Survival Guide for the Reincarnated - Chapter 15

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Chapter 15

Seol Woon-hwi gave a bitter smile.

“Even if the body becomes weak and one’s realm falls to the very bottom, that person’s enlightenment and insight cannot disappear. The eyes of one who once held the world beneath their feet still contain the heavens, even when fallen to the ground.”

The blood energy floating around Seol Woon-hwi was embroidering the surrounding area like a dance.

“Just like right now.”

All that blood energy was absorbed into Seol Woon-hwi’s body at once.

“I know what I can do and how far I can reach. But you don’t know, senior. You don’t know your own limits or how far your own possibilities extend.”

Seol Woon-hwi’s gaze sank as much as the temperature around them had dropped.

“That’s why even at this moment, you’re just standing there as if facing some mere bastard child.”

“…Pl… Please spare me…”

“You mean spare you, senior?”

Woon-hwi let out a scoff.

“Why should I do that?”

“I’ll keep… the secret. Please… make me your limb. Yes, I’ll become your sword and your servant. Please…”

“It’s too late, senior.”

Seol Woon-hwi’s left hand shot out like lightning and grabbed Lee Ji-chang’s hair.

“Mercy is an emotion that reveals the limits of reason. That’s why the wise are wary of mercy, while the foolish are enchanted by it. Senior, do I look foolish to you?”

“Ah…”

“You told me, didn’t you? To distinguish between when to crawl up and when not to crawl up.”

“…That… that…”

“I’ll return those words to you. If you have a next life, senior, I hope you’ll be sure to distinguish between when to crawl up and when not to.”

Seol Woon-hwi straightened his right hand and thrust it forward.

Thunk-!

That hand pierced precisely into Lee Ji-chang’s throat, and Seol Woon-hwi curled his hand into a grip while it was still there.

Lee Ji-chang’s neck bones were caught in his grasp.

He tore them out just like that.

Crack-!

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He silently looked down at the dead Lee Ji-chang.

Then, cough, blood burst from his mouth.

All the blood vessels in his body began convulsing madly as if they would burst at any moment, but he didn’t collapse.

He quickly operated the Tae Heo Immortal Blood Heart Method.

The blood vessels that had been boiling madly gradually found stability.

He had suffered considerable internal injuries, but it was fine.

He had pushed himself, but this too was fine.

This wretched body needed to become a little more painful.

My body from my previous life and this current body are far too different.

I plan to train it, and train it again.

He quietly stabilized his body while lost in thought.

My current realm is Yang Gwang I Hyeon.

Then what level of enemy can I handle at maximum right now?

I can easily handle up to Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, but this time was a bit ambiguous.

I didn’t properly utilize the weapons I had and only fought with martial arts alone.

With this method, when facing a master of Five Energy Harmonizing Origin, the only option would be mutual destruction.

Circulating energy.

Creating maximum efficiency with minimum internal power.

If I predict the opponent’s martial arts and movements.

I can finish it easily.

Of course, all of this applies when facing warriors up to the Flame Qi Four Stages.

Currently, I absolutely cannot face warriors of the Four Stages of Heaven and Earth realm.

No matter how much I predict and no matter how much luck follows me, that would be difficult.

The reason was simple.

Up to the Flame Qi Four Stages, they handle ordinary energy, but from the Four Stages of Heaven and Earth onward, they handle natural energy.

That natural energy, that’s the problem.

No matter how great one’s enlightenment is, at my current level, to face the first stage of the Four Stages of Heaven and Earth, the Harmony Stage, I need to reach at least Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, which unifies the middle and lower dantians.

Only at that level can I do something resembling a fight with a warrior of the Harmony Stage.

I felt it once again.

I had regressed, and now I am a ‘weakling.’

Cough, cough.

Blood burst out endlessly.

I have no regrets about killing Lee Ji-chang. Even if the same situation came again, I would have killed Lee Ji-chang.

Soon after, my entire body became cold.

It was proper cold energy that I felt after a long time.

Whew.

I spoke in a quiet voice.

“Manager Seong.”

At the sudden call, he appeared beside me just as suddenly.

With a shocked expression, he silently placed his hand on my back and began infusing energy.

I became comfortable instantly.

It was inevitable.

Manager Seong was a warrior of the Four Stages of Heaven and Earth.

“…What did I just witness?”

“What you saw.”

“…When did you make contact with the Origin Blood Sect?”

“Did you hear the story from the middle?”

“…”

“Doesn’t seem like it. Then why are you asking?”

“…Young master… this really isn’t right.”

“Not right? Not as much as Manager Seong, who exposed his identity as a member of Baekseol Wiryeong Dan.”

Baekseol Wiryeong Dan.

The elite secret organization that protects the bloodline and secrets of the Ten Thousand Year Snow Palace.

Looking at Manager Seong, I spoke.

“Pure as a thousand years of snow.”

The answer came immediately.

“…Becoming shadows like souls.”

It was the creed of Baekseol Wiryeong Dan.

This organization is directly under the Palace Lord only, composed of one leader and several members beneath.

Why did I refer to them as ‘several’? Because even the people in this organization don’t know who each other are.

Only the leader and the Palace Lord know.

The principle is to go through more than 20 years of strict selection and training processes at the Ten Thousand Year Snow Palace without knowing each other’s identities, and they must even take an oath to keep secrets until death.

But one thing is certain.

Every single member belonging to Baekseol Wiryeong Dan is at minimum a warrior of the Four Stages of Heaven and Earth or higher.

