The Miraculous Divorce Technique

Chapter 44

SWOOSH.

The speed of Lee Cheon-eok, who had deployed the Wind God Footwork, was that of a full-fledged peak master.

His movement, as if riding the wind, was like a single flying bird.

'He's not following me?'

Lee Cheon-eok had expected Cheok Sagyeol's pursuit, but the reality was different.

It was because he hadn't moved a single step.

'Is he planning to slowly hunt me down because we're inside a formation? Ugh...'

'It might be.'

'Even though I've run quite a bit, only an endless desert continued.'

'Moreover, I'm not deeply knowledgeable about formations.'

'During my time in the upper echelons, I had many experiences of using them by spending money, but I hadn't studied them directly.'

'This was the same even after becoming a beggar.'

'In other words, my insight is high, but I have no knowledge. That's the problem.'

'Damn... there's another problem...'

Lee Cheon-eok stopped walking and stood in the middle of the desert.

It was because he had sensed the presence of the spectators Cheok Sagyeol had mentioned.

SWOOSH.

The middle-aged man who appeared in front of him was Baili Lin.

Then, Lee Cheon-eok's gaze rolled, looking left, right, front, and back.

One by one, four old men appeared in all directions, forming a siege with him at the center.

"Uncle. What is going on?"

At Lee Cheon-eok's question, Baili Lin's brow furrowed.

"Shut up! Geumgae Lee Cheon-eok!"

"!"

Lee Cheon-eok's pupils shook slightly, but they soon returned to their original state.

"Uncle. I don't know what you've heard, but please listen to what I have to say first."

"What story? I heard the whole conversation earlier. Don't you think I've heard enough? Evasion will be useless."

"Hah! Uncle! Are you really telling me you believe the crazy talk about bodies being swapped?"

"..."

Baili Lin silently stared at Lee Cheon-eok.

"Look at me, not the wicked words of others! Me, Baili Huang, your nephew and the young master of the great Baili family!"

"..."

Still, when Baili Lin said nothing, Lee Cheon-eok lowered his head and washed his dry face.

And then he raised his head and emitted a chilling gaze.

"It seems that since you've been in a remote place like the Wind Forest for a long time, your mind is not sound."

At Lee Cheon-eok's unspeakable insults, Baili Lin smirked.

"Hehe, it seems you're planning to make that excuse to my brother, the family head. But will you really have the chance?"

"We'll know when we see."

"This is the Wind Forest. You will never be able to leave this place!"

"Hehe, it doesn't matter. Because you will let me out, Uncle."

"What?"

It was at that moment.

PLUNGE.

Lee Cheon-eok stabbed the sword into his own stomach.

"Gaaah."

And then, as he collapsed, Baili Lin and the four old men were astonished.

"No!"

Baili Lin approached Lee Cheon-eok and hurriedly examined his condition.

"You... you bastard!"

Judging by the location of the stab wound, it seemed to have touched his internal organs.

It was not a wound that would cause immediate death, but it was a serious injury that required urgent attention.

TAP, TAP, TAP.

Baili Lin hurriedly pressed his vital points.

But because his internal organs had been damaged, the bleeding did not stop easily.

"You damn old monster!"

'A clearly intentional self-harm.'

'At this rate, it was a situation where I would have to move him to the medical hall outside the Wind Forest as he had intended.'

"Pavilion Master, what will you do?"

At Gam-no's words, Baili Lin sighed.

"What do you mean, what will I do? In any case, the body is the young master's. We can't just leave it like this, can we?"

At Baili Lin's words, the Hidden Wind Squad could not relax their narrowed brows.

As soon as they went to the medical hall, the family head of the Heavenly Wind Pavilion would be notified.

If so, the situation would flow as he had said.

"If you inform the family head of this fact, do you think he will believe you and us?"

"I don't know. The family head is the only one who knows about the Hidden Wind Squad, but the rumors about how he treats his son, who has become the number one divine dragon of Gangdong, are completely different from before..."

'In a word, he thinks that everything should revolve around his son.'

'It was a completely different appearance from the cold and rational Baili Jian of the past.'

'It was proof that his love for his son had grown that much.'

While they couldn't make a decision.

"What is this?"

It was the first thing Cheok Sagyeol said when he appeared.

