Translator: BlueMangoAde

Author's Q&A (9)

Tremendous

Q: I am curious about the reaction of people around you after the great success of A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation.

A: They are just amazed. In the first place, excluding those at Munpia and the publishing company, there are only seven people who know around me….

Q: What do you think would happen if a reader was sent to the Head Realm or the Bright Cold Realm?

A: I think it would depend on the luck and choices of the individual.

Q: When you started publishing A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation, did you know it would explode in popularity?

A: I did not know at first, but when I was first contacted, I did think that it would succeed to some extent. I did not know it would be this much.

Setting

Q: You said that the dragon race gains double the lifespan per stage compared to the human race, up to which realm does this apply to?

A: Star Shattering stage.

Q: As far as I’m aware, the same souls are continuously reincarnating in the Head Realm with the same appearance and fate. If that is the case, if races that don’t exist in the Head Realm enter it and have children, where do their souls come from? Do human souls reincarnate into their race, or does the Head Realm produce new souls or bring souls from outside?

A: Normally, they are transformed into races that can be born in the Head Realm. As for the soul, no new souls are produced in the Head Realm, and souls that have been fully eaten and buried beneath Ancient Forces tend to rise up.

Q: Can you tell us the full names of other Governing Immortals? Like Hyeon Rang’s High Spirit Grand Dao Nine Heavens Overseeing Fate Preserving Life Celestial Great Emperor. If you have decided upon them, of course.

A: Oh right, I need to reveal the worldbuilding on True Titles. Those full names are called True Titles… Governing Immortals have ranks that are too large, so they usually store their rank into their very long name and compress it to use like normal Immortal Titles. I will reveal some full names inside the work in a few days.

Q: How many first stage or second stage Heart Tribe members do you need to raid Yuan Li?

A: If you mean Entering Heavens and Treading Heavens by that, you would need a single second stage member. As for the first stage, it varies too much depending on the type of their manifestation and their compatibility with Yuan Li. Illusionists like Yu Hwa have good compatibility against Yuan Li, so you would only need ten first stage members.

Q: When you fire up a prophecy, is it a disadvantage if your opponent has a very long name and you have to state it all every time you make a prophecy?

A: Even though I express their speech as text, in actuality, they are making a prophecy with a single compressed will.

Q: Do you have any thoughts on the abilities or training method of the Silver Basket Devil Technique?

A: I do, but it will probably not show up in A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation. Roughly speaking, it is a devilish technique that starts by eating mercury and turning one’s body like mercury.

Q: Does the Wheel count as a child of the Two Venerables?

A: It could, broadly speaking. To be exact, it’s like a corporate body owned by the Two Venerables… I guess you could see a corporation as a child.

Q: I am asking these questions because Purple Soul Filling the Heavens’ hiding from light thing and Seo Eun-hyun’s speculation on how it might be compatible against Tainted Soul Filling the Heavens. It looks like the antlerless stag doesn’t have any hiding ability at all, is that because the hiding function is meaningless if it has too much power?

A: The antlerless stag has the hiding function as well, but it’s weaker than Heavenly Escape, so it did not show up.

Q: If a Sacred Vessel cultivator on the same stage as Seo Hweol used the Purple Soul Filling the Heavens on the Tainted Soul Filling the Heavens, would Tainted Soul Filling the Heavens be almost eradicated, as if it was sprayed with insecticide?

A: It depends on the situation. In the first place, Tainted Soul Filling the Heavens is not simply an inferior version, but an evolved version Seo Hweol evolved with the Future King’s fate behind his back, so it will not be defeated so simply.

Q: Is Purple Soul Filling the Heavens a vanilla flavored technique that requires mixing with other techniques to become stronger?

A: Such a mixture does not always end up stronger, and could even end up weaker.

Q: Is it possible to see the True Ending with just Martial Pinnacle, without simultaneously cultivating Heaven and Earth tribe paths?

A: The Future King cannot be defeated with just Martial Pinnacle.

Q: Is there Heaven on RToC’s Earth?

A: I will leave that to your imagination. But I personally am a theist that believes God exists in some kind and some form.

Q: I don’t think information about the Seat of Abundant Offspring is a spoiler anymore. From the perspective of a Supreme Deity, what kind of seat is it?

A: It is a seat that has one of the highest chances of reaching Life Supreme Deity. It helps one accomplish the crazy behaviors of Glass Peacock without actually breeding yourself by the power of the Seat.

Q: What happens to the star a Heart Tribe member receives from the Sacred Master at the fifth stage of Manifestation if they reach Star Shattering stage in either the Heaven Tribe or Earth Tribe and become a star themselves?

A: They use it well as a useful artifact.

Q: What happens if someone at True Immortal rank dies and reincarnates?

