Unhwi tapped the table.

"The sea accepts everything. Rivers, rainwater, even filth."

"..."

"But the sea does not change. It remains nothing more than the sea."

"...So that is the Limitless."

"That is correct."

Tap-

Unhwi placed another stone.

"And what of the Free-Wandering Step?"

"...Kun transforms into a Peng."

"Kun transforms into a Peng."

"Yes."

"Why does it transform?"

"To fly."

"Wrong."

"...What?"

Gun Mugyeol's eyes widened.

"It is to be free."

Unhwi stated it flatly.

"A fish is free in the water. But it cannot fly through the sky."

"..."

"So it becomes a bird. Not in order to fly through the sky."

"...Then what?"

"In order to be free in the water as well as in the sky."

Gun Mugyeol stopped breathing.

"The true meaning of free wandering..."

Unhwi's voice rang out.

"...is to be free anywhere."

"...Oh?"

"To be trapped by nothing in the water, and bound by nothing in the sky."

"That is..."

"Effortless naturalness."

Silence.

A long silence passed.

Gun Mugyeol looked at the Go board.

Black and white.

Mixed, yet one.

"Are you beginning to see it, little by little?"

"...I am."

"But seeing it is not enough to rise."

Unhwi looked straight at Gun Mugyeol.

"You must realize it."

"Realize it? How?"

"Play the game to the end."

Tap, tap, tap-

The game continued.

Late stage.

The board was almost full.

Black and white were tangled together.

"League Leader. What do you see on this Go board?"

"I see black and white."

"Is that all?"

"Hm?"

Gun Mugyeol looked at the board again.

For a long time.

"I see the empty spaces."

"That is correct."

Unhwi smiled.

"There are empty spaces."

"..."

"There is black, there is white, and there are empty spaces."

Unhwi pointed to an empty point.

"This emptiness is the Limitless."

"..."

"No matter how many black and white stones there are, empty space remains empty space."

"...I see."

"If your Northern Abyss Divine Art is the sea..."

Unhwi continued.

"...then this empty space is that very sea."

Gun Mugyeol's eyes flew open.

"If the Free-Wandering Step is freedom..."

"..."

"...then it is in this empty space that one becomes free."

Gun Mugyeol's hand began to tremble.

"This is the last part."

Unhwi picked up a white stone.

"Where would you place this stone?"

Gun Mugyeol looked at the board.

A few empty points remained.

Gun Mugyeol pointed to one place.

"Why there?"

"Because that position is the most favorable."

"Wrong."

Unhwi placed the white stone in a completely unexpected spot.

Tap-

"...Why there?"

"Because it was empty."

Gun Mugyeol's eyes widened, and Unhwi went on.

"I did not think about the position, the advantage, or anything else."

Unhwi spoke quietly.

"I placed it there simply because it was empty."

Judging by the result of the ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) game alone, Unhwi had already lost.

But this was not a matter of the outcome of the game.

It was an unusual discussion of nothingness.

"...This is..."

"Non-action."

Gun Mugyeol's eyes shook.

"To act without intention, without calculation."

"..."

"To simply flow naturally."

Unhwi's voice echoed beside Gun Mugyeol's ear.

"Recall the Northern Abyss Divine Art."

Energy began to flow from Gun Mugyeol's body.

"Recall the sea. The vast, deep, empty sea."

"..."

"Empty yourself. Let go of everything."

Gun Mugyeol's breathing deepened.

"Now recall the Free-Wandering Step."

"..."

"Recall freedom. Freedom bound by nothing."

Gun Mugyeol's body trembled faintly.

"Picture the great Peng bird flying above the sea."

"..."

"But it is not the Peng bird. It is you, League Leader."

"..."

"You are the sea, and you are the sky."

Unhwi's voice continued.

"You are the Peng bird, and you are the wind."

"..."

"Everything is you, and you are everything."

In that instant.

KWA-A-A-A-ANG-!!!

A tremendous force exploded out of Gun Mugyeol's body.

The entire room shook.

No, the entire League Leader's Hall shook.

Namgung Wonyang stepped back.

But Unhwi did not move.

"That is it."

Unhwi spoke quietly.

"That is Sole Primordial Mastery."

Light burst from Gun Mugyeol's body.

The qi of heaven and earth gathered.

From all directions.

From above.

From below.

From every direction.

It swirled around Gun Mugyeol as its center.

"Mixed, yet one."

Unhwi's voice rang out.

"Primordial Unity."

KWA-A-A-A-A-ANG-!!!!

A massive explosion.

And yet there was only sound.

There was no destruction.

Everything was drawn into Gun Mugyeol.

The qi of heaven and earth.

The spiritual qi in the air.

Everything.

Unhwi quietly watched it.

Gun Mugyeol of the previous life had been an unmistakable ruler of power.

Gun Mugyeol of the present was also a ruler of power.

But regrettably, he could not die yet.

Nor could he collapse.

I killed him once.

Killing him a second time would not be difficult.

That is why he has to live.

For the sake of the balance weight.

Unhwi rose from his seat.

Now.

He had to strike back at the hidden side of this despicable, laughable ruler of power called Gun Mugyeol.

Unhwi slowly started forward.

Wonyang followed behind him.

In a quiet voice, Unhwi said,

"Draw your sword."

With a resolute expression, Wonyang drew her sword.

The moment he opened the door of the League Leader's Hall and stepped outside, Unhwi saw him.

Zhuge Yeonghyeon, smiling brightly.

"You have worked hard."

"Does it look that way?"

Unhwi said that and let out a short laugh.

At the same time, exactly three people took their positions at his left, his right, and behind him at the entrance of the League Leader's Hall.

The two at his sides were Heavenly-Man Realm, and the one behind him was at unity of heaven and man.

That was not the end of it.

Around them, roughly twenty martial artists stepped forward with swords in hand.

Their realms varied, but all of them were Energy-Thread Sight Realm martial artists.

There was not a single one below Three-Flower Summit.

Killing intent entered Zhuge Yeonghyeon's smile.

"Really now, can such a thing be possible?"

Unhwi looked at Zhuge Yeonghyeon in silence.

"That great Chief Justice of the Heavenly Alliance, the man called a genius who shook the whole martial world, would actually attempt to assassinate the Murim League Leader of all people."

"So that is the story you made?"

"Come now, what do you mean, a story? Is it not an obvious fact? You truly are remarkable. To fight a fierce battle against the League Leader, who had reached Vast-Empty Transcendence... and then flee in an injured state."

"..."

"And then I, the Vice Leader of the Murim League, together with the Azure Dragon Unit, the pride of the Murim League, subdued you. I wanted to keep you alive, but regrettably it could not be done... truly a lamentable affair."

Zhuge Yeonghyeon opened his fan.

"Do you like that story?"

Unhwi's smile deepened.

"It is not bad."

"That is a relief. Then... you should die now."

The moment he lowered the fan.

They all charged at once.