Chapter 589 – King Yan’s Disciple 6 (10)

The teacher who taught me became very faint after that day.

It’s clear that he’s inside the Han clan manor, and if you try to look for it, you can find it near Cheonglin, but if you’re not paying too much attention, you’ll almost forget that the master called King Yeom is inside the manor.

If ascension can be achieved by raising one’s presence to the point where the world can know it and cutting off all lingering attachments, then what is Master’s situation now?

‘That could also be a type of ascension.’

This is a master who used the Chukji method, which is said to be possible only for immortals, to save energy.

Rather than ascending to the sky like Kaena and becoming a challenger to another world, quietly melting into the world and disappearing could be said to be a form of ascension.

However, it didn’t seem like Master would disappear from this world any time soon.

It seems that Master, who has turned his gaze to the world, still has a lot of things he wants to see.

One day, some time later, he completed his own Yeonyeom Shingong (連炎神功).

“I thought it would grow in this direction.”

【Skill: Flame God Art (12 stars)】

【Open a new path with the connected flame.】

【EX1. White Flame: A flame containing the power of purification burns.】

【EX2. Yeomwanggi (炎王氣): Overcoming limits with condensed flame.】

【EX3. Infinite wheel: The limit on the number of rings that can be held disappears.】

The Yeonyeom Shingong (連炎神功) was not a martial art whose power increased infinitely just because there were infinite rings.

In order to release a lot of energy at once, a kind of image called a ring was planted.

An attack using one ring and an attack using ten rings. Doesn’t anyone look at the one behind it as stronger?

Just as the other person feels it when they see it, the user himself was able to easily control the amount of internal energy released through the image.

It was similar to how I use skills. If you want to inflict a strong blow, you can think of it as randomly combining skills using Skill Link-Unlimited.

‘But at some point it changed.’

The power of a technique is no longer simply controlled by the number of rings.

Even if I use fewer rings, I can now control the power with the power I can contain.

Because the difference between a general regime and a regime that involves breaking through a spiral is at the level of heaven and earth.

In that way, the amount and power of internal energy can be more precisely controlled, and by using a black and white dual ring that fights by resonating only two rings within the body, there is no need to rely on the number of rings.

Okay. Since there is no need to rely on it, it would be correct to say that it has grown in a way that the limitations of the chain disappear.

‘Honestly, I thought I would grow as a quest reward after fighting Kaena.’

I felt that the possibility of not giving the quest had increased considerably.

After retrieving the star wheel that was scattered around like grains, I came out of the cave in Huangshan Mountain.

Asher was standing calmly in front of the hut outside the cave, and when he saw me, a smile appeared on his face.

“Eun-gong.”

I think the day he met me was a very difficult day mentally, but he showed no signs of showing it.

Or, what I’m saying is that the happiness that comes from meeting me is greater than the pain…

“Now, let’s start today.”

“Yes.”

***

When I went into the cave and came out, I felt very tired.

But every time I was held in the arms of Eunkong, who supported my body, the fatigue seemed to go away.

Since I don’t think the day will ever come when I settle down with one person and get hugged by Eunkong, I decided to be satisfied with this level of contact.

As usual, Eunkong just put his hand on my head and I came face to face with ‘me’.

As haggard as when I was selling my body in a brothel, I was glaring at myself with wide eyes.

“You seem happy?”

What appeared to be me spoke in a murky voice.

I’m not sure what this situation is, but I decided to answer ‘my’ question.

“Yes. I’m very happy now.”

“I guess that’s right. Even though I was sick, I accepted money and fell in love with a man I’d never seen in order to survive. Also, I didn’t have to get beat up for not being able to get a few men and not making enough money. How happy would I be?”

Not much time has passed since the daily life that ‘I’ spoke of changed.

“But are you really happy? Do you want to be satisfied with Eun-gong, whom you hope for, cares so much about you?”

“You told me too, right? I’m an unclean woman. It’s enough for me to be by Eunkong’s side like this and be someone he can use when he needs it.”

As I calmly confessed my inner thoughts, ‘my’ face became distorted like a demon.

“She’s just as dirty as me. Why does she stay near Eung-gong? Is the baby she gave birth to be Eun-gong’s baby? Huh?”

She was a courtesan named Yeonhwa, the maid of honor for Zhuge Seon-ah, who was to become King Eun-gong’s second wife.

She was brought here to be her nanny when she went to Namgung Sega, but things got a little twisted, and she heard while she was staying in Jeokgye that she had given birth first.

