Translator: TranslatingNovice

Author's Q&A (10)

Worldbuilding

Q: If you do things like feeding Hongsu Ryeong iron powder and get all the perks from the former Radiance Immortals, what abilities can you get?

A: If you feed the previous generation Eight Immortals in the Head Realm their associated element, the true nature of them temporarily awakens, and as one can be granted [wisdom] by directly looking at True Immortals, looking at that awakened True Nature can grant you [wisdom]. There is a high chance you get a body talent named after the Eight Immortal. For example, if it was the previous Sword Spear, you can get something like Lung Yang Geng Metal Sword Spear Body. A body talent you gain from Heavenly Lord or above is at least of equal rank to Heavenly Golden Thunder Body, and Sword Spear Body has the ability to fuse that element to all over your body including hair, bones, urethra, and eyes and reinforce the spiritual roots using that.

BlueMangoAde’s Note: Based on Tremendous’ previous random community comment that feeding Pal Jik-tae iron powder can grant you divine power and body talent related to Pearl Jade. The implication being that Pal Jik-tae was a former Pearl Jade Heavenly Lord, now stuck in Head Realm…

Q: I am curious about the direction of the spinning things in the work, such as the Wheel, Three Great Ultimates, Radiance Mantra, etc. (clockwise or counterclockwise)

A: Radiance Mantra spins counterclockwise. Everything else spins clockwise.

Q: How does Heavenly Golden Thunder Body’s ability to absorb Heavenly Tribulation and Heart Tribe doubling Heavenly Tribulation apply to Heavenly Tribulation of the Great Boundary where the Heavenly Tribulation is extracted from you?

A: Heavenly Golden Thunder Body basically only applies up to Sacred Vessel Heavenly Tribulation. Unless you have a fate surpassing that, you cannot rely on Heavenly Golden Thunder Body forever.

Q: Has Heart Demon Tribulation managed by Blood Yin changed as Kang Min-hee has seized the seat? Or does the Heart Demon Tribulation remain similar?

A: The Heart Demon Tribulation remains similar to before.

Q: If you see Kang Min-hee she splits her seat many times, but does splitting a seat not affect the True Immortal’s strength?

A: It does not.

Q: What is the origin of the dragon race?

A: I could totally make a plausible reason for their existence… but it’s the same reason as the transformation form being human in form… there has to be dragons in Eastern Fantasy…

Q: There are often mentions that a long period of time felt very short, why is this the case?

A: It just felt short… If you focus on something, time passes very fast.

Q: Is the case of Immortal Arts gaining personality only common in Head Realm and unlikely in normal circumstances?

A: It is a very common occurrence. The vast majority of naturally born Entering Nirvana and Sacred Vessel at the creation of a Heavenly Domain are crude primordial Immortal Arts.

Q: Do souls of split bodies like Seo Li or Gyu Baek come from splitting off from the main body’s or are they granted by the Eastern Heaven Flower Field?

A: They are granted by the main body.

Q: Can you be more specific about Silver Basket Devil Technique?

A: It is an incomplete devilish technique that Silver Basket was making at their place of origin.

Q: What’s the percentage of True Immortals that play pretending to be mortals?

A: 100%. All True Immortals intervene in the mortal world with clones. Not even just one, but more than thousands…

Q: Are there Immortal Beasts that originate from plants too?

A: There are. Even Do Gon could be considered an Earth Tribe Immortal Beast in a way, since the distinction between Heaven and Earth Immortals are somewhat gone when you become a Supreme Deity.

Q: If a cultivator born inside a Great Net Immortal grows up and becomes a True Immortal, what does the Great Net Immortal think of the True Immortal? It’s like a microbe inside your body becoming a person.

A: They treat them as their child. To be precise, they are not just treating them that way. Whatever the cultivator thinks, they are really their child.

Q: What exactly are Imperial Venerables?

A: Heavenly Venerables not affected by the power of the Future King.

Q: What’s the average time it took the Governing Immortals to reach True Immortal?

A: Uh….. There is no… average.

Q: I am curious about the order of strengths of the seats shown so far.

A: Seats of Fate, History, and ■■. > Every other seat. There is no superiority between seats.

Q: Do Heart Tribe disappear when Ender are not available because the reunited Third Absolute goes back to the Domain of Purity seized by Hyeon Mu’s Plane of Soul?

A: Yes.

Q: How many cultivation methods do cultivators usually learn per cultivation stage?

A: Usually, one per stage. Learning multiple slows down cultivation… so a single cultivation method is the most common.

Q: True Immortals cannot pass on amazing technology and civilization developed by themselves, so how exactly is the transmission blocked?