A: If someone was at True Immortal levels, there are a lot of cases where the fates they bestowed resulted in good, but also a lot of cases where they resulted in bad, so their next reincarnation varies extremely. If their prophecy has saved lives of countless beings, they enjoy an extreme amount of fortune, and if they have harmed the lives of countless beings, their life becomes extremely unfortunate.

Q: Is all of Head Realm’s population true immortals?

A: Not all of them are true immortals. Those who were living in the Bright Cold Realm or other middle realms who descended to Head Realm and died in Head Realm are also reborn in the Head Realm.

Q: What’s the difference between the giant race and human race?

A: Giant race - just a bit big human race. To be exact, they are the kind that have consumed polluted Pangu True Blood and deteriorated in mind, but gotten very big in size.

Q: Proportion of dead True Immortals in the Head Realm?

A: A lot of people among the Head Realm population are mortals that died after descending from higher realms, so 70% normal people 30% True Immortals.

Q: Like how when the human race becomes an Immortal Beast, they receive a name including Ancient (Go), do other races receive different characters upon becoming Immortal Beasts?

A: It’s not a certain thing. Seo Eun-hyun himself was named Candle Shadow instead of Candle Ancient, so the inclusion of shared characters in the name is not a certain thing, but used because it is convenient for the Immortal Beasts, so if the Immortal Beast likes their own name better, they just decide upon their race name.

Q: What’s the realm of True Immortality that cannot be defeated by just bringing enough Entering Nirvana cultivators?

A: The peak of Great Net Immortal. From here, no matter how many googols of Entering Nirvana cultivators you bring, prophecy and revision becomes too strong for one to be defeated.

Q: If a piece of the Absolute was dropped into a fantasy world and reincarnated into a dream demon like a succubus, would the ability to eat dreams develop into the ability to eat Ancient Force and grow?

A: Yes. They would develop authority specialized for that in the first place.

Q: How is cultivation done for Origin Essences of abstract concepts like health, good, and evil?

A: There is always matter that corresponds to the abstract concept. However, like how the matter that corresponded to Repentant Enlightenment was changed from salt to mountain, the matter that corresponds often changes, depending on the interpretation.

Q: Who is the strongest martial artist from Head Realm?

A: Hm… Among Head Realm martial artists, the most successful are people like Seo Eun-hyun and Hyeon Rang… Among mortals, there are sometimes martial artists that were led by Enders to grow to Nascent Soul stage equivalents.

Cultivation System

Q: Is the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Mantra of the first star of Qi Refining fundamentally the same thing as the actual mantra? Or are they just named the same?

A: Just the same name. If you were the owner of the Immortal Art of Immortal Cultivation, you could use it like a mantra, but fundamentally different.

Q: Does engraving your martial arts upon the world at Shattering/Tribulating Heavens Beyond the Path work by clashing your Treading Heavens against natural phenomena like Heavenly Tribulation and engraving yourself?

A: Similar.

Q: Is it possible for a True Immortal to raise their own cultivation by making multiple clones lower realm than them, making them do cultivation and then absorbing clones that have raised their cultivation?

A: Unless you forcefully invert the essence of the split body and forcefully make it go under Repentant Enlightenment like the Great Mountain Supreme Deity, the maximum stage such a method works is the Entering Nirvana stage. Of course, you would have some effect if you repeat it quadrillions and quintillions of times, but it’s more efficient to raise your own cultivation normally at that point.

Q: Does one draw endless power from their heart essence at Shattering Heavens by drawing power from the third Absolute? If so, does intent and heart essence itself really not have power of their own?

A: You can see it as a merging of power from Origin Essence and the Third Absolute. They don’t lack power completely, but they are very weak compared to other powers.

Bluemangoade’s note: I have no idea why Tremendous brings up Origin Essence here. Typo by Tremendous? Or does the Heart Tribe somehow access Origin Essence that early?

Q: Before the creation of the system Plane of Soul, how did one train martial arts and reach Martial Pinnacle?

A: It was an age where one created their own system to reach Martial Pinnacle… Not that different from the current situation, where one creates their own names and realms for martial arts. However, there was no Plane of Soul, so it was an open age where people claimed that the spells, authority, and racial traits that they practiced were all martial arts.

Q: Does Triple Divinity(Creation, Maintenance, Destruction) have corresponding Origin Essences as well? It’s still unclear how Young-hoon became a Heavenly King in the first place, so did he fuse the Origin Essence of Creation with the Absolute to become a Heavenly King?

A: While there could be Origin Essence of similar concepts, the Triple Divinity themselves are not Origin Essences. However, if one completely masters Triple Divinity, they can use them to similar effect as an Origin Essence.

Q: In the case of Understanding Before Breakthrough, as long as one comprehends the correct method, would there not be a lot of difference between lower realms and middle realms?

