I Will Become a Phoenix More Noble Than the Emperor - Chapter 70

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70.

The Yellow Dragon circled around inside the Blood Pit, swallowing all the Yin Energy it spewed out, then soared upward. The ground filled back in where the black hole had been.

Hwan, who had come to rescue Seon-o after noticing something strange happening to the disappearing Blood Pit, also witnessed that scene and froze in place.

‘Yellow Dragon…?’

Hwan frowned as if he couldn’t believe it. The Yellow Dragon was one of the two Initial Gods who had not revealed themselves to the world.

That Yellow Dragon was eliminating the Blood Pit.

Which meant…

Hwan’s eyes hardened as he immediately realized the Yellow Dragon’s identity.

‘The Yellow Dragon was from the Imperial Family.’

This was unprecedented.

An Initial God being born from among the Imperial Family.

Then, as Hwan tried to guess which member of the Imperial Family it might be, Sa-baek’s face from yesterday suddenly flashed through his mind. But Hwan knew all the Imperial Family members whose faces were known. Sa-baek’s face was not among them.

Then there was only one answer.

‘An Imperial Family member whose face is unknown.’

While Hwan was speculating about his identity, the Yellow Dragon landed on the devastated ground, and Seon-o and Moon Poong slid down from its back.

After setting them down, the Yellow Dragon took flight again without any proper farewell. Since he had fulfilled his role completely, there was no reason to detain him, so Seon-o blankly watched the departing Yellow Dragon before suddenly remembering something and gasping.

“The drug!”

However, the Yellow Dragon had already disappeared far away at a terrifying speed.

Seon-o looked around in dismay. Not only the Demon Fighting Arena but also its surroundings had been devastated, so not a single survivor could be seen except for Moon Poong and herself.

When Moon Poong, who had been standing precariously, was about to fall backward unable to support his own weight, someone skillfully grabbed his arm and steadied him. It was Hwan, who had somehow approached them.

“It seems the hairpin was helpful.”

At the low voice, Seon-o turned to look at him and smiled.

“Hwan!”

At that joyful face, Hwan’s eyes also softened gently. He was relieved that Seon-o was safe.

He should have abandoned the Blood Pit and followed Seon-o.

Belated regret was useless.

“I didn’t expect to see the Yellow Dragon in this place. Did he take Wang Ho-bang’s drug?”

When Hwan quietly hinted at Sa-baek’s existence, Seon-o’s face became complicated.

She had suspected that Sa-baek was an Initial God from early on. However, she had never imagined that he would be from the Imperial Family, much less the Crown Prince who had been so thoroughly hidden. She couldn’t tell whether things had gone well or badly.

She couldn’t gauge at all whether it lay in Sa-baek’s identity as Imperial Family and the Emperor’s son, or in his long-hidden identity as an Initial God.

‘If he shares the same thoughts as the Emperor with that tremendous Yang Power…’

Seon-o felt dizzy.

Moreover, she had lost the Plum Blossom Pavilion drug that she had almost captured thanks to Sa-baek.

Would she be able to retrieve it from Sa-baek?

“Could you keep this secret? There are still things I need to investigate.”

Then Hwan looked at Seon-o intently with ambiguous eyes.

‘As expected… is it greedy to hope to pass by without explaining even this?’

It was the moment when Seon-o, feeling troubled, was considering how to explain Sa-baek’s existence.

Suddenly, a scream of “Argh!” came from behind them, and Seon-o looked there in surprise.

One of Wang Ho-bang’s subordinates who had barely survived was sneaking away when he was struck by Hwan’s attack and collapsed face-down. It seemed his life had been cut short.

He reassured Seon-o as if there was nothing to be surprised about.

“If you want to hide something, you must first eliminate the witnesses, mustn’t you?”

From Hwan’s answer, Seon-o knew that he would keep Sa-baek’s secret. He didn’t even ask anything more despite knowing these tremendous things. His always calm and relaxed gaze was telling her that he wouldn’t ask anything more.