A: Even if it is passed on, the transmission is fatefully ended on the first generation.

Q: Cases like Wol Ryeong appear to reach Grand Perfection Integration in 40 years, so is reaching such achievement not hard for a mortal with True Immortal assistance? Does it cost a lot, or is it unprecedentedly hard?

A: The growth of the next generation of Eight Immortals is a task the Radiance Eight Immortals pour their full power of fortune and fate into. In terms of pure affinity toward the cultivation system within Wol Ryeong’s fate, it is close to an Ender’s fate.

Cultivation Realm

Q: From Severing Heaven and above is there no way to progress other than to do cultivation in parallel?

A: Even if it is not cultivation, you must at least comprehend part of a completely different system.

Q: How many years does it usually take to get from Star Shattering to Entering Nirvana?

A: Like the strength of Sacred Vessel stage cultivators, there is too much variance for an average. At any rate, the shortest ever is Yang Su-jin’s 400 years. Longest ever is Salt Sea’s 7 billion years after he quit the Ten Heavenly Lords, fell down in cultivation, and rose again.

Q: From Vestige Liberation Immortal to Supreme Deity, which are the realms with the largest power difference?

A: Given the difference of a single realm? Immortal Lord and Supreme Deity.

Q: When one reaches Heaven and Earth Dual Cultivation Entering Nirvana stage, Taiji appears and amplifies strength, so how much is this amplification?

A: Around 110%.

Q: Are there Heart Tribe True Immortals, rather than Severing Heaven which just corresponds to True Immortal level? Or is Yang Su-jin correct in saying there are no Heart Tribe True Immortals?

A: During Yang Su-jin’s generation, it was correct that there were no Heart Tribe True Immortals. Severing Heaven that is not Heart Dao Blooming is not Heart Tribe True Immortality.

Q: It appears that Seo Eun-hyun’s Paper Flower system has unified and replaced the original chaotic Manifestation system, in this case has Manifestation and Paper Flower system merged, or are they still separate?

A: They are separate, but somewhat compatible.

Q: What is the standard for Early, Mid, Late, and Grand Perfection of Integration stage?

A: Early if you learn Rain and Sun of Various Omens.

Mid if you learn Heat and Cold.

Late if you learn Wind and Time.

Grand Perfection if you learn them all and master Immortal Art Various Omens itself.

Q: Has Seo Eun-hyun spread forgotten cultivation systems like the Earth Axis?

A: Vast Cold Heavenly Circle is that… but he did not bother spreading Earth Axis. It is something that you can find with effort even if you are not Seo Eun-hyun…

Q: You have said that Vestige Liberation Immortals keep all their powers in other worlds (outside Sumeru) except prophecy and history revision, so how much power do realms higher keep in a world with different laws?

A: Up to Great Net, same as Vestige Liberation Immortals. From Immortal Lord, little amount of prophecy and revision can also be used depending on one’s path of Fate, History or ■■, increasing with cultivation.

Q: What’s the difference between Supreme Deity, Heavenly Venerable, and Heavenly King?

A: Supreme Deity - True Immortal that has seized Origin Essence

Heavenly Venerable - Supreme Deity that has divine descent Absolute

Heavenly King - True Immortal that has seized a piece of the Absolute and divine descent Origin Essence

Current Enders

Q: Had Young-hoon reached Martial Pinnacle before fighting with Hyeon Mu?

A: He has reached it before the fight.

Q: Can Kim Young-hoon waiting at the Audience Chamber defeat Hyeon Mu in a 1vs1?

A: Yes, if it is before Hyeon Mu recovers her memory.

Q: What’s Kang Min-hee’s symbol as a Governing Immortal?

A: Dark blue forget-me-not(the flower)

Q: Compared to the infamy of Blood Yin in the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain while he was alive, how infamous is Seo Eun-hyun in the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain currently?

A: Around 70 times more infamous.

Past Enders

Q: It has been said a while back that Underworld thought Future King could not be defeated with strength after Vast Cold lost, but why did Underworld rate Vast Cold so highly when they were only equivalent to her third phase? Wasn’t Salt Sea when he challenged the Audience Chamber together or Underworld herself at full power stronger than Vast Cold?

A: Vast Cold, even outside of their overwhelming power, was kind of the person to plant hope in the hearts of people watching them.

Q: How many Enders reached True Immortality during Obsidian’s generation?

A: 3.

Q: It was described that the Future King tore apart and killed Silver Basket’s main body, but it is not clear where this happened. Was this inside Silver Basket’s domain, or outside it? If outside, could the Future King kill Silver Basket who is bunkering in their domain?