“…Since when have you known?”

“From the beginning.”

“…How?”

I turned my head to look at Manager Seong.

“Manager Seong.”

“…Yes, young master.”

“I don’t care whether Manager Seong is part of the Baekseol Wiryeong Dan or whatever.”

“…”

“To me, Manager Seong is simply Manager Seong. The one who has watched over me since I was young.”

“…Young master…”

“You clearly heard what I said earlier. Asking the same question again must be either because it’s hard to believe, or because you want to hear it directly from my mouth. Which is it?”

“…Both.”

I answered quietly.

“I came back through time.”

“…Is that really true?”

“If not, how else could you explain this situation?”

“…”

“As I told you that night in my quarters, I didn’t exaggerate any facts or make up anything that didn’t exist. I simply told you everything as it was, and whether you believe it or not is up to you, Manager Seong.”

“…Young master…”

“I’m getting tired of repeating the same thing over and over. Is that all you’re curious about?”

“…In your previous life, young master… what happens to the Ten Thousand Year Snow Palace?”

I answered briefly.

“It gets destroyed.”

“…By whom?”

“By me.”

Manager Seong’s mouth fell wide open.

* * *

Thanks to Manager Seong infusing me with energy, I stood up from my spot with a much improved body.

I staggered a little, but this much was fine.

But it seemed Manager Seong didn’t think so.

“…Please rest a little longer.”

I shook my head.

“There’s still work left to do.”

This is driving me crazy… Manager Seong muttered like that, then supported me and asked.

“What are you trying to do?”

“What else? I need to erase the traces.”

“…The blood energy that spread out will naturally be erased by the heavy snowstorm.”

“What about the corpse?”

“…”

“Manager Seong.”

“Yes, young master.”

“Lee Ji-chang, who came to Seol-ap, bowed his head and apologized to me, then confessed everything about Yang-ryeong’s corruption that I had been missing, and went missing while returning to Yang-ryeong.”

“…”

“Isn’t it strange? That a perfectly fine Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown warrior, and Lee Ji-chang who was ‘the strongest among the strong’ at that, would suddenly disappear.”

“…I think I roughly understand what you’re thinking… Let’s just wrap this up here. If we go further, it becomes dangerous.”

“Wrap up… You mean fold all friction here and move in a meaningful direction?”

“Yes.”

“As I felt in my quarters, Manager Seong is still idealistic.”

“…Why do you say that?”

“If I fold here, will the other side fold too?”

“…”

“Grudges in Murim aren’t as simple as Manager Seong thinks. Think about why the phrase ‘root out the source’ came to exist.”

“Young master…”

“This is a fight that has already begun, and I wasn’t the one who started it. There’s another side that started it, and I merely responded. Does it make sense for me to fold when I was just responding to that friction?”

“But…”

“Six years is definitely not a short time. For those who played around and exploited others in my name and in the name of the Ten Thousand Year Snow Palace during that time, there’s only one forgiveness I can offer.”

“What’s that?”

“Death.”

“…”

“For me, settling grudges means exactly that. That’s my mercy, and the price they must pay.”

I caught my breath and spoke quietly.

“I saw the internal situation of Seol-ap while going to the Beggar Sect branch in Seol-ap.”

“…”

“It looked very difficult. Whose fault is it that Seol-ap, which fully owns a mine, was so shriveled up like beggars?”

Manager Seong couldn’t answer easily.

So I just made it easy for him.

“It’s my fault. Because I avoided and ran away, the people under me suffered damage.”

“…So you’re going to see it through to the end?”

“That’s how I lived.”

“…What if you die doing that?”

“Living as I wanted and then dying would at least mean I lived as a warrior and died as a warrior, so it would be a good death.”

“…You’re definitely different.”

“In what way?”

“…Just, everything.”

Manager Seong, as if having made some decision, let go of me.

“Can you go alone?”

I nodded.

“Then please go ahead. I’ll clean up the traces here and follow.”

I smiled slightly.

“Are you going to help me?”

“…Honestly, it’s not the first or second time I’ve cleaned up after you, young master, and I can handle cleaning up this much.”

“The expression ‘cleaning up after me’ isn’t bad.”

“…”

“Then, good work.”

I moved my steps without lingering.

I could clearly see Manager Seong’s expression as he looked at me as if dumbfounded, but it was fine.

First, I had to go to Seol-ap.

There was one more thing I needed to handle there.

* * *

Seol Woon-hwi, who had returned to Seol-ap again, stopped in front of a considerably large estate.

He raised his head.

This was written on the pavilion.

Iron Mountain Sword Gate.

This was the most powerful sect in Seol-ap.

The sect leader Yang So was a Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown warrior with decent talent and was even very young.

Only 30 years old.

Seol Woon-hwi spoke to the two warriors guarding the entrance.

“Open it.”

No answer came. Looking at the two warriors with bewildered expressions, as if they didn’t know what to do, Seol Woon-hwi spoke again.

“I said open it.”

Just as the two warriors who had gulped nervously were about to open the door.

Unexpectedly, the door opened from the inside.

And there stood a man with short hair and a refreshing impression. On the right side of the sword about 6 feet long at his waist was written “Cheolsan “.

That was the Cheolsan Sword, the finest sword of Iron Mountain Sword Gate and what they called a divine weapon.

Though it seemed a bit ridiculous for a mere Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown warrior to use words like “divine weapon,” they were sincere about it.

And Seol Woon-hwi did not mock such people.

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