EP.15 Nightmare (2)
Do you know why magic is scary?
It is scary because it can mix with any kind of depth.
Even compared to the Gu-Yeon-Hwa-Lun-Gong that I learned right away, it is the same.
The betting technique of the Jiu Yan Huan Lun Gong is a violent technique that turns the whole body upside down.
Wrapping your body in a glove grants you explosive physical abilities and destructive power, but the human body is ultimately expendable.
Ultimately, it is a martial art that causes the body to explode before it is destroyed.
Of course, as your understanding of martial arts deepens and your proficiency increases, it may change, but at the very least, it is still a violent and destructive martial art.
Here, if you learn the shaman’s Taegeuk or the Hwasan’s Plum Blossom Heart Method at the same time, the friction between the Jiu Yan Hualun Gong and the Taoist Heart Method will cause damage to the blood vessels.
This was ultimately a case of coin possession.
To put it extremely, it means becoming semi-retarded.
But there is no such thing in magic.
This is the reason why traitors appeared one after another, regardless of whether they were from the Sect or the Jeongpa faction, after the Demonic Cult appeared in the Central Plains.
The shaman’s technique of Uicheongong is like a gentle wave, with sharpness added to it.
The plum blossoms of the volcano turn black and become even more splendid.
The destructive power of Shaolin’s Ilboshinkwon is contained in its solidity and strength.
The shortcomings of martial arts that one had no choice but to give up can be easily filled by magic.
This was all the power of the Heavenly Demon. There was no need to learn or practice magic.
This is something you get naturally when you become a cultist.
It was both a blessing and a curse from the Heavenly Horse.
“What the heck… What the hell is going on?”
There is only one magical skill I have obtained from Cheonma. It is the Magical Spring Suction Skill.
The magic I obtained with my ugly heart that only wanted to become stronger.
It was a magical technique that absorbed magic stones into internal energy like a spirit’s internal energy or spirit’s internal energy.
This magic was the reason why I was able to survive among the strong despite my talent being below average.
However, that is clearly a story from a previous life.
I had never been close to the ‘Ma’ in the word ‘Magic’ in this life, and now, not only the Heavenly Horse but also the Mine had not yet appeared in the Central Plains.
‘So what is the situation now…?’
When I applied a little force to the magic stone that had turned transparent, it easily crumbled.
It was a characteristic of the magic stone that all of its power was sucked out by the magic stone’s absorption. Even the internal energy accumulated inside was like that.
It was very small, but it was definitely a little stretched out.
Leaving aside the connection with the Demonic Cult, wouldn’t it be good if your internal energy increased?
The reason why Mine is called Mine (魔人) is not because he learned magic.
Because it has magical energy.
This was also the reason why the martial arts of the shaman, whether it was the Taegeuk of the shaman or the plum blossom of the volcano, were dyed black.
The problem was the effect that magic had on the body.
Because I knew better than anyone what would happen to a human possessed by magic.
“But how on earth….”
The energy contained in the magic stone is magic energy. The magic energy is absorbed by the magic stone and brought into the body.
It meant that there was magic flowing inside my body right now.
I immediately turned to the Guyeonhwaryun Gong and checked the bet. I quickly checked every nook and cranny to find the magic.
“…Why isn’t it there?”
Surprisingly, I didn’t feel any magic.
The magic that has taken root in the body is bound to be noticeable.
I couldn’t miss such a heterogeneous energy.
However, I can’t feel the magic energy that was absorbed by the magic stone. I checked again, but I couldn’t feel any magic energy in my body.
‘Is it because my magic is too shallow?’
At best, it was only a green stone, and in terms of internal energy, it wasn’t even enough for half a year, let alone half a year.
As I stood there with a blank expression, Muyeon approached me urgently.
“Your Majesty, are you feeling okay? Are you hurt anywhere?!”
“I’m fine, I’m not hurt at all.”
“I told you to get in the carriage, but what if you rush in and do it? What if you get hurt?”
“Sorry, I’ll be more careful next time.”
It was an extremely awkward action for Muyeon, who was an escort. I apologized, thinking it was a bit forced on my part.
I approached the other dead deer. The one with its horns neatly cut off was the one that Muyeon had dealt with first.
“master?”
Just like before, I wrapped the Guyeonhwaryun Gong around my arm again and stabbed the bastard’s body to pull out the magic stone.
‘Even if it sucks, I have to check it out.’
I would rather have passed it off as something like I was lucky or there was no magic energy in the magic stone.
No matter how small the amount of magic contained in the body, it will eventually slowly consume the body.
If the body already had magic energy, it meant it was too late.
I feel a tingling sensation in my hand.
It was the same feeling as before. The green stone I was holding in my hand became lighter in color and eventually became transparent. The amount of internal energy that had filled my body was also the same as before.
It was okay up to here. It was good up to here, but.
This time, unlike before, I felt a sense of alienation. There was an energy there that I never wanted to feel again.