A: Understanding Before Breakthrough is not just complete comprehension, but endless Repentant Enlightenment and progress inside oneself, so if it is complete Understanding Before Breakthrough, where you are does not matter.

Q: If a mortal just sits in a lotus position and does nothing but breathe except for basic life activities, how long would it take for them to feel spiritual energy?

A: They cannot do it ever by just breathing. They must experience intense desire and self overcoming and communicate with nature. So… it usually happens as one is dying.

Q: Including difficulty of learning and training, what’s the most overpowered cultivation method or Immortal Arts?

A: Easy to learn and train, while having high potential? Azure Spirit Starlight Quintessence Great Method left by the will of Mountain-Destroying Demon Ape, Black Blade Maturing Secrets created by Seo Eun-hyun, and Great Mountain Splitting Emperor Technique left by the Great Mountain Supreme Deity… It seems all of them are from mountain divine spirits.

Q: If beings of Mount Sumeru look at Buddhist and Taoist scriptures of Earth, could it be treated as ‘wisdom’ and return to thee or increase their abilities?

A: Yes, under the assumption that the Future King does not block it.

Q: Until what stage are spiritual roots important/necessary?

A: Until Heavenly Being stage, their effects are immense.

Q: When Supreme Deities did not exist, how did one receive tribulation for Immortal Ascension?

A: You can think of it as receiving from the principles of the world.

Q: Other than Hyeon Mu’s martial arts system where you see lines from Peak Master, are there no other martial arts systems in Mount Sumeru?

A: There were, but all changes that someone does not want were shoved into the Head Realm.

Q: Can a Vestige Liberation Immortal who has not chosen their Seat and Immortal Dao grow in other ways? How about by using Primordial Origin cultivation?

A: Even Primordial Origin cultivation follows an Immortal Dao, just not Fate or History paths.

Q: What was Confucian Family cultivation like? Is there any remains of such in the current Sumeru Great Thousand World?

A: I think I would introduce that in a different work. At any rate, its primary authority would be to suppress the supernatural abilities excluding the owner of the cultivation method, the king/emperor, from reality. From that perspective, Earth of RToC setting may be a world dominated by Confucian Cultivation Methods…

Q: What happens if one copies a part of ‘Immortal Art: Immortal Cultivation’ as one scatters themselves and makes a new cultivation system? Do they get eaten or get melted in as a subservient system?

A: No… but a being wearing black clothes and ages in reverse may suddenly start following you.

Q: How does one become a True Immortal using Primordial Origin cultivation? Like how Kim Yeon turned into a bizarre quince flower or Netherworld turned into a beastlike being.

A: You still have to mix life and death together. You also reach True Immortality through suicide.

Q: Currently, cultivation systems we have seen include Heuk Sa Cultivation, Vast Cold Cultivation, Primordial Origin Cultivation, Martial Arts(Manifestation), Paper Flower Cultivation, Confuscian Family Cultivation, Buddhist Family Cultivation, and Shamanist Family Cultivation, and I’m curious about each cultivation methods’ upsides and downsides.

A: Heuk Sa Cultivation - Spoiler.

Vast Cold Cultivation - Spoiler.

Primordial Origin Cultivation - Unaffected by anyone, and a cultivation worth trying whether you are on Earth or in Mount Sumeru.

Martial Arts - Similar to Primordial Origin Cultivation, but it’s easier to learn in worlds with plenty of qi, and harder to learn in worlds where qi is faint.

Paper Flowers - It has not been long since its creation, so you cannot learn it in a world without Seo Eun-hyun.

Confuscian Family - System created for the purpose of suppressing supernatural power.

Buddhist Family - Basically nearly the same as Heuk Sa Cultivation and Primordial Origin Cultivation. System for searching the ultimate answer, and power is just a side benefit.

Shamanist Family - System for the consolation of the forgotten. Specializes in borrowing the power of others.

Seo Eun-hyun’s Paper Flower System is currently closest to the Shamanist Family.

Q: Does the soul of one’s Manifestation made by reaching Shattering Heavens gradually turn into an Origin Essence? Looking at it now, training of Manifestation appears to be a process that turns one’s own soul or soul that originates from oneself into an Origin Essence.

A: Hoho… I can narrow down the identity of the person who made this theory on three fingers..

What If?

Q: If Yu Hao Te became a Governing Immortal, how would the cultivation process become easier?

A: “Ledgers of Merit and Demerit” system would have a little more power.

Bluemangoade’s note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_views_on_sin

Q: If the Mad Lord became a Governing Immortal, how would the cultivation process become easier?

A: It would have been easier to cultivate with your dharma treasure or make an Artifact Spirit.

Q: If Seo Hweol became a Governing Immortal, how would cultivation become easier?

A: It would have been much easier to extend your lifespan using methods such as body stealing.

Q: If Glass Peacock became a Governing Immortal, how would cultivation become easier?