He had naturally thought that they would be restraining and interrogating Lee Cheon-eok.

Although they had caught him, Lee Cheon-eok was lying with a sword stuck in his stomach, and the members of the Hidden Wind Squad had long faces.

"No, what are you going to do if you just stab him like this? Can't the five of you even capture this one guy properly?"

"We didn't do it."

"Huh? What do you mean by that..."

"He harmed himself."

At Baili Lin's words, Cheok Sagyeol put his hand on his forehead and sighed.

"Oh my, what a headache-inducing bastard..."

He could guess without hearing any more.

He had taken his own body hostage.

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

Cheok Sagyeol approached Lee Cheon-eok and examined him.

It was a rather serious injury, and he was unconscious.

"Hey. What are you going to do?"

Gam-no asked, grabbing Cheok Sagyeol's shoulder.

"Are you going to go to the physician as he wishes? Just leave it to me."

Cheok Sagyeol shook his shoulder and shook off Gam-no's hand.

Watching the scene, Baili Lin opened his mouth.

"Before that, I'll ask one thing. You also said earlier that you swapped bodies with Grand Master Muheo. What on earth is your identity?"

"You wouldn't know even if I told you."

"So you've been hiding your identity and pretending to be Grand Master Muheo all this time?"

At Baili Lin's question, Cheok Sagyeol stared at him intently.

It seemed as if sparks were flying from the two's eyes.

It was at that moment.

BAM. SPURT.

Cheok Sagyeol, like lightning, pulled out the sword that was stuck in Lee Cheon-eok's stomach.

He had aimed for the moment when everyone's attention was focused on him.

"!"

Baili Lin and the Hidden Wind Squad's eyes grew as wide as lanterns.

"Freeze!"

At Cheok Sagyeol's shout, they looked back and forth between him and Lee Cheon-eok.

"It's irreversible now. Whoever I am, if you have no way, leave it to me!"

He had used a bold means because he could not waste any more time on arguments.

Baili Lin gritted his teeth and moved the Hidden Wind Squad back.

"If you fail, you will pay the price with your death."

Baili Lin did not forget to say a word as he also stepped back.

Cheok Sagyeol nodded his head and placed his hand on Lee Cheon-eok's stomach.

'Phew... it's someone else's body just the same.'

'The body that my soul is currently in.'

'This body is originally not my own, but Muheo's body.'

'It is true that the soul has a stronger dominance over the body it has taken as its vessel.'

'But is it completely impossible to influence another vessel?'

'He didn't know, but Cheok Sagyeol made a definition in his mind, 'it's someone else's body just the same.''

'Willpower is amplified even more when it is based on conviction.'

'When the willpower based on belief was combined with the incantation of the Indian Yoga Divine Art, a miracle occurred.'

CRACKLE.

Cheok Sagyeol, who was repairing Lee Cheon-eok's wound as if it were his own body, smiled faintly.

'It's only about a third, but it's possible.'

Although it was slow, it was definitely regenerating.

Cheok Sagyeol controlled the movement of each and every cell around Lee Cheon-eok's wound.

When he felt that the wound on his internal organs had healed, Cheok Sagyeol took his hand off and took a breath.

"Phew."

At the same time, Baili Lin and the old men ran over and examined Lee Cheon-eok.

"How can this be? How is such a thing possible..."

It was a treatment method they had never heard of or seen before.

"Don't just stare blankly like that, why don't you press his vital points?"

Cheok Sagyeol said indifferently.

Only then did Baili Lin step forward and press Lee Cheon-eok's vital points.

"Who on earth are you? Such an amazing medical skill..."

'Even Hua Tuo or Bian Que would not be able to do it.'

'In Baili Lin's mind, there was no one who had shown such an extraordinary medical skill.'

"Jeokun. That's my name. Since I've lived in the wilderness, I don't have a moniker to boast of."

"Your teacher? What is your sect?"

"My master's name is Jeoksong. He is my father. My sect is the Jeokgeommun, a single-heir sect. Since it has never appeared in the martial world, you probably don't know it."

Of course, it was all a lie.

Cheok Sagyeol was an orphan, and the Jeokgeommun was a name he had made up on the spot.

But how would they know?

