Invincible with Twin Swords

Chapter 24 : I Won!

I am now lying down, looking at the ceiling.

She was sitting by my side, carving a seal on my right arm.

She made a wound on my skin with a small needle and then poured the blood of a dark red snake, which she had obtained from somewhere, into the wound.

A strange pattern was gradually being carved on my right arm.

It was a pattern that I couldn't tell whether it was a letter or a picture, and Na Yeryeong was concentrating without even being able to wipe the sweat from her forehead.

It wasn't a seal, but among my ronin comrades, there were many who had tattoos. What they mainly carved was their own name, and this was called 'bubyeongjaja'. It is the hope that even if they die somewhere, their body will be properly collected and a proper funeral will be held.

I did not carve my name.

Because I just had to not die in a fight.

After I finish this journey, I will start a happy family. Since I have the nickname Jade-Faced Divine Dragon, I will surely be able to meet a beautiful woman. And I will spend a happy rest of my life.

I raised my head and looked at Na Yeryeong in front of me.

Hmm. Perhaps...

"I told you not to raise your head! How many times do I have to tell you?"

...I should meet a gentle woman rather than a pretty one.

It took a full day to carve the seal on my right arm.

During that time, Na Yeryeong concentrated without drinking a single sip of water.

She said that when the seal was completed, the power of the Black-Scaled Blood Serpent would be completely opened. After that, intense pain would follow.

She said that overcoming that pain would be the first step.

I could see Parip hyungnim with a worried look and Deoksam holding an axe with both hands next to me.

"Hyungnim, don't worry. If the pain in your right arm is too severe and you can't bear it, just give me a signal. I'll cut off the neck of that Black-Scaled Blood Serpent or whatever in a single blow."

Deoksam, please put that axe away!

This crazy snake bastard and I are already one body.

If you cut off the Black-Scaled Blood Serpent's neck, my right arm will also be cut off.

As I said before, my right arm is precious.

"It's all over now."

Na Yeryeong said, finally wiping the sweat from her forehead.

She was on the verge of exhaustion. I was just grateful that she had worked so hard for someone she had just met yesterday.

Just like Gwideukja's right arm in the past, my shoulder to my wrist was also completely covered with a dark red seal.

Now, if I just roll up my sleeves somewhere, there will be no trivial quarrels for the rest of my life. Or I could set up an underworld sect and get a nickname like 'Blood Hand Yama'.

Now the seal that had been binding the Black-Scaled Blood Serpent was gone. Soon, the Black-Scaled Blood Serpent will wake up from its long sleep and open its power.

Now is the time to determine who the real owner of this arm is.

I calmed my mind and prepared for the pain that would soon come.

I sat in a cross-legged position and began to operate my true energy according to the incantation of the Sword Emperor's core technique, the Hyeoncheonmuhwansimbeop. A clean true energy rose from my dantian and began to circulate through the blood vessels of my whole body.

I calmed my mind and made my consciousness clear.

Na Yeryeong said that I should not lose consciousness even in the midst of pain.

I am the one who has returned from a hellish future.

I can overcome the pain of a mere snake bastard running rampant.

After a long time, when Deoksam started to doze off while gripping his axe, something began to stir in my right arm.

It began to draw my body's true energy little by little and then, unable to get along, it began to clash.

Ugh!

My back bent like a bow.

The blood vessels in my right arm were writhing as if they would pop out, creating a pain as if my arm was being torn off.

My internal energy and the power of the Black-Scaled Blood Serpent were endlessly clashing.

I wanted to snatch Deoksam's axe right away and cut off my right arm.

Parip hyungnim and Deoksam didn't know what to do.

As Deoksam approached to calm me down, Na Yeryeong shouted urgently.

"Don't go near him."

And she shouted at me.

"Hold on to your consciousness. Mr. Jin's internal energy and the power of the Black-Scaled Blood Serpent must get along. They have to mix!"

I was about to lose consciousness, but Na Yeryeong's shout brought me to my senses.

I have to come to my senses.

