Chronicles of the Mad Demon - Chapter 14

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Chapter 14. Something More Important Than Money (4)

Moyong Bi, who had come out of the Martial Arts Library, looked up at the eastern sky.

The pale sky was quite beautiful. Somehow, the sky in Hubei seemed more pleasant to look at than in Yolyeong.

‘…If even the sky weren’t beautiful, this situation would be hard to endure.’

Damn, where should I even start fixing things?

‘As expected, there wasn’t much in the Martial Arts Library. The real Supreme Techniques of the Main Family House weren’t passed down here… I expected as much, but.’

Seeing it directly made my blood pressure spike. Since this body has low blood pressure, it actually feels like my head is clearing up.

‘How exactly should I navigate through this crisis?’

I was troubled for a moment, but there must be a way somehow.

Moyong Bi took a deep breath.

‘Let me start with myself.’

With the site manager completely ruined and even embezzling money, the Black Tiger Gang must be quite busy too.

That’s exactly why I need to pull out the roots even faster. Setting aside Ga Hang, who knows how many underlings are swarming around the Black Tiger Gang Main Branch.

There’s no need to take a difficult detour when there’s an easy path. Spending each day with an uneasy feeling doesn’t suit my personality either.

‘Just wait a little longer, you black wildcats.’

Moyong Bi, who had returned to his residence, stripped off all his clothes and sat in lotus position.

I don’t know how many times I’ve gone back and forth to this residence before even a day has passed. This residence I saw for the first time today already feels as familiar as my own room.

Thanks to that, I felt at ease.

‘Let me learn the Brain Gate Heart Technique as calmly as possible.’

When I first learned the Brain Gate Heart Technique, I roughly learned the Soul Burning First Method and immediately moved on to the Second Method. It was because I had to prove my usefulness somehow to avoid being killed by that human who I can’t even bring myself to call Father.

As a result, I suffered from madness twelve times a day, banging my forehead against the wall hundreds of times to control my anger.

‘Now that I think about it, it’s amazing I didn’t die, damn it.’

When anger management disorder develops even when learning carefully, if I act like that again, I might transform into a generational giant troll.

‘Let me see.’

I calmly touched my chest.

The subcutaneous fat was too thin, so I could feel the bumpy ribs.

‘My body is in too poor condition. If I try to learn high-level Divine Arts with this body, my eight extraordinary meridians might not be able to handle it and I could die suddenly. In that case…’

Nourishing the body with basic Heart Methods comes first. Just as the Soul Burning First Method needs to be thoroughly stewed like bone broth, the body needs that kind of process too.

“Well, this is it after all.”

Moyong Bi closed his eyes.

‘Honyuan Heart Method.’

The second Martial Arts I restored after completing the Brain Gate Heart Technique.

The Honyuan Heart Method was a Heart Method derived from the Honyuan Unity Qi Art, one of the Moyong Noble Family’s Divine Arts, and though it was called a basic technique, its depth was considerable.

It has good versatility and doesn’t cause conflicts when switching to other Heart Methods later.

‘Especially good for Su Jeong.’

The Honyuan Heart Method was excellent for controlling internal qi and consistently activated yang qi in major meridian points, making it good for Healing Arts. It wasn’t for nothing that Elder Brother’s severed meridians were healed with the Honyuan Unity Qi Art, the advanced form of the Honyuan Heart Method.

Moyong Bi recited the incantation of the Honyuan Heart Method while focusing on his breathing.

Inhale. Exhale.

Only his breathing could be heard in the quiet room.

After more than a moment passed, the breathing sounds gradually began to grow quieter. The short and shallow breaths had become long and deep.

What had left him breathless before counting to ten became comfortable even when counting to twenty after a moment passed, and after half a hour, he wasn’t out of breath even when counting to fifty.

It wasn’t that his lung capacity had increased. Moyong Bi’s body had become accustomed to the Honyuan Heart Method’s Breathing Technique.

‘Good.’

Just from properly learning the breathing, his entire body was drenched in sweat.

‘Next is Qi Absorption.’

Now that proper breathing was established, it was time to enter the stage of earnestly drawing in external qi.

Moyong Bi’s breathing became even deeper.

Whoosh.

Wind that entered through the window brushed past his sweat-soaked body.

‘Ugh!’

Sharp pain rose from his dantian.

‘Clan Heir, how did you end up like this?’

As he had felt earlier, this guy’s dantian wasn’t even properly formed.

It was really strange. The fact that a dantian was formed at all meant he could handle qi with Mental Intent, but if that were the case, the dantian wouldn’t be this flimsy and twisted.

