Invincible with Twin Swords

Chapter 6 : I Need an Elixir!

While Steward Go was tidying up the Flying Heaven Sect, I devoted myself to training.

My twenty-year-old body, which was well-built to put it nicely, but actually had plenty of flesh, had now lost all its excess fat, leaving only hard, lean muscles.

You don't need large muscles to wield a sword. I must make my body like it was back then, when I roamed the battlefields under the name of the One-Armed Tyrant Saber, as quickly as possible.

And I must overcome the wall.

The family core technique I learned since I was born in the Flying Heaven Sword Sect is the One Circle Core Method. My father reached the pinnacle with this core technique.

It's a pretty good core technique for a family inheritance, but its flaw is that it's slow.

I sat in a cross-legged position and began to circulate my true energy according to the incantation of the Suspended Spring Martial Return Core Method, which I learned from the Sword Emperor in the Valley of Abandoned Bugs. This is the first time I'm actually circulating my energy, having only learned it through incantations.

Simultaneously with my breath, a clean energy rose from my dantian and began to circulate through my blood vessels like the sea. After completing one cycle, my whole body was drenched in sweat.

There are sometimes those who say that if you encounter a fortuitous opportunity and operate a supreme core technique, the dregs accumulated in your blood vessels and the turbidity throughout your body will be discharged, and as a result, your clothes will become rags along with a foul smell.

That's because those people don't wash often.

I always wash myself clean.

In essence, a core technique is circulation.

It is a great circulation of taking in the energy of the great nature into my body through breathing and returning it again. The method of gathering the true energy generated through that process in the dantian is the internal energy core technique.

The effects of each core technique vary greatly.

The Sword Emperor's Suspended Spring Martial Return Core Method was a supreme core technique in terms of purity and speed. Moreover, since I have a Heavenly Martial Body, the speed at which my internal energy accumulates is faster than others.

If I continue to practice like this every day without fail, I will surpass one sixty-year cycle in ten years, and in about twenty years, I will be ranked among the top five in the Central Plains in terms of internal energy.

Considering that most supreme core techniques take about thirty years to reach one sixty-year cycle, this is truly an enormous speed.

The problem is that I can't wait twenty years!

No, the Heavenly Demon won't wait that long!

...I need an elixir!

To increase my internal energy in a short period of time, there is only an elixir.

When it comes to proper elixirs, one cannot discuss them without mentioning the Medicine King Hall. And I know very well how to handle the old man who is the master of the Medicine King Hall.

"Mother, I have something important to do, so I have to leave home for a while. It's difficult to say for sure when I can return."

After obtaining the elixir from the Medicine King Hall, I plan to find a few people.

People who will join me in my plan.

People who can watch my back.

"Have a safe trip, and be careful. Don't get involved in any unnecessary trouble. Don't forget that you are the one leading the Flying Heaven Sect."

These days, my mother is busy bragging about her son to those around her. It's worth bragging about, since I cut down the Tyrant Heaven Sect leader with a single strike and revived the Flying Heaven Sword Sect.

Throughout all ages, parents are more proud of their children's success than their own.

I gave Steward Go a few things to do while I was away and set off. There was no worry on Steward Go's face. What steward would worry when the sect leader sets off on a journey?

He had completely accepted me as the sect leader of the Flying Heaven Sect, and he would continue to do so.

He is my person.

* * *

The Medicine King Hall was a group that existed solely with the single-minded goal of creating the best medicine in the Central Plains. They also had the best skills in reality.

The Medicine King Hall was divided into the Medical Hall and the Pharmacy Hall. The Medical Hall was nothing special, but the Pharmacy Hall was famous. The Pharmacy Hall was again divided into the Outer Pharmacy Hall and the Inner Pharmacy Hall. The Outer Pharmacy Hall manufactured and sold everything from wound medicine to decoctions for internal injuries and various other medicines. Even aphrodisiacs.

The medicines of the Outer Pharmacy Hall were of superior quality, so during my ronin days, I only bought wound medicine from here.

In contrast, the Inner Pharmacy Hall was a place that focused solely on elixirs. It was a place where those whose life goal was to create an elixir that surpassed Shaolin's Great Rejuvenation Pill or Wudang's Purple Elixir Pill gathered.