I took out the Ink Blood Saber that was in front of me and shouted.

"Everyone get out!"

At my shout, everyone hurriedly went outside. Of course, still watching me with worried eyes.

The Ink Blood Saber draws internal energy.

The internal energy that was circulating throughout my body was concentrated in my right arm, which was holding the Ink Blood Saber, along with the blood vessels.

I squeezed out all the internal energy of my dantian to the last drop and concentrated it in my right arm. And I let the Ink Blood Saber draw that internal energy.

- Woong, woong.

The blade of the Ink Blood Saber, engulfed in a dark red energy, trembled violently and let out a saber cry.

I stood up from my seat and, spewing out my internal energy like crazy, I swung the saber. The room was filled with flashing saber light.

I swung the saber endlessly. I swung and swung again, shouting like a madman. The power of the Black-Scaled Blood Serpent in my right arm also went crazy along with me.

The furniture began to break and the walls began to collapse.

Even in the thick dust, I did not lose consciousness and, concentrating my internal energy in my right arm, I swung the saber.

After a long time, when not a single drop of energy was left in my body, when I thought I could no longer hold the Ink Blood Saber because the strength in my hand was gone!

The power of the Black-Scaled Blood Serpent stopped.

It didn't disappear, it stopped. Like a beast accepting a new master.

The power that had been running wild became docile and began to infuse new power into my right arm, which seemed unable to even lift a spoon.

My dantian was already empty, but it began to create a new energy as if another dantian had been created in my right arm.

The true energy began to circulate vigorously as if my dantian, my right arm, and the Ink Blood Saber held in that hand were connected as one.

In this moment, it felt as if the Ink Blood Saber had become a part of my body.

I won! You crazy snake bastard!

The Black-Scaled Blood Serpent was not amplifying my internal energy.

It was creating a new power.

As Gwideukja had said, I was chosen by the Black-Scaled Blood Serpent.

When I opened the door and came out.

In fact, the door was almost gone, so it wasn't that I opened it and came out.

Outside, three people were waiting for me with worried eyes.

I looked at Parip hyungnim and Deoksam and said.

"It's all over!"

And I made eye contact with Na Yeryeong, who had tears in her worried eyes.

"The room is a mess! It's a mess because of my sword work!"

"That damn room..."

"Repair it cleanly. If possible, make it even more splendid than before. And charge the cost. To the Blood Dragon Sect leader in Yunxian."

I am still a guest of the Blood Dragon Sect.

It is natural for the sect leader to handle the accident caused by a guest.

* * *

I fell asleep right away and woke up in three days.

I didn't wake up for a while, so they were about to call a doctor, but my snoring was so loud that they just left me alone.

The dawn wind is cold.

I stood in the open space behind Heavenly Secret Hall and took out the Ink Blood Saber.

When I raised my energy, the Ink Blood Saber drew it without fail.

The seal on my right arm emitted a faint light and, creating a new energy, it was added to my internal energy.

I swung the Ink Blood Saber with my internal energy.

If my strength is one, the strength spewed out from the saber is two, no, three.

I took a stance to unfold the Limitless Saber Art and performed the first form, Great Force Suppresses the Form.

- KABOOM!

A strong sonic boom was created as it cut through the air.

Each sword stroke was imbued with an explosive energy.

I swung seven times with the form of Great Force Suppresses the Form. In the previous battle with the Greenwood Tyrant King, I had not completed the final seventh strike.

A huge force continued to be superimposed, and on the final seventh strike, a force that even I could not handle extended from the saber.

- KABOOM!

The west outer wall of Heavenly Secret Hall, which was far away, collapsed.

"Ah! It's my power, but it's not my power yet. I can't control it!"

I hurriedly returned to Heavenly Secret Hall.

A person with a dot under his left eye was inspecting the broken building to repair it.

I called Na Yeryeong, who was standing next to him.

"Miss! Miss! About repairing that room! When you repair it, you'll have to repair the west outer wall as well. Of course, the cost is on the Blood Dragon Sect..."

"Pack your bags. There is a place you must go with me."

