Hyeonjilmusin - Chapter 163



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163. My Own Image (6)

I looked at Guan Shuye in a daze. Guan Shuye’s face, bathed in moonlight, was so unfamiliar. I never thought there would come a day when I would feel unfamiliar with her. Even I was embarrassed.

From the beginning, from the beginning. What on earth does that mean? I want to deny it, but the implication is clear.

“Have you been lying to me all this time?”

My voice came out trembling. I was too scared to even say the words.

Guan Shuye had a puzzled expression. The weight contained in the word “until now” was too different.

To Guan Shuye, the past few days since we met were all that mattered, and to me, the past twenty years with Guan Shuye that I had been reminiscing about before my return were included, so it couldn’t be otherwise.

“… … Are you crying?”

Guan Shuye said in a flustered voice. I didn’t even know she was talking about me.

It wasn’t until a hot tear rolled down my cheek and pooled at the tip of my chin that I realized I was crying.

I was embarrassed and quickly wiped my chin and eyes with my shoulder. What kind of disgrace is this? From Gwanseo-ye’s perspective, it was clearly a funny thing. Isn’t today the only time we’ve talked and become friends? And yet, you’re crying like that over that?

“……sorry.”

Guan Shuye said. I became even more embarrassed. I didn’t know Guan Shuye would apologize. I thought she would rather laugh at me. But she was apologizing to me with a sincere voice.

“shut up.”

To shake off my embarrassment, I even said harsh words that I don’t normally say.

“You’re more emotional than I thought.”

“I told you to shut up.”

Is there such a thing as this crazy and embarrassing thing? I was so embarrassed that I wanted to hide in a hole, but now was not the time.

“By the way, you’re Mine?”

“You’ve been calling me a mine since earlier, but I’m not a mine. I’m a believer.”

“It was a real mine.”

The people of the Demonic Cult call themselves followers or followers. Since the Demonic Cult is a religion, it was perhaps a natural name.

Suddenly, I felt even more scared. I thought that maybe Guan Shuye was involved in my death before I returned.

I really wanted to ask, but I can’t ask about something in the future that hasn’t even happened yet. It’ll just bother me and annoy me.

Anyway, there was no time to dwell on the past any longer. The most urgent task was to resolve the matter at hand.

“You were a mine? That’s really surprising. Were you the one who gave loneliness to the Black Dragon Lord?”

“The people of our school are sharing their loneliness with the martial artists.”

He talks like he’s giving out free meals. I couldn’t help but laugh because it was so ridiculous.

“That’s ridiculous. Are you proud of that?”

“There’s nothing to be proud of. It’s like our destiny.”

“If sharing loneliness is your life’s destiny, then you are living a truly worthless life.”

“You don’t understand.”

Guan Shuye shook her head. Her appearance looked lonely and solitary. On the subject of mine. That thought rose up like a rebellion.

“You asked a lot of questions, so now I’ll ask you one too. What are you?”

“What is it?”

“You know what I’m saying. You just sucked my energy. I feel a strange energy from you. Familiar yet unfamiliar? I don’t know how to describe it.”

I knew what the official was talking about. It was referring to my magic energy formed by the Shinmadan.

There are three types of energy I can use.

These include the spiritual energy accumulated through the shaman’s methods, including the Taecheongdan, the magical energy that originated from the Shinmadan and accumulated by sucking up many demons, and the Honwonjigi that is a mixture of the two.

The most destructive one among them is Honwonjigi, so I’ve only been using Honwonjigi recently.

The reason why Honwonjigi is convenient is because it is a mixture of spirit and magic energy, so no one knows its origin. Even Cheong-ui, the head of the shamanist faction, could not tell that it was mixed with magic energy, so that is all that has been said.

So, it was the same with Gwanseo-ye. He was confused after seeing the spirit I showed while fighting Peng Chae-hyang.

“You, what were you planning to do after putting me to sleep?”

I asked. I know she gave me a mixture of sedatives and muscle relaxants. But she came over to me and tried to give me a blood transfusion. It wasn’t to kill me.

