Return to the Immortal’s Tale Episode 397
Swallowing (7)
Yukyo scattered the numerous Dharma treasures she had stolen with her eyes rolled back and swallowed the elixirs.
“Ugh, ugh…”
Kookookookookook!
A crimson demonic fire engulfed Yukyo, and she gritted her teeth to avoid it.
‘Fortunately, I’m not in my right mind, so my hit rate is low.’
Although Wei Yun possessed the skills of the early days of the Cheon In-gi, he was nothing more than a puppet who moved while not in his right mind.
Fortunately, Yukyo was still alive thanks to that, but she felt something was strange.
‘Your father left a mentally unstable person right next to the Hyun Go-pae?’
No matter how much I thought about it, it was strange.
The flesh she knew would never do that.
‘It’s strange. No matter how much I think about it, it’s strange.’
If the flesh she knew wouldn’t do that, there was only one answer.
‘Father, there is a high probability that something has gone wrong.’
Maybe it was the beginning of the coin possession.
Or maybe he took over Yuk Woong’s body and his mind was cracked.
Whatever it was, it wasn’t the kind of behavior she knew.
‘Well, after I came back from Bongrae Island, I became a little more moderate toward myself.’
In the past, if you were caught trying to run away from home, you would be punished by having your magical powers sealed and hanging from the cliff of Jeongryongdo for half a year.
Although his attitude was that he didn’t care if he died, this time he became very lenient and decided to just keep him in prison for a hundred years.
Of course, if she were an ordinary person, she would die if she was locked in an underground prison and didn’t eat anything for a hundred years, but since she was a member of the Wonyeonggi clan, she wouldn’t die even if she rotted.
She could tell.
‘It was right after I came back from Bongrae Island. What was the reason? Because I came back from Bongrae Island? Or because I started practicing Yeomhaeguiro-ok in earnest? Or because the biggest obstacles, the King of Conquest and the Demonic Cult, were stuck in Bongrae Island?’
Kookookookookook!
A huge skull-shaped statue appeared above Wei Yun’s head.
‘Crazy… what kind of magic is that?’
Yukyo lifted the magical instruments he had stolen from Jeongryong Palace while sweating profusely.
That was when.
Woohoo-
“What? Are you crazy?”
Yukyo frowned at Baekrin, who was shaking at her waist.
Mumble, mumble, mumble… .
Wei Yun gathered his magical power and recited the law, and Baek Rin’s skull started to buzz even louder as he watched.
“No, it’s not that I don’t believe it….”
Yukyo looked at the skull statues of Baekrin and Weiyun alternately with anxious eyes, then closed his eyes tightly and grabbed Baekrin’s skull.
“Hey, I understand!”
Boohoo!
And then, Wei Yun started moving the skeleton statue.
At the same time, Yukyo threw Bailin’s skull towards Weiyun’s skeleton statue!
Baekrin’s skull was shattered into pieces by Wei Yun’s skull law statue’s hand.
“ah….”
Yukyo opened his mouth with a dumbfounded expression.
It was so ridiculous that Baekrin died.
“no….”
Could it be because Baekrin died so suddenly?
She couldn’t even feel sad about the situation.
[Kkiyaaaaaaaah!]
The skeletal statue of Wei Yun screamed as it was covered in her magic.
The crimson skeleton statue began to gather magic fire in both hands and start to sprout fireworks from its eye sockets as if it was about to attack Yuk Yeo.
And it was when despair and sadness followed Yukyo’s face as he realized the situation belatedly.
Tsk tsk tsk-
The skull statue of Wei Yun.
Its fingertips gradually began to turn pure white.
[Uh… Huh?]
Wei Yun looked up at the skeletal statue with darkened eyes as if he was wondering.
For some reason, the law seemed to be gradually disobeying her orders.
[Ugh… Ugh!]
Wei Yun breathed more and more magic energy into the statue, but although the statue grew larger, the speed at which it turned pure white did not change.
And finally!
Choaaaak!
