Surviving as the Heavenly Demon’s Concubine - Chapter 81

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“Phew. Finally finished.”

Riser stretched her stiff back and looked around the kitchen with a satisfied expression.

The floor and tiles that the rampaging Curry had made a mess of were now sparkling clean, looking like new.

Since this kitchen was the original form of Riser’s dantian itself, she felt even more refreshed thinking that the traces of poison energy scattered throughout her dantian had been completely cleared away.

‘I wonder if that scoundrel caught Curry.’

Perhaps he found it but didn’t recognize it and just left it alone.

There was some… exaggeration and distortion in Riser’s description of Curry.

This was just a desperate measure to arouse Mujin’s interest. She only hoped Mujin would understand that she absolutely had no intention of causing him trouble.

-Dang Ri-seo! Come out!

Ah. He’s here.

Riser prepared herself mentally and opened the kitchen door.

When building the mundane world, she hadn’t thought much about the area outside the kitchen, so the visible scenery was an empty field.

And in the middle of that field, Mujin stood fuming.

‘He seems to be in a somewhat elevated mood.’

It looked like he was stomping his feet.

Unfortunately, it was too far to confirm the emotions behind his actions.

Whether Mujin was stomping his feet in excitement, fidgeting from impatience, feeling guilty like a thief with tingling feet, having fire fall on his instep, or with very slim probability kicking in anger, she couldn’t tell.

-Hurry up and come!

“I’m coming, I’m going!”

Riser ran over with quick steps.

As the distance closed, Mujin’s emotional state became clearer.

The way he planted his heels on the ground and pounded his toes against the surface looked like an angry rabbit from an animation.

“What, an atypical mud monster that gives off a burning spicy smell? Devastating the mountains and fields wherever it goes, catching innocent livestock? Just from hearing about it, I thought it was some kind of Bulgasari!”

“Haha. I’m quite expressive, aren’t I.”

Riser made an ambiguous expression and answered vaguely.

Since there was nothing to gain from dwelling on this topic, Riser quickly changed the subject.

“By the way, what’s all this?”

At Mujin’s feet were piled angular bundles that looked like chests or boxes.

“What do you think it is. A gift for you?”

“Oh. Really?”

“Really my foot! It’s ice, ice!”

What ice?

When Riser tilted her head to one side with a puzzled face, Mujin snorted dismissively. It seemed he wouldn’t give a more detailed explanation, so she crouched down to examine it and confirmed it was indeed ice.

“Ah. This.”

More precisely, it should be called frozen Curry.

It looked like reddish clay-like substance trapped inside shoe box-sized blocks of solid ice.

“How did it end up like this?”

“Well, you see…”

Mujin seemed quite aggrieved as he enthusiastically recounted his heroic tale.

He first discovered Curry in the bamboo forest. Puzzled by the spicy fragrance that didn’t match the surrounding environment, Mujin carefully searched the area and finally found it, following its trail for some time.

“Why didn’t you catch it right away and follow it instead?”

“It was so different from your description that I wasn’t confident.”

Hmm. I shouldn’t have asked.

After carefully observing Curry’s movements, Mujin launched a surprise attack as soon as he was certain.

However, this thing was unexpectedly powerful.

Perhaps because its essence was poison energy, just touching the gravy dealt fatal damage to Mujin, and it also fired minced meat like a shotgun.

That wasn’t all. Its defense was formidable too.

When he punched it with internal energy, it blocked like a shield with naan, and even when cut with a sword, the atypical monster 【Chinese-style Pork Keema Curry Masala & Naan Set】 would scatter briefly then reassemble. The battle was more intense than Mujin had expected.

After much struggle, Mujin succeeded in completely restraining it only after dropping Curry into a lake to drown(?) it and freezing it whole.

“You froze an entire lake?”

“Now that I think about it, it wasn’t a lake but more like a small pond. Anyway, it’s true that I froze it.”

He has a habit of embellishing achievements. Riser muttered to herself.

So he found the part containing Curry in the frozen pond and cut it out to bring it here.

‘It’s like a dream you have when you’re really tired.’

It was such nonsense that no one would believe it even if told to others.

“Anyway, I’ve recovered the poison energy. Now we should decide what to do with it.”

“You’re right.”

They could no longer postpone the decision.

“There are roughly three options.”

Riser nodded.

Since he had heard about the situation while (Riser alone) cleaned the kitchen earlier, Mujin also knew about Riser’s dilemma.

“First would be to possess both vital energy and poison energy simultaneously, even if it means giving up some internal power. Second would be to choose only one and give up the other. Third was… what was it…”

“Converting vital energy to poison energy and combining them into one.”

Subtle dissatisfaction leaked from Riser’s voice.

‘All three options are somewhat disappointing.’

The first option of simultaneously possessing poison energy and vital energy was the method Riser had originally intended.

“The method of alternately circulating vital energy and poison energy has clear limitations. Not only would the efficiency of energy circulation be halved, but to prevent the two energies from interfering with each other, we’d have to set an upper limit on the amount of internal energy.”

“Everything’s disadvantageous except being able to use both vital energy and poison energy.”

Riser said with a sigh.

Honestly, didn’t she know that choosing the second or third option would make things easier?

If she chose just one, either poison energy or vital energy, and simply discarded the rest, all problems would disappear as if erased and learning martial arts would become easier.

But then why go through all this trouble?

“If you had to choose between vital energy or poison energy, which do you think would be better?”

“Well. If I choose vital energy, I’d have one and a half jiazi of internal energy left. If I choose poison energy… it would be about two and a half jiazi.”

“That’s quite a significant difference.”

Riser nodded.

If she used the ‘Five Poison Circulation Technique’, the only poison art she learned from the Sichuan Dang Family, she could convert the energy of the five elements into poison energy.

“If you’re prepared to convert your internal energy to poison, it seems like the option with the most benefit. Is there a particular reason you’re reluctant?”

“Because I want to use both.”

“How greedy.”

Even as Mujin said this, he chuckled.

As a martial artist himself, he was quite pleased to see Riser’s ambition for martial arts.

“That Five Poison Circulation Technique can’t convert poison energy to vital energy, I suppose?”

“I heard it’s possible if you achieve mastery.”

“? You haven’t achieved mastery?”

When Riser looked at him, Mujin had an expression like ‘Why? For what reason didn’t she achieve mastery? Didn’t she want to?’

‘Really, those with talent don’t understand the hearts of ordinary people.’

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