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Chapter: 14
The Legent of the Galaxy God of War – Reincarnation (5)
When the Beggars’ Sect also began to invade the Haomen Sect’s fields of business such as hotels and trade, the Haomen Sect in turn began targeting the internet.
The internet was firmly controlled by the Beggars’ Sect, and unless there was a very serious problem or inconvenience, customers did not bother changing what they mainly used.
The Beggars’ Sect had abandoned its origins as beggars, but because of that, they focused even more on their reason for existence: “justice.”
Justice was the Beggars’ Sect’s greatest shield and also its fatal weakness.
Just as the martial world was divided into the orthodox sects and unorthodox sects, the light side and dark side, the internet also had its own light and dark sides.
The Dark Web.
The Haomen Sect began targeting the darkness of the internet, which was mainly used by criminals.
The Haomen Sect’s attempt was successful.
By taking over areas that the Beggars’ Sect could not dare touch, the Haomen Sect escaped its surrounded situation and began a power struggle with the Beggars’ Sect.
The two great sects, whose boundaries had been invaded by each other, fought an invisible information war both online and offline, regardless of the light side or the dark side.
While the conflict between the Beggars’ Sect and the Haomen Sect intensified, the international situation also began to move toward the end of the peaceful era.
Global warming and natural disasters worsened due to reckless development and environmental pollution, and competition between nations over global dominance became more active.
Even though the peaceful era was ending, the world could not enter another great war like the previous age, so the nations competing for global dominance stopped wars at a local level and focused on invisible wars through intelligence battles.
It was the beginning of the frozen new Cold War era of the 22nd century, where the Cold War of the 20th century seemed warm, even hot, in comparison.
Naturally, since intelligence warfare was information warfare, the ones who played the biggest roles in this era were undoubtedly the Beggars’ Sect and the Haomen Sect.
The documentary only briefly explained famous incidents, but even those few stories showed how serious the situation had been at the time.
The intelligence war of the new Cold War ended near the end of the 22nd century, thanks to the beginning of humanity’s full-scale expansion into space.
The new Cold War spread into a space development competition like the old Cold War, and because it received support from many nations, space expansion progressed smoothly.
Terraforming of the Moon and Mars.
Technologies for building colonies at Lagrange points were created, and naturally, Earth became the testing ground for those technologies.
Earth succeeded in slowing down global warming through terraforming technology.
Once terraforming technology was established to a certain degree, humanity’s expansion into space began gaining momentum.
Of course, even with terraforming technology established, the environment of space was harsh unlike Earth.
At that time, what drew attention was the overwhelming vitality of martial artists.
A vitality that allowed them to survive even cannon explosions and poisonous gas attacks.
Based on such vitality, it was not impossible to develop martial arts so that they could survive even in space.
Thus, martial artists full of vitality became the vanguard of space expansion, and when martial artists moved, it meant the great sects also moved.
Humanity expanded into space, and the fourth documentary ended.
Episodes 5 through 7 focused on the predecessor of the Galactic Martial Alliance, the Martial Alliance.
To summarize briefly, amid competition between nations for dominance over the Moon and Mars, the great sects began breaking free from the restraints of nations.
The reason the great sects could escape national control was because terraforming and colony development were difficult without martial artists due to the harsh environment of space.
Because they gained authority after enduring hardships, the great sects grew to the point where nations could no longer easily control martial artists.
During that process, a representative who could speak equally with various nations was needed, and the Martial Alliance and its leader took that position.
This was because if power became concentrated in one particular sect and the balance between sects collapsed, the sects could once again fall under national control.
Eventually, when warp navigation technology that could leave the solar system was developed, the great sects spread throughout the galaxy like adventurers searching for a land of gold and began competing in development.
Whoever discovered and claimed a star system first became its owner, so they moved quickly.
From this point on, the great sects began to take on the characteristics of semi-national organizations rather than mere groups of martial artists.
The protagonists of episodes 8 through 12 were surprisingly the Cheon Clan, the family I was born into.
More precisely, it was the once-in-history genius born from the Cheon Clan, which had barely held one of the positions among the great sects at the time: the Martial God, Cheon Yu.
As competition over the galaxy’s star systems intensified, a terraforming craze swept across the galaxy regardless of orthodox, unorthodox, or demonic factions, and large and small wars broke out throughout the entire Galactic Martial World.
There were countless star systems in the galaxy, but according to the technology of that time, planets or moons that could be terraformed like Mars or the Moon were rare, and wars were fought over control of those planets and moons.
To seize planets, the distinction between orthodox and unorthodox factions disappeared, and a true bloodbath erupted. In that situation, those called the Demonic Cult often crossed the line.
During hundreds of years of war, around the 28th century AD, the Martial God Cheon Yu, born from the Cheon Clan, became the greatest person in the galaxy at the young age of less than 300 years old by creating a realm beyond the Natural Realm, which was considered the limit of martial artists.
At the mention of 300 years old, I briefly wondered if this was not a martial arts world but a cultivation world, but no.
The Martial God Cheon Yu, who reached a realm no one could even imagine, began influencing the entire galaxy as if he were organizing the chaos.
Cheon Yu’s first move was to revive the Martial Alliance, which had become meaningless because the activity range of sects had grown too wide, into the Galactic Martial Alliance, with the Cheon Clan at its center, and gather the orthodox alliance together.
Then he personally took the lead and began subjugating the great unorthodox sects that committed atrocities and the Demonic Cult, which had gone far beyond the limit.
As the saying goes, “one hand cannot block ten hands,” the Martial God Cheon Yu could not appear on every battlefield.
