I Prayed for a Murim Reincarnation, But I Was Born as the Youngest Imperial Prince - Chapter 24

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Chapter 24
What should I add for the fourth?
Contemplating this, Seonwu first reflected on what he had already acquired.
First, the most steadfast and sturdy Vajra.
Its defensive power is always the greatest, which is why the word “indestructible” is attached to it for a reason.
Even if an enemy of the same realm launches a surprise attack, one can endure it without a single flinch.
‘It can be classified as an internal energy that drastically increases defense while unconditionally reducing damage.’
Second, the formless and profound Prajna.
Handling vast internal power freely and delicately, it’s not difficult to make it exist yet not exist, and not exist yet exist.
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
The truth and falsehood of its movements change in an instant, effortlessly controlling the momentary tempo, and furthermore, deploying and withdrawing internal power in space is entirely at will.
‘If this were made into a game, I’d give a massive bonus to accuracy and evasion.’
Third is Taiji.
Harmonious and gentle.
It achieves harmony with the opponent’s offensive, turning the Taiji Yin and Yang at will.
It can easily control the opponent’s attack and deliver its own counterattack in reverse.
Of least, if the opponent is an equally skilled master, they won’t just take it lying down, but…
‘An internal energy specialized in active defense and counterattack judgment.’
If you succeed in the psychological battle with the opponent, it’s more effective than Vajra.
On the other hand, if you fail and get breached, you can’t expect the absolute defensive power that Vajra offers.
All three have their pros and cons, but if deployed simultaneously, there is no need to worry about comparing their advantages and disadvantages.
By the way, what would fit well if added to this?
‘Accuracy and evasion. Deflection and counterattack. Pure defense.’
What’s missing here?
Seonwu found the answer.
It was a calculation of performance strictly based on martial arts game logic, but anyway, the answer came out.
‘Pure destructive power.’
There was no need to discuss the recovery of internal energy.
The previous three are all internal energies of Shaolin and Wudang.
What that means is, because they are pure and long-lasting, their power flows endlessly and lasts so long that they are already considered the pinnacle of the world’s internal energies.
If so, what is needed now is simply for the pure power itself to be strong.
An internal energy that could be called a fierce, overbearing path.
What could there be?
At times like this, there is someone to ask.
Why bother worrying alone when leaving an expert behind?
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Seonwu went to find his imperial father and presented the topic that came out of his own deliberation.
“Imperial Father, as the fourth internal energy to contain within the Cintamani, I wish to possess a martial art of the overbearing path that boasts fierce power. What would be good?”
“Vajra, Prajna, and Taiji. Yes, it would be good for the fourth to be something like that.”
“As expected, my thought is quite decent.”
Seonwu’s eyes sparkled.
The reason the Emperor did not give the answer in advance was probably because this process of contemplating and choosing by himself was the very step to ascend to the Transcendence Realm.
And now that he had found the answer, the Emperor would give a recommendation so that he could shorten the time spent rummaging through and comparing the martial arts of the Earth Pavilion.
“You may choose one among three.”
“Ohh.”
“The first is the Thunderbolt Hegemon Divine Art.”
“Thunderbolt Hegemon…”
“It is an internal cultivation method derived from Xiang Yu’s Geukloebaeteonshingong. Xiang Yu was a hegemon talent with innate lightning power, so he possessed such a divine art, but since this is an internal energy refined for humans to replicate that power, I have classified it as First-Class in the Earth Pavilion.”
“It seems similar to the internal energy of the Hebei Peng Clan.”
“Correct. The Hebei Peng Clan also manipulates lightning power. However, their internal energy is only around Third Grade. If you choose this and reveal it to the world, the Peng Clan will covet it greatly.”
To put it simply, it meant it was a higher-compatible internal energy that would make the Peng Clan go crazy.
‘I heard the Peng Clan’s martial arts possess fragments of Xiang Yu.’
And right now, this was a complete form that would emerge when those fragments were further developed.
“If that is the case for the energy of lightning, the second choice worth considering is the Solar Divine Art.”
“If it’s the solar… Is it the sun in the sky!”
