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Chapter 188 : Chapter 188
Chapter 188. Wall (4)
How long did he continue to circulate energy while fallen into a state of self-forgetfulness?
The flow of energy flowing along Jin Yuseong's acupoints becomes larger and faster.
Energy rotating at tremendous speed. Matching that, the energy escaping the body also increased.
Jin Yuseong didn't mind.
Because he flowed it out on purpose.
The flowed-out energy started to resonate with the energy touching the skin.
The flow of energy flowing along the inside gets faster and faster.
As the internal circulation accelerated, the resonating external energy also increased, and from some moment, the external energy also started to circulate slowly.
Around that time, Baek Hyang, who was flowing internal energy with a desperate expression, removed her palm.
Her dantian was empty before she knew it.
But she didn't give up.
It was because she realized that some change had occurred.
Whether this was the same for the Dalai Lama, the old monk who retrieved his palm chanted a Buddhist name.
"Amitabha."
Dang Sopyeong, who was diligently applying acupuncture, wrinkled his forehead.
Because it looked like they gave up on Jin Yuseong.
"What are you doing now……."
His voice didn't continue.
A bizarre scene entered his eyes.
The needles he diligently stuck into Jin Yuseong's acupoints were popping out one by one.
As if being pushed out by something.
Plop.
The sound of pushed-out needles falling to the floor pierces the silence and echoes.
Only then did Dang Sopyeong also realize the anomaly.
While Dang Sopyeong looked at Jin Yuseong with a dazed expression. The Dalai Lama said with a clasped hand bow.
"It seems the benefactor is about to cross the wall."
As if answering the Dalai Lama's guess, the change became even fiercer.
Like the internal energy circulating inside Jin Yuseong, the external energy also started to circulate at a very fast speed.
From some moment, internal energy and external energy couldn't be distinguished.
External energy circulated and was sucked into Jin Yuseong's body, and conversely, internal energy came out and rotated with external energy.
Accordingly, Jin Yuseong's body sitting in a lotus position soared into the air.
Soon, a certain noise came from his body.
Crackkk.
A bizarre noise like bones breaking. Matching that, Jin Yuseong's body shakes here and there.
Terrible pain would likely be felt, but Jin Yuseong's face was peaceful beyond measure.
Dang Sopyeong, a physician and martial artist, seemed to know what this meant.
"……Hah. Crazy bastard. He intends to melt the broken bowl entirely and make it anew."
Body Reformation.
Jin Yuseong's body was being reconstructed.
To escape the limit of being human, he was being reborn with a body most suitable for martial arts.
How long did they watch that amazing change quietly?
At some moment, the bizarre noise echoing from Jin Yuseong's body subsides.
Jin Yuseong's body didn't shake here and there anymore either.
The fierce aura raging around Jin Yuseong also slowly calmed down.
Jin Yuseong's body floating in the air landed on the floor while still in a lotus position.
But Jin Yuseong didn't open his eyes.
He was just sitting quietly in a lotus position.
Dang Sopyeong, a physician, approached him carefully.
Dang Sopyeong, who examined Jin Yuseong's condition for a moment, crumpled his face.
Baek Hyang and Nam Geon asked with faces full of worry.
"Is there any problem?"
"B-brother, are you still h-hurt?"
Dang Sopyeong shook his head.
"He made everyone worry and is sleeping very comfortably alone. Damn bastard."
The corners of Dang Sopyeong's mouth, who spat out a curse, went up.
***
Early dawn. Jin Yuseong's closed eyes opened.
He looked around with calm eyes.
It was a familiar place. Because it was that pavilion he stayed in at the Potala Palace for a few days.
Choyeon sitting in a lotus position was visible through the darkness.
The rest of the group was sleeping soundly.
As if everyone was considerably tired, they looked like they wouldn't know even if someone carried them away.
Choyeon, meeting his eyes, quietly opened her mouth.
"Are you okay? Senior Brother."
Jin Yuseong nodded.
"It seems you were standing guard because of me. I am fine, so catch some sleep now."
