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“D-did you think I could speak?!”
He clutched at the sun, but the life force slowly faded from his eyes.
“Why… why! Why didn’t you tell me sooner!!!”
Blood continues to flow out through the hole in the heart.
Huge regret and self-reflection wash in like waves.
If I had stabbed it just a little later…
“My…… money…….”
My image of laughing heartily on a mountain made of gold and jewels slowly fades away.
I can’t believe I’m this unlucky…
As I was feeling frustrated, my mind suddenly went cold.
But the last thing this bastard said was ‘Heavenly Demon,’ right?
“…….”
What is the probability of meeting a talking monkey, and the probability that the first word it utters is ‘Cheonma’?
Wouldn’t it be more likely to gain a fortuitous encounter by just throwing yourself off any cliff?
“In the midst of that, I, that bastard, for killing him without realizing it… really…….”
I blamed myself endlessly, then shook my head. To think a monkey tainted by the ‘Heavenly Demon’.
Before being used as a spectacle for the people, the only place this monkey can go is the basement of the Martial Arts Alliance’s Execution Hall.
Moreover, as the monkey’s owner, I will have no choice but to be dragged along as well.
If a monkey is talking, wouldn’t you really be curious about who its owner is? I’m super curious.
I want to rummage through that monkey’s head to see what it was thinking teaching it the word ‘Cheonma’.
“Right… I killed him well. Good job, Jin So-un… Huh? Why are your cheeks moist? Did it rain?”
He calmed his mind and raised the Red Light Sword once again.
“Right, what’s the use of building a mountain of gold? An inner core is better. With the inner core this fellow possesses, it is certain to make me the greatest martial artist in the world.”
Of course.
I comforted myself and tore open the heart of the Sun-Hoo.
Crackle.
As the chest splits open, blood gushes out.
After waiting for a while, the chest is opened wide and the internal organs are revealed.
And when they lifted out the organ where the inner core was likely to be, something the size of a millet grain was emitting light.
Does the Empress Dowager have her inner elixir in another place? Yes, that must be it.
I lifted up the organs and searched inside again, but…
“Oh come on, no way…….”
There was nothing resembling an inner core anywhere.
Is this for real?
What kind of bullshit is this?
If I had known this would happen, I would have tried to educate them properly.
Tangma Myeolsa.
Since the pronunciation is similar, if we make them memorize this, there is no need to go to the execution chamber, it becomes a spectacle, and we can make money…
“Aaaargh!”
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
After venting my anger for quite a while, I started to come back to my senses.
“under…….”
I looked at the inner core of the Sun-Emperor placed on my fingertips, then put it in my mouth.
I felt like I would feel so wronged if I didn’t at least eat this.
I calmed my mind and reorganized my thoughts.
First. A spirit lives in Mukrim.
Second. The academy students and instructors attempted to hunt one of the divine spirits, Son Goku… no, the Empress of the Sun, and failed.
Third. I happened to catch the Sun Empress, and he speaks.
Fourth. But the only word he uttered was ‘Heavenly Demon’… … .
What the hell.
Scratch, scratch.
I scratch the back of my head several times, but I don’t feel refreshed at all.
Does this make sense?
A list of events that I organized but simply cannot make sense.
If this report goes up to the Ministry of Communications, wouldn’t Zhuge Xiaoming probably tear it to shreds and burn it?
“I had no intention of reporting it anyway.”
The problem is the fourth rather than the third.
It is certainly surprising that a monkey spoke, but of all things, this demon
The fact that what Goku said was ‘Heavenly Demon’.
What on earth is the divine spirit of Mukrim and the Heavenly Demon’s divine power?
These damn bastards are flawless in every way.
I was already full of resentment, but now that resentment has grown even bigger.
I wanted to smash their skulls in when I met them and ask them a question.
How do you make a monkey talk?
It’s not because of money. It really isn’t.
“Phew… let’s go back.”
