novelraw Chapter 166 : Towards the Honey Pot (2)
Chapter 166 : Towards the Honey Pot (2)
The main hall of the leader, which had been full until just now due to the announcement of the young leader's actions, now had only four people.
To be precise, it was four humans and one jiangshi.
"Senior brother, are you doing it now?"
"Yeah. You just have to do as I told you."
I had repeatedly confirmed the theoretical verification with the leader.
"Uncle, are you really doing it?"
Since it was just us, my junior sister called the leader 'uncle' affectionately. I flinched for a moment and looked at the leader.
It was understandable that my junior sister, who had wanted a family since long ago, would suddenly call the leader 'uncle'.
Because she had also called me 'older brother' right away.
It seemed that the word 'senior brother' was more comfortable now.
But the leader I knew was not such a soft person who would give affection just because they were family. Before my regression, hadn't my older brother also deserted the Divine Cult and met a bad end because of the leader's cold side?
I looked at the leader's mouth with a nervous heart. Because if a harsh word came out here, my junior sister would be disappointed.
'Please, even if you refuse, refuse with good words.'
"Although it goes against causality, what the young leader has said has a high possibility."
But my worries were unfounded.
'Phew. I thought you were going to say, 'I've never had a niece like you.''
"Yes. Then I'll start now!"
"Younger sister. It'll be fine. Because you're not alone anymore."
And my older brother, unlike the cold leader, seemed to have already accepted my junior sister as family. Well, he had been that kind of older brother since long ago.
Huh? But my older brother aside, the leader is looking at me intently. That gaze was quite hot. I can see him about to say something and then stopping. Does he have something to say to me? But that was the same for my older brother. As I kept looking at the two of them, for some reason, one side of my chest tickled, and I forcibly turned my eyes away.
Because it felt as if my older brother were my real older brother, and the leader were my real father.
It seemed I had also become a little sentimental after experiencing a warm atmosphere after a long time.
Well, except for me, it was worth considering this as a family reunion for those three. If only it goes well as planned.
"Let's begin."
With the leader's words, the leader deployed a boundary.
"Following Heaven Boundary."
* * *
My plan to humanize the former leader (jiangshi) was this.
First, the leader deploys the Following Heaven Boundary, which is a higher enlightenment than the Blazing Flame Boundary.
If that happens, in the space that the leader is spreading, not the existing rules, but only the rules designated by the leader are applied.
The rule applied in this Following Heaven Boundary now is one.
-All beings similar to the reversal of heaven, including the reversal of heaven, cannot exist.
What this means is that only beings that follow the natural order can exist in here.
The beings that exist here now are a total of five.
Four humans and one jiangshi.
Originally, the former leader, who is a jiangshi, cannot exist in here.
But now, he was clearly existing here as a single being.
This was also to take advantage of the loophole in the boundary.
Once a boundary is spread, you have to follow the rules inside it, but before the boundary is spread, any rule is fine.
This was also what I had confirmed with the leader.
-There is a possibility. When I fought with the Revolving Heaven Lord before, he also used a similar method to strengthen his body with internal energy before spreading the boundary, and it was maintained as it was.
For now, the first process has passed safely.
As a result, the former Heavenly Demon was imprinted in this small world called space as a being that follows the natural order.
The next step was to make the former Heavenly Demon a being that truly follows the natural order.
The current former Heavenly Demon is a product of the reversal of heaven, which should not originally exist in this world.
A jiangshi is to use a dead body. However, in the case of the former leader, it was a special situation of a living jiangshi.
Although the body was dead, the body that had reached the Transcending Demon had not rotted and was preserved, and the soul was also tied to this world without being able to go to the afterlife.
In other words, it could be said that the body was not much different from a living thing. This was also the part where I thought I could humanize the former leader.
And the part I paid attention to was the former leader's spiritual part. I was planning to bring the former leader's soul, which was wandering in this world without going to the afterlife, into his body.
Of course, this originally doesn't make sense.
Honestly, who knows where the soul goes when a person dies.
I don't even know if there is an afterlife.
But in this space, it was possible to a limited extent.
Because although I don't know where the soul is, I know where the traces of the soul are.
That is the yin mind's eye that I gave to my junior sister.
There, the former leader's energy still remained.
If the former leader's body that remains here is called the yang mind's eye, then the former leader's energy that my junior sister has is the yin mind's eye.
And now, in the Following Heaven Boundary, only beings of the natural order can exist.
In other words, my goal was to forcibly harmonize yin and yang by making the yang mind's eye and the yin mind's eye meet under the specific condition of the Following Heaven Boundary, and to settle the former leader's soul in his body.
A task of forcibly putting the separated body and spirit into one body, forcibly achieving harmony, and stabilizing it.
That was the humanization of the jiangshi that I was doing now.
Of course, if I do this, my junior sister will return from a Heavenly Outer Sacred Bones to a Heavenly Dragon Sacred Bones, but I had already obtained my junior sister's consent for this.
My junior sister gave her yin mind's eye to the former leader.
If it goes as planned, the former leader will return from a jiangshi to a human.
At that moment, the Following Heaven Boundary that the leader was forming rippled.
Something was wrong.
'Don't tell me it failed?'