A: It would open up the sexual practice cultivation route.

Bluemangoade’s note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoist_sexual_practices

Previous Enders

Q: What is the weapon left behind by the previous Golden Body? Some pseudo-Immortal Treasure that can only be used by a Golden Heavenly King?

A: I was inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh, it is the femur of Gugalanna the Bull of Heaven. It has basic shape transformation as well as the ability of absolutely applying attraction force to the target to double the attacking speed no matter what.

Q: I am curious about the rankings of the strongest Agate, Gold, Red Pearl, and Lapis Lazuli excluding the current Enders.

A: Excluding Vast Cold, Silver Basket, and Obsidian, the strongest Enders so far are equal in strength.

Q: Who was the Ender with the authority of Mount Sumeru Replication, and how did that Ender die?

A: An Agate Ender during the age of the Radiance Ten Heavenly Lords. They duplicated Mount Sumeru a bunch of times until Ryeong, the Fifth Seat of the Ten Heavenly Lords back then destroyed all the duplicated Mount Sumeru and murdered the Ender.

Q: It was stated that there were Enders born with authorities such as Mount Sumeru Replication or Universe Creation, what kind of lives did they live?

A: They are usually people who investigate the truth of the universe or secrets of life like Faust and Frankenstein.

Q: Are there other Ender authorities big in scale like Mount Sumeru Replication and Universe Creation?

A: Authorities of all Enders are equal. Even authorities that seem to be smaller in scale are all being accomplished in the same domain, so they are all equal in scale.

Q: Are there beings that entered Mount Sumeru from other worlds other than Enders and Silver Basket?

A: I will leave that to your imagination. There are. Since an 8th Ender is accidentally brought in as well sometimes…

Q: Can you give examples of glorious history made by the Enders that are now lost in Ancient Force?

A: SF worlds, democratic Mount Sumeru, world of Immortal Beasts that have learned bioengineering… There were concepts of advanced cultures and intelligence born that were eaten by the Head Realm.

The Three Great Heavenly Kings

Q: Which generations were most threatening to the Future King, excluding Seo Eun-hyun’s generation?

A: Silver Basket’s and Obsidian’s generations.

Q: How do the top 3 Enders, Vast Cold, Silver Basket, and Obsidian see each other?

A: They just think of each other as pretty amazing beings.

Q: What do the previous Enders think of the six Enders of the current generation, excluding Seo Eun-hyun?

A: They are all dead, so they cannot judge anyone directly connected. (Excluding Silver Basket)

But in Vast Cold’s case: Kim Yeon - Cute child…

From Silver Basket’s perspective:

Kim Young-hoon - Cool mortal.

Jeon Myeong-hoon - Seo Eun-hyun’s pet

Kang Min-hee - Underworld’s pet

Oh Hyun-seok - A debtor who has borrowed from them

Kim Yeon - Seo Eun-hyun’s pet 2

Oh Hye-seo - Great Mountain Supreme Deity’s pet -> Seo Eun-hyun’s pet

Q: How many phases do Silver Basket, Obsidian, and Vast Cold have?

A: Vast Cold: 2 phases

Silver Basket: Normal - Berserk Silver Basket - Main Body Silver Basket

Obsidian: Normal - Using Swallowing Heaven and eating Mount Sumeru

Q: What if Silver Basket, Obsidian, and Vast Cold were all in the same generation as Seo Eun-hyun?

A: Vast Cold and Seo Eun-hyun would get along well, Obsidian would die fighting Seo Eun-hyun over ideological differences, and Silver Basket would have challenged the Audience Chamber on their own, try to run away, and end up the same.

Vast Cold

Q: List of people that can dispel Vast Cold’s curse of undying, other than Future King.

A: Anyone at Heavenly Venerable rank, under the assumption that they can kill Vast Cold.

Q: What’s the exact ability of Vast Cold’s Heaven Manifestation??

A: It’s the creation of a space that recreates the laws of the utopia of the user… but Vast Cold’s power is too strong, so it creates a Heavenly Domain instead of a space.

Q: Normal Vast Cold is Vast Cold using Heaven Manifestation?

A: Yes.

Q: How strong is Vast Cold at full strength?

A: Vast Cold’s full strength is around phase 3 of Underworld.

BlueMangoAde’s note: This is from a separate authorial comment. Underworld has 4 phases. Phase 1: Underworld’s projection. Phase 2: Underworld's Gandhara. Phase 3: Ghandhara with the WHEEL OR stored up power. Phase 4: Ghandhara with the Wheel AND stored up power.

Q: Ender who was screwed over the most unfairly?

A: Vast Cold.

Q: The most bizarre Ender?

A: Vast Cold.

Q: The most interesting ending of a Heavenly King.

A: Vast Cold.

Q: What are the phases of Vast Cold?

A: Phase 1: Normal Vast Cold.

