Chapter 104 : Chapter 104

Chapter 104. Growth (4)

Countless thoughts swirled in Jin Yuseong’s mind.

‘Should I stop her now?’

It was too dangerous a method.

He had thought she would just absorb the internal energy and be done with it, but he had not expected her to try to open the Gate of Life and Death using poisonous energy.

But he could only worry and could not bring himself to interfere.

‘If I interfere wrongly, it will only become more dangerous.’

Also, apart from it being a crazy act, it was rather rational.

The poisonous energy, focused at one point in the form of a needle.

Without causing shock to other places, the poisonous energy was only touching the center of the Gate of Life and Death.

By the time he had more or less sorted out his thoughts.

Thud.

A small hole was finally pierced in the Gate of Life and Death.

The needle of poison passed through that small hole.

‘Is she planning to gradually widen the hole with that needle?’

Indeed, she is considering at least a minimum of safety.

As soon as he thought that, a massive amount of energy rushed in.

The energy of the pill that Baek Hyang had left alone.

While rubbing the poisonous energy against the Gate of Life and Death, Baek Hyang had somehow drawn that energy to this place.

‘…….’

Jin Yuseong gave up on thinking.

The pain he had felt when he opened the Gate of Life and Death was still vivid in his mind.

In the midst of that, no, even while piercing it with poisonous energy, she brought that huge amount of energy?

While Jin Yuseong was trying to suppress a scoff.

BOOM!!

A huge amount of energy pounded on the gate of the Gate of Life and Death.

It was known that the minimum energy required to open the Gate of Life and Death was at least one Gapja.

The total amount of that huge energy was clearly not one Gapja.

But there was no problem.

Because there was already a hole pierced by the poisonous energy.

BOOM!!

The small hole was crushed by the huge amount of energy.

Like a dam with a hole in it collapsing under a huge flood.

Even after destroying one Gate of Life and Death, Baek Hyang’s unconventional progress continued.

The poisonous energy was already soaring up the Du meridian and heading towards the Hundred Convergences Acupoint.

Jin Yuseong almost squeezed his eyes shut without realizing it.

‘Please…….’

The Gate of Life and Death near the Meeting of Yin Acupoint was also dangerous, but the one near the Hundred Convergences Acupoint was a completely different story.

If something went even slightly wrong, one would become an idiot at the minimum, and there was a high probability of dying.

But to pierce such a place not with normal and clean energy but with poisonous energy?

But contrary to Jin Yuseong’s worries, Baek Hyang had a plan of her own.

In the process of passing through several meridians and even piercing a hole in the Gate of Life and Death near the Meeting of Yin Acupoint, the poisonous energy had been considerably reduced.

‘I can control this much.’

Her intuition told her so.

She believed her intuition.

No, in her state of selflessness, she just pushed the poisonous energy.

Soon, the Gate of Life and Death near the Hundred Convergences Acupoint and the poisonous energy collided.

Chiiiiik.

Once again, the Gate of Life and Death was contaminated by the poisonous energy and slowly melted.

And by the time all the remaining poison had melted and disappeared, a very tiny hole was pierced in the Gate of Life and Death.

Soon after, the pure energy of the pill, which was already waiting behind, rushed towards the Gate of Life and Death.

BOOM!!

After several explosions raged in her mind.

BOOM!!!

Finally, the tiny hole burst open, and a huge hole was pierced in the Gate of Life and Death.

Jin Yuseong, who had only been watching the whole situation, realized it was his turn to act.

The huge energy that had broken through the Gate of Life and Death was trying to flow uncontrollably.

It was because Baek Hyang had fainted, unable to withstand the shock of the Gate of Life and Death near the Hundred Convergences Acupoint bursting open.

Jin Yuseong wrapped that huge energy with his own and guided it towards various parts of Baek Hyang’s meridians.

It was possible because Baek Hyang and Jin Yuseong had been learning the same divine art.

For how long did he guide the energy according to the Great Swallow Nest Building Divine Art on behalf of Baek Hyang?

At a certain moment, Baek Hyang’s energy gently joined the flow.

Jin Yuseong, realizing that the fainted Baek Hyang had woken up, carefully withdrew his energy.

As Jin Yuseong’s eyes flashed open, Dang Sopyeong and Nam Geon hastily asked.

“I-Is she alright?”

“B-Big bro, are you okay? W-What about Hyang-i?”

Nam Geon and Dang Sopyeong, who had been guarding from the outside, were feeling immense anxiety.

In the beginning, it seemed to be flowing rather stably, but from a certain point, the situation suddenly worsened.

Various parts of Baek Hyang’s blood vessels looked like they would burst as they swelled up, and her face turned pale then flushed red; it was a complete mess.

“She’s stable for now. Please prepare the internal injury medicine I mentioned earlier.”

She had succeeded in opening the Gate of Life and Death, but thanks to using poisonous energy, internal injuries had accumulated in various places.

Dang Sopyeong asked as he handed over the medicine he had prepared.

“What on earth happened?”

