novelraw Chapter 67 : Chapter 67
Chapter 67 : Chapter 67
Chapter 67 - This is Where the Regrets End
“Huu……”
Uma had rarely been nervous in his life.
It was the same when he was kicked out to a strange land at a young age, and when he first started the inexperienced loan shark business.
There were many cases where the other person was afraid of him first because of his grim impression, but he was the type who was far from being nervous by nature.
“Then I’ll eat it.”
But at this moment.
Uma was clearly nervous.
Because the spirit pill that even the masters of the Jianghu would welcome with open arms.
Not just any spirit pill, but the Six-Flower Pill, was in his hand.
“Yaaawn. Hurry up. I’m sleepy.”
“……You told me to focus, and now you’re yawning?”
“Ahem. Composure. Composure.”
The voice coming from behind Biyoung was full of mischief, but Uma had no choice but to endure it.
It was because of Biyoung’s advice to maintain composure when absorbing the spirit pill.
Although it was not certain whether that was true, or simply to tease him.
After taking a deep breath once, Uma finally put the spirit pill in his mouth.
They say that medicine that is good for the body is bitter to the mouth, but the Six-Flower Pill had a sweet taste like fruit juice.
It was to the extent that he wondered if this was why it was given as a gift to women.
Gulp.
The moment of savoring the taste was brief.
Uma swallowed the Six-Flower Pill down his throat.
Then he closed his eyes and took a cross-legged posture.
Srrrk…….
He could clearly feel the spirit pill melting.
His internal organs twitched lightly as if reacting to the Six-Flower Pill.
But not long after, Uma had to frown without realizing it.
‘Not good.’
It was not complete.
The energy contained in the spirit pill gave Uma great vitality even though it had only melted a little, but there was still too much unabsorbed energy left.
If this was discharged in this state, Uma would beat the ground and wail loudly.
‘I can’t let it out like this……!’
It was when Uma was about to forcefully draw out the energy of the Six-Flower Pill with an anxious heart.
“Don’t do anything.”
A firm voice was heard from behind him.
It was not something he should hear from a junior disciple who was at least five years younger, but Uma was startled and stopped his energy circulation.
‘After you take the pill, just stay still. If you try to force anything, you’ll immediately fall into Qi Deviation.’
He had recalled the warning Biyoung had given before he took the pill.
‘But…….’
He couldn’t help but feel regretful.
Damn it.
Is this all?
Do I have to discharge these priceless internal energies out of my body without absorbing them?
It was a lamentable matter.
After accompanying Biyoung, many changes had occurred in Uma.
Watching Biyoung demonstrate the Eagle Talon Twelve Swords, he had gained conviction in the Diancang Sect’s martial arts, and when he witnessed the Sun-Shooting Sword Art, he trembled with joy.
And one more thing.
When he accepted Biyoung’s internal energy to calm his tangled internal energy.
He had realized how weak and impure the energy in his own dantian was.
It would have been better if he hadn't known at all, but once he felt it, he felt a lingering regret.
A desperate desire arose to be like Biyoung, no, to be even a quarter as good as the internal energy Biyoung circulated.
It was when Uma was unable to do anything out of regret.
Kwaaaaaa…….
‘Uh……!’
Again.
Once again, a clear and pure energy began to rush in from behind him like a flood.
Since he had experienced it once before, Uma could immediately recognize that this was Biyoung’s internal energy.
“You……!”
“Shh.”
The yawning voice was gone, and an extremely serious voice was transmitted.
Uma also did not speak any more and focused his mind.
Kwaaaaaa!
The clear energy that had been slowly rushing in had now stirred up the inside of Uma’s body like a huge tsunami.
The energy itself was not harmful, but Uma’s heart sank at its turbulent movement.
If Biyoung had had even a bit of malice, Uma would have died at this very moment.
Kwaaaaaa!
The wildly swirling energy brushed past Uma’s dantian here and there.
As if to scrape off the impure energies on the surface.
Uma was amazed and at the same time, he couldn’t help but be astonished.
How deep must his knowledge of energy circulation be to control another person’s body in this way?
A sense of awe similar to when he had watched the Sun-Shooting Sword Art was rising in his chest.
Kuuuu…….
The internal energy that had been swirling around his dantian now scattered in two directions.
Two flawlessly clear waterfalls were drawn in Uma’s mind.
The narrow waterfall felt like a single path in itself.
As if it was guiding something.
‘Ah……!’
It was by no means an illusion.
On the path that Biyoung had painstakingly paved, there was a rainbow that sparkled with various colors.
There were a total of six colors.
It was a number that matched the Six-Flower Pill that Uma had just absorbed.
Srrrrrrrr…….
The Six-Flower Pill, which had been immovable even when he tried to force it to move, now danced smoothly as if nothing had happened.
The large rainbow that moved following the guidance of the waterfall soon reached Uma’s dantian.
Jjirit!
“Keuk……!”
The scene was beautiful, but the sensation felt in his dantian was not.
At the stabbing pain, Uma almost broke his posture.
Problems were arising because he was trying to fully accept the pure energy into his incomplete dantian.
But Uma intuitively realized that this was the most important moment.
‘If I quit here, I will regret it for the rest of my life.’
Uma barely held back his bursting screams and accepted the energy of the Six-Flower Pill.
In the middle, stabbing pains that made him feel like he would faint washed over him, but Uma managed to endure it.
His whole body was already drenched in sweat, and his already grim face was contorted so much that it was hard to look at.
It was only this much because Biyoung had guided the path of the Six-Flower Pill straight; if he had tried to absorb all of the Six-Flower Pill without his help, he might have really fallen into Qi Deviation.
‘Endure it!’
It was painful.
But there had been moments that were much more painful than this.