“I’m done….”
This was definitely magic. There was no way I could have mistaken it. The tiny magic gradually swelled and moved to swallow up the internal energy inside my body.
However, something strange happens to the magic that was slowly devouring my internal energy as if it was hungry.
-Hwaruk.
The Nine Flames of Fire that he had been holding in his dantian had swallowed the demonic energy instead.
“What is this…?”
This was the part where I could understand why I didn’t feel the magic energy of the magic stone I ate for the first time.
‘Did you purify the magic?’
Would it be correct to use the expression purification?
What I felt was the sensation of Gu Yan Hualun Gong greedily devouring the demonic energy.
It was definitely something that never happened in a past life.
If magic swallowed it, it swallowed it. I’ve never seen anything like it being eaten.
Even the Taoist and Shaolin spiritual arts are often overwhelmed and consumed by demonic energy. Why is that?
“I don’t know what the hell is going on.”
I don’t know why things keep happening that are different from what I expected. Is it because things were messed up from the start?
First of all, it would be a good thing that there is no magic inside the body.
Perhaps, it was possible to completely take the internal energy of the magic stone with it purified.
The problem is.
‘Why can I still use the Heavenly Demon’s magic?’
It’s the most incomprehensible thing.
If it had bound me even beyond death, it would surely have been a curse.
I couldn’t get caught up in this shitty situation again when I just barely escaped it.
‘… First, let’s be satisfied that there is no magic in our body.’
I’ll figure out what’s important later. First, I had to get the situation under control.
“master…!”
As soon as the carriage door opened wide, Wi Seol-ah ran over and grabbed my hand.
“What should I do… It’s a mess…”
The hand that Wi Seol-ah had worked so hard to wrap around yesterday had come loose and become damaged due to the intense movement.
“Are you okay, Master…? Are you hurt anywhere…?”
“As you can see.”
“Then you’re saying he was seriously hurt!”
“… No, you mean you’re fine, where on earth do you look injured?”
“face…!”
“What, Inma?”
Are you going to criticize me right now? Are you going to criticize me because I’m pretty?
Wi Seol-ah carefully touches my cheek.
“You look so tired, Master. You look just like my grandfather.”
“Am I that old?”
“The young master may look scary, but he doesn’t have old eyes!”
“Be honest… Are you just picking on me?”
The servant who came out of the carriage late is startled when he sees Wi Seol-ah and kicks her out.
“Seol-ah! You shouldn’t touch the master’s face like that!”
The sled fell with a ‘creak’ sound.
If you fall down so surprised, I’ll get hurt a little too.
“master.”
Not long after Wi Seol-ah was caught and dragged away by another servant, Mu-yeon called me.
Looking behind, I saw a pile of corpses of deer antler dogs.
Since the skin and bones of a monster can be quite valuable, after closing the gate in that way, it was common to take the corpse of a monster if possible.
“They say that the sword of the nine families has arrived.”
“What? You’re already here?”
It hasn’t even been an hour since the incident happened. How can we possibly get there already, no matter how fast we go?
When I checked the new presence, I saw that they were familiar faces. They were none other than the members of the Swordsmen who had appeared at the Nine Dragons.
“I am Hyuk Ju-yeom, the deputy commander of the Sageomdae. I would like to meet His Majesty the Prince.”
He was a man who participated in the Guryonghoe as a representative of the Sageomdae.
“Elder Lee sent you. I rushed here, but I was late… I’m sorry. It was my fault.”
“Elder Lee?”
A gentleman suddenly appeared. I thought I heard that he had left a while ago, but what is this?
When I asked a question, Hyuk Joo-yeom seemed embarrassed.
“Haven’t you heard? Elder Lee is definitely setting out with Confucius….”
“What do you mean? Elder Lee didn’t come with us…?”
What did this old man do to get into this situation again?
‘Did you follow me secretly? Why on earth?’
If that’s the case, why didn’t you just help me out when the magic gate opened? Why did you go through all the trouble of using such a cumbersome method?
A swordsman approaches from afar.
“My lord, the green antlers are all in perfect condition. There doesn’t seem to be anything to throw away. What should we do?”
“All eleven are clean?”
“Oh, two of them had puncture wounds in their sides, but they don’t seem to have suffered serious injuries.”
… I kept my mouth shut because that was what I had done.
“I can’t take everything, so I’ll just take the skin and bones.”
“All right.”
“And the rest… .”
Hyuk Joo-yeom stopped talking. It was because he met eyes with Mu-yeon, who was behind him.
Moo-yeon looked at Hyuk-ju-yeom and bowed her head slightly in greeting. Hyuk-ju-yeom let out a short sigh and continued speaking.
“I thought I’d stay home and sleep since you said you were resting, but it turns out I’ll end up stabbing people in the back anyways.”
Do you know this sign?
Muyeon didn’t respond to Hyukjuyeom’s words. Hyukjuyeom didn’t seem to care either.
