novelraw Chapter 49 : Chapter 49
Chapter 49 : Chapter 49
Chapter 49 - Rain Forest Pavilion (3)
Ban Cheol-hwi took the lead, and the others followed behind him.
“But you said it's a quarry, yet I don't hear anything? Where are the laborers?”
“That…… I sent them all home today. Thinking it might be too noisy for you to investigate.”
The Pavilion Master answered while sweating profusely.
Giving him a sideways glance filled with suspicion, the Ice Rakshasa continued up the mountain path.
There was a large cave halfway up the mountain, and in front of it, pickaxes and small carts were gathered and piled up like a mountain.
Perhaps because the cave was located where the end of the Rain Forest met, tombstones lined up in a row next to the cave could also be seen.
The Ice Rakshasa approached close to Jaun.
“Will there be something here?”
“We have to search from now on.”
Jaun silently looked around and examined the surroundings.
“Where did you find what you call the black stone?”
At Jaun’s words, the Pavilion Master quickly came forward and pointed to the part where the forest of tombstones and the cave met.
“H-Here.”
Jaun approached and examined the surroundings, but he couldn't find anything particularly strange.
He expanded his senses widely to try and feel Demonic Energy, but likewise, he felt absolutely nothing.
“It seems not all laborers went home, right? It seems there are still people inside the cave.”
At Jaun’s words, the Pavilion Master coughed cough cough.
“Ah, the next shift is waiting. You don't need to mind them. Since it's an unexpected break, everyone will like it.”
The Ice Rakshasa looked at the Pavilion Master with a very uncomfortable expression.
“I have finally found the place where the Heavenly Gate opened. The omen of the Blood Star was here.”
Ban Cheol-hwi, who was quietly looking around, suddenly blurted out.
At those words, Jaun turned his head and looked at Ban Cheol-hwi.
“Young Hero Ban. Is there something you found?”
Seemingly satisfied with the title ‘Young Hero’, a smile spread across Ban Cheol-hwi’s face.
“It seems this is the place where the energy of the heavens flowed and then stopped. The flow of Earth Energy is also tightly blocked. Surely the energy of the Blood Star must remain somewhere here.”
Ban Cheol-hwi looked around here and there, then walked into the place where the tombstones were gathered.
“Traditionally, within the flow of the Sixty-Four Trigrams, the principles of nature must circulate. Here, a place that should be immutable is undergoing change ”
“……What is he saying?”
“I wonder……?”
At the Ice Rakshasa’s question, Jaun scratched his head.
Ban Cheol-hwi, who looked around for a long time, pointed at one tombstone with his hand.
“Here. The energy of this place seems strange.”
At Ban Cheol-hwi’s words, Jaun approached the tombstone closely.
‘I don't notice anything particularly strange.’
The Ice Rakshasa, watching Jaun examine the tombstone this way and that, nudged the Pavilion Master standing next to her.
“What are you doing. Go dig.”
“Yes?”
“Dig the ground. He says it's strange there.”
“No, that is the grave of Grandma Suni from the village below.”
“Want to dig, or want to be buried?”
“I have to dig…….”
With drooping shoulders, the Pavilion Master dragged the Inspection Leader and approached the grave.
“Because of that psycho, seriously what am I doing…….”
Glaring once at Ban Cheol-hwi, the Pavilion Master raised his internal energy and began to dig the ground.
Using hands imbued with internal energy, the Pavilion Master’s movement of digging down into the earth was quite natural, as if watching a mole.
The Pavilion Master, who had dug deep enough that his lower body was invisible in an instant, raised his head.
“Do I have to dig more?”
Ban Cheol-hwi, glancing back at the exhausted Pavilion Master and thinking deeply about something, walked sideways for a long time.
“Hmm. If it's not there, it could be here.”
The Pavilion Master looked back at Ban Cheol-hwi, who was pointing at the grave in front of him, with a blank face.
Digging down the ground like that five times.
Failing five times, the Pavilion Master cursed and rushed at Ban Cheol-hwi, and the Ice Rakshasa, who stopped him several times, instructed him to keep digging.
With a face soaked in sweat, the Pavilion Master, who had even brought a pickaxe now to dig, had trembling arms.
Just as he was digging up the sixth grave, the pickaxe swung weakly from the Pavilion Master’s hand bounced up with a strange noise.
Ting
The Pavilion Master tilted his head and struck down with the pickaxe once more.
Ting
“Wait. Stop for a moment.”
Jaun looked down inside the pit. Where the Pavilion Master’s pickaxe had touched, something blackish was hiding its form.
The Pavilion Master hurriedly cleared the surrounding soil.
Where the pickaxe touched was the edge of a huge iron plate, and iron rods densely embedded around it revealed themselves.
“There is something, right? It doesn't look like a coffin.”
“Indeed. There's no way something like this would be here…….”
The Pavilion Master tilted his head and swept his hand over the iron plate here and there.
Ban Cheol-hwi, squatting above the pit and looking down, pointed to one spot with his finger.
“That iron rod over there. That seems to be the starting gate of the Eight Trigrams. Please pull it out carefully.”
At Ban Cheol-hwi’s words, the Pavilion Master grabbed the rod at the very end among the slightly protruding iron rods.
“You mean this? Hrrgh……!”
The Pavilion Master applied force, but the iron rod didn't budge at all.
Pfft. Pfft.
Spitting on both hands, the Pavilion Master grabbed the iron rod once again and pulled with all his might.
“Hrrrgh!”
“Brother, come out here. You'll shit yourself doing that.”
At Ban Cheol-hwi’s words, strength drained completely from the Pavilion Master’s body.
“Kugh……!”
Tears welled up in the eyes of the Pavilion Master, whose anger had risen to the top of his head.
“You bastard, really…….”
The Ice Rakshasa kicked the Pavilion Master’s back with a thud.
“Young Lady. No, this is……. Even if I die, I must take that guy as a companion to the underworld!”
“Calm down. He probably isn't doing it on purpose.”
Jaun jumped down into the pit, patted the Pavilion Master’s back to soothe him, and grabbed the iron rod with one hand.
“I just need to pull this, right?”
As Ban Cheol-hwi nodded, Jaun raised his energy and pulled up the iron rod.
Rumble. Pop.
Seeing Jaun pull out the iron rod, Ban Cheol-hwi carefully sat on the edge of the pit.
“Please catch me.”
With those words, Ban Cheol-hwi threw his body down into the pit, and Jaun caught him.
“This is a variation of the Hundred Flowers Myriad Images Formation ? Let's see……. The Myriad Images of the Universe are the Heaven and Earth …….”
Tap tap
Ban Cheol-hwi stepped on and pressed down an iron rod embedded in the ground with his foot.
“Since Hundred Flowers is One Severance .”
Ban Cheol-hwi, kicking one of the remaining iron rods sideways to bend it, grabbed another one in his hand.
“The gate must be here.”
Sslide
The iron rod, pulled out smoothly by Ban Cheol-hwi’s hand, fell to the floor.
Rumble rumble rumble
At the same time, along with a small noise, the iron plate began to vibrate.
One end of the iron plate, which had been vibrating for a moment, sank into the ground, and the other side rose upward.
Between the risen iron plate, a small passage barely wide enough for a person to pass through revealed itself.
“Eh? What is this? A passage opened?”
While the Ice Rakshasa was making a fuss at the sudden change, the expression of Jaun standing next to her froze in an instant.
‘……Demonic Energy.’
As soon as the passage opened, thick Demonic Energy was flowing out from inside.