I Possessed a Cultivator Destined to Die at the Hands of the Protagonist - Chapter 30

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30.
“What are you doing?”
It seemed he didn’t understand the meaning of the middle finger gesture, perhaps because this world was different from what I knew.
“You bastard….”
I unleashed every curse I knew at Gwak Jun with satisfying venom, each word dripping with contempt.
While Gwak Jun stood there dumbfounded, I used my spiritual power to heal my wounds.
“Haha, hahaha! I’ll make sure you die in the most excruciating pain possible!”
Gwak Jun stepped into a true stance and closed the distance in an instant.
Our blades clashed, but my body, unable to match his strength, flew backward.
Before I could even hit the ground, he launched a kick toward my abdomen.
“Yoo Yeon-seo!”
Jin Seok-jun had lost control of the earth and was severely restricted in his techniques, while Eun Hui-gyeom and Kang Jin-heon were too preoccupied fighting Mano to help.
If Kang Jin-heon hadn’t seized a brief moment to use the wind and create distance between Gwak Jun and me, I might have lost an arm.
They say that at higher realms, losing limbs is something that can be quickly regenerated, but at my current level, that was impossible.
‘Damn it, did I overestimate myself too much?’
In the cultivation system, the gap between each single rank was substantial.
To bridge even one rank, cultivators trained for decades or centuries.
Qi Resonance Seventh Star.
Both I and my remaining companions had grossly underestimated that gap and the time it represented.
‘So you’re going to give up?’
That wasn’t Yeon-seo’s voice—it was Lee Seo-hee’s.
‘You think you can do this?’
‘Wake up from your dream.’
‘You can’t do anything.’
No, that wasn’t right.
It didn’t matter what anyone around me said.
I had always lived my own way, and I had always endured.
How did I survive Saryeong Jigok!
‘I cannot die here.’
Though Eun Hui-gyeom and Kang Jin-heon helped occasionally, my wounds multiplied as time passed.
Moreover, as my spiritual power began to deplete, my recovery noticeably slowed.
‘Too fast, I can’t follow with my eyes. But….’
Through my clashes with Gwak Jun, I had discovered something.
‘He’s not the type with abundant spiritual power.’
Gwak Jun fought with remarkable efficiency, reinforcing his body with minimal waste.
Unlike other cultivators who relied primarily on techniques, his combat was centered on close-quarters fighting.
‘Among the Three Paths of Cultivation, the Physical Path involves tempering the body to withstand the flow of qi….’
That’s it.
Gwak Jun’s fist flew toward my face.
Gwak Jun’s fist flew toward his face.
I barely blocked it with my hand, my body sliding backward from the impact.
“Striking a lady’s face—how uncouth of you.”
“Hmph, you’re nothing but a monastery disciple anyway.”
True to form for a villain in Cheonmyeong Suseonggi.
I could see he attacked indiscriminately, showing no regard for gender or status, exactly as the original story depicted.
“Hah.”
I used my dwindling spiritual power to mend my fractured ribs and steady my breathing.
Then I hurled the sword I’d been gripping straight to the ground.
“What are you doing?”
“You—your spiritual power is less than I expected. You’re absorbing earthen qi to compensate and channeling it into physical enhancement, aren’t you?”
“So what if I am? What can you possibly do about it?”
“Nothing much.”
I took my stance with clenched fists instead of a blade.
As if responding to my spiritual power, the fluttering robes suddenly shortened, becoming easier to move in.
“I think I can do what you’re doing too.”
I’d learned secret sword techniques from Kang Jin-heon and gained a delicate touch for manipulating spiritual power while treating Hwang Yu-ha.
Even the Thousand Lotus Ascension, which I’d always failed at before, had finally succeeded.
‘What’s lacking is my body.’
I formed a simplified hand seal.
My spiritual power spread outward in all directions like the Ascending Lotus Technique, then suddenly shifted course and surged inward through my body.
“This wench! How dare you!”
“Hui-gyeom! The ground! Just for a moment—purify the ground!”
Before I could even gauge Eun Hui-gyeom’s reaction, the greatsword came crashing down as if to cleave my skull.
The spiritual power that had threatened to burst erupted inward instead, dramatically amplifying my body’s strength.
I caught the greatsword barehanded and drove my fist toward Gwak Jun.
‘Ugh!’
Each collision with Gwak Jun sent searing pain through my bones as if they were shattering.
Yet simultaneously, I felt my body keeping pace with his speed.
Discarding the sword was purely to concentrate all my spiritual power on physical enhancement.
“You’re blocking this?! How stubborn you are!”
Gwak Jun swung his greatsword faster, pressing me harder.
“Ugh! My lady asks for the impossible!”
Grumbling, Eun Hui-gyeom moved first before Yoo Yeon-seo’s cry even finished.