Phase 2: Vast Cold who has substituted love into pain for a single moment to maximize attacking power in a self destructive attack.

Silver Basket

Q: Silver Basket who has faced Hyeon-seok appears to have stolen the fate of the Silver Basket of that generation, so how did Silver Basket treat the other Enders of that generation?

A: Including the Ender of the fate they stole, ominous chunks of uranium.

Q: How has the Ender story progressed for Silver Basket? Since they snuck in, I don’t think they would have something like a loved one.

A: They managed to trick fate. I will leave how they did it to your imagination.

Q: Is Silver Basket’s main body pretty damn amazing?

A: Spoiler… They are a pretty amazing being.

Q: Vast Cold at full power vs Silver Basket’s main body

A: In the domain created by Silver Basket, Silver Basket wins handily. Outside that domain, equals in strength.

Q: I am curious about how powerful Silver Basket’s Creator God main body is. They did lose against the Future King, but what if they were compared to Vast Cold or the Underworld?

A: Outside their domain, around the power of Underworld and Vast Cold. But inside the domain they created…

Obsidian

Q: How powerful was Obsidian in the world they are from?

A: Equivalent of a noble in their world. Roughly a God’s Knight, in One Piece?

Q: I think cultivation would be hard with the authorities of Enders of desire. Were there any other Obsidian Heavenly Kings other than Obsidian Devil Heavenly King?

A: There were some. But most simply inherited the title of Obsidian Devil Heavenly King, or replaced Devil with Black(黑 or 玄).

Q: What was Obsidian’s full power like?

A: Similar to Underworld’s projection, or conditionally surpassing it.

Yang Su-jin

Q: Did Yang Su-jin meet Vast Cold by blessing In and Yeon?

A: He directly met with the lingering thought of Vast Cold in the Bright Cold Realm using his authority. Yang Su-jin didn’t do things like blessings.

Q: How strong was Yang Su-jin at his peak?

A: Immortal Lord level. Stronger than Black Dragon or seatless Glass Peacock… So around the power of Glass Peacock with a seat.

Q: I am curious about the authorities of Yang Su-jin and Silver Basket.

A: Causality Reversal for Yang Su-jin. As for Silver Basket, their authority was not decided, and they used the Absolute to create the authorities they needed by themselves.

Enders of Seo Eun-hyun’s Generation

Q: What do the current Enders think about their connection(family, friends) on Earth?

A: SEH - acquaintances he needs to meet one day

KYH - long cherished wishes he must meet one day

JMH - seeing their face once would be pretty nice

KMH - acquaintances she needs to meet one day

Oh Hyun-seok - family he must meet again

KY - acquaintances she needs to meet one day

Oh Hye-seo - Oh Hyun-seok

Q: If Enders became Supreme Deities instead of Heavenly Kings, what would their title be?

A: Kim Young-hoon - Returning Supreme Deity

Jeon Myeong-hoon - Heavenly Punishment Supreme Deity

Kang Min-hee - Karma Supreme Deity

Oh Hyun-seok - Heavenly Shatter Supreme Deity

Kim Yeon - Infinity Supreme Deity

Oh Hye-seo - Filth Supreme Deity

Seo Eun-hyun - Great Mountain Supreme Deity 2.0

Q: Strongest Heavenly Kings per Heavenly King so far, and Underworld’s thoughts on current Enders.

A: Strongest Golden - Kim Young-hoon

Strongest Red Pearl - Jeon Myeong-hoon

Strongest Lapis Lazuli - Kang Min-hee

Strongest Silver - Silver Basket

Strongest Tridacna - Vast Cold

Strongest Agate - previous Agate

Strongest Obsidian - still Obsidian

Current Enders - generation of hope that might never happen again

Q: What do the heart essences of the Ender gang and important characters like Azure Tiger Saint and Jin Byuk-ho look like?

A: Azure Tiger Saint - Clear blue sky, meadows, mountains

Jin Byuk-ho - Valley where flags of lightning fly

Heo Gwak - Vast sea with cool winds

Kim Young-hoon - Peng bird

Jeon Myeong-hoon - Rain of lightning. Almost identical to his Integrated Dao Domain.

Kang Min-hee - Black-blue palace

Oh Hyun-seok - Chaos

Kim Yeon - Quince flower field

Oh Hye-seo - Corpse Mountain Blood Sea

Seo Eun-hyun - Sword Mountain

Q: I am curious about Kim Young-hoon’s titles for realms in Manifestation. Same realm names as Seo Eun-hyun? Void Shattering and Severing Heaven?

A: Kim Young-hoon uses identical realm names for most realms excluding Martial Pinnacle, because he was heavily influenced by Seo Eun-hyun.

Q: What is Kim Young-hoon Hyung-nim doing in front of the Audience Chamber?

