I Possessed a Cultivator Destined to Die at the Hands of the Protagonist - Chapter 91

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91.
“C-calm down! Hui-gyeom!”
Startled, I leaped to my feet and grabbed Eun Hui-gyeom’s arm to stop him.
I knew Eun Hui-gyeom had a volatile temperament, but this was the first time I’d seen him angry to this degree.
Yang Ja-han tossed the wooden stick he’d been holding into the campfire and looked up.
“I merely stated a fact. I don’t understand why you’re so angry.”
“A fact?! That my sister will die miserably is a fact?! How dare you call that speaking?!”
“Hui-gyeom! Calm down, calm down! You’ll wake the others!”
Just to be safe, I expanded my spiritual barrier once more around us, but this commotion was loud enough that the rest of our group might notice.
I blocked Eun Hui-gyeom with my body as he tried to throw a punch.
“You’re no different, Hui-gyeom.”
“How dare you call me by my—”
“It doesn’t matter what I call you. You too are merely an anomaly born from her existence, and the price for defying fate is inevitably—”
Crack.
“Ah.”
Eun Hui-gyeom finally shoved me aside and threw a punch straight at Yang Ja-han’s face.
Anticipating the blow, Yang Ja-han raised his hand to block the punch.
Eun Hui-gyeom pushed with all his strength, but Yang Ja-han held firm against it.
Eun Hui-gyeom’s hand trembled.
“Hui-gyeom? Calm down. Want some candy? Hmm?”
“Who cares about candy…? Wait, that’s not the point!”
With candy in his mouth, Eun Hui-gyeom finally exploded.
“What is fate? What is death? Who gave you the right to define such things for me and my sister?”
“…”
“Both my sister and I will do as we see fit, regardless of what you say. At the very least, a stranger who knows nothing has no right to speak so carelessly.”
“…”
“Especially about my sister—if you say something like that even once more, know that fists won’t be all you’ll face.”
Eun Hui-gyeom lowered his fist, his eyes cold and murderous.
The candy in his mouth cracked audibly.
Yang Ja-han watched Eun Hui-gyeom’s heavy breathing for a moment, then slowly rose to his feet.
He brushed the ash from his clothes and turned his body to the side.
“…That’s precisely why you can say such things. Because you know nothing. Neither you nor Yoo Yeon-seo.”
“This bastard, still—!”
“Here, candy!”
“Mmph… No, please stop giving me candy!”
Eun Hui-gyeom shouted that he wasn’t a child as I placed candy in his mouth.
In the meantime, Yang Ja-han had already slipped into the flower petal shelter that Im So-ha had created.
“That guy, seriously. Sigh, sister.”
“More candy?”
“…It’s not about the candy. You made a mistake too, sister.”
“Me?”
“Of course! You’re standing right in front of the person involved while saying such horrible things about dying—what are you supposed to do about that?”
Eun Hui-gyeom wasn’t the only one frustrated; he poured out his grievances about Yang Ja-han as well.
‘I understand why Eun Hui-gyeom is angry, but….’
From my position—living against a fate that should have claimed me—I genuinely didn’t know how to respond when hearing such words.
Especially when the one speaking them was the original story’s protagonist.
“I’m fine. Just because he says such things doesn’t mean they’ll actually come to pass, and I have no intention of dying quietly anyway.”
“That’s obvious. But it’s unpleasant. The feeling of it.”
“….”
“Sigh, I should have just left that bastard to starve to death at Unbyek Rim.”
Eun Hui-gyeom grumbled about having picked him up for no reason.
I reached up and gently placed my hand on top of Eun Hui-gyeom’s head.
He’d grown so much taller than me by now that I had to rise onto my toes to reach his head.
“Sister?”
“Thank you. For being angry on my behalf.”
As I tried to stroke his head, Eun Hui-gyeom flinched in surprise and quickly turned away, avoiding my gaze.
“…We’re sworn siblings, so of course. Anyone would have done the same, not just me.”
“Are you embarrassed?”
“Who’s embarrassed! Anyway! If I catch you getting along with that bastard again next time, I’m going to lecture you too.”
“Understood, understood.”
“Now go inside and get some sleep.”
“…Aren’t you going to sleep inside the flower pavilion?”
Eun Hui-gyeom had been sleeping outside even before his conversation with Yang Ja-han.
I looked toward where Eun Hui-gyeom usually slept.
“Even though Master set up a barrier, it seems better to have someone standing watch. Besides, I….”
“Hmm?”
“I don’t really like the pollen drifting around.”
Eun Hui-gyeom pushed me toward the entrance, urging me to go in quickly. Forced into the flower pavilion, I tossed and turned for a while before finally managing to fall asleep late into the night.
