Chapter four
The old man trembled at the majesty of the sword body..
There is no smug talk or unpleasant laughter just now..
It was like a mouse in front of a cat..
thud!
While I was frozen and silent, the ground shook again..
The giant spider stamped its feet as if to come to its senses, eradicating the thoughts of an overwhelmed old man..
“cheeky!”
The old man looked down at Joo Seocheon and snorted..
“No matter how much you are, it would be impossible to protect someone against this many people..”
The plan goes awry and the destruction of the volcanic wave is impossible..
However, the life of Nak So-wol, the number one target, was the only thing that could have been taken..
“I will take not only your sister-in-law but also the woman from the Tang family to the underworld. If I hadn't been so nervous, I would have had a chance to survive... … How foolish..”
Helping addicts detox is a more dangerous activity than you might think..
If you make a mistake, you may be transferred to a poisonous body, or you may fall into a poisonous state after receiving an external shock like a fortune teller..
Whether it was the former or the latter, life could not be guaranteed..
You can achieve your original goal without necessarily defeating Joo Seocheon..
“From now on, this unit will focus on defense, not attack..
Please pay attention to the protection laws of Luo So-wol and Tang Hye..”
“I plan on holding on until the detox is complete.?”
Son Il-san asked.
Even the spiders were too much, and even the Seven Star Soldiers appeared..
Even if you roughly count, it's in the tens..
I was wondering how long it would last.
“no.”
Joo Seocheon twirled his sword and grabbed it..
“I'll finish it before then.”
I bent my knees and popped out..
It looked as if an arrow had been shot from a bowstring..
‘Plum blossom seasoning.’
Even though weeds grow up to their ankles, they continue to herbivore without any heed..
Dancing like a butterfly fluttering.
“Wow!”
The Seven Star Soldiers standing in front screamed..
The mask was cut thinly and the chin was separated into upper and lower parts..
In the mist of blood fluttering like plum blossoms, a bewitching energy was exuded with the plum blossom earth salt of the twenty-four plum sword technique..
As the surrounding scene began to melt, the old man raised unprecedented strength as if it were impossible..
Among the three danjeon, the middle and middle danjeon (中丹田) pumps out blood energy from the heart and circulates simultaneously through the blood and energy veins..
The blood stimulated the brain by tapping the Baekhoehyeol..
The glow of madness gradually spread to the color of blood..
Pupils that expanded and contracted repeatedly felt bizarre..
“I'll show you Nobu's blood fishing technique..”
The old man's hoarse voice spread throughout the forest..
Artificial sensory signals enter the spinal cord through peripheral nerves..
The sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves collide several times to produce various actions, while the spinal cord transmits various signals to the brain to create specific waves..
The waves flowing from the brain became waves and engulfed the surroundings, and among them, they melted into the spider's nerves..
Grrrr..
A group of spiders trembled all at once..
The light flowing from the three pairs of eyes was colored blood red..
Commands issued from the brain stirred the spider's blood and took control of its body..
Pushushoo shoot!
A group of spiders simultaneously pulled webs from their spinnerets..
Pure white thread spread like a net and covered Ju Seocheon..
When not one, but dozens of spider webs spewed out at the same time concentrated in one place, they piled up like a snow mountain..
“Blood Fishing Technique!”
Someone in the open road shouted in surprise..
“That was the essence of using spiders like limbs.!”
Old Man Hyeokdok, who has risen to the rank of one of the world's greatest masters, is not only an expert in poisoning, but also a shaman with natural talent..
The old man of Hyeoldok enjoys using spirit magic, and among them, blood magic is a high-ranking spell that is considered the best even within the blood religion..
It generates sensory signals through the heart, including energy and blood from the entire body, penetrates the target's brain, controls the blood, and ultimately controls the body..
That was the blood fishing method..
However, although the ability was strong, it was not absolute..
In the case of humans, it is difficult because the brain structure is complex, and it does not work well in people with strong mental powers..
There is no doubt that if you have trained the mind method that is imbued with anti-demon like the Shaolin Temple,.
Can't penetrate at all.
However, despite these few annoying points, the Blood Fish Technique was notorious for its terrifying power..
During wars in the past, there were cases where a supreme master was manipulated and went on a rampage from within, becoming the loser of the war..
In many ways, it resembles the visualization of a blood demon..
If I were to be specific, it was backward compatible..
‘It's over.’
The old man’s eyes were curved like a crescent moon..
Jiju in person is also a landowner in person, but her children are also spirits..
The stickiness and elasticity of the spider web extracted from the body is unusual, but it is concentrated and cannot be escaped..