A: He is still flying through outer space, and has not arrived at the Audience Chamber yet.

Q: Would Jeon Myeong-hoon during Middle Realm arcs trust Seo Eun-hyun if told that having dual cultivation with him would resurrect Jin So-hae?

A: If it’s after arriving at the Head Realm after the massacre of the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect, he was not in the right mind so it might be possible…

Q: What kind of Heavenly Tribulation would hit if Kim Yeon and the Mad Lord reached Shattering Heavens?

A: Kim Yeon - Heavenly Tribulation that weakened in inverse proportion to how much the person was loved.

Mad Lord - Heavenly Tribulation that shared the sensation one felt from the Heavenly Tribulation with the people they have connection to

Q: How did Oh Hye-seo at Integration who has not awakened to Truth Manipulation evade Yan Luo’s curse?

A: Oh Hye-seo was not able to evade the curse, but used a portion of the authority of Truth Manipulation and Seo Hweol’s help to ‘delay’ it. However, it was delayed to after her True Immortal Ascension, so she was half forced through the curse with the help of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity.

Q: Is there a reason that the color for intent of hatred is a mix of red and black?

A: External to the work, Oh Hye-seo’s symbol is black rose, which is of that color. Internally, it is because love and hatred are very close, so the color is pink that has been darkened.

Q: Among the Enders that have reached Heavenly King, which Ender do they think caused the most stress to old man Seo?

A: Oh Hye-seo and Oh Hyun-seok. They both caused infinite spawnkill looping.

Q: Was Oh Hye-seo less shocked by the Earth Tribe True Immortals because she was below True Immortal? Or was she fine because it was the race name, rather than true name?

A: It was just because she was using race names.

Seo Eun-hyun

Q: What do heart essences of Soap and Devilish Seo Eun-hyun look like?

A: Sea of foam for Soap and black sea of blood for Devilish.

Q: What would have happened if Seo Eun-hyun learned the Buddhist Methods in the 18th cycle?

A: He would have immediately been dragged into the Underworld when he learned the Flawless Mantra.

Q: Has Seo Eun-hyun Paper Flower cultivation system started to spread to other beings?? Or is it only learned by Seo Eun-hyun and his friends?

A: It is starting to spread.

Q: Why is there no star in the sky of the Akhasic Records despite Seo Eun-hyun reaching Martial Pinnacle and creating a new cultivation system?

A: Seo Eun-hyun is on the Immortal Dao of the Mountain, so it is directly being suppressed by the light of the Great Mountain Supreme Deity, who is on the peak of the Immortal Dao. If he was on another Immortal Dao, a star would be there.

Q: At this point, the Esteemed One title isn’t a spoiler, so tell us.

A: It was going to be Wuji Sword Esteemed One (무극검존), but I missed the timing so it’s gone to waste.

Q: Are Seo Eun-hyun’s Esteemed One titles Within Heavens, Heavenly Ladder, Aurora all Seo Eun-hyun’s possibilities? If so, what possibilities are they?

A: They are evidence that the Radiance Supreme Deity was watching Seo Eun-hyun.

Q: Seo Eun-hyun’s ego appears to exist in a fractal manner, so what happens if you extracted one of the egos and insert one into a mortal and grow? Would it return to thee to the main body?

A: I think it would declare that it is not Seo Eun-hyun and seek to distance itself from Seo Eun-hyun and be liberated from pain.

Q: After the end of A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation, could Seo Eun-hyun reach the level of the Creator?

A: Who knows…? I think you would have to be worried about whether the protagonist would be alive at the ending or not.

Q: Among Enders, how strong is the current Seo Eun-hyun’s curse technique?

A: Within top 3. However, there were Enders that had authorities specialized for curses, lives specialized for curses, and Seats specialized for curses, so he can never be first place.

Other Characters

Q: There was a depiction of Blood Yin touching Seo Hweol’s remains right before the Blood Yin battle, what did Blood Yin think while looking at Seo Hweol’s corpse?

A: Among words Underworld has said in the past, he recalled that among standards for punishing evil people, those who do not show possibility and hope of remorse were the truly evil, and he was pondering whether he has hopes or not.

Q: How is Blood Yin treated after dying and going to Underworld?

A: He is mercilessly being treated as a sinner and being tortured while waiting for reincarnation. The judges sometimes visit him.

Q: I am curious about the future of Flattening Heaven Esteemed One, Ham Rak. Did he give up on manifestation? Or cultivation? Overcome his limitations and become a martial artist on 6th stage and a True Immortal?

A: Inside the work, not that much time has passed, so it might be better to show you directly.

Q: If Jang Ik was able to reach Third Step Before the Throne, whether by overcoming his hatred or other methods, how strong could he become?

A: If he was not caught up by the End, war between Governing Immortals, or misfortune of Enders, he could reach Upper Immortal ~ Great Net Immortal levels.