‘Did he suffer qi deviation or something?’

Inwardly clicking his tongue, Moyong Bi drove the external qi that had entered his body toward his dantian.

‘I’ll have to completely erase it and make a new one.’

Just as the external qi was rushing toward the outer edge of his dantian.

Whooom!

‘Gasp!’

It felt like his lower abdomen had been deeply stabbed with a dagger.

He had tried to dismantle the distorted dantian with external qi, but instead the dantian was forcibly absorbing the external qi.

‘What is this?!’

Moyong Bi hurriedly tried to extract the external qi from his dantian.

But it wasn’t easy. Before touching it, it had been nothing more than a failed vessel, but once he touched it, a terrifying gravitational force occurred and sucked in the qi.

However, what truly surprised Moyong Bi wasn’t that gravitational force.

‘It’s qi!’

In Martial Arts, the dantian means a vessel that contains qi.

Should it be called a mixed form of Mental Intent and qi? It exists the moment it’s created, but even if you cut open the belly, ordinary people’s eyes cannot see the dantian.

The womb of true qi that exists but cannot be grasped. That is precisely the dantian.

But the dantian situated in this body now was not an ordinary dantian.

To be precise, it wasn’t even a dantian to begin with.

‘Qi had clumped together on its own and became a distorted dantian-like form.’

Moyong Bi was bewildered.

Even he, who possessed knowledge about Martial Arts and qi that could be counted among the best in the world, had never heard of such a case.

‘How is something like this possible… Ah!’

An exclamation escaped without him realizing it.

‘You fool! There couldn’t have been a dantian to begin with!’

If the dantian is a mixed form of Mental Intent and qi, then there could be no dantian remaining in this body whose soul had died. Because the Clan Heir’s soul that connected to Mental Intent had disappeared.

For a dantian to exist even after the soul had departed, the person’s martial arts realm had to be supreme, with willpower and qi so strong that the dead body would mistake itself for being alive.

Naturally, there was no way the Clan Heir had reached such a realm.

‘But still, how could I not have noticed?’

Even though his senses had dulled after entering this new body, it wasn’t to the point where he’d mistake a dantian for qi, right?

‘But more than that… if it’s not a dantian, how can qi be pooled there? Without leaking out of the body?’

Moyong Bi examined the distorted dantian-shaped qi more carefully.

The more he examined it, the more amazed he became.

‘Incredible density.’

It was an incredibly small, semi-transparent energy that was even distorted on top of that.

But its density was remarkable. If fully released, the amount of internal energy would be more than enough to be called first-rate.

And there was one more thing.

‘Qi within qi…’

Inside the dantian-shaped qi, there was another qi about the size of a sparrow’s tear.

That must have caused further confusion. Though distorted, it resembled a dantian enough to be mistaken for one, and there was separate qi pooled inside it.

‘What is this? Does this make sense?’

Even without a dantian, the qi hadn’t leaked out, and there was even another qi accumulated within the borders of that qi.

‘Moreover, the nature of the qi is extremely pure…’

Moyong Bi, who had been quietly concentrating his mental intent on the dantian, soon made a decision.

‘First, I’ll make it mine.’

Though its power to absorb external qi was tremendous, it was still energy without mental intent. In that case, there was no reason he couldn’t make it his own.

‘I need to create a dantian large enough to completely embrace that dantian-shaped qi.’

Moyong Bi once again recited the incantation of the Honyuan Heart Method, drawing in external qi and concentrating his mental intent.

Cold sweat poured down his body.

Controlling the external qi to prevent it from being sucked in while forming the shape of a large dantian was an extremely difficult task. Most critically, since he didn’t know when that masterless energy might run wild, time was also pressing.

However, he was a former Alliance Leader of the Martial Alliance.

Wooooong.

After a moment.

A new dantian formed inside his lower abdomen.

At that moment, the masterless qi gathered in the dantian released terrifyingly and instantly filled the vessel. With a safe container created, the qi had returned to its original form.

“Kuk!”

Moyong Bi spat out blood violently.

The qi surged and shook the dantian, causing internal injuries.

“Da, damn it.”

Still, he had safely formed the dantian and suppressed that masterless qi in one go.

However, his body was too weak to leave the qi alone. Since he had only sealed it in the dantian but it wasn’t truly his, there was always the danger of it going berserk.

Moyong Bi quickly recited the incantation of the Honyuan Heart Method and infused the qi with his mental intent.

The qi that surged from the dantian began circulating through the meridians following Moyong Bi’s tremendous mental intent.