“Indeed. It is a martial art of Extreme Yang. If lightning tears and crushes, this burns and melts. It can easily be called a certain limit of the Yang Rigid lineage of martial arts. It is hard to find in the current Zhongyuan, but its origin is the internal energy from the west that came through Zoroastrianism, so this too is easily a divine art of an era’s overbearing path.”
‘Ohh, international exchange.’
This also sounds plausible.
“The last third recommendation is the Ice Soul Divine Art. It is a martial art of Extreme Yin that stands on the opposite side of the Solar Divine Art. It manipulates endless freezing cold that freezes and destroys. It is on a completely different level from ordinary ice magic, and it was the highest ultimate technique of the now-fallen Northern Ice Palace.”
“Ah, has the Northern Ice Palace fallen?”
I didn’t know that.
No, why did that group, which is like the licorice of an apothecary, go ruined?
Whether they were strong or weak, enemies or allies, they were the guys who never missed out!
For Seonwu, he felt the sadness of a piece falling away from his own beautiful Wulin.
The Nine Sects and One Gang are good, but it’s a shame if the Northern Ice Palace outside the borders is gone too.
“The Demon Realm Gate opened in the north and demonic monsters poured out. Though I blocked this land with the Great Wall as a boundary, would my hand have reached all the way to the Northern Ice Palace beyond?”
“Ah…”
“However, the sect was not completely destroyed; some survived and fled far to the west. Avoiding the vast ice plains, they kept moving west toward the end, so if they rebuild there, they might rise again in the distant future.”
‘Huh? Does this become a story where those who fled west to escape the Mongols make a comeback in Russia?’
As Seonwu listened, he felt a somewhat strange flow.
Of course, from the beginning, there was no reason for the history of a world where demonic monsters pour out and martial arts actually exist to be identical to Earth’s, so there is nothing saying the Northern Ice Palace making a comeback in the Russian region couldn’t appear in the future.
By that time, they would have to fix the name from the Northern Ice Palace…
‘Baltic Ice Palace?’
It was a name that somewhat crushed the romance, so Seonwu shook his head back and forth.
Since they left for somewhere far away anyway, let’s forget it.
“Mhm, anyway, you are telling me to choose among these three internal energies.”
“Correct. To add to Vajra, Prajna, and Taiji, these three would be ideal.”
Seonwu’s age was now sixteen.
Only four years left until the capping age.
‘I need to reach the Transcendence Realm by then.’
But before that, it would be good to get what needs to be gotten for the fourth as a Peak Realm expert.
Somehow, it felt like once he obtained about four, the next stage would become visible.
By the way, what should he choose for the fourth?
‘Lightning, fire, or ice. This isn’t choosing some elemental attribute for a monster game.’
After contemplating for a moment, Seonwu decided to just trust his intuition and choose.
“I will go with the Solar Divine Art.”
“Ho, what is the reason?”
“Well, lightning is strong, and ice is strong, but… the sun is actually a ball of fire far larger than Earth?”
Rather than the energy of lightning striking down on Earth, or the energy of cold stretching from the North Pole, although it is far away, the sun is a much larger mass of power.
Therefore, if he was going to be strong anyway, it was better to be strong on a grander scale.
It was such a simple story.
‘Ah, wait. The fact that the sun is a ball of fire much larger than Earth is common sense that doesn’t fit this era, right? More than that, is that even the truth in this world?’
At Seonwu’s words, the Emperor laughed.
“Haha, so that is indeed the reason. It is knowledge still too early for humans, but indeed, you are my son. Were you already sensing the size of the True Solar Body situated in that domain of emptiness beyond the heavenly realm?”
“Uh… pardon?”
Actually, it’s not to that extent, it’s just a tiny bit of scientific knowledge brought over from my past life.
“Very well. Though the Solar Divine Art does not contain the energy of the great sun entirely as it is, it is still a good reason. All living things on this earth are born and live by the energy of the sun, so you must realize in the future that this is not merely an overbearing power. For now, try learning it.”
“Yes.”
