I Will Become a Phoenix More Noble Than the Emperor - Chapter 47

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47.

Ga-jin’s body, having lost her Yin Power, was thrown into the lake that surged and churned like a tsunami in an instant. Seon-o and Cheong-eum, who barely escaped from that tsunami thanks to Seon-o’s barrier, managed to take refuge on the one remaining cliff.

However, they couldn’t feel safe. Ripples were rampaging across the lake that had grown enormous due to Ga-jin’s expansion.

-Whoooosh

The Yin Energy that changed even the color of the sky in an instant fiercely summoned rain and created violent waves, making the lake look like a storm-tossed sea. Fierce winds blew in and panic crossed Seon-o’s face.

“Wait…!”

Seon-o, who ran to the cliff through the rain and wind, knelt down and looked precariously below. Ga-jin’s body was spinning round and round inside the massive whirlpool formed in the center of the lake. It was a natural whirlpool that Seon-o had never created.

“S-save me!”

At Ga-jin’s plea, Seon-o frantically tried to suppress the Water Element, but it was useless.

The Yin Power that Seon-o had just unleashed was too powerful, and it was clear that this Yin Power had met with the lake’s Yin Energy to create a strange phenomenon. Even Seon-o couldn’t control that massive tsunami of Yin Power at all.

Nevertheless, Seon-o tried his best to rescue Ga-jin. However, the Water Element that was swirling everywhere wouldn’t allow it. The Blood Abyss, excited by the suddenly rushing Yin Power, opened its maw wide and Ga-jin’s body was terrifyingly sucked into it.

“Gasp…!”

When that fierce suction force made even Seon-o’s body, clinging to the cliff, sway, Cheong-eum rushed over in an instant, embraced Seon-o, and rolled backward. At that moment, the cliff Seon-o had been standing on crumbled down, and simultaneously Ga-jin’s body was completely swallowed into the Blood Abyss.

The Root Barrier, having finally swallowed a satisfactory sacrifice, suppressed the surging Yin Power, and the tsunami-like waves gradually subsided.

The torrential rain that had been pouring down madly stopped instantly, and the fierce wind that had blown as if to uproot all the trees on the cliff also disappeared, so the lakeside that had been like a disaster regained its usual tranquility.

“Huff…”

Seon-o, sprawled out with Cheong-eum, swallowed a labored groan and slowly raised his body. When he desperately crawled back to the cliff edge and looked down again, he saw the water surface that had become unbelievably calm.

There was no trace of Ga-jin in the lake that had narrowed again.

So that meant…

“…”

Ga-jin was dead.

Goosebumps rose on Seon-o’s back at the terrifying fact.

And what was even more terrifying than that was…

The Yin Power that was frighteningly swelling within him. He could vividly feel that an even more intense Yin Power than when he had killed the demon had just flowed into him somewhere.

‘It was real.’

Superhumans really could steal Yin Power from each other.

Of course, for that to happen, very outstanding Yin Power would need to be involved. Like Cheong-eum’s Yin Power that had been connected to Seon-o’s body just moments ago.

A low voice came from behind.

“…What did you do.”

At the cold voice that seemed incredulous, Seon-o turned to look at him.

Cheong-eum’s appearance after escaping from the tsunami was also terrible. The neat appearance from the Great Hall that made one’s throat feel cold just by looking at it had completely disappeared, and Cheong-eum was soaked and disheveled from head to toe.

Nevertheless, he who hadn’t lost only his clear gaze muttered in a voice full of suspicion and wariness.

“My Yin Power was connected to you, sir.”

The fact that if one Superhuman’s Yin Power bloomed in another Superhuman’s heart, they could temporarily use his Yin Power was of course information he had read in the original work.

Seon-o had thought of that information in the moment of crisis, and as expected, Cheong-eum’s Yin Power was only temporarily blocked but still latent within Cheong-eum, so that Yin Power was completely shared with Seon-o. It was heavenly luck.

Borrowing his Yin Power, Seon-o was able to escape from Ga-jin’s trap and even absorb Ga-jin’s Water Element on top of that.

For a moment, he could vividly feel Cheong-eum’s Yin Power flowing through his entire body. But feeling that even that level of Yin Power could be suppressed made his heart feel like it was falling to his feet.

“Please answer how you knew such a method.”

While Cheong-eum was certain that Seon-o wasn’t the culprit who had suppressed his Yin Power, he had a confused expression as he couldn’t understand these strange behaviors of Seon-o at all. The fact that there was a way to share Yin Power was something even he, a High Priest and Super-Deity, didn’t know.

