Episode 70 < A world where constellations are dead. (2) >
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4.
‘cold.’
In the middle of the snowy field, So Baek-hyang thought.
Buried in the white snow, the world became colorless, odorless, and soundless.
The world was just a cold blank slate.
‘cold… … ‘
My skin was cold. My bones were cold. The blood was also cold.
So Baek-hyang thought.
‘My stomach feels tingly.’
‘mom?’
‘It feels like my five intestines and six parts are filled with ice.’
‘mom.’
‘It’s too cold here.’
I thought and thought. As I thought about it again and again, my insides became increasingly frozen. Eventually, even the mind that thought about such thoughts became cold.
Cold.
Another cold world.
The back of the mother moving away.
How much time has passed?
-… … Uh huh.
The silence was broken.
-It’s a strange thing. It’s truly bizarre.
Afterwards, the smell was broken.
-It’s already been 10 days since it stopped snowing around here. Just counting the thickness of the snow covering it, it amounts to 5 cheok (尺). Why is this child still alive?
Finally, even the colorlessness was broken.
So Baek-hyang looked ahead with young eyes. An old man was standing. The noise was caused by him digging in the snow. He grabbed my wrist and I could smell his old man’s scent. The eyes of the old man looking at him were black.
-This is not an ordinary child.
The old man was an old master of the Demonic Cult.
-Born with ice and snow resistance. The coldness of the world will be your inner energy. Strange and strange. A young boy spent more than 10 days in the snow just by eating snow. Isn’t this the extreme yin body we only heard about in literature?
-…….
-Oh no. What is your name?
So Baek-hyang opened her lips.
-I don’t know.
I couldn’t remember the name.
-How old are you?
-I don’t know.
-How did I end up buried in a snow field like this?
-I don’t know.
-…….
I couldn’t think of anything.
It was cold. My thoughts were frozen, my head thinking about my thoughts was frozen, and it seemed like all the words in my head and heart were frozen.
-Poor thing. The young thing is already buried in the artificial landscape… .
The old expert groaned.
-However, it is the perfect vessel for learning martial arts. If the palace lord of the North Sea sees it, he will pay a large sum of money to take it away. What a strange coincidence! But what is the coincidence? Will this school be an opportunity for you, or will this school be an opportunity for you? It’s very difficult to guess with my presbyopia.
So Baek-hyang did not understand. He could barely understand what the old man was saying earlier. The person in front of me said only very difficult words.
Stroking.
The old man touched So Baek-hyang’s head.
-Oh no. Will you follow me?
-…….
-I will feed you and put you to sleep.
It was easy to understand.
Nodding his head slowly, the old man said.
-You don’t have any scent. Since you have no name and your birth date is unknown, you are most likely a child born from the snow. I will give you my last name. And I will call you Baekhyang (S香), the scent of snow.
The scent of snow.
-From now on, you are So Baek-hyang, a member of the Demonic Cult.
So Baek-hyang was silent for a while.
And said.
-Where will I go?
Noh Gosu smiled.
-It’s a place where kids like you gather.
5.
“—Impossible!”
The Heavenly Demon said.
“I have never had a single disciple in my life. No matter how much the world has degenerated into a mess, the laws of this throne remain unchanged. A disciple! “This is ridiculous!”
Hot Springs Cave.
We left the snowy plains and found ourselves in the heart of the world’s last survivors. The Heavenly Demon and the Murim Lord said, ‘There was still someone alive…’ ‘ He was surprised, but happily welcomed us as guests.
However, they only accept you as a guest.
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It seemed like he had no intention of accepting me as a disciple.
“no way. Madhu. “Why are you being so petty?”
The Murim lord chewed Byeokgokdan next to him.
“It’s amazing that Sae-wae’s children survived. Not only did I survive, but I also made it through this treacherous river, saying that I would learn from you, so it deserves to be added to my admiration and beauty. “Is there any need to be as stiff as before?”
“It’s amazing and pretty.”
The Heavenly Demon snorted, “Hmm.”
“Nevertheless, the laws of a priest are harsh! At our school, we do not admit people without permission. “Only children who have been abandoned by their parents and abandoned by the world can join the Demonic Cult.”
“Tsk tsk. “They always call us old people and criticize people even more than we do.”