Looking again, Na Yeryeong was in a light palace dress, as if she was about to leave.

A notice saying 'Closed' was attached to the main gate of Heavenly Secret Hall.

Parip hyungnim and Deoksam had also already finished their preparations.

"No, where are we going all of a sudden? And we have to go back now. We have urgent business!"

"It is the most important matter. And it is a scheduled event. We must go to meet my grandmother."

No, why your grandmother all of a sudden, miss?

We are not yet at the stage where we should greet the elders of the family, are we? Aren't you being too hasty?

"Who is your grandmother?"

"The Soul-Taking Divine Woman, Gam Nanhyang!"

* * *

We are now in a carriage that Na Yeryeong has obtained, going somewhere. She must have made a lot of money running the fortune-telling house, as she had rented a very large carriage.

In front of the carriage, an old man with a small dot next to his ear was driving the carriage with a skillful hand.

"Your grandmother told you to bring us? No, we just arrived here yesterday."

"It is an event that my grandmother has scheduled in advance. It is an event that is importantly related to what Mr. Jin is trying to do."

The Soul-Taking Divine Woman, Gam Nanhyang, was a name I had heard a few times even though I had no interest in sorcery.

The martial artists of the Central Plains, who believe that they can reach the extreme through training, do not believe in sorcery. To martial artists, the perception of sorcery is just a dark art used by the likes of the Blood Cult or the ability to glimpse the future a little.

It was the same for me until I returned to the past with Gwideukja's sorcery.

Nevertheless, the reputation of the Soul-Taking Divine Woman was spread here and there.

I only now learned that Gwideukja was her bloodline.

The Soul-Taking Divine Woman has the ability to see the future.

Perhaps she already knows information about the Demonic Cult's revelation. Moreover, isn't it that she had already foreseen that we would come here?

There were also stories that she had made a connection with the imperial family with her mysterious ability, but no one knows where she is now. Though this woman in front of me probably knows.

"By the way, didn't you say that your grandmother, no, the Soul-Taking Divine Woman, had left home in the past?"

"She is staying somewhere else now, but she has been in constant contact. She was different from my father."

Gwideukja, you bastard! If you left your young daughter alone and left home, you should have at least checked if she was living well. Anyway, sorcerers.

"By the way, is it okay to just go and see your grandmother like this?"

"About two years ago? She sent a message in advance."

"Two years ago? What was the content?"

"She said she had a dream. She said she dreamed of a person whose face was covered in blood appearing in front of me and saying he would change fate..."

The day I first met Na Yeryeong, I broke a teacup in front of her.

And I wiped my face with my bleeding hand.

Thanks to that, my face was covered in blood.

"She said that a person who is trying to change fate will come. And that because of that person, my fate will also change."

It has not yet been a year since I returned to the past.

She had foreseen everything even before I returned to the past. She had already known the complicated future where time and space were mixed.

Perhaps I can get information about the Demonic Cult, the Heavenly Demon, and the revelation I am chasing.

The fact that she is calling me means that she is trying to tell me something.

"By the way, I have one thing to ask. I'm very curious about something."

"If it's something I can answer, I will answer."

"Can you also see past lives?"

She just smiled slightly without answering. Her smile is pretty.

"That fellow over there holding a large axe."

Deoksam had gathered his courage and tried to talk to Na Yeryeong, saying he would carry her luggage, but he was coldly rejected and was now in a state of being discouraged.

"That fellow was definitely a bear in his previous life, right?"

Na Yeryeong looked at Deoksam for a long time and then just smiled without saying anything. Deoksam's face turned even redder.

That silence must be an affirmation.

There's no way Deoksam wasn't a bear.

Na Yeryeong smiled slightly and then suddenly her face stiffened.

Her sorceress's sense of qi had detected danger.

My sense of qi was also sending a warning.

There is something in front of the road.

A dark and damp, but familiar feeling!

The feeling I never wanted to meet again, but had been eagerly waiting to meet again!

- Thud!

The carriage stopped abruptly.