At Jin Yuseong's words, Choyeon, who blinked as if pondering momentarily, nodded.
Choyeon, who lay down, fell asleep just like that before long.
Jin Yuseong, who examined his soundly sleeping companions, carefully raised his body. So that his companions wouldn't wake up.
Leaving the pavilion, Jin Yuseong sat in a lotus position again with a calm face and closed his eyes.
He wasn't trying to sleep. He just intended to contemplate his inside.
A faint smile was drawn on his lips.
‘It wasn't a dream.’
Although it was something that happened in a state of selflessness, he remembered roughly.
It could be seen that heavenly luck was with him.
It was possible because he continued to pursue realization while placed at the crossroads of life and death, and because he knew the destination albeit vaguely.
The key point of the Sun Moon Infinite Sword. In addition to that, he had the experience of directly seeing the Secret Sect Great Hand Seal of the Blood Disaster who crossed the wall and the martial arts the Fighting Venerable unfolded.
No. That alone was insufficient.
Although he knew the destination, although it was a matter of taking just a single step, that single step was too far.
There were people who bought time to take that single step.
Dang Sopyeong and Junior Sister Baek Hyang.
And the unidentified someone who continued to blow in Buddhist internal energy.
If they hadn't continued to help, he would have died long ago let alone crossing the wall.
Conversely speaking, it could be seen that the Blood Disaster was unlucky.
The bastard was in a state where he only crossed the wall halfway.
He obtained technical realization but failed to achieve Body Reformation.
"Sseup. Huu."
Along with breathing, the energy filling the dantian circulates through the whole body's acupoints.
Breathing repeats a few times. A strange thing happened.
"Sseup. Huu."
His energy flows out along the exhalation.
The flowed-out energy mingles with the energy flowing in the atmosphere. Soon, the energy mixed together started to circulate around Jin Yuseong.
"Sseup."
Finally, as Jin Yuseong inhaled largely, the massive energy floating in the air was sucked into his body at once.
Jin Yuseong, who opened his eyes flashing, muttered.
"Grand Heavenly Circulation."
Thanks to achieving Body Reformation and ascending to the Heavenly Ladder Realm, he felt like he knew albeit vaguely.
What it means to become one with the world.
Thanks to that, he could go beyond the Lesser Heavenly Circulation and reach the Grand Heavenly Circulation.
Conversely, it could be seen that he ascended to the Heavenly Ladder Realm because he achieved the Grand Heavenly Circulation.
Jin Yuseong, who was checking his own condition, turned his head to the side.
A Lama monk was approaching him.
The Lama monk, meeting his eyes, did a clasped hand bow.
"Amitabha. The Dalai Lama is looking for you."
Jin Yuseong nodded and raised his body.
It seemed there was no need to wake up his companions soaked in fatigue.
After moving, I followed the Lama monk for a while. He arrived at the Dharma Palace where the Dalai Lama resided.
"Come in."
The Dalai Lama's voice was heard, and Jin Yuseong willingly entered the Dharma Palace.
"I greet the Dalai Lama."
As Jin Yuseong expressed courtesy with a fist and palm salute, the Dalai Lama also responded with a clasped hand bow.
"Amitabha. I congratulate you on crossing the wall."
"It would have been impossible if the Dalai Lama hadn't helped. I am only grateful that you saved my life."
The person who continued to blow Buddhist energy into him.
Although he didn't see or hear who it was, he was guessing it might be the Dalai Lama.
"……If the disappearance cases so far were indeed Hyeonam's acts, shouldn't you take responsibility as the Dalai Lama."
The Dalai Lama who said so asked Jin Yuseong with complicated eyes.
"So please tell me. What happened."
Jin Yuseong told the stories so far.
Suspecting Hyeonam and watching him. The secretive presence felt in the deep night.
Finding the old man at the place he moved chasing the black-clothed figure. Finally, the conversation he had with Hyeonam and the life-and-death struggle.
The Dalai Lama, who was just listening quietly to that story, asked.
"How did you know?"
"What do you mean?"
