Martial Arts Returnee's Game Broadcast-Chapter 304: The Pinnacle of Modern Martial Arts

The constraint of internal energy. This had been a factor that held Ha Eung Eung back for a long time after returning to the modern world.

‘It wasn’t just a limitation of the modern era.’

Even long before, during her time in the Martial Arts Chronicles, she struggled with a lack of internal energy.

If only she had internal energy.

If only she had just a bit more strength.

When she was finally freed from the pile of regrets, she had already experienced the death of too many people.

That’s why, even if belatedly, she tried to find an answer.

‘Increasing the internal energy content through natural accumulation using the Ice Art from the North Sea Ice Palace. This was also the result of my research.’

When she overcame the Gu-eumjeol-maek condition and no longer suffered from the constraints of the Ice Art,

she recalled this technique.

Even if she recalled it, she knew that once she returned to the modern world, there might never be a chance to use it again—an unfulfilled technique meant to comfort the helpers who had left before.

‘No, it’s no longer meaningless. Armored Taejong. A worthy adversary has appeared.’

So, she thanked him.

Although he was the one who killed her master, it was precisely because of him that this technique gained meaning.

[Threshold 220% OVER]

[Temperature: -220°C]

In a space where even thermal conduction disappears, the vast emptiness of the universe twists all the physical laws, reversing heaven and earth.

"With just one sword, you create a hell where nothing in this world can survive. Taesabu was right. Demon King Swordsman, you truly deserve to die!"

<Integrated Control Processing> <Analysis - Heavenly Swordsmanship Final Strike> <Reproduction - Ten Thousand Heavens Flow>

A technique that calms even the storm of nature, the culmination of a force that devours the world.

Even if the masses within it cannot be fully realized, it is reproduced with the massive mana and destructive dragon mana—

The supreme technique.

As it freezes white in real-time, it begins to disintegrate from the very end.

‘Every Ice Art inevitably reaches its extreme point.’

The extreme of poison is intangible bitterness.

The extreme of the Ice Art is absolute zero.

‘The death line is crossing this absolute zero.’

Absolute Zero.

0K or -273.15°C and beyond.

The strain and penalties that follow a force that denies mechanics and laws are hardly worth discussing.

Life.

Even the most powerful superhumans cannot unleash this force without putting their life on the line.

‘But if the power is as close to absolute zero as possible...’

There is no need to cross that line.

[Threshold 270% OVER]

[Temperature: -270°C]

Mimicked martial arts and mimicked absolute zero.

A battle between imitations that has not yet reached the true extremes.

It was Armored Taejong who met the threshold first.

"An extraordinary idea. You took the dragon’s heart and entered a magical battle, even winning."

Armored Taejong had taken the mana from the Dragonheart, but in order to control that power, he had to draw on his own mana.

The solid mana that couldn’t even be broken with San-gong power scattered in the clash of strength.

Uncontrollable power was nothing but a self-destructive trigger that hastens death, and the balance of the battle quickly shifted.

[Mana control lost.]

[Engine damage. Main power unit destroyed. Irreparable.]

Armored Taejong sensed it.

In 3 seconds, his body would crumple like an empty can and be destroyed at the frozen end.

If that’s the end, he could accept it.

But the existence of an opponent who transcended humanity.

The Demon King Swordsman, who would end the world that he and Taesabu Lee Hae-chan had built.

He could not allow such a being to survive in a world without him.

"I won’t miss."

What he was aiming for was mutual destruction.

Tong-gwi-eo-jin (共归于尽), to perish together.

Armored Taejong accelerated the runaway Dragonheart mana, not stopping it, but amplifying it.

His body began to collapse from the bottom up, consumed by the fusion reaction.

A natural disaster meets an unnatural catastrophe!

The arena, still frozen in fragments of ice,

and the shells of the deceased,

collapsed with the hellish cold of the extreme ice zone, as if the boundary between heaven and earth disappeared.

‘Indeed, even the pillar of ascension couldn’t have released this much firepower.’

Armored Taejong’s final move was something that even Ha Eung Eung would admit was incredible.

He was ending an entire world.

A miracle beyond the disparity of levels, overcoming the half-hearted limits derived from physics with pure physical power.

