Childhood Friend of the Zenith – 349 (Part 2)



349 (Part 2)

“Instead of just stuffing it in a corner of the qi center like now.

It meant to unify my body and spirit.

In other words.

It meant to transform my body into a demonic practitioner.

From the moment I contained the demonic qi in my body I had been so reluctant and had tried not to use the demonic qi.

I was determined to break through that myself and crawl in on my own.

I let go of the power that had somehow been holding back the rampaging demonic qi.

Grrrr.

Immediately I felt the demonic qi rampaging wildly.

It was painful.

It felt as if someone was stabbing me with a knife inside my body.

Even while feeling that pain I instead maximized the demonic qi.

Kiaaaah!

I was under the illusion that something was howling inside me.

The demonic qi felt as if it was screaming.

It moved along the acupoints.

The direction was not towards the qi center.

The destination was the heart.

[Grroooar!]

I heard a sound in my ear.

The beast that had been calling out for a long time without responding finally crawled out.

I wondered if it felt wrong to come out only now.

But that was not the case.

‘You?’

I asked it.

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‘You were the one holding back the demonic qi from returning.’

[Grroooar….]

Even though the demonic qi had been contained in the qi center until now.

I felt no pain. The transformation into a demonic practitioner had not progressed.

‘You were blocking it weren’t you? Right?’

I thought it was due to the purifying power of the Nine Flame Wheel Technique.

But when I recalled my past life I began to think differently.

When I fell into the hands of the Heavenly Demon and became a demonic practitioner in my past life.

The reason I hadn’t been soaked in madness like others.

I had thought it was just a special circumstance.

However if the World Tree said that there had been a beast inside me since my past life.

Could it be that this guy had been blocking it for me?

The one that had been sleeping inside me had not just awakened now.

Perhaps I had simply not noticed it.

And even now.

As my level increased and the influence of the demonic qi grew stronger.

The reason this guy’s appearances had decreased was ultimately.

Could it be that he had been preventing my demonic qi from rampaging?

That thought crossed my mind.

I wondered if purification was also this guy’s power.

But that was still uncertain.

One thing I was somewhat sure of was.

‘You don’t want me to become a demonic practitioner.’

[Grroooar….]

‘Isn’t that right?’

This guy didn’t want me to become a demonic practitioner.

Whether that was true or not at least that’s what I thought.

But.

‘I’m sorry but I don’t think that’s possible.’

Even if he didn’t want it.

In the end it seemed I had to do it.

In fact hadn’t I just been postponing it?

I had said I would use everything given to me to reach my goal.

I had only postponed it because I didn’t want to become a demonic practitioner recalling my past life.

If I did that.

I felt I wouldn’t be able to return to my original state.

So I hesitated.

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Grrr.

The demonic qi spread throughout my body and began to move more violently.

As the pressure I had been holding back was released it started to rampage as if it were in its own world.

I twisted the flow of the demonic qi that had been released throughout my body and sent it to my heart.

The energy penetrated in an instant.

Not all the demonic qi obeyed but most of it rushed toward the heart.

Veins stood out all over my body.

The pain I felt then was incomparable.

At that time the Heavenly Demon had bestowed the stigmata and turned me into a demonic practitioner.

Now I was using my own power to become a demonic practitioner.

I couldn’t be sure of anything.

Right now I just had to endure.

I opened my eyes which felt like they were about to burst and looked at the Heavenly Demon.

If I became a demonic practitioner like this even if I could hold on for a moment I would eventually fall under the Heavenly Demon’s command.

‘Then it would be the same.’

If that happened the situation would unfold just like in my past life.

Therefore I took a slightly different approach.

For some time now I had been constantly repeating in my mind.

Since the moment I realized that the Demon Absorption Technique had stuck to my body even after going through reincarnation.

As my level increased I passed the point where I could turn someone into a demonic practitioner.

Now I had arrived here.

As my power increased I could do one by one what the Heavenly Demon had done.

It felt as if someone was pushing me saying that I could take the place of the Heavenly Demon.

Isn’t it truly disgusting?

The thought that the situation I was experiencing now might contain someone’s will.

When the Heavenly Demon was right in front of me breathing.

‘Could that really be wrong?’

I lacked the ability to answer that myself.

Was it because all the circumstances were saying so?

I also thought that it could be true.

Is this demonic qi truly the Heavenly Demon’s?

How could the energy drawn from the demonic beast be the Heavenly Demon’s?

Is it because he is the master of countless demons?

Even if I am called a demonic practitioner now how many are there?

