The Heavenly Demon’s Ascension

"But why ascension, all of a sudden......?" "There's nothing to do, so I'm bored." "Ah......." Truly a reason worthy of the man. To think the purpose behind his ascending was boredom. And so, the Heavenly Demon Baek Gang-hwi, settled in the Supreme Ultimate Cave of Mount Wudang. After a long effort, he achieved Ascension at last. Leaving the body he had grown fond of, he drifted this way and that without destination, like a fallen leaf carried on the wind, like a leaf afloat on the water. It was the drifting of a soul. He had thought it must be the process of shedding the husk of this world and making his way to his true form. At some moment he was shut into a dark, narrow space and felt stifled, and that lasted only a little while before, with a pain as though his whole body were being crushed flat, tormented by a pressure that felt as if his head were being squeezed until it burst, he slipped out somewhere with a rush. Well, how could there be no pain? Ascension, no less....... "WAAAAAAAH!" ...... aah? Something had gone wrong. The first sight he saw, along with that wailing, was a room with a magenta silk quilt spread over a low wooden bed. The warmth of a brazier heaped with charcoal glowing red filled the air, and a fragrant scent....... Was this not a birthing room (a room furnished for the delivering of a child)? And in the midst of it. "Your name, from this day, shall be Jaegal Mun-hyeon." What? Who? Jaegal? Something had gone seriously wrong. Here begins the tale of the Heavenly Demon Baek Gang-hwi, who met a new life not through ascension but through birth. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Heavenly Demon’s Ascension — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