Since a pit happened to be prepared, they put Taeyanghu in it and covered it with soil.
It was clearly visible that it had been buried, but since the surroundings were already a mess, it didn’t feel that out of place.
Just as I was about to return to where my team members were, with my mouth tightly shut like that.
Whoosh.
A fire started in my Danjeon. I had tried both poison pills and internal pills within Mukrim, but I had never actually practiced Qi cultivation.
Since the internal energy in his Danjeon was already vast, his practice alone was sufficient to absorb energy from the outside, and if he absorbed it using the Blue Dragon Pill, even that was unnecessary.
But this time it was different.
The flame that had started small was growing larger before I knew it, using the energy in my lower abdomen as fuel.
I am already deeply saddened by the loss of the talking monkey, but that monkey’s inner core is eating away at my internal energy.
“What the hell is this again…….”
He quickly sat cross-legged and began his exercises, but the embers showed no signs of dying down.
Instead, it is drawing in even more energy and burning like crazy.
The heat originating from the lower abdomen travels through the blood vessels and spreads throughout the body.
Even though the wind spirit was maintaining a comfortable temperature, boiling heat enveloped my entire body as if to burn it up. ‘Ah, no!’ The most serious problem of all was that the internal energy in my Danjeon was disappearing due to the internal elixir.
How on earth did I even collect all of this…!
I exerted all my strength to gather all the energy in my lower abdomen and instantly enveloped it in heat.
Because I thought that with an energy as immense as the vast ocean, I could quickly subdue something as tiny as millet of heat.
But… ‘S-stop it, you crazy bastard!’ The heat continues to boil over and expands its scope.
The more you constrict the energy, the more it spreads out.
A sense of crisis that if I’m not careful, my body might turn into a candle.
I’m going crazy.
I have to control the heat somehow. Or maybe drain it… … ‘Huh? Drain it?’ The things Taeyanghoo did come to mind.
The sight of its mane burning and radiating heat… …
But is it okay for a person to copy that?
There was no more time to think.
Because at this rate, it felt like my blood vessels would all burn up.
“after…….”
Gather the internal energy located in the dantian to one side and move only the heat.
The Sun Empress’s inner core, which had been transmitting heat along the blood vessels, begins to circulate even more excitedly throughout the body as soon as the control is released.
Due to the heat that began to spread along the passages of the blood vessels and veins, there was no part of my body from fingertips to toes that was not painful.
It feels as if my whole body is melting away in a fire pit.
At the moment when it was hard to hold on any longer, I emitted heat outward, just like when exhaling drunkenness through the whole body.
Whoosh!
I felt a bright light shining in through my eyelids, which were filled with nothing but darkness. ‘Did I succeed?’ I can definitely feel the temperature of my blood vessels and veins drop significantly.
However, as the heat that had started in my lower abdomen was trying to rise again, I exhaled the heat out of my pores once more.
A light more distinct than before.
I quietly opened my eyes and saw small flames burning dry leaves around me. ‘Good heavens.’ It is surprising enough that the heat escaped like this, but to think that I am actually spewing flames.
In any case, now that it was known to be useful, there was no need to delay any longer.
With each repeated exhalation, the fire energy spread in all directions, and the flames burning in the dantian gradually subsided.
I wonder how much time passed like that.
When I regained consciousness from the state of selflessness, the fire energy that had been gnawing away at my dantian had disappeared.
The flame inside the Danjeon has disappeared, but I do not feel that the inner core of the Sun has vanished.
No, actually the opposite.
He raised his hand in front of his eyes and infused his determination into his fist.
Then, his fist turned bright red.
It must be the ability that the Empress of the Sun showed.
I examined my dantian and found that my internal energy had neither increased nor decreased.
It would be to the extent that the Sun Empress’s Inner Core replenished what was eaten away.
Did the Empress Dowager’s internal elixir have such efficacy?
