[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-myst-might-mayhem":3,"chapter-myst-might-mayhem-myst-might-mayhem-chapter-520":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},555559,804,"Chapter 498.3","myst-might-mayhem-chapter-520",520,"\u003Cp>Chapter 498.3 – Side Story 7 Part 1\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oblivion (1)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aaaaaaaaargh!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A scream erupted from the mouth of the great spirit Iron Fan Immortal, whose eyes had widened to the point of tearing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she had steeled herself to some extent, seeing her son Hong Hae-a’s limbs being severed right before her eyes was unbearable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chiiiiii!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood gushed from the severed surfaces, and steam rose from those areas due to the heat of the lava cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even for the incarnation of fire, the evaporation of blood inside the body due to heat couldn’t be prevented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kuaaaaaaa!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite Hong Hae-a’s agonized state, the Heavenly Demon didn’t even blink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he spoke in a cold voice as if it wasn’t enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is just the beginning. It’s troublesome if you’re like this already.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pook!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kueok!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Demon’s hand pierced Hong Hae-a’s abdomen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although a great spirit, Hong Hae-a was different from other spirits. He was the child born in human form to the Great Strength King and Iron Fan Immortal, so this could be considered his true form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As such, his internal organs were quite similar to those of humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chwachwachwachwachwachwa!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As sharp sword energy was injected into these organs, his insides were torn apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pain was indescribable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kuaaaaaaak!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unable to bear the pain, Hong Hae-a screamed with blood vessels bulging on his neck and face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These consecutive screams from Hong Hae-a brought Iron Fan Immortal, who had been shrieking in shock at the sight of her child’s limbs being cut off, back to her senses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pak!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iron Fan Immortal pressed down on the neck of the Diabolic Beast Alyu, whom she was holding by the leash, and shouted fiercely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you don’t take your hands off that child right now, I’ll just kill this one!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She no longer had any intention of pleading with the Heavenly Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it was a no-win situation anyway, she thought it best to respond in kind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At her shout, the Heavenly Demon turned his gaze and spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go ahead.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you can handle the consequences that one action will bring.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwadeuk!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kweeeeek!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Heavenly Demon grasped and burst one of Hong Hae-a’s organs, he vomited dark red blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he had been human, he would have been dead already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Hong Hae-a in this state, beyond suffering and barely able to endure, Iron Fan Immortal shed tears of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In all her long years, she had never seen someone so cruel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Great Strength King, called the leader of the Imaemangyangs, wouldn’t go this far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, Iron Fan Immortal released her hand from Alyu’s neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, she didn’t stop there but also undid the leash and the leather straps inscribed with spells that were restraining Alyu’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kung!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kukukuku.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The restraining leather straps must have been quite taxing, as the Diabolic Beast Alyu collapsed face-down on the ground, struggling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, Alyu looked up at the Heavenly Demon as if surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Even though the bond was severed, you came to save me?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t help but feel moved inwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alyu had thought that since the bond was broken, it would be understandable to be abandoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was feeling grateful,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swick!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Demon extended his hand towards the Diabolic Beast Alyu, making a pulling gesture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Alyu’s body rose and flew towards the Heavenly Demon, not Iron Fan Immortal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching this in a daze, Iron Fan Immortal spoke, suppressing her anguish and anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve understood enough that you won’t spare the lives of my son and me. I won’t beg pathetically for our lives anymore, so please give that child a clean death. If you want to vent your anger, do it on me instead.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had already given up everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they couldn’t survive anyway, she only wished that her child would suffer no more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had her desperate plea reached him even a little?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Demon withdrew his hand from inside Hong Hae-a’s stomach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pak!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After withdrawing his hand, the Heavenly Demon placed his other hand on Hong Hae-a’s chest and performed one of the Eight Thought-Shattering Techniques, the Ritual of Binding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ssssssss!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heuk! W-what are you… y-you bastard…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hong Hae-a couldn’t hide his bewilderment as he felt his demon power and immortal power rapidly draining from his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless, the Heavenly Demon continued to absorb his energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his arms and legs cut off and his entire body restrained by the dark flame, Hong Hae-a couldn’t resist as his energy was taken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ssssssss!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Noooo. Kueeeeee!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his energy was drained, Hong Hae-a’s hair rapidly grayed, and his face became gaunt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Demon finally removed his hand from Hong Hae-a after absorbing most of his energy, leaving only enough for him to barely breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank your mother. I’m letting you live like this, at least.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, the Heavenly Demon had intended to torment them until they begged for death and then kill them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, moved by Iron Fan Immortal’s extreme maternal love, he was now showing a shred of mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Hong Hae-a couldn’t accept this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kueuuuu. Heavenly Demon! Heavenly Demon! Just kill me instead!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was the point of living like this, with all his power taken away?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing him screaming madly to be killed, the Heavenly Demon sneered and said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s not possible. I’m going to make you just like your father, you see.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With those words, the Heavenly Demon turned his head to look for someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That someone was the Golden Nine-Tailed Fox.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had shown mercy by sparing their lives, but not wanting to leave any future troubles, he intended to ask the Golden Nine-Tailed Fox to seal them with the killing stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“!?