I Will Become a Phoenix More Noble Than the Emperor - Chapter 95

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95.

“Why can’t we eat them?”

Gwak Gi-rim asked calmly. Instead of answering, Seon-o looked around. Flower Cloud Island was still filled with Five-Colored Clouds. Colorful, sweet, and hazy clouds like cotton candy of various colors.

These clouds would soon clear.

In the original work, the clouds cleared at the same time the peaches ripened.

“I’m asking why we can’t eat them, Master Kang. Are you trying to eat the peaches yourself and become the Phoenix? Huh?”

Bu So-yoon asked fiercely with a sneer.

“You’ll find out soon. Please trust me.”

“Ha, trust you? What a ridiculous thing to say. I can’t even believe how someone like you became a Candidate!”

As So-yoon flew up again to grab a peach, Seon-o followed her into the air.

Seon-o stepped on a branch before So-yoon and lunged toward her, sharply grabbing and pulling the hand that was reaching for a peach.

“Huk!”

As So-yoon was pulled down by Seon-o’s force and crashed to the ground, Seon-o mounted her and bound her wrists.

“You crazy Yang Chae-gyo-like lunatic…!”

“You can’t eat them! Can’t you see the Immortals aren’t showing up?”

At those words, So-yoon’s face hardened as she was about to summon her Fire Power.

The other Candidates also realized there was logic to Seon-o’s words. Looking around, not a trace of the Immortals could be seen. Those who had been watching them every day, even with all this commotion and the peaches ripening…

Only then did Yang Chae-gyo frown, sensing something suspicious. Meanwhile, Seon-o held So-yoon’s hand firmly while staring intensely at the Five-Colored Clouds as if to pierce through them.

Soon, the clouds would clear.

When the clouds cleared and the truth was revealed…

However, there was no sign of the clouds clearing at all.

‘The clouds should be clearing by now…?’

Seon-o’s heart became extremely anxious. The Peach Fruit was now so ripe that they were falling one by one with soft thuds.

Gasping, when Seon-o looked up, she could see the already massive tree swelling even larger.

“The fruit is falling!”

As So-yoon complained irritably, Seon-o’s mind became dizzyingly confused.

‘Why… why… aren’t the clouds clearing…? What did I miss…?’

This way, she couldn’t prove the truth of Flower Cloud Island to the Candidates. If she couldn’t prove it, they would eat the peaches.

‘Because of Yang Chae-gyo…? That can’t be…’

“Master Kang, why exactly can’t we eat them? You need to give us a reason so we can understand.”

Gwak Gi-rim also became anxious and urged Seon-o.

“Well…”

But they wouldn’t believe without seeing it. To show them the truth, the clouds of Flower Cloud Island had to clear…

At that moment, a fierce realization struck Seon-o’s head.

‘I have to clear the clouds myself…!’

Abandoning So-yoon, Seon-o stood up abruptly and stared blankly at the vast island.

“Master Kang?”

Yang Chae-gyo called out to her, but Seon-o couldn’t answer. She had to think of a way to clear the clouds. In the original work, the clouds suddenly cleared as if pushed away by the air. She didn’t know how to use such a method.

However, instead… Seon-o’s gaze turned downward.

The clear river water reflecting the Five-Colored Clouds like a mirror.

“I don’t care, I need to achieve Blooming!”

It was the moment when So-yoon, unable to bear it any longer, reached out toward a falling peach.

Whoooooosh!

As the river water below the island explosively surged upward in reverse flow, not only So-yoon but the movements of the other Candidates froze as well.

They stopped breathing and watched the wondrous spectacle. The river waters filling the spaces between islands were all rising like upside-down waterfalls, soaring toward the sky.

It was Seon-o’s Yin Power.

“Kuk…”

Even as blood gushed from her nose as the price for using excessive Yin Power, Seon-o didn’t stop.

“Wow.”

Yang Chae-gyo raised the corners of her mouth in admiration.

