly I thought it wouldn’t take long.

The period to break through the wall.

If I just hit the wall a few more times in the real world I could probably break it.

Or maybe I could get over it.

That’s what I thought.

But a few months? What a foolish thought.’

As I continued to repeat my training.

I began to realize the reality.

The current level is undeniably.

A level gained through miraculous encounters from regression and experiences from my previous life.

If you ask whether it’s different from other peaks I wouldn’t say so.

But it’s not solely based on my talent.

Moreover.

Unlike the explosive qi I used to pour out in the past.

Now I was steadily applying even a handful of qi.

In this situation where I began to use it meticulously and delicately.

The past experiences didn’t take up as much space as I thought.

Thanks to that.

“Phew….”

It took a much longer time than I hoped to reach the desired level.

I didn’t count every day that passed.

But considering the time difference.

When I returned to the original world it would have been a few days.

I had spent that long in this place which was a time I hadn’t anticipated.

But in the end I had achieved what I desired.

Now I had to return.

And having reached this point.

The excruciating pain intertwines.

‘Damn it.’

The pain felt as if my whole body was being crushed.

In the situation of returning to the real world across dimensions.

The reason I felt this pain was none other than this.

Everything I achieved there.

I couldn’t bring anything back when returning to the real world.

The years they spent there in my previous life were rendered meaningless.

Memories were erased.

The reason I could return without any difference from when I first fell into the demonic realm was because of that.”’