Sword God Reborn

Chapter 117 : Two Dantians

"How on earth? What you ate was the Ten Thousand Year Moon Pill! How can you be fine after eating the Ten Thousand Year Moon Pill!"

The Lacquer-Faced Yama's voice was sharper than ever.

A look of disbelief dripped from him.

"Aha, so this was that famous Ten Thousand Year Moon Pill?"

Cheon Mubaeck exclaimed in admiration. No wonder. The supreme yin energy he felt was no ordinary thing.

Ten Thousand Year Moon Pill.

It was a legendary elixir created by accumulating yin energy by combining numerous elixirs that had received moonlight for an enormous amount of time.

Could it even be called an elixir? It was the essence of supreme yin energy. No one could digest it. Since it couldn't be digested, it was embarrassing to even call it an elixir. In fact, it was closer to a poison.

It was completely different from what the Lacquer-Faced Yama had been feeding Zhuge Seola until now.

That was the Hundred Year Moon Pill, made by breaking down the Ten Thousand Year Moon Pill so that people could consume it.

The Ten Thousand Year Moon Pill was on a different level from that.

If you ate it, you would die.

No, your whole body would freeze.

But Cheon Mubaeck was fine. Of course, all the blood had drained from his face and his hair had turned white, but that was it.

"This can't be! This can't be!"

In a situation that defied common sense, the Lacquer-Faced Yama let out a scream close to a shriek.

At the same time, his hands bent his fingers like a bird's claws and rushed forward with the momentum to tear out a heart.

Whoosh!

Red flames surged from both his hands.

Cheon Mubaeck threw a palm strike.

Kwaang!

"Ugh!"

Pssssss!

White steam filled the air, obstructing the view.

An extreme cold poured out from Cheon Mubaeck's hands. The moment the supreme yin energy and the supreme yang energy collided, the view in front of them became blurry, as if a hot spring had burst in the middle of winter.

The Lacquer-Faced Yama's face contorted strangely.

"You're saying you completely digested the Ten Thousand Year Moon Pill? That can't be! Not even half a quarter of an hour has passed, how? Even if you have a Heavenly Divine Body...!"

"Heavenly Divine Body, my ass."

Cheon Mubaeck chuckled and shot forward like an arrow.

At that fierce momentum, the Lacquer-Faced Yama's eyes widened.

"What is your identity! How can you be so fast!"

The fact that the Lacquer-Faced Yama could react to Cheon Mubaeck's movements even in that situation proved that the Lacquer-Faced Yama's level was incredibly high.

But that was it.

He could react, but he couldn't block it.

"Uuk!"

The Lacquer-Faced Yama staggered from the extreme cold that penetrated to his bones.

"You son of a bitch!"

He shouted as if he would tear Cheon Mubaeck to pieces right away, but he couldn't move his body easily.

The Lacquer-Faced Yama collided with Cheon Mubaeck several times. Cheon Mubaeck responded in the same way. He poured out the supreme yin coldness of the Ten Thousand Year Moon Pill with all his might.

The corner of the Lacquer-Faced Yama's eye twitched. The more the coldness seeped into his bones, the more brilliantly his supreme yang energy burned to chase away the coldness.

The problem was that the more he did so, the more the phenomenon of the Lacquer-Faced Yama's face melting became more severe.

The Lacquer-Faced Yama's voice trembled.

"You, you, do you know?"

No matter how he looked at it, it seemed as if he was aiming for his weakness.

He shouted with a look of disbelief. For that mere brat to know who he was, and what his problems and weaknesses were.

Did that even make sense?

But at Cheon Mubaeck's following answer, his heart sank coldly.

"You're from the Fire Sect of the Seven Demonic Sects, aren't you?"

A grinning smile.

The moment he heard the answer, the Lacquer-Faced Yama's vision went dark.

"You, knew, everything!"

As time passed, the supreme yang energy surrounding him burned even more crazily.

Paradoxically, the more it did so, the more the Lacquer-Faced Yama's body stiffened.

"I expected it early on. Because there was a fire seal left on the body."

A faint but certain trace.

Cheon Mubaeck had predicted that a demon from the Fire Sect of the Seven Demonic Sects was involved in this matter after seeing the fire seal left on the body.

He was convinced after coming here and seeing him feed Zhuge Seola the Hundred Year Moon Pill to turn her into an ice crystal.

The Lacquer-Faced Yama was not young even during the Righteous-Demonic War.

"Lacquer-Faced Yama, Ma Jo-eung, aren't you well over ninety?"

"...Ah. Ah!"

The Lacquer-Faced Yama staggered at the fact that he even knew his identity and age.

A handful of black blood spewed from his mouth.

It was impossible to tell whether his hair was burning or his skin was melting. A rapid aging was in progress.