However, the battlefields where he appeared were mainly the former Cheon Mountain Star System and the former Hundred Thousand Mountains Star System, which had been the headquarters of the Demonic Cult, and the former Tyrant King Star System, former Tyrant Path Star System, and former Second Tyrant Path Star System, which had been the headquarters of the Tyrant Alliance, the alliance of the great unorthodox sects.
The reason the word “former” was attached before the names of the star systems was because the planets terraformed by the Demonic Cult and the Tyrant Alliance were completely destroyed by the attacks of the Martial God Cheon Yu.
Before I could even wonder how a person could destroy planets, the documentary showed footage of planets still in a hell-like state because their crusts had been overturned and their mantles exposed, as well as footage of planets literally splitting in half at that time.
Honestly, watching the footage made it seem like this was a cultivation world rather than a martial arts world, but it wasn’t.
Thus, the Demonic Cult was considered to have been wiped out before the Martial God Cheon Yu entered seclusion, and the territory of the unorthodox factions shrank drastically.
Of course, after the Martial God Cheon Yu’s seclusion, they slowly regained their power again, but the current ruler of the Galactic Martial World was the orthodox faction’s Galactic Martial Alliance.
To be exact, the galaxy was divided approximately as 60% orthodox, 24% unorthodox, 15% Demonic Cult, and 1% others.
Anyway, although the Martial God Cheon Yu had entered seclusion, it was confirmed that he was still alive, and the Cheon Clan, which had played a leading role in creating the Galactic Martial Alliance, had surpassed other great sects and was enjoying the reputation of being the greatest clan in the galaxy.
“Siwoo.”
After finishing the documentary, I called Siwoo. The cleaning Siwoo was doing stopped, and he put down the vacuum cleaner and came over.
“Yes, young master.”
The vacuum cleaners of the 50th century were completely silent. That was amazing.
Was this the technology of the future?
“How is my geongji?”
Because my teeth had not fully grown yet, my pronunciation was unclear.
“Are you asking about my realm? Or are you asking how the realms of martial artists are divided?”
“Both.”
“You mean both. I can fight on equal terms with, or perhaps slightly above, a martial artist in the Transformation Realm thanks to my artificial external dantian and martial arts drive.”
Siwoo was originally not a nanny android, but a training sparring android for my father, who had died before I was born.
Naturally, even now that he had become my nanny, Siwoo was still a master of the Transformation Realm.
“The realms of martial artists are broadly divided into fifteen stages.”
The Beginner Realm, where one senses and absorbs surrounding energy to create a dantian.
The Third-Rate Realm, where one consumes the energy in the dantian to strengthen the body.
The Second-Rate Realm, where one goes beyond strengthening the body and can strengthen objects.
The First-Rate Realm, where one can create sword energy on a weapon.
The Peak Realm, where sword energy begins becoming tangible and one can create sword threads.
The Transcendent Peak Realm, where sword threads gather to create a single blade called sword force.
The Transformation Realm, where condensed sword force can be turned into a sword ring.
The Profound Realm, where the body’s energy channels open, allowing one to harmonize with the world and preventing internal energy from falling below a certain level.
The Life and Death Realm, said to transcend life and death.
The Natural Realm, said to accept nature itself.
The Star-Self Realm, where one goes beyond nature, accepts the stars, and becomes a star oneself.
The Star Transcendence Realm, said to surpass the stars.
The Ecstasy Realm, said to surpass the Star Transcendence Realm.
The Ascension Realm, the realm above that.
The Martial God Realm, a realm reached only by the Martial God Cheon Yu.
After hearing the explanation, I said to Siwoo.
“From the Life and Death Realm, the explanations are unclear?”
“You mean the explanations after the Life and Death Realm are uncertain?”
Siwoo somehow understood my words.
“That is because most testimonies from people who reached realms above the Life and Death Realm are philosophical and impossible to understand.”
“Ah, so they cannot be explained?”
“Meaning they cannot be interpreted? Yes, that is correct.”
At Siwoo’s answer, I nodded, understanding.
“But why can the Martial God live that long?”
“You mean why the Martial God can live for so long? That is because when humans reach the Transformation Realm, they achieve rebirth through bone transformation and return to youth. From the Profound Realm onward, as one’s realm increases, aging begins to slow down. Ah, according to records, those who reach the Life and Death Realm and Star-Self Realm undergo another bone transformation.”
I could not help but be surprised by Siwoo’s following words.
“Your great-grandfather, the clan head, is currently 681 years old, and your grandfather, the external branch head, is 503 years old.”
About 30 years ago, the clan head, Sword King Cheon Ja-su, became the clan head and was a master of the Star Transcendence Realm. My grandfather, Cheon Gyeong-ho, was known as a master of the Natural Realm.
“What about my father?”
“…Your father, Cheon Ju-yu, was at the Transformation Realm. Your mother, Seo Gyeong-ae, was a martial artist of the Peak Realm.”
Siwoo answered carefully because he did not know how talking about my parents would affect my emotions.
“Okay, I understand.”
“You mean ‘okay, I understand’? If you have any other questions, please ask me anytime.”
After finishing his answer, Siwoo returned to cleaning.
Why did Cheon Ju-yu, the clan head’s grandson, die?
Even if it was the death of a close direct descendant of the clan head, it should have appeared in the news. But since I could not search anything, it was frustrating.
I tried touching the remote control to see if I could search through the television embedded in the wall, but it only showed movies and dramas. I could not find any internet search function.
Considering that all the searchable movies were rated 15 or below, it seemed they had blocked children from watching anything inappropriate.
Hmm, at times like this, I do have one secret technique.
Is it time to use a forbidden demonic art?
(To be continued)