The shape of the skeleton statue turned completely white.
And then, the skeleton body that had turned pure white seemed to be burning blue.
In an instant.
Flash!
The statue glowed white, and twenty-eight translucent black iron nails shot out from inside the statue.
Yukyo opened his eyes wide as he recognized what it was.
Twenty-eight gold coins that blocked Baekrin’s heavenly realm and sealed his magical powers!
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‘That thing popped out….’
Kookookookookook!
After a while, an enormous pressure descended on the room.
Lu Yao and Wei Yun knelt down at the same time, but Lu Yao’s eyes brightened.
And then, in the pure white light, as if bone dust was clumping together, a human figure was born.
Tsutsutsut-
As the white light faded, the shadow that appeared within it opened its mouth.
A ghost who is made of bones and wears a pure white robe.
[The thirteenth guardian demon king of the Mugeuk sect, Baekrin, has been resurrected to protect Princess Seongran and her lover, Yukyo.]
“Really… it’s late.”
Baekrin withdrew his pressure towards Yukyo and extended his finger towards Weiyun.
Wei Yun, who still seemed to not understand the situation, died as her entire body exploded when Baek Rin pointed at her with his fingertips.
Baekrin extended his hand towards the direction where Weiyun was.
Then, after a while, Wei Yun’s bones and a ray of her spirit floated onto Baekrin’s palm.
“What should I do about that?”
[Refined into a noble substance…]
“Oh, are you going to use it as your Dharma treasure?”
[No… I will grant you citizenship in Gwangum Station and give you a new life.]
Baekrin said with a hearty laugh.
[It’s not that I killed her because I hated her, but because her body was completely soaked in blood demons, so I had no choice but to kill her. I heard that there was a girl who fell to her death from Jeongryongdo Island during the early days of the conquest due to her subordinates’ mistake. It seems that this was the child. I plan on taking her to her parents.]
“Ah… It’s a shame that the soul that was cursed by magic would have considerable power even if it was refined into a Dharma treasure.”
At Yukyo’s words, Baekrin looked at her and asked.
[Didn’t you say that it was just an illusion to you anyway? Why are you so greedy for an illusion?]
“Well, it’s just an illusion anyway. What’s the point of refining an inhuman being from an illusion into a Dharma treasure?”
[Don’t say that.]
Yukyo lowered his eyes at Baekrin’s gaze and said.
“…If you swear to follow me, I’ll never do it again.”
Baekrin looked at Yukyo for a moment, then without answering her, silently lifted Yukyo’s ban.
Clank, clank clank!
Three iron nails, similar to those that had been embedded in Baekrin’s Heavenly Realm, came out of Yukyo’s body.
Yukyo resumed his training, and with a flick of his hand, he scattered the gold ornaments on the scepter and took the scepter from the altar.
“It’s done! Finally!”
A look of ecstasy came into her eyes.
The name ‘Yuk Woong’ was somehow shining with an auspicious light on the badge.
She took the trophy with trembling hands and put it in her bosom.
Looking at that sight, Baek Rin asked with a puzzled look as he unraveled his words.
“Why don’t you just put it in the dark? If it’s Princess Jeongryong, she would definitely have cast a tracking spell without us knowing. No, since she has the body of Yuk Woong, even if it’s not a tracking spell, she should be able to detect Yuk Woong’s nameplate.”
“No, items like the hyungo-pae and hyungoji are very fragile and break easily. After all, they are imitations of the ‘real hyungo-pae’.”
“Hmm… Even if it’s a fake, I can’t believe that the strength of the item that presides over the investigation of the combined machine class is this high…”
Baekrin turned his head, looking at the black badge as if it was a miracle.
“Okay then. Let’s get out.”
And then, just as she and Baek-rin were about to leave the secret room.
Kookookookookook!
Above the altar where the scepter had disappeared.
There was a loud noise, and a transmission line appeared above the altar.