Moreover, after Seon-o had used his Yin Power…

‘The Yin Power became clean.’

Cheong-eum swallowed his bewildered feelings. He could feel that his Yin Power, which had been unstable for several days, had become docile as if completely purified.

To completely remove his suspicions about Seon-o, he needed to know how Seon-o knew all these things. It was an important matter for Cheong-eum.

However, instead of answering, Seon-o suddenly stood up and approached Cheong-eum frighteningly, sat in front of him, and felt around Cheong-eum’s neck. Cheong-eum’s entire body stiffened at that sudden touch.

‘Could it be…?’

Regardless of Cheong-eum’s unusual reaction, Seon-o, who had been thoroughly examining his neck where blue blood vessels had been visible, let out a short sigh.

The blue blood vessels were no longer visible.

“Since when has it been like that.”

However, at that sharp question, Cheong-eum’s heart, which had been painfully constricted, finally dropped with a thud.

Seon-o could see his bloodline.

The blue bloodline that no one but Cheong-eum himself had been able to see from childhood until now.

When Cheong-eum didn’t answer, Seon-o immediately grabbed him by the collar.

“Answer me.”

Seon-o’s eyes flashed dangerously, so Cheong-eum was a little flustered and slowed his breathing.

He soon realized that a familiar desperation was rippling in Seon-o’s eyes. That desperation was the same kind that was gripping his own throat at this very moment.

Soon Cheong-eum’s stiff lips moved hesitantly.

“…It’s been like this since my First Awakening.”

It was a secret he had never confided to anyone else even once.

Cheong-eum’s First Awakening occurred when he was five years old. He was a member of the Seol Family that had produced High Priests for generations, and since the First Awakening was something that would inevitably happen someday, it was natural.

However, from that time on, Cheong-eum noticed that blue bloodlines would sometimes show through his neck. He also discovered that when those bloodlines appeared, his Yin Power would be strangely limited.

However, no one could visually confirm Cheong-eum’s blue bloodlines, and Cheong-eum no longer spoke about the bloodlines.

Simply keeping the secret hidden, Cheong-eum waited for his Second Awakening. Until then, those blue bloodlines didn’t appear very often, and even when they did, they didn’t have a seriously severe impact.

However, the problem began after his awakening as a Super-Deity. At fifteen, immediately after finally awakening as a Super-Deity, Cheong-eum realized that he couldn’t perform Dragon Transformation.

He absolutely could not perform Dragon Transformation by any method whatsoever.

And the cause was certainly these blue bloodlines.

If he couldn’t perform Dragon Transformation, which was the most powerful proof and identity of Super-Deities, he couldn’t be considered a Super-Deity. Cheong-eum searched through all kinds of Ancient Books and even explored the secret archives of the High Priest Palace, but couldn’t discover the cause of these bloodlines.

In the midst of this, a Divine Oracle descended and the Phoenix Competition began. If all Super-Deities didn’t complete their Dragon Transformation before the final trial began, no Phoenix would be born. That was the rule set by heaven.

During this time, the cycle of the bloodlines appearing grew shorter and shorter, finally reaching today. But never before had all his Yin Power been completely blocked like just now, so Cheong-eum was shocked with mixed despair.

Cheong-eum was finally cornered.

In a hopeless corner where he absolutely couldn’t find an escape route.

“Hah…”

Seon-o, realizing the seriousness of the situation, let out a short sigh.

‘This story never appeared in the original work.’

The fact that one of the Seven Super Gods was in a situation where he couldn’t perform Dragon Transformation, and that this Super-Deity was the High Priest with clearer roots than any other Super-Deity, was something he had never even imagined.

Only now could he understand why Cheong-eum had been conducting Surveillance on him. Cheong-eum’s suspicion was justified and desperate. It was fundamentally different from Wi Gong-un, who had chased him all the way to Cheongpa River just because he was stung by being called sinister. For Cheong-eum, he would have had to find out the cause of this suppression by any means necessary. He understood everything.

The problem was that Seon-o wasn’t the culprit who blocked his Dragon Transformation, and therefore didn’t know any way to solve this predicament of his.

An even bigger problem was that from this moment on, Cheong-eum’s problem had become his own problem.

‘This is driving me crazy, really.’

His head began to ache as it seemed like just crossing one mountain would reveal an even higher mountain spread out before him.

Finally releasing Cheong-eum’s collar, Seon-o swept back his wet hair and muttered.

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