[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-myst-might-mayhem":3,"chapter-myst-might-mayhem-myst-might-mayhem-chapter-474":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Myst, Might, Mayhem",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},555463,804,"Chapter 474","myst-might-mayhem-chapter-474",474,"\u003Cp>Chapter 474 – One (2)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A baby born in black flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the last intense memory, Mok Gyeong-un’s eyes slowly reddened as time flowed infinitely slow in the space around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black flames that had been burning larger than his body moments ago had now subsided to about the size of a fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gyeong-un looked at him and sent a thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Why do you entrust this to me, a mere human consciousness?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-…….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Couldn’t you take back everything yourself?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the point when he regained all his memories, Mok Gyeong-un was identical to him, albeit with a different personality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the fact that he had become a human consciousness remained unchanged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless of status, he could easily devour his own consciousness that had lived such a short life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he did not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gyeong-un couldn’t help but wonder at this entirely irrational decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the black flame flickered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-It’s not mere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘……..’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Isn’t it shining even brighter?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘You……..’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Someone once said. Because it’s short, it shines even brighter. That’s how we should live too, right?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The image of her smiling brightly flashed by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was that your everything?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Born as the King of Demons, nearly immortal, you longed for a human life – fleeting yet shining brighter than anyone else’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Hiss!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black flame was growing smaller and smaller.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was dying out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-It was… truly… long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Stop. There’s no need to completely dissolve your will into me like this. No, why are you trying to disappear?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-I’m not disappearing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘You!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-There’s no need… to think… that way. I am… you. You are… me. In the end… we are one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the black flame shrank to about the size of a finger, even the voice grew fainter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gyeong-un tried to prevent him from seeping into himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he did not stop it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Enough! Stop. Didn’t you want to meet her? Didn’t you want to speak to her every moment you were awake?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could understand because all the memories had been assimilated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In those few moments of wakefulness, he had repeated the same words dozens, hundreds, thousands of times in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[I missed you so much. My one and only bride.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he never uttered these words aloud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew well why he had done this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was to leave no lingering attachments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If even a hair’s breadth of attachment remained, he might be tempted to give up on assimilating with his human consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why he never spoke to her in the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if it was just once, Mok Gyeong-un wanted him to say this while still maintaining his own personality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Hiss!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the flame burned out, only red embers flickered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His faint voice echoed in Mok Gyeong-un’s ear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-So…wol……and my……beautiful…..shining…..story…….ended…..then. Now……it’s the story……of Cheong-ryeong…..and you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dying embers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, he pictured his meeting with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he recalled his bride, who was so beautiful, for the last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-You were beautiful……so beautiful, like a single red peony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The embers extinguished like that and scattered like heat haze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his final will settled in his mind, a single tear rolled down Mok Gyeong-un’s reddened cheek as their consciousnesses merged completely into one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Drip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a crack appeared in the infinitely slow flow of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Crack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>***\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Crack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Supreme Void Sealing Reversal Technique cracked, the three eyes of Mok Gan’s avatar trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘How?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Supreme Void Sealing Reversal Technique, known as the ancient gold technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was an absolute technique created to capture beings trying to transcend the natural order, those approaching the realm of gods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike before, it had been perfectly executed, so no one but himself should have been able to break it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what on earth was happening?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Crack, crack, crack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crack that had appeared once was gradually spreading in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, Mok Gan’s avatar’s gaze quickly turned to Mok Gyeong-un at the center of the Supreme Void Sealing Reversal Technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Thump!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, he heard a heartbeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the infinitely slow flow of time, it should have been impossible to hear a heartbeat, but the bastard’s heart was gradually beating fast enough to be audible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Thump! Thump! Thump!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t an illusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heartbeat had returned to normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gan’s avatar immediately spread his arms wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, looking at where Mok Gyeong-un was, he brought his arms together, making a gesture of enclosing with both hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The widely spread Supreme Void Sealing Reversal Technique shrank, and the light around Mok Gyeong-un grew more intense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It gradually transformed into a spherical shape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was trying to make the technique stronger by reducing the range of the main force of the wide-area Supreme Void Sealing Reversal Technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cough, cough.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood spilled from Mok Gan’s avatar’s mouth as he coughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was because he had forcibly moved the main force in an already weakened state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he had no confidence in stopping this anomaly without doing this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although it might be too late, if that bastard managed to escape from the perfect Supreme Void Sealing Reversal Technique……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Crack, crack, crack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘!?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the brightly shining sphere began to split.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘No. I must stop this somehow…..’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Puh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, black blood gushed out of Mok Gan’s avatar’s mouth like a fountain, and the sphere shattered, scattering the concentrated light in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From within the flowing light, a black shadow quickly stretched out and grabbed Mok Gan’s avatar’s neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Grip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kuh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Mok Gyeong-un.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pupils of Mok Gan’s avatar, whose neck was grabbed, trembled violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The overwhelming pressure was beyond imagination, making it difficult to even meet his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like facing an absolute being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although it wasn’t in this current body, he had felt this once before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kuh….kuh…..you…….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Disappear.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wh-what……”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was at that very moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sharp aura enveloping his entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he sensed it,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Splash!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gan’s avatar’s body simply exploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite the body exploding right in front of him and blood splattering everywhere, not a single drop stained Mok Gyeong-un’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After killing him like that, Mok Gyeong-un looked towards the far south.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is it there?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a circular wave-like ripple spread out, the space trembled, and Mok Gyeong-un’s form vanished into a point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>***\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Throb!