“……She attempted a crazy act that I wouldn't dare.”

Dang Sopyeong looked back and forth between Jin Yuseong and Baek Hyang for a moment, then soon nodded his head.

‘As I thought.’

His eyes were right.

When her eyes went crazy, Miss Baek was a more dangerous person than the Jin Clan fellow.

Then, Dang Sopyeong tilted his head.

‘But why did her eyes go crazy?’

What reason was there for one's eyes to go crazy while eating a spiritual medicine?

Just as Dang Sopyeong was about to ask this again, Baek Hyang’s eyes flashed open.

While violently vomiting blood.

“Uweeegh.”

“H-Hyang-i is hurt!”

Unlike Nam Geon, who shouted in surprise, Jin Yuseong and Dang Sopyeong were surprisingly calm.

Baek Hyang also opened her mouth with a rather brightened complexion.

“I-I’m okay, big brother.”

The blood she had vomited was turbid blood.

She had scraped together the contaminated energy that had accumulated in her body while brandishing the poison here and there and vomited it out.

Jin Yuseong offered her medicine.

“There will still be internal injuries, so tend to those first.”

Baek Hyang tossed the medicine Jin Yuseong offered into her mouth and closed her eyes again.

After having more or less tended to her internal injuries, Baek Hyang opened her eyes again.

Jin Yuseong, who was in the middle of guarding her, asked her.

“Why did you do such a dangerous thing?”

Baek Hyang tilted her head.

“Was it dangerous?”

“It was something where you could have died if you had made even the slightest mistake. Didn’t you actually faint at the end?”

Baek Hyang smiled awkwardly and answered.

“Because you were watching over me, Senior Brother.”

“Are you saying you did it calculating that I would handle the cleanup even if you fainted?”

“Yes. And before eating the pill, Young Master Dang also said he would prepare internal injury medicine.”

Jin Yuseong was momentarily at a loss for words.

“…….”

He thought she had done it recklessly, but to think she had calculated everything that far.

He wanted to say something, but Jin Yuseong decided to just let it go.

He was the one who had said he would trust and leave it to his Junior Sister.

And Baek Hyang had really done it.

And at a level that far surpassed Jin Yuseong’s expectations.

“Draw your sword.”

Baek Hyang calmly got up and drew her sword.

“Try to attack me with all your might. Let’s check for ourselves how much you’ve improved.”

Baek Hyang did not swing her sword rashly.

It was not because she was worried she might hurt Jin Yuseong.

She thought it was impossible for her to cut her Senior Brother, even if her internal energy had increased.

That was why she was trying to concentrate even more.

She wanted to show her Senior Brother her best.

“Haat!”

Baek Hyang, having fully prepared, closed in on Jin Yuseong with a battle cry.

A speed that could not even be compared to her former self.

Her sword, which closed in in an instant, flew like a beam of light.

Was it because of the sword qi imbued in her sword?

Or because of the terrifying speed?

The first eye opened, and a single clean trajectory was embroidered in the air.

Jin Yuseong tried to dodge by lightly twisting only his upper body according to that trajectory.

But at the very moment Jin Yuseong tried to move his body, Baek Hyang’s sword path twisted.

As his escape route was blocked, Jin Yuseong had no choice but to swing the Restoring Name Sword to meet it.

Clang!!

A powerful force was felt from the clashed swords.

A throbbing sensation rose through his right palm and forearm.

Just like when he had recently clashed swords with the Sword Shadow Unit Leader.

He felt like scoffing.

Thanks to her massive internal energy and having opened the Gate of Life and Death, her insight was truly shining.

Perhaps she had truly risen to a level no less than the First Killing of Sichuan or the Sword Shadow Unit Leader at once.

However.

“From now on, do not use your full power unless your life is in a dangerous situation.”

Just one exchange.

Right after she swung a blow at Jin Yuseong, her whole body was trembling faintly.

She was trying hard not to show it, but her forehead was also slightly furrowed, perhaps due to the pain.

“At least until your muscles and meridians can withstand your internal energy and insight.”

Her age was still fifteen.

And it had only been about a year since she started learning martial arts.

Her body, which had not yet fully grown, was too frail to withstand her innate insight and absurdly increased internal energy.

But the bigger problem was her meridians rather than her body.

“In all my life, this is the first time I’ve seen someone open the Gate of Life and Death before opening their meridians.”

Because she had prioritized opening the Gate of Life and Death with poisonous energy, most of her meridians were not yet completely opened.

Even the Ren and Du meridians, although she had roughly opened them using poisonous energy, had not been properly cleared.

At Jin Yuseong’s words, which could be advice or a rebuke, Baek Hyang smiled faintly while enduring the pain that was rising throughout her body.

“I-I’ll be careful, Senior Brother.”

Since he had no intention of arguing further, Jin Yuseong nodded and turned his head.

“It seems our business here is done.”

Towards the north where Chongqing was, a place where traces of Hyeok Ilso might remain.

***

The outskirts of a huge manor situated on one side of Chongqing.

A quiet building located near a high wall.

