Episode 55
Black Dragon Water True Energy
On the way back to Guryongbun-ga with Ilno.
I rented a separate carriage and rode.
It was because of the internal injuries that grew over time.
“Oh, I’m dying.”
Leaning my back against the wall, I finally felt the remaining tension melt away.
“Are you okay? You look very tired.”
Ilno was acting as a coachman, so there was only me and the horse inside the carriage.
“You overdid it when you were detoxing the Shiksim Bingdok. You took five Mangnyeonghwan, so your internal energy flowed back-“
“Internal energy that is not properly fused can cause problems later on-“
“Even without that, before you can properly organize your enlightenment, your internal energy will be triggered-“
“If we continue like this, there is a risk of coin possession-“
“Ah! Be quiet, you guys!”
There was a lot of nagging about whether or not they were the ones who had reached the pinnacle of excellence while alive.
Those who couldn’t even make a sound when practicing sorcery, now that their field of expertise has come up, they’re throwing out advice like old men from the neighborhood.
I felt repulsed because they were so ugly, but the problem was that their training was something that others could not obtain even for a thousand dollars.
I may be far superior to them in witchcraft, but I am definitely not superior in martial arts.
In fact, it was like I was forcibly dragging along a dozen or so talented teachers.
So I absolutely could not ignore it. No, I had to keep my ears open.
But I really don’t want to do that.
I think they called this something like teenage rebellion.
Anyway, what I’m saying is that not everything that comes into a young body is necessarily a good thing.
“If others heard those words, they would think it was a deception.”
‘So what? Are you dissatisfied?’
“Ha. Hahaha. That, that’s impossible-“
bang!
At that moment, the small window leading to the magnet opened wide and Ilno looked inside with an anxious face.
“What’s the matter, So-”
“My lord.”
“…My lord.”
I guess he was startled when I screamed.
“The words that follow that title are too masculine. Succinct.”
“Isn’t there really anything wrong…?”
“There isn’t any, so just focus on driving.”
“All right.”
Ilno had a worried expression on his face, but he didn’t show it and closed the window of the magnet again.
Even if there is something you want to ask, you probably can’t bring yourself to say it.
Just in case it seems disrespectful.
“You are truly a faithful believer.”
‘That’s right. If only there had been believers like that, Shinwha Sect wouldn’t have been driven to this point.’
The demons and the ghosts both avoided eye contact.
‘Warm.’
“Yes, my lord.”
‘Does it seem very dangerous?’
Onma paused for a moment.
I thought it was really interesting that expressions were revealed on a new topic.
“…Can I give you some advice honestly?”
‘I’m telling you to do it.’
“If you push yourself any further, your body will collapse.”
I looked back towards number fifteen.
Fifteenth Ho hit his flat head.
“Soma also thinks the same as Onma-senpai!! Even though we’ve been through many battles, the unity of spirit and flesh is still unstable!”
‘Is that so?’
I closed my eyes quietly.
Fighting off poison with poison is not as easy as it sounds.
Even if the toxicity ratio is slightly off, or if there is even a small mistake in calculation, it ends up damaging the body even more.
Even if the mixing calculations were perfect, if the body did not have the stamina to endure it, it could actually be detrimental to one’s health.
Or, the liver or kidneys, which detoxify toxins, may be damaged.
That’s exactly what I looked like right now.
The mixing ratio to overcome the food addiction was clearly perfect.
To begin with, Shiksim Bingdok was the crystallization of yin energy, and while consistently swallowing Mangryungwan, my body began to develop a constitution that was excellent in yin energy.
Even while practicing divination, the speed at which the negative energy builds up without you knowing it accelerated.
-Cheon-eum-jeol-maek (Heavenly Yin Absolute Pulse).
It is an artificial way to obtain the punishment from heaven that is often said to be given to those who are born with a huge amount of yin energy.
At this point, it would be at the level of the fourth of the nine yin skandhas.
Anyway, if you break the toxicity of the Shiksim Bingdok, absorbing the residue isn’t that difficult.
But the problem was the step right before that.
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As the ghosts said, at that time I was in the midst of enlightenment and in a state of selflessness.