It was an act close to impossible.

Armored Taejong had performed a miracle, surpassing the realms of the extreme.

‘I’ll show you. The martial art worthy of your end.’

Naturally, up until now, all of her martial arts were within the limitations of first-class techniques.

But if it’s just once.

She could cast aside those limits and unfold a martial art reaching the pinnacle of nothingness.

The peak of martial arts granted only to true masters.

The first step toward pure will.

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<Zihua Divine Art>

The visionary martial art of the Jahwa that merges the extreme Yin of the Gu-eumjeol-maek and the extreme Yang of the Zihua Divine Art into a perfect unity, colliding head-on with the energy of a nuclear explosion.

The force of the pseudo absolute zero which lowers the energy of all things to close to 0J, added to the extreme Yang’s energy.

The reversal of every particle and molecule’s state, the logic of Wuxing (物极必反).

A reversal of power that blends the logic of the ultimate ascension of martial arts with the anti-heaven’s force of absolute zero, creating the hottest negative absolute temperature, more extreme than any positive absolute temperature in the world.

A phenomenon that is observable only in artificial environments, a near-absurd experiment, achieved not by science and laws, but by martial arts and the strength of the Wu.

This is the culmination of martial arts.

This is the Zhi-Top Realm.

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‘If you are the pinnacle of Armored, then I am the pinnacle of modern martial arts. The elegance of martial arts will never lag behind science.

Watch from the hell you’ve already crossed.’

Your death, how futile it is.

The culmination of pure martial arts, combining the heart of the Volcanic Faction and the Demon Sect, rising high into the sky, countering nuclear fission reactions.

Apocalypse.

The frozen sky is covered in flashes of red and violet, coloring the extreme northern lights like a stunning aurora.

[Congratulations. The new top-ranked gladiator, the number one fighter in Gladiator Training, has just been updated.]

[She is the strongest and the pinnacle of battle, certified by the god of duels.]

[Pay your respects. The birth of the new pinnacle, the Silent Swordsman!]

The few surviving spectators stared up vacantly at the massive mushroom cloud.

"...Mythic battle?"

"...The sword defeated a nuclear bomb?"

Lee Hae-chan and Ahn Chang-yoon murmured.

Beyond the faint murmurs, tens of thousands of chat messages flooded in.

Ignoring their mouths that wouldn’t close, Ha Eung Eung stepped into the massive crater before her.

[Blessing <The Sun and Cloud’s Blessing> detected.]

[Your body is unaffected by the effects of nuclear fission.]

[Your body is unaffected by the effects of the mushroom cloud.]

‘This is it. The inner core of Cloud Dragon.’

[You have obtained the Dragonheart of Cloud Dragon.]

[The Dragonheart reacts to your blessing.]

The instinctive sensation Ha Eung Eung felt was visualized by the system.

[With the effect of the blessing, you can use the Dragonheart in your own way.]

[1. Absorb the Dragonheart.]

[2. Perform the resurrection ritual of Cloud Dragon.]

The path of the dragon and the path of resurrection.

Unlike Armored Taejong, who struggled to force control over this destructive energy, the entire energy responded to Ha Eung Eung’s will as if it were her limbs.

She could either embrace this power or use it in the resurrection ritual, it was all possible.

‘If I choose to absorb it, I could gain 80 years of internal energy instead of 40 years.’

She knew.

How incredible this opportunity was.

Finding such efficient internal energy was nearly impossible.

But she also knew.

The path of humanity.

This wasn’t a taboo of the Martial Arts Chronicles, but a self-regulation she had set for herself.

With taboos and limitations, if the blessing can be obtained through the backlash,

her mind would become as strong as the power she would wield.

‘A martial artist who has lost their humanity is nothing more than a demon consumed by their own magic.’

Cloud Dragon Azisahab had granted her great grace.

If she were to take advantage of that grace for selfish gain, even if her internal energy grew, she would carry an unerasable guilt in her heart.

That wound would eventually be the stumbling block that would trip her up when she truly attempts to transcend humanity and reach the peak of martial arts.

[▶2. Perform the resurrection ritual of Cloud Dragon.]

‘Sometimes, it’s necessary to have the courage to not move forward.’

Now was that moment for her to show that courage.