When I think about it, it was right to kill him. I was the one who knew that there was a mine in the upper part of the ship.

“I wanted to get to know you better because your energy was so unique.”

“To be honest, I wasn’t trying to kill someone because I knew there was a mine on top of the ship.”

“That’s only half true. I took him there and tried to erase his memories with illusions.”

“… … Don’t lie. There’s no reason not to kill me. It’d be much easier if you did.”

“If you wanted to kill him, wouldn’t you have given him poison when you kissed him?”

Guan Shuye suddenly remembered what she had done and her face turned red.

“I guess it was passed on with my mouth. It had a strangely sweet taste.”

“The medicine is colorless, odorless, and tasteless.”

“……okay?”

Then what was the sweet taste I felt? I thought I knew what it was when I saw Guan Shuye’s face turn even redder. I felt my face flushing hotly as well.

“Oh, enough of that talk.”

“Yes. That’s what I was hoping for.”

In the end, Gwanseo-ye, who couldn’t stand it anymore, proposed a temporary truce for that part only. I was equally embarrassed, so I quickly agreed.

“Anyway, you didn’t intend to kill me?”

“Yeah. You’re a top-tier person. You’ve said with your own mouth that you’re a martial artist, and you’ve mastered martial arts to a high level, but I don’t think you’re a martial artist. I’ve never heard anything about you from any martial arts sources.”

“If it’s a person of the highest rank, you don’t kill them, but if it’s a person from the martial arts world, you kill them?”

“Yes. The martial artists are those who serve the country of the traitors. But the merchants are different. They are those who contribute to society. When our religion returns to the Central Plains with the momentum of a comeback, they are the reserve members who should remain.”

“It’s annoying.”

I immediately swore at them. So the devil’s bastards were going to conquer the Central Plains, but they were going to spare the merchants and farmers, the people who were essential to maintaining the country – that is, the common people. They were treating the people of the Central Plains like livestock that they needed to build their own territory.

But I can’t believe that either. Even though I was a merchant with no connection to the martial arts world before my return, I was the one who was killed by the demons.

Moreover, when I healed people in Hubei, I confirmed that they were all invaded by demons. At that time, all the people invaded by demons were civilians. If they did not intend to harm civilians, why would they do it?

“Are you really sure? You really won’t kill any civilians?”

“We are.”

“we?”

I was puzzled. It seemed like the word “we” didn’t refer to the entire Demonic Cult.

“I’m embarrassed to say this, but our church is currently divided into several factions. I’ve heard that the radical factions that have different views from us are also harming the civilians.”

When I heard the words of Guan Shu Ye, I started to feel a headache. I thought that all demonic cults were demonic. But there were many branches of demonic cult. I was dizzy.

“For your information, we are the orthodox ones. All the others are fakes.”

“This is ridiculous.”

In the meantime, it is absurd to boast about legitimacy. After all, if they were to fall under the Empire, they would all be wiped out.

Anyway, this was the first time I heard of this fact. After all, how could I know the internal affairs of the Demonic Cult?

There was another gain. Gwanseo-ye didn’t try to kill me. Even if she had tried to kill me, I wouldn’t have died, but the betrayal of a former close friend can’t help but be bitter. Fortunately, the misunderstanding about the murder was resolved.

Of course, it was still a shocking shock to the back of my head to learn that Guan Shuye had been a member of the Demonic Cult since birth.

“So what should we do now?”

“What are you going to do?”

The calligrapher laughed.

“You only have one choice.”

“There’s only one?”

“Follow me quietly and I will erase your memories of our school.”

“You don’t like it?”

I am a dead body to the demons. Even though I do not feel a strong desire for revenge, I do have a desire to give them a blow. So I could not erase my memories of the Demonic Cult.

“Then we have no choice but to subdue him and leave.”

“But he doesn’t say he’ll kill me.”

“I told you. Our church does not kill civilians. They are all people who will become our citizens. Why would we kill them?”

“Your delusions are severe. Is there anyone among the people of the Central Plains who does not hate the Demonic Cult?”

