Surviving as the Heavenly Demon’s Concubine - Chapter 82

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Riser grumbled with a thorny tone.

“It’s not that I didn’t do it, but that I couldn’t. You seem to have forgotten that I have no talent for martial arts. You criticized me so harshly in Noeok for not being able to perform aerial object manipulation, and now you’ve already forgotten all about it.”

As Riser puffed up her cheeks like a poisonous pufferfish in spring and aired her complaints, Mujin let out an incredulous laugh.

“Making such a fuss over mere aerial object manipulation. Don’t you know there’s nothing more pathetic than making excuses about talent when you’re just being lazy? It’s the same with not mastering martial arts you’ve learned enough of. Don’t whine about something that just requires repetitive training.”

“Grr…”

Riser trembled with clenched fists in frustration.

It would have been refreshing if she could argue that she had worked hard. But she had nothing to say because she truly hadn’t made any effort.

‘Once this is over, I’ll really train in martial arts!’

Although Riser had always preferred a lifestyle of repeatedly saying “Ah, I should train too” while never actually training, today her heart was genuinely moved.

While Riser was steeling her burning determination toward training, Mujin was considering other possibilities.

“There are ways to use two types of energy without mastering the Five Poison Circulation Technique.”

“If you’re going to talk about diligence and sincerity, I don’t really want to hear it.”

“You’re so spiteful. I read about the Mudang Sect’s Yang Divine Art, and if properly learned, it seems possible to make two types of energy form a taiji within the dantian. Or opening the middle dantian and moving one of the two energies to the heart is also a method.”

He was saying to either find a way to make poison energy and pure energy coexist peacefully in one dantian, or get another dantian allocated to relocate one of the two energies.

“None of that looks easy.”

“You saw correctly. It’s not easy. That stuff.”

Riser glared at Mujin with a displeased expression.

Mujin felt wronged.

“What can I do when what you’re trying to do is difficult? If it were easy, everyone would be using two or three types of energy at once.”

“…That’s true.”

Riser had to acknowledge that there was some logic in Mujin’s words.

If it were easy, everyone would have been using various types of energy in rotation!

‘Mastering the Five Poison Circulation Technique would be more realistic.’

Riser sighed.

“What a waste. To think I have to turn perfectly shaped meat dumplings into curry.”

“What are you talking about now?”

“Well, you see.”

Riser complained about how she had extracted pure energy from the undigested spiritual medicine’s energy (Mujin earned Riser’s scorn by asking why she hadn’t digested the spiritual medicine’s energy on time) and shaped 60 meat dumplings.

After listening to that story for a while, Mujin nodded as if he understood.

“That is a waste.”

“That’s what I’m saying.”

“Should I hold onto them for you?”

Riser tilted her head as if asking what he meant.

Mujin explained step by step.

“Look. You’re in a situation where you can only collect either poison energy or pure energy. But to avoid losing out in terms of internal energy quantity, you have no choice but to pick poison energy even if you don’t want to. The problem is that then you’d have to convert all the pure energy you worked so hard to filter into poison energy, and that’s a bit wasteful, isn’t it?”

“That’s right.”

“So I’m saying I’ll hold onto the pure energy until you master the Five Poison Circulation Technique and can freely circulate pure energy and poison energy.”

Riser frowned as if she’d heard something ridiculous.

“What kind of mother-like talk is that, saying you’ll hold onto my New Year’s money?”

“Hey! Are you saying you don’t trust me?”

“Of course.”

In her current life, she was a rich family’s daughter so she hadn’t experienced such situations, but in her previous life, it was quite common.

‘Saying they’d return it when I went to college. In the end, they didn’t give it back.’

It probably would have been converted to tuition with high probability, but I wanted to use it as spending money!

Riser snorted and said.

“Does Magong-ja cherish and love me more than my mother does? No, right? So what reason do I have to trust you?”

“You’re using such underhanded rhetoric…”

Mujin thought that the Sichuan Dang Family’s home education might be excessively harsh.

Even one’s own mother should embrace them warmly.

By deceiving the child to teach the harshness of the world, hadn’t she grown into such a desolate woman who couldn’t trust people?

“I’m not desolate. And energy isn’t something that can just jump from person to person like that, is it?”

“If you put it that way, how would I be inside your mundane world?”

Riser was at a loss for words.

She had been curious about how that worked technically anyway. She just postponed asking because she hadn’t had the chance.

“Since we’re on the topic, there should be more questions you should have asked. Like how poison energy and pure energy that exceed your blood vessel capacity can continue energy circulation without encountering each other.”

“…How does it work?”

“Try to guess.”

Mujin grinned and arrogantly crossed his arms.

Riser thought he was a bit annoying, but fell into contemplation about the theoretical foundation she had postponed.

‘Since he brought up the topics together, they must be related.’

The reason Mujin could hold Riser’s energy and return it later.

The reason Mujin could enter and exit Riser’s mundane world like his own home.

The reason the surplus internal energy that Riser’s blood vessels couldn’t contain could continue energy circulation without clashing with different energies.

“Could it be…”

The conditions for all these reasons to hold simultaneously weren’t very diverse.

Riser hesitated with a “no way, no way” feeling and carefully opened her mouth.

“Are you connected to me, Magong-ja?”

Then Mujin showed a slightly surprised expression before soon wearing a meaningful smile.

“Correct.”

Riser’s face turned pale.

According to Mujin’s words, he and Riser were currently connected intimately enough to share blood vessels and consciousness.

“Th-that’s…!”

Riser carefully lowered her voice and whispered.

“…Isn’t that too improper?”

“I don’t know what you’re thinking, but stop it.”

Mujin spoke with a very strict, solemn, and serious expression.

“Would you consider propriety between men and women when a physician is administering acupuncture? This is about saving someone who was about to die from qi deviation, so there’s no need to make a fuss.”

“When you emphasize it so strongly, it makes me feel like you’ve committed some extraordinary act. While I’m at it, it wasn’t even a particularly dangerous situation…”

“Let’s just say it was a life-threatening crisis. That’s more comfortable for both of us.”

Riser felt somewhat uneasy but nodded.

As the Heavenly Emperor’s prospective concubine (even if she had no plans to receive his favor), she needed to show modest conduct in others’ eyes.

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