At that gaze, the tension that had been knotted inside Seon-o throughout melted away smoothly.

Seon-o, who had regained strength, looked at him and said.

“Someday I’ll tell you everything, at least to you, Hwan.”

Clear emotion was evident in Seon-o’s eyes as she looked at Hwan.

“Including why I participated in the competition.”

At those words, the thrill from the day he first saw Seon-o gently brushed past Hwan’s throat. Hwan also felt that Seon-o had come to trust him completely through the events at the North Sea.

The desire not to lose that trust was something unfamiliar to him.

“I’ll wait for the day I can hear it.”

With that response serving as his answer that he would believe whatever Seon-o had to say, Hwan once again grabbed Moon Poong’s shoulder as he swayed precariously, about to fall.

“Should I take this one to Myeonggyeong?”

Hwan, who understood his intentions without needing to be told, was now Seon-o’s most intimate and powerful ally.

“Please do. He’s still in a brainwashed state, so you need to be careful.”

Hwan nodded as if to say not to worry. A brief flash of regret crossed his eyes. It was time to end their short-lived married couple act.

“Then now… Seon-o, are you going to pass through the next gateway?”

Seon-o, who hadn’t noticed his regret, nodded without hesitation. Having obtained what she had sought to gain from the North Sea, she now had to go to the next land.

The ‘real thing’ she needed was there.

“You’ll need a carriage.”

Hwan quietly murmured and took out a treasure pendant from his chest, sending it high into the sky. The pendant immediately transformed into a bird and flew toward the waiting Yawolbang Superhumans.

Before long, a ghost carriage came racing fiercely and stopped in front of them.

It was a crude and rough cargo ghost carriage, completely different from the carriages they usually rode.

When Hwan gestured for her to board, Seon-o nodded and took something from her chest, placing it with a thud on the exterior of the carriage.

It was the snail talisman that had been attached to the wine jars in Wang Ho-bang’s wine storage.

Before boarding the carriage, Seon-o turned to look at Hwan and smiled brightly.

“Take care of yourself, Hwan.”

She said what Hwan should have said and added an affectionate form of address. A faint smile appeared on Hwan’s lips at the sound of Seon-o’s voice calling his name without reservation. Leaving him behind, Seon-o quickly climbed onto the carriage.

The carriage, which closed its door by itself, began racing away fiercely.

Hwan didn’t leave that spot until the carriage carrying Seon-o had completely disappeared.

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Clatter, clatter-

The crude ride quality, incomparable to the ghost carriages she usually rode, made Seon-o’s bottom ache as if it would break.

The carriage’s destination seemed to be quite far away, as it had already been running for over a day. It would have been a disaster if she hadn’t changed into the simple clothes that the Yawolbang Superhumans had loaded into the carriage with her. Of course, no matter what clothes she wore, this terrible ride quality wouldn’t change.

But such things weren’t even a problem.

“…”

Seon-o, her nose and mouth covered with a face mask, looked at the things that were on the cargo ghost carriage with her.

In the large cargo carriage were the corpses of three drooping demons.

Every time the carriage rattled, their flesh also swayed greatly, emitting a foul stench. These demons were goods that Wang Ho-bang was sending to his ‘trading post’.

In exchange for receiving very precious and disgusting things.

The demons riding with Seon-o were prepared by the Yawolbang Superhumans to perfectly deceive that trading post. Also, the snail talisman was a pendant with the nature of returning to its original location, which was absolutely necessary to find that trading post.

That place was unknown even to Wang Ho-bang and could only be found with this pendant.

Seon-o had infiltrated Wang Ho Bang’s estate in the North Sea in disguise to find this pendant. Fortunately, she found the pendant, but due to an unexpected incident, things flowed differently than expected.

Of all things, a Blood Pit.

“…”

Though the inside of the carriage was still filled with a terrible stench, Seon-o’s mind was full of other thoughts without any leisure to complain about it.

‘Baek Sa-baek.’

She had finally learned Sa-baek’s real name.

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