‘Krrrrgh!’

As the high-density qi passed through meridians that were already in tatters, it hurt as if a blade was scraping his bones.

Moyong Bi exercised extreme patience and circulated the qi according to the incantation of the Honyuan Heart Method.

Then something amazing happened.

Tss tss tss.

White vapor began rising from his body.

The meridians through which the qi had passed suffered minor damage, but were quickly restored immediately after.

The unique healing abilities of the Honyuan Heart Method were being demonstrated. Moreover, the denser the qi, the more it possessed the characteristic of restoring all things to their original state, as long as one had the stamina to endure it.

Dense qi, and the Honyuan Heart Method.

When Moyong Bi’s mental intent, which had reached its peak, was added to this, the interior of his body, which had been like a cesspit, recovered at rapid speed.

After another half hour passed like this.

‘Done!’

Almost all the damaged meridians had returned to normal, and the ownerless energy had been transformed into the energy of the Honyuan Heart Method through the Energy Circulation Technique.

The energy that filled his dantian had now become Honyuan True Qi.

“Huh.”

Moyong Bi opened his eyes.

Waste products had been expelled along with sweat, creating a terrible smell. There was a reason he had cultivated energy naked.

Moyong Bi’s face gradually became serious as he stared down at his chest.

“You bastard, what the hell did you do?”

He realized this while converting the ownerless qi into Honyuan True Qi.

“How did you concentrate your life force into one place?”

That’s right.

The true identity of the dantian-shaped qi that the Clan Heir had been harboring was none other than the source of life that humans possess from birth—Innate Qi.

Also called Original Qi, the density and amount each person possesses differs, and this directly translates to their natural lifespan.

‘So that’s what it was.’

Because it was Innate Qi, it didn’t scatter or leave the body. It was life force itself, not external qi.

In other words, the Clan Heir had gathered his life force into dantian form through some method, and as a result, his body had been destroyed.

It also made sense that he had absorbed external qi. Just as water flows from upstream to downstream, it was natural for low-density external qi to be drawn into the ocean-deep Innate Qi.

“I heard there’s something similar to this in the Taoist School’s cultivation methods.”

Uneasiness appeared on Moyong Bi’s face.

‘Something feels familiar about this.’

Even before the Taoist School’s cultivation methods, he felt like he somehow knew something related to this approach.

In any case, it seemed he needed to investigate this seriously. Who the Clan Heir had met while alive, what he had studied.

And how he had come to dabble in such methods.

“Phew, anyway.”

He released the lotus position and stood up.

For a moment, he felt like his body was floating. With the generation of internal energy, the extraction of impure qi, and even the healing of his meridians, he was overflowing with strength.

A smile naturally came to his face.

“Now this feels more like a human body.”

Now that he had laid the foundation, he would properly train from here on. Compared to his Alliance Leader days, the amount was embarrassingly small, but with this level of internal energy, he could sufficiently increase the speed of building his body.

‘Let’s fix Su Jeong’s body first before hunting the wildcat.’

Moyong Bi left the room, cleaned himself thoroughly, and headed straight to the Family Head’s Office.

That’s when it happened.

“Quickly, quickly bring Physician Yang here!”

“Sister! Open your eyes! Sister!”

An urgent voice.

Sensing the unusual atmosphere, Moyong Bi rushed straight into the room.

In the room were Seok Woong, Moyong Su Hyang, and Guo Lao. All three looked restless and anxious.

And beyond them.

Moyong Su Jeong lay on the bed as if dead.

“Young Master?!”

“Move aside!”

Moyong Bi pushed past Seok Woong and Moyong Su Hyang to examine Moyong Su Jeong’s complexion.

“Damn it!”

Her face, which had been pale, had now turned blue.

The blue mark between her brows had become twice as dark. Cold qi was rising from her entire body, and the room felt as cold as an ice cave due to the faint haze-like energy.

The severed meridian syndrome that had been well suppressed had developed into a severe condition.

“What are you doing! You step back…!”

“Sit Su Jeong up!”

The three people were startled by Moyong Bi’s fierce shout.

“What are you all doing! I said lift Su Jeong up!”

“Y-Young Master?”

“These idiots…!”

He forcibly lifted Moyong Su Jeong’s upper body, secured her torso against his own body, and placed his hand on her Mingmen acupoint.

Anxiety appeared on Moyong Bi’s face.

‘You bastard! I won’t let you take her too!’

Wooooong!

Dense primordial qi began to seep in through the Mingmen acupoint.

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