At the same time, the gravity of the entire sealed room they were in seemed to be distorted, and the sealed room itself became separated from the surrounding dimensions and took the shape of a water droplet.
Yukyo laughed in vain as if he had noticed something.
“Ha… When you take the scepter out of the altar, the area around it turns into a ‘middle ground’… It seems like Father didn’t have someone else guard the scepter for nothing.”
“Hmm….”
Baekrin distorted the air through his force and made a hole in the water drop.
However, beyond the empty space, only the dark scenery of the ‘deep sea’ was visible.
“It’s no use. This middle ground itself was separated from Jeongryongdo and fell into the middle of the deep sea… If I leave here, I’ll become lost in the deep sea.”
Baekrin looked at her and asked.
“Didn’t Princess Yukyo say that she could find her way in the deep sea?”
However, Yukyo lowered his head as if embarrassed by those words.
“… That’s right, back then I lied to pass the responsibility of chasing Jin Ma-yeol onto Baek Rin-gong. With my Sea Dragon Blood, it’s impossible. Maybe with Seo-ran-gong-gong, it might be possible.”
Baekrin nodded at her words and said.
“Then… the only way left is to return the dice, or…”
Their gazes turned to the transmission line above the altar.
“All I have to do is get on that transport and get to the other side, which is connected to this intermediate zone.”
“… .”
“princess?”
However, Baekrin looked at Yukyo with a dark expression and felt puzzled.
“… I have a feeling that the place where the transmission line is connected is somewhere.”
“Where are you?”
“… It’s probably Angryongdo… Angryongdo is deep sea. It’s impossible to get out anyway.”
“that….”
Yukyo put the scepter back on the altar with a gloomy expression.
Then, the space inside the sealed room that had turned into a water droplet returned to the inside of Jeongryongdo Island.
“There’s nothing we can do. After we join up with the leader and his group, we’ll try to take it back then.”
After Baekrin said that to Yukyo, he walked towards the door of the secret room.
Yukyo couldn’t let go of the Hyun Go-pae as if he felt sorry.
And that was when Baekrin opened the door to the secret room.
Squeak-
Yuk-yo and Baek-rin were able to meet Yuk-rin’s body with a vicious expression outside the secret room door.
Kuung!
Baekrin hurriedly closed the door, and Yukyo, sweating profusely, took the Hyungopae out of the altar again.
Soon the secret room they were in changed back into a neutral zone, deep in the ocean.
Baekrin said with a sigh.
“… That person just now… .”
“… Yes, that’s right. It’s my father’s body.”
What they saw was the real body of the flesh.
To be exact, it was the body of Yuk Rin that had reached the level of the mid-combination stage before it took over Yuk Woong’s body.
Of course, to Yuk Rin, who had taken over the flesh of Yuk Woong, the only one in the combined machine, it was no different from a fragment, but even that fragment was at the level of the combined machine.
It was absolutely impossible to handle it with just Baekrin.
Baekrin looked at Song Jin with a sigh.
“… In the end, it seems like there is no other way.”
“… That’s right.”
After a while, Baekrin and Yukyo closed their eyes tightly and climbed onto the transport ship.
The light of the transmission line enveloped the two, and the two disappeared above the transmission line.
The deep sea beneath Jeongryongdo Island.
I went to Angryongdo.
* * *
“Shit, shit, shit, shit…!”
In front of the secret room.
There, the flesh-and-blood particle was drawing a line in front of him with its own blood, its eyes bloodshot.
That jin was a transmission jin.
“No, no! You dare to escape, I absolutely cannot tolerate it! The Six Aries must be in my hands. The Six Aries must be in my hands. The Six Aries must be in my hands!!!”
Yuk Rin, who seemed to be of unsound mind, cried out for Yuk Yo and breathed spiritual power into the transmission line.
Parsak!
The blood of the transmission line seemed to burn, and the transmission line was activated.
It was a transmission line heading to the middle ground where Yukyo and Baekrin had just been.
And it was when Yuk Rin, with red eyes, was about to step onto the transmission line.