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Demon frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was because the Golden Nine-Tailed Fox was nowhere to be seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could see numerous Demon God Generals fallen on the lava ground, but she was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where on earth had she disappeared to?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t sense where she was even with his spiritual perception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he was puzzling over this,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Keuk, kukukuku.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hong Hae-a, who had been screaming until just a moment ago, suddenly started laughing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he laughed as if he had gone mad, almost to the point of hysteria.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kuhahahahahahahahaha!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At his laughter, the Heavenly Demon kicked Hong Hae-a’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tteok!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With only weak demon power remaining, even a small impact should have caused tremendous pain, but Hong Hae-a didn’t stop his mocking laughter and said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You… think you’ve won completely, don’t you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That Monkey bastard got into trouble for relying only on strength too. I’m not the type to just take it. If I can’t win with power, I’ll use my head to pay you back.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huu.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At these words, the Heavenly Demon sighed with annoyance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had intended to show a bit of mercy, considering the maternal love for having a child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, that feeling had completely disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwadeuk!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kuaaaaaaaa!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Demon stomped on Hong Hae-a’s abdomen, crushing his internal organs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even as he was dying from the pain, Hong Hae-a endured it terribly and continued what he wanted to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kueuuu. Do you know… why the ancient… immortals… are so desperate to… retrieve… the Kunlun Mirror?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kunlun Mirror?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Demon, who had never had contact with ancient immortals, found it difficult to understand what this meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he could tell that the Kunlun Mirror was that precious treasure Hong Hae-a had been wielding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You mean those wheels…!?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, the Heavenly Demon stopped mid-sentence and looked around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come to think of it, he couldn’t see the guy’s Kunlun Mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t even sense its energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s useless.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where is it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Kunlun… Mirror… unlike other precious… treasures… can completely… hide its own… energy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwak!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kueuuup!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Demon crushed Hong Hae-a’s other organs and said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s impossible for the user not to know. Where is it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kuhehehehe. It’s already too late.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Too late?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Kunlun Mirror… will explode… When the heat wave… covers the entire Central Plains… everyone will fall into oblivion.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What nonsense are you talking about, oblivion?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The flame of… the Kunlun Mirror… is the Samadhi True Fire of oblivion… It burns the memories in one’s mind.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Burning memories?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was that what oblivion meant?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hong Hae-a laughed, spitting out blood mixed with foam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if it couldn’t be helped with force, in the end, no one would be able to become the victor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You too will lose all your memories due to the flames of oblivion and regress to an infant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how strong one is, if their mind is completely erased, nothing remains in the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why the Kunlun Mirror was dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was at that moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Vibration.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seureuk!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Demon suddenly leaped backwards, appearing about thirty jang away, and swung his formless sword towards the lava floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chwaaaaaaak!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lava split, revealing the bottom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surprisingly, inside were the petrified Golden Nine-Tailed Fox and the Kunlun Mirror, which was fiercely rotating and colliding as if trying to break her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chwaaaaa!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, the Heavenly Demon swung his formless sword towards the Kunlun Mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a black line traced a trajectory, distorting space, and the precious Kunlun Mirror was cut in half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chaenggang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Kunlun Mirror fell to the ground, the Heavenly Demon pulled his hand, using the Void Seizing Technique to extract the petrified Golden Nine-Tailed Fox from the lava ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the Golden Nine-Tailed Fox touched the Heavenly Demon’s hand after being pulled from the lava ground,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>cracks appeared, and the stone shell fell off to the ground like peeling skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside, the living Golden Nine-Tailed Fox was revealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Haa… Haa…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Golden Nine-Tailed Fox.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heavenly Demon… Ah. Thank goodness.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Golden Nine-Tailed Fox sighed in relief upon seeing the Heavenly Demon holding her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While dealing with the Demon God Generals created by the tower, she had suddenly lost some of her memories due to the approaching Kunlun Mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To withstand the flames emitted by the Kunlun Mirror, she had used her fox bead on herself to become a killing stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I didn’t forget.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been afraid of forgetting the Heavenly Demon due to the oblivion caused by the Kunlun Mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, only a small part was lost, so she hadn’t forgotten.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relieved, her face brightened, and she was about to embrace the Heavenly Demon tightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that very moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwaaaaaaaang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An enormous roar shook the entire lava cave as if an earthquake had struck, threatening to collapse it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwaaaaa!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Demon’s gaze turned upwards towards the source of the roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Cheong-ryeong!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was clearly something happening above ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Cheong-ryeong was on the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwaaang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Becoming urgent, the Heavenly Demon, without time to think, burst through the ceiling of the lava cave and shot upwards at an incredible speed.\u003C\u002Fp>",1792,"2026-05-30T14:58:39.514Z","2026-06-01T04:31:31.827Z",1,"novelbin.me","2952c57051c2b35fa7b83d7dcb040296e62e6525db24faeb5a09069c1fd91849","myst-might-mayhem-chapter-521","myst-might-mayhem-chapter-519",526,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmyst-might-mayhem-cover.jpg"]