It wasn’t particularly surprising for a martial artist to master fire magic, but it was clear that if it became known that he had gained such power from a single inner core, Noh Jin-hana and the instructors would not sit idly by.
“Anyway, you certainly deserve to be called a spirit.”
I wanted to learn more about the Empress Dowager’s inner elixir, but I didn’t have time.
“There is still plenty of time until sunrise, but at this rate…”
My clothes were all burned, so I was about to go back naked. After returning to where my group members were wearing roughly woven grass clothes, I ordered them to bring extra clothes via telepathy.
A moment later, Geumpyo approached with the sound of footsteps.
“What on earth have you been doing… Aaaah!”
What’s wrong? Why does Geumpyo sound so strange…
Saryeon screams and drops her clothes.
I called for Geumpyo, but how did he come instead?
I quickly shot the Flying Dragon and snatched the clothes.
It’s not like I’m naked, so why the reaction?
Although it was roughly made, it had the shape of a complete garment in its own way.
If I had to find something to tease… no, something surprising, it would just be that it looks a bit primitive.
“Th-th-what about the clothes?”
For some reason, Saryeon’s face turned bright red, and she awkwardly kept avoiding eye contact.
It feels weird too, seeing him act like this.
Just… well, something happened a little.
“What is that… sniff sniff, are you just going to wear that?”
“why?”
“Sniff, sniff, don’t you smell this? Did you go into a monster’s cesspool or something?”
Just as Saryeon said, when I put my nose to the arm, a foul smell stung my nose.
I hadn’t noticed it at all until now because my skin was clear.
I went into the pond I had spotted on the way and rubbed my body with a stone, and some yellowish dirty water flowed out.
“Ugh… Just how long have you been going around without washing?”
Why did he follow me? I told him to go ahead.
“Anyway, I called for Geumpyo, so why did you come? It wasn’t your turn for night watch.”
Saryeon wore a look of dumbfoundation.
Who do you think this is all their fault?
What now?
Did something happen while I was away?
“Do you know how much of a fuss Instructor Noh Jin-ha made last night?”
“huh?”
“They suddenly barged in in the middle of the night, demanding to know where the Senior Brother was and accusing him of going spirit hunting. They caused a huge scene, screaming at the top of their lungs to hand him over immediately.”
Saryeon continued speaking with a sharp gaze.
“The instructor is making a fuss, and for some reason, the Senior Brother isn’t here. So I really thought he had gone spirit hunting or something.”
Did he find out about my absence while tracking Taeyanghu? Or did he see me chasing Taeyanghu?
Because the way to respond changes completely depending on whether it is the former or the latter.
Moreover, if it is revealed that I consumed the elixir of the sun, there is a possibility that it could ignite into a massive problem later on.
It will not simply end with the question of who ate the inner elixir.
Starting with whose contribution was greater in the hunt for the Empress of the Sun, it will eventually lead to the issue of who owns the Inner Elixir.
“Hmm, screwed.”
Because if the fault is admitted, we might have to pay a huge amount of compensation.
Compensation regarding the Sun Emperor’s inner elixir?
I would rather die than see that money leave my pocket.
Besides, such money itself does not exist in our Taeeulmun in the first place.
I poured water over my body again and asked Saryeon.
“Hmm… exactly how did you say it? Did you yell, ‘Didn’t you go hunting spirits!’… no, did you make a huge fuss?”
“How would I remember that? I’m not even the senior disciple.”
“Think about it. It’s quite an important issue.”
“What’s so important about that?”
“‘Didn’t you go hunting spirits!’ and ‘You really went hunting spirits!’ have completely different meanings, and the way you need to respond changes accordingly.”
Senior Brother.
At that moment, a look of astonishment rises across Saryeon’s face.
“no way…….”
Then, he took a big step toward the pond.
But why are you holding a stone in your hand?
Did you catch a spirit?
Anyway, I wonder why my priests are so quick-witted.
I wonder if this can be kept a secret?