“Where are you going, Princess Jeongryong?”
A man wearing white clothes and holding a balloon in his hand asked with a grin from behind Yuk Rin.
Yuk Rin gritted her teeth and glared at him with bloodshot eyes.
“This demon cult leader…! Don’t get in my way…! I have to go get the Six Edicts, the Six Edicts again!!!”
* * *
Yukrin is crazy.
I couldn’t think of anything else.
‘Is it because I’ve been exposed to salt water? Or is there another reason?’
Anyway, the bastard’s mind was grotesquely twisted, and his thoughts were full of obsession and possessiveness, and he was spewing out crazy thoughts.
And given the circumstances, that obsession was directed towards Yukyo.
‘It’s not a normal mental illness. It’s not a normal mental illness either.’
I know because I’ve been in a state of mental illness or obsession.
If he was to develop a mental illness, it would have to be a mental illness related to salt obsession related to the salt seaweed soup he had cooked, or a split personality due to self-indulgence.
It was strange that he suddenly became so possessive towards his daughter, who he had previously shown no interest in and who had threatened to kill him if he did not listen to him.
‘Did something, an outside entity, intervene?’
I couldn’t think of anything else.
But why the six yolks?
That was still unknown.
“What is that transmission? It looks like it’s related to the mid-zone.”
“Everyone, shut up! If you get in my way, I’ll kill you, you cult leader!”
“You idiot, this is a piece of shit. This is so pathetic. Who would have thought that the mighty Dragon King who had trapped the entire Mugeuk Sect a hundred years ago would have become such a crazy old man?”
I clicked my tongue as I looked at the flesh that was gradually starting to melt with bloodshot eyes.
“And, I think you’re mistaken. It was you, your true self, that I had a hard time dealing with in powder form, not you.”
“This guy, how dare he… me now.”
Boom!
I landed a single blow from my left-handed attack directly into the guy’s mouth, and while he hesitated, I struck him several more times.
Kwakwakwakwang!
The flesh of the body was torn into several pieces and flung out of the Jeongryong Palace.
“That’s too bad.”
I clicked my tongue, climbed onto the transmission line that Yuk Rin had created, and activated the transmission line.
Pfft!
* * *
I crossed the middle ground and finally reached the other side, where I squinted my eyes.
“…Is it deep here too?”
To be honest, being stuck in Bongrae Island, I was a little sick of the deep sea.
“Then this must be the Parrot Island. By the way, if that’s the case… .”
Jin Ma-yeol was probably going to enter here soon.
In the first place, Yuk Rin was Kim Young-hoon.
Jeongryongdo is mine.
It was said that Jinma Yeol’s Yeomgolho had decided to conquer Angryongdo.
It was possible for the Jinma Yeol’s saltwater fish, which could swim in the deep sea, to enter here.
‘Tsk, I wish Yeomgolho could come down to Bongnae Island.’
Unfortunately, the deep sea into which Bongraedo was lowered by that hand is so deep that even Yeomgolho cannot enter it without permission.
I looked around, clearing my mind of distracting thoughts, and was able to find Yukyo right away.
And Baekrindo by her side.
“Baekrin, Yukyo!”
“Ah… Master.”
Baekrin looked back at me and expressed his delight.
However, even though Yukyo heard that I had come, he just stared blankly somewhere.
“…? Baekrin, what are you looking at, Yukyo?”
Since the powder couldn’t use the same level of consciousness as the main body, they couldn’t immediately perceive what they were seeing.
I walked up to Yukyo and watched what she was seeing.
It was a mural.
And then, my eyes widened as I looked at the picture drawn on the mural.
Because, at the bottom of the mural, there were familiar letters written in a very familiar font.
– I thought about it carefully. The reason he gave such an excessive gift to the maggots. It wasn’t to help the maggots, the lowly monks. It was definitely to release their ancient power.
The hidden storage room on the top floor of Bongmyeongseong.
It was exactly the same handwriting as the one written in the corner of the bookcase.