“No matter how much it is said to be the Seven Seas of Heaven,……”
Paang!
A spider web made of spider webs gathered together.
A hole the size of a person opened in the center and something came out..
“What are the Seven Seas of Heaven??”
Joo Seocheon pulled out sword energy in an indifferent voice..
whistling!
Wielding his beloved sword, Yongyeon, he succeeds Chosik..
A bundle of sword energy filled with anticipation erupted in front, then bent at a right angle and soared upward, then fell downward..
A sight as if numerous plum blossom leaves were falling disturbed the old man's vision..
From the four-herb style Maeido to the seven-herb style plum binbun.
In an instant, the twenty-four plum sword technique unfolded..
Kieeeeek! Wow! Meeeee profit!
When I blinked, the plum blossoms that were falling dizzyingly turned into blood rain..
Numerous sword marks were left on the spider's body..
“Ahhhh!”
“Ugh!”
It's not just spiders.
Without fail, screams erupted from the Seven Star Soldiers assigned by Yogwang..
“What, what……”
The old man stuttered as if he couldn't believe it..
“how?”
Joo Seocheon didn't even have a speck of dust on him, let alone a spider web..
It was incomprehensible..
“Self-defense skills.”
Joo Seocheon responded kindly as if nothing had happened..
Just before the spider web was sprayed, the strong membrane spread out in a hemispherical shape to block it..
As evidence, the inside of the hole the size of a person was hollow and hemispherical..
“profit!”
The torture engraved on the old man's skin seemed to wriggle like an insect and then moved violently..
The intensity of the blood-red brilliance also began to increase..
It seemed as if he was reacting to emotion..
“Come on, Joo Seocheon! The sword spirit is not an illusion.!”
Angry voices rang throughout the forest..
“One, this old man who surpasses even blood demons……”
deeply!
The old man’s neck was bent backwards..
‘what……’
Joo Seo-cheon shook his left wrist, but a dagger came out from inside the hem of his sleeve and struck his forehead..
It was impossible that the absolute master of the political faction, who was like a swordsman, did not know how to throw memorized words, and his face when he was alive had a look of bewilderment on his face..
dump.
The body fell to the side helplessly..
Nomadou, who was looking down at the group from the human face support, fell to the ground..
“Beyond the Blood Demon?”
Joo Seocheon snorted as if he was dumbfounded..
“Don't insult the blood demon.”
The Heavenly Demon is a Heavenly Demon, but the Blood Demon is also one of the strongest..
The old man is not good at martial arts or magic even at the tip of his toes..
If you are asked to fight the Blood Demon again, not even Joo Seocheon can guarantee the outcome..
Especially the end was a disaster itself..
He made the body his own using the black coffin..
“Pfft!”
“The old man suffered……”
The surviving Seven Star Soldiers were embarrassed..
He had a face that said he had no idea that the old man would be treated so vainly..
“what should i do?”
“carry out the mission.”
Qian Qi refused to allow withdrawal unless Luo Xiaoyue's death was confirmed..
Even if I go back like this, the only thing that awaits me is death..
“Even if it means giving up one’s life, kill Luo Sowol..”
“Danghye?”
“It's okay to give up. Give priority to the falling moon.”
“number of people.”
The Seven Star Soldiers gave strength to the sword weapons they each held..
They raised their inner strength with the eyes prepared to die..
‘Annoying.’
Ju Seo-cheon frowned when he saw the Seven Star Soldiers..
Wouldn't it be great if it were possible to create an illusion that resembles the real thing like Yeondaegupum or Cheonma Dominrimbo, but since that wasn't the case, it was a problem..
Perhaps Cheonki exerted some effort to achieve his goal, but the inaction of the Seven Star Soldiers in front of us is at its peak..
They were even good enough to pass the exam, so they formed their own groups and spread out in all directions, preparing to attack..
The search party was standing guard, but if they missed even one, it would be a big deal..
“Nasty bastards! Be scared and run away!”
For a private soldier, each individual's military power is extremely great, and he has no hesitation, even going as far as to prepare for death..
I was still annoyed that he wasn't letting his guard down..
“Seocheon Joo. Stop interfering and die. Please.”
The Seven Star Soldiers spoke with sincerity..
The number of colleagues who were sacrificed because of Joo Seo-cheon alone is in the hundreds..
I wasn't particularly sad about my colleague's death, but I just sighed at the thought of myself being the next victim..
“Protect it with your life!”
Damhyang shouted excitedly.
“Please.”
Joo Seocheon glanced at the search team member and nodded..