There, a middle-aged man and a young man were having a conversation.

“Hahahaha. I was truly surprised by the Unit Leader’s handling of the matter. For someone so young, it was truly clean work.”

It could have sounded like a compliment, but depending on how one heard it, it could also be heard as treating him like a kid.

Because there was no need to mention his age.

Despite the clearly rude words, the young man just smiled faintly.

There was no reason for his pride to be hurt by such a trivial thing.

“I was also greatly moved by the Clan Head’s great magnanimity. In the future, when you have urgent matters, please send me a message. Ah, come to think of it, I heard that there were some rats that had already escaped that place a few days ago.”

At the young Unit Leader’s words, which seemed to offer to take care of them, the middle-aged man called the Clan Head shook his head.

“Hahaha. They were just trifles who ran errands anyway. There’s no need to use a cleaver to catch a chicken.”

The Unit Leader smiled faintly at the Clan Head’s confident words.

His inner thoughts were obvious.

He had already handed over a huge amount of wealth to them.

It was certain that he was acting this way because it did not make financial sense to involve them any further.

But when dealing with the hypocrites of the righteous path, it was best to act as if one knew nothing.

“As expected, the Clan Head’s magnanimity is extraordinary. Hahaha.”

After that, they exchanged several cups of wine while having various conversations.

“It seems I am late in telling you. I plan to leave Chongqing soon to handle matters in another place. If you have any work to entrust to me, please send a message through the means I mentioned earlier.”

“Hahaha. I understand. I will wait for the day we meet again.”

After finishing the final greetings, the young man, clad in black, swiftly left the building.

The young man, who left the high wall without leaving any presence, melted into the darkness.

Soon, he arrived at a forest located on the outskirts of Chongqing.

A dark forest where only the moonlight descended.

Dozens of men in black were waiting there.

“We have finished preparations for departure, Unit Leader.”

“Since we’re a little behind schedule, let’s depart immediately.”

As soon as his words ended, about forty shadows headed east all at once.

For a moment, as they moved using their movement arts.

The Vice-Leader who approached the young Unit Leader carefully opened his mouth.

“I apologize, Unit Leader. There was no need for you to personally deal with such a hypocritical bastard.”

“It’s fine. You know how much those hypocritical bastards value their face, don’t you?”

The Unit Leader, who answered indifferently, added with only the corner of his mouth raised.

“Thanks to those bastards’ hypocrisy, we are reaping rewards, so this is not a problem at all.”

At the words of the young Unit Leader, Hyeok Ilso, the Vice-Leader nodded with an expression of ‘as expected.’

He was of a different caliber from the current Chairman.

It was not just about his business skills.

The talent for martial arts of the Unit Leader that he had observed so far was second to none.

At the latest, ten years from now.

No, perhaps within five years, he thought Hyeok Ilso would surpass the current Unwol Sect Leader.

Thus, the Vice-Leader and the entire Silver Wolf Unit had decided to bet their future on Hyeok Ilso.

Meanwhile, Hyeok Ilso was calculating the immediate future.

He had intended to betray the Unwol Sect Leader from the beginning, but he had not planned to move so hastily.

But after getting entangled with the Ghost Sword Young Master and achieving Sword Unification, the Chairman’s interest had grown.

To the point of bestowing a spiritual medicine mixed with Gudok.

In other words, his time was shorter than originally planned.

The strange thing was that an opportunity had come with the crisis.

The Unwol Sect, the Black Heaven Sect, and the Scarlet-Yellow Association.

The conflict between the three major powers, which had been quiet, had begun.

Naturally, the Unwol Sect Leader’s surveillance was bound to become neglectful.

On top of that, he was now the Unit Leader of a martial unit that traveled to various parts of the Unwol Sect’s territory.

In a situation like this, acting only as the Unwol Sect Leader’s pawn was an act of utter foolishness.

Their deal with the clan in Chongqing was the same.

This was a matter not reported to the Unwol Sect Leader.

To make deals with the hypocritical righteous sect bastards separately from the sect.

And through the massive profits earned from this, he would take control of the Unwol Sect.

Anyway, the Unwol Sect was a place where those blinded by wealth had gathered, so there was no one who could not be won over with wealth.

It was something he had been planning in his head to take control of the Unwol Sect.

It was just that the implementation was moved up from the original plan, taking advantage of the chaotic times.

It was also a journey like walking on thin ice.

Because about half a month ago, the Unwol Sect Leader had visited Sichuan, which was relatively close to Chongqing.

He had also taken the opportunity of the Unwol Sect Leader's departure for urgent business elsewhere to carry out this matter.

For a moment, he calculated the tightened schedule in his head.

A cold smile hung on Hyeok Ilso's lips.

It was a funny thing.

The crisis had come because of the Ghost Sword Young Master, and the opportunity had also come because of the Ghost Sword Young Master.

‘Live long. After I take control of the Unwol Sect, I will personally find and kill you.’

Because for now, he had to act as if he was following the Unwol Sect Leader's orders, so he could not go and kill him personally.

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