“With this level of Yin Power, the misunderstanding that you became a Candidate through trickery should finally stop. Don’t you think so, Bu So-yoon?”

Chaegyo whispered to So-yoon for no particular reason, but So-yoon couldn’t respond. The river water that Seon-o had reversed was bursting out in all directions, tearing apart and swallowing the Five-Colored Clouds.

“Ah, no way!”

When a heart-wrenching scream came from within, the Candidates’ eyes sharpened.

Before long, Seon-o’s Yin Power suddenly stopped, and the reversed river water plummeted back down in an instant. After having swallowed all the countless Five-Colored Clouds that had filled the island.

The Candidates’ breath froze when they witnessed what was revealed as those clouds cleared.

“What the hell is this…?”

Chaegyo’s face, which had been full of interest just moments ago, slowly contorted.

The island’s scenery, which had been fluffy and mysterious just moments before…

“…”

Had transformed into a horrific sight in the blink of an eye.

The air was tinted green and reeked with foul odors, and the river water had turned black, rotting and becoming sticky. Rotting fish floated on top of it, and the islands had become barren wastelands without a single trace of life remaining.

The dreamlike scenery they had seen when arriving at Flower Cloud Island had vanished without a trace, and all that spread before the Candidates’ eyes was desolate land that had rotted to its core.

Of course, Seon-o, who had read the original work, had known this fact from the beginning.

‘Flower Cloud Island had already fallen long ago, and the Five-Colored Clouds were hallucinogens meant to hide the truth.’

Also…

“Kyaaaaaaak!”

When something that had been hiding beneath the island suddenly leaped up and rushed at So-yoon, Seon-o shot Water Element as if he had anticipated it. When the creature hit by the solid mass of water was slammed into the Peach Tree, everyone’s gaze turned toward it.

The color drained from So-yoon’s face as she saw the being that had just tried to attack her.

“This is fucking insane…”

What lay sprawled there was not human.

With eyeballs hanging loose and all its flesh rotted black and festering, it was closer to a corpse than a living human. No, the Candidates knew very well what these things were.

“Gwak Gi-rim. Have you ever heard rumors that demons live on Flower Cloud Island?”

Chaegyo asked as if bewildered. However, he already knew the answer without hearing it. There could be no such rumors.

This was the solid Flower Cloud Island where no demon could enter or leave. It was land guarded by the first generation of Superhumans and was once considered the utopia that served as the continent’s last bastion in times of despair.

However, what stood before them was not that beautiful land.

“Then that must be… an Immortal, right?”

However, instead of answering, Gi-rim was looking somewhere with serious eyes. When Chaegyo turned his head following that gaze, he saw flowers blooming throughout the island.

They were flowers so long and large that they could be seen from a distance.

Mysterious flowers of unknown identity that glowed brilliantly as if they had absorbed all the Five-Colored Clouds that Seon-o had swept away, thus standing out even more in this land of death…

“Flowers? Haha, are these Immortal bastards playing tricks right now…”

Chaegyo, who had been muttering as if bewildered, suddenly closed his mouth as if he had realized something.

That those ‘flowers’ were exactly the Blooming mentioned in the Divine Oracle.

At the moment when a chilling tension rose up the spines of the Candidates who had gained the same realization simultaneously, a meteor-like fireball shot over their heads.

“!”

The fireball shattered into pieces in an instant and scattered like sparks. This was thanks to the Candidates, who had come to their senses immediately, shooting Yin Power at the fireball simultaneously.

In an instant, white smoke rose around the Candidates.

“Why didn’t you eat the peaches? They grant Eternal Life, don’t they?”

Through the acrid smoke, an Immortal riding dark clouds was revealed. It was the Fairy Immortal. However, her face had lost the vitality and beauty from when they first saw her, and was half-rotted and festering. Green rotting flesh hung down below her chin, dangling.

Only then did the Candidates realize what the ‘Eternal Life’ they spoke of truly was.

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