She sold herself to a man, but she was told that she was the most beautiful of all the courtesans and that by earning her a lot of money, she got herself out of the trap.

But I am a prostitute who met a man on the street, sold my body in a shabby house, and lost all the money I received.

Comparing me to that woman made her heart ache.

A woman who had a child whose father she did not know, but was chosen as a nanny by the daughter of the Zhuge family because she was beautiful.

I became a murderer who committed murder again and again to escape from the bondage.

“I’m jealous…”

“That’s right. You can be there. It’s not like we’re meeting secretly outside like this. That place. You. ‘I’.”

I don’t even dream of taking the position of Zhuge Xian next to the sun-like Eun-gong.

But if she is her maid who helps her, if she can be by Eun-gong’s side in the sun…

If the position occupied by a courtesan who has not learned martial arts becomes vacant…

I had every intention of becoming a new mother for a child who lost his mother at my hands.

‘Uh… ?’

She then realized that she was holding a silver sword in her hand.

‘Silver’s light.’

When she grasped the sword that gave off warm silver light, the negative thoughts that had been filling her head flew away in an instant.

And the thought of having to cut it down filled my head.

To put that thought into action, she raised her sword high to perform the downward slash she had learned from Eungong.

What should I say about ‘my’ expression when I saw myself raising my sword…

It looked very bitter.

‘Has there ever been a time when I didn’t have those thoughts?’

She took a look at herself.

It occurred to me that he may have harbored murderous intentions toward other people in order to satisfy such dark desires.

It is true that the wicked must pay for her sins, but she may have to prolong her life by begging the wicked.

If I hadn’t had the strength I received from Eun-gong, I would have been executed by being handed over to the coffin after killing the pimp.

By swinging the sword, you can completely break away from your past self.

However, when I realized that I could exist as a saved person because of my previous self, I was unable to swing the sword.

“Let’s go together.”

He lowered the sword he received from Eunkong and said to ‘me’.

“But it’s clear that it’s a bad memory, so I hope you sleep deep inside. Let’s meet again someday when I’m no longer shaken.”

After hearing my compromise, ‘I’ shook my head and answered.

“This kind of ending may not be what Eun-gong wants.”

As ‘I’ said, if it was Eun-gong who gave him the silver sword, he seemed to want to cut down the past.

But the moment the silver sword began to shine slightly, I couldn’t help but smile.

“You really… Can’t you continue until the end? There’s no way Eunkong can force you to choose ‘one’, right?”

“You’re so stupid… “

“Because I couldn’t learn. You know that, right?”

***

At some point, the black grip that was holding Asel’s soul quieted.

And the red scars on his black lower body gradually faded, leaving only a few scars.

‘It healed even though I didn’t cut it.’

A silver and white sword was given to Asel, but that was all.

This time, Ah Seol did not imitate the extreme action and simply held the sword and closed his eyes for a moment.

It wasn’t the way I thought, but since Asel overcame his past, I thought we could expect his violence to weaken him.

Asel was about to escape from the spirit world when he opened his eyes.

“Eungong. Are you disappointed in me?”

“No. Good job.”

Asel smiled brightly.

“Haa… Haa… “

Even without swinging the sword, Asul stumbled, probably because his mental power was so exhausted.

I lightly held Asul in my arms and infused his energy into his body to restore his stamina.

“Eun-gong… “

“Okay.”

“I… Can I come and see the wider world?”

After we reunited, he said he would leave on his own, unlike how he tried not to leave me.

I thought it was a very positive change and responded by infusing a little more energy into Asel’s body his.

“Go and see for yourself that the back alley and my side are not everything in this world.”

“Yes, Eunkong. Thank you very much.”

Although there was a lot of fatigue on Asel’s face, he gave me the most honest smile since we first met.

*

After collecting the emergency fund and sending Asel away, the brothers returned to the manor not long after.

The goods brought on this commercial trip were no joke; there were quite a few expensive items that were difficult to dispose of in Jeokgye.

But what was brought was not important.

“This time, the imperial family sent you a secret letter.”

“It looks like they are treating me like a martial artist.”

When I opened the letter my eldest brother sent me, I found the information I was looking for.

Is it really the imperial family? It contained better information than having Baek Young (白影) collect information personally.

The story goes that Suzaku, who appeared in the south, has disappeared, and Baekho in the west and Hyeonmu in the north are heading to Xinjiang.

‘It’s Xinjiang.’

I don’t know why Kaena settled in the place where the Demonic Cult used to be.

The destination has been decided.