When Seol-Hwi felt that he was finally in control, the counter began.
Ddd
By pressing the runaway points, the flow turned normal.
About the time when the blood points were sealed.
Seol-Hwi wiped the cold sweat and got up.
“Thank you very much, vice captain. Thanks to you my life has been saved.”
“It was nothing. it was fortunate that I managed to come at the right moment.”
Trickle
Like Seol-Hwi, even Ma Taryong had cold sweat running down his head.
He, a Peak Demon level warrior, was sweating which meant the situation was just that bad.
“I was wondering if… and I figured it out. I am glad I came at the right time.”
“Vice captain. Do you know why this happened to me?”
Seol-Hwi asked, remembering that Ma Taryong wanted to say something before too.
And his crew rushed over, making him go silent.
“Captain.”
His face turned serious and asked Seol-Hwi.
“Among the things you are learning right now, there is one which is not a demonic martial art, correct?”
“Yes. There is.”
“The path to Peak Demon is usually opened with demonic energy and it exceeds a certain level once enlightenment comes. However, the captain has now gained enlightenment through the other path.”
“…?”
“Simply put, you didn’t rise according to the sect’s methods but the opposite faction’s.”
“Ah…”
Seol-Hwi realized what the problem was.
Originally, it had to be a harmony of demonic energy, but as he trained a certain martial art, things turned strange.
With a body which had demonic energy within, he attained enlightenment using the justice side’s method, so it was natural he got sick.
“…What am I supposed to do?”
“I don’t know either. Can you not ask for advice from your teacher?”
“Teacher…?”
“I am talking about the Cold-hearted Witch, Cheon Miryo.”
“…”
Seol-Hwi went silent.
This was actually a lie. But it went round and round, and had been brought up so many times, he couldn’t deny it now.
“Looking back… you seem like an expert at handling both flame and ice at the same time?”
“Ah, yes.”
“And said it was due to her.”
“Y-yes.”
Drip
Seol-Hwi began to sweat again, and this time the sweat came due to a different feeling. He should have noticed something strange was happening…
“Hmm…”
Fortunately, he just concentrated on the issue at hand.
For him, who was born a warrior, this unexpected situation itself was very interesting.
“I am lacking but I have an interesting theory.”
After thinking and worrying for a long while, Ma Taryong said,
“I want to listen to your opinion.”
“Yes. Perhaps the internal energy of the captain, where the clash of yin and yang often happens, has turned into a nature of betting.”
“Nature of… betting?”
“Right. It is easy if we think about the current path. Didn’t the internal body which was once stable and cleared the mind and body turn into something of a raging mess?”
“Ah.”
Surely it did.
No matter how old the martial arts of that taoist sect was, even if he followed the training method they said, the body of an individual is different.
There were cases where the disciples of this taoist sect had died with the cultivation method going wrong, or with their character having changed, turning them into people with great bloodlust.
To Ma Taryong the case of Seol-Hwi was like that.
“Even if your basics are of the Demonic Sect, the yin and yang are opposite forces and as the two collide a completely new harmony or something not so harmonious grows.”
“…”
“This… is huge! The captain is now on a path which no one has taken before. Reporting to the official research of the sect is…”
“Vice captain, no.”
Seol-Hwi smiled.
Ma Taryong, who was very excited, tilted his head and asked why.
Many of the skills which Seol-Hwi had learned came from the system, and their origin cannot be traced back since he didn’t have a teacher nor was he anyone’s disciple. The woman was in training, so the lies worked until this point.
If such a story went around the sect, then even she would get interested in this and come out.
And if she sees the martial arts of hers in the hands of Seol-Hwi who she had never taken as a disciple, what will she do? Well… that would be difficult to predict.
“As a proud member of the Demonic Sect, the fact that a member has the attributes of the justice faction is a problem. Until now, I was an unknown man, but if I get attention from people around me, then malicious rumors will spread…”
“The Earth Demon will be in trouble too. That…”
Ma Taryong ended it.
He knew this was similar to the Shaolin and Wudang Sect learning the martial arts of the Demonic Sect.
“But, it is dangerous if this happens…”
Seol-Hwi’s words could be understood, but Ma Taryong was concerned for him.
A road which no one took was like a bomb which can explode at any time.
Seol-Hwi was now someone with two attributes in one body and was of the Peak Demon level.
Things have easily gone beyond control.
And he knew how dangerous it was to be with someone who might have to go through another energy runaway again.
“It is my problem so I will solve it. After all, it is not a problem that will be resolved immediately just by reporting it.”
“…True, but–”
No matter how skilled people were in the sect, they could not come up with an answer right away.
In the case of Seol-Hwi, there was no other point of reference either, so even if they reported this, he would never get a quick answer.
“What are you doing? At this hour?”
Seol-Hwi shook off his complicated thoughts and turned. He was worried that this topic was more burdensome.
“Ah. Right.”
Ma Taryong touched his head and nodded. There was a reason why he had come for Seol-Hwi.
“That is one thing and it might be tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow… that?”
Seol-Hwi could think of what was being mentioned and Ma Taryong nodded.
“Yes, the mission. It seems that the Earth Demon wants to implement it as fast as possible.”
Seol-Hwi felt something happen.
The Supreme Pavilion Lord.
The moment of the decisive battle was one day away.
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