***
The next morning at dawn, we headed back into Unbyek Rim.
Our destination was the Stone Chamber where Ha Gyeong-un had been held captive by Yeon-poong before.
Unlike our previous visit, the paths through Unbyek Rim had shifted, making it difficult to locate the Stone Chamber again.
Even Ha Gyeong-un and Im So-ha, who had frequented Unbyek Rim for years, admitted they had never seen such altered passages.
“It’s this way.”
Fortunately, we had Kang Jin-heon with us.
Though no wind blew through Unbyek Rim upon our return, he explained that when wind was artificially summoned, there were sections where it stalled and stopped unnaturally.
Kang Jin-heon conjured wind through his technique, using it to trace the path to the Stone Chamber.
After walking for some time, patches of grass began to come into view.
As if by unspoken agreement, we all slowed our pace.
“This is…”
“It’s severe.”
The vegetation surrounding the forest had withered to a sickly yellow, twisted and brittle.
Moss wedged between stones lay blackened and dead, while wildflowers along the path had their petals wilted, their stems hardened into rigid stalks.
Spirit herbs growing beneath the trees had their leaf veins split black with desiccation.
“I’ve never seen Unbyek Rim’s forest in such a state.”
Im So-ha bent down and brushed a withered spirit herb with her fingertips.
The herb crumbled and fell to the ground.
“Could it be because the seal is breaking?”
I surveyed the forest and looked toward Baek Un-jin with the question.
“That’s likely the case.”
Unbyek Rim is a mirror image. As Yeon-poong’s seal unravels, the true Unbyek Rim collapses, and its effects ripple through this mirrored realm as well.
“Here it is.”
When Kang Jin-heon summoned wind, the fallen leaves scattered across the ground spiraled upward in a circular pattern.
As the shattered leaves were swept away, the entrance to the Stone Chamber was revealed.
“Look at this.”
Ha Gyeong-un pointed at the Stone Chamber’s entrance.
Fresh blue fissures had appeared across the rock surface surrounding the entrance.
Along those cracks, a dark crimson energy seeped outward from within.
“This is…”
As Ha Gyeong-un reached out to touch the fissure, Baek Un-jin placed a hand on his shoulder.
“Step back.”
“Yes, understood.”
Baek Un-jin placed his own hand on the fissure in Ha Gyeong-un’s stead.
Blue energy seeping from his fingertips seeped into the gaps between the cracks, temporarily pushing back the crimson energy that was burrowing deeper.
I turned to Baek Un-jin.
“How is it?”
“The condition doesn’t look good.”
“We should hurry.”
Baek Un-jin nodded in agreement.
I was just about to enter the Stone Chamber when it happened.
Shhhhh.
Strange sounds erupted from various points throughout the Forest.
Not from a single direction, but from multiple directions at once.
Yang Ja-han was the first to draw his sword, as always.
Black silhouettes emerged from between the rotting, crumbling trees.
They appeared from all sides, from every direction imaginable.
“Why are there so many Gui-hon?”
“I have no idea where they came from.”
“Most likely… they’re the Gui-hon that were trapped in Yeon-poong’s Unbyek Rim.”
It was highly probable that the souls Yeon-poong had killed remained trapped within her Unbyek Rim, unable to escape, lingering with her for a long time.
As the seal began to fail, those malevolent spirits burst forth like reflections in a mirror.
When Yang Ja-han swung his sword, three streams of blade energy simultaneously cut through the malevolent spirits.
Black mist scattered from where they were severed.
Kiiiiiii.
The Gui-hon shrieked and swarmed at us from all directions at once.
Eun Hui-gyeom didn’t even glance at Yang Ja-han before attacking a different Gui-hon.
Each time he swung his sword infused with swordsmanship, the Gui-hon’s bodies were cleaved apart.
Im So-ha formed the hand seal for the Chirok Hoesaeng Formation.
Massive roots erupted from beneath our feet, spreading outward in all directions.
The roots encircled our group, then simultaneously ensnared three Gui-hon that had been outside the barrier.
The bound Gui-hon thrashed about, but the effects of the Chirok Hoesaeng Formation gradually weakened it.
Eun Hui-gyeom and Baek Ri-myeong swiftly severed the struggling Gui-hon.
“Sister, left!”
At Eun Hui-gyeom’s shout, I twisted my body.
A blade grazed past my shoulder, and the Gui-hon behind me was cut down.
Baek Un-jin, who had been observing the battle, formed a simplified hand seal.
Fwoooosh.
Blue swordsmanship energy spread outward in all directions, and seven Gui-hon scattered instantly.
That was the moment.

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