As I dismantled Baeksan’s Ice White Method piece by piece and came to understand the concepts of the beginning and the end, my world of consciousness began to change.
It is not just about sorcery, but also about awakening the meaning of martial arts.
And naturally, the body also changed.
The mind and body are inseparable. A major change in the mind is bound to have a major impact on the body.
So after such a big change, there was a need for absolute stability.
There was a need to organize the fragmentary realizations, and time was needed for the changed mind and body to synchronize with each other.
I had to relieve the tension in my overheated muscles and bones.
Just as hot iron becomes harder as it cools, the body also had to go through this process.
But I didn’t have time to do that because I took Shiksim Bingdok and Mangryungwan at the same time.
It’s like adding fuel to a body that was already overheated and creaking.
Fortunately, the detoxification was completed and the yin energy was safely absorbed into the body.
But my overheated body passed its limit and I suffered internal injuries.
In fact, ever since Baek-san died, I was in such a dangerous state that it wouldn’t have been strange if I collapsed at any moment.
However, the reason I held on was because I had a sense of crisis that Gu Min-chae or Bukhae-jong’s minions might appear at any time, and also because I didn’t want to show my weak side to the believers I hadn’t seen in a long time.
“You couldn’t possibly show weakness to the believers you met after six years. You probably only wanted to show your majestic side as the new leader.”
I had to become a savior, a beacon of hope for the psychologically hopeless believers.
Just as Master did, I also had to always show the believers my might as a divine being.
‘To succeed me does not mean to become a simple ruler or a person of power. It means to become a god himself, at least to the believers.’
‘What does it mean to become a god?’
‘God is a being who is revered and worshipped by believers. Do you know what that means?’
‘Well… I don’t know.’
‘Adoration means looking up to a being who has ascended to a high position. If that being comes down even a little, the eyes of the believers will also go down. If you go up higher and it is not enough, then you will lose your qualification as a god.’
‘… Then worship is-’
‘Worship means believing and following. You walk along the path that God has illuminated like a lamp. In this dark and dangerous world, the only place you can trust and rely on is that lamp. However, if that lamp illuminates the wrong path, many people will get hurt.’
‘… … .’
‘Keep in mind. God must be so high and above. He must be alone. If you place more than one, your gaze will be divided.’
The advice my Master once gave me still remains deeply engraved in my heart.
‘That path is so lonely and desolate that you cannot rely on anyone. And yet you must always understand and comfort those who follow you. Do you have the confidence to endure this lonely path?’
While looking at the side profile of his master, which was filled with loneliness, the poor disciple was left speechless.
And now I felt like I could finally understand loneliness a little bit.
Undefeated.
Invincible.
This was a mission among missions that had to be accomplished in order to become a new person.
Even if he is not truly undefeated or invincible, he must appear that way in the eyes of his followers.
How lonely you must have felt all this time, without anyone to understand your feelings.
One side of my heart became heavy.
‘Then what should I do?’
“Please put out the urgent fire first.”
‘It’s an urgent fire.’
“Shouldn’t you first stabilize your body? Rest is important right now.”
‘They told me to take a rest, but that would take too much time.’
I was sure.
It was clear that if I went back to Kowloon Branch like this, I wouldn’t have any more time to rest.
Namgung Sanyoung will struggle to survive somehow, and Domabukhaejong will also realize that Baekgolmangsa is dead and try to come up with a countermeasure.
No, even if that wasn’t the case, Gu Min-chae would probably have noticed by now that there might be some kind of relationship between Dang Woon-hwi and Onma.
There was not a moment to rest.
The moment I tried to catch my breath was the moment my neck was exposed.
“Then again-“
‘I think the most important thing is to purify the negative energy that causes serious internal injuries and completely dissolve it into enlightenment.’
“That is a valid opinion, but this too will take time.”
I gathered my thoughts and sat cross-legged.
A lucky breakfast in a shaking carriage.
It could have been dangerous, but nothing was more important to me than getting through this time well.
I fell into a state of emptiness.
.
.
Observation.
A picture of my intricately decorated internal body appeared in my head.