No matter how special a situation a boundary is, what we are trying to do now is an act that is impossible to realize, although the theory exists.
Sweat was constantly flowing from the leader's face.
The Following Heaven Boundary continued to ripple as if it would break at any moment.
'The time the leader can endure is not very long.'
At most, one quarter of an hour is the maximum.
'Please, it has to succeed!'
We looked at the former leader with a nervous heart.
"..."
The former leader with no reaction.
I instinctively knew that something was wrong.
'What on earth went wrong?'
The theory is perfect.
At that moment, my junior sister looked up at me.
Trembling eyes.
Pupils that look like they will cry at any moment.
When I turned my head, my older brother was also looking at me.
Although he was firm, the sound of his breathing was trembling.
When I turned my head to the opposite side again, the leader was maintaining the boundary, sweating profusely.
As if what he could do was the best.
And the gaze that was looking at me, unlike the two of them, had no trembling.
It was intense. No, it was hot.
As if...
A gaze that seemed to believe that I would solve any situation that came my way.
-I believe in you.
This is what the leader had said to me before we started.
How can the leader show me such excessive trust?
I had only deceived the leader.
Phew.
Letting out a big sigh, I came to my senses again. I began to consider what the best thing I could do now was.
As I said before, the theory was perfect.
Then what is lacking in the current situation?
I was able to find the answer soon.
In the first place, the yin mind's eye that the former leader had given me was not perfect. In other words, the conclusion is that the yin mind's eye that my junior sister had given to the former leader was also not perfect.
'The harmony of yin and yang must not have been perfectly achieved because the yin mind's eye was insufficient!'
Then what is the solution?
You just have to supplement the insufficient yin mind's eye.
But how?
People are all different. The mind's eye that one has is not possessed by anyone other than oneself. Because that is individuality.
At that moment, the former leader's body began to tremble violently.
"S-Senior brother!"
The idea of forcibly achieving harmony had failed.
At this rate, either the body or the spirit would collapse due to the imbalance.
I said to the leader.
"Release the Following Heaven Boundary!"
The leader immediately did as I said without any doubt or opposition.
"Alright."
Since it has come to this, it's a do-or-die situation.
"Reversal of Heaven Boundary!"
I immediately spread the Reversal of Heaven Boundary.
If harmony cannot be achieved?
Go with disharmony!
Fortunately, my judgment was right for now.
The trembling from the former leader was gradually stopping. But at this rate, the condition that something was still lacking could not be met.
'The Reversal of Heaven Boundary is also just a way to buy time.'
I need something to fill the lacking part.
The necessary and sufficient condition for the former leader to be able to live in this world.
I placed my hand on the former leader's dantian.
The former leader to my junior sister.
Just as my junior sister had done to me.
But a little different from that.
I give it.
'The constant activation of the boundary.'
A way to supplement the former leader's insufficient yin mind's eye.
I couldn't think of anything other than this.
Can I do it?
There was no time to worry.
I immediately spread the Reversal of Heaven Boundary directly on the former leader's body.
The presence of the Reversal of Heaven Boundary was becoming blurry from the moment it was spread. This was a natural result. Because a 'boundary' is a kind of materialization of enlightenment.
To spread that to others was something unheard of.
'But will you give up?'
I am weak at gambling, but I don't gamble without a corner to believe in.
I decided to bet everything on the former leader.
'If you are really the best under the heavens as the rumors say, please prove it.'
I never dreamed that I would use this.
Releasing the Reversal of Heaven Boundary, I said.
"Can you maintain the Following Heaven Boundary until I wake up?"
"Alright."
This time, the leader did not ask 'until when?'.
I performed the Great Reversal of Heaven Art on the former leader.
I felt my spirit moving to the former leader.
Originally, I would have taken over the former leader's body like this, but the Following Heaven Boundary was blocking that.
As a result, at this moment, I came to exist in the former leader's mind's eye in a soul state.
What I have to do from now on is to awaken the former leader's soul and to make him be able to spread the Reversal of Heaven Boundary on his own.
* * *
"Where is this?"
It was a place I knew.
A single child was standing on the street, looking at one place.
-Jae-ha, mom will surely come back, so just stay here for a while! My Jae-ha is smart, so you can do it, right?
-Yeah!
-What if a stranger tells you to follow?
-I'll punch him in the face!
-What if a stranger offers to buy you a skewer?
-I'll knock his teeth out!
-What if a stranger forcibly kidnaps you?
-I'll break his arm, break his leg, and punch him in the face and knock his teeth out!
-Yes! As expected, my Jae-ha is a Demonic Path prodigy! Mom will be back soon.
-Yeah!
The last conversation and memory with my mom.
That day when the winter wind was particularly cold.
The place where I was abandoned.
For some reason, I had returned to the marketplace.
However, I was a little different from myself at that time.
No! To be more precise, I was surprisingly learning martial arts at this time.
And quite a lot at that.
From the roughly felt prayer, it was the peak of the Transcendent Realm.
"Is this for real?"
Just then, I felt a familiar energy from one side.
I immediately moved my feet in that direction.
"Huh?"
For some reason, this situation felt familiar.
As if it had been like this before.
(End of Chapter)