The Murim Lord shook his head.
“Oh no. They say so. Now that this has come to an end, how about leaving the shabby demon cult babblers alone and making yourself your teacher? I am Namgoongun. He is the head of the Daenamgung family and the leader of the martial arts faction. If you become my disciple, I will show you lots of affection… … ”
“Why can’t you accept me as your disciple, Heavenly Demon?”
I asked, ignoring the old man. The Murim Lord must have been slightly shocked and asked, ‘Why! Could it be that my name has not spread far and wide except for birds…? !?’ He shouted. It’s a bit pitiful, but let’s leave it alone.
The Heavenly Demon narrowed his eyebrows.
“Didn’t I just say that? “Only children who have been abandoned by the world can enter the Church.”
“The world has changed.”
I said.
“Because of a mysterious disease, people have turned into jiangshi. The martial sect and the Sega perished side by side. Since the world has abandoned humans, we are now all abandoned by the world. “It doesn’t matter whether you like it or not.”
“Cheonma. “Aren’t the conditions for admission automatically satisfied?”
The Heavenly Demon pursed her lips.
Probably because I’m right.
More than anything… I was a hunter. He was an orphan who abandoned the outside world and threw himself into a tower. I was a little embarrassed to say that I had been abandoned by the world, but I could say that I had abandoned the world. The [conditions for admission] mentioned by the Cheonma will be fully satisfied.
“… … good night.”
The Heavenly Demon stood up from his seat.
“If you are that confident, try using the three-jae sword method.”
She looked down at me gently.
“I will determine with my own eyes whether you are qualified to inherit the teachings of our school. “It’s obvious that we’ll just talk nonsense anyway.”
“…….”
I also got up from my seat.
“Thank you for the opportunity.”
I took out the holy sword. Slurp! The sound of swords rang out in the wide cave. People were looking in my direction. They were quietly waiting to see what kind of swordsmanship I would demonstrate.
Of course, I had no intention of showing off the Samjae Sword Technique or anything like that.
[Activates the skill.]
Demon Heavenly God’s Gong (魔天神功).
Because there was a skill I had acquired aimed at this very moment.
“…Whew.”
As the new technique was activated, countless movements were drawn in my mind.
Strange and mysterious sword roads.
However, seeing the road in front of you and driving on that road are two completely different things. I have not yet fully realized the Demon Heavenly Demonic Art. If you show off your sword skills like this, your body will only be torn apart like a bird chasing a stork.
‘If it’s going to break anyway.’
Therefore, I recalled.
‘It has to be torn properly.’
The landscape of [trauma] that I have experienced so far.
I swung my sword while picturing them one after another in my mind.
To unfold magical skills.
There were moans and screams that I had witnessed and witnessed while climbing the tower. The moans and screams were always raw and vivid. I remembered the moans and screams as if I had heard them just before. Their voices colored my heart.
“Help me.”
“Please help me, I’m hungry. “Something to eat, please.”
The basement of a mansion.
I thought of the voices of the children who were trapped and tortured there.
“I want to live.”
The children were chained. When the mansion catches fire and burns. Even though the children watched the fire burning before their eyes, they were caught in chains and could not escape. It had no choice but to be burned quietly.
“I wanted to play a little more.”
With the children’s screams in my heart, I swung my sword.
“Ma, Madhu! That sword method… … ”
“…….”
I could vaguely hear the Murim Lord becoming embarrassed nearby. But he ignored it. What I had to remember in my mind right now was not the Murim Lord’s voice.
Slowly, lazily, step by step.
I swung my sword, remembering what I had to remember.
“Burn it!”
“Burn down the witch’s nest!”
The edge of a certain continent.
I remembered the voice of the hungry ghost trying to save the sick there.
“why?”
“You are also human.”
The monkfish had black fluid flowing from its eyes. The paradise she created. A small village was burning down. The sight of people burning people, and people being burned by people, was a seal in the eyes of the hungry ghost.
“You are also human and know how to shed tears, so how can you?”
“Did you call me a monster? So you had no hesitation in burning it?”
“Are you the only humans?”
With the scream of the hungry ghost in my heart, I swung my sword.
“…….”
“…….”