“However, though it is an irrelevant story to you who are a dragon, even if you wish to teach it to your subordinates in the Wulin in the future, you must be careful.”
“What kind of caution do you mean?”
“Unlike the three martial arts of the orthodox factions, it is a martial art that can easily fall into the heterodox path if one is careless, so it must not be taught recklessly. Once you practice it, you will know the danger.”
“Yes.”
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What on earth could mean falling into the heterodox path?
While wondering, Seonwu first took out the secret manual of the Solar Divine Art kept in the First-Class section of the Earth Pavilion.
‘To think I can just pull out and read an unexampled divine art as I please just by picking according to my taste, I really hit the jackpot with my family background.’
With this, in addition to the existing three divine arts, the fourth one would be contained in the Cintamani.
In situations where pure destructive power is needed, it would become an unparalleled internal energy.
‘The sun…’
Reading and practicing the internal cultivation method that gathers the solar energy filling heaven and earth to master the Extreme Yang Qi, Seonwu realized what the danger the Emperor warned about was.
‘Ah, for someone like me who stores it inside the Cintamani and keeps it under control below the three original energies, it doesn’t matter, but a human who masters only this from the very beginning will easily run into problems.’
While the previous three divine arts were difficult and deep—and furthermore, things like the Diamond Indestructible Body required a lot of spiritual medicine but held no risk of falling into the heterodox path since they were the pure internal energy of the orthodox factions itself—this was different.
Because it gathered only the Extreme Yang Qi to the limit, it was easy to lose balance.
No, it was hard not to lose balance.
‘A man gathering the Yang energy to the limit…’
If one could not control the overflowing desire to discharge that Yang energy during cultivation, they could fall into the path of chasing only women while staying stuck at an ambiguous realm.
It didn’t mean becoming a lecher, but if one spends time only with women while leaving martial arts training behind, growth would bound to stop.
‘The secret manual also warns about it for that reason.’
It is not boyhood cultivation.
It is not a martial art where the lineage is cut off.
However, since the Yang is strong, seeking the Yin is the law of nature, and appropriately emptying and refilling is like the ground hardening after rain.
Yet, if one cannot find the middle path and indulges in it, grand success will become distant.
It warns as such.
‘Mhm, right. If the person keeps their head straight, enjoys the affection of clouds and rain only at an appropriate line, and faithfully continues martial arts training, there wouldn’t be any problem.’
If the Yang energy keeps surging at a young age, enjoying it only up to an appropriate line and practicing properly would likely not be easy.
The time to become a wise man that should normally come does not arrive, and since the Yang energy overflows again, there is no end unless one restrains oneself.
It doesn’t matter if one keeps it submissively inside the Cintamani like himself.
If one masters only this and the Yang energy overflows throughout the entire body, an ordinary man would likely wander off into a side path during training.
And if one indulges to excess like that and falls into a truly problematic heterodox arts of the heterodox path because this isn’t enough, then that’s when life is truly ruined.
‘It’s certainly not something to teach recklessly.’
As expected, things that are not harmonious and are called Extreme Yang or Extreme Yin have some kind of trap.
Though a warning note is written, a martial art that prevents such impulses from arising in the first place is what’s pure and stable, and since this requires overcoming it with one’s own will, it is fraught with danger.
Even so, the reason it was not classified as heterodox arts or demonic arts was because the art itself merely handled the Yang energy of great nature and was not corrupt.
‘If mastered properly, it’s a divine art for sure.’
And if he taught only the introductory part, could it rather help those who lack Yang energy regain their health?
‘Come to think of it. Should I tone this down, cut out a part, and make it into a health secret manual?’
Wouldn’t this be quite a business?
Going beyond the multinational pharmaceutical company Pfizer, the Fifth Prince’s apothecary becoming the number one pharmaceutical company in the Great Long Empire…
‘It feels like something a Fifth Prince shouldn’t be doing… More than anything, I’m rather worried about the aftermath because it feels like it would sell too well. Let’s think carefully.’
Anyway, for now, he could master it properly without worrying about side effects.
In the empty space of the Cintamani, the fourth divine art began to settle down.

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