Chapter 522 - 522 (1/2)

By the time Su-hyeun opened his eyes and sat up, the rays of the morning sun were already seeping through the curtains.

His hotel room was incredibly quiet.

Even after waking up, Su-hyeun didn't move for a good while. Rather than a dream, it almost felt like he had traveled to another world and came back in the blink of an eye without even realizing it.

He raised his hand and touched his eyes.

”That was definitely not a dream.”

The power of Foresight was an ability only activated when one's Insight had gotten stronger.

A god on the level of Apollo could use this power whenever he wanted. Not only that, but he would be able to see the specific window of time in the future and even interfere with that future.

However, Su-hyeun couldn't do that. He might be better than Apollo in combat, but he was far inferior to the Sun God in the matter of Insight.

Never mind being able to look into a specific time in the future, he couldn't even activate Foresight whenever he wanted. But that was because Su-hyeun had only taken baby steps in the road to activating Foresight through the power of Insight.

He got up from the bed and then boiled some water to prepare his morning coffee.

His thoughts remained a jumbled mess, however.

”Just what or who was that?”

The owner of the voice knew who Su-hyeun was. He was sure about that.

Since it was an existence from the future, it was possible that he hadn't met this creature yet.

”I can only think of three possibilities.”

While he was watching the hot coffee drip down to his cup, his thought reached a certain point.

”First, Shiva. Then, the One Overlord. And finally, Brahma.”

Su-hyeun had already encountered two of the Three Destroyers, Uranus and Osiris.

Also, he met the Five Godly Sages, except Brahma.

Shiva and Brahma were known as the Primordial Gods. There was also the existence even greater than Shiva, the One Overlord.

Su-hyeun still hadn't found out the One Overlord's true identity out of the three.

He had his suspicions, sure, but he had no firm proof of anything.

”Foresight suddenly activating can't be a coincidence.”

No other term was capable of lulling you into a false sense of comfort than ”coincidence.”

That bewitching term could make you lackadaisical about every single thing. That was why Su-hyeun did not subscribe to the idea of ”coincidence.”

”A future that was bound to happen, hmm?” Su-hyeun muttered to himself while watching the coffee slowly dripping into his cup. ”Bullsh*t.”

Some would call the future that had already been decided fate. However, Su-hyeun didn't believe in fate where everything was set in stone.

Besides...

”I have acquired Foresight, too.”

It was nothing more than a tentative little step past the doorway of Insight, but whatever the case might be, it was still true that he managed to pry open the locked door.

In that case, the new question should be, how long he would need before opening that doorway even wider.

Now that he had unshackled the hefty lock and turned the doorknob once, the next time should be incomparably easier to pull off.

Foresight was the power to peek into the future and potentially change it, and Su-hyeun trusted this power.

”For now, I should focus on dealing with the matter at hand first.”

While lifting the cup filled with fresh coffee, he confirmed the current time.

The morning sun had long brightened the world outside.

It was time to get going again.

* * *

Sun Wukong was already standing outside his hospital ward.

Nurses were currently in panic mode because of a missing patient. However, Sun Wukong didn't care and headed to the hospital's rooftop because he wanted to get some fresh air.

That was where he chose to wait for Su-hyeun's arrival.

”Third Brother, why are you out here instead of resting in your room?”

”It got really boring, you know? Lying there doing nothing and stuff. I've also finished watching every clip you left behind,” Sun Wukong replied while loosening his muscles.

Judging from his furrowed brows, various parts of his body must've still hurt whenever he tried to move a little too much. However, he didn't seem to mind it at all.

The weather was somewhat chilly, and Su-hyeun stuffed his hands inside his pockets out of habit. He then stood on the rooftop's railing as if he wanted Sun Wukong to follow him.

Split—

A portal opened up in front of him. The space beyond it was awash with gray. Sun Wukong noticed this and tilted his head in confusion, ”Why are we going there?”

”We need to speak to King Yama first, you see.”

”Yama? Really?”

”Yes. According to Buddha, First Brother seems to have sought out King Yama first after ascending.”

”Oh, so Yama probably knows where he is?”

”Most likely, yes.”

”Okay, then,” Sun Wukong smirked deeply. ”Been a while, so let's find him and drink ourselves to stupor!”

As soon as he finished saying that, he impatiently threw himself through the portal and stepped into the netherworld beyond it.

Out of 9,000 netherworlds in existence, Su-hyeun chose a specific hell called ”Freezing Hell.”

It was utterly ”gray” from top to bottom because this world was filled with dirty, corrupted gray snow brought on by the freezing temperature.

The cold weather didn't really affect them, but they could still tell how freezing the winds blowing around them were. Su-hyeun reached down and scooped up some of the snow on the ground.

”Even the Hell of Scorching Heat is preferable to this place.”

If he were asked to choose between the Hell of Scorching Heat that was so hot that bones might melt or the Freezing Hell that was so cold that you would freeze right down to your bones, Su-hyeun thought he would go for the colder of the two.

In this world, no scientific concept like absolute zero applied.

The temperatures in various hells exceeded what was physically possible to punish better the sinners ending up in such places. In this Freezing Hell, the punishment meted out to the sinners came in the form of absolute coldness.

”Oh, hey? Isn't that, like, a village or something?” Sun Wukong pointed to a small village located not too far from where they were.

Because this was hell, he expected it to be a ridiculously harsh place, but to think people even formed a village here...

Sun Wukong continued, ”Looks like it's freezing for them, doesn't it?”

Of course, forming a village didn't stop them from being punished by the never-ending torment of the cold.

The only reason those people formed a village in the first place was to hold onto each other and somehow endure the freezing temperature.

It was all a useless endeavor in the end. Hundreds of people had gathered in one spot, but that still didn't give them a way to endure the biting cold of this Freezing Hell.

”Should we help them?” Sun Wukong asked while studying Su-hyeun's moods.

Judging from how Su-hyeun behaved until now, he would probably not forsake all those people suffering from so much torment.

Not only that, but they weren't even talking about something impossible here. For Su-hyeun, dealing with this level of coldness shouldn't even be an issue. Hell, if he really wanted to, he probably could take all those souls out of here, too.

There was no doubting that Su-hyeun had become one of the few supreme beings in the entire universe.

”Mm. Not really. I don't think I want to do that.”

”Eh? Why not?”

”Well, those people somehow ended up in hell, yes? Which meant they must've committed some terrible sins when they were alive, and this is the only way for them to pay for their crimes.”

”Ah, is that how it is?”

”Yes. And for some reason, in my eyes...”