Q: Was Yuan Li one of the Five Cruels?

A: Yuan Li is just a human.

Governing Immortal

Q: What does Salt Sea think of Oh Hye-seo and Seo Hweol?

A: Salt Sea is dead, so cannot think about things other than his direct disciple(or those who received his will, like Seo Eun-hyun). If he met them while alive, he would have caught them and handed them over to Underworld.

Q: Was the illusion of Cheon Ra shown to Hon Won the feminine side of Great Mountain?

A: It was just an altered form of storage, because if they stored their name directly, it would have been caught by the Radiance Supreme Deity.

Q: Occupation of Governing Immortals(Salt Sea included) if they lived on Earth?

A: Underworld - common Buddhist housewife

Sal Tree - beekeeper

Time - astronaut

Heavenly Punishment - horticulturist

Liberation - engineer

Swallowing Heaven - a tiger in a zoo

Great Mountain - dictator, warmonger

Naming - philosopher, person of faith(high chance of being Hindu or Buddhist)

Radiance Eight Immortals - public officials of at least grade 7

Salt Sea - competent dictator or normal head of state or someone living off-grid in the mountains

BlueMangoAde’s note: public officials in South Korea are ranked from grade 9(lowest) to grade 1(highest). Grade 7 implies mid-tier roles. Grade 5 and above are high ranking officials.

Q: Do you have an image or motif for the Salt Sea Supreme Deity? Personally, I had no problems with Cheongmun Ryeong and the Salt Sea Supreme Deity separately, but was confused by their image when I thought of them as the same person.

A: I also have not thought about the image of the Salt Sea Supreme Deity’s true body beyond a white mountain of piled salt… Their incarnation is Cheongmun Ryeong… You could just look at fanarts.

Q: Color of the Castle Wall Heavenly Lord and the Field Garden Heavenly Lord were both described as gold, but what exact colors are they?

A: Castle Wall Heavenly Lord is a slightly warmer gold, and Field Garden Heavenly Lord is gold that is slightly closer to white.

Q: Can Salt Sea Supreme Deity be resurrected?

A: Those confirmed to be dead do not come back. I think they will show up a few more times, but a complete resurrection will never happen.

Q: Are(were) there True Immortals that Bong Hwa considered to use as hairpins?

A: They are always watching the Radiance Ten Heavenly Lords. To catch and kill to turn them into hairpins if they make a mistake. Salt Sea was once a hairpin candidate.

Q: Did other top level Governing Immortals like Salt Sea and Vast Cold make things like hairpins using True Immortals?

A: They didn’t need such things, so they just killed them.

Q: Have we gotten every information about normal Supreme Deities now?

A: For every normal Supreme Deity except Bong Myeong, you got everything.

Q: Was the Swallowing Heaven Supreme Deity a Supreme Deity from the moment of creation, or was just their weight class Supreme Deity level and was appointed later?

A: They were a Supreme Deity from the beginning.

Q: What race was Bong Myeong?

A: Surprisingly, human. To be exact, they were born as the hybrid of a demon beast born with the True Blood of Glass Peacock and a human.

Immortal Beasts

Q: Did Glass Peacock stay at Great Net Immortal and wait for their sister to be born again without even becoming an Immortal Lord, and then hunt for her?

A: No. They just met someone they liked and did this and that, and it turned out that someone was their sister in their previous life.

Q: Did Yin Ghost Black Turtle exist as a separate individual like Mountain-Destroying Demon Ape? I was curious because they were the last of the 7 Immortal Beasts mentioned earlier.

A: Yin Ghost Black Turtles are not Hyeon Mu’s descendants, but all Hyeon Mu’s incarnations. You have to understand them to be the same kind of beings as gang sphere clones.

Q: Has Lofty Dragon failed to leave behind prophecies or histories and gotten annihilated?

A: They have left them in the storage scroll. But I don’t think they will get resurrected.

Q: Among current Immortal Beasts and Immortal Lords, who are the closest to Supreme Deity?

A: Unexpectedly, Underworld’s Chief Attendant White Face Golden Hair Nine Tailed Fox, and Yan Luo.

Q: What Supreme Deities do Black Dragon and White Pegasus become if they become Supreme Deities?

A: Black Dragon -Yin Heaven Supreme Deity / White Pegasus - Body Refining Supreme Deity

Q: Personally, I like White Winged Pegasus, so do you have any trivia on White Winged Pegasus and Sal Tree Heavenly Venerable?

A: White Winged Pegasus is an odd existence that has trained pure muscle to reach True Immortality. You can think of them as a gym rat beyond Azure Tiger Saint. The relationship between Sal Tree Heavenly Venerable and White Winged Pegasus is that from White Winged Pegasus’ previous lives, there were a lot of times Sal Tree Heavenly Venerable took care of them, so White Winged Pegasus is very grateful towards Sal Tree Heavenly Venerable.