“It’s all because traitors distorted history. The innocent people are innocent.”

“It’s ridiculous.”

As I spoke, I tried to keep moving my dantian. However, the demonic energy inside me did not move at all. It seemed that the Demonic Cult’s mountain air poison was effective. So now, I can’t reveal my demonic energy and make him kneel like I did to Marahyeolbul.

Guan Shuye was preparing to rush at me while being on guard. She must have known that if she was caught by me, her energy would be sucked out.

I began to break away from the perception limited to the room and gradually expand it. Right now, there was no other way. I needed to receive a lot of natural energy to be able to fight against my enemies or escape.

As my awareness expanded, the universe I contained in my brain also expanded. I felt my brain getting hot, my mind becoming hazy, and my temples were throbbing. I had expanded my awareness too much. Even though my brain expanded to the point of breaking, it was still only three inches outside the building window.

But there was a harvest. As I took control of the space, all the voices in the space came into my ears, and among them, there were also familiar voices.

“Hey, I told you I could have won. It’s just me who’s embarrassed for no reason… … .”

“Young lady, you’ve had too much to drink. You need to use your inner strength to get rid of the intoxication… … .”

It was a voice outside the window, near the wall outside the building. I saw Guan Shuye tipping her heels. She was about to rush in.

Right now, my body was not fit to deal with Guan Shuye. That was what I felt when I was sucking energy from Guan Shuye.

The magic she held was so pure and large that it was convincing that she claimed it was authentic. Also, judging from the fact that she was able to block my magic absorption, her level of power seemed to be considerable.

All I have now is the energy of nature and a handful of magic stolen from Kwanseo-ye. With this, I can’t even properly perform a single attack. I made up my mind and jumped out the window. By the way, this was the third floor.

“… … Huh? Hey!”

Guan Shuye’s voice quickly faded away. It seemed like she didn’t know I would fall out the window.

If I had been in normal condition, I probably wouldn’t have been seriously hurt if I fell from the third floor. I could have protected my ankles with my internal energy. However, because of the mountain air poison, it was difficult to use my internal energy. What I believed was not me.

“Peng Chae-hyang! Help me!”

“uh?”

Those words were said immediately after the fall, when my body was still on the third floor. Peng Chae-hyang reacted when I was on this floor.

There is something like that. If you ask anyone for help, people won’t step forward because they are wary of what others will think, but if you insist on asking for help by name or attire, they have no choice but to help. Even though Peng Chae-hyang was drunk, she was an elite warrior of the Five Great Families. So it was only natural that she would accept me safely…

“Oh my god, this is crazy!”

The last thing I saw was Peng Chae-hyang, who was reaching out her arms towards me in confusion. She was definitely trying to accept me as I intended.

But I had a feeling of tragedy coming from the fact that the direction where Pang Chae-hyang stretched out her arm was strangely misaligned with the direction where I was falling, and the strong smell of alcohol coming from her body.

“Whoa!”

Kugu Palace. In the end, Peng Chae-hyang couldn’t catch me, and I attacked Peng Chae-hyang, and the two of us fell to the ground together.

“miss!”

Black Noh and White Noh ran over, making surprised sounds. Fortunately, it didn’t hurt that much. It was because Paeng Chae-hyang had laid the ground for me. Moreover, I completely covered Paeng Chae-hyang’s body, so I could feel all of her soft curves.

Of course, I didn’t have time to feel it. Black Noh and White Noh picked me up, threw me against the wall, and looked at Peng Chae-hyang.

“Are you okay?”

“… … Uh, uh. It’s okay.”

Fortunately, Peng Chaehyang seemed to be okay. It seemed like she used her internal energy to protect herself when she fell.

I looked at the window from which I had fallen. Guan Shuye was looking at me with a pitiful face in the window, and then disappeared. The Habuk Pengga people were right next to me, so they couldn’t kidnap me.

Then the danger of being kidnapped by the Demonic Cult is over for now.

“You bastard! What the hell are you doing!”

The black man shouted.

Now it was time to make excuses for the sudden shock that had struck the young lady of Pengga.