Survival Guide for the Reincarnated - Chapter 197

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Chapter 197

Haa… Haa.

Pain washed over me and my mind became hazy.

I suppressed the boiling internal energy and held onto my consciousness.

Though I was injured, it wasn’t as if my limbs had been severed or anything like that.

Most importantly, the fact that pain was rushing in meant my senses weren’t dead.

I had gone beyond facing a Divine Transformation Realm opponent with Five Energy Harmonizing Origin level cultivation and had actually suppressed him.

And this current experience would surely be utilized again in the future.

It wasn’t bad.

I released the strength from the hand that had been gripping Gok Jin-bung’s neck.

He collapsed to the ground.

Before Juche and No Cheon-myeong could say anything, I put all my strength into my right foot and stomped down.

Kwaaaaang-!

“Kuh… Heoeoeok!!”

Gok Jin-bung’s agonized scream and his qi bursting out in all directions proved only one fact.

The complete destruction of his dantian.

At this moment, Gok Jin-bung’s life as a martial artist had ended.

“Hyeon… Seol-rin!!”

A shout erupted from the side and Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy pressed down on me, but.

Paaaaang-!!

It was soon dispersed.

“What did this bastard eat wrong? Why is he so noisy?”

“Move aside.”

“I don’t want to.”

I listened to No Cheon-myeong and Juche’s conversation with one ear and let it flow out the other.

I quietly stopped the bleeding from my shoulder wound and took out several Divine Ginseng Pills from my storage bag, tossing them into my mouth.

It was concerning that I kept injuring my right arm lately, but for now I planned to deal with the matter at hand first.

“Senior No.”

“Yes.”

“You weren’t just a little late, you were very late.”

No Cheon-myeong laughed awkwardly.

“Hey, you brat. Isn’t it enough that I came?”

“I’m grateful for that. If you hadn’t come.”

I paused briefly, then looked at Juche and continued speaking.

“I might have died.”

Juche was expressing anger with his entire body, and I quietly walked toward him.

No Cheon-myeong tried to block me with his arm, but there was someone who came faster than him to stop me.

“Young Master… you mustn’t close the distance.”

It was Manager Seong.

It seemed No Cheon-myeong hadn’t come alone.

“The Commander is a man without openings when fighting someone at close range. So please don’t go…”

“It’s fine.”

“…Young Master…”

I lowered Manager Seong’s arm and walked right up to Juche, who was glaring at me as if he wanted to kill me.

“Why… did you kill my people?”

Until now, Juche had shown me courtesy, at least formally, but now there was none of that. If No Cheon-myeong hadn’t been here, he might have killed me.

But rather, that’s what irritated me.

“You shameless bastard.”

“…What?”

“Juche, Commander of Baekseol Wiryeong-dan. Did you also betray the Snow Palace?”

“What bullshit are you…”

“If that’s not it, then you’re simply incompetent.”

Veins bulged on Juche’s forehead.

“Incompetent…? Me, incompetent?”

“If you’re not a traitor, what other word besides incompetent could explain this situation? Yeon Su-on and Gok Jin-bung offered the members they had raised to the Thunder Demon Sect, paved the way for spies to infiltrate inside the Snow Palace, planned to strike from behind by separately gathering the movements of the polar descendants, and were even looking for opportunities to overthrow the Snow Palace from within.”

I poked Juche’s heart with my index finger.

“Despite sitting in the position of Commander, you knew nothing, yet you dare raise your voice in front of whom?”

Everyone around was left speechless at this absurd situation where a dying Five Energy Harmonizing Origin martial artist was scolding a Limitless Divine Manifestation expert.

And Juche, the person in question, was glaring at me with a cold expression.

“Huuu…”

Juche, who had even taken a deep breath, spoke to me.

“I was momentarily surprised by this absurd situation and lost my composure. Hyeon Seol-rin sir. I’ll ask just one thing.”

If something comes, something must go.

Since he had raised his speech level again, it would be proper for me to raise mine too, but I didn’t particularly want to.

“Go ahead.”

“…Yes. I’ll ask. How do you plan to take responsibility?”

“Responsibility?”

“If you had solid evidence, you would have given it to me now. But you didn’t give it, which means you don’t have any. In such a situation, you made Vice-Commander Yeon Su-on, who was already physically unwell, suffer more, and turned our Baekseol Wiryeong-dan’s chief instructor into a cripple.”

I quietly looked at Juche.

“Right now, Hyeon Seol-rin sir, without even the Palace Lord’s permission, you’ve torn apart half of Baekseol Wiryeong-dan and created this chaos…”

“Is that all you have to say?”

“…Pardon?”

“How many would it be?”

“…What are you talking about?”

“The number of members among those who joined Baekseol Wiryeong-dan who became human elixir pills because of those two vermin.”

“Human… elixir pills?”

Nothing new about it.

This world is incredibly vast, and various martial artists live here, diverse enough to be categorized into demonic path, evil path, righteous path, and hegemonic path.

There’s something that’s commonly helpful to all these martial artists, and that’s elixir pills.

Why the Cheon-nyeon Mage School has maintained such tremendous prestige until now could be explained by these elixir pills.

Whether they unified the Central Plains or did whatever, before all that, they were truly the demonic path itself. Rather than searching for hard-to-obtain elixir pills, they were those who sought to make them directly, and they found the easiest method.

Something that has become completely taboo in the current Murim.

Namely, human elixir pills.