Q: What’s the reason White Winged Pegasus prefers the female form when transforming into a human form?

A: White Winged Pegasus does not particularly prefer the female form. It just changes based on their mood.

Q: How many years before Seo Eun-hyun’s arrival did Mountain-Destroying Demon Ape Cheong Min’s annihilation happen?

A: They were captured and killed when Vast Cold just arrived.

Five Cruels

Q: What are the members of the Five Cruels?

A: I don’t have any information on them…

Yu Hao Te

Q: Is it a coincidence that Yu Hao Te’s name is Yu Hao Te(Love of Virtue)? Or were they renamed later?

A: Their Immortal Title is Yu Hao Te.

Q: Who is stronger in a fight between Yu Hao Te and Yang Su-jin, if you ignore their compatibility?

A: Yang Su-jin if he has his Ender authority. If they fight with just their realm and without the Ender authority, Yu Hao Te overwhelmingly wins.

BlueMangoAde’s note: Remember, Yu Hao Te’s Karmic Fire hard counters Yang Su-jin.

Q: Among the Five Blessings, only Yu Hao Te’s seat is called the Seat of Good and Evil rather than the Seat of Love of Virtue. Did they interpret the Seat of Love of Virtue as the Seat of Good and Evil?

A: The opposite. They were interpreting the Seat of Good and Evil as the Seat of Love of Virtue.

Q: Kang Min-hee’s Immortal Dao keeps splitting, but Yu Hao Te wielded the whole thing and deeply enough to nearly reach Supreme Deity, so how amazing is that?

A: Yu Hao Te did not particularly wield a deeper domain than Kang Min-hee. They just delved into the domain they needed and tried to seize it, so they did not delve that deeply.

Underworld Ten Kings

Q: What are the Immortal Daos of the Underworld Ten Kings?

A: You can just think of them as Immortal Daos related to the sin they are in charge of.

Q: Do you have any specific details of the 10 Judges?

A: They are beings that I took from Underworld Ten Kings as motif… so I do not have specific details.

Q: What hells were the Judges that dived into the Head Realm and died with Vast Cold in charge of?

A: Chief Judge - Usually tasked with generally managing the hells and paradise under Underworld, with heavier emphasis on managing the hells.

Deputy Judge - Generally managing the hells and paradise under the Chief Judge, mostly focusing on paradise.

Reincarnation Judge - Main task is working together with the Western Flower Field to assign lifespans. Usually in charge of the boundary between the Underworld and the world of the living with Song Jin.

Q: Name of the seats of the Underworld Ten Kings?

A: Qin Guang - Seat of Murder

Chu Jiang - Seat of Thirst

Song Di - Seat of Immorality

Wu Guan - Seat of Law

Yan Luo - Seat of Lie and Truth

Bian Cheng - Seat of Poison

Tai Shan - Seat of Pain

Ping Deng - Seat of Equality

Du Shi - Seat of Beheading

Wudao Zuanlun - Seat of Darkness

Seo Hweol

Q: Was the reason Seo Hweol’s plan in 998th cycle went so well because the Governing Immortal alliance took advantage of that plan?

A: Yes.

Q: Cycle 999 revealed Seo Hweol’s past. In similarly Seo Hweol focused 15th cycle and 18th cycle, and especially in 18th cycle where Tainted Soul Filling the Heavens and Seo Hweol’s existence was confirmed, were the similarities and differences between 999th cycle’s Seo Ran-Seo Hweol relationship and the Seo Li-Seo Eun-hyun relationship deliberately emphasized?

A: Yep.

Q: If 15th cycle Seo Ran rises in cultivation, does he get hit with the Heart Tribe tribulations Seo Hweol was hit with as well?

A: Do Gon is carefully looking at the events happening over there, so it would depend on how Do Gon sees Seo Ran, but he probably won’t anger Do Gon and only Seo Hweol will get hit with the tribulation instead.

Q: Since Seo Hweol is from a dream world, does his brainwashing erode the world inside a living being’s dream too?

A: Yes.

Q: If Seo Hweol became a Supreme Deity, what would his Immortal Dao and Supreme Deity title be?

A: He would have taken the Immortal Dao about manipulating personalities and become Inner Heart Supreme Deity or No Will Supreme Deity.

Q: Seo Hweol seems to have gotten 100 times faster at brainwashing with Tainted Soul Filling the Heavens after devouring Hyeon Eum, so how many days does it take for him to assimilate a Sacred Vessel Cultivator?

A: There is too much variance at the Sacred Vessel stage for an average. Those who know more people can ask for more help, so it becomes hard if they know too many True Immortals. Based on a Sacred Vessel stage cultivator that just rose to Sacred Vessel, it would take 10 years.