“Take it easy and come back. The Lord said it wasn’t your fault.”
“…yes.”
Hyuk Joo-yeom said what he wanted to say and then looked at me again.
“We will take care of the remaining matters. Your Majesty, you may also rest now.”
After Hyuk Joo-yeom left, I looked at Mu-yeon. Since Mu-yeon had a troubled expression on her face, I just ignored her and went back to the carriage.
I was a little curious, but I thought that if he had something to say, he would have said it himself.
As soon as he entered the carriage, Wi Seol-ah tried to rush at him again with a cloth, so he ordered his attendant to hold it tightly and then leaned back in his chair.
It felt like bigger problems were creeping into my already complicated and difficult thoughts.
“It’s so damn hard to live uprightly just once.”
Maybe it was because of the nightmare I had earlier, but I felt like I wouldn’t be able to sleep for a few days.
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The place of Guyangcheon.
Inside the residence were the Sword Master and Elder Lee. In the Sword Master’s hand was a broom, now familiar.
The sword master, who was slowly sweeping the yard, spoke to Elder Lee.
“Thank you, Guryun.”
“greatness….”
Elder Lee coughed in vain at Geomjon’s words. He looked quite embarrassed.
“I didn’t do anything in particular.”
“In any case, wasn’t it for the sake of our child that you did it?”
Usually, when you reach the level of elder, you don’t move in Sega. There was no need for an elder to do something like the Nine Dragons.
The reason Elder Lee moved was because he had the Sword Master’s request.
“I just went for a walk to see my kids.”
The elder answered with a sheepish look on his face.
Wi Seol-ah, the granddaughter of Geomjon.
The reason Elder Lee attended the Nine Dragons’ Meeting was because of Wi Seol-ah.
Since I was curious about the granddaughter of the Sword Master anyway, I decided to go and take a look, half of my own free will.
“I’m grateful to my senior for this, so this much is okay.”
It was surprising that the sword was in the castle right away.
When Gaju and Geomjon first asked for Weeseol-ah’s safety.
Elder Lee suggested that Geomjon should go himself or not send him to the Nine Dragons Society at all.
However, the reason I changed my mind right away was because of the expression on Geomjon’s face at that time.
The expression of endless exhaustion, as if something was so heavy, was a face that had not been seen even in the days when Geomjon walked around the Central Plains carrying the honor of the Jeongpa on his back.
‘Even the greatest swordsman in the world is possessed by a demon.’
It was a shame that he ended up like this, since he was active in the same era as Geomjon.
‘It wasn’t all that annoying, though.’
Elder Lee thought of Guyangcheon while leaving Geomjon behind.
As for Guyangcheon, he was the sore finger of the family and a pitiful child in many ways.
Although he inherited the name of Guga, he was lazy and lethargic by nature and would often run away when he saw himself. In the eyes of Elder Lee, his talent for martial arts was far from perfect.
A boy who would have given up long ago if he hadn’t been the only remaining member of the family.
It was a time when I felt like I should slowly let go of that.
But when I saw Guyangcheon again, something was different.
It was not unusual for Gu Yan Hualun Gong to become rational.
Even in the case of the oral history, it was Samsung.
‘But the concentration of the mind was different.’
The inner dharma contained in the body is still in disarray.
The Nine Flame Wheel Gong should rotate endlessly within the body without having to wrap it around the body.
The narration was awkward in its rotation. The speed was not constant, and at times it was rough and at times it was weak.
Moreover, if you are immature, you are bound to be swayed by emotions.
It wasn’t that she lacked oral skills. She was clearly far superior to her peers.
The problem was the comparison target, Guyangcheon.
The energy contained within the body was extremely shallow.
The level of handling that shallow energy was clearly different from that of the oral history.
How surprised I was when I met you at Guryonghoe after a long time.
The ring of the Nine Flames Lun Gong held in Guyangcheon’s dantian always maintained a constant speed.
Even when Goyangcheon became enraged by the overly harsh remarks made during the Nine Dragons’ Battle, the rings inside his body still maintained a constant speed and shape.
This means that you have a clear understanding and proficiency.
It was an enlightenment that even the head of the household, not to mention the elder himself, could only attain after passing the age of two.
Afterwards, Elder Lee gained confidence from the sparring with Guyangcheon and Guyeonseo.
‘The child is hiding himself.’
Although he did not know why, the elder was certain.
Geomjon said to Elder Lee, who was organizing his thoughts.
“But you, Gu-Run.”
“hmm?”
“I heard you beat Peng’s child to death and made your children into a spectacle. Is that okay?”
“I think the rumors have been greatly distorted, but I didn’t make it half-baked.”
“… So the story behind that is true, is that okay?”
“What are you talking about, senior?”
“It seems like the head of the household is still looking for you.”
“… .”
The elder quickly left the place.
I was planning to avoid my parents for a few days.