The person I'm going to see now, Seok Nosam, is the master of the Inner Pharmacy Hall of the Medicine King Hall.

After the Demonic Cult ran rampant, he joined the Alliance, and we were quite close in the Azure Blade Unit. We even saved each other's lives several times.

It wouldn't be difficult to find the Medicine King Hall and get an elixir from Seok Nosam. The problem is that it's not easy to get in.

"Ah, I am indeed the sect leader of the Flying Heaven Sect. Please just send a message to the master of the Inner Pharmacy Hall. Then he will probably let me in."

Even I wouldn't believe it if a guy who looks like he's just come of age says he's the sect leader of a sect. I even dressed up quite a bit to look older, but I have a baby face.

"I've never even heard of the name Flying Heaven Sect, you know? I might know if it's the Flying Heaven Sword Sect."

Ah, I shouldn't have changed the name.

"It was originally the Flying Heaven Sword Sect, but I changed the name to the Flying Heaven Sect a while ago."

"Ahem. Does the name of a sect change so easily? I've been guarding this main gate of the Medicine King Hall for decades. Do you think you're the only one like this?"

I can't get through to him at all. I should definitely post flexible people at our main gate.

"So to sum it up, you're the sect leader of the Flying Heaven Sect, and you were born with a Heavenly Martial Body, right? And you want to meet the master of the Inner Pharmacy Hall? Seeing that you're carrying a sword, you seem to be a martial artist, so why don't you stop by the Outer Hall over there and buy some wound medicine. Or, although it seems a bit early, you could buy some aphrodisiacs."

"Please just deliver the message. If he still doesn't want to see me, I'll leave without a word."

During the Azure Blade Unit days, Seok Nosam was overjoyed when he learned that I had a Heavenly Martial Body. He said he had always wanted to conduct various experiments on someone like me. Not human experiments, but small experiments like how the elixirs he made would work on a unique constitution? Of course, I almost died because of that small curiosity...

Geniuses always have a strange side.

Although martial artists are a dime a dozen, a martial artist born with a Heavenly Martial Body was rare and precious. Even if there was one, who would come and reveal their identity on their own? Seok Nosam would probably come running out barefoot.

He always used to boast about the Medicine King Divine Pill, which he said he had spent his whole life researching and creating. He was confident that it could be compared to any elixir. He said it took him a lifetime to create it.

He said that only in his later years did he realize that the combination he had insisted on was wrong and created a proper elixir.

Right now, I desperately need that elixir.

And I know very well why Seok Nosam's combination was wrong.

Contrary to my expectation that he would come running out barefoot, Seok Nosam came out strolling with his shoes on.

"Are you the one who asked to be announced as having a Heavenly Martial Body? Flying Heaven Sect? Have we met somewhere before?"

He seemed to be searching his memory as he carefully examined my face.

No words came out of my mouth. My eyes welled up with tears.

I had seen his head being cut off with my own two eyes...

I almost hugged him tightly.

"Ah. Could it be the Flying Heaven Sword Sect? The place where the corpse that came back to life from a coffin fought and won against the Tyrant Heaven Sect leader a while ago?"

I was lost in my own sentimental memories of the past, but the word 'corpse' brought me to my senses.

Ah, the rumor has spread strangely.

This is my first trip to the Central Plains, and I can't go around with such a rumor.

"Well, that's roughly correct, but calling me a corpse is a bit..."

Seok Nosam cut me off and abruptly grabbed my wrist, then closed his eyes and began to feel the true energy in my blood vessels. He did that before too. The moment we first met in the Azure Blade Unit, he grabbed my wrist first.

I had misunderstood that he had a peculiar taste.

After a moment, he opened his eyes wide.

"You're the real deal! The real deal! Hurry and escort this young master, no, this sect leader, to the inner hall's annex."

* * *

"Hmm... this is a strange thing."

Seok Nosam alternately grabbed both my wrists and began to send his true energy into me, examining every corner of my body.

Originally, it was an absurd thing for a martial artist to send their true energy into an opponent without permission, but I let him be.

He is not just anyone, but a person who fought the last battle with me.

He kept shaking his head as if he couldn't understand. He was just holding my wrist without even asking my name.

Half a shichen had already passed. At this point, could it be that he's feeling pleasure from the pulse of a Heavenly Martial Body or something?