Spirit pills made by grinding up the internal energy that humans possess were called ‘Human Pills’ in the past and are now called ‘Blood Stones.’

In the Peach Garden, called both the forbidden zone and holy land of the Origin Blood Sect, those Blood Stones are piled up like mountains.

It’s the place I burned down in my previous life, and Jeong Do-cheon, the sect leader of the Thunder Demon Sect, is someone who makes Blood Stones better than anyone else in this world.

And he’s also someone whose neck was severed by my hand.

“The chief instructor and vice-commander can control all information coming from the members. If these two set their minds to it, there’s nothing they can’t do. Who died how, how they disappeared, even taking out all the internal secrets of Ten Thousand Year Snow Palace to the outside, as well as hiding the fact that they were taken out.”

“…”

“There’s really a lot they can do. In such a situation, what exactly did you, the Commander, do?”

“…”

“You should rather be happy about me calling you incompetent. Incompetent would be better than being a traitor.”

Juche’s eyes were excessively cold, as if they contained all the Han Gi of Ten Thousand Year Snow Mountain, but it was fine.

“Do you have more to say?”

“…I was incompetent…? Yes, fine. I’ll acknowledge it. But give me certainty that those two are traitors. No, not just me, but convince all these numerous members scattered here.”

I glanced around briefly.

All the members of Baekseol Wiryeong-dan had gathered in this small building.

Their number reached as many as two hundred.

“If you don’t convince all of us, I will risk my life here today and definitely make Hyeon Seol-rin sir pay the price for harming ‘my people.'”

A chuckle escaped me.

And before I could even open my mouth, two of the ‘several people’ who came with No Cheon-myeong stepped forward.

“We greet the Commander of Baekseol Wiryeong-dan.”

It was a cold voice in a mid-low tone and a smooth voice like rolling jade beads.

Juche shifted his gaze to look at the two people who would be behind me.

“Cha Seol-rin-nim, and Bing Seol-ryeong-nim. I accept your greetings, but this is not a situation for casual conversation…”

“As the General Commander of Ice Sea Region, and as the second son of the Polar Descendants, I speak. Though I arrived late and couldn’t grasp the entire situation, I heard everything that came from Hyeon Seol-rin’s mouth.”

“…”

“Indeed, it’s certainly a situation that cannot help but cause shock, but I’ll say just one thing. Hyeon Seol-rin is not the type to cause such trouble without any reason.”

“…Are you saying you’ll take his side?”

“You may understand it that way.”

Second Elder Brother looked at me.

“As I said before, Hyeon Seol-rin is not the type to engage in such behavior without any reason.”

It was Elder Sister standing next to Second Elder Brother who responded to those words.

“I also trust Hyeon Seol-rin. If Vice-Commander Yeon Su-on and Chief Instructor Gok Jin-bung really committed betrayal, there would be evidence in some form.”

It seems Elder Brother and Elder Sister, worried about me, came rushing here abandoning even all the people who were supposed to assist them.

But considering the distance, arriving simultaneously like this doesn’t make sense.

Above all, the fact that Yang Cheol and Manager Seong, who were clutching their heads with complicated expressions behind the two, also came together means only one thing.

I turned my head again to look at No Cheon-myeong.

Immediately, a jeonum flew over.

-You brat, grateful aren’t you? Very grateful, right? Huh? I thought my joints would pop bringing all those guys at once. If you’re grateful, just nod your head roughly.

After nodding my head slightly, I looked at Juche.

“If I don’t convince you, you’ll exact the price of sin…? An interesting proposal. I don’t know if it’s pathetic pride that can be shown as a warrior of Five Realms of Martial God or desperation born from cowardice, but fine. I’ll convince you.”

As I turned my body around, Juche asked me.

“It’s not a proposal but a wager.”

“A wager?”

“Since I’ve stated what I’ll take if I win, please tell me what you wish to take from me when Hyeon Seol-rin-nim wins.”

I looked at Juche and spoke briefly.

“Nothing.”

“…Pardon?”

“If there must be something, it would be loyalty.”

I immediately moved my steps toward the two vermin collapsed in the corner.

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“Manager Seong.”

Perhaps the one with the most complicated feelings among everyone in this place approached Woon-hwi.

“…Yes. Young Master. Did you call for me?”

“Do you remember the conversation we had in the carriage when we went to the Main Palace with Han Mu-rin before?”

There was no way he couldn’t remember.

At that time, Woon-hwi had written a manual right there on the spot.

“…If you’re referring to the Eternal Punishment Record… Yes. I remember.”

Woon-hwi’s chilling gaze turned toward Gok Jin-bung and Yeon Su-on.

“Implement the Living Bone Melting Heart Technique and Heart Meridian Reverse Flow Technique from it.”

Manager Seong’s mouth fell wide open.

Not in some secluded place, but torture in such a public place?

And the Vice-Commander and Chief Instructor at that?

“…Young Master…”

“I’m not unaware that Manager Seong is from Baekseol Wiryeong-dan.”

“…”

“And I also know that you learned techniques from these two bastards.”

Manager Seong gazed at Woon-hwi with a complicated expression.

“Normally I would do it myself, but my body is in this state so I can’t help it.”

“…”

“If it’s difficult, you don’t have to do it. Though controlling the intensity will be difficult, I can do it myself.”

His contemplation was brief.

Manager Seong had already made up his mind to serve Woon-hwi.

The hesitation disappeared from his eyes.

“I will do it.”

Thus, the torture of Yeon Su-on and Gok Jin-bung began right there on the spot.

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