"It's a characteristic of the Fire Sect's martial arts."

Cheon Mubaeck knew the Fire Sect of the Seven Demonic Sects very well.

He had to know.

The ones he had fought with so tiresomely during the Righteous-Demonic War were the guys from the Fire Sect.

Because they played a kind of vanguard role.

The most representative incident was...

'The incident where they burned down the entire Kunlun Mountains adjacent to Tibet.'

That was the beginning of the Righteous-Demonic War.

"The scheme to create an ice crystal to block the supreme yang energy and slow down aging, isn't it famous for your ugly greed?"

When Cheon Mubaeck even revealed the reason, the Lacquer-Faced Yama's body shook greatly.

Cheon Mubaeck deliberately did not inflict a fatal attack on him.

He did not raise his sword to pierce his heart, nor did he split his head.

He just poured out the supreme yin energy of the Ten Thousand Year Moon Pill that had entered his body.

Unfortunately, it was proven to be the most fatal and certain attack on the Lacquer-Faced Yama. The Lacquer-Faced Yama staggered without being able to do anything.

"Uwaaaah!"

Supreme yang and supreme yin could not coexist. The supreme yang energy burned more fiercely to burn the supreme yin energy that had dug into his body. To burn something, a combustible material was needed.

That was the innate qi.

It burned brilliantly, using as fuel not the innate qi that gushed like a spring in his youth, but the innate qi that was now barely enough to prevent aging.

The more it did so, the more the Lacquer-Faced Yama's body rapidly collapsed.

He hurriedly sat in a cross-legged position to control his internal energy, but that was not an easy task either.

It was as if he had broken down the dam of aging that he had barely been holding back by abducting women and turning them into ice crystals, and that Cheon Mubaeck had been blocking.

Just as a dam built on the Yellow River collapses in a flood, the Lacquer-Faced Yama's body collapsed greatly.

"Ugh, ughhh!"

Cheon Mubaeck left the Lacquer-Faced Yama alone.

He wouldn't die right away anyway. Would the Lacquer-Faced Yama be the Lacquer-Faced Yama for nothing?

By the time he had exhausted all his internal energy, Cheon Mubaeck intended to subdue the Lacquer-Faced Yama and extract information.

“Blood Demon Valley—does it consist only of those from the Dark Lineage, or have the Fire Sect people joined as well?”

It was an important fact that he had to find out.

Wasn't that why Cheon Mubaeck had gone so far as to get himself abducted on purpose?

After watching the Lacquer-Faced Yama fall into a state of circulating his qi to take care of his own body, Cheon Mubaeck looked at Zhuge Seola.

"It's not too late yet."

After checking Zhuge Seola's condition, Cheon Mubaeck immediately went behind her and placed his hand on her back.

"Don't worry, the coldness hasn't seeped into your marrow yet."

If it had dug into her marrow, even the great Cheon Mubaeck would have had a hard time doing anything.

Cheon Mubaeck tapped Zhuge Seola's body here and there, as if performing a pressure point massage.

Tap, tap!

"...!"

Zhuge Seola felt her senses, which had been gradually disappearing, returning.

The more she did so, the more she felt Cheon Mubaeck's hand tapping her body. It was a hand that tapped not only her back but her entire body. He tapped and awakened the acupoints of her entire body, and drove out the coldness that had been freezing her entire body by rushing through the eight extraordinary meridians.

"Umm!"

A groan escaped Zhuge Seola's tightly closed lips.

It was a groan that proved that Cheon Mubaeck's actions were effective. To others, it might have looked like Cheon Mubaeck was just tapping and kneading Zhuge Seola's body, but Cheon Mubaeck's touch was truly meticulous.

As if he was observing Zhuge Seola's interior, he tapped and blocked the places where the coldness was rising and drew out her innate qi. At the same time, he pushed in the martial power of the upper dantian created by the Heaven-Shaking Soul Art.

If what Zhuge Seola had eaten was the supreme yin energy of the Ten Thousand Year Moon Pill, it would be a different story.

It was the yin energy of the Hundred Year Moon Pill. How could it overcome the pure and clear Heaven-Shaking Soul Art?

Cheon Mubaeck pushed out the coldness that had seeped into Zhuge Seola's entire body, one by one, slowly.

"H-h-how, are, you, doing?"

"Shh. Don't say anything!"

Even if he pushed out the coldness, he couldn't release it to the outside.

It was the energy that had been making up Zhuge Seola's body for a short time.

The moment he drove it out, Zhuge Seola's body would lose its balance.

It could lead to a fatal internal injury.

Instead, he accepted the yin energy into his own body. At the same time, he pushed the warm energy of the Heaven-Shaking Soul Art into Zhuge Seola's body. The pure energy of the Heaven-Shaking Soul Art took the place where the existing supreme yin energy had been.