There were as many eccentrics in the martial world as grains of sand, and there were countless unknown sects.

"What is your connection with Grand Master Muheo?"

"None... no, now there is a bad connection. Since he took my body."

"How did you swap bodies?"

"It's a long story... I'll summarize it for you."

Cheok Sagyeol made up a story and told it.

While he was fishing by the river and composing a poem, he met a monk who was passing by.

He was Muheo, and he snatched the wine he was drinking.

When he got angry, he handed him the wine from his waist and they had a drink together.

And then their bodies were swapped.

In a way, it could be said to be a made-up story, but it was not entirely impossible.

Because Muheo was a Drunken Buddha who went crazy when he saw wine, and he was one of the Four Eccentrics.

Although Baili Lin's suspicion was not completely dispelled, his wariness had subsided for now.

"Since there is no evidence, it is difficult to believe everything, but for now, I could not see any trace of evil or demonic arts from you. I will put aside my immediate suspicion, but as long as you are in the Baili family, we will be watching you, so know that."

"That's enough."

'Yes, that's enough.'

'Anyway, all I have to do is find out the secret of the Half-Immortal Wine from Lee Cheon-eok.'

"Now, then, let's begin."

Baili Lin approached Lee Cheon-eok and brought a small medicine bottle to his mouth.

It was the truth serum he had used on Baili Huang before.

But this time, there was one more process.

CLICK. CLICK. CLICK.

It was the act of flicking his fingers three times near Lee Cheon-eok's ear.

'A suggestion.'

'Whether it's medicine or a suggestion, if you can handle just one of them properly, you'll be called a first-rate in interrogation.'

'But there are fewer experts who use both appropriately than one might think.'

'This is because medicine affects the body physically, and a suggestion affects the mind psychologically, so the fields are distinctly different.'

'Just by balancing the two, it was telling how much skill Baili Lin had.'

TAP, TAP, TAP.

When the suggestion was over, Baili Lin's hand roamed over Lee Cheon-eok's blood vessels.

Then, Lee Cheon-eok, who had been unconscious, came to his senses and opened his eyes.

"H-here...!"

At the sight before his eyes, Lee Cheon-eok's eyelids trembled.

It was because six familiar faces were looking down at him.

"Are you awake? You bastard!"

* * *

Danmok Ryeon was lost in her own thoughts.

And she would bite her nails and touch her hair.

After an hour had passed, she got up from her seat.

"Have you organized your thoughts, miss?"

Yanghwa was a nanny who had watched over her since she was a baby.

She could guess her feelings just by looking at her eyes.

Her eyes now, having escaped from the confused heart of before, were showing their original, bright light.

"Yes. I've decided."

"What will you do?"

"I will marry Young Master Baili."

"Hoho, you've thought well. How was it after seeing him in person?"

Yanghwa looked at Danmok Ryeon with a pleased expression.

The reason she had come to the Baili family in person to prepare for the wedding was because of her decision to marry.

Although it was a political marriage decided by the elders of her family, she wanted to add her own decision.

And the conditions she had set were two.

If he had not met those conditions, she was planning to break off the marriage, no matter how much it was a marriage decided by her family.

Even if it meant running away from home.

"First, I didn't expect it, but after seeing Young Master Baili, I realized that he is not lacking to be called the number one divine dragon of Gangdong. I judged that he is not lacking as a husband."

Danmok Ryeon approached the window and continued, looking outside.

"Second, as my father guessed, I have confirmed with my own eyes that the Hidden Wind Squad is still sound. He said that if I obtain the power of the Hidden Wind Squad, our main family can swallow the Baili family in reverse, and I will confirm whether that is true after I obtain the Hidden Wind Squad."

The sunlight was shining dazzlingly behind Danmok Ryeon, who had turned her back to the window and looked at Yanghwa.

As if to shine on her ambition.

"I think I'll be very busy, Nanny."

"But do you have a plan to obtain the Hidden Wind Squad?"

"Not yet. I just met them by chance, it wasn't a properly arranged meeting."

"Did you promise a proper meeting?"

"I didn't make a separate promise, but they will meet me whenever I go."

"When are you thinking of going?"

"Now."

Danmok Ryeon smiled brightly at Yanghwa.

(End of Chapter)