My sword became faster and faster. The Demon Heavenly Demonic Art I gained through my death became my form. The trauma I received from my death pulsed with righteousness. I felt like I was going to lose my way along the way, but then I raised my aura and forced myself to follow the sword path.
-Look at this guy… ?
Bae Hu-ryeong said, magic was the claws that scratched the world.
However, the more I practiced the Demon Heavenly Demonic Art, the more my thoughts changed.
It’s probably closer to a scream or scream than a claw.
-and.
My sword dance continued and continued until it finally became a sword dance.
-If he had been born in Murim, he would have definitely ended up in a demonic cult. Now that I see it.
My sword dance was never beautiful. I was immature. It was a mess. There was no scent of flowers, only the smell of fire. If swordsmanship had a face, my sword was just the face of a person who had suffered burns.
It’s just a scream.
No matter how admirable the principle of yin and yang is, the world born from it is nothing but heartbreaking.
No matter how mysterious the lines of the Four Books and Three Classics are, they cannot overcome a single scream from a lowly human being.
The swordsmanship containing the sorrow of the world is sharper than the swordsmanship containing yin and yang.
A sword wielded according to a single scream is stronger than a sword wielded according to a mysterious doctrine.
The deeper the grief, the meaner the scream, the stronger the sword.
That’s why we are strong.
Strong self-respect.
That was the doctrine of the Demonic Cult.
“Speak.”
“Mu forgot Hyeop, and Hyeop lost Mu. “Say it like that.”
“If you say so, I will kill you however you want.”
Cheonma is the heaven of such doctrines.
The highest sky.
The Heavenly Demon must know all the screams of the believers and know how to solve them all with the sword. Every single line of the sword wielded by the Heavenly Demon must be a scream to the world.
This proves that somewhere in this world, there were people who screamed and screamed.
“The whole world has become empty.”
“The decades have been meaningless and meaningless.”
Even that sky.
Even the Heavenly Demon screamed at the last moment.
“Ahaha. Hmm, haha!”
I laughed like crazy.
“Hahahaha! Hahaha… … .」
With that smile in my heart, I swung my sword.
“.stop.”
I swung my sword.
“Enough.”
I swung my sword.
“Didn’t I tell you to stop!”
Before I knew it, my sword stopped.
I didn’t stop because I wanted to stop. rod. The Heavenly Demon was holding up a wooden stick and blocking my blade. The dark inner strength was shaking from the whip.
“You… … ”
The Heavenly Demon muttered softly.
“Where did you learn this by stealing the festival from our school?”
Her eyes were pitch black.
“You can’t fool my eyes! No matter how messed up and immature you are, what you have just unleashed is without a doubt an invincible Heavenly Demonic Art. “In this world, the only person who can learn divine skills is a demon, and I have never seen your face.”
“Speak. “Where did you steal it from?”
Only then did I realize that I was more exhausted than I thought. I was out of breath. My whole body was soaked. The holy sword in my right hand felt as heavy as a rock.
I looked around. Not only the Murim Lord, but also the people in our group were looking at me with bated breath. From the open ceiling of the cave, the starlight of the night sky was pouring down. Maybe more time has passed than I felt.
“to me…….”
I opened my mouth with difficulty.
“Am I qualified?”
“…….”
“Do I have the qualifications to become Heavenly Demon’s disciple?”
The Heavenly Demon was silent.
After being silent for a long time, the woman turned her back. The Heavenly Demon took her steps to the far side of the cave. Her back was a back that rejected her people, so none of her people could chase her.
If I had a little more energy, I might have chased after you… .
“Death, Death King?”
dump.
My knees gave out.
“Death King! Are you okay, Death King!?”
My consciousness was blurred. It was because she had used up too many auras at once, she thought in her dazed mind. She’ll probably pass out all night like this.
I tried to smile at the pharmacist to reassure him, but even that was difficult. It was already dark before my eyes.
-Tsk tsk.
Just before passing out. Bae Hu-ryeong’s voice was heard.
-If you use a martial arts attack that is not suitable for you, you will die in seconds. You bastard. This is why I have repeatedly said that people must build from the foundation. Bae Hu-ryeong sighed.
-Well, but… … .
and.
-It wasn’t a bad bop. What a wonderful cub.
I lost my mind.
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