Kiaaaah!

The demonic qi constricted around my heart continued to rampage.

As if it wanted to return to the Heavenly Demon.

‘No I need to think differently.’

I had to change my thoughts.

It wasn’t that I was returning to the Heavenly Demon.

I was saying that I found a better vessel and was going to move there.

‘After feeding and sheltering me until now. These bastards.’

Thinking that way made it seem ridiculous.

The Heavenly Demon had told me.

That power is his own.

No to put it correctly that’s not it.

Since I possessed it it is my power.

If you handed me something I never asked for.

I should be able to handle this much.

I had no intention of returning it.

Returning it? It’s my power now. I won’t let go of anything I possess.

Kiaaa…!

The demonic qi continued to surge.

Refusing to connect with the Heavenly Demon even more.

I pulled it tightly.

The pain intensified and it felt like I would burst at any moment.

But it didn’t matter.

‘Shut up and listen.’

If the world demands something from me.

I was willing to listen this one time.

‘Just sitting still who do you think you are looking down on?’

Having taken over a room as if it were theirs.

Did they think they could just go there as soon as the Heavenly Demon appeared?

That wouldn’t do.

Grrr.

I gathered all the rampaging demonic qi and shoved it into my heart.

I felt it moving violently.

If I couldn’t hold on even a little my heart might burst and I could die.

But now it was too late to pull back.

I tightly wove it together slowly and filled it up.

In the past my body wouldn’t have been able to endure it.

But now having reached the transformation stage I barely managed to hold on.

It was as if.

It felt like I had been waiting for this moment to reach the transformation stage.

It was too perfectly timed to dismiss as a delusion.

If this is true.

What could an unknown being desire from me?

‘Could it be that they want me to become the Heavenly Demon?’

It was a ridiculous thought. There was such a mad being right in front of me.

To say that I am the Heavenly Demon.

What a terrifying thing to say.

It was absurd.

In the midst of it all I felt faintly.

As the demonic qi piled up in my heart I saw a transparent line connected to my physical body.

This was connected to the Heavenly Demon.

Even if I say I’m entangled with the Heavenly Demon in this life this line is not long.

What could this line be?

Could it be a mark that the demonic qi in my body is connected to the Heavenly Demon?

The question didn’t last long.

What this line which might be an illusion meant.

Why it was connected.

Whether it was indeed related to the Heavenly Demon.

Regardless of whether it was or not.

I reached out my hand.

And I pulled the connected line and broke it.

Snap.

The line came apart so easily.

“…!”

At that moment the Heavenly Demon’s gaze turned toward me.

Did he feel the line breaking?

Kugugugung!

As soon as the line broke the demonic qi I had been holding in my heart changed.

The demonic qi that I had barely held back instantly spread throughout my entire body again.

The difference from before was.

The demonic qi that had accompanied the pain felt warm this time.

It first seeped into the qi center.

It mixed with the qi that had been lingering there.

Unlike when I had used the expression of devouring the qi.

This time it was slowly mixing.

The demonic qi combined with the lingering qi surged into the middle qi center in an instant.

There was no obstruction.

It was so smooth and natural.

As if filling the traces of being withered after filling the middle qi center with demonic qi.

The only place to head was one.

The upper qi center.

As I transformed and headed toward the frozen unknown space the demonic qi led my body again.

It was as if that movement was a tidal wave.

In a fleeting moment it was incredibly fast.

But I could feel how the demonic qi was moving.

With such a distinct presence how could I not know?

The demonic qi surged into the upper qi center.

Then hot heat filled my eyes.

“Haah….”

The pain had long since disappeared.

I exhaled in an unknown ecstasy.

There was no time to enjoy the foreplay.

I then raised my body.

The Heavenly Demon was looking at me.

His distinct violet eyes were directed toward me.

But what I felt now was not fear or dread but an inexplicable sense of kinship.

Hwarak.

Facing that I ignited a flame with my fingertips.

It was a flame created not with qi but with demonic qi.

Perhaps that’s why a black flame with a violet hue rose.

“Ah damn it.”

I cursed as I looked at it.

I didn’t want to become a demonic practitioner even to avoid seeing this.

In the end I had to contain this damn flame in my body again so how could I not curse?

Setting aside the fact that I had finally become a demonic practitioner and the Heavenly Demon was in front of me.

I made one resolution as I looked at the flame.

If I wasn’t going to die here.

At least I wouldn’t obtain a ridiculous alias like in my past life.

Ironically my top priority right now was just that.”