When he was kicked out of his hometown, which he couldn’t even remember, and had to survive in a strange land.
When he had to face blades and kitchen knives just to receive a few pennies.
When the more he learned martial arts, the more doubts grew instead of hope.
Compared to the damn memories he had in Simao, this pain was nothing.
At least now, there was hope, wasn’t there?
Pussssss…….
The brilliant light of the Six-Flower Pill gradually faded.
The powerful waterfall of internal energy also turned into a thin stream of water.
After a time that felt like an eternity, the energy of the Six-Flower Pill finally combined with his dantian.
“Huu…… huu……”
It was a process of forcing something that couldn’t be done to be done.
When Uma opened his closed eyes, the first thing he saw was his martial arts uniform, drenched in sweat.
As if the impurities inside his body had come out, an indescribable stench pricked his nose.
But.
There was an even bigger change than that.
‘……It’s different!’
A change that was not visible to the eye, but was clearly felt by the person himself.
Uma’s dantian and the internal energy circulating in his body had been cleanly purified.
The amount of internal energy was also fuller than ever before, to the point where he wanted to pick up a sword right away.
It couldn’t be compared to the pure internal energy that Biyoung had transmitted, but just in his current state, he felt like he could do anything.
“I……”
Biyoung responds to Uma’s trembling voice.
“Have grown.”
Uma turned his head towards Biyoung.
His thin, beady eyes contained an agitation he had never seen before.
For the remnants of a destroyed sect, a spirit pill was something they couldn’t even dream of.
Martial arts was one thing, but the internal energy that rarely increased was also a big concern for Uma.
However.
A young junior disciple who had suddenly appeared one day was overturning all of that.
Uma, who had absorbed the Six-Flower Pill, would not be pushed back in terms of internal energy among his peers in the future.
Far from being pushed back, if he learned a proper internal energy cultivation method from Biyoung, he could create a huge gap.
Biyoung had now swung open the door to that possibility.
“Thank you.”
Uma said to Biyoung with a heart full of sincerity.
Biyoung snorted and waved one arm.
“You stink, so go wash up quickly.”
“……I will.”
***
When Biyoung came back after changing his clothes, Uma was already spread out like a starfish, deep in sleep.
“………….”
It was not a face he wanted to scrutinize.
Never.
But Biyoung carefully examined Uma’s face.
‘It went reasonably well.’
After observing for a while, a satisfied curve formed on Biyoung’s lips.
Just by looking at his complexion and the color of his face, he could gauge how much Uma’s internal energy had progressed.
His temples were so prominent that they were visible, and the look in his eyes when he finished his energy circulation had also deepened by several stages.
If he continues to diligently circulate his energy in the future, he will be able to open the Conception and Governor Vessels as well.
“Drrrreong……”
He must have been so tired that Uma was even snoring, something he rarely did.
Although Biyoung had helped him, if not for his own strong will, he would not have been able to absorb most of the Six-Flower Pill.
“Oof. This is tiring.”
Biyoung sat down in a corner and leaned his back against the wall.
He hadn’t shown it in front of Uma, but Biyoung’s condition was also at the peak of exhaustion.
To penetrate another’s internal energy and open the path for a spirit pill.
It was something that even those who had practiced internal energy cultivation methods their entire lives would be amazed by.
It was something that was only possible with a pure dantian, immense internal energy, and the expertise in internal energy cultivation methods that encompassed all of them.
‘If it were my past life, it wouldn’t have been this hard, but…….’
Compared to his past life, Biyoung’s dantian had become even purer, and his skill in operating internal energy cultivation methods was no different.
But he had not yet accumulated as much internal energy as in his past life.
It was the same reason why his body was strained every time he used the Vacuum Sword.
So he had expected that he would be exhausted if he helped Uma.
However…….
‘Back then, I could have done it, but I didn’t.’
That’s right.
The World’s Fastest Sword, Yeongbi, was not one to actively interact with the rising stars.
Whenever he had a chance, he would crawl into a cave to complete his martial arts and stay there for years, and with a pride as high as his swordsmanship, he did not easily make friends or teach his junior disciples.
The result.
‘It ended up like this.’
Biyoung gave a scornful smile towards himself.
Wasn’t the Diancang Sect made up of a small elite force on an already barren land?
If the World’s Fastest Sword had trained even a few more rising stars.
If that rumor had spread inside and outside of Yunnan.
More disciples would have come to Diancang Mountain.
Every time Biyoung thought of the sect leader, that sense of debt followed him like a tag on one side of his heart.
Instead of arguing that they shouldn’t take all the Diancang Sect’s forces to the war with the Demonic Cult, they should have trained rising stars who could protect the Diancang Sect even without them.
‘Sect Leader…….’
The face of the sect leader came to Biyoung’s mind.
He was a person with an impression several times more stubborn than his grandson, Eung Gajin, and who had scolded more than he had praised.
But that was just because he was conscious of the envy and jealousy towards the sect’s top master; he would occasionally give a benevolent smile in unseen places.
‘Senior Brothers…… Elders…….’
Following the sect leader, the comrades who had fallen in the war with the Demonic Cult passed by one by one.
Biyoung’s empty gaze was thus directed at the lingering regrets of the past.
And a short while later.
‘This is where the regrets end.’
Biyoung turned his head towards Uma, who was spread out like a starfish.
If there was something to be desired, he just had to supplement it.
Not only Uma in front of him, but he would also pass on many things to the rising stars who would be waiting at the main mountain.
He would never let the Diancang Sect fall again in the future.
Biyoung vowed and vowed again.
“Good work. Uma.”
Since becoming Biyoung, he had always used the titles of Senior Brother and Senior Sister towards the rising stars.
But at this moment.
Biyoung, looking at Uma, had the face of a great senior of the Diancang Sect.