I closed my eyes and carefully examined his face as he was taking my pulse. It was a very strange feeling to see the young face of someone I had become close to when they were old.

He had a eccentric personality and his martial arts skills were not great, but he didn't run away and stayed with the Azure Blade Unit until the end. He is a reliable person.

"Did you by any chance eat a spiritual beast when you were young?"

"No? I'm a bit of a picky eater, so I can't eat things that look gross."

"Then did you by any chance get kicked out of your house when you were young and wander in the mountains, then fall off a cliff, but fortunately survived by grabbing a branch, and discovered a hidden cave in the middle of the cliff, and when you went in, a demon who had made an era tremble in fear was dying, so you saved him, and before he died, he regretted his past life and, as a reward for your kindness, transferred his internal energy to you with the Great Transfer Art, but you forgot about it?"

Oh ho... you chose the wrong profession.

You should have been a writer.

A novel pops out in one breath.

"How could that be? I was born into a harmonious family and grew up well-loved."

Seok Nosam said with a face that showed he couldn't understand at all.

"There's something inside you!"

If so? The very thing I was hoping for!

"No, are you saying that I'm finally pregnant, which I've been waiting for even in my dreams?"

He looks at me as if I'm a crazy person.

My jokes aren't landing well these days.

The something inside me is probably the power of the Black-Scaled Blood Serpent that Gwideukja gave me. That's the only thing that could be inside me.

I thought it had failed, but it seems it was transmitted properly.

Will it be a strength, or a burden...

"It's difficult to explain, but I knew there was something inside me. The problem is that I don't know what kind of power this is either. What do you think, Hall Master?"

The purpose of visiting the Medicine King Hall is a free elixir, but since the topic has come up, I should listen to an expert's opinion. Since he's an expert in a different field from sorcery.

"...Hmm. The energy I feel is sinister, but it doesn't reveal its power on its own. It's like a large snake coiled up? It seems to be suppressed by something, or it seems to be just staying on its own... However, since it doesn't react to external internal energy, it won't harm you for the time being."

Is Gwideukja's curse mark affecting me as well?

And Seok Nosam added a word.

"If you covet that power, find a sorcerer. It's not something I can solve. However, if it were me, I would choose not to release it."

I trust Seok Nosam.

But there's no way Gwideukja made a wrong judgment. I trust Gwideukja as a sorcerer and as a precious connection who trusted me and sent me back to the past.

"By the way, I was thinking of giving you a few elixirs that would be helpful to you... no, a small experiment... Ah! Nothing will go seriously wrong. Don't worry."

I was deceived by those words before and ate it right away, and was sick in bed for three days.

"How about the Medicine King Divine Pill instead of that?"

Seok Nosam's eyes change.

"You must have come after hearing the rumors too. But that medicine is still incomplete. I can't give it to you even if I want to."

The rumor that the Medicine King Hall was making a great elixir was well-known. There was also a rumor that it was already completed but they were hiding it.

"I know very well that it's still incomplete. I will only say that there is someone who desperately wants you to complete the Medicine King Divine Pill, and I have come to deliver his message. He said it would be helpful in completing the elixir."

Of course, the person who desperately wants it is me.

The reason I desperately want it to be completed?

Because I have to eat it.

"I don't know who you're talking about, but completing an elixir is not that easy. Even I have been clinging to it for over ten years..."

Seok Nosam's words were cut off by my answer.

"He said you should subtract, not add."

The expression on Seok Nosam's face when he heard this was truly strange.

His pupils moved back and forth and he looked like he was about to cry, then his expression quickly changed to one of ecstasy.

"Yes, that was it. Why didn't I think of that? It wasn't about adding, it was about subtracting. It was about taking away..."

Seok Nosam was pacing back and forth in front of me restlessly, muttering non-stop.

I let him be. For geniuses, you just need to throw them a single flashing clue. The rest is up to them.

"Thanks to you, I've got a handle on it. I won't ask who that person is. You wouldn't answer anyway. There will be a day to repay you."

He's quick-witted and decisive, which is good.

"Wait for five days. Ah... no, three days! Three days is enough. The medicinal ingredients are all ready. In three days, I will put the first Medicine King Divine Pill in your hands."

If what I'm getting is the Medicine King Divine Pill, I can wait for a month.

(End of Chapter)