“murder).”
Someone among the Seven Star Soldiers gave an order..
At the moment when the two sides were about to clash, something no one expected happened..
“Heheheok!”
The Seven Star Soldiers coughed up blood..
“What, what……”
I looked down slowly..
I could see the legs of a spider through the gaping hole in my chest..
Sigh! Puuk!
“Wow!”
“Ouch!”
“Wow!”
There were screams everywhere..
Luckily it wasn't ours..
It all came out through the mouth of the Seven Star Soldiers..
‘……’
Joo Seocheon also widened his eyes as if he was surprised..
‘spider!’
The cause of the uproar was a spider that got loose from control..
Sssssssuk!
A strange creature crawls from the darkness where not a single ray of light enters..
The number of disgusting spiders just by looking at them gradually increased..
Jang Seo-eun was heard screaming in horror..
Without even needing to look behind, a group of spiders gathered around..
“……person… … of… … Hey kid……”
The voice that had been teasing the group just a moment ago.
“Nonsense!”
“Unbelievable!”
Shouts of shock and disbelief broke out here and there..
“old man with blood poison?”
The identity of the voice was that of a blood-poisoned old man who was thought to be dead..
My forehead was still stuck in the dagger..
If there was anything else, it was the back..
He was lying face down on the floor, and I could see the spider's legs on his back..
I followed my gaze and saw a giant spider with a pattern on its stomach that looked like a human face..
“To the abominable Norma, thank you for saving me..”
The warriors could not open their mouths.
I thought maybe I was dreaming..
It's hard to believe, but given the circumstances, it was clear that Jiju was speaking using the vocal organs of an old man named Hyeokdok..
However, no matter how spiritual a creature it is, I couldn't believe that a spider could use a human body to speak human language..
“that in return……”
“Give me my altar.”
Joo Seocheon filled his sword body with strength..
“Hehehehe, if you don't resist for no reason and give me the altar, I will spare you and your children's lives.……”
I felt something strange.
“……”
He was not a hero of a political faction, but he was like a demonic leader..
It was a scene that had nothing to say even if he was called a character destroyer..
However, the shock of the fact that the human face owner used human language was so great that I was able to ignore it..
“It's not that difficult..”
“Are the negotiations broken down? I can't... … huh?”
“My thing is, it's impossible, it's only……”
Gigi Geek_A group of fifteen spiders crawled out from under the owner’s stomach, carrying something..
“Main female with same species of male.”
Among spiders, there are cases where the female kills the male during mating, mistaking him for prey or a threat..
This was the case with the landowner..
To her, a male was an object for reproduction, nothing more, nothing less..
If they are full and bothersome, they may leave them alone, but in general, if they come near to mate, they kill them without mercy..
Among them, there were people like her who were born as spirits and lived with her for a long time..
The owner of this inner circle was also like that..
‘Hmm.’
Joo Seocheon receives the inner altar from Gummy and checks it..
It was the size of a palm and had the shape of a round ball..
‘I don't think it's fake……’
The flow of energy from the hand was unusual..
If you feel this way even before taking it, there is no doubt about its effectiveness..
It had to be real..
‘If you have this level of intelligence……’
a good idea occurred to me.
“holding hands in person.”
“say it, do it.”
“Wouldn't you like to make a deal??”
“transaction?”
Joo Seocheon shook his head..
“You are free to believe it or not, but there are groups targeting you outside this habitat. They are targeting not only your inner circle, but also your spider webs, etc..”
“Know. I remember, I, military.”
Inmyeonjiju’s spiritual power and understanding are not ordinary..
Even though he was under the control of blood magic, he remembered most, if not all, things..
Among them, what bothered her the most was the sight of poison and blood being pulled out from a spider web..
Since the old man was skilled in poisoning, he extracted poison and blood and used them as experimental materials in the manufacture of blood poison..
“I'll take care of that group..”
“Hmm, yeah.”
You may think that killing external enemies is enough, but considering the damage caused by precedent, that was not possible..
Inmyeonjiju has been ruled by Amcheonhoe for over 30 years and lived like livestock..
The pain is indescribable..
In the case of children, their intelligence is low, so they don't know much about it, or they don't even recognize it at all, but she, who has a high intelligence, was different..
It was not for no reason that he gave up his compatriot's secret gift, which he had kept hidden in case he was seriously injured later..
“What do you want to do??”
“Regular provision of poison and spider webs.”
The leg connected to the old man wriggled..
If there had been no grace, it would have been torn apart right away..