"This monk never said that the event of the past was Hyeonam's affair. However, the benefactor suspected Hyeonam from the moment I mentioned that event. It means you suspected Hyeonam, whom everyone considered a deeply devout monk, from the beginning."
Jin Yuseong pondered for a moment.
Thinking about it, he suspected because he knew Hyeonam was the Blood Disaster in the first place.
If he didn't know, could he have suspected that bastard?
Jin Yuseong himself couldn't be sure.
Even when hearing about the disappearance cases, he probably would have suspected someone else.
That much, Hyeonam's acting was perfect. It was to the point of looking like a good person to anyone.
But he couldn't tell the truth. That he regressed.
Therefore, Jin Yuseong made up an appropriate excuse.
"Didn't the Dalai Lama say to me? That I saw too much blood."
"I did say so."
"It is thanks to that. Because I saw too much trash, I felt some unknown uncomfortableness."
The Dalai Lama's expression as if he didn't understand. Jin Yuseong gave a few examples.
"There was a person called Green Valley Teacher in a certain village."
He told about the perverted murderous demon who felt pleasure while giving pain to people similarly to the Blood Disaster.
Furthermore, he also told the story about the hypocrite Choi Manor Master who acted good while mixed among people.
Besides that, he told a few stories he saw and experienced in his past life.
The Dalai Lama, who listened quietly to Jin Yuseong's story, chanted a Buddhist name.
"Amitabha. Looking now, it wasn't that the benefactor accumulated karma, but that the monks of this Palace lived without knowing the world."
"That is not true. I also just felt uncomfortableness. Hyeonam's acting was perfect. If that person hadn't dragged me in to kill me, I also wouldn't have obtained certainty."
"Haa. It is difficult. I believed that even if one accumulated karma, one can improve if one takes refuge in Buddhism and accumulates merit. But now I do not know what to do."
Looking at the complicated Dalai Lama's face, Jin Yuseong answered.
"I also believe that most people can improve through teaching. However, Hyeonam is one in a hundred. No, perhaps a special case existing one in ten thousand. Are you planning to give up on others who can improve through teaching to avoid that one in ten thousand?"
The Dalai Lama looked at Jin Yuseong silently for a moment.
Then smiling faintly, he opened his mouth.
"Hahaha. A wise answer to a foolish question."
It was a benevolent smile, but slightly different from what he saw before.
It wasn't just an infinitely benevolent smile.
Mixed with sadness. Furthermore, a smile that overcame sadness.
Even if Hyeonam is reborn, it seemed he wouldn't be able to mimic this smile.
***
After finishing the dialogue with the Dalai Lama. Jin Yuseong returned to the pavilion.
Dang Sopyeong welcomed him spitting out curses.
"Hey, you damn bastard! Shouldn't you tell us before going!"
He pondered whether to spit out a word to Dang Sopyeong again, but Jin Yuseong decided to stop.
Because not only Dang Sopyeong, but others also had faces full of worry.
Even Choyeon had a somewhat complicated face.
‘I should have endured a little longer without sleeping.’
She was coming up with such regrets.
"Ahem. I am sorry. Everyone looked tired, so I went alone meaning for you to catch some more sleep."
Dang Sopyeong blinked his eyes.
Since it was extremely rare for Jin Yuseong to apologize to him, he wasn't expecting it at all.
"Ahem. I-if you know, it's fine."
Dang Sopyeong, who became awkward for no reason, hurriedly changed the subject.
"So what do you intend to do now?"
"Since we finished all business here, shouldn't we leave now?"
"Do you intend to go to the Central Plains?"
Jin Yuseong nodded and said.
"First, I plan to visit the Beggar's Gang or the Twin Heroes Alliance and check the matter entrusted last time."
Thunder Disaster. Teaching Demon. Finally, the Demonic Cult.
He intended to find out how the tracking of them was progressing.
"If there is no place found yet, then I plan to visit other places a bit."
Saying so, Jin Yuseong looked at Nam Geon and Dang Sopyeong alternately.
"Since the skills of you two have also reached a high realm now, shouldn't you take revenge slowly?"