“The matchup’s already bad enough.”
Whoooosh.
Kang Jin-heon’s sharp wind blade swept in, shielding Eun Hui-gyeom from Mano’s incoming attack.
“Focus.”
“Of course. Geez!”
Kang Jin-heon positioned himself at an angle, protecting Eun Hui-gyeom.
Yoo Yeon-seo’s physical abilities surged dramatically, matching Gwak Jun’s enhancement.
I couldn’t tell what she’d done or how, but one thing was certain—she was pushing herself too hard.
‘My sister always does this!’
It had been the same when she faced Gui-hon at the Seonmun Tournament.
Gwak Jun was openly targeting Yoo Yeon-seo, and even though everyone kept their distance because of Mano, did that mean she had to volunteer herself as bait?
Eun Hui-gyeom quickly formed a seal and dropped to his knees, pressing both palms firmly against the ground.
Cheongrim Residual Echo Technique.
Eun Hui-gyeom hadn’t neglected his cultivation of sorcery while fulfilling his duties.
The Cheongrim Residual Echo Technique was the most fundamental purification sorcery of the Cheong Woo Seon Mun.
A brilliant wave of energy burst outward.
Blue energy radiated from Eun Hui-gyeom’s surroundings, and the blackened earth gradually returned to its original state.
The Mano’s movements grew sluggish, and their regeneration slowed.
Kang Jin-heon seized the opening and swiftly struck the Mano down.
Eun Hui-gyeom’s spiritual power couldn’t purify every place where Gwak Jun’s Underworld Corrosion Strike touched.
‘This piecemeal approach won’t work.’
I needed to purify everything at once, decisively.
Eun Hui-gyeom pressed one hand to the ground and retrieved an elixir from his storage pouch with the other.
He’d made it while practicing Elixir Refinement, but the materials for crafting elixirs were never cheap.
An elixir that hadn’t been absorbed over time through cultivation was merely a single-use spiritual power recovery medicine.
It would be a lie to say it wasn’t wasteful, but this wasn’t the time to worry about such things.
He swallowed the elixir and immediately poured out his spiritual power—the blue energy centered on Eun Hui-gyeom suddenly expanded in an instant, purifying the entire area around the mine.
As the earth was purified, Jin Seok-jun’s trapped earth prison rose up, and the Mano creaked.
A sharp crackling sound.
‘This woman! She’s keeping pace with both my speed and my strength!’
Even accounting for the fact that he was controlling the Mano and spreading his power thin with the Underworld Corrosion Strike, he couldn’t understand how this was possible.
What was even more shocking was that Yoo Yeon-seo’s body was growing stronger the more she clashed with Gwak Jun.
‘She’s undergoing bone marrow replacement while fighting?’
Bone marrow replacement was a common occurrence among cultivators.
But he’d never heard of anyone achieving it in the midst of combat like this.
A tremendous surge of energy erupted.
“You dare! Such insolence!”
While Gwak Jun was distracted by Yoo Yeon-seo, Eun Hui-gyeom’s Cheongrim Residual Echo Technique instantly purified the earth that Gwak Jun had tainted with demonic energy.
Jin Seok-jun, as if he’d been waiting, quickly formed the seal for the Mountain-Crushing Great Pressure Technique.
A tremendous boom shook the air.
The ground rippled, and a colossal hand emerged, crushing down upon Gwak Jun’s body.
An immense weight combined with Jin Seok-jun’s spiritual power bore down on him.
Yoo Yeon-seo retreated, while Gwak Jun held his greatsword overhead, blocking with both hands.
The earth beneath his feet cracked in a circular pattern, collapsing downward.
“Ughhhh!”
The fingertips of Jin Seok-jun, who was channeling the Mountain-Crushing Great Pressure Technique, trembled violently.
Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.
Crash!
The moment Jin Seok-jun’s hand dropped, an enormous earthen palm descended and completely crushed Gwak Jun beneath it.
The earthen palm shattered against the ground, fragmenting into pieces.
The earth split open as dust scattered in all directions.
Jin Seok-jun knelt on one knee, staring into the dust-filled epicenter.
“Jin Seok-jun!”
Kang Jin-heon rushed toward Jin Seok-jun.
The force was so tremendous that part of the ceiling collapsed inward.
“Ugh, did I finish him?”
Rising with Kang Jin-heon’s help, Jin Seok-jun lifted his gaze toward where the dust swirled.
A black shadow wavered where the dust had settled.
Gwak Jun stood there, one arm torn away, his entire body drenched in blood.
“Hehe, hehehaha! How foolish. Did you truly believe you could kill me with something like this….”
Slash.
A sword blade pierced through another cloud of dust and severed Gwak Jun’s neck as it passed.

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