“Don’t misunderstand that this will be limited to a limit that does not cause too much trouble. Unless it's too small, you decide the amount..”
“Human greed has no end.”
I immediately understood what the owner of the face was worried about..
Poison and spider webs aside, the inner altar of spiritual objects is a treasure that can never be converted into money for the martial arts people..
If this fact were known, it was obvious that they would rush in with red eyes..
“Very few people know where this place is, so don't worry..
It will continue to be like that in the future..”
The area around here is hidden in a mysterious and terrifying mystery..
Even the martial arts people, let alone the general public, could not easily access it..
“If more than ten people enter the forest later, it is okay to kill them at your discretion..”
There are only a limited number of people who will visit this habitat anyway..
It's the extent of the party's heritage..
There were only people who knew the location of the entrance to the habitat and the location of Ki Mun-jin's living gate..
For your information, before coming to Xilong Gorge, I took an oath not to reveal confidential information to the exploration team..
Since it was a secret passed down from generation to generation in the Tang family, Tang Yugi asked for it..
‘I don't know about the general martial arts sect, but if you ask a party to choose between poison, spider web, and Naedan, it would definitely be the former..’
For Germans, extreme reading has more value than endearment..
I was able to understand because I practiced Green Eye Mangekong..
Certainly, the value of the inner altar of Inmyeonjiju, a spiritual object that has been around for at least a thousand years, is equivalent to a treasure from the past..
If you think in the short term, the best is a personal stockholder..
However, if you think about the long term, regular provision of spider silk and high-grade poison, which are the ingredients for intangible poison, was the best option..
“……”
The person holding the face was in a sleeper, perhaps immersed in worry..
an eerie silence.
The silence made the group, including Joo Seocheon, nervous..
It's obvious what will happen if you refuse here..
I prepared my mind to fight at any time..
It would be nice to at least look at the facial expression, but even if you look closely at the spider's face, there's no way you can recognize it..
I just waited.
“Take it, take it, easy.”
“Is it true??”
“It's okay, condition, is.
So, because, uh, there is no choice..”
‘That's amazing.’
I was no longer at a level where I could argue about being smart or anything like that..
I understand what kind of situation I am in, and I thought about the pros and cons and came up with an answer..
I knew that if my offer was rejected here, I would only be hunted..
“Joo Seocheon!”
As soon as the negotiations were concluded, an urgent voice called to him..
I turned around wondering what was going on..
“The condition of these two doesn't look so good..”
I could see urgency in Damhyang’s expression..
Joo Seo-cheon's body became blurred and then appeared in front of Nak So-wol and Dang Hye..
‘……’
As I approached, there was a foul smell..
‘black sweat.’
The identity of the odor was black sweat..
It wasn't a bad thing because it meant that you were excreting poison through sweat..
However, the expressions on the two people's faces were not very good..
He was grimacing as if he was in pain, and his facial expression wasn't good either..
The skin color was gradually changing from the neck up to Danghye..
‘It is dangerous to leave it like this..’
If it were a normal detox, there would be no way you would be in this much pain or your skin color would be bad..
If only Nak So-wol was like that, seeing as Dang-hye also showed the same phenomenon, there was a high possibility that the poisoning had spread to her..
‘What do we do?’
Even when time was running out, it was inevitable that hesitation would arise..
I wouldn't know if Luo Xiaoyue was struggling alone, but since Tang Hui was already in contact, I couldn't hastily touch her..
If someone else's energy enters your body, even if your intentions are good, if you are not careful, you will be in big trouble..
If you made even the slightest mistake, your qi could become entangled, lose control, and run wild, destroying your qi and blood..
There was no telling what would happen if not one but three wills intervened..
“Hmm!”
‘……!’
The moment I heard Naksowol’s moans, all the hesitation and worries that had been flooding in like a flood disappeared..
“Please protect the law!”
Joo Seo-cheon sat next to Nak So-wol and Dang-hye, who was sitting on his back, and positioned themselves to form a triangle..
“I don't know if you can hear it or not, but I'll tell you in advance just in case. From now on I will intervene.”
Of course there was no answer.
Opening your mouth hastily in this situation is suicidal..
“Here we go.”
Before Joo Seo-cheon moved his hand, he took out the inner bundle of the human face from his arms and put it in his mouth..
Okay!
Before I could chew it a few times, it melted like water and went down my throat..
Before the spiritual energy that had melted from above spread evenly throughout the body, he quickly placed his hands on the shoulders of the two people..
‘……’
The moment Jaha Jinki infiltrated, I understood everything..
There was no need to look through the air..