"Umm!"

As time passed, Zhuge Seola soon regained her original appearance. Her frosty hair and eyebrows returned to their original ebony black color.

Her breathing, which had been difficult even to breathe, gradually became clearer and calmer. Warmth was gradually felt in her body. A pink blush slowly rose on her pale face, which had lost its blood.

'Done.'

After resolving the matter to some extent, Cheon Mubaeck said to Zhuge Seola.

"I will let go of my hand, so immediately circulate your qi. Tidy up the energy that has entered your body and find your balance."

He took a breather.

Zhuge Seola would be able to recover soon.

But Cheon Mubaeck slightly narrowed his brows as he looked at his own body.

In fact, his condition was not normal either.

Anyone who saw him would think he was about to freeze to death.

The Lacquer-Faced Yama thought that Cheon Mubaeck had completely absorbed the energy of the Ten Thousand Year Moon Pill, but it was a misunderstanding.

Even the great Cheon Mubaeck could not absorb that much energy in less than half a quarter of an hour.

That was impossible even with the legendary heart art called the Heaven-Shaking Soul Art.

Cheon Mubaeck focused all his nerves on the area around his navel.

The warm energy of the Heaven-Shaking Soul Art rushed through the eight extraordinary meridians and approached the lower dantian.

Wriggle!

"Keup!"

Cheon Mubaeck swallowed the groan that suddenly erupted.

A huge snake was coiled in his lower dantian.

Supreme yin energy.

Cheon Mubaeck had not absorbed the energy of the Ten Thousand Year Moon Pill. If he accepted that much energy right away, his body's balance would be completely destroyed. No matter how much the upper dantian accepted the energy of nature itself, it could not withstand this much supreme yin energy.

So Cheon Mubaeck made a decision.

'Lower dantian!'

He forcibly pushed the supreme yin energy into the lower dantian, which he had deliberately ignored until now.

'I don't know how this choice will turn out...'

It was certainly a choice that took a risk.

But it was really difficult to obtain supreme yin energy like the Ten Thousand Year Moon Pill in the Central Plains.

Because it was created by the Lacquer-Faced Yama here with the secret method of the Fire Sect.

If it couldn't be absorbed, it was a poison that would eat away at one's body, but if it could be made one's own, it was an elixir that could grant enormous internal energy.

As the energy of the Heaven-Shaking Soul Art invaded, the supreme yin energy of the lower dantian wriggled violently.

In an instant, Cheon Mubaeck's body trembled as the coldness spread to his five viscera and six bowels.

It felt like an untamed beast was growling in his stomach.

Cheon Mubaeck immediately sat in a cross-legged position.

If he left it like this, the supreme yin energy would completely devour the lower dantian and eventually swallow his body.

Before that, he had to completely calm it down and make it Cheon Mubaeck's own.

'I don't know if it will work...'

Cheon Mubaeck bit his lip hard.

He had never heard of it, nor had he seen anyone who had actually done it.

It was rare to find someone in the martial world who had even opened the upper dantian.

Let alone opening the lower dantian at the same time!

Cheon Mubaeck calmly pushed in the Heaven-Shaking Soul Art. The Heaven-Shaking Soul Art, which was so clear that it was pure, seeped into the lower dantian, diluting the resisting supreme yin energy.

Subduing the lower dantian with the upper dantian.

A grotesque event that had never happened in the martial world was happening in Cheon Mubaeck's body.

Kugugung!

Indeed, the supreme yin energy did not back down easily. It began to run wild like crazy. Thanks to that, Cheon Mubaeck's body trembled. His teeth chattered automatically from the coldness that seeped into his bones.

It was then. The moment the terrible pain and coldness pierced his mind.

The verses of the Primordial Root Scripture, which had been floating like a thought, suddenly became clear in his mind.

Cheon Mubaeck recited the verses of the Primordial Root Scripture inwardly without realizing it.

"...!"

The movement of the Heaven-Shaking Soul Art, which had been endlessly fighting against the supreme yin energy, became strange.

It was leaving the resisting supreme yin energy alone.

The supreme yin energy, as if to take this opportunity, fiercely drove out the Heaven-Shaking Soul Art.

But it only looked that way.

The Heaven-Shaking Soul Art showed infinite tolerance. It wrapped around the resisting supreme yin energy.

It was as if...

'Ah! It's immortal energy!'

The immortal energy that became clear while reciting the Primordial Root Scripture.

Cheon Mubaeck's eyes flashed.

The Heaven-Shaking Soul Art of the upper dantian, the supreme yin energy of the lower dantian, and the immortal energy of the Primordial Root Scripture that connected them.

At this moment.

Cheon Mubaeck had set foot in a realm that no one in the history of the martial world had ever stepped into.

(End of Chapter)