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man in the bamboo hat standing in the shadows winced at a sudden headache.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, a man with long hair and red lips who was guarding nearby approached and asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mok Gan. Are you alright?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gan, as the man in the bamboo hat was called, held out his hand as if to tell him not to come closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, the man hastily stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gan then opened his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“……..It seems he has broken free.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What? By ‘he’, do you mean that avatar?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who else would I be talking about?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“M-my apologies. However, Mok Gan. No one has ever escaped from the Supreme Void Sealing Reversal Technique, the ancient gold technique, by their own power.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Supreme Void Sealing Reversal Technique had even captured the Six Demons, who were said to be close to divine beings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if one had reached the realm of Life and Death, considered the highest level among martial artists, it still fell short of the Six Demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you saying this one has misunderstood?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the sharp voice, the red-lipped man quickly knelt down and pressed his forehead to the ground in apology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Thud! Thud! Thud!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pl-please forgive me. How could this lowly one have such disrespectful thoughts?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Stand back.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Mok Gan’s command, the red-lipped man’s form blurred and disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once he was out of sight, Mok Gan slightly raised his hand and then lowered it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, he almost lost control of his madness and anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘What is this?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that his souls were connected with his avatars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, he could share their thoughts and see what they were seeing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the last thing he saw was the Supreme Void Sealing Reversal Technique cracking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, his avatar was compressing the main force of the Supreme Void Sealing Reversal Technique into a sphere, but from that moment on, the avatar’s consciousness turned black and then was suddenly cut off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging by the impact on his soul, the avatar had certainly died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But why couldn’t he see the final moment?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Did someone intervene?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gan, who had been lost in thought for a moment, shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t matter anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if someone had helped the avatar and he had somehow broken free from the Supreme Void Sealing Reversal Technique by some stroke of luck, it was already too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was too far from there to here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time he arrived here, everything would already be over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All he would see was death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Sneer!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gan, with a sinister smile curling his lips, sent a thought to his avatar in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>***\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Seventh Form of the Crimson Flame Sword Technique, Surpassing Fire Form!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sword of Lee Ji-yeom, the Corpse Blood Valley Master, created an incredibly intricate trajectory of flames, overwhelming the frost-based sword technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Damn it!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Crack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Snow Field Sword of Neung Jin-soon, the second-tier of the Secret Society, which was blocking the flaming sword technique with all its might, couldn’t withstand the heat and cracked, then,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Clang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It split in half and flew away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not missing that instant, the flaming sword cut from Neung Jin-soon’s right shoulder through his heart and down to his waist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s… your victory.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Acknowledging his defeat, Neung Jin-soon used his last strength to utter those words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then his split upper body fell backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Thud!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the heat, the cut area was cauterized, preventing blood from gushing out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lee Ji-yeom, who had barely defeated him, knelt on one knee and exhaled rough breaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huff…. huff….. huff……”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was truly a formidable opponent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having reached the Transformation Realm and perfected his divine technique, Lee Ji-yeom thought he could defeat him easily, but this man was an supreme master comparable to the Eight Stars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he hadn’t sacrificed one arm with the determination of “returning to the same destination,” he wouldn’t have won the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His left arm, more than half severed, was dangling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was essentially a lost arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Swish!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lee Ji-yeom then cut off his dangling arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It should have been painful, but he didn’t make a sound of pain as he cut off his arm, instead pressing the blood-stopping point to stem the bleeding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, he heard someone clapping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Clap, clap, clap!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lee Ji-yeom’s expression hardened at the sound coming from behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite being injured, he hadn’t lowered his guard, yet he hadn’t sensed anyone approaching from behind at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘He deceived my qi sense?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was now comparable to the Eight Stars, considered the highest level in the martial arts world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If someone could deceive his senses at this level…….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Swish!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lee Ji-yeom’s complexion darkened instantly as he turned his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw Jeong Hyeon-mun, the leader of the Righteous Alliance, clapping in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…….Jeong Hyeon-mun.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Impressive. I thought you were too obsessed with useless solar energy to achieve great things, but it seems I was wrong.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘!?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lee Ji-yeom furrowed his brow and opened his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…….What are you talking about?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having never left the Corpse Blood Valley, he had no particular conflict with the Righteous Alliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, even the leader of the Righteous Alliance shouldn’t know anything about him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So how does he know that his Crimson Flame Sword Technique is based on solar energy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he was puzzled,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Shing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jeong Hyeon-mun approached, drawing his unique weapon, the famous sword Il-hwi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s a pity. To meet such a fate of death just as your talent has blossomed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just by drawing his sword, the overwhelming aura made Lee Ji-yeom’s hand holding his sword tremble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he hadn’t been injured, this wasn’t an opponent he could defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How many forms of the Seven Heavens, considered the pinnacle of the current martial arts world, could he block?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could he even block a single form?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lee Ji-yeom, who had been glaring at the approaching man, took a deep breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘It’s meaningless.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Winning wasn’t the goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he was trying to do was to protect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Rip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lee Ji-yeom tore a strip from his clothing, then bit the cloth with his teeth and used his sword and hand to wrap it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a resolution to never let go of his sword, even in death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Impressive. But it’s a futile act. If you step back, you might be able to preserve your life a little longer.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cut off my head and pass.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pft.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jeong Hyeon-mun, the leader of the Righteous Alliance, snorted at Lee Ji-yeom’s resolve, then was about to step forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was at that moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Slither!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, drops of blood spilled by the dead on the mountain peak began to rise one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jeong Hyeon-mun’s lips curled into a sinister smile at this strange sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘He’s here.’\u003C\u002Fp>",2182,"2026-05-30T14:58:18.413Z","2026-06-01T04:31:31.827Z",1,"novelbin.me","9eeba094e0cfe146abf043fbc483c6af505083458d6ac3eb8c9c337149fdb46e","myst-might-mayhem-chapter-475","myst-might-mayhem-chapter-473",526,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmyst-might-mayhem-cover.jpg"]