‘As expected, it's roughly as expected.!’
I didn't offer to help without thinking..
I made my own guess as to what happened..
Exhaling toxins through sweat means that detoxification is progressing smoothly..
However, if the addiction continues, there is a high possibility that the speed of detoxification will not keep up with the addiction..
‘In short, it means lack of power..’
full blood poison.
There was no doubt about its power since it was made from poisonous water from Mount Aeneosan, which is said to be a poisonous valley and hell..
No matter how much Tang Hye is a master of poison and has deep skills as a late Jisoo, there are limits..
Nomadou, who had lived for more than several decades, could not overcome the blood poison that he had put so much effort into..
‘Fortunately, the problem is not complicated, so all you have to do is try your best..
However, in this case, it is limited to spirit energy..’
In Moorim, there is something called beolmoesu (伐毛洗懿)..
It refers to the practice of removing waste accumulated in the body through internal energy and unclogging the vital and poisonous veins..
In this case, the body becomes optimal for learning martial arts..
In most cases, it consumes a lot of internal energy, does not recover well, and is difficult to use, so it is not used very often..
So, it was mostly used when people had little life left or in one-man sects..
Anyway, this bee tax was not something that anyone could receive..
The conditions were as strict as the efficacy..
The target group was those who should not learn any of the inner gongsim methods, that is, those who did not practice martial arts..
Injecting someone else's energy is dangerous in itself..
This was because if the caster's true energy was injected, there was a high possibility that it would clash with the existing true energy and cause problems..
Even if you practice the same mind method, it is the same..
The human body is more complex than you think.
It was not for nothing that Taoism described it as a microcosm..
It's easy to think of it as a river..
Even if the starting point is the same, the flow or nature is bound to change due to someone throwing a stone, the fish ecosystem, or the surrounding terrain..
The true energy of a warrior could not be completely the same due to gender, age, enlightenment, etc..
Accordingly, the object of beolmose washing had to be a vessel of energy and in a clean state before the danjeon was even created..
In order to add strength like this, it had to be solved with a relatively neutral spiritual energy such as elixir or naedan..
It was thanks to spiritual energy that martial people were able to improve their internal energy by taking neidan or elixir even though their temperament was slightly different..
Of course, if taken too extreme, it can be applied as a poison, but some things just end up being halved in effectiveness..
It is so versatile.
‘There is also a way to transfer the miasma to me and deal with it instead, but it is too late. Since the air and veins have already been severely damaged, if you make a mistake, the passage may be completely damaged..’
This was the method Tang Hye chose..
Since there was so much poison that there was no way to do anything about it, the method was to detoxify it by paying about half of it on one's own..
The problem is that even if it is divided in half, it cannot be handled, so it took four months..
‘You have to control it well.’
The amount of spiritual energy of Inmyeonjiju was unusual..
The quantity and quality are worthy of a thousand years old flower..
If the two people were in their usual state, it could have been applied as poison if they were in an abnormal physical state like now..
If you are already overwhelmed with poison, but if spiritual energy is poured into you, your body's balance will collapse in an instant..
With this in mind, the distribution was carefully divided and delivered..
‘Sending spiritual energy targeting the Immaek and Dokmaek.
If even one of the Imdokmaeks is affected, it will be of great help in detoxification..’
Please, I hope there won't be any problems in the meantime..
An in-myeonjiju that has been around for countless years.
His inner circle was amazing both qualitatively and quantitatively, as it was a collection of energy accumulated over a lifetime..
Due to Joo Seo-cheon's fine adjustments, the spiritual energy was divided into three parts and permeated them..
‘full blood poison.’
When entering the concave area at the top of the collarbone near the shoulder, the blood clot, one encounters miasma..
A bad feeling, as if touched by dirt, the power of negativity, full of squishiness, rushes through the energy and blood..
Joo Seo-cheon pushed Yeong-gi back as if pushing him..
There is no need to push it in or force it..
It ended with a little push to get some momentum going..
From then on, it's up to the two of you to figure things out on your own..
Still, I didn't drop my hands in preparation for any unexpected situation..
I took a few steps back and watched..
Wow.
Even though the energy generated from the spirit was distributed twice, its momentum was still explosive..
The thick stem, like a waterfall, swallowed up poison and waste like waves as soon as it entered the energy channel..
‘ah……!’
Nak So-wol and Dang-hye exclaimed inwardly..
Consciousness, which had been gradually blurred by the miasma, awoke..
With nowhere left to retreat, a group of spiders crawled out of the cliff and crossed them, driving away the threat..
‘It's now!’
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