A: Outside the domain. From outside, Silver Basket was torn to death with their domain.

Q: Were there Ender generations that have said “Life is X” in a different order from the seven emotions(in the order of Joy, Anger, Sorrow, Pleasure, Love, Hatred, Desire)?

A: Such generations were all wiped out.

Q: I recall that Penglai Island was built with three Heavenly Kings, but did Salt Sea turn those Heavenly Kings into Ender pills later?

A: Those Heavenly Kings were in a different generation!

Q: Were there any True Immortals born from Sumeru or from Enders between Vast Cold and Yang Su-jin? If so, has any of them appeared in RToC?

A: Even an Ender becoming a True Immortal requires breaking through massive odds, so no.

Seo Hweol

Q: How did Seo Hweol overcome the infinite heavenly tribulations in the 15th cycle?

A: He did not.

Q: How much of the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain did Seo Hweol control during the 999th cycle?

A: It was only for a single moment, but 100%.

BlueMangoAde: I am not sure if Tremendous was confused between 999th cycle and 998th cycle. Or maybe the questioner was the confused one?

Q: Has Seo Hweol been normally judged and reincarnated like other souls? I’m not sure if he even has a normal soul.

A: He has been normally judged and reincarnated. However he has committed a lot of sin, so he has to repeat lives as an animal. He has to repeat that for about thirty vigintillion(3*10^64) years.

Q: Seo Hweol has said that he would work towards sending Oh Hye-seo back to her home after his plans went well, was he serious? Or was it a lie?

A: He did not know that her home was outside Mount Sumeru. He thought it was at a remote corner of the Sun and Moon Heavenly Domain at most, and was quite serious.

Other Characters

Q: The seven emotions of the Enders apply to a specific emotion. What do you think is the difference between the heart and emotions?

A: I think the heart is the bigger category. Aren’t emotions just partial surface interpretations of the heart?

Q: Has Baek Woon succeeded in being hired by the Underworld?

A: Not a lot of time has passed in the world so… she is preparing for it.

Q: What do Do Gon and Yang Su-jin think of each other?

A: It’s a love-hate relationship.

Q: If Hon Jin trained seriously, how high could he reach?

A: I think he could reach Grand Perfection Star Shattering or half-step Sacred Vessel.

Q: What’s the order of infamy between Salt Mountain, Great Mountain, and Sword Mountain?

A: Currently: Great Mountain >>>>> Sword Mountain >>>>>>>> Salt Mountain.

Salt Mountain has been forgotten for too long, so not a lot of beings know of them unless they are at least envoys of Radiance Hall.

Q: How strong was Yu Hao Te at their prime? Compared to current characters please.

A: Yu Hao Te was less purely strong and more capable of having a favorable type advantage against the whole of Mount Sumeru… They could defeat current Oh Hye-seo and Kim Yeon. Regardless of the size of power or authority, the compatibility using karma was too strong…

Q: Previously, an Entering Nirvana told Seo Eun-hyun that there were white and black humans in Mount Sumeru, has any of them appeared in the work?

A: As close-minded as I am, I wrote the novel without racial quota in mind… Let’s say Golden Shaking Bird is white and some Enders during Yang Su-jin’s generation were black.

Q: What would be the result if the Mad Lord waged total war against the other 4 Heavenly Being stages at the Head Realm?

A: Mad Lord would win. However, if that happened, Mad Lord would fail to accomplish his goal and die from lifespan in the Head Realm as well.

Q: Among the Supreme Deities that existed, where does the Swallowing Heaven Supreme Deity rank in power?

A: Around the middle.

Q: How would the Radiance Eight Immortals react if they saw the final form of Hyeon Mu’s Dance of Emptiness?

A: They have never seen it, and they cannot see it.

Q: What if Mad Lord’s goal was revenge against a Governing Immortal level being like Jeon Myeong-hoon’s goal was, and he deliberately gathered strength for that goal?

A: Liberation Law Talent Jo Yeon. Assuming he survived on the way there, mutual suicide with the Governing Immortal that is the target of revenge.

Q: Does the Western Heavenly Venerable have any hobbies aside from drawing Taenghwa paintings?

A: Their hobby is spinning thread with a spinning wheel or watching the Wheel as they listen to petitions of spirits.

Q: When you say the Future King killed the Chief God of their Universe as a mortal, do you mean that they killed a Governing Immortal before becoming a True Immortal?

A: You can interpret it as them killing a Governing Immortal level being before becoming a True Immortal, yes.

Q: How…?

A: They worked their ass off.