The upper abdomen was abnormally wide open, and the lower abdomen was seen writhing vigorously like an active volcano.
The energy flowing from the two places gathered near the center of the dantian, Meiji, to form a mid-stage dantian, but it was still extremely weak compared to the other two dantians.
Essence.
There were tiny, condensed crystals of energy lying there like seeds.
However, the nature of that definition had negative attributes.
‘As expected, this was it. The reason the balance was disturbed.’
It’s good to have negative attributes. Of course, that’s the type of internal energy I’ve accumulated so far.
But that was only the general appearance, and when you looked inside, the balance was completely off.
The coldness of Shiksim Bingdok, the coldness of Mangryungwan, the venom of all the poisons I’ve swallowed, etc.
It seems that it was compressed in its entirety without being properly purified during the process of absorbing all of the negative energy.
Since many different properties are mixed together in this small danjeon, problems are bound to arise.
Moreover, the interruption of the battle has a significant impact on the strengthening of physical functions and cognitive abilities. The negative effects were bound to be even greater.
Tsk tsk tsk-
Just as the beginning and the end were dismantled, the essence was dismantled in turn.
As I unzipped it, energy was released in all directions.
I unraveled the intricately entangled energies one by one like a thread and melted them into the Poison Dragon’s Heart.
The process was very tedious and arduous.
Even the slightest mistake could have caused the energies that had just been dismantled to mix again, making the situation worse.
Coin possession will no longer be a problem.
It feels like walking on thin ice.
“Huh… How did you manage to do this difficult task for hours without losing focus even once-”
“Isn’t this a common occurrence in the world of alcohol? It often happens when people offer prayers or make offerings. Isn’t this an extension of that?”
“Even so, you have great mental strength. If it were me, I would have already failed and fallen several times.”
“Usually, we try to lump things together and fuse them, without thinking about dismantling them. It’s a reversal of thinking. I don’t think it’s a choice we can make because we’re already stuck in our preconceptions.”
“That is a method that only the Little Leader can do-“
The exclamations of the ghosts seemed to continue, but to my ears they sounded like very small whispers.
At some point, the outside world began to feel like a distant world, as if nothing had happened.
I was locked in my own prison and devoted to this work.
Then after everything was completed.
“her!”
“I really thought you could do it-“
The march began immediately.
“Hey, wait a minute!? You’re not going to stop here and keep running?”
“You’ve already completed the deciphering-“
“If you just leave it alone and rest, some of the energy you’ve disbanded might be lost, so I think you’re doing that so that you don’t lose anything?”
“Isn’t it true that there is no such thing as a very sharp tongue?”
One week, two weeks, three weeks… … .
As the internal energy traveled through the body along the Im and Du meridians, impurities were naturally filtered out.
The toxicity is gradually decreasing.
The unique properties and characteristics of each internal energy have also faded.
By the time the five heavens had passed, only pure yin remained.
‘It wasn’t just the Shiksim Bingdok and Mangryungwan that triggered the negative effects on the body. As the various micro-meridians were also opened, the speed and efficiency of the movement became much faster.’
This was why it was much more efficient to drive on several wide, paved roads than on just one narrow, bumpy road.
In the past, it took a full half a day to complete a lap of the unicycle, but now it seemed to take less than half an hour.
After a few such retreats, only a very clear sound remained.
‘The achievement of the Poisonous Dragon’s Heart has deepened. Should I consider this as the equivalent of eight stars?’
As I led the pure yin energy to the middle ground with a smile on my lips, they naturally came together again.
In the theory of yin and yang, yang is light and floats, while yin is heavy and sinks.
The yin essence created through this was very hard, like a rock.
Although it may have been smaller than before, it was a superior product that needed no comparison.
‘Okay.’
A smile spread across his lips.
“I really didn’t know you could do it!”
“Congratulations on your achievement!!”
The demons and ghosts smile brightly and bow their heads.
“hmm?”
“Huh?”
The energy that flowed from the pitch that had been planted before the interruption suddenly slid down the meridians and settled in the kidneys.
“???”
What is this?
My face and the faces of the ghosts were soaked with absurdity.
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