As Oh Hyun-seok emerges from the world of nothingness, he begins to read the wisdom Silver Basket has passed down to him.

“What in the world?"

They are forty-nine Immortal Arts created by Silver Basket in Mount Sumeru, along with the mantras formed by combining them.

While none of the mantras clearly reach the Supreme Deity rank or stand out as particularly exceptional, when all of them are combined, it seems entirely possible to subdue a Supreme Deity using only Immortal Arts, without relying on the Immortal Dao. “On top of that..the sequence of combining the Immortal Arts, the methods of combination, the proportions in combination, the surrounding environment during combination... If all these variables are accounted for, wouldn't it be possible to create almost infinite mantras...?'

Though no single transcendent mantra can be made, the secret art that allows one to generate mantras of good enough strength in nearly infinite numbers by combining the forty-nine Immortal Arts.

True Devil Forty-Nine Treading Divine Art (EEEPG-+ILESH).

“This is crazy, Silver Basket... Just how did you manage to create such a secret art? This is practically on the level of creating an entire world...

Looking at the True Devil Forty-Nine Treading Divine Art, Oh Hyun-seok feels like cold sweat is forming.

Tssaaaah—

But soon, he realizes he doesn't have the leisure to dwell on such thoughts.

“My consciousness is gradually scattering. If I stay inside Master's body like this, I'l truly be annihilated.

Using the Immortal Arts he obtained from Silver Basket, he begins to perceive his essence even more clearly.

Woo-woooong!

His essence begins to resonate with his will.

The Absolute Fragment of Pleasure gradually begins to reveal itself, and Oh Hyun-seok begins to transform into a Primordial Chaos that mixes everything together.

Soon, he merges with the entire world and identifies what is connected to him through the Immortal Arts.

I can feel it.

The Immortal Dao of Seven Stars he has been following.

The peak of that Immortal Dao, where the Origin Essence lies.

“Wait for me, Great Mountain Supreme Deity...

Tsuaaaaaaat!

Having become the Absolute itself, he gradually feels as though he is traversing through transcendent worlds and being moved elsewhere.

—Have you ever thought of it to be a privilege...2

Suddenly, Oh Hyun-seok sees something within the pain.

itis bright sunlight.

“A hallucination...?"

—Even if life is pain, to move forward amidst it is surely both a duty and a privilege. Have you ever thought of advancing toward righteousness within it...>

Beneath that sunlight, Oh Hyun-seok sees someone standing with their back turned to him.

itis an immense, muscular giant, whose shoulders seem like a great mountain. —Holding faith, have you ever thought of reaching the stars?

The figure throws a question toward Oh Hyun-seok.

Oh Hyun-seok, looking at them, trembles with blurred eyes.

Then, he lets out a bitter smile.

"... have not."

He is a failure.

He could not save Oh Hye-seo, who suffered on Earth.

He could not save his daughter, dying in his wife's womb.

He could not save his comrades who fell into the Head Realm.

He could not save the master who taught him in the Bright Cold Realm.

And now, he cannot even save the master who taught him after he became a True immortal.

“I was nothing more than trash. Stars? They were far beyond me. Such a grand privilege, I've never dared to enjoy it. I...am nothing."

Within the pain, Oh Hyun-seok, as if entranced, falls into self-reproach and despair.

But the giant figure chuckles softly.

—Then, child. Why is it that you still drag those heavy shoulders forward and take another step?

“Take...a step...?"

Suddenly, Oh Hyun-seok realizes that even though he wishes to give up everything, he s still stepping forward toward something.

“Why am L..still walking?"

Why does he continue walking, suffering in this eternal, undying hell without giving up? Oh Hyun-seok ponders amidst the agony.

And suddenly, he realizes that the answer is already within him.

I already know the answer. But..."

However, he cannot explain why he keeps walking.

Yet, regardless of that, he walks.

Perhaps it is because, even back on Earth, he always had a certain grit.

Perhaps it is because he had the grit to study only what he wanted abroad while even knowing that a child named Oh Hye-seo was in danger.

Perhaps it is because he had the grit to stay at work, saying he would leave after just ten more minutes, even when his wife called saying her stomach hurt.

Perhaps it is because he had the grit to not care about those in the Black Ghost Valley and the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect, and especially those left to age in the Head Realm, like Kim Young-hoon and Seo Eun-hyun, while he himself endured hellish training in the Azure Heaven Creation Sect.

“My life is one filled with regrets."

He still does not know the exact reason.

No, he knows—but he does not know how to put it into words.

Thinking simply that it is due to his grit, Oh Hyun-seok keeps walking.

Toward the vaguely felt Seat of Seven Stars, toward that illusion of sunlight wavering before his eyes along with the pain...

And then, at some point—

"Heok...!"

As he climbs the mountain of darkness, Oh Hyun-seok suddenly feels his hand about to slip and panics.

Just then,

Clench!

[Someone's hand grabs Oh Hyun-seok's wrist and pulls him up to somewhere.

“Th-This place is...2"

Oh Hyun-seok looks around in confusion.

An endlessly sprawling prairie.

A clear sky.

A vast, clear world where the Corpse Mountain Blood Sea is nowhere to be seen. Entering such a place, Oh Hyun-seok opens his eyes wide.

“What...is this...2'

Then, he suddenly becomes aware that someone is standing before him.

it is an incredibly massive giant, and perhaps it's because their face is hidden in the backlight, or there was never a face to begin with...it cannot clearly be seen.

But one thing is certain.

“..Who...are you...2"

The being before him is someone Oh Hyun-seok has met before.

"Who exactly are you...to carry the exact same aura as my master...2"

As he recalls feeling the aura of Azure Tiger Saint while crossing the Outer Sea in a previous timeline, Oh Hyun-seok's voice trembles.

And he feels the being with the same aura as Azure Tiger Saint smile.

[1 am the Immortal Beast, Mountain-Destroying Demon Ape. At the same time, the Heart Demon of Ra Cheon...and his friend. His pure aspect.)

The giant who introduces himself as Mountain-Destroying Demon Ape extends a hand and lifts Oh Hyun-seok up as he continues speaking.

[Child who wears the armor forged from my hair-clone.]

The giant taps on Oh Hyun-seok’s Blue Sky Armor and laughs.

[it seems you've encountered my Buddha-Nature left behind in the Head Realm.] "Buddha-Nature...?"

[it is the will I left behind, hoping that one day, when Ra Cheon challenges the Audience Chamber, it might become a possibility that moves his heart...the fragment of my pure heart that practiced righteousness. To protect that Buddha-Nature, I sent my hair-clone to the Head Realm, asking it to become a guardian deity for those who inherited the Buddha-Nature... So, how was it? Did my clone protect you well?]

Oh Hyun-seok remains silent for a long while.

Then finally, recalling old memories, he smiles.

L...Yes. It truly...protected me well.]

At those words from Oh Hyun-seok, the giant—

Mountain-Destroying Demon Ape, Cheong Min (%)—smiles gently.

[The final domain preserved by the Origin Essence of the Sea of Nature. Welcome to the realm of Azure Scenery Heavenly Net (BRKE).]